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Minoru Tanaka
Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
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 becam…
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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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Movies and shows, newest first
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2021
Kyushu Pro Monday Night Vai
TV show
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2020
GLEAT
TV show
- 2018
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2015
Freedom's Bloody X-Mas
Movie Minoru Tanaka
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2014
TNA Bound For Glory 2014
Movie Minoru Tanaka
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2014
TNA One Night Only: Global IMPACT Japan 2014
Movie Minoru Tanaka
- 2013
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2013
Becoming the Best in the World: Bryan Danielson
Movie Heat/Himself
- 2012
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2008
TNA Wrestling: Global Impact! Japan
Movie Minoru Tanaka
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2008
Cinderella Formula
Movie Dr. Komiya
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2008
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 2
Movie Minoru
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2007
NJPW G1 Climax 17: Day 6 (Final)
Movie Minoru
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2007
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 1
Movie Minoru
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2006
The Best of the X Division Vol. 2
Movie Himself
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2006
TNA Sacrifice 2006
Movie Himself
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2006
TNA Lockdown 2006
Movie Minoru Tanaka
- 2001
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2001
NJPW Wrestling World 2001
Movie Minoru Tanaka
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2000
Pro Wrestling NOAH
TV show
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2000
AAA Triplemania VIII
Movie
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1999
NJPW Final Dome
Movie
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1998
Battlarts Battle Fiction
Movie
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1997
Zero Woman: The Hunted
Movie Bodyguard
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1972
New Japan Pro Wrestling
TV show Minoru Tanaka
