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Yokozunas and Ozekis for January 2026

YO 2026  

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  1. 1. Out of the current Yokozunas AND the current Ozekis, who will NOT be ranked in either of the top 2 ranks for the January 2026 banzuke (i.e. who will retire, or will get demoted during 2025). You can vote more than once.

    • Terunofuji
    • Kotozakura
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    • Hoshoryu
      0
    • Onosato
      0
    • None of the above
  2. 2. Who will be ranked as a Yokozuna on the January 2026 banzuke? You can vote for more than one.

    • Terunofuji
    • Kotozakura
    • Hoshoryu
    • Onosato
    • Other (say who in the comments below)
      0
    • There will be no Yokozunas on the January 2026 banzuke
      0
  3. 3. Which of the following will be ranked as an Ozeki on the Jan 2025 banzuke? You can vote for more than one.

    • Kotozakura
    • Hoshoryu
    • Onosato
    • Kirishima
    • Daieisho
      0
    • Wakamotoharu
      0
    • Shodai
      0
    • Oho
      0
    • Hiradoumi
      0
    • Wakatakakage
    • Ura
      0
    • Abi
      0
    • Atamifuji
    • Churanoumi
      0
    • Oshoma
      0
    • Tobizaru
      0
    • Kotoshoho
      0
    • Takanosho
      0
    • Nishikigi
      0
    • Endo
      0
    • Mitakeumi
      0
    • Roga
      0
    • Gonoyama
      0
    • Midorifuji
      0
    • Takayasu
      0
    • Ichiyamamoto
      0
    • Takarafuji
      0
    • Tamawashi
      0
    • Meisei
      0
    • Hokutofuji
      0
    • Sadanoumi
      0
    • Ryuden
      0
    • Shonannoumi
      0
    • Chiyoshoma
      0
    • Nishikifuji
      0
    • Onokatsu
      0
    • Tokihayate
      0
    • Shishi
      0
    • Takerufuji
    • Asakoryu
      0
    • Bushozan
      0
    • Kitanowaka
      0
    • Kinbozan
      0
    • Kagayaki
      0
    • Hakuoho
      0
    • Aonishiki
      0
    • Tochitaikai
      0
    • Oshoumi
      0
    • Other (please state who in the comments below)
      0
    • There will ne NO Ozekis ranked on the January 2026 (possible, if there are two Yokozuna-Ozekis)
      0

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  • Poll closes on 11/01/25 at 23:23

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January 2025 will start with four names in the lofty top two ranks - this is the same as for the start of January 2024, but not all the same names.  Will this number increase, decrease, or stay the same for January 2026?

Please leave your actual prediction for the top two ranks for the January 2026 banzuke in the comments below, like this....

Doc     Y1  Happy
Grumpy Y2
Sneezy    O1   Bashful
               O2   Sleepy

etc

- then we can see who came the closest at the end of the year - and it might be used as a 'tie-breaker'.

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Kotozakura Y Houshouryuu

                   Y Oonosato

Kirishima O Wakatakakage

Takerufuji O

Edited by Kintamayama

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57 minutes ago, Kintamayama said:

Kotozakura Y Houshouryuu

                   Y Oonosato

Kirishima O Wakatakakage

Takerufuji O

Feeling generous today? (Laughing...)

There is not enough basho in a year to make all of this happen. 

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5 minutes ago, Bunbukuchagama said:

There is not enough basho in a year to make all of this happen. 

Just for the sake of argument: Hoshoryu beats Kotozakura in a playoff in January, both get promoted to Y. Onosato wins two consecutive basho sometime after January. WTK gets 11 in January, 12 in March, gets promoted to O. Takerufuji gets to upper maegashira in March, san'yaku in May, his run is May-July-Sept with a month to play with. I'm not doing Kirishima. Everyone else eats a lot of losses.

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Just now, Reonito said:

Just for the sake of argument: Hoshoryu beats Kotozakura in a playoff in January, both get promoted to Y. Onosato wins two consecutive basho sometime after January. WTK gets 11 in January, 12 in March, gets promoted to O. Takerufuji gets to upper maegashira in March, san'yaku in May, his run is May-July-Sept with a month to play with. I'm not doing Kirishima. Everyone else eats a lot of losses.

I am not saying it is mathematically impossible, but any writer daring to propose such a scenario as even remotely plausible would get laughed out of the room. :-D

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I'm going to be boring.

Onosato Y

Hoshoryu O Kotonowaka

That's it.

Aonishiki and Takerufuji will make it in mid-2026

Edited by Gurowake

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Hoshoryu     Y1  Onosato
Kotozakura    O1   Wakatakakage

 

WTK might not make it. I doubt anyone else will make a serious run, but the second half of the year is always hard to predict.

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9 hours ago, Bunbukuchagama said:

Feeling generous today? (Laughing...)

There is not enough basho in a year to make all of this happen. 

Indeed. Reality sometimes beats fantasy. Ozeki after five  bashos in Makuuchi? You gotta be out of your mind..

Anyway, it's a new strategy. It won't be the first time I would be laughed out of the room. (See "Asasohuryuu? Who is that?", laughter and ridicule.)

Edited by Kintamayama

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Kotozakura    Y1  Onosato
Hoshoryu    O1   Wakatakakage


              

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