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 ...

The 25-year-old forced out fellow ozeki Kotozakura in the final bout on Day 15 to end the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament with a 12-3 tally at Tokyo’s Ryogoku Kokugikan. He then defeated rank ...

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 ...

WCW had a lot of creative problems. Among them, they turned out some of the worst gimmick names in pro wrestling history.

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 ...

WWE has officially announced that the Natural Disasters (Typhoon and Earthquake) will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame ...

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 ...

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 ...

Usually, tag teams work together for years. But there've been a few oddball duos in WWE history - some had chemistry, while ...

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.

but various WWE stars could probably tell you what Kish had for his that day pre-match. Eventually, Fatu's creative moved him further away from the sumo style and more towards a standard big man one.