Asakōryū Takuma

Ishizaki began sumo wrestling during his third year at Kusunoki Elementary School in Shijonawate, Osaka. In addition to sumo wrestling, he practiced karate during his time in elementary school. Ishizaki went on to attend Meitoku Gijuku Junior & Senior High School and in his third year of junior high school he won the group championship at the prefectural tournament and took third place in the All-Japan Junior High School Sumo Tournament. After graduating high school, Ishizaki enrolled at Nippon Sport Science University's Faculty of Sport Science where he studied martial arts. In his first year at the school, Ishizaki won the East Japan Student Sumo Championship 115 kg weight class, and in his second year, he made the top 16 for the All Japan Sumo Championship. During his fourth year, he served as the captain of the sumo club and achieved third place at the National Student Sumo Championship. After graduating, Ishizaki opted to go pro and joined Takasago stable because the stablemaster (former sekiwake Asasekiryu) was an alumnus of Ishizaki's high school.

Due to Ishizaki's amateur accomplishments, he was granted sandanme tsukedashi status which allowed him to make his debut at the bottom of the sandanme division. He made his professional debut in May 2021 and won the sandanme championship with a perfect 7–0 record in his first tournament. He was promoted to makushita for the following July tournament where he won his first six matches before losing to Hokuseihō on the 13th day to finish with a 6–1 record. Ishizaki was promoted to a career-best makushita 1 rank for the January 2023 tournament, however, he finished with a poor 2–5 record and was unable to capitalize on a jūryō promotion. In July 2023, he finished with a 5–2 record at the rank of makushita 5 and was promoted to jūryō for the following September 2023 tournament.^[1][2] Upon promotion to jūryō, Ishizaki was given the shikona Asakōryū (朝紅龍). He finished with a 7–8 record in his first tournament as a sekitori, but bounced back with a 9–6 record in November 2023. After scoring 11 wins in September 2024, Asakōryū earned promotion to makuuchi for the first time. He ended his debut tournament with a losing record and was demoted to jūryō, though he immediately earned a return to the top division.

During the 2025 May tournament, Asakōryū was listed as a potential recipient of the special prize for Fighting spirit, conditional on him achieving an eleventh victory on the final day of the tournament. Asakōryū lost to Endō and did not win the award.^[3] This would end up being the final match of Endō's career. In July 2025, Asakōryū's brother, who also wrestled under the ring name Ishizaki, was promoted to the jūryō division making the two wrestlers the twenty-fourth pair of brothers to reach the sekitori ranks in sumo history.^[4]

At the May 2026 tournament, Asakōryū was fighting at a career-high rank of maegashira 7. On Day 6, he suffered an injury in his match against former ōzeki Shōdai. Asakōryū withdrew from the tournament on Day 7 to finish with a record of 3–4–8. Because he already had three wins, he was able to avoid demotion to the jūryō division.^[5]

Asakōryū is proficient in both yotsu-sumo (grappling) and oshi-sumo (pushing and thrusting) techniques. His most often used winning kimarite is oshidashi (push out), followed by yorikiri (force out).^[6]