Oho 王鵬

👤 Who Is Oho?

Oho Konosuke (王鵬, born Naya Konosuke on February 14, 2000) is a top-division wrestler for Otake stable and one of the most closely-watched young men in sumo — not yet for his trophies, but for his blood. A tall, powerful competitor at 192 cm and 178 kg from Tokyo, Oho is the grandson of Taihō, widely regarded as one of the greatest sumo wrestlers who ever lived.

To understand the expectation he lives under, you have to understand who came before him.

🏆 The Weight of a Legend

Oho's grandfather was Taihō Kōki, the 48th yokozuna — a colossus who won 32 top-division championships across the 1960s and early 1970s. That total stood as the all-time record for over four decades and still ranks second on the all-time list, behind only Hakuhō. Taihō was so beloved that his name became shorthand for everything Japanese children adored.

Imagine carrying that into every bout. For Oho, the name is both an inheritance and an enormous burden — every win and every loss measured, however unfairly, against the standard of a legend.

👪 A Sumo Family

The sumo runs deep on both sides. Oho's father is the former sekiwake Takatoriki, a hard-charging wrestler of the 1990s. And Oho is not the only Naya to enter the ring: several of his brothers have competed in professional sport, including sumo at his own Otake stable — making the family one of the most remarkable dynasties in the modern game.

🎖 The Name: A Character from Taihō

Oho made his professional debut in 2018 simply under his family name, Naya. When he earned promotion to the salaried juryo division in 2021, his stablemaster gave him a new ring name: Oho (王鵬). The choice was deliberate — the second character, 鵬 (hō), is taken directly from his grandfather's name, Taihō (大鵬). It pairs that legendary character with 王, meaning "king" — a quiet statement of the legacy he was being asked to carry forward.

🏫 The High-School Prodigy

Long before the top division, Oho — then wrestling under his family name, Naya — was already a marked man on Japan's high-school sumo circuit. Documentary footage of his school days shows a teenager of astonishing scale, listed at roughly 191 cm and 155 kg, driving himself toward a place on his school's team for the national Inter-High championships. That spring he had already won a national individual high-school title.

Then his story took a very sumo turn: a rival appeared. A first-year named Saito Daisuke — a junior-high national champion, and today a professional wrestler competing under the name Kitanowaka — pushed him hard, even beating him in practice bouts. When the coach named the five regulars for the Inter-High, he leaned on experienced upperclassmen: Oho made the cut, with Saito named a reserve. Oho's great weakness was a slow tachiai (the explosive initial charge), and he attacked it relentlessly — reportedly running twenty short sprints every night to build his forward drive. At the Inter-High he led his team deep into the draw before a semfinal defeat left him aching for more. Watch the footage from those formative days:

Videos via YouTube.

📈 Still Writing His Chapter

Oho's own career is a work in progress, and that honesty is part of what makes him compelling. He has climbed to sekiwake, sumo's third-highest rank — a genuine achievement — while still searching for the consistency that separates a good top-division wrestler from a great one. Young, big, and armed with real physical tools, he has time on his side. Whether he can one day approach even a fraction of his grandfather's legend is one of sumo's most fascinating long-running storylines.

📊 Career Stats

Career figures via sumo-api / Japan Sumo Association records. Biographical details compiled from Japanese-language sources including Japanese Wikipedia. Verified July 2026.

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