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

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 ...

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 ...

Moments later, the announcer introduced two sumo wrestlers. One was wearing nothing but an all-blue loincloth (mawashi) with a cloth belt; the other was wearing all black. A sumo match doesn’t ...

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 ...

The outfits: Sumo wrestlers wear a traditional loincloth called a mawashi. The mawashi is wrapped around the waist and thighs. The mawashi’s color indicates the wrestler’s rank, with higher ...

Gocchanko began busking by singing in his outfit, before he found a market wrestling strangers.Credit: Justin McManus He began busking by singing while in his sumo outfit, wearing his mawashi ...

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 ...