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A Grand Sumo tournament is the event professional sumo is built around. The Japan Sumo Association stages six of them a year, each running 15 days, and these are the only days whose results count toward a wrestler's rank. Everything else...

Sumo rules fit in a single sentence. A wrestler loses the moment any part of his body other than the soles of his feet touches the clay, or the moment he touches the ground outside the ring. There are no rounds, no points and no weight c...

Sumo is Japan's professional wrestling tradition, and the rule that decides it is simpler than it looks. Two athletes meet inside a clay ring. The first one to step outside the ring, or to touch the clay with anything other than the sole...