Imagine stepping into the MMA ring with a former sumo wrestling legend who towers over you by a good foot and weighs nearly ...

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

Just like the Japanese sport it's inspired by, the new off-Broadway play is part ritual, part athletic spectacle.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

We investigate how rikishi perceive the sumo ring, a circle 4.55 meters across. Along the way we highlight the work that goes into constructing it and how rikishi grip the clay with their toes.

“With my heartfelt appreciation for people at Kansai University, I will be competing on the sumo ring in my own style.” In his childhood, Aonishiki tried wrestling and judo in Ukrain ...

In a fictional Tokyo heya, or wrestling stable, a rigid hierarchy based on competitive ... Peña's staging, mostly within a simple 15-foot sumo ring designed by Wilson Chin, provides plenty of intense ...