World Championship Sumo debuts at Westchester County Center on Jan. 30. The competition surface is an 18-foot circle called the dohyo. There are 82 confirmed winning sumo techniques. The unique ...
TOKYO (AP) — Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki has become the first from his country to win an elite-level sumo championship. Even more impressive: he defeated Hoshoryu on Sunday in the deciding match ...
A Ukrainian who fled his homeland following Russia's full-scale invasion has become the first from his country to win an elite-level sumo championship in Japan. Danilo Yavhushyshyn, who now competes ...
A Ukrainian refugee has become the first person from his country to win an elite-level sumo tournament. Danylo Yavhusishyn - known by his sumo ring name Aonishiki - arrived in Japan as an 18-year-old ...
Ukrainian-born wrestler Danylo Yavhusishyn — known in Japan as Aonishiki Arata — has made history by becoming the first Ukrainian to win an elite-level sumo championship. At just 21, and after fleeing ...