Minoru Fujita

Minoru Fujita
Born (1977-09-05) September 5, 1977
Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s) Minoru Fujita
Great Minoru Fujita
Mitaro Fujita
Mr. X
Red Onigumo
HERO!
Billed height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Billed weight 80 kg (180 lb)
Trained by Kazuo Sakurada
Yoshihiro Tajiri
Debut April 11, 1997

Minoru Fujita (藤田 ミノル Fujita Minoru)[1][2] is a Japanese professional wrestler contracted to Pro Wrestling Zero1, where he is a former AWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion, having won a tournament final against Takuya Sugawara.

Career

Fujita started in Big Japan Pro Wrestling as a protégé of its top junior heavyweight, Yoshihiro Tajiri. When Tajiri, who was Big Japan junior heavyweight champion, quit the company and gave up the title, Fujita had a decision match against Katsumi Usuda from the Battlarts promotion but ended up losing.

Fujita spent his time leaving Big Japan to venture into other Japanese independents, meeting Ikuto Hidaka of Battlarts along the way and making memorable tag team matches with him. The combination, however, despite their combined talent, could not have a future due to their separate schedules; Fujita tried a move to Michinoku Pro Wrestling in 2000, but despite the higher exposure, it did little for him financially and did not raise his stock as a viable junior heavyweight contender.

He thus headed for Mexico and Puerto Rico, where he won his first major title, the International Wrestling Association junior heavyweight title. Returning to Japan in 2002, he entered New Japan Pro Wrestling (to which he had been once before, in a Best of the Super Junior tournament), to challenge the heavyweight division, but nothing came out of it. He then headed to Taka Michinoku's Kaientai Dojo promotion, but despite being promoted as a tough-to beat heel, he was never able to win titles there.

A change of pace came in 2004 when he joined Pro Wrestling Zero-One, where old friend Hidaka awaited. The two began teaming more frequently and this time they clicked, collecting several tag team titles along the way. Their greatest victory came in March 2006, when they defeated Pro Wrestling Noah stars Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Takashi Sugiura to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Since then Fujita has been a rising star in Japan and has finally shed the "underachiever" tag he was saddled with by foreign observers of puroresu.

In wrestling

Championships and accomplishments

Fujita with one of the Tohoku Tag Team Championship belts
  • PWF Unified Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ikuto Hidaka
  • Best Tag Team Award (2005) with Ikuto Hidaka[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Minoru Fujita profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved 2012-11-06.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Profile at Puroresu Central". Puroresu Central. Retrieved 2012-05-11.
  3. ↑ "Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE - "Enormous 2004"" (in German). PuroLove.com. Retrieved 2015-02-05.
  4. ↑ "H27.7.29 東京・新木場1stRing大会". Pro Wrestling Freedoms (in Japanese). 2015-07-29. Retrieved 2015-07-30.
  5. ↑ "Fujitaが高木に、論外＆Mazadが大阪06に勝利し、ベルトが愚連隊に勢揃い！世界一性格の悪い神の子が降臨！". Battle News (in Japanese). 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2013-01-16.
  6. ↑ 東京スポーツ　プロレス大賞. Tokyo Sports (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-01-20.

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