Name
Minoru Tanaka

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Born
1972 (51 years old)

Birth Place
Komaki, Aichi, Japan

Position
Wrestler

Status
Active

Ethnicity
Asian

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Height
1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

Weight
85 kg (187 lb)

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GLEAT Mens

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Minoru Tanaka (田中稔, Tanaka Minoru, born November 29, 1972 in Komaki, Aichi), also known by the ring names Heat (ヒート, Hīto) and the mononymous Minoru (稔, Minoru), is a Japanese professional wrestler, shoot wrestler and mixed martial artist. He is currently signed to Gleat, predominantly performing in its G Prowrestling and Lidet UWF divisions; he also serves as Gleat's UWF Rules Technical Officer.

Known as "The Special One", Tanaka first gained prominence in Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi (PWFG) and Fighting Investigation Team Battlarts (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 also performed for Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), where he held the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship twice and 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).



Career Honours

GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion
2019

Noah Mens

World Junior Heavyweight Champion
2011

Noah Mens

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion
2008

Noah Mens

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion
2008

Noah Mens

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion
2006

Noah Mens

Best of the Super Juniors
2006

Noah Mens

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion
2005

Noah Mens

GHC Junior Heavyweight Champion
2003

Noah Mens

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion
2003

Noah Mens

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion
2002

Noah Mens

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion
2002

Noah Mens

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion
2000

Noah Mens

IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion
2000

Noah Mens


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