Junior Stars

Junior Stars
Tag team
MembersMinoru Tanaka
Koji Kanemoto
Name(s)Junior Stars
Billed heightsTanaka:
1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Kanemoto:
1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2]
Combined
billed weight		165 kg (364 lb)
DebutOctober 1999
Years active1999–2001, 2004, 2012–present

Junior Stars (ジュニアスターズ, Juniasutāzu) is a professional wrestling tag team consisting of Minoru Tanaka and Koji Kanemoto. Forming in 1999, the team became one of the most popular in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), winning the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship in June 2000. After Kanemoto joined Team 2000 and Minoru became the masked Heat character in 2002, the team went on hiatus until 2004, when they reunited albeit for one night only as Minoru turned on Kanemoto during the match. The team officially reunited in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in 2012, where they won the All Asia Tag Team Championship twice. The two left AJPW to join the newly formed Wrestle-1 in 2013, and continue to team together on the Japanese independent circuit.

  1. ^ "Last of C.T.U～C.T.U Farewell in Korakuen Hall～". New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-09-30.
  2. ^ 金本 浩二. New Japan Pro-Wrestling (in Japanese). Retrieved 2014-06-27.