Yoshihiro Tajiri

Yoshihiro Tajiri
Tajiri in 2018
Born (1970-09-29) September 29, 1970 (age 54)[1][2]
Tamana, Kumamoto, Japan[2][3]
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)
  • Aquarius[1]
  • Kikkoman[3]
  • Tajiri[1]
  • Tajiri Claus
  • Tigre Blanco[4]
  • Yoshihiro Tajiri[5]
Billed height175 cm (5 ft 9 in)[5]
Billed weight86 kg (190 lb)[5]
Billed fromYokohama, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Trained by
DebutSeptember 19, 1994[1]

Yoshihiro Tajiri (田尻 義博, Tajiri Yoshihiro, born September 29, 1970) is a Japanese professional wrestler and promoter primarily known under the ring name Tajiri (sometimes stylized as "TAJIRI"), he has also competed under his real name as well as under the names Aquarius and Kikkoman and briefly worked as the masked character Tigre Blanco.

He rose to international attention through his work for Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) from 1998 to 2001 and World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment from 2001 to 2008 and a return in 2016–2017. Early in his career, he worked for several Mexican promotions such as Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). After leaving WWE in 2005 he has worked for a number of Japanese promotions including New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Hustle, Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah) and Wrestle-1 (W-1). He was also the promoter and featured wrestler for the Smash promotion as well as its successor Wrestling New Classic (WNC). He is currently under a full-time contract with Kyushu Pro-Wrestling.[7]

Over the years Tajiri has trained various wrestlers including Kushida, Minoru Fujita, Ray and Syuri. In ECW he won the ECW World Television Championship and formed a regular tag team with Mikey Whipwreck that won the ECW World Tag Team Championship on one occasion. In CZW, he was a one time CZW World Heavyweight Champion. During his years with WWE, he won the WWF Light Heavyweight Championship once, WCW United States Championship once, their Cruiserweight Championship on multiple occasions, the WWE Tag Team Championship with Eddie Guerrero and the World Tag Team Championship with William Regal. In AJPW, he has won their Gaora TV Championship, World Junior Heavyweight Championship two times and the 2018 Jr. Tag Battle of Glory tournament with Koji Iwamoto. In MLW, he was MLW Middleweight Champion.

  1. ^ a b c d e "Online World of Wrestling profile". Online World of Wrestling. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Smash profile". Smash (in Japanese). Archived from the original on July 22, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Cagematch.net profile". Cagematch. Retrieved January 24, 2010.
  4. ^ "Tajiri". Wrestling Data. Retrieved January 21, 2019. Alias Aquarius, Ashuraman, Kikkoman, Tajiri, TAJIRI, Tigre Blanco, Yoshihiro Tajiri
  5. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference wwebio was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ a b c "Wrestlingdata.com profile". Wrestlingdata. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference KyushuPro was invoked but never defined (see the help page).