Mammoth Sasaki
| Mammoth Sasaki | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Yoshinori Sasaki |
| Born |
July 23, 1974 Osaka, Japan |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) |
Mammoth Sasaki Yoshinori Sasaki |
| Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
| Billed weight | 125 kg (276 lb) |
| Trained by | Katsutoshi Niiyama |
| Debut | November 15, 1997 |
| Yoshinori Sasaki | |
|---|---|
| Born | Yoshinori Sasaki July 23, 1974 Osaka, Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight | 275 lb (125 kg; 19.6 st) |
| Style | Shoot wrestling, Professional wrestling |
| Teacher(s) | Katsutoshi Niiyama |
| Years active | 1993–1996 (Sumo wrestling) 1997–present (Professional wrestling) 2002 (MMA) |
| Mixed martial arts record from Sherdog | |
Yoshinori Sasaki (佐々木 嘉則 Sasaki Yoshinori, born 23 July 1974) is a Japanese professional wrestler and retired sumo wrestler and mixed martial artist, currently working for Pro Wrestling Freedoms under the ring name Mammoth Sasaki (マンモス佐々木 Manmosu Sasaki), where he is one half of the reigning King of Freedom World Tag Team Champions with Toru Sugiura. He is best known for his time with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), where he competed between 1997 until the promotion's closure in 2002.
After training at the FMW Dojo, Sasaki made his debut in December 1997 under his given name and competed as an enhancement talent through the early years of his career. His first push came when he became a member of Atsushi Onita's faction Team Zero in 1998. After years on the low-card, Sasaki won his first title, the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship with Hideki Hosaka in 2000 and changed his ring name to Mammoth Sasaki in the fall of the year and became a main eventer during the fall of 2001. He also became notorious for being FMW's ace Hayabusa's last opponent in a match, during which Hayabusa suffered a career-ending injury.
Sasaki was a third-rank junior champion of sumo wrestling in his high school and began training to compete for a professional sumo career in 1990. He made his sumo debut in January 1993 and rose to the rank of sandanme in 1995. Later that year, he injured his right ligament and retired from sumo in November 1996 to train for a professional wrestling career. His overall career record of sumo was 57-52-31.
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