The Royal Albert Hall has been selected as host for one of the only professional sumo contests to ever happen outside of Japan. The event, which will come to the capital next October, is only the second time a professional sumo wrestling competition has left its homeland — the last time being a 1991 event also at the Royal Albert Hall. “It’s what the Royal Albert Hall was built for,” Royal Albert Hall’s chief executive James Ainscough told the media. “It says on the outside of the building [that] we were built for all nations, and so part of our job is to enable the British public to encounter different cultures and different experiences.”
