Two Netflix series have introduced audiences to the intricacies of the sport, which has roots stretching back 1,500 years. Earlier this year, Hanshin Contents Link opened a sumo hall in Osaka, Japan’s third-largest city, that entertains foreign tourists with explanatory exhibitions and actual bouts.

A five-day event in October will be the Japan Sumo Association’s first competition in Britain in more than three decades.

The Japan Sumo Association and people in London hosting a sumo tournament next year shared excitement on Wednesday to realize the fi

LONDON is set to play host to a stunning sumo wrestling event. The 153-year-old Royal Albert Hall will host just the second ever Grand Sumo Tournament to take place outside of Japan. The only

London will host just the second-ever professional Sumo wrestling event outside of Japan next October. The Grand Sumo Tournament will take place at the Royal Albert Hall in partnership with the Japan Sumo Association, Nihon Sumo Kyokai, to help mark its centenary.

Only once in the sport's 1,500-year history has a five-day Grand Sumo Tournament or 'basho' been held outside Japan

It will be the second time the Grand Sumo Tournament has been held outside Japan - and at the Royal Albert Hall.

Only once in the sport's 1,500-year history has a five-day Grand Sumo Tournament or "basho" been held outside Japan - and next year, London's Royal Albert Hall will repeat its feat of 1991. To be as true to tradition as possible,

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