Musoyama Masashi

I'll be honest, I'm a sucker for sumo, so a Mito-born rikishi like Musōyama already has me leaning in. He came up the college route through Senshu University, and you can kind of feel that in his style: this wasn't a guy who just bulldozed people, he had a thinking man's ferocity to him. What I love is that he was a pusher-thruster, all that explosive tsuppari off the tachiai, the kind of straight-ahead, no-nonsense wrestling that matches the blunt honesty of an Ibaraki guy. The name itself, Musōyama, sounds like a mountain you don't move. He grafted his way up to ōzeki and grabbed that top-division title, which is no small thing. I don't have juicy gossip on him, and frankly I don't need it. I just quietly respect a man who bet his whole life on one mawashi.

Musoyama Masashi is a Japanese sumo wrestler born on February 14, 1972, in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. He attended Senshu University before entering the professional sumo world. His ring name, Musoyama Masashi, is the name under which he competed in Japan's traditional sumo circuit. Most details of his personal life and career statistics remain private or undisclosed.

Name (English)

Musoyama Masashi

Name (Japanese)

武双山正士

Reading

むそうやま まさし

Born

February 14, 1972 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rat

Origin

Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Sumo wrestler

University

Senshu University

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%AD%A6%E5%8F%8C%E5%B1%B1%E6%AD%A3%E5%A3%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1488482

Tags

• From Ibaraki Prefecture
• Sumo wrestler

Last updated

2026-06-02

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