Legs taut, backs bent at the waist, the wrestlers slowly stretched out their arms towards each other, searching for a grip ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

The stage is transformed into a ring. The actors are barely clothed in the traditional costume. And the thundering action is right in your face in the thrilling new play “Sumo.” Senior Editor ...

I’ll be training with two of the world’s heaviest sumo wrestlers- Yama and Rami - alongside Igor Voitenko. With just five hours of training, we’ll step into the ring for a full sumo match to see if we ...

thwack of bodies hitting the hard surface of the dohyō (ring) over and over again makes it feel as if we are at an actual sumo wrestling bout. Instead we are witnessing Lisa Sanaye Dring’s play, Sumo ...

Sumo wrestling is often seen as a spectacle of brute force—massive ... For those who have only seen sumo from a distance, SUMO offers something rare: a chance to step inside the ring and see the ...