and after retiring from sumo in 2001 fought in various mixed martial arts and professional wrestling events. “RIP to the Mighty Akebono,” posted Samoa Joe, the current world champion of AEW ...

Its members train at a sumo practice ground of the Kizukuri Junior High School, from which Asahifuji graduated. Over the years, Aomori Prefecture has produced many great wrestlers, including ...

Gridiron football skills don’t translate so smoothly into the ancient Japanese art of sumo wrestling. Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons faced off with a sumo wrestler during an ...

Sumo wrestling fans are mourning a former native of Hawaii who was the first foreigner to attain the highest ranking in Japan's national sport. Akebono died of heart failure in a Tokyo hospital ...

The three-time Defensive Player of the Year finalist and three-time Pro Bowler recently tested himself against a sumo wrestler in a viral video captured in Japan. While on a tour of Asia alongside ...

He won 11 major sumo tournaments, which are held six times a year, before retiring in 2001 and turning to K-1 and professional wrestling. He was runner-up at 13 other tournaments, despite being ...

Now the three-time Defensive Player of the Year finalist is using those skills to take on sumo wrestlers. Parsons recently went one-on-one with a sumo wrestler in Tokyo, Japan as Houston Texans ...

Dec 17, 2023; Orchard Park, New York, USA; Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons (11) warms-up / Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports In an unexpected showdown, Dallas Cowboys star linebacker Micah ...

On social media, the couple teased competing against each other in a sumo gym, but wrestling a skilled sumo wrestler is a different story. In the NFL, 6-foot-3, 245-pound Parsons is well-known for ...

Akebono, an American-born sumo wrestler who became the first non-Japanese ... originally from American Samoa. “Throughout his 35 years in Japan, Akebono strengthened the cultural ties between ...

In an unexpected showdown, Dallas Cowboys star linebacker Micah Parsons faced off against an unusual opponent: a Japanese sumo wrestler. The encounter took place during Parsons’ Asia tour ...