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After nearly 40 seconds of intense grappling in a sumo training bout, Yarden Yatkovski, 27, throws down a wrestler ranked in ...

Street Fighter has found its E. Honda. The cast for the upcoming live-action Street Fighter film has continued to fill out in ...

Over the years, the brothers have trained with professional Japanese sumo wrestlers and instructors, gaining the strength and technical skills most amateurs don’t have.

Wrestlers face off ahead of a professional bout. Scroll through the gallery to see more images from David Sharabani's new book "Sumo," which he published under the name Lord K2.

TOKYO, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Red-faced, the two sumo wrestlers crashed together, grappling their way around the raised earthen ring until one pushed the other over the side. A typical scene in Japan's ...

Wrestling under the name Osunaarashi, which translates as 'Great Sandstorm,' the 21-year-old Abdelrahman Ahmed Shalan is the first professional sumo wrestler from the African continent. Being an ...

Professional sumo wrestling isn’t an option for them — a fact that has brought the sport to a cultural crossroads. Despite a surge of female wrestlers getting into the ring as amateurs, ...

Top-tier sumo wrestling will make a rare appearance in London for the first time in three decades – and for the second time ever outside of Japan in the sport’s 1,500-year history.

Sumo wrestling comes to Broadway this weekend as three world-class wrestlers hit the ring at PlayStation Theater in a centuries-old Japanese show of brute strength and litheness for Sumo + Sushi. A… ...

Japanese professional sumo wrestling has lost its first athlete to COVID-19. The Japanese Sumo Association announced that Shobushi, whose real name was Kiyotaka Suetake, died on Wednesday of ...

Back in Japan, the 6-foot-1, 280-pound Hanada rose to the highest amateur ranks of sumo wrestling by refusing to be pushed around in the ring. He’s taking that same approach to the football f… ...