Makuuchi (幕内), or makunouchi (幕の内), is the top division of the six divisions of professional sumo. Its size is fixed at 42 wrestlers (rikishi), ordered...

ranked in order of hierarchy from highest to lowest, are as follows: Makuuchi (幕内), or makunouchi (幕の内), is the top division. It is fixed at 42 wrestlers...

This is a list of wrestlers who have won the top division (makuuchi) championship in professional sumo since 1909, when the current championship system...

stood out in 2024 by earning promotion straight into sumo's top division (makuuchi) after just one tournament in the second-highest jūryō division. In March...

Jōhoku High School's sumo club, where he became classmate with future makuuchi-ranked wrestler Takerufuji. In his third year, he defeated NSSU Kashiwa...

announced that he had made the unusual decision to become the tsukebito of makuuchi wrestler Hokuseihō because he wanted to experience this role himself and...

championship in his debut as a sekitori in September 2013. He took the top makuuchi division championship in May 2015, only 25 tournaments after his professional...

of makushita 10 via the makushita tsukedashi system. He reached the top makuuchi division in January 2024 after competing in just four tournaments, and...

he reached the jūryō division in July 2023, and was promoted to the top makuuchi division for the first time in November 2024. He wrestles for Ikazuchi...

wrestler from Fukushima. He made his debut in March 2017 and reached the top makuuchi division in November 2019. He wrestles for Arashio stable, where he is...

top jūryō wrestlers. Top jūryō wrestlers are often called to bout with makuuchi wrestlers, but their income stays at that of a jūryō. Binzuke (鬢付け) Also...

one championship in both makushita and jūryō. He was promoted to the top makuuchi division in July 2023. His highest rank has been maegashira 2. Gōnoyama...

through jūryō division in just one tournament, he made his debut in the top makuuchi division in September 2011. He retired on 24 July 2014. Bojar practised...

November tournament of the same year. In January 2019, Hōshōryū faced former makuuchi wrestler Ura, who was rising through the ranks after being absent from...

this period he participated in numerous training camps with other current makuuchi wrestlers such as Nishikifuji or Ōnoshō, both also from the Tōhoku region...

his training, he often asked for advice from upper-division wrestler and makuuchi veteran Tamawashi, who's also from Mongolia. In preparation for the September...

distinguished himself by winning his first makuuchi victory on his birthday and by performing his first makuuchi ring-entering ceremony using a keshō-mawashi...

makuuchi, in January 2022. His highest rank has been maegashira 1. He has earned one gold star for defeating a yokozuna. A third generation makuuchi wrestler...

Michinoku stable under the name Kiribayama Tetsuo (霧馬山鐵雄), and reached the top makuuchi division in January 2020. He wrestles for Otowayama stable, where he moved...

wrestles for Takasago stable. He debuted in sumo in March 2016 and made his makuuchi debut in September 2017. His highest rank has been ōzeki. He has earned...

tournaments and two lower division championships he was promoted to the top makuuchi division, becoming the first Kazakhstani to do so. His highest rank to...

sekiwake Kotonowaka. He made his debut in November 2015 and reached the top makuuchi division in March 2020, reaching the san'yaku ranks in January 2023. His...

Prefecture. He made his professional debut in January 2007, and reached the top makuuchi division in January 2009. His highest rank was maegashira 9. At 265 kg...

alphabetical list of all active professional sumo wrestlers in the top makuuchi division, and all those currently in lower divisions who have a Wikipedia...

University, he made his professional debut in March 2015, reaching the top makuuchi division in November of the same year. He has ten special prizes for Fighting...

reached the top makuuchi division in July 2013. After spending most of 2018 and 2019 in the second tier, Tokushōryū returned to makuuchi in January 2020...

1927 at the age of 15, recruited by Tatsunami stable. He entered the top makuuchi division at the beginning of 1932. He was promoted from the middle of the...

After a good performance in the July tournament, Ōnokatsu was promoted to makuuchi, professional sumo's top division. Ōnokatsu specializes in grabbing the...

yen for makuuchi, 100 yen for ōzeki and 150 yen for yokozuna. There are two ways to obtain a big jump in the mochikyūkin. Winning the makuuchi yūshō (championship)...

tournaments. The six divisions in sumo, in descending order of prestige, are: makuuchi (幕内) or makunouchi (幕の内). Maximum 42 wrestlers; Further divided into five...