Traveling back to over 100 years before the first IBJJF World Championship or UFC, back to Kano Jigoro and his first Kodokan Academy. Kano had studied the many different styles of the Samurai art of ...

This is the first in a series of articles I plan to write looking at the grappling martial arts used in Mixed Martial Arts, and I have picked one of the most over looked arts in the sport: Judo. A ...

Few athletes have dominated their sport like Teddy Riner. The six-foot-eight, 140-kilogram man mountain has spent his entire career making history and setting new, seemingly impossible benchmarks. At ...

Kayla Harrison tries to become the first U.S. women's gold medal winner in judo this week. (Getty Images) Kayla Harrison's a hero. Tough as nails, brave as anything, and should be an inspiration to ...

French judo athlete Teddy Riner, a 6-foot-8, two-time gold medalist known as "Big Ted," has dominated his sport for a decade. It was a shock when... TOKYO — Judo fighter Teddy Riner lost in the ...

WEST POINT, N.Y. (March 24, 2011) -- The West Point Judo Team made history March 12 by winning men's and women's advanced and novice team national championships-a first in collegiate judo history.

For Kosei Inoue, reaching the pinnacle of his sport is just the start of the journey. His team might have won 12 of the 14 gold medals on offer at the recent Tokyo Grand Slam, but the Japanese judo ...

Fargo - People like Erik Jones don't want to keep others at an arm's length. Don't be shy. He wants you to get closer to him. It makes it easier for him to flip you over onto a mat with relative ease.

PARIS (AP) — The stands at Champs de Mars filled up quickly. One fan dressed in a white martial arts uniform waved a French flag back and forth. A woman next to him held up a poster with the face of ...

Himanshi Tokas, at just 20 years old, has done what no Indian has ever done -- become a judo world no. 1. She's done it in the junior women's -63kg category, and she's done it the only the way such ...

TOKYO — Judo fighter Teddy Riner lost in the Olympic quarterfinal to the top-ranked judo athlete in their class in the world – and it was considered one of the biggest upsets in the history of his ...