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In 2016, he appeared as a figure skating sumo wrestler in a television advertisement for GEICO. [7] In 2017 he promoted a new variety of mandarin orange called the "Sumo Citrus" in Lindsay, California. [8] He featured as a model for the Subaru car company. He appeared in a video for Vice Media showing the diet of a sumo wrestler. [9]
As of 2021, he is USA Sumo's head coach and sumo ambassador. [16] He regularly appears in commercials on US television which require a sumo wrestler. [12] He runs the Yamamoto Sumo Dojo in Los Angeles. [7] Also in 2021, he was married in the USA. In 2022, Nick DiGiovanni, an American chef, cooked a 5-course meal for him. In 2023 he published a ...
In video games, Hinako Shijou from SNK's The King of Fighters series is a female sumo wrestler and one of the limited examples in the medium. She debuted in The King of Fighters 2000 as part of the "Woman Fighters Team". In the film Sumo Do, Sumo Don't, a female character pretends to be a male sumo wrestler while another engages with sumo at ...
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Theo, a nine-year-old child from Australia, tries to spar against former sumo wrestler Towanoyama in the sumo ring at Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka in Tokyo, Japan on June 30, 2023.
London’s Royal Albert Hall, the gilded concert venue known for an annual “Rule Britannia” singalong, is preparing to host a different kind of spectacle: Sumo wrestling. Camera shutters ...
Akebono also led other sumo wrestlers in a ring cleansing ceremony at the Opening Ceremony (also meant to cleanse the stadium itself). Akebono suffered frequent injuries during his career. [ 16 ] His first serious knee injury came in May 1994 when, after winning his first ten matches of the tournament, he lost a bout to Takatōriki and fell ...
A rikishi (力士), sumōtori (相撲取り) or, more colloquially, osumōsan (お相撲さん), is a sumo wrestler. Although used to define all wrestlers participating in sumo wrestling matches, the term is more commonly used to refer to professional wrestlers, employed by the Japan Sumo Association, who participate in professional sumo tournaments (called honbasho) in Japan, the only country ...