Aonishiki, who is 182cm in height and weighs a relatively modest 136kg, discovered sumo as a boy, practicing judo and ...

An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport.

Ozeki Onosato maintained a share of the lead by improving to a 5-1 record Friday, the sixth day of the Spring Grand Sumo ...

Follow three female sumo wrestlers as they compete at the highest ... from strength and technique training to their final competitive fights. It also explores the untold stories behind women's ...

The play’s cast members wrestle, slap and toss one another in ambitiously choreographed fight sequences that took months of training to learn.

This month's ECOWAS wrestling tournament, however, marked the first time that the annual showdown featured a women's division. Legs taut, backs bent at the waist, the wrestlers slowly stretched out ...

not wrestlers themselves. (The convincingly executed fighting is down to the training of sumo consultant James Yaegashi and Ralph B. Peña’s direction.) “I felt such pride and strength when I ...

and ultimately fight. Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling, with the New York premiere of Lisa Sanaye Dring’s mesmerizing new drama, SUMO. Akio arrives as an angry, ambitious 18 ...

Read reviews for The Public Theater and Ma-Yi Theater Company’s New York premiere of SUMO, a new play written by Lisa Sanaye ...

Lisa Sanaye Dring’s play at the Public Theater follows a stable of sumo wrestlers; Rajiv Joseph’s drama, presented by Manhattan Theatre Club, observes a Peace Corps volunteer and a State Department ...

In a fictional Tokyo heya, or wrestling stable ... a simple 15-foot sumo ring designed by Wilson Chin, provides plenty of intense action, which the men's size and strength make almost elemental, like ...