His fame can be credited to his success as well as his stature. Akebono ranked among the heaviest and tallest sumo wrestlers, reportedly weighing as much as 500 pounds at 6-feet-8. He also ...

He won 11 grand championships and became sumo’s 64th Yokuzuna in 1993. Also identified as Akebono Tarō, he was one of the tallest and heaviest wrestlers ever at 6-foot-8 and more than 500 pounds.

Mongolian wrestlers have dominated the upper ranks of grand sumo throughout the 2000s. The most notable of those wrestlers is Hakuho, sumo’s undeniable GOAT. Hakuho retired with the record for most ...

AN ENORMOUS coffin measuring almost 8ft long carried by eight pallbearers was used to lay Britain's former tallest man to ... the only female Sumo wrestler in the UK, and fellow actor Ross Sambridge.