Pat Tanaka

Patrick Tanaka is an American professional wrestler best known for his work in the American Wrestling Association as one half of Badd Company and the World Wrestling Federation as one half of The Orient Express. He is the son of Duke Keomuka. In his career, which has spanned almost three decades, Tanaka has appeared in the American Wrestling Association (AWA), World Wrestling Federation (WWF), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW),Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) and New Japan Pro Wrestling. Trained by his father, Duke Keomuka, Hiro Matsuda, and the New Japan Pro Wrestling Dojo, Pat Tanaka debuted in 1984 for NJPW. During his time there, he wrestled the likes of Keiichi Yamada, Shunji Kosugi, Black Cat, Naoki Sano, Tatsutoshi Goto, Shinichi Nakano, and Hirokazu Hata. After a year in New Japan, Tanaka started wrestling as a jobber in Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985. In 1986, Tanaka moved to Memphis, Tennessee where he worked for Jerry Lawler and Jerry Jarrett’s Continental Wrestling Association. Early on Tanaka teamed with Jeff Jarrett to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship.[3] In late 1986 the tag-team specialist Tanaka was teamed up with Paul Diamond, who was also seen as a tag-team specialist, to form Badd Company,[4] a move that paid off pretty soon as the two won the CWA/AWA International Tag Team Championship, beating Tarzan Goto and Akio Sato on December 15, 1986. The first reign was short lived as The Sheepherders (Luke Williams & Butch Miller) defeated the duo on January 10, 1987. Badd Company quickly regained the titles only to lose them to Tarzan Goto and Akio Sato on February 5, 1987. The third reign with the tag-team titles came on May 9, 1987 when the team beat Mark Starr in a handicap match, but lost them back to Starr and his new tag team partner Billy Joe Travis. Badd Company had one last run with the International tag team titles as they won the vacant titles on May 25, 1987 and held them until July 6, 1987 where they lost the titles to Bill Dundee and Rocky Johnson (who were the last International tag team champions). While in Memphis Badd Company also won the CWA's main tag team title, the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship, defeating Jeff Jarrett and Billy Joe Travis on August 8, 1987.

Known For: Acting

Born: Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 1963-08-05

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1988	AWA The Road to Super Clash III	Pat Tanaka	0
2	1988	AWA SuperClash III	Himself	100
3	1989	AWA Battle Royale '89	Himself	50
4	1989	AWA Rage in Rochester	Himself	0
5	1990	WWE WrestleMania VI	Tanaka	84
6	1990	WWE Maple Leaf Wrestling: June '90	Pat Tanaka	0
7	1990	WWF SuperTape vol. 2	Tanaka	0
8	1990	WWE SummerSlam Fever	Tanaka	0
9	1990	WWE SummerSlam 1990	Tanaka	64
10	1990	WWF Hottest Matches	Tanaka	0
11	1990	WWE Survivor Series 1990	Tanaka	80
12	1991	WWE Royal Rumble 1991	Tanaka	70
13	1991	WWE The Main Event V	Tanaka	0
14	1991	WWE U.K. Rampage 1991	Tanaka	60
15	1991	WWE SuperTape vol. 4	Tanaka	0
16	1991	2nd Annual Battle of the WWE Superstars	Tanaka (Manager)	100
17	1991	WWE WrestleFest '91	Tanaka	0
18	1991	WWE SummerSlam Spectacular '91	Tanaka	0
19	1991	WWE World Tour 1991	Tanaka	0
20	1991	WWE Rampage '91	Tanaka	0
21	1992	WWE Royal Rumble 1992	Tanaka	69
22	1993	NWA Bloodfest • Night One	"The Sensei" Pat Tanaka	100
23	1993	NWA Bloodfest • Night Two	"The Sensei" Pat Tanaka	0
24	1993	ECW November to Remember 1993	"The Sensei" Pat Tanaka	0
25	1994	ECW The Night the Line Was Crossed	"The Sensei" Pat Tanaka	50
26	1996	WCW The Great American Bash 1996	El Gato	0
27	2007	WWE: The Shawn Michaels Story - Heartbreak & Triumph	Himself	93
28	2014	Shawn Michaels: Mr Wrestlemania	Himself	85

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1985	Saturday Night's Main Event	Tanaka	82
2	1986	WWF Wrestling Challenge	Tanaka	68
3	1993	Raw	Pat Tanaka	68
4	2019	Dark Side of the Ring	Self	82

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