Minoru Fujita

Minoru Fujita
Ring name(s)	Minoru Fujita HERO!
Billed height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Billed weight	80 kg (180 lb)
Born	September 5, 1977 (1977-09-05) (age 34) Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan
Trained by	Kazuo Sakurada Yoshihiro Tajiri
Debut	April 11, 1997

Minoru Fujita (藤田 ミノル, Fujita Minoru^?) is a Japanese professional wrestler contracted to Pro Wrestling Zero1, where he is a former AWA World Junior Heavyweight Champion, having won a tournament final against Takuya Sugawara.

Career

Fujita started in Big Japan Pro Wrestling as a protegé of its top junior heavyweight, Yoshihiro Tajiri. When Tajiri, who was Big Japan junior heavyweight champion, quit the company and gave up the title, Fujita had a decision match against Katsumi Usuda from the Battlarts promotion but ended up losing.

Fujita spent his time leaving Big Japan to venture into other Japanese independents, meeting Ikuto Hidaka of Battlarts along the way and making memorable tag team matches with him. The combination, however, despite their combined talent, could not have a future due to their separate schedules; Fujita tried a move to Michinoku Pro Wrestling in 2000, but despite the higher exposure, it did little for him financially and did not raise his stock as a viable junior heavyweight contender.

He thus headed for Mexico and Puerto Rico, where he won his first major title, the International Wrestling Association junior heavyweight title. Returning to Japan in 2002, he entered New Japan Pro Wrestling (to which he had been once before, in a Best of the Super Junior tournament), to challenge the heavyweight division, but nothing came out of it. He then headed to Taka Michinoku's Kaientai Dojo promotion, but despite being promoted as a tough-to beat heel, he was never able to win titles there.

A change of pace came in 2004 when he joined Pro Wrestling Zero-One, where old friend Hidaka awaited. The two began teaming more frequently and this time they clicked, collecting several tag team titles along the way. Their greatest victory came in March 2006, when they defeated Pro Wrestling Noah stars Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Takashi Sugiura to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship. Since then Fujita has been a rising star in Japan and has finally shed the "underachiever" tag he was saddled with by foreign observers of puroresu.

In wrestling

• Finishing moves

• Boneyard (Modified bow and arrow stretch)
• Fujita Driver (Sitout scoop slam piledriver)
• Fujita Driver II (Scoop brainbuster)
• Sasuke Segway (Hammerlock lifting DDT)

• Signature moves

• Dropkick
• Enzuigiri
• Facewash
• Multiple suplex variations

• Dragon
• German
• Northern lights

• Running elbow smash to a cornered opponent
• Suicide dive

Championships and accomplishments

• Dramatic Dream Team

• DDT KO-D Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with HARASHIMA
• UWA World Trios Championship (2 times) – with MAZADA and NOSAWA Rongai

• International Wrestling Association

• IWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• Pro Wrestling Noah

• GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ikuto Hidaka

• Pro Wrestling Zero1

• AWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
• NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ikuto Hidaka
• NWA International Lightweight Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ikuto Hidaka
• WDB Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) – with Saki Maemura

External links

• ZERO1 USA English language website
• ZERO1 Japanese language website

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Name	Fujita, Minoru
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Date of birth	September 5, 1977
Place of birth	Onoda, Yamaguchi, Japan
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