Masato Tanaka

Introduction
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Masato Tanaka

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card/ date	match			match type	title(s)	Rating
NOAH Destination 2021 ~ Back To Budokan ~ Feb 12th 2021	Masaaki Mochizuki & Masato Tanaka	def. (pin)	Mohammed Yone & Shuhei Taniguchi			** (2.00)
WrestleCon Mark Hitchcock Memorial SuperShow 2019 Apr 4th 2019	Masato Tanaka	def.	Eddie Kingston			**½ (2.5)
NOAH Navigation with Breeze '14 - Day 1: KENTA Farewell Show May 17th 2014	Kenoh & MAYBACH Taniguchi & Takeshi Morishima	def. (pin)	Genba Hirayanagi & Masato Tanaka & Yoshihiro Takayama	6-person tag		*** (3.00)
NJPW World Tag League '13 - Day 13: Finals Dec 8th 2013	Hiroshi Tanahashi & Jushin Thunder Liger & La Sombra & Tetsuya Naito & Tiger Mask IV	def.	Gedo & Kazuchika Okada & Masato Tanaka & Shinsuke Nakamura & Yujiro Takahashi	10-person tag		***¼ (3.25)
NJPW Destruction '13 Sep 29th 2013	Tetsuya Naito	def. (pin)	Masato Tanaka (c)		NEVER Openweight Championship (title change)	****¼ (4.25)
NJPW Kizuna Road '13 - Day 8 Jul 19th 2013	Masato Tanaka (c)	def. (pin)	Tetsuya Naito		NEVER Openweight Championship	**** (4.00)
NJPW Kizuna Road '13 - Day 1 Jul 4th 2013	Masato Tanaka & Shinsuke Nakamura & Yujiro Takahashi	def. (pin)	La Sombra & Tetsuya Naito & Tomoaki Honma	6-person tag		***½ (3.5)
NJPW Wrestling Dontaku '13 May 2nd 2013	Masato Tanaka (c)	def. (pin)	Tomoaki Honma		NEVER Openweight Championship	***¼ (3.25)
NJPW Invasion Attack Apr 6th 2013	Masato Tanaka & Yujiro Takahashi	def. (pin)	Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma			****¼ (4.25)
NJPW Road to New Beginning '13 - Day 2 Feb 3rd 2013	Masato Tanaka (c)	def. (pin)	Tomohiro Ishii		NEVER Openweight Championship	****½ (4.5)
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 7 in Tokyo Dome Jan 4th 2013	Masato Tanaka (c)	def. (pin)	Shelton Benjamin		NEVER Openweight Championship	**¾ (2.75)
NJPW Dominion 6.16 Jun 16th 2012	Masato Tanaka & Shinsuke Nakamura	def. (pin)	Hirooki Goto & Tetsuya Naito			**** (4.00)
NJPW The New Beginning Feb 12th 2012	Hirooki Goto	def. (pin)	Masato Tanaka (c)		IWGP Intercontinental Championship (title change)	***¾ (3.75)
NJPW Wrestle Kingdom VI in Tokyo Dome Jan 4th 2012	MVP & Shelton Benjamin	def. (pin)	Masato Tanaka & Yujiro Takahashi			***¼ (3.25)
WWE ECW One Night Stand '06 Jun 11th 2006	Balls Mahoney	def. (pin)	Masato Tanaka			*¼ (1.25)
WWE ECW One Night Stand '05 Jun 12th 2005	Mike Awesome	def. (pin)	Masato Tanaka			****¼ (4.25)
AJPW Excite Series '03 - Day 10 Feb 23rd 2003	Arashi & Kendo Kashin & Nobutaka Araya & Satoshi Kojima	def. (pin)	Kazuhiko Ogasawara & Masato Tanaka & Ryouji Sai & Shinjiro Otani	8-person tag		***¾ (3.75)
NOAH Great Voyage '03 Jan 10th 2003	Akitoshi Saito (c) & Jun Akiyama (c)	def.	Masato Tanaka & Shinjiro Otani		GHC Tag Team Titles	**** (4.00)
AJPW Real World Tag League '02 - Day 11 Dec 6th 2002	Satoshi Kojima & Taiyo Kea	def. (pin)	Masato Tanaka & Shinjiro Otani		AJPW World Tag Team Title (title change)	***¾ (3.75)
AJPW Excite Series '02 - Day 10 Feb 24th 2002	Hideki Hosaka & Masato Tanaka	def. (pin)	Iron Sheik #1 & Iron Sheik #2			DUD (0)
ECW Hardcore Heaven '00 May 14th 2000	Masato Tanaka	def. (pin)	Balls Mahoney			*** (3.00)
ECW Living Dangerously '00 Mar 12th 2000	Justin Credible & Lance Storm	def. (pin)	Mike Awesome & Raven, Masato Tanaka & Tommy Dreamer	three-way dance tag	ECW Tag Team Titles	** (2.00)
ECW ECW on TNN Taping Feb 5th 2000	Mike Awesome (c)	def.	Masato Tanaka		ECW World Heavyweight Title	***½ (3.5)
ECW November To Remember '99 Nov 7th 1999	Mike Awesome	def. (pin)	Masato Tanaka		ECW World Heavyweight Title	****¼ (4.25)
ECW Anarchy Rulz '99 Sep 19th 1999	Mike Awesome	def. (pin)	Masato Tanaka, Taz	three-way dance	ECW World Heavyweight Title	***¾ (3.75)
ECW November To Remember '98 Nov 1st 1998	Balls Mahoney & Masato Tanaka	def. (pin)	Buh Buh Ray Dudley & D-Von Dudley		ECW Tag Team Titles	*¾ (1.75)
ECW Heat Wave '98 Aug 2nd 1998	Masato Tanaka	def. (pin)	Mike Awesome			**** (4.00)
ECW Living Dangerously '98 Mar 1st 1998	Masato Tanaka	def. (pin)	Doug Furnas			-* (-1)
ECW WrestleFest: 50 Years of Funk Sep 11th 1997	Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki & Masato Tanaka	def. (pin)	Headhunter A & Headhunter B & Jake Roberts	6-person tag		**½ (2.5)

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