Musōyama Masashi

武 双 山 正 士
Musōyama Masashi

Personal data
real name	Takehito Oso
Born	February 14, 1972
place of birth	Mito
size	1.84 m
Weight	175 kg
Career
Heya	Fujishima
Career record	554–377–122 520–367–122 (Makuuchi)
debut	January 1993
Highest rank	Ōzeki
Tournament victories	1
resignation	November 2004

Musōyama Masashi ( Japanese 武 双 山 正 士 ; born February 14, 1972 in Mito , Ibaraki Prefecture , Japan as Oso Takehito ( 尾 曽 武人 )) is a former Japanese sumo wrestler .

Musōyama made his debut in January 1993 , having previously been a successful amateur sumotori. Therefore he was allowed to compete in the Makushita Division as Makushita-Tsukedashi. Successful amateursumotori get this rank when they switch to the professional camp.

He was able to convince quickly with strong performances and won his first two tournaments without losing a fight. Already in September 1993 he made his debut in the Makuuchi Division and continued his soaring here. So he was soon traded as a Ōzeki candidate. However, he was stopped again and again by injuries, and at first it seemed as if he would remain an eternal sanyaku (fighter of the ranks Komusubi and Sekiwake ). But after he scored a good 10-5 as Komusubi at the Fukuoka tournament in 1999, he surprisingly won the tournament in January with a good 13-2 and was also awarded special prizes for fighting spirit and outstanding performance. Now the door to the ozeki was finally open to him, and he took his chance and secured the ozekirang with a strong 12-3 and the price for good technical performance. In the next tournament he could not compete because of a back injury and in the following tournament in Nagoya he still suffered from it, so that he lost his rank again with a 4-11 without a sound. But he regained the rank with a 10-5 at the Aki Basho 2000 in Tokyo . However, from then on he was hardly able to build on his achievements of earlier times. Only at the spring tournament 2001 in v did he manage to get more than ten victories. From 2002 he suffered more and more injuries, so that he was Kadoban-Ozeki several times and sometimes had great difficulty defending the Ozekirang. He finally resigned at the end of 2004. However, he remained in sumo as Fujishima Oyakata in his Musashigawa stable and is now often seen as Shinpan (judge). On September 29, 2010 he took over the Musashigawa-Beya from his stable master and renamed it Fujishima -Beya according to his oyakata title .

Musoyama's fighting style, like that of many of his stable colleagues, was based on punching and thrusting techniques. But he was also a flexible technician and could just as easily win with yotsu sumo techniques. His massive body of 175 kg with a height of 1.84 m met him.

Web links

• Info page of the Japanese Sumo Association

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Musōyama is the family name, Masashi the first name.