Ura Kazuki

Ura Kazuki is the wrestler I point to whenever someone tells me sumo is just big men shoving each other. Born in Neyagawa, Osaka in 1992, he came out of Kwansei Gakuin University with a gold medal from the 2013 World Combat Games, turned professional in 2015 with the Kise stable, and won the jonokuchi championship in his very first tournament. At 176 cm he is small for the sport, and instead of pretending otherwise he built a style around it: ducking low, spinning under an opponent's center of gravity, and flipping men far heavier than himself. Half the time I cannot tell what happened until the replay. What I admire is not the acrobatics but the stubbornness behind them. He could have bulked up and tried to be an ordinary version of everyone else. Instead he kept refining the one approach that only he could make work. That is a harder and lonelier road, and it is why he is worth watching.

Name (English)

Ura Kazuki

Name (Japanese)

宇良和輝

Reading

うら かずき

Born

June 22, 1992 (age 34)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Monkey

Origin

Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Height

176 cm

Occupation

rikishi

University

Kwansei Gakuin University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ura%20Kazuki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%87%E8%89%AF%E5%92%8C%E8%BC%9D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21699198

Tags

• Osaka Prefecture
• rikishi

Last updated

2026-08-07

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