Asasekiryū Tarō

The name alone hits different — Asasekiryu Taro, a red dragon rising at dawn. Born in the summer of 1981, Leo season, and honestly that tracks: there's something solar and defiant about anyone who chooses to make their entire career out of throwing another enormous human being off a platform. Sumo doesn't give you highlight reels or press tours — it gives you the clay, the silence, and maybe a face full of sand. What I respect is the commitment to that unglamorous grind: hundreds of practice bouts in a heya before anyone outside the sport learns your name, and when the match is over, win or lose, you bow and walk off like it's just another Tuesday. I don't know every detail of his record, but the ring name carries weight all on its own, and that's not nothing.

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Asasekiryū Tarō (born Badarchiin Dashnyam on August 7, 1981) is a Mongolian-Japanese former sumo wrestler from Ulaanbaatar. He debuted in January 2000, reached the top makuuchi division in March 2003, and wrestled for Wakamatsu stable and then Takasago stable.

Name (English)

Asasekiryū Tarō

Name (Japanese)

朝赤龍太郎

Reading

あさせきりゅう たろう

Real name

バダルチ・ダシニャム

Born

August 7, 1981 (age 45)

Origin

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Occupation

Sumo wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Rooster

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9C%9D%E8%B5%A4%E9%BE%8D%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q372262

Tags

• Sumo wrestler

Last updated

October 18, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.