Question?.........

[Pheonix_Chi25]

When did Minoru "don't call me Heat" Tanaka wrestle for the WWE? I am on the jpuroresu website and there is a pic of Tanaka wrestling some guy in the WWE.

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Did some searching and found out that he wrestled for WWF in July, '98 while he was still with Battlarts.

I don't have the details, though.

[Sliced Bread #2]

So I just read this and was intrested in checking them out... So here are the Pictures for those of you intrested in seeing them:





Ah and looks like he was working on Metal/Shotgun/Jakked/Dark Match or some type of show like that.

[kwilson83]

Well maybe someone that speaks Japanese that reads the board can read some of that, for to be honest, I looked around and couldn't find anything on it.

[Tradewynd]

IIRC it was a dark match, and they were scouting him as a potential jobber for TAKA. Vince didn't want him because he was too small (for the light heavyweights, mind you, while TAKA isn't too small), too stiff and didn't have TAKA's in ring charisma.

[edgehead1984]

Results from The History of World Wrestling Entertainment:

WWF @ San Diego, CA - Sports Arena - July 28, 1998
Christopher Daniels defeated Minoru Tanaka

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

The ref is raising Tanaka's hand on the picture...

Not clear enough to me to read everything, but the match took place as a dark match for RAW on July 28, '98 at San Diego Sports Arena. He defeated "Fallen Angel" with a German suplex hold. Not sure if it's Daniels from the picture.

The article also says that Tanaka was at the Aneheim card on previous day but couldn't find his name on the match list.

[naterob2003]

Yeah it is christopher daniels. I didnt know that tanaka did wrestle for wwe even in a dark match.

[edgehead1984]

Well, Mr. Cawthon's the most accurate WWE results site I know...So I posted what I found from his site...

http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling/cawthon777/

[Pheonix_Chi25]

Either way the WWE dropped the ball on Tanaka. I just don't see him as a jobber to anybody. Especially the way they pushed Taka after he lost to Sasuke twice.

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

Well, Mr. Cawthon's the most accurate WWE results site I know...So I posted what I found from his site...

http://www.angelfire.com/wrestling/cawthon777/

Yeah, his website is great. I have link to it as well.

Still, didn't SB2 put two pictures, one of which has the ref raising Tanaka's hand? I don't see it anymore.