Sumo wrestler Toyozakura Toshiaki competed in different events in Japan from 1989 until 2011 when he was forced to retire for match-fixing.
He made his debut in 1989, and after many years in the lower ranks he reached the top division for the first time in 2003. He was forced to retire in April 2011 after an investigation by the Japan Sumo Association found him guilty of match-fixing. He first reached elite sekitori status in September 1998 upon promotion to the second juryo division but he could not maintain that rank. It took him another five years to reach the top division, which he finally achieved in November 2003 after re-entering the second division in September 2002. Toyozakura Toshiaki (born March 12, 1974 as Toshiaki Muko) is a former sumo wrestler from Hiroshima, Japan. He was a runner-up in one tournament and earned one special prize for Fighting Spirit. The 88 tournaments it took him to get there is the sixth-slowest evereven longer than Kitazakura, who took 86 tournaments to reach makuuchi (in 2001). 
1989 West Jonidan #138
52 West Jonokuchi #11
43 East Jonidan #129
34 East Jonidan #146
43 West Jonidan #33
52 East Jonidan #2
25 West Jonidan #43
52 East Sandanme #100
16 West Jonidan #65
61 East Jonidan #88
34 East Jonidan #115
52 East Jonidan #63
34 West Jonidan #82
52 West Jonidan #33
25 East Sandanme #94
43 West Sandanme #37
52 West Sandanme #68
52 West Sandanme #53
34 West Sandanme #91
52 West Sandanme #58
25 East Sandanme #77
43 West Makushita #37
34 East Makushita #49
52 East Sandanme #11
43 West Makushita #56
25 West Sandanme #15
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Champion East Makushita #12
43 East Makushita #7
25 East Makushita #20
16 East Makushita #27
34 East Makushita #41
52 East Makushita #51
43 East Makushita #24
16 West Makushita #29
43 East Maegashira #17
510 East Juryo #8
78 East Juryo #4
105 West Juryo #6
78 East Maegashira #12
312 West Maegashira #12
78 East Juryo #2
96 East Juryo #1
87 West Juryo #8
411 West Makushita #6
34 West Juryo #7
510 West Makushita #5
52 West Makushita #11
34 East Makushita #7
34 West Makushita #44
34 West Makushita #27
52 East Makushita #48
52 East Makushita #28
52 East Makushita #18
43 West Makushita #4
16 East Makushita #10
52 East Makushita #17
43 East Makushita #12
43 West Makushita #25
34 West Makushita #33
34 West Makushita #6
17 East Makushita #3
34 West Makushita #39
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Champion East Makushita #48
43 East Makushita #40
34 East Makushita #55
52 Toyozakura Toshiaki (born March 12, 1974 as Toshiaki Muko) is a former sumo wrestler from Hiroshima, Japan. He made his debut in 1989, and after many years in the lower ranks he reached the top division for the first time in 2003. He was forced to retire in April 2011 after an investigation by the Japan Sumo Association found him guilty of match-fixing. 
