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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yokozuna Hoshoryu, left, battles Gonoyama on Day 5 of the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan arena on May 15, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Lone yokozuna Hoshoryu took care ...

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 ...

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Japan Airlines had to arrange an extra flight to accommodate sumo wrestlers who were participating in a sports festival. The wrestlers' weight caused concern over fuel capacity, as they weighed an ...

Otowayama was referring to the dark blue jacket worn by not only stablemasters but also clerical and other staff members of the Japan Sumo Association. He implied that younger wrestlers should ...