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.

and he eventually retired from sumo in 2001. The wrestler's career spanned across sports and continents, too. He brought his skills to WWE in 2005 when he defeated Big Show at WrestleMania 21 in a ...

Sumo wrestler Konishiki Yasokichi rates eight sumo fights in movies and TV shows, such as "Memoirs of a Geisha" and "Isle of Dogs," for realism. Konishiki discusses the accuracy of throwing ...

it was only me and someone else that had ever done sumo wrestling before, in six months it was a real quick turnaround," he said. "We're expecting a really big year for people wanting to give it a ...

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 ...

Los Angeles Rams defensive back Quentin Lake is having a blast in Japan. The 26-year-old already met up with Los Angeles ...

Image Each of the sumo wrestlers gets a back story in Lisa Sanaye ... Sonia Friedman has “created her own theater studio system,” balancing big properties like “Harry Potter” and ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Sumo,” a new play by Lisa Sanaye Dring about the Japanese wrestling sport, naturally has a certain exoticism given the cultural specificity of its subject. But it’s also a classic behind ...