Pat Tanaka
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Tanaka at a MCW show in March 2012
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| Birth name | Patrick Tanaka |
| Born |
August 5, 1961 Honolulu, Hawaii, United States |
| Residence | Wingate, New Mexico, United States |
| Family | Duke Keomuka (father) |
| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | El Gato Goku-Do Pat Tanaka Tanaka-San |
| Billed height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Billed weight | 225 lb (102 kg; 16.1 st) |
| Billed from |
Honolulu, Hawaii Tokyo, Japan (as part of The Orient Express) Sapporo, Japan (as Tanaka-San) Mexico City, Mexico (as El Gato) |
| Trained by |
Duke Keomuka Hiro Matsuda NJPW Dojo |
| Debut | April 7, 1984 |
Patrick "Pat" Tanaka (born August 5, 1961) is an American professional wrestler best known for his work in the American Wrestling Association as one half of Badd Company and the World Wrestling Federation as one half of The Orient Express. He is the son of Duke Keomuka.
In his career, which has spanned almost three decades, Tanaka worked for the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) and New Japan Pro Wrestling.
Trained by his father, Duke Keomuka, Hiro Matsuda, and the New Japan Pro Wrestling Dojo, Pat Tanaka debuted in 1984 for NJPW. During his time there, he wrestled the likes of Keiichi Yamada, Shunji Kosugi, Black Cat, Naoki Sano, Tatsutoshi Goto, Shinichi Nakano, and Hirokazu Hata.
After a year in New Japan, Tanaka started wrestling as a jobber in Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985.
In 1986, Tanaka moved to Memphis, Tennessee where he worked for Jerry Lawler and Jerry Jarrett’s Continental Wrestling Association. Early on Tanaka teamed with Jeff Jarrett to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship. In late 1986 the tag-team specialist Tanaka was teamed up with Paul Diamond, who was also seen as a tag-team specialist, to form Badd Company, where they held the promotion's tag-team titles four times., a move that paid off pretty soon as the two won the CWA/AWA International Tag Team Championship, beating Tarzan Goto and Akio Sato on December 15, 1986. The first reign was short lived as The Sheepherders (Luke Williams and Butch Miller) defeated the duo on January 10, 1987. Badd Company quickly regained the titles only to lose them to Tarzan Goto and Akio Sato on February 5, 1987. The third reign with the tag-team titles came on May 9, 1987 when the team beat Mark Starr in a handicap match, but lost them back to Starr and his new tag team partner Billy Joe Travis. Badd Company had one last run with the International tag team titles as they won the vacant titles on May 25, 1987 and held them until July 6, 1987 where they lost the titles to Bill Dundee and Rocky Johnson (who were the last International tag team champions).
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