Sumo walks 'tightrope' with first overseas events in 20 years Sumo is walking a "tightrope" as it prepares to stage events outside Japan for the first time in 20 years while also trying to preserve ...

Japan is famous for its sports, but here are some you won’t be seeing at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 this year! Sumo (say "soo-mo") is a kind of competitive wrestling. In Japanese, the word ...

The 35-year-old took a chance on sumo wrestling in 2022. He ended up competing for Great Britain in the World Sumo Championships and becoming the Team GB national coach. He said he "fell in love ...

London will host just the second-ever professional Sumo wrestling event outside of Japan next October. The Grand Sumo Tournament will take place at the Royal Albert Hall in partnership with the ...

Sumo wrestlers will go head-to-head in a competition at the Bank OZK Arena in Hot Springs this April. Six sumo champions will ...

Sumo will stage a tournament in Paris for the first time in over three decades next year in a push to expand the ancient sport beyond Japan, organisers said Sunday. Accor Arena, which hosted ...

He had four wins and one loss after the opening five days. If he fails, sumo will have no yokozuna ... I didn't think I would be able to continue wrestling for very long," said Terunofuji, who ...

"I'm looking back thinking it was a really vigorous sumo career." Terunofuji lost to komusubi Wakatakakage on the opening day before claiming two wins but fell to No. 2 maegashira Tobizaru in the ...

Ozeki Hoshoryu, center, reacts after beating Oho, left, on the seventh day of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at ... Hoshoryu (6-1) had the better opening at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan that ...