The five-day Grand Sumo Tournament is set to take place between 15-19 October next year, hosted by the Royal Albert Hall 34 years after the first-ever official tournament outside of Japan was held ...
The 153-year-old Royal Albert Hall will host just the second ever Grand Sumo Tournament to take place outside of Japan. The Kensington venue also hosted the last event outside of Japan in ...
The Royal Albert Hall hosted sumo wrestling in 1991, but hasn't done so since. Image: Chris Christodoulou The last (and only) time that a sumo wrestling Grand Tournament took place outside of ...
This comes three decades after the 1991 basho, also at the Royal Albert Hall, became first official Sumo tournament to be staged outside of Japan. Sumo wrestling, which is dictated by ritual and ...