Wakanoumi Masateru II, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Wakanoumi Masateru II

Sumo wrestler

Date of Birth: 25-Oct-1945

Date of Death: 31-Mar-1995

Profession: rikishi

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Wakanoumi Masateru II

  • Wakanoumi Masateru II (born Akio Matsuda; October 25, 1945 – March 31, 1995) was a sumo wrestler from Ohasama, Iwate, Japan. He made his professional debut in May 1961 and was given ex-komusubi Wakanoumi's old shikona when he was promoted to juryo.
  • However, he had an inauspicious juryo debut, winning only two of his fifteen matches.
  • After briefly returning to his family name of Matsuda he earned four consecutive winning record in the makushita division to return to juryo in November 1971.
  • He won the juryo division yusho or championship in May 1972 with a 12–3 record.
  • He reached the top makuuchi division in July 1972, after 11 years and two months in sumo and 67 tournaments after his professional debut.
  • His highest rank was maegashira 2.
  • After suffering a dislocated ankle in the summer tour of 1977 he missed the September 1977 tournament and was demoted back to juryo.
  • Upon retirement from active competition in January 1978 he became an elder in the Japan Sumo Association under the name Otake and worked at Taiho stable.
  • He left the Sumo Association in May 1992, when the Otake elder stock was needed by the retiring Ozutsu.
  • After leaving sumo he ran a chankonabe restaurant in Tokyo's Koto ward and in 1993 appeared semi-regularly as a sumo trainer in the Hirari drama series featured on NHK's Asadora.
  • He died of heart failure in a Shibuya hospital on March 31, 1995 at the age of 49. Two of his sons were sumo wrestlers - former makushita Kachimori (born 1977) of Isenoumi stable and former jonidan Wakashoho (born 1980) of the Taiho stable.

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