
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).

as Minoru Tanaka
1972
2020

2000

as Bodyguard
1997

as Minoru Tanaka
2014

as Minoru
2007
2021

as Minoru Tanaka
2006

2012

as Dr. Komiya
2008

as Himself
2006

as Minoru
2008
as Minoru Tanaka
2014

2018
as Minoru Tanaka
2015

as Minoru Tanaka
2014

as Minoru Tanaka
2014
2013

as Heat/Himself
2013

2012

as Minoru Tanaka
2008

as Dr. Komiya
2008

as Minoru
2008

as Minoru
2007

as Minoru
2007

as Himself
2006

as Himself
2006

as Minoru Tanaka
2006
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as Minoru Tanaka
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1999
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as Bodyguard
1997