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 ...

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 ...

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 ...