Minoru Tanaka

Minoru Tanaka is exactly the kind of pro wrestler I quietly respect the most — not the guy who needs a towering frame or a pyrotechnics budget to make his point. Born in Komaki, Aichi in 1972, he built his career as a technically sharp, fast-moving wrestler who let the in-ring work do the talking. At 175cm he was never going to bully anyone with size, so instead he went deep on craft, and that kind of discipline tends to age really well. By his fifties he's the type of veteran who walks into any promotion and the other wrestlers know — this guy does not waste a single motion. I like wrestlers who figured out early that longevity beats spectacle, and everything I know about Tanaka points to someone who understood that from the jump.

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Minoru Tanaka is a Japanese professional wrestler born on November 29, 1972, in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture. Standing 175 cm tall, he has built a career as a technically skilled wrestler in the Japanese pro-wrestling scene. He joined the Fujiwara Gumi in 1993, debuted in January 1994, and is now signed to Gleat.

Name (English)

Minoru Tanaka

Name (Japanese)

田中稔

Reading

たなか みのる

Born

November 29, 1972 (age 53)

Origin

Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Height

175 cm

Occupation

Professional Wrestler

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rat

• Official sitehttps://www.vivienne.co.jp/artist/minoru_tanaka/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/minoru.tanaka_official/
• Xhttps://x.com/minoru_official
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%B0%E4%B8%AD%E7%A8%94%20(%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC)
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q940384

Tags

• From Aichi Prefecture
• Professional Wrestler

Last updated

October 18, 2026

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