Daishōyama Naoki

Daishōyama Naoki
Personal information
Born Naoki Yamazaki
(1966-07-07) July 7, 1966
Anamizu, Ishikawa, Japan
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 12 in)
Weight 179 kg (395 lb; 28.2 st)
Career
Stable Tatsunami
Record 266-252-40
Debut January, 1989
Highest rank Maegashira 2 (January, 1991)
Retired November 1995
Championships 1 (Jūryō)
2 (Makushita)
Special Prizes Fighting Spirit (1)
Gold Stars 3
Hokutoumi (2)
Ōnokuni
* Up to date as of March 2009.

Daishōyama Naoki (born 7 July 1966 as Naoki Yamazaki) is a former sumo wrestler from Anamizu, Ishikawa, Japan. A former amateur champion, he made his professional debut in January 1989 and reached a highest rank of maegashira 2 before retiring in 1995. He is now the head coach of Oitekaze stable.

Career

Born in Anamizu, Hosu District, as an amateur he won eleven sumo titles, including collegiate and amateur yokozuna, while studying at Nihon University.[1] He also served as captain of the school sumo team. He was recruited by the former sekiwake Annenyama of the Tatsunami stable. Yamazaki had stayed at the heya while taking part in junior high school competitions (as did Daishōhō), and he had also met the former Tatsunami stable wrestler Wakanami as an infant, being held in his arms for a photograph (as top rikishi are often requested to do for luck).[1] As an amateur champion he was given makushita tsukedashi status and made his debut in the third highest makushita division. His first tournament was in January 1989 and after two consecutive yūshō with perfect 7-0 records in January and March 1990 he was promoted to the second highest jūryō division, becoming the first sekitori from Tatsunami stable since the abrupt departure of yokozuna Futahaguro in 1987. He changed his shikona or fighting name from his own surname to Daishōyama at this point.

Daishōyama made his debut in the top makuuchi division in September 1990, and made a kachi-koshi winning score along with three other makuuchi debutants, Akebono, Wakahanada and Takatoriki. This marked the first time that four wrestlers making their top division debuts at the same time had all come through with winning records.[1] In January 1991 he reached what was to be his highest rank of maegashira 2 and earned his first kinboshi for defeating yokozuna Hokutoumi. He was to repeat this upset in July 1991 and also defeated yokozuna Ōnokuni in that tournament. In January 1993 he had slipped to maegashira 14 in the banzuke rankings but responded with his best ever top division score, winning twelve bouts, defeating Konishiki and Takahanada amongst others and finishing runner-up to Akebono, who was promoted to yokozuna after the tournament. Daishōyama was rewarded with what was to be his only sanshō award, for Fighting Spirit.

Daishōyama had had longstanding hip problems since his professional debut,[1] and after missing two tournaments in 1994 through injury he fell back to the jūryō division. After being forced to sit out the September 1995 tournament as well he was demoted to the makushita division and retired from sumo in November without competing in any more bouts.

Retirement from sumo

Having fought in 33 tournaments as a sekitori, Daishōyama was qualified to become a toshiyori, or elder of the Japan Sumo Association, and he purchased the Oitekaze name. In May 1998 he branched out from Tatsunami stable, where he had been working as a coach, and opened up his own Oitekaze stable. His first top division wrestler was Hayateumi in 2000 and he was followed by Hamanishiki in 2001 and the Georgian Kokkai in 2004, and the popular Endō in 2013.

Career record

Daishōyama Naoki[2]
Year in sumo January
Hatsu basho, Tokyo
March
Haru basho, Osaka
May
Natsu basho, Tokyo
July
Nagoya basho, Nagoya
September
Aki basho, Tokyo
November
Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka
1989 Makushita tsukedashi #60
61
 
East Makushita #32
43
 
East Makushita #23
52
 
West Makushita #11
43
 
West Makushita #8
16
 
West Makushita #30
412
 
1990 East Makushita #24
70
Champion

 
East Makushita #4
70
Champion

 
West Jūryō #11
123
Champion

 
West Jūryō #2
114
 
East Maegashira #12
87
 
West Maegashira #8
96
 
1991 West Maegashira #2
510
West Maegashira #8
87
 
East Maegashira #4
87
 
East Maegashira #2
510
East Maegashira #9
87
 
East Maegashira #7
96
 
1992 West Maegashira #2
510
 
East Maegashira #8
96
 
East Maegashira #3
69
 
East Maegashira #6
87
 
West Maegashira #2
510
 
West Maegashira #8
510
 
1993 West Maegashira #14
123
F
East Maegashira #3
312
 
East Maegashira #12
96
 
East Maegashira #6
510
 
West Maegashira #12
87
 
East Maegashira #10
69
 
1994 East Maegashira #15
96
 
West Maegashira #10
3111
 
East Jūryō #4
Sat out due to injury
0015
East Jūryō #4
510
 
West Jūryō #9
96
 
West Jūryō #4
78
 
1995 West Jūryō #6
69
 
East Jūryō #11
96
 
West Jūryō #7
78
 
West Jūryō #8
96
 
East Jūryō #4
Sat out due to injury
0015
West Makushita #3
Retired
007
Record given as win-loss-absent    Top Division Champion Retired Lower Divisions

Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique     Also shown: =Kinboshi(s); P=Playoff(s)
Divisions: Makuuchi Jūryō Makushita Sandanme Jonidan Jonokuchi

Makuuchi ranks: Yokozuna Ōzeki Sekiwake Komusubi Maegashira

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sharnoff, Lora (1993). Grand Sumo. Weatherhill. p. 212. ISBN 0-8348-0283-X.
  2. "Daishōyama Naoki Rikishi Information". Sumo Reference. Retrieved 2012-09-18.

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