Grand Sumo Tournament returns to London
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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.
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.
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Reinforced toilets, jumbo chairs and wild WAGS – inside Britain’s five-day sumo wrestling festival
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
BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team explains what sumo wrestling is, why they eat up to 10,000 calories a day and why the Grand Sumo Tournament is in London.
The Grand Sumo Tournament is rumbling London's iconic Royal Albert Hall in a rare foreign foray for Japan's centuries-old sport. A deputy with the Denver Sheriff's Department has been arrested and is facing multiple charges,
Live coverage from the Grand Sumo Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall will be broadcast on dedicated channel, SUMO London 2025
Follow live BBC Coverage of the Grand Sumo Tournament from Royal Albert Hall, London as it returns for the first time in 34 years.
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.
The events will pair wrestling with food that best represents the flavors and dishes of their respective cultures.
Sumo wrestling returns to London for the first time in over three decades, with a five-day Grand Tournament at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
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