The competition level was spectacular, attracting many medallists from the World Sumo Championships, including Aron Rozum (Poland) and Batyr Altyev (Russia). Even Olympic wrestling gold medallist Karam Gaber, trying sumo for the first time, could not get past the quarter-finals in the ...
In particular, his promotion to yokozuna was achieved after the first tournament of 1993, when he won back-to-back championships, filling the absence of long-reigning yokozuna Chiyonofuji. Other yokozuna—Onokuni, Asahifuji and Hokutoumi—had all retired by then, leaving no grand champion in ...
Although the discipline of sumo wrestling may have existed in various forms forwell over a millennium, it isn’t the sport stuck in time that it is sometimes made out to be. It hasexperiencedcontroversythroughout its history. In the 17th century, the unseemly practice of samuraiwrestling each ...