The man widely considered to be the greatest sumo wrestler in history has resigned, compounding a bruising few years for Japan's ancient sport. Last week Hakuho Sho left the Japan Sumo Association ...

Top-division sumo wrestlers often weigh over 300 pounds, with some pushing past 500—making this core display all the more impressive.

After three years of work, the New York Sumo Club held its first tournament for amateur students of the ancient combat sport.

DETROW: The Tokyo Grand Sumo Tournament comes to an end this weekend. Just ahead of the rise of a new yokozuna, or grand champion, we reached out to NHK sumo announcer Ross Mihara.

From national sumo tournaments to the stables where wrestlers live and train, photographer David Sharabani captured the many faces of a sport still defined by ritual and tradition.

A five-day event in October will be the Japan Sumo Association’s first competition in Britain in more than three decades.

Onosato, 24, is the first Japanese sumo wrestler to achieve the rank of yokozuna, or grand champion, in years, and he's vowed not to "disgrace the title." ...

He has two brothers that are also sumo wrestlers. Wakatakamoto and Wakamotoharu are his brothers. I’m excited just to hear about these matches just because they sound like fun.

Wrestlers begin a sumo match with their fists on the floor. Then, the mountains collide. Both men throw absolute death at each other — grabs and strikes, hands latched on to the other’s belt.

Hot Springs, Ark. (KATV) — Arkansas' first sumo tournament will be held Friday evening at Bank OZK Arena at the Hot Springs Convention Center and features sumo wrestlers billed as the world's ...

For wrestlers such as Hakuho, sumo is all they know. There are "few, if any, opportunities to develop the kind of skills and mechanisms needed to cope with the emotional turmoil that comes from ...