Ultimately, Kazushi Sakuraba destroyed his perfect record by picking up a TKO win in the longest MMA fight of all time. Royce ...

A Mongolian sumo wrestler has been promoted to the sport's highest rank in a ceremony on Friday. Hoshoryu, real name Sugarragchaa Byambasuren, became the 74th yokozuna, or grand champion ...

The death of a young diabetic sumo wrestler in May has reignited fears over the health of professional athletes in the sport, which is seeing heavier and heavier wrestlers. Shobushi, a rikishi in ...

Sumo is facing a potential chasm at the top of the ancient sport for the first time in more than 30 years after the only yokozuna, Terunofuji, announced his retirement on Friday. The Mongolian ...

I experienced a level of intensity and thrill that was completely different from football or sumo wrestling — something truly ...

LONDON--In a famed concert hall here where divas and Shakespearean actors are the norm, massive wrestlers clad in mawashi will take center stage far from their homeland. The Japan Sumo ...