Minoru Tanaka

Known for ActingBorn 1972-11-29 (age 53)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 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).Read more

Movies & web series

Becoming the Best in the World: Bryan Danielson

The Best of the X Division Vol. 2

NOAH: Naomichi Marufuji 20th Anniversary Show

Pro Wrestling NOAH

New Japan Pro Wrestling

TNA Lockdown 2006

Zero Woman: The Hunted

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 2

Kyushu Pro Monday Night Vai

GLEAT

Freedom's Bloody X-Mas

TNA Bound For Glory 2014

TNA One Night Only: Global IMPACT Japan 2014

Wrestle-1 Raising An Army Tour - Day 1

NJPW & AJPW 40th Anniversary: We Are Pro-Wrestling Love

Cinderella Formula

TNA Wrestling: Global Impact! Japan

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 1

NJPW G1 Climax 17: Day 6 (Final)

TNA Sacrifice 2006

NJPW Hyper Battle 2001 - Day 15

NJPW Wrestling World 2001

AAA Triplemania VIII

NJPW Final Dome

Battlarts Battle Fiction