Wakanohō
| Wakanohō Toshinori | |
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| 若ノ鵬 寿則 | |
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| Personal information | |
| Born | Soslan Aleksandrovich Gagloev July 8, 1988 Alagir, North Ossetian ASSR, Soviet Union |
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 156 kg (344 lb) |
| Career | |
| Stable | Magaki |
| Record | 131-81-0 |
| Debut | March 2005 |
| Highest rank | Maegashira 1 (July, 2008) |
| Retired | August, 2008 |
| Championships | 1 (Jonidan) |
| * Up to date as of August 2008. | |
Wakanohō Toshinori (born July 8, 1988 as Сосла́н Алекса́ндрович Гагло́ев Soslan Aleksandrovich Gagloev in Alagir, North Ossetian ASSR, Soviet Union) is a retired Russian sumo wrestler of Ossetian ethnicity. His highest rank was maegashira 1. He became the first active wrestler to be dismissed from sumo, after being arrested for possession of cannabis in August 2008. He has also played college football at the University of South Florida, Webber International University, and Warner University. As of July 2014, he lives in Florida and is training for the National Football League.
He was a freestyle wrestler in Russia, but as his weight continued to increase past the 120-kilogram (260-pound) upper limit for competitions, he switched to sumo. Having known fellow Russian sumo wrestler Rohō for many years, when he first arrived in Japan he stayed at Rohō's training stable, Ōtake-beya, for about six months to learn the basics. Due to the restrictions on foreigners, he could not join that stable, but its stablemaster Taihō had connections to the former Wakanohana Kanji II, and he joined Magaki stable instead. His shikona of Wakanohō was formed as a combination of Wakanohana II and Taihō's names.
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