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

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 ...

while wearing a "mawashi" loincloth. Hrytskov was referring to the Ukrainian-born professional sumo wrestler who won the second-tier juryo-division championship title at this year's New Year Grand ...

And I think for all the actors, seeing each other in our mawashi, gave us a sense of collective power.” A sumo wrestler loses if any part of their body, except the soles of their feet ...

(The convincingly executed fighting is down to the training of sumo consultant James Yaegashi and Ralph B. Peña’s direction; Yaegashi is also co-fight director with Chelsea Pace.) “I felt such pride ...

Himeka wears black pants and a yellow shirt beneath her mawashi. The boys can dream about professional sumo careers, fame and riches. Himeka and the girls have no such aspirations. One wants to be ...

Two massive rikishi, or sumo wrestlers, entered the circular ring, the dohyo, wearing only a mawashi, or loin cloth. We observed as the two athletes lifted and stomped each leg, slapped their ...

The common impression of sumo wrestling - heavier ... "We still wear the mawashi - the belt, but we've got kit on underneath, and we have it in weight classes as well," Mr Riggs, from Dodworth ...

Clad in their mawashi, or ceremonial aprons ... As the concert hall loomed behind them, they did their best to be sumo diplomats. "Sumo has a wonderfully intriguing collection of culture and ...

Sumo wrestling, which is dictated by ritual ... Spectators can expect to see hand-embroidered silk kesho-mawashi robes, ancient salt-throwing rituals, and some combination of the sport’s 82 ...