I’ll be training with two of the world’s heaviest sumo wrestlers- Yama and Rami - alongside Igor Voitenko. With just five hours of training, we’ll step into the ring for a full sumo match to see if we ...

Sumo wrestling from Japan is among the world’s oldest sports, dating back at least 1,500 years. The rules are simple: square off with an opponent, in a ring lined with sand, then try to push the other ...

Beneath its vaulted roof is a sumo ring and 14 tables where patrons pay 11,000 yen ($76) to eat breaded pork cutlets before watching – and joining – the action.

Workers for Japan's Grand Sumo Tournament are making the ring at a newly built facility in Nagoya City, central Japan.

Newly promoted Onosato and fellow yokozuna Hoshoryu performed a traditional ring-entering ceremony at a shrine on Saturday ...

Onosato suffered his first defeat as a yokozuna while his fellow grand champion Hoshoryu fell to a third straight defeat as a ...

CBS News Texas reporter Bo Evans took an unusual assignment — spending a day training with the Dallas Sumo Club to find out ...

No talking, no eating, no standing: Inside sumo's ring purification ceremony. A sumo referee performs the dohyō matsuri, or ring purification ceremony, in January 2017 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.

Kotozakura — a sumo ring name unused for half a century — reappeared on the latest banzuke (rankings), which were released this week.. The tenure of ozeki Kotonowaka lasted just one tournament ...

A woman invaded a sumo ring — a sacred arena from which females are banned — in Tokyo during a major tournament, domestic media said on Thursday, then was pulled down by a referee and one of ...

News Summer brings kids to the sumo ring. By Kuniyuki Kamimura Japan News. Aug. 29, 2024 . Focus on Japan ...

In a scandal that’s shaking more than the sumo ring, a respected referee from the Japan Sumo Association (JSA) is now facing serious accusations of embezzling donation money meant for children ...