Hoshitango Imachi

is an Argentine-born Japanese former professional sumo wrestler and professional wrestler. His highest rank was jūryō 3.

Life and career A former swimming instructor, Salomón was spotted by a visiting Japanese coach at a gym in Buenos Aires who encouraged him to try sumo. After studying at Chuo University, he joined Michinoku stable in May 1987 at the age of 21 to support his family. He was the first, and to date only, Jewish professional sumo wrestler. He was given the shikona (ring name) of Hoshitango, with "Hoshi" (star) a common prefix in Michinoku stable, and "tango" a reference to the popular dance.

Hoshitango was joined at Michinoku stable in 1988 by another Buenos Aires native, , who reached a highest rank of jūryō 2 before retiring in 2000.

Hoshitango became a Japanese citizen in October 2000. His Japanese name was registered as Tango Hoshi.

Fighting style Hoshitango was an oshi-sumo specialist who preferred pushing and thrusting techniques to fighting on the mawashi. His most common winning kimarite were hataki-komi (slap down), hiki-otoshi (pull down) and okuri dashi (push out from behind).

Professional wrestling career Salomón is currently a professional wrestler for the Japanese company DDT Pro-Wrestling (DDT), debuting on 29 December 2006, under his shikona Hoshitango, and has also wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling, Ice Ribbon and Wrestle-1. As a finishing maneuver, Hoshitango uses the Argentine backbreaker and chokeslam. He had another brief reign on 5 August. The storyline came to a close at Ryōgoku Peter Pan 2010 when Yagō Kōkoku-gun lost a no disqualification Captain's Fall six-man tag team match.

On 3 June 2012, Hoshitango had a third brief Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship reign. At Budokan Peter Pan, Hoshitango competed in a "5 vs. 5 Soccer match" as part of Tonkatsu SC. The match consisted of two halves of 5 minutes each where each team tried to score the most pins by pinfall (two counts) or submission. The match ended in a 2–2 draw and was decided by an actual penalty shoot-out which saw Tonkatsu SC win 2–0. On 23 June 2013, Hoshitango, Honda and Hino won the KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship. They lost the titles to Danshoku Dino, Kensuke Sasaki and Makoto Oishi on 21 July. On 26 January 2014, Hoshitango briefly won the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship for a fourth time. At Judgement 2014, Monster Army wrestled their final match together, where Hoshitango, Hino, Honda and Sasaki defeated Gorgeous Matsuno, Gota Ihashi, Sanshiro Takagi and Toru Owashi.

With his stock significantly lowered following the end of Monster Army, in 2015 he began regularly competing for the King of Dark Championship. Contrary to regular professional wrestling championships, the title is awarded to the loser of the match and is a sign of shame. As punishment for holding the title, wrestler are forced to wrestle exclusively in dark matches. On 2 April 2016, Hoshitango "won" the King of Dark Championship after losing to Seiya Morohashi. He held the dubious distinction for 22 days before "losing" the title to Gota Ihashi on 24 April.

As of 2026, he still wrestles at 60.

Sumo career record

Professional wrestling championships and accomplishments Dramatic Dream Team DDT Extreme Championship (1 time) Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship (3 times) KO-D 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Antonio Honda and Yuji Hino King of Dark Championship (1 time)