Sentoryu Henri
| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| real name | Henry Armstrong Miller |
| Born | July 16, 1969 |
| place of birth | Tachikawa, Tokyo Prefecture |
| size | 1.75 m |
| Weight | 136 kg |
| Career | |
| Heya | Tomozuna |
| Career record | 402–303–99 19–26 (makuuchi) |
| debut | July 1988 |
| Highest rank | Maegashira 12 (September 2000) |
| Tournament victories | 1 (Makushita) 1 (Jonokuchi) |
| resignation | November 2003 |
Sentoryū Henri ( Japanese 戦 闘 竜 扁 利 ; * July 16, 1969 in Tachikawa , Tokyo Prefecture as Henry Armstrong Miller ) is an American - Japanese mixed martial arts athlete and former sumo wrestler .
The son of a Japanese woman and an African American US soldier spent his early childhood at Yokota Air Base before moving with his parents to Ferguson near St. Louis at the age of six , as suggested by the pronunciation of his ring name. He began to wrestle at primary school age ; after graduating from school in 1987, he returned to Japan to become a professional sumōtori.
It was thanks to injuries that Sentoryūs entry into the second highest division Jūryō was delayed until November 1994. Two tournaments later, he was relegated again - temporarily he took on the battle name Kaishinzan from 1997 until he returned to the juryo - and was only able to reassume the ranks of the sekitori with a makushita tournament victory (7–0) in May 1999 to reach.
In July 2000 he was promoted to the Makuuchi Division, with Sentoryū having 72 tournaments since the start of his career for as long as no foreigner before him. A bad result in September of the same year made him fall back into the Jūryō. In January 2002 he played another tournament as a maegashira , then had to suspend two tournaments due to an injury and, with the exception of a brief return to the Jūryō in September 2003, denied the rest of his active wrestling career in the Makushita division. In November 2003 he said goodbye.
In April 2004 Sentoryū stood for Pride FC for the first time as an MMA fighter in the ring. There he recorded six wins and eleven defeats in 17 matches under the ring name Sentoryū (as of March 2011).
Web links
- Info page of the Japanese Sumo Association
- Sentoryū Henri in the database of Sherdog (English)
- Official Blog (Japanese)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sentoryu, Henri |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 戦 闘 竜 扁 利 (Japanese); Henry Armstrong Miller (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American MMA fighter and former sumo wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tachikawa , Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |