The main difference between the sumo and conventional deadlift is easy to see: foot position. The conventional variation requires lifters to stand with the feet shoulder-width apart and facing forward ...

Sumo wrestling is one of Japan’s oldest and most fascinating sports, combining powerful athletic competition with ...

The country's best sumo wrestlers practice kitty-corner from a 99-cent store in a Torrance strip mall. The floor in the rented dojo has just enough space for one ring made of a white plastic tarp with ...

Tokyo — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he's Japanese. Onosato, the new grand champion, weighs 421 pounds and he is the first Japanese competitor to reach the ...

London — The world of professional sumo wrestling stepped outside of Japan for only the second time in its centuries-long history on Wednesday night, as fighters clashed on a specially constructed ...

KATY, Texas — An athlete from Cy-Lakes High School is attracting worldwide attention after bringing home a national title. Zhariyah Whittington started off on her school's wrestling team but quickly ...

Jenni Crook, top right, and her son Josh Crook, top left, watch sumo wrestlers practice at Yamamoto Sumo Dojo. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) The country's best sumo wrestlers practice kitty ...