TOKYO (NEXSTAR) — Hawaii-born Akebono Taro, one of the greats of sumo wrestling and a former grand champion, has died at 54. He was the first foreign-born wrestler to reach the level of ...

Sumo wrestling's greatest champion has been demoted as a trainer after an investigation found one of his students repeatedly assaulted other wrestlers. Hakuho Sho, 38, was downgraded to the lowest ...

Hidetora Hanada had the world at his feet as a young sumo wrestling champion, but he traded that life for the football field and he has been vindicated with the reward of a Division 1 scholarship.

A TINY 16-year-old teenager beat a sumo wrestler twice his size and took social media by storm. Unlike other combat sports, such as boxing and MMA, sumo wrestling doesn’t have weight ...

The ancient sport is described as being in a crisis as it grapples with several issues, including high attrition rates ...

After winning his first championship at the Nagoya Grand ... Hoshoryu eventually quit wrestling and joined the school’s sumo team after watching sumo matches at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan.

Wrestlers begin a sumo match with their fists on the floor. Then, the mountains collide. Both men throw absolute death at each other — grabs and strikes, hands latched on to the other’s belt. Suddenly ...

OSAKA--If Netflix makes another sumo-related series, Takerufuji's "miracle" championship is worthy ... it would be OK if this was the end of my wrestling career,” he said.

transitioned into sumo wrestling, where he made history. Akebono became the first non-Japanese-born wrestler to ever reach the grand champion status of Yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo.

Unlike other combat sports, such as boxing and MMA, sumo wrestling doesn't have weight divisions, meaning sumos are always at risk of being outmuscled and overpowered. Those were the odds young ...