Tags: Sumo Wrestler, Wrestler.
Masaru Hanada (花田 勝 Hanada Masaru born January 20 1971) is a former sumo wrestler from Tokyo Japan. As an active wrestler he was known as Wakanohana III Masaru (若乃花 勝) and his rise through the ranks alongside his younger brother Takanohana Koji saw a boom in sumo’s popularity in the early 1990s. He is the elder son of the former ōzeki Takanohana I who was also his stablemaster and the nephew of Wakanohana I a famous yokozuna of the 1950s.
