Sumo wrestling from Japan is among the world’s oldest sports, dating back at least 1,500 years. The rules are simple: square off with an opponent, in a ring lined with sand, then try to push the other ...

Mean % fat of Sumo wrestlers, bodybuilders, and untrained subjects were, respectively, 26.1%, 10.9%, and 12.1%. Sumo wrestlers had a significantly greater FFM than bodybuilders, ...

MIHARA: Well, I think it's way more than two big fat guys running into each other. DETROW: Mihara is a veteran sumo wrestling play-by-play announcer for the Japanese public broadcaster.

He's a sumo wrestler who proudly calls himself the Fat Man. Clocking in at 405 pounds, Kelly Gneiting aims to enter the record books at Sunday's Los Angeles marathon as the heaviest competitor in ...

Well, while sumo wrestlers may have blubbery outsides, they have muscular insides. The training and exercise keeps their hearts strong and pumping, relegating much of fat formed in the wake of their ...

Wrestlers begin a sumo match with their fists on the floor. Then, the mountains collide. Both men throw absolute death at each other — grabs and strikes, hands latched on to the other’s belt. Suddenly ...

The Fat Man is a three-time national champion sumo wrestler. Now he has willed himself into something far more unlikely: He has become a long-distance runner.

Self-proclaimed "Fat Man" Kelly Gneiting set a Guinness World Record for the heaviest person to complete a marathon, taking nine hours, 48 minutes and 52 seconds to finish the Los Angeles event ...

Typically a sumo wrestler will weight around 120kg, far more than the 70kg average. Because the runway at Amami airport is unable to take a bigger plane, an extra flight had to be put on at the ...

He was once a rich and famous sumo wrestler in Japan, now he's going for broke, trying to make it in the NFL The Russian crumples himself into the driver's seat of a metallic gray 2005 BMW 745 ...

Morrison, then 31, was aware of Western stereotypes of sumo wrestlers as “fat guys in diapers.” ... Or maybe I was just looking for an excuse to stop running. In any case, a few weeks later, ...