The Orient Express
| The Orient Express | |
|---|---|
| Tag team | |
| Members |
Akio Sato Pat Tanaka Kato |
| Name(s) | The Orient Express Badd Company |
| Heights | Sato 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Tanaka: 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) Diamond: 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
| Combined weight |
Sato and Tanaka: 445 lb (202 kg) Sato: 220 lb (100 kg) Tanaka: 225 lb (102 kg) Tanaka and Kato: 450 lb (200 kg) Tanaka: 220 lb (100 kg) Diamond: 230 lb (100 kg) |
| Debut | 1990 |
| Disbanded | 1994 |
| Years active | 1990-1994 |
| Promotions | WWF WCW |
The Orient Express was a professional wrestling tag team in the World Wrestling Federation in the early 1990s composed of Pat Tanaka and Akio Sato, who was later replaced by Kato.
In early 1990, manager Mr. Fuji split up the team known as The Powers of Pain (The Warlord and The Barbarian) as he sold their individual contracts to Slick who got the former and Bobby Heenan who received the latter, respectively. Fuji then brought in The Orient Express (Sato & Tanaka) as his latest threat to the WWF tag team division. While the Orient Express was supposed to represent Japan, Pat Tanaka was born in Hawaii.
The Orient Express kicked off a prolonged feud with The Rockers (Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty) that started at WrestleMania VI, where Sato and Tanaka were victorious via countout after Sato threw salt in Jannetty's eyes while they were outside of the ring, and continued off and on for well over a year. The Orient Express got involved in the Legion of Doom (Animal and Hawk) / Demolition (Ax, Smash and later Crush) feud as Mr. Fuji managed Demolition as well. Demolition was being phased out and the Orient Express began taking on the Legion of Doom instead. The Legion of Doom / Orient Express feud was extremely onesided due to the Legion of Doom’s massive size advantage.
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