As Musashimaru, the champion sumo wrestler, lumbers slowly into the room, his translator scrambles to grab two thick cushions and place them atop the thick cushion that is already on the couch.

Musashimaru is only the second non-Japanese wrestler to reach sumo's highest rank of yokozuna. "I believe he made up his mind after sufficient reflection," Japan Sumo Association chief Kitanoumi told ...

Former sumo grand champion Musashimaru was honored in a retirement ceremony yesterday at Tokyo's Ryogoku Kokugikan. Musashimaru had his top knot cut off by fellow wrestlers and friends in a ...

“The sumo world is a hard life,” he says, as other wrestlers dutifully replenish ... by a Samoan-Hawaiian of similar weight named Musashimaru, known to his family as Fiamalu Penitani, who ...

Sumo aficionados like to note that former grand champion Musashimaru, of Hawaii, had a 10 p.m. curfew. But that is changing. The wrestlers at the center of the scandal came from training stables ...

Kena Heffernan, a national champion sumo wrestler, is at the forefront of ... "Whether your talking Akebono, whether your talking about Musashimaru, whether your talking about Ozeki Konishiki.

During his reign, other Hawaii wrestlers would also become stars, including Konishiki and Musashimaru ... In 2008, seven years after retiring from sumo, he returned to the islands to promote ...