1. Career
    Early career  Makuuchi career 

2. Fighting style

3. Career record

4. See also

5. References

6. External links

Career

Early career

He was a high school yokozuna at Saitama Sakae High School (also the alma mater of Gōeidō) and won multiple major amateur champions before his senior year at Nippon Sport Science University. If he had entered professional sumo in either of those years he would have started as a makushita tsukedashi and skipped the lower divisions, but his parents wanted him to complete his education. So instead he made his debut in March 2015 at the maezumō level. He was unable to compete under his family name of Nakamura as that was already taken by Nakamura Oyakata (former sekiwake Kotonishiki), so instead he used his given name, Daiki. He rose up the ranks quickly, winning the yūshō or tournament championships in the jonidan and sandanme divisions with perfect 7-0 records. He became a sekitori upon reaching the jūryō division in July 2016, and he won the jūryō championship in September with a 12–3 record, which saw him promoted to the top makuuchi division. His rise to the top division in ten tournaments was the second fastest of modern times behind that of Jōkōryū who achieved the feat in nine tournaments in 2012. At this point he changed his shikona from Daiki to Hokutofuji, which was derived from the shikona of his stablemaster, former yokozuna Hokutoumi, and Hokutoumi's own stablemaster, former yokozuna Kitanofuji.

Makuuchi career

Hokutofuji came through with a solid 9–6 record in his top division debut and recorded 9 wins again in January 2017. In March he recorded the first make-koshi (losing record) of his career, but a 10–5 result in May saw him move up the rankings. In the July 2017 tournament he earned a kinboshi or gold star in his first ever match against a yokozuna, defeating Kakuryū, ^[1] and finished with eight wins. On Day 4 of the September tournament he beat yokozuna Harumafuji to claim his second kinboshi.^[2] He was a runner-up to Hakuhō in the November 2017 tournament with an 11–4 record, and was awarded his first special prize, for Technique. He also defeated yokozuna Kisenosato in this tournament, earning his third kinboshi in his last three tournaments.^[3] In January 2018 he won a fourth straight kinboshi by defeating Hakuhō on Day 3,^[4] but he finished the tournament with only four wins against eleven losses. In the May 2018 tournament he suffered a concussion during a false start at the tachi-ai in his match against Ryūden on Day 10.^[5] He withdrew from the rest of the tournament. Returning in July ranked at the bottom of the division at maegashira 16, he secured a winning record.^[6]

In March 2019 he made his sanyaku debut at komusubi rank. He was the third komusubi from Saitama Prefecture after Wakabayama in September 1951 and Wakachichibu in March 1959. He is also the fourth komusubi from Hakkaku stable following Kaiho, Hokutoriki and Okinoumi.^[7]

Fighting style

Hokutofuji's performances to date suggest that he is an oshi-sumo specialist who favours pushing techniques to fighting on the mawashi or belt. He wins roughly half his bouts with a straightforward oshi-dashi, or push out.^[8]

Career record

 {{Sumo record year start link|2015}}    {{Basho}}    {{Basho|MAEZUMOU}}    {{Basho|jk|11|e|6|1}}    {{Basho|jo|36|e|7|0
Champion}}    {{Basho|sa|36|e|7|0
Champion}}    {{Basho|ma|25|e|5|2}}  {{Sumo record year end}}

    {{Basho|ma|16|e|5|2}}    {{Basho|ma|8|w|5|2}}    {{Basho|ma|1|w|4|3}}    {{Basho|j|13|w|10|5}}    {{Basho|j|6|w|12|3
Champion}}    {{Basho|m|11|w|9|6}}  {{Sumo record year end}}

    {{Basho|m|8|e|9|6}}    {{Basho|m|5|w|7|8}}    {{Basho|m|7|e|10|5}}    {{Basho|m|2|w|8|7|||*}}    {{Basho|m|2|e|7|8|||*}}    {{Basho|m|3|w|11|4||j|t|*}}  {{Sumo record year end}}

    {{Basho|m|1|e|4|11|||*}}    {{Basho|m|6|w|6|9|}}    {{Basho|m|9|w|4|7|4}}    {{Basho|m|16|e|11|4|}}    {{Basho|m|9|e|9|6|}}    {{Basho|m|1|w|7|8|||*}}  {{Sumo record year end}}

    {{Basho|m|2|w|9|6|}}    {{Basho|k|1|w|7|8|}}    {{Basho||||||}}    {{Basho||||||}}    {{Basho||||||}}    {{Basho||||||}}  {{Sumo record year end}}

See also

• List of sumo tournament top division runners-up
• List of sumo tournament second division champions
• Glossary of sumo terms
• List of active sumo wrestlers
• List of active gold star earners
• List of komusubi

References

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