Masato Tanaka

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Championships and accomplishments

• Chō Hanabi Puroresu
  • Bakuha-ō Championship (1 time)[25]
  • Bakuha-ō Tag Team Championship (2 times, current) – with Taru (1),[26] Hide Kubota (1, current)
• DDT Pro-Wrestling
  • KO-D Openweight Championship (1 time)[27]
  • D-Oh Grand Prix (2020)[28]
• Extreme Championship Wrestling
  • ECW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • ECW World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Balls Mahoney (1) and Tommy Dreamer (1)
• Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling
  • FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Hayabusa (1) and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (1)
  • FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
  • FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Hayabusa & Hisakatsu Ōya (1), Hayabusa & Kōji Nakagawa (1), Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Kōji Nakagawa (1), and Atsushi Onita & Hideki Hosaka (1)
  • WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Gedo and Jado
  • WEW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • WEW World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Gedō
  • Young Spirit Tournament (1995)
  • FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship Tournament (1999) - with Tetsuhiro Kuroda
• Guts World Pro Wrestling
  • GWC Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Daisuke[29]
  • GWC Tag Team Title Tournament (2009) - with Daisuke[30]
• Hustle
  • Hustle Hardcore Hero Championship (1 time, inaugural)
  • Hustle King Memorial Six-Man Tag Tournament (2006) – with Tadao Yasuda & Shinjiro Otani[31]
• New Japan Pro-Wrestling
  • IWGP Intercontinental Championship (1 time)[5]
  • NEVER Openweight Championship (1 time)[11]
  • NEVER Openweight Championship Tournament (2012)[11]
• Nikkan Sports
  • Best Tag Team Award (2014) with Takashi Sugiura[32]
  • Technique Award (2011)[33]
• Premier Wrestling Federation
  • PWF Universal Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Shinjiro Otani[34]
  • Match of the Year (2003, 2004)[35]
  • PWF MVP (2004)[36]
  • Most Popular Wrestler of the Year (2004)[37]
• Pro Wrestling Expo
  • Continent Confrontation Tag Team League (2008) – with Daisuke Sekimoto[38]
• Pro Wrestling Noah
  • GHC Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Takashi Sugiura[19]
  • Global Tag League (2014, 2015) – with Takashi Sugiura[17][21]
  • Global League Tournament Technique Award (2014)[39]
• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • Ranked No. 21 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2000[40]
  • Ranked No. 285 of the 500 singles wrestlers of the PWI Years in 2003
• Pro Wrestling World-1
  • World-1 Heavyweight Championship (1 time)[41][42]
• Pro Wrestling Zero1
  • AWA World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
  • NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (8 times) – with Shinjiro Otani (2), Wataru Sakata (1), Zeus (1), Takashi Sugiura (1), James Raideen (1), Takuya Sugawara (1), and Yuji Hino (1)
  • NWA United National Heavyweight Championship (1 time)1
  • World Heavyweight Championship (5 times, current)
  • Fire Festival (2006–2008, 2012, 2017)
  • Furinkazan (2011) – with Fujita Hayato
  • Furinkazan (2014) – with Takashi Sugiura[43]
  • Tenkaichi Jr. (2007)
  • MVP (2007, 2008)[44][45]
  • Best Bout (2008) vs. Manabu Nakanishi on April 6[45]
  • Best Bout (2011) vs. Daisuke Sekimoto on August 7
• Tokyo Sports
  • Fighting Spirit Award (2008)
  • Best Newcomer Award (1995)[46]
  • Best Tag Team Award (2014) – with Takashi Sugiura[47]

1This title is not to be confused with the NWA United National Championship, an NWA singles title that has been integrated into and is now part of the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship.

• Wrestle-1
  • Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Jiro Kuroshio

Tributes:

 

[Alexa]

One of the best examples of how a Hardcore/Deathmatch guy can be a technical Wrestler and just not "He CaN oNlY dO wEaPoN sHoTs" and other nonsense. His feud with Mike Awesome is legendary and one of my personal favorites.

Masato Tanaka vs Mr. Gannosuke FMW New Year Generation - Day 1 01/06/98

 

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[Wiseman]

Merely just watching that loosened my molars.

 

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[Wiseman]

Arguably the best feud every produced in ECW.