Shunketsu Yūji
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| Birth name | Yūji Ishide | |
| Date of birth | July 13, 1976 | |
| Place of birth | Saitama, Japan | |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 91⁄2 in) | |
| Weight | 123 kg (270 lb) | |
| Career* | ||
| Heya | Hanaregoma | |
| Record | 461-434-17 | |
| Debut | March 1992 | |
| Highest rank | Maegashira 12 (September 2005) | |
| Retired | March 2008 | |
| Yusho | 1 (Jūryō) 1 (Makushita) |
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* Career information is correct as of March 2008. |
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Shunketsu Yūji (born July 13, 1976 as Yūji Ishide) is a former sumo wrestler from Misato, Saitama, Japan. The highest rank he reached was maegashira 12.
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[edit] Career
Shunketsu made his professional debut in March 1992, alongside several future top division regulars such as Kyokushuzan, Wakanosato and Takanowaka. He weighed only just over 100 kg (220 lb) and remained one of the lightest wrestlers in the senior ranks, only managing to put on around 20 kg (44 lb) in subsequent years.
Shunketsu used several different shikona during his career. He began using his own surname, Ishide. Upon promotion to sekitori status for the first time in January 2001 he was given the name Komahikari. However after falling back to the unsalaried makushita division he reverted to Ishide. He retained this name until November 2005 when he became Shunketsu.
Shunketsu spent only five tournaments in the top makuuchi division, and only made kachi-koshi there once. He was ranked in the second jūryō division for 25 tournaments. In recent years he was the only sekitori from Hanaregoma stable, which once produced yokozuna Onokuni.
On the 13th day of the November 2005 tournament he faced the veteran top division wrestler Kotonowaka, in what was widely assumed to be Kotonowaka's final bout after 21 years in sumo. Rather than meet his opponent head on, Shunketsu chose to sidestep at the initial charge, which greatly disappointed many sumo fans.[1]
Since falling from the top division with a 4-11 record in January 2006 he rarely looked like returning, managing to win more than 8 bouts on only one occasion (in July 2006 when he slid to the bottom of the second division at Juryo 13 West and produced a 10-5 score). From November 2006 to May 2007 he managed four consecutive winning scores (eight wins each time), which took him up to Juryo 1 West, but he had five consecutive losing scores after that. After a 3-12 record in March 2008 at the rank of Juryo 11 West, and facing certain demotion to the third division, he announced his retirement.
He won one yusho or tournament title in the makushita division (a perfect 7-0 score in November 2000 which earned him automatic promotion to the juryo division for the first time), and one in the juryo division (a 12-3 score in November 2004).
[edit] Top division record
| January Hatsu basho, Tokyo |
March Haru basho, Osaka |
May Natsu basho, Tokyo |
July Nagoya basho, Nagoya |
September Aki basho, Tokyo |
November Kyūshū basho, Fukuoka |
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| 2005 | x | East Maegashira #17 6–9 |
(Jūryō) | East Maegashira #17 9–6 |
East Maegashira #12 7–8 |
West Maegashira #13 6–9 |
| 2006 | East Maegashira #15 4–11 |
(Jūryō) | (Jūryō) | (Jūryō) | (Jūryō) | (Jūryō) |
| 2007 | (Jūryō) | (Jūryō) | (Jūryō) | (Jūryō) | (Jūryō) | (Jūryō) |
| 2008 | (Jūryō) | (Jūryō) | x | x | x | x |
| Record given as win-loss-absent Championship Retired Demoted from makuuchi Sanshō key: F=Fighting spirit; O=Outstanding performance; T=Technique Also shown: ★=Kinboshi |
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[edit] References
- ^ Hon-basho Daily Comments - Sumo
- ^ Rikishi in Juryo and Makunouchi (English). szumo.hu. Retrieved on 2007-06-07.
