The Cherry Blossom Cup, Arkansas's first sanctioned sumo wrestling competition, will kick off April 11th, at 7:30 p.m. at the Bank OZK Arena in Hot Springs. Six ...

Hiyori Kon, 22, is an amateur sumo wrestling champion in Japan where women are still barred from competing professionally. Hiyori is hoping to change the rules of one of the world's oldest sports ...

“Sumo,” a new play by Lisa Sanaye Dring about the Japanese wrestling sport, naturally has a certain exoticism given the cultural specificity of its subject. But it’s also a classic behind ...

Credit: SBS Sumo wrestling is widely considered as a traditional sport of Japan, though it has struggled for popularity recently. In the amateur circuit, sumo is embraced by people of all genders ...

The student government at University of California–Davis apologized for bringing a sumo wrestling fat suit on campus after people freaked out that it was racist — and now, at least one ...

Betal Gubzhev, who runs the sumo wrestling organization in the southern Kabardino-Balkaria region of Russia, announced Khatokhov's death on Tuesday in an Instagram post. He did not give a cause of ...

Arkansas's first sanctioned sumo wrestling competition will kick off Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the Bank OZK Center. The round-robin tournament will be the first event since the exhibition matches ...

But before the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament in May, the ozeki revealed the source of inspiration he discovered on YouTube. “Even with his condition, he was wrestling with all his strength.

Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling, with the New York premiere of Lisa Sanaye Dring’s mesmerizing new drama, SUMO. Akio arrives as an angry, ambitious 18-year-old with a lot to learn.

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 ...