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Wikipedia / Hoshitango Imachi

is an Argentine-born Japanese former professional sumo wrestler and professional wrestler. His highest rank was jūryō 3.

Life and career

A former swimming instructor, Salomón was spotted by a visiting Japanese coach at a gym in Buenos Aires who encouraged him to try sumo. After studying at Chuo University, he joined Michinoku stable in May 1987 at the age of 21 to support his family. He was the first, and to date only, Jewish professional sumo wrestler. He was given the shikona (ring name) of Hoshitango, with "Hoshi" (star) a common prefix in Michinoku stable, and "tango" a reference to the popular dance. He reached the second highest jūryō division for the first time in September 1992, but lasted only one tournament there before being demoted back to the unsalaried third makushita division. He managed another three tournaments in the second division in 1994 but once again fell back. In September 1998, at the age of 33, he demonstrated his fighting spirit by once again returning to jūryō, this time remaining for 12 straight tournaments. He was not able to break into the top makuuchi division, peaking at jūryō 3 in January 2000. In July 2000 he lost every one of his fifteen bouts and fell, once more, to the third division where he remained until his retirement in January 2004. His retirement ceremony or danpatsu-shiki was attended by around 150 people including stablemates Jūmonji and Toyozakura as well as the former Terao and Kirishima, who as his stablemaster made the final cut of his topknot.

Hoshitango was joined at Michinoku stable in 1988 by another Buenos Aires native, , who reached a highest rank of jūryō 2 before retiring in 2000.

Hoshitango became a Japanese citizen in October 2000. His Japanese name was registered as Tango Hoshi.

Retirement from sumo

After retiring he opened a sports bar and restaurant called Tan & Go Dining which specialized in Japanese and South American fusion cuisine.

Fighting style

Hoshitango was an oshi-sumo specialist who preferred pushing and thrusting techniques to fighting on the mawashi. His most common winning kimarite were hataki-komi (slap down), hiki-otoshi (pull down) and okuri dashi (push out from behind).

Professional wrestling career

Salomón is currently a professional wrestler for the Japanese company DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), debuting on 29 December 2006, under his shikona Hoshitango, and has also wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling, Ice Ribbon and Wrestle-1. As a finishing maneuver, Hoshitango uses the Argentine backbreaker and chokeslam. Due to his age and outside activities, he is a semi-regular performer.

He won his first professional wrestling championship on 3 June 2007, when he briefly held the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship. He had another brief reign on 5 August. On 24 January 2009, he defeated Sanshiro Takagi to win the DDT Extreme Championship. After a successful title defence against Poison Sawada Julie in March, he lost the title to Danshoku Dino in a three-way match that also included Masa Takanashi on 31 May. In 2010, Hoshitango was involved in a storyline to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Gundam. Yago Aznable (dressed in Char Aznable cosplay) and Abnormal debuted for DDT in early 2010 and proved themselves to be an annoyance to DDT owner Sanshiro Takagi. Known as the , Abnormal was kicked out of the group and replaced with DJ Nira and joined by Ace Pilot X. On 13 June, Hoshitango joined the group, debuting as Mobile Armour Hoshitango, dressed in Big Zam cosplay. The storyline came to a close at Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2010 when Yagō Kōkoku-gun lost a no disqualification Captain's Fall six-man tag team match.

On 3 June 2012, Hoshitango had a third brief Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship reign. On 8 July, he formed the Monster Army stable with members Antonio Honda, Daisuke Sasaki Masa Takanashi, Yasu Urano and Yuji Hino. At Budokan Peter Pan, Hoshitango competed in a "5 vs. 5 Soccer match" as part of Tonkatsu SC. The match consisted of two halves of 5 minutes each where each team tried to score the most pins by pinfall (two counts) or submission. The match ended in a 2–2 draw and was decided by an actual penalty shoot-out which saw Tonkatsu SC win 2–0. On 23 June 2013, Hoshitango, Honda and Hino won the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship. They lost the titles to Danshoku Dino, Kensuke Sasaki and Makoto Oishi on 21 July. On 26 January 2014, Hoshitango briefly won the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship for a fourth time. On 23 February, after Hoshitango, Honda and Sasaki were defeated by Mikami, Sanshiro Takagi and Toru Owashi in a six-man tag team match, Honda announced that the Monster Army had decided to disband. At Judgement 2014, Monster Army wrestled their final match together, where Hoshitango, Hino, Honda and Sasaki defeated Gorgeous Matsuno, Gota Ihashi, Sanshiro Takagi and Toru Owashi.

With his stock significantly lowered following the end of Monster Army, in 2015 he began regularly competing for the King of Dark Championship. Contrary to regular professional wrestling championships, the title is awarded to the loser of the match and is a sign of shame. As punishment for holding the title, wrestler are forced to wrestle exclusively in dark matches. On 2 April 2016, Hoshitango "won" the King of Dark Championship after losing to Seiya Morohashi. He held the dubious distinction for 22 days before "losing" the title to Gota Ihashi on 24 April.

As of 2026, he still wrestles at 60.

Sumo career record

   
   
   MAEZUMOU
   jk47w61
   jo124e61
   jo53w43
 
 1988
   jo32e43
   jo6w52
   sa72e43
   sa51e43
   sa31w52
   sa3e16
 
 1989
   sa34e43
   sa20e61
   ma45e25
   sa7e52
   ma41w52
   ma21w34
 
 1990
   ma28w34
   ma40w52
   ma22e43
   ma16w214
   KYUJOma37w
   sa17e52
 
 1991
   ma51w52
   ma36e52
   ma18e52
   ma7w25
   ma23w34
   ma30w52
 
 1992
   ma19e43
   ma12w43
   ma8w52
   ma1w43
   j12e510
   ma7w34
 
 1993
   ma14e25
   ma29w52
   ma15w52
   ma7w43
   ma3w43
   ma2e43
 
 1994
   j13w105
   j5w510
   j10e213
   ma10w25
   ma25e61
   ma10e25
 
 1995
   ma25w43
   ma18e25
   ma33w61
   ma14e52
   ma8w34
   ma12e25
 
 1996
   ma26e34
   ma41w34
   ma53w34
   sa6e52
   ma43e61
   ma20e34
 
 1997
   ma31e52
   ma20w52
   ma8w61P
   ma2e26
   ma14e52
   ma7e25
 
 1998
   ma22w52
   ma9w43
   ma5w52
   ma2e61
   j13e96
   j10w87
 
 1999
   j9e78
   j11w96
   j7w69
   j11e87
   j10e87
   j8w96
 
 2000
   j3w510
   j7e69
   j10w87
   j8e015
   ma8e61
   ma1w34
 
 2001
   ma7e34
   ma13w52
   ma7e34
   ma14e43
   ma11w25
   ma23w34
 
 2002
   ma34e52
   ma24w34
   ma32w52
   ma17e34
   ma25w61
   ma8w25
 
 2003
   ma23w34
   ma34w34
   ma42e43
   ma34w43
   ma28e34
   ma39w16
 
 2004
   INTAIsa6w25

Professional wrestling championships and accomplishments

Dramatic Dream Team

See also

References