Kyokushūzan
| 旭鷲山 昇 Kyokushūzan Noboru |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | Davaagiin Batbayar March 8, 1973 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 141 kg (311 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Oshima |
| Record | 560-600-2 |
| Debut | March, 1992 |
| Highest rank | Komusubi (March, 1997) |
| Retired | November, 2006 |
| Championships | 2 (Jūryō) 1 (Makushita) |
| Special Prizes | Outstanding Performance (1) Fighting Spirit (2) Technique (2) |
| Gold Stars | 5 Wakanohana III (2) Akebono Asashōryū Musashimaru |
| * Up to date as of July 2007. | |
Kyokushūzan Noboru (旭鷲山 昇?, (born March 8, 1973 as Davaagiin Batbayar) (Mongolian: Даваагийн Батбаяр) in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) is a former professional sumo wrestler and current politician of the Democratic Party in Mongolia. He was the first wrestler from Mongolia to reach sumo's top makuuchi division.
He was a diligent practitioner of Mongolian wrestling from a young age, but had ambitions of becoming a policeman. However, in 1991, a Japanese sumo training stable master, Ōshima-oyakata (the former ōzeki Asahikuni) went to Mongolia to recruit promising wrestlers for sumo. The young Davaagiin Batbayar happened to notice the advertisement and applied along with 120 others. He was selected and went to Japan with five others, including Kyukotenhō and Kyokutenzan. They were the first Mongolians ever to join sumo. However six months later, due to cultural differences, language problems, and an extremely hard training regime, five of them including Kyokushūzan ran away from the training stable to the Mongolian embassy. He was eventually persuaded to return by his stablemaster, and also Kyokutenzan.
In March 1995, he was promoted to the jūryō division, and in September 1996 to the top makuuchi division. After his single appearance as a komusubi in March 1997 he was ranked as a maegashira for 58 tournaments in a row, a record in the sumo world.
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