10 in the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament as he has done over the ... 10 set a new record by competing in his 1,631st consecutive match, breaking the record held by former sekiwake Aobajo.

Kirishima grew up in a nomadic family in the eastern Mongolian province of Dornod and became a professional sumo wrestler in 2015. He was promoted to the highest makuuchi division in 2020.

Aonishiki, who is 182cm in height and weighs a relatively modest 136kg, discovered sumo as a boy, practicing judo and freestyle wrestling before encountering sumo athletes visiting his gym in Ukraine ...

A street-fighting star who’s been a hit on Melbourne’s streets found himself grappling with the city’s hefty bureaucracy.

An unranked wrestler trying to prove himself ... Mitsuo scolds Aiko for his joyous tone after Mitsuo wins a match. Rikishi — the Japanese term for sumo wrestlers — do not celebrate after ...

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 ...

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 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.

Sumo was originally a court function ... Komusubi and Maegashira. A wrestler can win a match by either maneuvering his opponent out of the ring, or by forcing his opponent's body to touch the ...

Immediately after the match, something was obviously wrong ... he felt it was the responsibility of a sumo wrestler to step onto the ring for all 15 days. He also wanted to prove to himself ...

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 ...

On Thursday, April 11, the family of the wrestler, who was the first foreign-born sumo star to reach the level ... 21 in a Los Angeles exhibition match by throwing him out of the ring, according ...