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    professional wrestler. He was best known for his time with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where he wrestled under the ring name Yokozuna. He was also...
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  • This is a list of all sumo wrestlers who have reached the sport's highest rank of yokozuna. It was not recorded on the banzuke until 1890 and was not...
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    Makuuchi (redirect from Yokozuna)
    award a wrestler a yokozuna licence. The Yoshida family won this dispute, because the 15th yokozuna Umegatani Tōtarō I, one of the strongest wrestlers, expressed...
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  • Luger won, he would face Yokozuna first. Hart would then wrestle his brother Owen Hart before facing the winner of the Luger-Yokozuna match. If Hart won the...
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    Hakuhō Shō (category Yokozuna)
    the highest rank in sumo, yokozuna. The 69th Yokozuna of the sport. He is widely considered to be the greatest sumo wrestler of all time. In 2009, he broke...
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    Terunofuji Haruo (category Yokozuna)
    talented wrestler capable of doing many things." Terunofuji became the first sumo wrestler to win his first two tournaments at the yokozuna rank since...
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  • first WrestleMania event held outdoors. WrestleMania IX was built around two main storylines. The first was the seemingly unstoppable Yokozuna challenging...
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    professional wrestler, best known under the ring names Rikishi and Fatu with the WWE and also competed under the variety of names in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, World...
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  • List of ōzeki (category Lists of sumo wrestlers)
    modern era by a wrestler to never reach the rank of yokozuna. * Wrestler held the rank on more than one occasion. List of past sumo wrestlers List of sumo...
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    Raiden Tameemon (category Japanese sumo wrestlers)
    sumo wrestler from Tōmi, Nagano Prefecture. He is considered one of the greatest rikishi in history, although he was never promoted to yokozuna. To date...
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    Musashimaru Kōyō (category Yokozuna)
    1999 he became only the second foreign-born wrestler in history to reach the sport's highest rank of yokozuna. Musashimaru won over 700 top division bouts...
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    Asashōryū Akinori (category Yokozuna)
    tagw̜atɔrt͡ʃ]) is a Mongolian former professional sumo wrestler (rikishi). He was the 68th yokozuna in the history of the sport in Japan, and in January...
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    first non-Japanese-born wrestler ever to reach yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo. One of the tallest and heaviest wrestlers ever, Akebono's rivalry with...
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    Kisenosato Yutaka (category Yokozuna)
    yūshō with a 14–1 record and subsequently was promoted to yokozuna, the first Japanese-born wrestler to reach sumo's highest rank since Wakanohana in 1998...
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  • Thumbnail for Chiyonofuji Mitsugu
    Chiyonofuji Mitsugu (category Yokozuna)
    was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler and the 58th yokozuna of the sport. Following his retirement as a wrestler, he was the stable master of Kokonoe...
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    Harumafuji Kōhei (category Yokozuna)
    professional sumo wrestler. He was the sport's 70th yokozuna from 2012 to 2017, making him the third Mongolian and fifth overall non-Japanese wrestler to attain...
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    Asahifuji Seiya (category Yokozuna)
    He reached the second highest rank of ōzeki in 1987 and became the 63rd yokozuna in the history of the sport in 1990 at the age of 30. He won four tournaments...
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  • with Yokozuna in a tag team match, only to lose to Jim Neidhart and King Kong Bundy. Playing off the resurgence in popularity of pro wrestling at the...
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    Sumo (redirect from Sumo wrestling)
     'striking one another') is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (dohyō)...
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    Kitanoumi Toshimitsu (category Yokozuna)
    Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He was the dominant wrestler in the sport during the 1970s. Kitanoumi was promoted to yokozuna at the age of 21, becoming...
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  • sumo's top rank of yokozuna, before passing its recommendations to the JSA. It also gives comments about san'yaku ranked wrestlers anticipating their...
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    Kakuryū Rikisaburō (category Yokozuna)
    to act when Mongolian wrestler Takanoiwa was injured by Harumafuji at a restaurant and bar in Tottori in October. Fellow yokozuna Hakuhō was docked a month...
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    main event wrestler, although he never won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship. He competed in another match with Yokozuna at WrestleMania X after...
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  • Kōji Kitao (category Yokozuna)
    Japanese professional sumo wrestler and professional wrestler, born in Mie. As Futahaguro Kōji (双羽黒 光司) he was sumo's 60th yokozuna, and the only one in sumo...
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    Umegatani Tōtarō I (category Yokozuna)
    professional sumo wrestler from the town of Haki, Chikuzen Province, now Shiwa, Fukuoka Prefecture. He was the sport's 15th yokozuna. He was generally...
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    Konishiki Yasokichi (category American sumo wrestlers)
    American-born Japanese former professional sumo wrestler. He was the first non-Japanese-born wrestler to reach ōzeki, the second-highest possible rank...
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    Maruyama Gondazaemon (category Yokozuna)
    1713 – November 14, 1749) was a Japanese sumo wrestler, who is formally recognised as the third yokozuna. His real name was Haga Gindayu (芳賀 銀太夫). He came...
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  • WrestleMania main event was back-to-back (the first being Bret Hart vs Yokozuna WrestleMania IX and X). Other prominent matches included The Undertaker defeating...
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    Takanohana Kōji (category Yokozuna)
    Japanese former professional sumo wrestler and coach. He was the 65th man in history to reach sumo's highest rank of yokozuna, and he won 22 tournament championships...
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    Onogawa Kisaburō (category Yokozuna)
    30, 1806) was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Ōtsu, Ōmi Province (now Shiga Prefecture). He was the sport's 5th yokozuna. Along with Tanikaze, Onogawa was...
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