Sumo encompasses very strict rules and traditions that have prompted other top wrestlers to pursue careers outside the sport. Hahuko retired from active wrestling in 2021.

Sumo encompasses very strict rules and traditions that have prompted other top wrestlers to pursue careers outside the sport. Hahuko retired from active wrestling in 2021.

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 ...

Sumo encompasses very strict rules and traditions that have prompted other top wrestlers to pursue careers outside the sport. Hahuko retired from active wrestling in 2021.

His farewell and future “After 25 years of loving sumo and being loved by sumo, I want to advance toward a new dream,” Hakuho told reporters Monday at a Tokyo hotel.

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 governing body of ...

Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto is carried to the stage by Sumo wrestler Hiroki during the grand opening of Momosan Foxwoods by Morimoto at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn., Thursday ...

Type Print Medium Ink and color on paper Dimensions H x W (Overall): 40.7 × 27 cm (16 × 10 5/8 in) H x W (Image): 37.4 × 26.6 cm (14 3/4 × 10 1/2 in) Origin Japan See more items in Freer Gallery of ...

For the next 24 hours, I’ll be training with two of the world’s heaviest sumo wrestlers- Yama and Rami - alongside Igor Voitenko. With just five hours of training, we’ll step into the ring ...

These men want sumo wrestling but they have no muscles. I will concede that they are overfed, but they are no sumo wrestlers from Japan. They are more like the shrunken tree outside Tokyo.