Takashi Ishikawa
| Ōnoumi Takashi | |
|---|---|
| 大ノ海 敬士 | |
| Personal information | |
| Born | Takashi Ishikawa February 5, 1953 Yamagata, Japan |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 120 kg (260 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Hanakago |
| Record | 98-79-0 |
| Debut | March, 1975 |
| Highest rank | Maegashira 4 (March, 1977) |
| Retired | July, 1977 |
| Championships | 1 (Makushita) |
| * Up to date as of December 2007. | |
Takashi Ishikawa (石川 孝志 Ishikawa Takashi?, born February 5, 1953) is a former professional wrestler and sumo wrestler from Fujishima, Higashitagawa District, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.
A former amateur sumo champion while at Nihon University, from 1975 to 1977 he was a sumo wrestler with the Hanakago stable and used the fighting name of Ōnoumi. He reached a highest rank of maegashira 4.
After retiring from sumo, Ishikawa decided to become a professional wrestler and joined All Japan Pro Wrestling. Giant Baba sent him to Pat O'Connor for training. After training, he was sent to the Funks' territory in Amarillo, Texas, where he debuted on November 8, 1977, under the name Takashi Onome. In January 1978, he was sent to Kansas City for Central States Wrestling.
Returning to Japan in November 1978, Ishikawa wrestled a tour with International Wrestling Enterprise, before returning to AJPW in December 1978. In October 1979, he was sent abroad to Puerto Rico for World Wrestling Council. Under the name Mitsu Ishikawa, he won his first championship, the WWC North American Tag Team Championship with Haru Sonoda. In March 1980, he would briefly return to Amarillo and won the NWA Western States Tag Team Championship with Hugo Savinovich, before Savinovich left the area and was replaced by Sonoda, making Ishikawa a two-time champion.
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