Profile Info
- Gender Male
- Real Name Masato Tanaka (田中 正人)
- Ring Names
- Masato Tanaka ( July 23, 1993 - Present)
- Height 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
- Weight
- 202 lbs (92 kg)
- Born February 28, 1973 (age 49)
- Birth Place Wakayama, Wakayama, Japan
- Billed From
- Tokyo, Japan
- Nicknames Dangan; The Enforcer
Career History
- Roles
- Wrestler ( July 23, 1993 - Present)
- Companies / Promotions
Promotion from to Promotion NOAH
January 4, 2021 Present Promotion ZERO1 July 12, 2001 Present Promotion AJPW
October 24, 2020 January 2, 2021 Promotion WRESTLE 1 December 31, 2019 March 15, 2020 Promotion December 29, 2018 February 4, 2020 Promotion NOAH
February 22, 2014 November 8, 2015 Promotion WRESTLE 1 January 12, 2014 September 27, 2015 Promotion December 23, 2007 December 8, 2013 Promotion AJPW
May 20, 2001 October 5, 2003 Promotion ECW
September 11, 1999 May 20, 2000 Promotion ECW
March 1, 1998 December 5, 1998 - Face / Heel Turns
Alignment from to Heel February 1, 2004 Present Face March 1, 1998 January 31, 2004 - Images
Dec 2007Mar 1998
- Finishers
- Complete Dust - Inverted Sitout Side Powerslam ( July 23, 1993 - Present)
- Dangan Bomb - Back Body Drop Lift into a Falling Powerbomb. ( July 23, 1993 - Present)
- Dangan Rolling Elbow / Roaring Elbow / Rolling Elbow - Discus Elbow Smash ( July 23, 1993 - Present)
- Diamond Dust - Diving Forward Somersault Three-quarter Facelock Bulldog ( July 23, 1993 - Present)
- Sliding D - Sliding Forearm Smash ( July 23, 1993 - Present)
- Thunder Fire Powerbomb - One Shoulder Powerbomb ( July 23, 1993 - Present)
- Tornado DDT ( July 23, 1993 - Present)
- Theme Songs
- Theme Song "Dangan" by FMW Productions - Single ( January 1, 1996 - Present)
- Theme Song "Holy Man" by One Minute Silence - Single ( September 11, 1999 - May 20, 2000)
- Theme Song "T.N.T." by AC/DC - Single ( March 1, 1998 - December 5, 1998)
Titles & Accomplishments
- Titles Won
Extreme Championship Wrestling
- 1 ECW World Heavyweight Championship
- 2 ECW World Tag Team Championship (1 with Balls Mahoney, 1 with Tommy Dreamer)
New Japan Pro-Wrestling
- 1 IWGP Intercontinental Championship
- 1 NEVER Openweight Championship
Pro Wrestling Noah
- 1 GHC Tag Team Championship (with Takashi Sugiura)
Chō Hanabi Puroresu
- 1 Bakuha-ō Championship
- 2 Bakuha-ō Tag Team Championship (1 with Taru, 1 with Hide Kubota)
DDT Pro-Wrestling
- 1 KO-D Openweight Championship
Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling
- 1 FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship
- 2 FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship (1 with Hayabusa, 1 with Tetsuhiro Kuroda)
- 2 FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship
- 4 FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (1 with Hayabusa & Hisakatsu Ōya, 1 with Hayabusa & Kōji Nakagawa, 1 with Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Kōji Nakagawa, 1 with Atsushi Onita & Hideki Hosaka)
- 1 WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship (with Gedo & Jado)
- 1 WEW Heavyweight Championship
- 1 WEW World Tag Team Championship (with Gedō)
Guts World Pro Wrestling
- 1 GWC Tag Team Championship (with Daisuke)
Hustle
- 1 Hustle Hardcore Hero Championship
Premier Wrestling Federation
- 1 PWF Universal Tag Team Championship (with Shinjiro Otani)
Pro Wrestling World-1
- 1 World-1 Heavyweight Championship
Pro Wrestling Zero1
- 5 ZERO1 World Heavyweight Championship
- 1 AWA World Heavyweight Championship
- 8 NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (2 with Shinjiro Otani, 1 with Wataru Sakata, 1 with Zeus, Takashi Sugiura, 1 with James Raideen, 1 with Takuya Sugawara, 1 with Yuji Hino)
- 1 NWA United National Heavyweight Championship
Super Fireworks Pro Wrestling
- 2 Blast King Tag Team Championships (1 with TARU, 1 with Hide Kubota)
Wrestle-1
- 1 Wrestle-1 Tag Team Championship (with Jiro Kuroshio)
- Other Accomplishments
- NJPW NEVER Openweight Championship Tournament Winner (2012)
- PW Noah Global Tag League Winner (2014, 2015 – with Takashi Sugiura)
- PW Noah Global League Tournament Technique Award (2014)
- DDT D-Oh Grand Prix Winner (2020)
- ZERO1 Fire Festival Winner (2006–2008, 2012, 2017)
- ZERO1 Furinkazan Winner (2011 – with Fujita Hayato; 2014 – with Takashi Sugiura)
- ZERO1 Tenka-Ichi Junior Tournament Winner (2007)
- ZERO1 MVP (2007, 2008)
- ZERO1 Best Bout (2008 - vs. Manabu Nakanishi on 04/06; 2011 - vs. Daisuke Sekimoto on 08/07)
- FMW Young Spirit Tournament Winner (1995)
- FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship Tournament Winner (1999 - with Tetsuhiro Kuroda)
- GWC Tag Team Title Tournament Winner (2009 - with Daisuke)
- Hustle King Memorial Six-Man Tag Tournament Winner (2006 – with Tadao Yasuda & Shinjiro Otani)
- PWE Continent Confrontation Tag Team League Winner (2008 – with Daisuke Sekimoto)
- Tokyo Sports Fighting Spirit Award (2008)
- Tokyo Sports Best Newcomer Award (1995)
- Tokyo Sports Best Tag Team Award (2014 – with Takashi Sugiura)
- Nikkan Sports Best Tag Team Award (2014 - with Takashi Sugiura)
- Nikkan Sports Technique Award (2011)
- PWF Most Popular Wrestler of the Year (2004)
- PWF MVP (2004)
- PWF Match of the Year (2003, 2004)
- 21° in PWI 500 (2000)
Relations
- Tag Teams & Stables
- Emblem - Shinjiro Otani ( December 9, 2001 - Present)
- M's Alliance - The Great Muta / Keiji Muto, Naomichi Marufuji, Masakatsu Funaki, Masaaki Mochizuki ( January 4, 2021 - Present)
- REVENGERS - Yuji Hino, Ikuto Hidaka, Takuya Sugawara, Yasu Kubota, Hide Kubota ( March 23, 2020 - November 12, 2021)
- Voodoo Murders - Joe Doering, TARU, KAMIKAZE, Voodoo Mask, Takuya Sugawara, Yuji Hino, Hartley Jackson ( March 2, 2017 - December 24, 2017)
- Dangan Yankees - Takashi Sugiura, Yusaku Obata, Ikuto Hidaka, Daichi Hashimoto, Fujita Hayato, Isami Kodaka, Yuko Miyamoto ( February 20, 2014 - November 30, 2016)
- CHAOS - Alex Koslov, Brian Kendrick, Davey Richards, Gedo, Jado, Karl Anderson, Kazuchika Okada, Low Ki, Matt Bloom / Albert / Tensai / Giant Bernard, Rocky Romero, Shinsuke Nakamura, Tetsuya Naito, Tomohiro Ishii, Toru Yano, YOSHI-HASHI, Yujiro Takahashi, Takashi Iizuka, Hideo Saito ( August 16, 2009 - December 8, 2013)
- Complete Players - Gedo, Yujiro Takahashi ( April 23, 2009 - December 7, 2013)
- Complete Players - Gedo, Jado, Kaori Nakayama ( February 6, 2001 - November 11, 2011)
- Sword Army - Ryouji Sai, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Ikuto Hidaka, El Blazer, Shota Takanishi, Shinjiro Otani, Munenori Sawa ( January 14, 2008 - August 29, 2008)