Minoru Tanaka
- January 5, 2024
- Wrestler
Quick Facts
Minoru Tanaka Biography
| Name | Minoru Tanaka |
| Birthday | Nov 29 |
| Birth Year | 1972 |
| Place Of Birth | Chishang |
| Home Town | Taitung |
| Birth Country | Taiwan |
| Birth Sign | Scorpio |
Minoru Tanaka is one of the most popular and richest Wrestler who was born on November 29, 1972 in Chishang, Taitung, Taiwan. Star of All Japan Pro Wrestling, and New Japan Pro Wrestling who made his debut January 24, 1994.
He formed a tag team duo with Koji Kahnemoto.
Minoru Tanaka was originally a shootboxer. He started his career as a wrestler in Fujiwara Gumi, trained by its owner, Yoshiaki Fujiwara. In late 1995, Tanaka and everyone else in the promotion abandoned Fujiwara and formed their own promotion, Battlarts, led by Yuki Ishikawa. Despite being a simulated shoot style professional wrestling promotion, Battlarts, like its predecessor, often cooperated with other federations and styles, such as Fighting Network Rings, Kingdom, Michinoku Pro and Big Japan Pro Wrestling. Tanaka’s first championship, the UWA World Middleweight Championship (originally based in Mexico and introduced in Japan through Universal Lucha Libre and Michinoku), came in 1996. He later won Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling’s Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship (which was outsourced to Battlarts after Hiromichi Fuyuki abolished all previous FMW titles and replaced them with WEW titles).
Tanaka made his New Japan Pro Wrestling debut on April 10, 1999 and would proceed to take part in Best of the Super Juniors in block B. Tanaka would reappear for New Japan in late 1999 to early 2000 before he joined the New Japan roster as a full-time competitor. His natural talent enabled him to immediately rise in the junior heavyweight ranks and win the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in July with Koji Kanemoto, who used a similar but more ground-oriented style. The Kanemoto-Tanaka combination was reminiscent of the old Akira Maeda-Nobuhiko Takada combination in 1987. In October, Tanaka won the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship – thus becoming the first man to hold both junior titles at the same time. In March 2001, Tanaka and Kanemoto lost their titles to El Samurai and Jushin Thunder Liger, in June he lost in the finals of 2001’s Best of the Super Juniors to Liger and in July he lost his singles title. Even with all these losses, Tanaka finished 2001 strong, winning the G1 Jr. Six Man Tag Team Tournament Masahito Kakihara and Masayuki Naruse. For a second time in his career, Tanaka held both junior titles, defeating Masahito Kakihara for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion and defeating Gedo and Jado with Jushin Thunder Liger for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. After Koji Kanemoto defeated Tanaka in 2002’s Best of the Super Juniors, Kanemoto defeated Tanaka once again for his IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship, and a month later lost his tag team championship to Tsuyoshi Kikuchi and Yoshinobu Kanemaru.
Yumi Fukawa, a fellow wrestler, was his wife.
Minoru Tanaka Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Wrestler |
| House | Living in own house. |
Minoru Tanaka is one of the richest Wrestler from Taiwan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Minoru Tanaka 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He began his career as a shootboxer before switching to wrestling.
He has been awarded numerous IWGY Junior Heavyweight Championship titles.
Minoru Tanaka (田中稔 , Tanaka Minoru, born November 29, 1972 in Komaki, Aichi) 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 Hevyweight 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 the current 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).
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 5 ft 9 in |
Minoru Tanaka height 5 ft 9 in Minoru weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
Who is Minoru Tanaka Dating?
According to our records, Minoru Tanaka is possibily single & has not been previously engaged. As of December 1, 2023, Minoru Tanaka’s is not dating anyone.
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After leaving New Japan on January 31, 2009, in a shocking move, Tanaka quickly signed with rival promotion All Japan Pro Wrestling in late February and made his presence felt by joining the hated “VooDoo Murders” stable, replacing the recently retired brother YASSHI in the group. In his first All Japan pay-per-view, he took on Kaz Hayashi for the World Junior Heavyweight Championship and lost. Moving on from this loss, he teamed up with Toshizo to take part in 2009’s AJPW Junior Tag League, where they defeated Kaz Hayashi and Shuji Kondo. After finishing top in Junior League 2009 he was defeated by Super Crazy in the semi finals. In 2010, he participated in that years junior tournaments failing to win any of them but did come close in the Junior League where he lost to Jimmy Yang. In late 2010, he won an All Asia Tag Team Championship contendership tournament with KONO but failed to win the titles on the next night.
Facts & Trivia
Minoru Ranked on the list of most popular Wrestler. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Taiwan. Minoru Tanaka celebrates birthday on November 29 of every year.
On January 2, 2011, Minoru won the World Junior Heavyweight Championship from Kaz Hayashi. On June 3, 2011, in the aftermath of a backstage fight between Yoshikazu Taru and Nobukazu Hirai, which resulted in Hirai suffering a stroke, All Japan Pro Wrestling disbanded Voodoo Murders, suspended all of its Japanese members, including Minoru, and vacated the World Junior Heavyweight Championship. Minoru was suspended specifically for not attempting to stop Taru’s assault on Hirai. Minoru’s suspension was lifted on June 30. In October 2011, Minoru began once again wrestling under his full name. In an interview on All Japan’s official website, Tanaka explained that by using his full name he wanted to pay tribute to his original home promotion BattlARTS, which closed its doors on November 5, 2011, and where he originally made his breakthrough under his full name.
Who is Minoru Tanaka in Death Note?
Minoru Tanaka (田中実, Tanaka Minoru) is the protagonist of the The a-Kira Story.
Is Minoru Tanaka real?
Minoru Tanaka
Billed height| 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Billed weight| 85 kg (187 lb)
Debut| January 24, 1994
How old is Minoru Tanaka?
44 years (1966–2011)
What rule did Minoru break?
Ryuk was just obligated to write his name, as his time had come by breaking a Death Note rule. Show activity on this post. Minoru mentioned that he has to wait a month before getting the money all at once, because the bank put up a daily limit for withdrawing money. So Minoru waited a month before getting any money.
Is light smarter than l?
Light Was Smarter Because L Could Not Beat Him While Light Was Not Actively Fighting Back. One specific example of a victory by Light over L was the period of time where Light had no memory of the Death Note. Actually, this was more of a loss for L than a victory for Light.