Yoshikaze Masatsugu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Yoshikaze Masatsugu
Occupation	Rikishi
Date Of Birth	Mar 19, 1982(1982-03-19)
Age	42
Birthplace	Saiki
Country	Japan
Birth City	Ōita Prefecture
Horoscope	Pisces

Yoshikaze Masatsugu Biography

Yoshikaze Masatsugu is one of the most popular and richest Rikishi who was born on March 19, 1982 in Saiki, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. Yoshikaze Masatsugu, born March 19, 1982 under the name Masatsugu Onishi, is a former sumo wrestling champion from Saiki Prefecture, Japan. His highest rank was sekiwake. He was an amateur sumo champion and turned professional in 2004. He reached the top division just two years later. He held the record for the longest-serving makuuchi wrestler, who had never achieved a titled rank, until his promotion to Komusubi in May 2014. He was the runner up in a tournament in July 2015. He scored 12 wins and three losses. He defeated two yokozuna in the September 2015 tournament and was awarded special prizes for Outstanding Performance & Technique. Yoshikaze, Takekaze’s stablemate, is second for the slowest promotion to makuuchi debut and third highest sekiwake rank. He was awarded ten special prizes and eight gold stars for his victory over yokozuna. In September 2019, he retired and is now an elder in the Japan Sumo Association, also known as Nakamura Oyakata.

Yoshikaze married in December 2008. The wedding ceremony took place in October 2009. He is the father of a daughter and son.

In February 2013 Yoshikaze acquired the Nakamura toshiyori kabu or elder stock from the former Fujizakura, indicating that he intended to stay in sumo as a coach upon his retirement. On the fifth day of the September 2019 tournament, with his continuing absence making demotion to the makushita division certain, he submitted his retirement papers to the Japan Sumo Association. It was reported in October that his career-ending knee injury was caused by a canyoning accident in his native Saiki.

Yoshikaze achieved a majority of wins in his debut at sekiwake, but lost the rank after the following tournament where he could only score 4–11. He earned his fifth career gold star in the July 2016 tournament by defeating Harumafuji for the eighth time in thirteen meetings. Despite suffering from facial injuries he ended the tournament with a 10–5 record and was awarded the special prize for Outstanding Performance. In the March 2017 tournament he earned his sixth kinboshi by defeating Kakuryū on Day 10. Returning to the sanyaku ranks at komusubi in May 2017, he defeated two yokozuna, Kisenosato and Kakuryū, in the first four days, and received his third Technique Prize at the end of the tournament. He produced another good performance in July 2017, beating Harumafuji on the opening day and ending with a 9–6 record: he was in consideration for another Technique prize before losing to the in-form Aoiyama on the final day. This returned him to sekiwake rank for the first time since March 2016. He became the fifth oldest wrestler post World War II to earn promotion to sekiwake at 35 years, 5 months. He was demoted from sekiwake after the November 2017 tournament, but back in the maegashira ranks in January 2018 he defeated two yokozuna on consecutive days – Hakuhō on Day 4 and Kisenosato on Day 5. After having surgery on a knee injury in June 2019, he announced that he would miss the July 2019 tournament, resulting in a fall to jūryō for the first time since 2007.

He defeated Takamisakari, a fan favorite, with the unusual but stunning technique of utchari (or spin throw from the edge) in the November 2007 tournament. He was unable to win any of the other bouts and fell to the bottom division. He remained in makuuchi with an 8-7 record in January 2008.

Yoshikaze Masatsugu Net Worth

Yoshikaze Masatsugu is one of the richest Rikishi from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Yoshikaze Masatsugu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was an amateur sumo champion in Nippon Sport Science University and won the college equivalent to the yokozuna title his third year. He wanted to wait until his university graduation before he joined professional sumo. This meant that he was unable to get into the third makushita level. In January 2004, he joined Oguruma stable, making his maezumo debut as an amateur yokozuna.

In January 2006, he was promoted to the top division of makuuchi. From his professional debut, it took him 12 tournaments to reach the top makuuchi division. This was the second fastest growth since 1958 when the six tournaments per annum system was introduced. He did not rise to the top of the mid maegashira ranks until January 2009 and was twice relegated to the second division.

One of his best performance in the top division came in November 2008 when he won 11 bouts and was awarded his first sanshō or special prize, for Fighting Spirit. He was promoted to a new high of maegashira 2 for the January 2009 tournament. Although he was not able to come through with a winning record his score of 6–9 was creditable, and he scored a memorable win over new ōzeki Harumafuji on the opening day of the tournament. However, he gradually slipped back down the rankings with three more losing scores in the next three tournaments. The November 2009 tournament was one of his most successful, as he won nine of his first ten bouts before slowing down somewhat to finish on 10–5. In September 2010 he won his second Fighting Spirit prize, which was shared with his stablemate Takekaze, after producing a fine 11–4 score, having been 7–0. He followed up with a solid 8–7 record in November, which saw him return to maegashira 2 in January 2011, and he reached maegashira 1 that July.

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Yoshikaze Ranked on the list of most popular Rikishi. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Yoshikaze Masatsugu celebrates birthday on March 19 of every year.