HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - While the world is feeling the loss of Akebono Taro, a grand champion in the sumo world, his family is mourning the man behind the legend. In Waimanalo, Akebono grew up ...

David Madison/Getty Akebono Taro, the Hawaiian-born sumo wrestling star and WWE fighter, has died. He was 54. On Thursday, April 11, the family of the wrestler, who was the first foreign-born sumo ...

Taro Akebono, the first foreign-born yokozuna and later a mixed martial artist and pro wrestler, died of heart failure in early April at a hospital near Tokyo, according to a source close to him.