Good news for any aspiring sumo wrestlers who are on the shorter side: height and weight no longer matter. The Japan Sumo Association announced in late September that potential sumo wrestlers ...

The crisis has prompted calls in some corners for the sport to rapidly modernise and take steps like imposing weight-limits and increased medical input in training. Unlike boxing sumo doesn't have ...

TOKYO — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna ... By comparison, the average weight of an NFL lineman is about 140 kilos, or just over 300 pounds. The sport has recently ...

Sumo wrestlers are most often defined by their incredible size, with some of the most famous competing at weights of over 400 and even 500 pounds. But one recently-retired wrestler has undergone a ...

the Japan Sumo Association is beefing up recruitment by dropping the height and weight requirements from its recruitment test. Currently, a professional sumo wrestler must be at least 167 ...

Japan’s flag carrier had to make last minute changes to deal with excess weight – not from baggage, but from a group of passengers who just so happened to be sumo wrestlers. Japan Airlines ...

Sunday’s championship — a career first for sumo’s top-ranked ozeki — came more than half a century after his grandfather downed Kitanofuji, who died on Nov. 12, to claim his fifth ...

An airline was forced to turn away a group of sumo wrestlers from two flights following concerns they would push the planes over their weight limit. Japan Airlines (JAL) instead laid on an extra ...

Japan Airlines took the “unusual” step of transferring a number of the sumo wrestlers to a specially-organised flight in order to distribute the weight, local media have reported. The sumo ...

New yokozuna Hoshoryu admitted feeling trepidation Tuesday after seeing his name on top of the official rankings for the first time ahead of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka. The 25-year-old ...