Sho (wrestler)

Sho
Birth nameSho Tanaka
Born (1989-08-27) August 27, 1989 (age 35)[1]
Uwajima, Ehime, Japan[1]
Alma materTokuyama University[1]
WebsiteTwitter
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)Raijin
Sho[2]
Sho Tanaka
Billed height173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Billed weight93 kg (205 lb)[1]
Trained byNJPW Dojo
Junji Hirata
DebutNovember 15, 2012[1]

Sho Tanaka (田中 翔, Tanaka Shō) (born August 27, 1989), known mononymously as Sho (stylised in all caps as SHO), is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of Bullet Club and its sub-group House of Torture and is one-third of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions alongside Ren Narita and Yujiro Takahashi in their first reign as a team and his third individually.[broken anchor].

He is a former member of Chaos and was a part of the junior heavyweight tag team Roppongi 3K, along with Yoh. The tag team were five-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and three-time winners of the Super Junior Tag League. Additionally, Sho is a two-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion.

He has previously worked for the American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH) and Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). In the latter promotion, he was known under the ring name Raijin (雷神, Raijin), named after the Japanese God of thunder, and was part of La Ola Amarilla ("the Yellow Wave") alongside Okumura, Kamaitachi and Fujin (the name Yoh worked under in Mexico).

  1. ^ a b c d e f Cite error: The named reference TanakaNJPWProfile was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "10/15/16 Glory By Honor - Dearborn, MI". Ring of Honor. August 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.

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