Sentoryu
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Sentoryū Henri (戦闘竜ヘンリー?) (born July 16, 1969 as Henry Armstrong Miller) is a former sumo wrestler, originally from St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Sentoryu, whose father was African American and mother was Japanese, began his sumo career in 1988. He joined the Tomozuna stable of wrestlers, also the home of future ozeki Kaio Hiroyuki. He was relatively small at 176cm and 121 kg. In November 1994 he became a sekitori for the first time but lasted only two tournments in the juryo division before being demoted. It took him more than four years of hard toil in the unsalaried makushita division before he could win promotion back to juryo in July 1999. A year later he finally achieved his goal of promotion to the top makuuchi division. He only lasted two tournaments there but managed to hold his own in juryo, and had one more visit to makucchi in January 2002. However, he suffered a serious injury and fell all the way back to makushita. He refused to give up and fought his way back to sekitori status in September 2003, but another injury convinced him to retire at the end of the year at the age of 34. His great fighting spirit, despite all his injuries, won him many admirers.
Since his retirement from sumo, Sentoryu has tried his luck at mixed martial arts. He has two wins and six losses in his eight fights to date.
