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 would no ...

Sumo wrestlers have to eat a ton of food on a daily basis in order to maintain their fighting shape for the bi-monthly tournaments. As a result, many develop serious health complications after and ...

When they are not inside a dohyō with their mawashi on, the participants of the Grand Sumo Tournament are enjoying all the food, drinks and experiences London has to offer. Preparation for the ...

Think sumo wrestling is just about size? Think again. This deep dive reveals how elite sumo wrestlers build explosive strength, balance, and flexibility through brutal drills like shiko, mata-wari ...

Ever wonder how Sumo wrestlers maintain their rotund figures? Well, it’s not from eating cheeseburgers and ice cream, apparently. Rather, in order to get in the 10,000 or so calories they need to ...

What does it take to become a sumo wrestler? Turns out, a whole lot of soup. The traditional sumo diet includes an abundance of chanko nabe, a meat and vegetable soup of which wrestlers consume about ...

TOKYO -- Some see sumo wrestlers as near-sacred beings: custodians of an ancient martial art infused with spirituality. Others see them as comic figures -- diapered buffoons with funny haircuts ...

Small ubiquitin-like modifiers (SUMOs) are post-translational modifications (PTMs) that regulate nuclear cellular processes. Here we used an augmented K0–SUMO proteomics strategy to identify 40,765 ...