Minoru Tanahashi

• RING NAME •
Minoru Tanahashi

• NICKNAME •
Black Lion
Japan's Most Shameless

• BILLED FROM •
Tokyo, Japan

• HEIGHT & WEIGHT •
6'2" & 235 lbs.

• OATH ACHIEVEMENTS •
OATH Livewire Champion (x1) [First]
OATH Tag Team Champion  (x2; w/ Super Tiger)

• TWITTER HANDLE •
@blacklionroar


• PIC BASE •
SANADA/Seiya Sanada

• ENTRANCE MUSIC •
"Roll up" by The Struts.

• ENTRANCE DESCRIPTION •
The lights inside the Citadel suddenly dim as the screen lights up with a serene view of the Serengeti, alone on a large rock, a black lion lays, majestic and calm. Suddenly we hear some music begin to play.

[i][font color="#00ff29"]I wake up at one
My day's just begun
Say hello to the sun[/font]

[font color="#00ff29"]I'm feeling sublime
The weather is fine
So I'm gonna shine
In the finest of clubs
The best country pubs
Nobody will stop me[/font][/i]

The lion starts to stir as the music picks up a bit, and bright green and pink lights begin to flash.

[i][font color="#00ff29"]So now
Whatever I wear
It's gotta have flare
So you people can stare
And I'll catch your eye
When I walk on by
Nobody will stop me
Ooh[/font][/i]

The lion slowly stands and begins stalking his way to the edge of the cliff

[i][font color="#00ff29"]Come take my hand
Let's start the show
Strike up the band
And you'll see[/font][/i]

The lion roars right as the chorus kicks in and gold pyro fires off in front of Minoru Tanahashi, clad in one of his flashy ring outfits. He starts strutting down to the ring, dancing along to the music and singing along with the words, Minoru hops up onto the second step, then right to the apron. He wipes his shoes, steps in and goes to the center of the ring. He looks out to the crowd and extends his hand to them.

[font color="#00ff29"][i]Come take my hand
Let's start the show
Strike up the band
And you'll see[/i][/font]

As the second chorus hits, a bunch of Black Lion Bomb stickers fire off into the crowd. He turns with a flourish, takes off his mask, tosses it behind his back, does a standing moonsault, lands on his feet and catches the mask in the corner.

• ALIGNMENT •
Face

• GIMMICK •
Japan's most shameless and fun wrestler

• WRESTLER HISTORY •
Minoru Tanahashi is what many would call a black sheep, but since he refuses to be called a sheep, he proudly refers to himself as the black lion. He was a promising talent when he began in the Gold Lion Grappling dojo, in large part thanks to his uncle Tomohiro Tanahashi. Within six months he was kicked out and had to start over and over. It continued to happen until he found a company that liked his rebellious spirit. He debuted in 2012 as a young lion and quickly got a reputation for being exciting even with his limited moveset. He started to rise up and won their Young Lion trophy, beating 3 others in a round-robin tournament. This gave him a bit of an attitude and after a few more months he was sent away on an excursion. He ended up spending three years traveling the world wrestling for whatever place would take him for as long as they could stand him. He came back to Japan in 2017 and looked to make a big splash in his home company. He captured their Openweight title two months after his return, had a decent reign, then as he was poised to go for the heavyweight title, he was run out after it was learned he had been in relationships with 3 of the roster members family members. He again bounced around from company to company before coming back to the US at the start of 2020.


• FIGHTING STYLE •
Strong Style Lucha

• PROFESSIONAL RESEMBLENCE •
Real wrestlers that your character wrestles like.
1. Tetsuya Naito
2. Shawn Michaels
3. Hiroshi Tanahashi

• WEAPON OF CHOICE •
Kendo Stick

• COMMON MOVES • (Ten Minimum)
1. Knife Edge Chop
2. European Uppercut
3. Palm Strike
4. Enziguri
5. Snap Suplex
6. Dragon Suplex
7. Hurricanrana
8. Tornado DDT
9. Tilt-A-Whirl Backbreaker
10. Falcon Arrow
11. Slingblade
12. Tope Suicida
13. Tope Con Hilo
14. Springboard Missile Dropkick
15. Diving Leg Drop
16. Greco Roman Throat Hold (Choke hold)
17. Inner Thigh Punch (Low Blow)
18. Inner Thigh Kick (Low Blow Mark II)
19. Amateur Optometry (Eye Gouge)
20. Five Finger Discount (School Boy Pin with a hand full of tights or foot/feet on the rope)

• SIGNATURE MOVES • (Three Minimum)
1. Osake Bomb (Swanton Bomb)
2. Kabukicho Nights (Discus Lariat)
3. Akihabara Dreams (Yakuza Kick)
4. Keimusho Saifu (Paradise Lock - can use trap version or submission version.)
5. Lion's Claw (Emerald Flowsion)

• FINISHING MOVES • (One Minimum)
1. Black Lion Bomb (Sitout Crucifix Powerbomb)
2. Highball Hangover (Stretch Muffler)

• DESPERATION FINISHER •
1. Devil Driver (Cradle Tombstone Piledriver)
2. 4. Yippi Ki Yay Motherfucker (Avalanche Ganso Bomb) *Special finisher, only to be used when everything else fails and only if it's a World title match on a big show or the blowoff of a long going blood feud