Hiroshi Tanahashi

Hiroshi Tanahashi
Data
Ring name	Hiroshi Tanahashi Masked Devilock Tana Genjin
height	181 cm
Fighting weight	101 kg
birth	November 13, 1976 Ōgaki , Gifu Prefecture ( Japan )
Trained by	New Japan Dojo
debut	October 10, 1999

Hiroshi Tanahashi (born November 13, 1976 ) is a Japanese wrestler who is currently active in New Japan Pro Wrestling . Tanahashi has been married since 2003 and has a son and a daughter.

Career

Prior to his wrestling career, Tanahashi played baseball. At Ritsumeikan University he then practiced Amaresu (a martial art). He made his debut against Shinya Makabe in 1999. In April 2003 he won the U-30 title in a tournament and became first champion. He held this title until January 2005, then toured the wrestling world until early 2006 to gain experience. At Final Resolution 2006 made his debut in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling with a loss to AJ Styles .

After a few defeats in 2006, however, he recovered relatively quickly with a number of individual wins and finally won the IWGP Heavyweight Title for the first time in July 2006. He should have taken that title from Brock Lesnar , but he refused to do the job and so he won the vacant belt in a tournament.

title

New Japan Pro Wrestling

• 8 × IWGP Heavyweight Championship
• 3 × IWGP Tag Team Championship (1 × each with Yutaka Yoshie, Shinsuke Nakamura and Kota Ibushi)
• 1 × IWGP Intercontinental Championship
• 2 × IWGP U-30 Championship
• 2 × NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 × each with Michael Elgin and Yoshitatsu and 1 × with Manabu Nakanishi and Ryusuke Taguch)
• 3 × winners of the G1 Climax (2007, 2015, 2018)

Pro wrestling NOAH

• 1 × GHC Tag Team Championship with Yuji Nagata

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre

• 1 × CMLL World Trios Championship with Okmura and Taichi
• 1 × CMLL World Tag Team Championship with Jushin Thunder Liger
• 1 × CMLL Universal Championship

Web links

• Profile on Cagematch.de
• Profile on Neckbruch.com