Minoru Tanaka

Minoru Tanaka (Komaki, 29 de novembro de 1972) é um lutador de wrestling profissional japonês, mais conhecido por suas passagens pela New Japan Pro-Wrestling e All Japan Pro Wrestling.

Carreira[]

New Japan Pro-Wrestling (1999–2009)

O sucesso inicial (1999–2002)
Control Terrorism Unit (2002–2007)
RISE (2007–2009)

All Japan Pro Wrestling (2009–2013)

VooDoo Murders (2009–2011)
Stack of Arms (2011–2013)

Wrestle-1 (2013)

No wrestling[]

Finishing moves

Como Minoru Tanaka

FIREBALL Splash (450° splash)
Minoru Special (Flying armbar)
Minoru Special II (Northern lights suplex virando em um mount e preparando para um cross armbar)
Roundhouse kick
Santa Monica Pier (Leg hook Death Valley driver)
Wrist-clutch fisherman buster, as vezes do topo da corda

Como HEAT

FIREBALL Splash (450° splash)
HEAT Clutch (Flying armbar virando em um cradle)

Signature moves

Brainbuster
Cross kneelock
Enzuigiri
Modified dragon sleeper
Moonsault
Múltiplas variações de suplex

California Maki (Swinging fisherman)
Teramae 485 (Inside leg hook belly to back)
Bridging or release German
Bridging or release dragon
Bridging or release tiger
Bridging or release northern lights

Campeonatos e prêmios[]

All Japan Pro Wrestling

All Asia Tag Team Championship (2 vezes) – com Koji Kanemoto
World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 vez)
Gaora TV Championship (1 vez)
Junior Tag League (2009) – com Toshizo

European Wrestling Promotion

EWP Intercontinental Championship (2 vezes)

Fujiwara Gumi / BattlARTS

FMW World Junior Heavyweight Championship/Independent Junior Heavyweight Championship (2 vezes)
UWA World Middleweight Championship (1 vez)
Japanese Junior Crown League (1999)

New Japan Pro-Wrestling

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (4 vezes)
IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (5 vezes) – com Koji Kanemoto, Jushin Liger, Hirooki Goto e Prince Devitt (2)
Best of the Super Juniors (2006)
G1 Jr. Six Man Tag Team Tournament (2001) – com Masayuki Naruse e Masahito Kakihara
Naeba Cup Tag Tournament (2003) – com Manabu Nakanishi
Jr. Heavyweight Tag MVP Award (2005) – com Hirooki Goto

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

PWI o classificou na posição 12 entre os 500 melhores lutadores do PWI 500 em 2002.

Pro Wrestling Noah

GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (2 vezes) – com Yoshinari Ogawa (1) e Hi69 (1)
GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 vez)

Pro Wrestling Zero1

International Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 vez)
NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship (1 vez)
NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 vez)

Wrestle-1

UWA World Trios Championship (1 vez) – com Kaz Hayashi e Tajiri
Wrestle-1 Cruiser Division Championship (1 vez)
Wrestle-1 Cruiser Festival (2020)

Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards

Best Technical Wrestler (2001)

Ligações externas[]

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GHC Junior Heavyweight Championship (Campeões)
Yoshinobu Kanemaru · Tatsuhito Takaiwa · Naomichi Marufuji · Makoto Hashi · Michael Modest · Takashi Sugiura · Jyushin Thunder Liger · Kenta · Mushiking Terry/Kotaro Suzuki · Bryan Danielson · Katsuhiko Nakajima · Ricky Marvin · Shuji Kondo · Taiji Ishimori · Daisuke Harada · Atsushi Kotoge · Taichi · Hajime Ohara · Hayata · Minoru Tanaka · Yoshinari Ogawa · Seiki Yoshioka · Eita · Ninja Mack · Dante Leon · Amakusa · Daga

GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (Campeões)
Kenta e Naomichi Marufuji · Yoshinobu Kanemaru e Takashi Sugiura · Minoru Fujita e Ikuto Hidaka · The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe e Mark Briscoe) · Ricky Marvin e Kotaro Suzuki · Naruki Doi e Masato Yoshino · BxB Hulk e Shingo Takagi · Taiji Ishimori e Kenta · Yoshinobu Kanemaru e Kotaro Suzuki · Ricky Marvin e Taiji Ishimori · Koji Kanemoto e Tiger Mask · Atsushi Aoki e Naomichi Marufuji · No Mercy (Kenta e Yoshinobu Kanemaru) · ANMU (Atsushi Aoki e Kotaro Suzuki) · Los Mexitosos (Ricky Marvin e Super Crazy) · No Mercy (Genba Hirayanagi e Maybach Taniguchi Jr./Suwa) · Jyushin Thunder Liger e Tiger Mask · Yoshinari Ogawa e Zack Sabre Jr. · BRAVE (Atsushi Kotoge e Taiji Ishimori) · Choukibou-gun (Hajime Ohara e Kenoh) · Suzuki-gun (El Desperado e Taka Michinoku) · Momo no Seishun Tag (Atsushi Kotoge e Daisuke Harada) · World Class Tag Team (Gedo e Jado) · XX (Hi69 e Taiji Ishimori) · Ratel's (Hayata e Yo-Hey) · Yoshinari Ogawa e Minoru Tanaka · Hi69 e Minoru Tanaka · Back Breakers (Hajime Ohara e Hitoshi Kumano) · Stinger (Yoshinari Ogawa e Kotaro Suzuki) · Ratel's (Daisuke Harada e Tadasuke) · Stinger (Kotaro Suzuki e Atsushi Kotoge) · Stinger (Yoshinari Ogawa e Hayata) · Daisuke Harada e Hajime Ohara · Stinger (Seiki Yoshioka e Yuya Susumu) · Atsushi Kotoge e Hajime Ohara · Los Perros del Mal de Japon (Eita e Nosawa Rongai) · Atsushi Kotoge e Yo-Hey · Stinger (Chris Ridgeway e Yoshinari Ogawa) · Atsushi Kotoge e Seiki Yoshioka · Kongo (Hajime Ohara e Shuji Kondo) · Kzy e Yo-Hey · Yoshinari Ogawa e Eita · GLG (Tadasuke e Yo-Hey) · Stinger (Chris Ridgeway e Daga) · Alpha Wolf e Dragon Bane · Eita e Shuji Kondo

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (Campeões)
Shiro Koshinaka • Nobuhiko Takada • Kuniaki Kobayashi • Hiroshi Hase • Owen Hart • Jyushin Thunder Liger • Naoki Sano • Pegasus Kid • Norio Honaga • Akira Nogami • El Samurai • Último Dragón • Koji Kanemoto • Sabu • The Great Sasuke • Shinjiro Otani • Kendo Kashin • Juventud Guerrera • Tatsuhito Takaiwa • Minoru Tanaka/Heat/Minoru • Masayuki Naruse • Tiger Mask • Jado • Black Tiger • Ryusuke Taguchi • Wataru Inoue • Low Ki • Místico • Naomichi Marufuji • Prince Devitt • Kota Ibushi • Kushida • Kenny Omega • Bushi • Hiromu Takahashi • Will Ospreay • Marty Scurll • Taiji Ishimori • Dragon Lee • El Desperado • Robbie Eagles • Sho • Douki

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (Campeões)
Shinjiro Otani e Tatsuhito Takaiwa • Dr. Wagner Jr. e Kendo Kashin • The Great Sasuke e Jushin Thunder Liger • Koji Kanemoto e Minoru Tanaka • El Samurai e Jyushin Thunder Liger • Jado & Gedo • Jyushin Thunder Liger e Minoru Tanaka • Tsuyoshi Kikuchi e Yoshinobu Kanemaru • Jyushin Thunder Liger e Koji Kanemoto • American Dragon e Curry Man • Koji Kanemoto e Wataru Inoue • Hirooki Goto e Minoru • El Samurai e Ryusuke Taguchi • Dick Togo e Taka Michinoku • Prince Prince/RISE (Minoru e Prince Devitt) • Legend (Akira e Jyushin Thunder Liger) • No Limit (Tetsuya Naito e Yujiro) • The Motor City Machine Guns (Alex Shelley e Chris Sabin) • Apollo 55 (Prince Devitt e Ryusuke Taguchi) • El Samurai e Koji Kanemoto • Golden☆Lovers (Kenny Omega e Kota Ibushi) • No Remorse Corps/Chaos (Davey Richards e Rocky Romero) • Jyushin Thunder Liger e Tiger Mask • Forever Hooligans/Chaos (Alex Koslov e Rocky Romero) • Time Splitters (Alex Shelley e Kushida) • Suzuki-gun (Taichi e Taka Michinoku) • The Young Bucks/Bullet Club (Matt Jackson e Nick Jackson) • reDRagon (Bobby Fish e Kyle O'Reilly) • Roppongi Vice/Chaos (Beretta e Rocky Romero) • Matt Sydal e Ricochet • Suzuki-gun (Taichi e Yoshinobu Kanemaru) • Funky Future (Ricochet e Ryusuke Taguchi) • Roppongi 3K/Chaos (Sho e Yoh) • Suzuki-gun (El Desperado e Yoshinobu Kanemaru) • Los Ingobernables de Japon (Bushi e Shingo Takagi) • Bullet Club (El Phantasmo e Taiji Ishimori) • Flying Tiger (Robbie Eagles e Tiger Mask) • Six Or Nine (Master Wato e Ryusuke Taguchi) • United Empire (Francesco Akira e TJP) • Intergalactic Jet Setters (Kevin Knight e Kushida) • Bullet Club War Dogs (Drilla Moloney e Clark Connors) • Ichiban Sweet Boys (Kosei Fujita e Robbie Eagles)