Takashi Ishikawa

Who is Takashi Ishikawa?

Takashi Ishikawa 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, he joined All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he made his debut on November 17, 1977, and won the AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship twice with Akio Sato, and five times in total. In 1990, he joined the AJPW exodus to Super World of Sports; two years later, he would join WAR. In 1995, he joined fellow former AJPW star Great Kojika in forming Big Japan Pro Wrestling, where he won its Tag Team Championship once in 1997. He retired from pro wrestling on January 19, 1998.