Minoru Tanaka
Minoru Tanaka is a Japanese professional wrestler. Tanaka first gained prominence in Fujiwara Gumi and Battlarts before moving on to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he became a four time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, a five time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion and the winner of the 2006 Best of the Super Juniors tournament. After leaving NJPW, he joined All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where he found continued success in the junior heavyweight and tag team ranks upon winning the World Junior Heavyweight Championship once and the All Asia Tag Team Championship twice. From 2013 to 2016, Tanaka worked for Wrestle-1. He is currently a freelancer, and primarily competes in Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), where he has held the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship twice. He is a former GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion, making him the second man (after Naomichi Marufuji) to hold all three major Japanese junior heavyweight singles titles as well as the only man to hold all five major junior heavyweight titles in Japan (counting the aforementioned tag team prizes).
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Credits
- 2021 · Kyushu Pro Monday Night Vai as
- 2020 · GLEAT as
- 2018 · NOAH: Naomichi Marufuji 20th Anniversary Show as
- 2014 · TNA Bound For Glory 2014 as Minoru Tanaka
- 2014 · TNA One Night Only: Global IMPACT Japan 2014 as Minoru Tanaka
- 2013 · Wrestle-1 Raising An Army Tour - Day 1 as
- 2013 · Becoming the Best in the World: Bryan Danielson as Heat/Himself
- 2012 · NJPW & AJPW 40th Anniversary: We Are Pro-Wrestling Love as
- 2008 · TNA Wrestling: Global Impact! Japan as Minoru Tanaka
- 2008 · Cinderella Formula as Dr. Komiya
- 2008 · NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 2 as Minoru
- 2007 · NJPW G1 Climax 17: Day 6 (Final) as Minoru
- 2007 · NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 1 as Minoru
- 2006 · TNA Sacrifice 2006 as Himself
- 2006 · TNA Lockdown 2006 as Minoru Tanaka
- 2006 · The Best of the X Division, Vol 2 as Himself
- 2001 · NJPW Hyper Battle 2001 - Day 15 as
- 2000 · Pro Wrestling NOAH as
- 2000 · AAA Triplemania VIII as
- 1999 · NJPW Final Dome as
- 1998 · Battlarts Battle Fiction as
- 1997 · Zero Woman: The Hunted as Bodyguard