Yokozuna Hakuho has retired after a glorious sumo career of more than two decades that has not only seen him shatter many ...

Ukrainian athlete Danylo Yavhusyshyn, known as Aonishiki or Aonishiki Arata, became the winner of the Nagoya Basho grand sumo ...

Stuart Snyder, who used to run Cartoon Network and WWE, is starting the Sumo Championship League based out of Atlanta.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images The man widely considered to be the ...

A new professional sumo league aims to introduce Americans to the ancient sport with national tours, modern tournaments, and ...

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. Some 40 members of ...

While the rest of the world obsesses about soccer during the World Cup, Japan is reeling from a major scandal involving its own national sport: sumo wrestling. Some of Japan's biggest sumo stars have ...

Japan's national sport, sumo wrestling, has long been sullied by episodes of violent hazing, drug use, a shortage of local recruits and sagging popularity. But Japanese wrestling has been shaken to ...