Sumo wrestler Aonishiki celebrates his 2025 Kyushu title win. Ready for some sumo content? That’s right, with the UFC going ...

Musashimaru, the former Fiamalu Penitani, carved out a 14-year career in the ring and become just the second foreigner to reach the highest-level of yokozuna. He’s now is a stable master. Later, as ...

NAGOYA, Japan (Reuters) - The sound of bodies slapping against each other rocks the stifling sumo "stable" in the Japanese city of Nagoya, as 11 gigantic wrestlers wearing only loincloths take turns ...

Dwindling numbers of boys are interested in becoming sumo wrestlers. Aug. 31, 2013— -- Sumo is as Japanese as Mount Fuji or the cherry blossom festival, but the traditional sport is facing ...

TOKYO — When push came to shove Saturday for Camp Zama Cub Scout Matthew Decker — well, it never exactly reached the “shove” stage, despite the 9-year-old’s mighty efforts. But you might want to cut ...

At the U.S. Sumo Open on Saturday in Long Beach, Calif., roughly 60 sumo wrestlers from around the world will face off at one of the largest sumo competitions outside Japan. To the untrained eye, they ...

Wrestlers in the Dewanoumi sumo stable in Ryogoku, Tokyo, serve themselves from the chanko nabe pot during their morning meal — actually served around noon, after a morning of practice in the ring.

A sumo wrestler and his stable master have been ordered to pay more than $287,000 to a fellow grappler for daily abuse which led to loss of sight in one of the man's eyes, news reports said. Tales of ...

A sumo wrestling grand champion is under fire after allegedly hitting a fellow wrestler over the head with a beer bottle. Mongolian “yokozuna”, or grand champion, Harumafuji, reportedly struck the ...

Twenty sumo wrestlers flexed their muscles outside the ring to rescue a woman from drowning in a Tokyo river on Thursday, according to local news reports. A man rushed to the riverside in eastern ...