Wakanami, Tagaryū, Ichinojō, Terunofuji and Asanoyama are the only wrestlers to have won a jūryō championship after winning a top division or makuuchi title.
The only wrestlers to win the jūryō championship but never earn promotion to the top division are Genbuyama (1927), Sagahikari (1957), Tochiizumi (1983), Hidenohana (1988), Daigaku (1991),[2] Hakuyozan (2021) and Tochimusashi (2022).
[3] The championship is determined by the wrestler with the highest win–loss score after fifteen bouts, held at a rate of one per day over the duration of the 15-day tournament.
*Adachi later became Zaonishiki *Ama later became Harumafuji *Arakiyama later became Niigiyama *Azumanada later became Misugiiso *Daiki later became Hokutofuji *Daikikō later became Terunoumi *Hanada I later became Tochinoumi *Hanada II later became Takanohana I *Hoshi later became Hokutoumi *Ishide later became Shunketsu *Kawasaki later became Taiga *Kirinji I later became Daikirin *Kitao later became Futahaguro *Kōtetsuyama II later became Itai *Mitsuruyama later became Shishihō *Nagahama later became Yutakayama II *Obori later became Ōnishiki *Satō later became Takakeishō *Takanohama later became Toyonoumi *Tamanonada later became Tamanoshima *Taniarashi later became Yamaguchi *Togashi later became Kashiwado *Uchida later became Yutakayama I *Wakahanada later became Wakanohana III The following tables list the champions before the introduction of the current tournament system.
†tournament held in September [5] *Ayazakura later became the Shōwa era Ayagawa Gorōji *Genjiyama later became Nishinoumi *Hakkuniyama later became Kashiwado *Imaoshima later became Tatekabuto *Iwahira later became Wakabayama *Iwakiyama later became Kiyomigata *Kakureizan later became Tsurugamine *Kanenohana later became Otohira *Mayaoroshi later became Shitenryū *Ononishiki later became Kakogawa *Uranohama later became Urakaze *Yonekawa later became Asashio III †these tournaments were actually held the following month *A yūshō system giving the wrestler with the best tournament record a prize was introduced by the Mainichi newspaper in the second half of 1909, and this was officially integrated by the JSA in 1926.