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

Each night of wrestling will be preceded by sacred ... every effort to convey to the people of London the appeal of Sumo, an ancient traditional Japanese culture, and to ensure that everyone ...

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

A former wrestler was assigned to appear in “Thermae Romae II,” a 2014 movie themed around a bathhouse architect from ancient ... coach in amateur sumo by drawing on his wrestling experience ...

By Jesse Green Lisa Sanaye Dring’s “Sumo” offers New Yorkers who are little exposed to that ancient Japanese discipline ... In a fictional Tokyo heya, or wrestling stable, a rigid hierarchy ...

Drums thundered and priests chanted as sumo's newest grand champion strode onto the public stage Friday in a ceremony to mark his promotion to the ancient Japanese sport's highest rank. Mongolian-born ...

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 ...