Kōji Kitao
Japanese professional wrestler and rikishi
北尾光司 · 雙羽黑光司 · 기타오 고지
- Born
- 12 August 1963, Tsu
- Died
- 10 February 2019, Chiba Prefecture
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Sport
- sumo, professional wrestling, mixed martial arts
- Occupation
- rikishi, professional wrestler, mixed martial arts fighter
- Height
- 201 cm (6 ft 7 in)
Kōji Kitao (Japanese: 北尾 光司; August 12, 1963 – February 10, 2019) was a Japanese sumo wrestler (rikishi), professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist.
As Futahaguro Kōji (双羽黒 光司) he was sumo's 60th yokozuna, and the only one in sumo history not to win a top division tournament championship. He was forced to leave sumo at the end of 1987 after a falling-out with his stable master Tatsunami, and became a professional wrestler in 1990, primarily for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and Super World of Sports (SWS).
He also had a short film career as an actor, portraying a sumo wrestler in Jean-Claude Van Damme's 1996 martial arts film The Quest.
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