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...

division in January 1997, and the top makuuchi division two years after that. He had an explosive start to his makuuchi career, winning three special prizes...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kawasaki, Kanagawa. He debuted in sumo wrestling in May 2017 and made his makuuchi debut in March 2019. His highest rank has been maegashira 3. Originally...

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

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...

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

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...

specialist, he debuted in sumo wrestling in September 2016 and made his makuuchi debut in January 2021. His highest rank has been maegashira 1. He wrestles...

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...

strong performance in the July 2022 tournament, he was promoted to the makuuchi division. It was the first time in eleven years that a wrestler from Nagasaki...

professional career in 2012 at the age of eighteen and reached the top makuuchi division in September 2015. His highest rank to date has been sekiwake...

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

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...

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...

made his professional debut in September 2014, and reached the highest makuuchi division in January 2017 after 14 tournaments. He won his first championship...