F or a show in which the majority of actors spend most of their time wearing only mawashi, Sumo is extremely well dressed. Directed by Ralph B. Peña, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s explor ...

Big guy with an even bigger heart ... Born in Honolulu, Wily had a successful career in sumo wrestling and mixed martial arts before retiring due to a knee injury, WDSU reported.

Hot Springs will welcome the heaviest sumo wrestler in the world and the widest sumo wrestler in the world to compete in the ...

A look into the larger world of sumo is what playwright Lisa Sanaye Dring puts before us in her new play "SUMO," at the ...

Naturally, that’s the unranked newcomer, Akio (Scott Keiji Takeda): an 18-year-old from a troubled background who, though small by sumo standards, has dreamed of becoming a wrestler since childhood.

The only professional sumo wrestler ever to emerge from these isles is Nathan John Strange from Kent. Inspired by watching sumo on TV, Strange trained with Syd Hoare before moving to Japan.

Argentina and Japan may be separated by thousands of kilometres of land and ocean, but Hiyori Kon is helping bring the two countries closer through the traditional Japanese sport of sumo.

But rarer, nonexistent even, is a theatrical work about sumo wrestling. Now, Lisa Sanaye Dring’s “Sumo” is transporting Off Broadway audiences at the Public Theater to an intimate sumo ...

The All-Star Sumo elite round robin sumo wrestling tournament will be coming to the Bank OZK Arena on April 11. All Star Sumo wrestling tournament coming to Hot Springs in April Six world-famous ...

Follow three female sumo wrestlers as they compete at the highest level at the Women's Sumo World Championships in Tokyo. The film tracks each athlete's individual journey, from strength and ...

As an implicit celebration of big bodies and of varying ... Yet despite the crash course in mythology and sumo wrestling that began the play—or perhaps because such an information overload ...