Watch This Teenage Girl Sumo Wrestle

No longer a boys club, watch this teenage girl sumo wrestle.

ByABC News
February 5, 2015, 2:22 PM
Sumo wrestler Sayaka Matsuo fights with her teammate Shiori Kanehira during a training session at Nihon University's sumo club in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2015.
Sumo wrestler Sayaka Matsuo fights with her teammate Shiori Kanehira during a training session at Nihon University's sumo club in Tokyo on Jan. 25, 2015.
Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images

— -- She may only tip the scales at 132 pounds -- but don't be fooled, 19-year-old Sayaka Matsuo can play with the big boys.

Sporting her "mawashi," or loin cloth, watch here as she takes on a man more than two-and-a-half times her weight.

It's still a boys club for now, but Matsuo sees that changing.

"I started sumo as a hobby. I feel a lot of pressure from my dad and my goal is to win the women's Sumo World Championship one day," she tells the AFP. There are about 300 boy sumo wrestlers to every girl in Japan's elementary schools, according to AFP citing the Japan Sumo Federation, but that ratio is changing.