Pre-Season Seed Ratings
Seed ratings scored from each athlete's published credentials. No bout has been fought yet, so this is not a prediction.
These ratings cover the full Season One roster. They are not an event lineup: SCL selects and announces each event's competition field separately, and we publish each field on the event pages when the league announces it.
| # | Athlete | Tier | Rating | Best published credential |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vazha Daiauiri | S | 125 | 2025 International Sumo World Championships Gold Medal |
| 2 | Demid Karachenko | S | 100 | 2024 International Sumo World Championships Gold Medal |
| 3 | Oleksandr Veresiuk | S | 100 | 2023 World Sumo Championship Gold Medalist |
| 4 | Filipo Tovio | S | 86 | 2025 Oceania Heavyweight Champion |
| 5 | Mostafa Mahmoudi | S | 78 | 2017 World Elite Games Silver Medalist |
| 6 | Badri Khatiskatsi | S | 76 | 2025 World Championship Silver Medal |
| 7 | Caleb Hudson | S | 75 | 2023 and 2026 Oceania Sumo Champion |
| 8 | Joshua Wade | S | 75 | 2026 U.S. National Champion and Pan American Sambo Champion |
| 9 | Karol König | S | 75 | 2026 European Sumo Cup Champion |
| 10 | Cornelius Booker | S | 74 | 2019 US Sumo National Championship Gold Medal |
| 11 | Dominus Davis-Williams | S | 70 | 2025-2026 US National Heavyweight Champ |
| 12 | Paulo Oliveira Junior | S | 70 | 2024 International Sumo World Junior Sumo Championships Silver Medal |
| 13 | Mark Jones | A | 67 | 2023 US National Championship Gold Medal |
| 14 | Andrew Roden | A | 57 | 2021 U.S. National Champion |
| 15 | Edobor Konyeha | A | 57 | 2024-2026 US National Lightweight Champ |
| 16 | Konner Kane | A | 55 | 2026 USA Light Heavyweight National Champion |
| 17 | Sonny Bell | A | 55 | 2026 English Sumo Nationals Gold Medal |
| 18 | Zuka Tsikoradze | A | 55 | 2025 US Sumo Open Gold Medal |
| 19 | Marc Deschenes | A | 52 | 2015 Pan American Games Silver Medalist |
| 20 | Matthew Cox | B | 43 | 2nd Place USSF Nationals |
| 21 | Larry Velasquez | B | 34 | 2026 Milano Sumo Open Heavyweight Champion |
| 22 | Jordan Sikes | B | 32 | 2021 US Nationals, Bronze, Youngest National Men’s Medalist |
| 23 | Ron Porter | B | 32 | 2025 Yama’s Sumo Showdown Gold medalist, trained directly under Yama |
| 24 | Colton Johnstone | B | 30 | Represented Canada at 2025 World Sumo Championships |
| 25 | James Nottingham | B | 30 | 2025 Empire Cup Gold Medal |
| 26 | Jared Parham | B | 30 | 2026 Empire Cup Light Heavyweight Champion |
| 27 | Jared Tadlock | B | 30 | 2022 Texas State Sumo Championhip Gold Medal |
| 28 | Samuel Rodriguez III | B | 30 | 2023 Midwest Sumo Open Gold Medal |
| 29 | Kofi Miller | B | 28 | 2026 USSF Nationals Bronze Medalist |
| 30 | Jabari Webb | C | 23 | 2026 Sakura Cup Heavyweight Silver Medalist |
| 31 | Brandon Rudzinski | C | 21 | 2025 Sakura Cup Silver Medalist |
| 32 | Drew Brennan | C | 21 | 2025 Southeast Regional: Silver-Heavy, Silver-Open |
| 33 | Ja’Wan Davis | C | 21 | High school wrestling State Runner-up and Sectional Qualifier |
| 34 | Jonithan Pilgrim | C | 21 | 2026 Florida State Sumo Championship Silver Medal |
| 35 | Taylor Fordham | C | 21 | 2026 Sakura Cup Openweight Silver Medalist |
| 36 | Todd Porter | C | 17 | 2025 US Sumo National Championship – 4th Place |
| 37 | Cameron Bailey | C | 15 | 2025 Southeast Regional Championship Bronze Medalist |
| 38 | George Ferris | C | 15 | 2025 Sakura Cup Bronze Medal |
| 39 | George Silvestre | C | 15 | 2026 US Open Judo Championship Gold Medal |
| 40 | Phillip Hayes | C | 15 | New York Sumo Competition medalist |
| 41 | Wade Johnson | C | 15 | Southeast Regional Cup Medalist |
| 42 | Saul Vega | C | 10 | 2026 Gate City Clash Openweight Silver Medalist |
| 43 | Allejandro Santana | C | 4 | Former college football and track-and-field athlete |
| 44 | Anton Chuiev | C | 4 | 2026 Ukraine Team Head Coach |
| 45 | Beka Kharabadze | C | 0 | no titled results listed |
| 46 | Brandon Turk | C | 0 | no titled results listed |
Method
Each credential line scores level times placement. Level: World/International 100, Continental 75, National 55, Regional/State/Cup 30, other 15. Placement: Gold/Champion 1.0, Silver 0.7, Bronze/unspecified medal 0.5, Finalist 0.45, participation 0.3. An athlete's rating is their best line plus 15% of the rest, with the depth bonus capped at +25. Tiers: S: world-class published results, A: national-level published results, B: regional titles or world participation, C: few published results yet
Limits: only the credentials SCL chose to publish are visible, the disciplines are mixed (sumo, freestyle, beach wrestling), and event prestige is estimated from the event name. Event classifications improve as corrections come in, and ratings move when they do. Actual results will replace these ratings once the season starts.