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 ...

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 ...

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

Viral Sumo Wrestler Reveals How He Lost 100 Pounds in Just 8 Months originally appeared on Men's Fitness. Sumo wrestlers have to eat a ton of food on a daily basis in order to maintain their fighting ...

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

TOKYO (AP) — Hakuho, a retired “yokozuna” or grand champion and viewed by many as the sport's greatest wrestler, has quit the Japan Sumo Association after an apparent falling out with the governing ...

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

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 ...

Dwindling numbers of boys are interested in becoming sumo wrestlers. Aug. 31, 2013— -- Sumo is as Japanese as Mount Fuji or the cherry blossom festival, but the traditional sport is facing ...

Sumo wrestlers have to eat a ton of food on a daily basis in order to maintain their fighting shape for the bi-monthly tournaments. As a result, many develop serious health complications after and ...