tussled with each other on a stage transformed to look like a sumo ring. A fighting consultant, who had been observing the rehearsal nearby, stepped in to offer advice: The men’s arm movements ...

The lowest man, So, spends a lot of time serving the rice and sweeping the ring. Yet there is someone beneath even him. Naturally, that's the unranked newcomer, Akio (Scott Keiji Takeda): an ...

“With my heartfelt appreciation for people at Kansai University, I will be competing on the sumo ring in my own style.” In his childhood, Aonishiki tried wrestling and judo in Ukrain ...

The boy nicknamed “Kacchan,” who many people said had a big forehead just like his grandfather, entered the sumo ring for the first time in August the next year during a regional tour in ...

Now known by his Japanese ring name, Aonishiki Arata, the Ukrainian wrestler won promotion to sumo’s highest level when he ended the New Year’s tournament in Tokyo with 12 wins and just three losses.

It's been another year of powerful performances and sell-out crowds in sumo arenas across Japan. A lot of things happened in 2018 both inside and outside of the ring. Let's take look back at how ...

Two more of the sumo wrestlers set to face off on April 11 at the All Star Sumo round robin tournament at Bank OZK Arena have ...

the heaviest sumo wrestler ever, nicknamed the 'Dump Truck'. Clay for the ring was sourced from a quarry near Heathrow, while backstage toilets had to be stress tested to ensure they would hold ...

That’s not a problem with the physical production. Peña’s staging, mostly within a simple 15-foot sumo ring designed by Wilson Chin, provides plenty of intense action, which the men’s size ...