Originally Posted by TSCDescon Go to original post
Try national geographic channel website. Its considered as "ancient martial art" in the early Edo period. I don't know who was the person that thought its consider a modern martial arts.
So I typed sumo wrestling history into Google and the first thing that pops up is web Japan which was much more informative than that 1996 national geographic video.

https://web-japan.org/kidsweb/virtual/sumo/sumo03.html

I'll will concede the point about sumo not being a martial art only because I looked up the definition and it includes sports.... Such as wrestling. I will also leave my argument about weaponry at the doorstep considering it is mere subterfuge from the primary point.