In front of around 3,500 fans gathered at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine, sumo wrestling's newest grand champion, or 'yokozuna', receives the ancient sport's highest rank. Hoshoryu, a 25-year-old Mongolian-born ...

Sumo's only grand master Hoshoryu vowed not to "tarnish the title" after being officially promoted to the highest rank on Wednesday, 15 years after his uncle quit the sport in ...

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Ozeki Hoshoryu needed some help to get into a three-way championship playoff. He didn’t have to wait long to see if winning ...

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Accor Arena, which hosted basketball and gymnastics events at last year's Paris Olympics, will stage a two-day competition featuring top wrestlers in the French capital in June 2026. Japan Sumo ...

Ozeki Hoshoryu, center, reacts after beating Oho, left, on the seventh day of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament at ... Two other maegashira wrestlers, No. 10 Tamawashi and No.

Sumo wrestling faces its first void at the yokozuna rank in over three decades as Terunofuji, the last active grand champion, retires at 33 due to injuries. His departure shifts focus to Mongolian ...

The Mongolian-born 33-year-old has been the only top-ranked sumo for more than three years, and only 73 wrestlers have reached his level in the history of the centuries-old sport. But Terunofuji ...

Terunofuji will coach his fellow wrestlers as a sumo elder under his wrestling name at Isegahama stable having already gained Japanese citizenship, a requirement for wrestlers to remain in the Japan ...

Six sumo champions will compete at 7:30 p.m. April 11 in the All Star Sumo tournament. Steve Arrison with Visit Hot Springs said this event comes after the success of the sumo exhibition held last ...