Sumo wrestling's greatest champion, Hakuho, is set to retire after more than 1,000 wins. He rose to the top ranks of sumo wrestling after arriving in Japan from his native Mongolia at the age of 15.
Sumo wrestling's greatest champion has been demoted as a trainer after an investigation found one of his students repeatedly assaulted other wrestlers. Hakuho Sho, 38, was downgraded to the lowest ...
If retiring yokozuna Hakuho, considered the greatest sumo wrestler of all time, wants to remain in the sport and become a stablemaster, he's been told that he needs to clean up his act. The Japan ...
Akira Kato is not a yes-man, even to the greatest sumo wrestler of all time, yokozuna Hakuho, whom he admits to disliking, although he served as his hairdresser and informal adviser. But Kato ...
Unlike other combat sports, such as boxing and MMA, sumo wrestling doesn't have weight divisions, meaning sumos are always at risk of being outmuscled and overpowered. Those were the odds young ...
Hakuho knew that if he kept that ... Three days after the end of the tournament, the Japan Sumo Association informed him officially that he would be wrestling as a yokozuna from now on.
Eleven days later, on May 12th, the May grand sumo tournament opened at the center ... Yokozuna Grand Champion Hakuho, who won the previous tournament in March, announced he would miss the entire ...
While size does matter in sumo wrestling, it is still possible for ... controversy still erupts from time to time. The esteemed Hakuho, as the stablemaster Miyagino, was demoted as an elder ...