Musashimaru is one of only two top-ranked yokozuna currently in Japan's national sport of sumo (the other is Takanohana), and last weekend he won the autumn basho in Fukuoka -- a victory that will boost earnings already estimated at 60 million yen a year.
Weighing a shade over 225 kg and standing 191 cm tall, the 30-year-old Japanese national was born Furamalu Penitani in Samoa but mostly raised in Hawaii.
When he's not busy throwing salt onto the dohyo, performing shiko leg lifts or smashing into opponents in front of TV cameras, he lives at the Musashigawa stable in the Uguisudani district of Tokyo's Taito Ward with 30 junior wrestlers and the stablemaster and his wife.
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