There was a series of cannabis scandals in professional sumo beginning in August 2008. Four sekitori ranked wrestlers, Wakanohō, Rohō, Hakurozan and Wakakirin...

prison for nine days after cannabis was found in his luggage at Tokyo's Narita International Airport. The 2008 sumo cannabis scandal resulted in the expulsion...

(2007), the case of foreign sumo wrestlers possessing and smoking cannabis (2008), the baseball gambling and match-fixing scandal (2010-2011), Yokozuna Harumafuji's...

¥44 million to the Japan Sumo Association over the allegations. In September 2008, Wakanohō, a wrestler who had been expelled for cannabis use, claimed he was...

competitions such as the X Games. Beginning in August 2008, a cannabis scandal resulted in four sekitori ranked sumo wrestlers, Wakanohō, Rohō, Hakurozan and Wakakirin...

professional sumo wrestler in the wake of the scandal and submitted his letter of resignation to Japan Sumo Association by proxy. The Sumo Association...

Japan Sumo Association from 2002 until 2008, and again from 2012 until his death. Born in Sōbetsu, Hokkaido, Kitanoumi began his professional sumo career...

after failing drug tests for cannabis. He visited the Ryōgoku Kokugikan and asked to be readmitted to sumo, but the Sumo Association's directors refused...

The following are the events in professional sumo during the year 2008. Hatsu basho, Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, 13 January – 27 January Haru basho, Osaka...

sumo due to alleged cannabis use was valid. 21: Footage emerges on YouTube of a wrestler from the Mihogaseki stable driving a car, defying the Sumo Association's...

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it was reported by the Sumo Association that the brothers had admitted to officials at the testing that they had smoked cannabis whilst on a tour of Los...

Rohō of Ōtake stable. In September 2008, both were dismissed from professional sumo after testing positive for cannabis. Hakurozan began wrestling at the...

highest rank of komusubi but he was dismissed from sumo in September 2008 after failing a test for cannabis. In January 2010 the stable, along with the Takanohana...

wrestlers such as Hakurozan and Rohō who had been dismissed from sumo after a cannabis scandal but Azumaryū's six years in Japan convinced the stable that...

The following are the events in professional sumo during 2009. Hatsu basho, Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, 11 – 25 January Haru basho, Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium...

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by NBC.com, he was at one point in his life so obese that he worked as a sumo wrestler. Gabor Csupczyk (Eric Wareheim) is an old friend of Dwight's who...

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The first Sumo tournament to be held outside Japan is hosted at the Royal Albert Hall in London. 17 October – £1million worth of cannabis is found near...

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such as with the Japan Davis Cup); the Japan Sumo Association is weighing whether to cancel a sold-out sumo tournament scheduled for 8 March in Osaka. Toyota...