Yoshiro Tajiri Height: 5'7" Weight: 224lbs Debut: 1995 Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan Hometown: Tulanlancingo, Hidalgo, Mexico Finishing Move: Hard/Stiff Kick to the Face

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Leagues: AAA, EMLL, Big Japan, Battlearts, ECW, New Japan, and the WWF

Names: Yoshiro Tajiri

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PWI Ratings: 280th 1997; 155th 1998; 51th 1999; 23th 2000; 27th 2001.

Important Facts
*Inventor of the Tarantula Hold
*Skilled at many types of wrestling
*Has a martial arts background. His kicks are deadly
*First ever Big Japan Junior Heavyweight Champion. He beat Gedo to win it.
*Formed a formidable tag team with Mikey Whipwreck

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Titles
*Big Japan Tag Team Tiltles 7/23/97 Ryuji Yamakawa
*Big Japan Junior Heavyweight 2/3/98
*ECW Television Title 4/8/00
*ECW Tag Titles 8/25/00 Mikey Whipwreck

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Memorable Matches
*Tajiri vs. Dr. Wagner Jr. (10/?/96)- Tajiri gets an inside cradle for the win
*Tajiri vs. Shinjiro Otani (5/20/97)- Tajiri wins with a Dragon Suplex
*Tajiri & Shinjiro Otani vs. El Samurai & Jushin Liger (6/7/97)- El Samurai nails an Inverted Brainbuster Suplex on Tajiri for the win
*Tajiri vs. Antifaz Del Norte (12/19/98)- Tajiri wins his ECW debut with a Dragon Suplex
*Tajiri vs. Super Crazy (1/10/99)- Tajiri wins with a Dragon Suplex
*Tajiri vs. Super Crazy (3/21/99)- Crazy rolls through a hurracanrana for the win
*Tajiri vs. Taz (8/2/99)- A no contest is declared when Taz chokes Tajiri with barbwire
*Tajiri vs. Super Crazy vs. Little Guido (9/19/99)- Crazy eliminates Guido with a Moonsault Splash. Tajiri nails a brainbuster suplex on Crazy for the win
*Tajiri vs. Super Crazy "Mexican Death Match" (1/21/00)- Crazy powerbombs Tajiri through a table
*Tajiri vs. Rhino (4/22/00)- Rhino wins after two piledrivers
*Tajiri vs. Psicosis (8/20/00)- Tajiri wins with a stiff low dropkick to the face
*Tajiri vs. Rhino (6/18/01)- Rhino gores Tajiri as jump off the top rope for the win