Wakaichirō Ken (若一郎 健; born July 7, 1998, as Ichiro Kendrick Young) is a former professional sumo wrestler with the Musashigawa stable from Houston, Texas.

Ichiro Kendrick Young was born in 1998 in Houston, Texas[citation needed] to a Japanese mother and African American father.

Although he played football until the age of 14, he then went to Quest Early College High School and gave up sports because of the academic workload.

[2] After a one-week trial period,[4] he joined Musashigawa stable in November 2016 and was given the shikona of Wakaichirō, meaning Young Ichiro and hence a literal translation of his real name.

[7] With a high-profile ex-yokozuna as its stablemaster, Musashigawa stable has had many visitors from other sports and as a consequence Wakaichirō met Max Holloway of the UFC and Michael Bennett of the Seattle Seahawks.