New sumo grand champion Onosato performs his first ring-entering ceremony Friday at Tokyo's Meiji Jingu shrine to mark his ...

Oft-injured yokozuna Kakuryu has retired from the sport, the Japan Sumo Association announced on March 24. Born in Mongolia, Kakuryu, 35, won six Emperor’s Cups, but has been noticeably absent ...

Hokuseiho had allegedly punched them in the face, back and groin. He also smacked them with the mawashi (sumo belt), burnt them by igniting insecticide spray near their skin, and applied superglue ...

shirtless and dressed in a sumo-style mawashi, banging on traditional Japanese drums with wild intensity. As the camera panned across the arena during the opening ceremony of RIZIN's Tokyo event ...

LONDON--In a famed concert hall here where divas and Shakespearean actors are the norm, massive wrestlers clad in mawashi will take center stage far from their homeland. The Japan Sumo ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Onosato was promoted to sumo's highest rank of yokozuna on Wednesday, attaining the honor at a record pace after competing in just 13 professional tournaments. The 24-year-old ...

Sumo Group has announced the departure of its co-founders CEO Carl Cavers, COO Paul Porter, and director of excellence and integration Darren Mills. Cavers, Porter, Mills, and James North-Hearn ...

Eva Yu said she started watching sumo matches last year and quickly became a self-described "super fan." "I can talk forever about sumo," Yu said. Her interest in Japan's national sport eventually ...

But, a debate that still surrounds this popular compound movement is which variation is better: sumo or conventional? On one hand, you’ve got those who are convinced the sumo deadlift is an ...