Takatōriki Tadashige
| 貴闘力 忠茂 Takatōriki Tadashige |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | Tadashige Kamakiri September 28, 1967 Kobe, Japan |
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 147 kg (324 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Fujishima -> Futagoyama |
| Record | 754-703-0 |
| Debut | March, 1983 |
| Highest rank | Sekiwake (September, 1991) |
| Retired | September, 2002 |
| Championships | 1 (Makuuchi) 1 (Makushita) |
| Special Prizes | Outstanding Performance (3) Fighting Spirit (10) Technique (1) |
| Gold Stars | 9 Akebono (7) Ōnokuni Asahifuji |
| * Up to date as of October 2007. | |
Takatōriki Tadashige (born September 28, 1967 as Tadashige Kamakiri) is a former sumo wrestler and professional wrestler from Kobe, Japan. He made his professional debut in 1983, reaching the top division in 1990. His highest rank was sekiwake. Known for his great fighting spirit, he won 14 tournament prizes, including a record ten Kantō-shō, and earned nine gold stars for defeating yokozuna ranked wrestlers. He wrestled for the highly successful Futagoyama stable. He was twice runner-up in top division tournaments and in March 2000, from the maegashira ranks, he unexpectedly won the yūshō or championship. He retired in 2002 and became the head coach of Ōtake stable, having married the daughter of the previous owner of the heya, the great yokozuna Taihō. However, he was dismissed from the Sumo Association in 2010 for his role in an illegal gambling scandal.
As a young boy Takatōriki idolised Takanohana Kenshi and even stayed with the former ōzeki and his family in Tokyo for a while. He joined Takanohana's Fujishima stable in March 1983 after leaving junior high school, where he had also done judo. Initially fighting under his own surname of Kamakari, he rose up the ranks rather slowly, finally becoming a sekitori in May 1989 after six years in the unsalaried divisions.
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