Sho (wrestler)
| Sho | |
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| Birth name | Sho Tanaka |
| Born | August 27, 1989 Uwajima, Ehime, Japan |
| Alma mater | Tokuyama University |
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| Professional wrestling career | |
| Ring name(s) | Raijin Sho Sho Tanaka |
| Billed height | 173 cm (5 ft 8 in) |
| Billed weight | 93 kg (205 lb) |
| Trained by | NJPW Dojo Junji Hirata |
| Debut | November 15, 2012 |
Sho Tanaka (田中 翔, Tanaka Shō) (born August 27, 1989), known mononymously as Sho (stylised in all caps as SHO), is a Japanese professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a member of House of Torture, a former member of Bullet Club, and a double champion; being one-third of the NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champions alongside Ren Narita and Yujiro Takahashi in their first reign as a team and his third individually, and being one-half of the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions with Douki in their first reign as a team and his sixth individually.
He is a former member of Chaos and was a part of the junior heavyweight tag team Roppongi 3K, along with Yoh. The tag team were five-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champions and three-time winners of the Super Junior Tag League. Additionally, Sho is a three-time NEVER Openweight 6-Man Tag Team Champion.
He has previously worked for the American promotion Ring of Honor (ROH) and Mexican promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). In the latter promotion, he was known under the ring name Raijin (雷神, Raijin), named after the Japanese God of thunder, and was part of La Ola Amarilla ("the Yellow Wave") alongside Okumura, Kamaitachi and Fujin (the name Yoh worked under in Mexico).