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Masato Tanaka
Tanaka in 2022
Born
(1973-02-28) February 28, 1973 (age 51)[1][2] Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan[1][2]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
Masa Tanaka Masato Tanaka SWORD
Billed height
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)[1]
Billed weight
202 lb (92 kg)[2]
Billed from
Tokyo
Trained by
Atsushi Onita
Debut
July 23, 1993[1]
Masato Tanaka (田中 正人, ring name: 田中 将斗, Tanaka Masato, born February 28, 1973)[3][4] is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) in Japan where he was a one-time FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion and a one-time WEW World Heavyweight Champion and in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in the United States where he was a one-time ECW World Heavyweight Champion. He is currently splitting his time wrestling for both Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah) and Pro Wrestling Zero1 (Zero1). He is overall a ten-time world champion in major professional wrestling promotions.
^ abcd田中 将斗. New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2012-11-30. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
^ abc"Wrestlers". Pro Wrestling Zero1 (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
^"Masato Tanaka profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2014-10-12.
^"Profile at Puroresu Central". Puroresu Central. Retrieved 2014-10-12.
MasatoTanaka (田中 正人, ring name: 田中 将斗, TanakaMasato, born February 28, 1973) is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with...
Taishi Takizawa from Kaientai Dojo, and MasatoTanaka from Pro Wrestling Zero1. In the final of the tournament, Tanaka, the 39-year-old, who, despite officially...
George Takano and MasatoTanaka but losing to Kohei Sato. Joe returned to Pro Wrestling Zero-One in January 2002, where MasatoTanaka and Shinjiro Otani...
Nakagawa and MasatoTanaka on August 31. At Kawasaki Legend: Fall Spectacular, Gladiator lost the Double Championship to MasatoTanaka, thus ending his...
Fire Festival tied with MasatoTanaka for the most tournament wins at three; Otani progressed to the final, where he defeated Tanaka to become the first ever...
wrestling as part of the faction Team Emblem with Japanese superstars MasatoTanaka and Shinjiro Otani. On January 6, 2003, Sakoda made his first onscreen...
Kanemura. He met his former tag team partner, MasatoTanaka in the first match at Hardcore Heaven, which Tanaka won. At Heat Wave, he lost a match to F.B...
against MasatoTanaka instead of booking Gannosuke and Kanemura's match. This exploded when the team of Hayabusa, Jinsei Shinzaki and MasatoTanaka defeated...
Championship (1 time) – with MasatoTanaka Furinkazan (2014) – with MasatoTanaka Tokyo Sports Best Tag Team Award (2014) – with MasatoTanaka Best Tag Team Award...
Otani MasatoTanaka and Zeus Shito Ueda and Yusaku Obata ZERO64 (Akebono and Daisuke Sekimoto) Kamikaze and Shinjiro Otani Dangan Yankees (MasatoTanaka and...
scored a total of fifteen points after going against Shinjiro Otani, MasatoTanaka, Hartley Jackson, Fuminori Abe and Tsugutaka Sato. At the 2022 edition...
Otani MasatoTanaka and Zeus Shito Ueda and Yusaku Obata ZERO64 (Akebono and Daisuke Sekimoto) Kamikaze and Shinjiro Otani Dangan Yankees (MasatoTanaka and...
Zero1 where he worked under the ring name James Raideen. He defeated MasatoTanaka to become a World Heavyweight Champion. On 27 September 2020, he made...
match between Nakanishi, Takao Omori and MasatoTanaka would be held on the final day to decide the finalist; Tanaka won the match by pinning Omori, and would...
vacated the championship. In the Maximum Tag League 2009, Sekimoto and MasatoTanaka finished top of block B but would lose to Takashi Sasaki and Yuko Miyamoto...
There have been 43 reigns shared among 22 wrestlers with one vacancy. MasatoTanaka was the first champion in the title's history. He also holds the record...
Otani MasatoTanaka and Zeus Shito Ueda and Yusaku Obata ZERO64 (Akebono and Daisuke Sekimoto) Kamikaze and Shinjiro Otani Dangan Yankees (MasatoTanaka and...
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