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The only professional sumo wrestler ever to emerge from these isles is Nathan John Strange from Kent. Inspired by watching sumo on TV, Strange trained with Syd Hoare before moving to Japan.

David Madison/Getty Akebono Taro, the Hawaiian-born sumo wrestling star and WWE fighter, has died. He was 54. On Thursday, April 11, the family of the wrestler, who was the first foreign-born sumo ...

Currently, a professional sumo wrestler must be at least 167 centimeters tall and weigh 67 kilograms or more. Under the new rules announced on Sept. 28, applicants who don’t meet these standards ...

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the sport's highest rank in a ceremony on Friday. Hoshoryu, real name Sugarragchaa Byambasuren, became the 74th yokozuna, or grand champion ...

Naturally, that’s the unranked newcomer, Akio (Scott Keiji Takeda): an 18-year-old from a troubled background who, though small by sumo standards, has dreamed of becoming a wrestler since childhood.

You would think that the biggest challenge for an actor to play a sumo wrestler would be the actual wrestling. But for Shono Hayama, star of new Disney+ Hotstar Japanese series Sumo Do ...

Gocchanko, an ex-sumo wrestler who now wrestles passersby for busking money. Here he lifts Monty Callan.Credit: Justin McManus “Things got too exciting and too many people gathered,” he said ...

Sumo wrestler Konishiki Yasokichi rates eight sumo fights in movies and TV shows, such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Isle of Dogs," for realism. Konishiki discusses the accuracy of throwing ...

The death of a young diabetic sumo wrestler in May has reignited fears over the health of professional athletes in the sport, which is seeing heavier and heavier wrestlers. Shobushi, a rikishi in ...