Byamba competed in the U.S. Sumo Open the past seven years and won a gold medal each year. ... Mongolian wrestling, sambo and judo. I didn’t know anything about sumo, ...

Sumo wrestling isn't one of them. Athletes compete wearing a sumo belt, called a mawashi, and little else. It makes packing easy, says sumo champion Byambajav Ulambayar , known as Byamba (rhymes ...

Byamba takes down teammate Davaanyam Altangerel at the U.S. Sumo Open in Long ... At the U.S. Sumo Open, a wrestling practice session gets accompanied by drums and a drink-carrying waitress ...

When I say sumo wrestling, ... Byamba is Mongolian and was spotted by a sumo coach when he was nine. BAYAMBAJAB ULAMBYAR: Yeah, I love the sport, so I'm trying to teach for everybody, you know.

If I really focus, I can beat Byamba,” said Kelly Gneiting, a 430-pound, five-time U.S. sumo champ who finished in third place last year and also lost to Byamba.

Who threw the better suplex this week, sumo monster Byamba or New York Jets cornerback Ellis Lankster? ... Brandon Stroud Pro Wrestling Editor Facebook Twitter. September 17, 2013.

The 14th annual United States Sumo Open championships were held at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach on Saturday, as more than 2,000 fans got to experience world-class sumo wrestling. The star of ...

Photo by Chuck Green 1. This is the perfect primer. The Grand Sumo Tournament was held in Los Angeles back in June. It was a great showcase of traditional… ...

A sumo wrestler's daily caloric intake is more than double the average human's—Ulambayar eats somewhere in the range of 4,000 calories a day (not the 10,000 calories as jokingly reported elsewhere).

Here he is destroying an opponent – it appears to be 420-pound Kelly Gneiting – with an Earth-shaking bodyslam at the 2013 US Sumo Wrestling Championship. Byamba, the 346-pound three-time ...

Entertainment for the gods will come to the people Saturday, when the ancient art of sumo wrestling takes center stage in a free exhibition in Japantown's Peace Plaza. Three professional wrestlers ...