With the ranks of prospective sumo wrestlers thinning out, the Japan Sumo Association is beefing up recruitment by dropping the height and weight requirements from its recruitment test ...

The death of a young diabetic sumo wrestler in May has reignited fears ... of 285 kg set by former ozeki Konishiki. His record weight of 292.6 kg, a measurement taken immediately before he ...

New yokozuna Hoshoryu admitted feeling trepidation Tuesday after seeing his name on top of the official rankings for the ...

The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.

Watching sumo wrestling's like watching C-SPAN, except Henry Hyde and Strom Thurmond don't wear thongs -- as far as we know. Ritual takes up a large portion of a sumo match, and you must ...

A small group sits in a windowless Public Theater rehearsal room, but the combination of dramatic taiko drumming, the sight ...

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the ... Unlike other combat sports, professional sumo does not have weight categories. To be a professional, fighters must eat, sleep and train ...

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 ...