Sumo wrestling's greatest champion, Hakuho, is set to retire after more than 1,000 wins. He rose to the top ranks of sumo wrestling after arriving in Japan from his native Mongolia at the age of 15.

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

She is now preparing to go all out to clinch the top spot in the junior high school division of a national female sumo championship to be held in Tokyo on Jan. 1 after finishing second and third ...

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 ...

With the aim of having the sport included in the Olympics, World Women's Sumo Championships as well as World Sumo Championship have also been ... and disc space narrowing of C5/6 occurred in training ...