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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But the last two weeks of the tournament have likely felt more somber than exciting following the recent news that legendary sumo wrestler Kitanofuji passed away. He was 82 years old. On Wednesday ...