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Kotozakura Masakatsu (琴櫻 将傑), born 19 November 1997 as Masakatsu Kamatani (鎌谷 将且, Kamatani Masakatsu), is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Chiba Prefecture. He wrestles for Sadogatake stable, a sumo stable previously run by his grandfather, former yokozuna Kotozakura, and currently run by his father, former sekiwake ...
The Hakuhō Cup is one of the largest and most prestigious junior sumo event in the Japanese amateur calender. [1] With the Japan Association of Athletics Federations choosing not to hold a sumo competition for the 2025 national middle school and high school tournaments, the Hakuhō Cup also sits its impact status for the sport's popularity. [2]
He was finally recruited and attended Kashiwa High School in Chiba Prefecture, along future professional sumo wrestlers Ōshōma and Asahakuryū. [7] There, he first joined the wrestling club, saying he was afraid of sumo, [5] but in his first year he took part in a school trip and visited the Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and became interested ...
After graduating from high school, he focused on healing his shoulder injury and worked at his father's metalwork machinery company Noda Gumi in Tottori. By virtue of winning the All Japan Corporate Sumo Championship in September 2022 (and thus being named Corporate Yokozuna) he was eligible to enter professional sumo as makushita tsukedashi '. [7]
Kizaki started sumo wrestling in elementary school in his native Okinawa. While in elementary school, he trained with high school students at Chūbu Norin High School, where his uncle was the sumo coach. In his second year of junior high school he placed in the top 16 in the National Junior High School Sumo Tournament. [2]
However, Nakazono played basketball in elementary and junior high school, although he did appear in some local regional sumo tournaments. [1] His father was a strong local sumo wrestler even having been able to wrestle against and be acquainted with Matsugane Oyakata (former ōzeki Wakashimazu). Because of this relationship Nakazono was invited ...
Takarafuji Daisuke (Japanese: 宝富士 大輔, born February 18, 1987 as Daisuke Sugiyama (杉山 大輔, Sugiyama Daisuke)) is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler. He made his professional debut in January 2009, reaching the top makuuchi division in July 2011.
Sumo (Japanese: 相撲, Hepburn: sumō, Japanese pronunciation:, lit. ' striking one another ') [1] is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by throwing, shoving or pushing him down).