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

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

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.

not wrestlers themselves. (The convincingly executed fighting is down to the training of sumo consultant James Yaegashi and Ralph B. Peña’s direction.) “I felt such pride and strength when I ...

Ozeki Onosato maintained a share of the lead by improving to a 5-1 record Friday, the sixth day of the Spring Grand Sumo ...

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

and ultimately fight. Step into the sacred world of sumo wrestling, with the New York premiere of Lisa Sanaye Dring’s mesmerizing new drama, SUMO. Akio arrives as an angry, ambitious 18 ...

Lisa Sanaye Dring’s play at the Public Theater follows a stable of sumo wrestlers; Rajiv Joseph’s drama, presented by Manhattan Theatre Club, observes a Peace Corps volunteer and a State Department ...

And the thundering action is right in your face in the thrilling new play “Sumo.” Senior Editor and Writer Senior Editor and Writer [email protected] Got a tip? Send it to The Daily ...

In a fictional Tokyo heya, or wrestling stable ... a simple 15-foot sumo ring designed by Wilson Chin, provides plenty of intense action, which the men's size and strength make almost elemental, like ...