Ōnosato Daiki

This victory, over Kindai University's Koshiro Tanioka, marked the first time in 29 years that a freshman won the tournament, since Luis Gō Ikemori (who later became a professional wrestler under the shikona of Ryūkō) won in 1990.

In May 2021, he participated to the 70th All Japan Sumo Championships at the Ryōgoku Kokugikan and became amateur yokozuna after defeating Kindai University's Kanzaki Taiga in the final, again qualifying for the makushita tsukedashi system.

During that same tournament, he defeated Tottori Jōhoku High School's Tetsuya Ochiai during the team competition.

In January 2022, Nakamura took part in the World Games' sumo competition held that year in Birmingham, Alabama.

Competing in the Openweight and Over 115kg categories, he won the former and finished runner-up in the latter.

In October of the same year, he participated in the National Athletic Meet in Ōtawara and won the amateur yokozuna title for the second consecutive time in this tournament.

Ōnosato Daiki (大の里 泰輝), born June 7, 2000, as Daiki Nakamura (中村 泰輝) is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Tsubata, Ishikawa Prefecture.

After a successful amateur career and defined as "the most eagerly awaited prospect to come out of collegiate sumo in decades," he joined Nishonoseki stable and began his professional career at the rank of makushita 10 via the makushita tsukedashi system.

He reached the top makuuchi division in January 2024 after competing in just four tournaments.

His highest rank has been maegashira 5.

Daiki Nakamura was born in Tsubata, Ichikawa Prefecture.

He began wrestling in a sumo club at his elementary school in first grade.

As a child he was fascinated by professional sumo and admits that one of his favourite books was the magazine published by Baseball Magazine.

With his victory at the 70th All Japan Sumo Championships, Nakamura became the fourth person since the introduction of this system in 2000 to be eligible to join professional sumo at the rank of makushita tsukedachi 10.

This victory was also the fifth time that Nakamura had won the championship title in a tournament counting towards makushita tsukedashi status.

Overall, during his time as an amateur wrestler at university level, Nakamura won no less than 13 titles, placing him ex aequo for the greatest number of amateur titles won by a wrestler.

His dominance of amateur sumo in Japan was such that sumo columnist John Gunning declared that he saw in Nakamura's sumo a continuous display of "calm smooth style reminiscent of Hakuhō in his younger days."

In March 2023, Nakamura made the decision to become a professional wrestler (rikishi) by joining Nishonoseki stable under the guidance of former yokozuna Kisenosato.

At the time of his recruitment, he expressed his intention to achieve sekitori status as quickly as possible.

Moreover, his entry into the professional world a few months after the record-breaking promotion of Hakuōhō (then known as Ochiai) did not fail to raise the interest of commentators as to the hypothesis of a rivalry between these two dominant wrestlers of the amateur world.

On the subject of choosing to join this particular stable, Nakamura expressed his interest in being trained by a former yokozuna and that the stable, located in Ami, Ibaraki, offered him a healthy working environment "to eliminate any temptations and be able to concentrate on sumo."

Since he turned professional in May 2023, Ōnosato was the last wrestler to be promoted to makushita tsukedashi 10 due to his amateur prowess, the system for promotion to the top of the makushita division having been abolished in September 2023.

In April 2023, it was announced that Nakamura would now fight under the shikona, or ring name, Ōnosato (大の里), with the kanji "大", meaning 'great', to accentuate his talent and the kanji "の里" to establish Nakamura in the line of Yokozuna Takanosato (隆の里) and Kisenosato (稀勢の里).

This name, chosen to represent his master's expectations, was chosen in particular because this shikona had been proposed to Kisenosato when he was still an active wrestler when his promotion to the rank of ōzeki had been certain.

Coincidentally, the shikona has the same pronunciation as a Taishō era-ōzeki, Ōnosato Mansuke and Nakamura's father declared "I am deeply moved by the honor of my son being named after a former ōzeki with such a long history."

On the announcement of his entry as a professional wrestler, his former coach at Niigata Kaiyo High (Tetsuya Tōmi) declared his satisfaction and compared him to "a Shohei Ohtani of sumo," announcing that Nakamura had the potential to become the monster of the new era (新時代の怪物).

On the occasion of his passage to the new apprentice examination, the now-Ōnosato, obliged to comply with professional wrestlers dress rules, received an obi belt that his master had used.

Having received the Japan Sumo Association approval to compete, Ōnosato logically began his career at the rank of makushita tsukedashi 10.

His first professional match was against Takasago stable wrestler Ishizaki, a senior of Ōnosato during their time at NSS University.

Ishizaki however defeated Ōnosato by tsukiotoshi in what Ishizaki later describes as a "fluke match".

Nonetheless, Ōnosato finished the tournament with a score of 6–1, missing out, however, on promotion directly to the jūryō division, which some observers had been expecting.

During the July tournament, Ōnosato logically competed again in the makushita division, this time ranked as makushita 3.

He won his first two matches, but suffered his first defeat in his third match against Tokihayate.

In August 2014, he participated in the Openweight competition at the Sumo World Championships held in Taiwan and finished third, behind Ukrainian wrestler Oleksandr Veresiuk and Mongolian

Baasansuren Turbold, who won that year's tournament.

Nakamura then attended Itoigawa City Nō Junior High School and.

During his years at Itoigawa, he won the 2016 Junior High School competition at the Hakuhō Cup.

In 2019, he entered Nippon Sport Science University, a university famous for its strong sumo club.

During his first year, he first won the individual competition in the adult division of the National Athletic Meet, hence becoming the second best individual champion in the history of the competition and allowing him to become professional at the rank of makushita tsukedashi 15.

He then took part in the National Student Sumo Tournament in Sakai as a freshman and won the individual tournament.