The Grand Sumo Tournament will take place from Wednesday, October 15 to Sunday, October 19, 2025 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK, with the entire event available to watch live and free on DAZN. Each day will include traditional ceremonies and top-division clashes culminating in Sunday's Final's Day.

Sumo wrestling is Japan's oldest and most coveted spiritual and culturally significant sport. Now, American audiences are being introduced in a fun way, as ABC7 Chicago's Ryan Chiaverini found out firsthand.

As photos circulate on social media of sumo wrestlers riding Lime bikes and recreating the cover of The Beatles’s Abbey Road, a question springs to mind: is there a more enigmatic sport than sumo? A more widely known yet less consumed sport internationally?

Welcome, then, to the Grand Sumo Tournament - a five-day event at the Royal Albert Hall featuring 40 of the very best sumo wrestlers showcasing a sport which can date its first mention back to 23BC. London's Victorian concert venue has been utterly transformed, complete with six-tonne Japanese temple roof suspended above the ring.

It is difficult not to feel slightly insulted when your editor calls suggesting you should try sumo wrestling. I had hoped such sleights were in my past, several stone ago, but it is a team of elite specimens here at Telegraph Sport,

But it’s all very real. For just the second time in the sport’s recorded history, which stretches back 1,500 years, a sumo tournament is taking place outside of Japan. London’s Royal Albert Hall is playing host to The Grand Sumo Tournament this week, bringing together the top athletes in the sport for five nights of ring-stomping action.

The wrestlers have made sure to enjoy London’s culinary delights, visiting up-market steakhouse Hawksmore, where four of them ate rib and porterhouse steaks, oysters, lobster, mash, steak carpaccio, mackerel salad, lobster and mac & cheese. They also visited ramen chain Bone Daddies, enjoying chicken wings and noodles.

Japan's elite sumo wrestlers slapped, thrust and flipped their way through the first evening of their five-day exhibition tournament in London's Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday, to

Sumo wrestling will head to the iconic Royal Albert Hall this week as the Grand Sumo Tournament headlines London.

THEY certainly didn’t look like the usual tourists exploring London’s busy streets. A group of 30st sumo wrestlers got plenty of heads turning this week as they drank pints of Guinness, recreated

LONDON- Japan's sumo wrestlers brought the thunder to London on Wednesday night, as the Royal Albert Hall hosted the first major sumo tournament in the UK in 34 years.