Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook A&E’s “WWE Superstar Sunday” lineup will feature a new episode of Biography: WWE Legends this ...

Less than two weeks after the sole yokozuna retired from the sport, the Japan Sumo Association on Jan. 29 filled the void by promoting Hoshoryu, 25, to be the 74th yokozuna. The JSA decision came at a ...

Onosato Daiki became the first Japanese man in eight years to be named a yokozuna, or grand champion, the highest title in the sport. By Victor Mather Sumo is Japan’s national sport, steeped in ...

Yokozuna was a legendary WWF (WWE these days) heel, the professional-wrestling term for a bad guy — but Agatupu Rodney Anoaʻi was a legendary good dude. As the first WWE Superstar profiled on the new ...

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 ...

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 is the first Japanese competitor to reach the top ...

Sumo fans got the showdown they have long waited for as newly promoted yokozuna Onosato beat yokozuna Hoshoryu in a dramatic playoff to win the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28. Both yokozuna ...

When fans look back at the early to mid-1990s, few Superstars towered over the New Generation of WWE the way the massive Yokozuna did. The two-time WWE champion dominated the main event scene, ...

Sumo is Japan’s beloved sport. Yokozuna is the sport’s most prestigious title. And after 20 years of near-total dominance by Mongolian giants, a Japanese man once again holds the highest title in the ...

Fans might know that they're both Samoans. But if you're wondering if they're directly related to each other, we've got the answer for you right here. The answer is yes. Both belong to the great ...

GAIJIN YOKOZUNA: A Biography of Chad Rowan, by Mark Panek. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006, 301 pp., $24.95 (paper). Biographers of living celebrities must make a fundamental choice: write ...