It’s the calm before the stomp. In just a few weeks, the Royal Albert Hall will be filled with a clay circular ring covered in a layer of sand. Over 40 Japanese juggernauts, all sporting greased-back ...

It's safe to say they're making their presence felt. Japan's top sumo wrestlers were wandering the streets of London ahead of the sold-out Grand Sumo Tournament taking place this week at the Royal ...

Sweat darkened the white "dohyo" ring mat as Ireland's first female sumo wrestler shoved and strained, learning a freshly-discovered sport. Having tried the centuries-old Japanese discipline out of ...

Royce Gracie immediately established himself as MMA’s best fighter when the sport launched in 1993. The Brazilian submission specialist famously used the gentle art of jiu-jitsu to subdue much bigger ...

Sumo is more than a sport in Japan. It’s a sacred tradition, a 1,500-year-old spectacle steeped in Shinto ritual and ceremony. But at its heart lies a long-standing taboo: women are still barred from ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Sumo wrestlers are scheduled to duke it out in the Queen City. The wrestlers are coming to the Sister Cities Japanese Fall Festival, a celebration of Springfield’s 37-year-old ...

JJ Jones never made it to the sumo wrestling tournament in 2007, but the flyer for the tournament stayed on his wall and served as inspiration for him to pursue sumo wrestling a few years later.

An Off Broadway play opens a window on the spiritual and physical trials of the ancient Japanese sport. By Jesse Green Lisa Sanaye Dring’s “Sumo” offers New Yorkers who are little exposed to that ...