Sentoryū Henri

Sentoryū Henri (Japanese戦 闘 竜 扁 利; * July 16, 1969 in Tachikawa, Tokyo Prefecture as Henry Armstrong Miller) is an American- Japanese Mixed Martial Arts athletes and former sumo wrestler.

The son of a Japanese woman and an African American U.S. soldiers spent his early childhood on the Yokota Air Base, before he moved with his parents to Ferguson in St. Louis at the age of six years. As early as elementary school age he began to wrestle; after graduation in 1987 he returned to Japan to become a professional Sumotori.

Injuries, it was thanks to that Sentoryūs entry into the second-highest division juryo delayed until November 1994. Already two tournaments later, he rose also seems to get off - temporarily, he took from 1997 until his return to juryo the fight name Kaishinzan - and could only with a makushita tournament victory ( 7-0) in May 1999, his re-emergence into the ranks of sekitori reach.

In July 2000, the promotion to the Makuuchi division, where Sentoryū had needed 72 tournaments since beginning of his career for as long as no foreigner before him. A bad result in September of the same year already let him fall back into the juryo. In January 2002, he played another tournament maegashira, had to suspend two tournaments because of an injury and then played with the exception of a brief return in juryo in September 2003, the rest of his active career in the Ringer makushita Division. In November 2003, he took his leave.

In April 2004 Sentoryū for Pride FC was the first time as a MMA fighter in the ring. There he recorded under the alias Sentoryu been six wins and eleven defeats in 17 matches (as of March 2011).