(1961-05-08) May 8, 1961 (age 63)[1] Chichibu, Saitama, Japan[1]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Akira Taue Tamakirin (sumo)
Billed height
1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)[1]
Billed weight
120 kg (265 lb)[1]
Trained by
Giant Baba
Jumbo Tsuruta
Kazuharu Sonoda
Debut
January 2, 1988
Retired
December 7, 2013[2]
Akira Taue (田上 明, Taue Akira, born May 8, 1961) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. He is also a former All Japan Pro Wrestling Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, a former GHC Heavyweight Champion and has had fifteen 5 Star Matches as awarded by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.[3]
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^Perez, Roberth (19 August 2023). "10 Pro Wrestlers With The Most Dave Meltzer 5-Star Matches". TheSportster. Retrieved 6 May 2024. Akira Taue had 15 five-star matches in his career, but 14 of them were tag team matches, most of them with his longtime partner Toshiaki Kawada. Taue's only five-star singles match was against Mitsuharu Misawa at AJPW Champion Carnival 1995.
AkiraTaue (田上 明, TaueAkira, born May 8, 1961) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler. He is also a former All Japan Pro Wrestling Triple Crown Heavyweight...
Kawada began a heated rivalry with Tsuruta's main partner AkiraTaue, stemming over Taue defecting to Tsuruta's side. Misawa and Kawada would win the...
Taue (written: 田上) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include AkiraTaue (田上 明, born 1961), Japanese professional wrestler Tomihisa...
Retrieved January 8, 2020. "Hall of Fame season: The best matches of AkiraTaue". F4WOnline. September 22, 2015. Retrieved January 8, 2020. Observer Staff...
Newsletter. On June 9, 1995, Kobashi and Misawa lost the tag title to AkiraTaue and Toshiaki Kawada. The match is also notable because it won the best...
Kenta Kobashi, Gary Albright, Toshiaki Kawada, Mike Barton (Bart Gunn), AkiraTaue and Jun Akiyama, leading to perhaps AJPW's most profitable period in the...
continue to team with Gordy and Williams in matches against Jumbo Tsuruta, AkiraTaue and Yoshinari Ogawa. In August 1991, he and Jim Brunzell also faced The...
the finals. In March 1992, they lost the titles to Jumbo Tsuruta and AkiraTaue. It was around that time they split their time between AJPW and WCW. They...
the hospital at 10:10 p.m. JST due to spinal damage. On June 27, 2009, AkiraTaue was named as Misawa's successor, taking over as President of Pro Wrestling...
1990s, Misawa gained fame alongside Toshiaki Kawada, Kenta Kobashi, and AkiraTaue, who came to be nicknamed AJPW's "Four Pillars of Heaven", and whose matches...
was a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Toshiaki Kawada and AkiraTaue. The HDA competed in All Japan Pro Wrestling during the 1990s and is considered...
20, featuring twelve wrestlers in a single-block round-robin format. AkiraTaue, one-half of the reigning AJPW World Tag Team Champions, won the tournament...
Skill Award (1990) – with AkiraTaue World's Strongest Tag Determination League Fighting Spirit Award (1991) – with AkiraTaue American Wrestling Association...
by the wrestler 911, although it was already in use by AJPW wrestler AkiraTaue since 1992 under the name nodowa otoshi ("choke drop/slam"). Furthermore...
On July 7, 1993, Windham teamed with Big Bubba (Big Bossman) to defeat AkiraTaue & Takao Omori in Hyogo, Japan. Later that fall he participated in the...
and AkiraTaue. For the remainder of 1992, Williams and Gordy attempted to regain the titles but failed to including a rematch with Tsuruta and Taue on...
AJPW wrestlers Toshiaki Kawada, Kenta Kobashi, Mitsuharu Misawa, and AkiraTaue. However, matches involving these four have been also referred to in Japan...
Kobashi, which he lost. He gradually rose in rank, starting to team up with AkiraTaue as part of what remained of Jumbo Tsuruta's team called "Tsuruta-Gun"...
promotion and Misawa decided instead to focus solely on training Marufuji, AkiraTaue took Morishima under his wing and trained him. Morishima debuted for All...
the performances of Baba disciples Mitsuharu Misawa, Toshiaki Kawada, AkiraTaue and Kenta Kobashi, dubbed the "Four Pillars of Heaven" by publications...
Makoto Hashi. On February 15, Steamboat teamed with Buchanan in a loss to AkiraTaue and Taiji Ishimori. Three days later, Steamboat, Buchanan, and Roderick...
Royal" on New Year's Day in Tokyo, Japan. During the tour Landel faced AkiraTaue, Tiger Mask, Akio Sato, Hiroshi Wajima, John Tenta (Earthquake), and Jumbo...
In singles matches Rude was undefeated, beating Isamu Teranishi and AkiraTaue. His final appearance came on July 19, where he teamed with Johnny Ace...
in the hospital later that day due to spinal damage. Two weeks later, AkiraTaue was named as Misawa's successor, taking over as president of Noah. In...
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