It turns out these sumo wrestlers all belong to the same stable, Hakkaku, headquartered in the historic sumo neighborhood of Ryogoku in Tokyo. In case you haven’t heard of Hakkaku before, it’s a ...

Sumo wrestlers are most often defined by their incredible size, with some of the most famous competing at weights of over 400 and even 500 pounds. But one recently-retired wrestler has undergone a ...

Study Finds Sumo Wrestlers Have More Fat-Free Mass Than Trained Bodybuilders originally appeared on Men's Fitness. The stereotypical (and usually false) image of a sumo wrestler is usually that of ...

Life away from the sport can be tough for retired wrestlers in Japan, who often have little formal education or savings – but they can count on fellow athletes stepping in to help them get back ...

Sumo wrestler Osunaarashi was a large, muscular Egyptian teenager with a passion for body building when a friend recommended he try the ancient Japanese sport of sumo. But it was a hard sell.

Fading public interest and a declining number of wrestlers is weighing heavily on the traditional sport of sumo.

Before we left, he came back to our table with a poster of sumo wrestler rankings as a gift. The names of the wrestlers get larger according to their increasing ranks.

The first day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 14 is fast approaching. After a long summer tournament tour ...

Sumo wrestlers have long been defined by their immense body weight, which is often carefully built up through consuming industrial quantities of a special sumo dish called chanko nabe.

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 throwing each other out ...

If you’re wondering how geisha are supposed to dance, or sumo wrestlers grapple, inside one of Tokyo’s most-visited tourism spaces, it’s because these demonstrations will take place outside of the ...

Sixty-five sumo wrestlers will withdraw from the first tournament of the year, which opens on Jan. 10, after five more were confirmed infected with the coronavirus, the Japan Sumo Association ...