London — The world of professional sumo wrestling stepped outside of Japan for only the second time in its centuries-long history on Wednesday night, as fighters clashed on a specially constructed ...

What a show, what a sport, what a final! Sumo returned to London for the first time in decades, with thousands of excited ...

A version of this scene repeated itself all day in Kyoto last month as 300 wrestlers went at it in bout after bout. This was ...

Tokyo — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he's Japanese. Onosato, the new grand champion, weighs 421 pounds and he is the first Japanese competitor to reach the ...

Two Strongmen Athletes Just Got Humbled by Sumo Wrestling originally appeared on Men's Fitness. Strongman Eddie Hall is branching out into a new sport: sumo wrestling. Hall has had quite the athletic ...

A small group sits in a windowless Public Theater rehearsal room, but the combination of dramatic taiko drumming, the sight of many of the actors clad only in the traditional mawashi (cloth-belt) ...

Estonian-born Baruto Kaito – known to his family as Kaido Hoovelson – rose from a small Estonian town athlete to one of Japan ...

There are not many sports that can keep an audience enraptured through 45 minutes of ceremony before the first point is even contested. And yet, the intricate traditions unfolding in a small clay ring ...

It is difficult not to feel slightly insulted when your editor calls suggesting you should try sumo wrestling. I had hoped such sleights were in my past, several stone ago, but it is a team of elite ...

Among those in London for this week’s tournament is Ōhō Kōnosuke, a 6’3” sumo wrestler from Kōtō, Tokyo. Ōhō, 25, is the ...

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