The Japan Sumo Association released the banzuke rankings list for the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday, with the spotlight set to be cast on newly promoted ozeki Takayasu at the July 9-23 meet.
Takayasu's promotion to sumo's second-highest rank last month completes a respectable banzuke for the basho at Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium, with four yokozuna and three ozeki set to face off for the first time since the spring meet in 2000.
The 27-year-old Takayasu, whose father is Japanese and whose mother is from the Philippines, is the first new ozeki since Mongolian Terunofuji was promoted for the Nagoya meet in 2015.