TOKYO (AP) — Hakuho, a retired “yokozuna” or grand champion and viewed by many as the sport's greatest wrestler, has quit the Japan Sumo Association after an apparent falling out with the ...

Verve has the agency for the sumo wrestling kits in Ireland and hires them out. It is taking off in pubs, clubs, at office parties and weddings across the country. The same kind of fad as karaoke .

Audience volunteers — wearing inflatable sumo suits — may combat the wrestler of their choice at Asakusa Sumo Club in Tokyo. (Kelly Agee/Stars and Stripes) ...

There's a sumo ring in the pool. But instead of wrestlers, you get to play some monster on an inflatable pool toy. Play Monster Poolside Sumo game online on your mobile phone, tablet or computer.

Sumo wrestler Onosato, center, holding up a fish as he celebrates his win in Ami, Japan, on Tuesday. JIJI Press / AFP vis Getty Images. May 28, 2025, 6:17 AM EDT / Source: The Associated Press.

Uncredited. Onosato receives the trophy after winning in a sumo wrestling tournament at Ryogoku Kokugikan arena in Tokyo, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (Kyodo News via AP) ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Former yokozuna Hakuho's impending retirement from the Japan Sumo Association marks an inglorious exit from the sport, but the Mongolian-born wrestler's record inside the ring ...

Chad Rowan, better known as Akebono, who has died of heart failure aged 54, was a Hawaiian-born sumo wrestler who in 1993 became the first yokozuna, or grand champion, to have been born outside ...

Taro Akebono, a Hawaii-born sumo wrestler who became the sport’s first foreign grand champion and helped to fuel a resurgence in its popularity in the 1990s, has died in Tokyo. He was 54.

It doesn't get much bigger than Lorna Shore at the moment, but for Halloween, frontman Will Ramos was making sure he was the largest person in the room, donning an inflatable sumo wrestler suit ...

Hakuho, a retired “yokozuna” or grand champion, says he has quit the Japan Sumo Association after an apparent falling out with the governing body of the ancient sport. Hakuho says he wants to ...