Page updates May 06 2025
Updated PDF and JPG Height/Weight chart
EARLIER THIS MONTH
Added chart with Jan/Mar basho results and May banzuke
Added a “scatter” chart with Makuuchi wrestlers’ height and weight
Added “All Makuuchi Results May 2017 to March 2025” PDF
Last 8 years of top-level Sumo. This is a lot of information. l made it as readable as possible.
Added “All Makuuchi Sumo Champions since 1958” PDF
This page is from Wikipedia. I made it into a single page PDF.
Updated “All Makuuchi Sumo Champions Height/Weight” single page graphic
It is 1990 to March 2025 now. This chart looks better as a pdf rather than as a .jpg.
But both are there.
Errors/comments can be reported to fpink3@gmail.com
Fred Pinkerton, Massachusetts/Georgia USA
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CLICK THE MAP FOR A LARGER IMAGE
Home of the three-basho Sumo Scorecard!
Click the image or links below to download the chart. The chart includes
* the NOVEMBER 2024 FUKUOKA basho results
* the JANUARY 2025 TOKYO basho results
* the MARCH 2025 OSAKA basho results
Click the PURPLE JPG or PURPLE PDF text below the example image to view/download the chart. PC users can right-click the purple text to “Save As” either chart. Some browsers don’t do a good job of displaying the JPG (poor colors). In this case, I recommend downloading the PDF version of the chart.
Clicking on the example image will open the latest Three Basho JPG chart in your browser.
********************** Three (3) Basho Chart (Rev 0 April 28 2025)
Basho Results 2025 January, March AND May Banzuke rankings Save As JPG
Basho Results 2025 January, March AND May Banzuke rankings Save As PDF
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All Basho Results From May 2017 to March 2025
Each page of this pdf lets you see the results of four bashos (eight months).
The last basho on a page is the first basho on the next page, so…
it’s fairly easy to follow a rikishi’s basho to basho progress.
Pressing Control-L in the stand-alone version of Adobe Reader brings up each page as “full-screen,”
which I think is the best way to examine each chart. LINK IS BELOW EXAMPLE:
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SumoRecentHistory_May2017_May2025_16 sheets
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All Makuuchi Sumo Champions since 1958 (thanks to Wikipedia!)
Just to refresh one’s memories.
LINK IS BELOW EXAMPLE:
********************** Height versus Weight “scatter” chart CURRENT COMPETITORS ONLY
UPDATED May 6, 2025! Height/Weight/Rank is for the MAY 2025 Tokyo banzuke competitors.
Fighters promoted from Juryo have a GREEN dot. The red number in some names indicates the number of top level championships won.
Please let me know about any errors.
Current Rikishi, Height vs Weight (May 6, 2025) Download JPG
Current Rikishi, Height vs Weight (May 6, 2025) Download PDF
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********************** All Yusho Champions *Last 30 years* Height versus Weight “scatter” chart
The PDF looks and prints better than the jpg. UPDATED APRIL 2025!
Makuuchi Champions (1990-2025) , Height vs Weight Save As JPG
Makuuchi Champions (1990-2025) , Height vs Weight Download PDF
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Added the Pink’s Concert And Show List, below. Not related to Sumo, but I had fun creating it. I was born in the early 1950s. I had the enthusiasm and the luck to be in places where I could see a lot of popular music events and a few memorable theater drama shows. I think I remember them all. Here’s my list:
Pink’s Concert And Show List Updated 2025/04/28. I have a few friends that laugh at my puny list…
**********************Notes about Sumo and the charts
Note: The “special prizes” are shown for completed tournaments. That’s the Shukun-Sho (Outstanding Performance Award), the Kanto-Sho (Fighting Spirit Prize) and the Gino-Sho (Technique Prize) . These are not always given out.
Notes about the rankings: After the end of a basho, I post the results for the last three tournaments. This chart stays posted for about six weeks. About two weeks before the start of the next basho, a ranking of the competitors (rikishi) will be released by the Japan sumo elders–the new “banzuke”. I will release a new chart at this point, which shows the last two completed tournaments plus the banzuke ranking of the rikishi for the new tournament. The chart will show that in the new ranking, some rikishi from the last tournament have been demoted from the top level competition (Makuuchi) to the second level competition (Juryo). An equal number of rikishi that excelled in the last Juryo level competition are promoted to Makuuuchi for the upcoming basho. These promotions and demotions are noted with horizontal bars on the charts. The chart also shows Makuuchi tournament winners, along with prizes and possibly “Kadoban” status for Ozeki. I tried to make this chart 100% accurate, but errors may exist.
Errors/comments can be reported to fpink3@gmail.com
Use the zoom in/out feature of viewing program to adjust the chart height to match the height of your screen. Then use the horizontal slider on the program to move earlier and later in the chart.
Fred Pinkerton, Massachusetts/Georgia USA