Shoki Terutsuyoshi

I have a real soft spot for the little guys who go toe-to-toe with giants, and Terutsuyoshi is exactly that. A sumo wrestler out of Hyōgo, which already feels off-script since the sport tends to mint its heroes up north, he showed up to the dohyō undersized in a world built for mass and just refused to be moved. There's something I genuinely love about a wrestler whose whole appeal is effort you can see, the salt throw, the slap of the mawashi, the willingness to take a beating and keep showing up. No flashy gimmick, just heart. Honestly, that scrappy underdog energy is the kind of thing I'll root for every single time.

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Shoki Terutsuyoshi (born January 17, 1995, in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan) is a former professional sumo wrestler. He fought under the shikona Terutsuyoshi for Isegahama stable, reached a highest rank of maegashira 3, and retired in March 2024. He was born under the sign of Capricorn in the year of the Boar.

Name (English)

Shoki Terutsuyoshi

Name (Japanese)

照強翔輝

Reading

てるつよし しょうき

Real name

福岡翔輝

Born

January 17, 1995 (age 31)

Origin

Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

Sumo wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Boar

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%85%A7%E5%BC%B7%E7%BF%94%E8%BC%9D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17161562

Tags

• From Hyogo Prefecture
• 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.