The giant wrestler is no more. Taro Akebono recently passed away due to heart failure in Tokyo this month. Akebono had been battling illness since collapsing in the city of Kitakyushu seven years ...

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.