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The following is a list of the heaviest professional sumo wrestlers. Only wrestlers weighing 200 kilograms (440 lb) or over are included. Wrestlers shown in bold are still active as of January 2023. Ōrora (left), the heaviest sumo wrestler ever, fights eighth-heaviest Kainowaka Yamamotoyama is the heaviest Japanese-born sumo wrestler ever ...
Tamashōhō Manpei (玉正鳳 萬平), born March 6, 1993, as Erdenebileg Enkhmanlai (Mongolian: Эрдэнэбилэгийн Энхманлай) is a Mongolian professional sumo wrestler from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Wrestling for Kataonami stable, his highest rank has been maegashira 16.
Akebono was one of the tallest sumo wrestlers ever, at 203 cm (6 ft 8 in) tall, and also one of the heaviest with a peak weight of 233 kg (514 lb) in March 1999. [10] He was also one of the most aggressive and ferocious sumo wrestlers.
A stew commonly eaten in large quantities by sumo wrestlers as part of a weight gain diet. It contains dashi or stock with sake or mirin to add flavor. The bulk of chankonabe is made up of large quantities of protein sources, usually chicken, fish (fried and made into balls), tofu, or sometimes beef; and vegetables (daikon, bok choy, etc.).
Sumo wrestlers can weigh 400 pounds, yet they don't suffer from heart attacks, strokes, or other symptoms of obesity. Here's how they stay healthy. Sumo wrestlers eat up to 7,000 calories a day ...
The sumo wrestlers weighed an average of 120 kilograms (264 pounds) each – far more than the 70 kilogram (154 pounds) average passenger – an airline spokesperson told CNN, raising concerns ...
He quickly became the World Amateur Sumo Champion, leading him to be one of the most famous sumo wrestlers outside Japan. [3] In 2007, he intended to drop from 750 to 550 lbs in order to improve his health, still hoping to participate in the next Sumo World Championships and the US Olympic judo tryouts. [2]
At a peak weight of 287 kg (633 lb) he was also at the time the heaviest wrestler ever in sumo, earning him the nicknames "Meat Bomb" and, most famously, "The Dump Truck". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Born in 1963 in Hawai'i to Vaa Atisanoe and Fala of Tula , American Sāmoa , Yasokichi became the first foreigner to earn the prestigious title of sumo ...