Takao Yoshida

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Age

Movies

198

Born: October 26, 1973
From: Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan
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Biography

Takao Yoshida, better known by his ring name TAKA Michinoku, is a Japanese professional wrestler, trainer, former mixed martial artist, and the founder of Just Tap Out (JTO). Trained by The Great Sasuke, he debuted in 1992 and became one of the most influential junior heavyweights of his generation, finding international fame during his time in the WWF (now WWE), where he became the inaugural WWF Light Heavyweight Champion. He has also enjoyed championship success across Japan, Mexico, Europe, and North America, including lengthy reigns as the FMW Independent World Junior Heavyweight Champion and WEW Six-Man Tag Team Champion, while simultaneously holding the World Junior Heavyweight Championship, Michinoku Pro Tohoku Junior Heavyweight Championship, and Kaientai Dojo Strongest-K Championship for nearly ten months. He founded Kaientai Dojo in 2002 before launching JTO in 2019, received the Tokyo Sports Technique Award in 2005, and was ranked No. 22 in the 1998 PWI 500. Since 2007, Michinoku has been a regular competitor for New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), winning the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship while also spending more than a decade as a member of Suzuki-gun before joining Just 5 Guys. Widely respected as both a wrestler and trainer, his influence extends far beyond his own accomplishments, helping shape generations of wrestlers through Kaientai Dojo and JTO while remaining an active competitor well into his 50s.

Works

198 films

WWE WrestleMania XIV

19987.7

WWE SummerSlam 1998

19989.0

WWE King of the Ring 1998

19987.9

NJPW Road to Sakura Genesis 2023 - Day 2

2023

FMW Kawasaki Stadium 7th Anniversary

1996

WWE Judgment Day: In Your House

19988.7

WWE Survivor Series 1999

19998.5

Battlarts Battle Fiction

1998

WWE WrestleMania 2000

20007.3

WWE Over the Edge: In Your House

19989.3

NJPW New Japan Cup 2025 - Day 4

2025

WWE: The Best Of In Your House

20139.0

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 6

2022

WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede

19978.0

NJPW New Japan Cup 2025 - Day 5

2025

NJPW New Japan Cup 2025 - Day 8

2025

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 1

2022

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 8

2022

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 15 (Final)

2022

NJPW New Japan Cup 2025 - Day 7

2025

ECW Hardcore Heaven 1999

19991.0

WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 2

20149.0

NJPW Best of the Super Junior 26 - Day 8

2019

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 12

2022

WWE D-Generation X: In Your House

19978.1

WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House

19987.3

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 7

2022

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 11

2022

WWE Royal Rumble 2001

20017.5

NJPW New Japan Cup 2025 - Day 3

2025

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 13

2022

NJPW New Japan Cup 2025 - Day 2

2025

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 14

2022

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 10

2022

NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 2

2022

NJPW New Japan Cup 2022 - Day 9

2022

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2018 - Night 1

2018

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2014

2014

NJPW Road To Tokyo Dome - Day 6

2014

NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 19 (Final)

2017

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 2

2022

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12

20188.8

NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2024

2024

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 8

201410.0

NJPW Power Struggle 2014

2014

NJPW G1 Climax 24: Day 12 (Final)

2014

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2024 - Night 2

2024

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2018

20187.0

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2017

20177.0

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2015

2015

NJPW Power Struggle 2013

2013

NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka 2017

2017

NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2013

2013

ECW - Unreleased Vol. 2

20139.0

NJPW Sakura Genesis 2017

201710.0

HUSTLE-3

2004

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 17

2018

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2017

2017

NJPW 40th Anniversary Show

2012

NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 1

2022

ECW Barely Legal 1997

19978.0

AJPW Realize

2005

NJPW Destruction 2013

20137.0

NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 17

20237.3

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2018 - Day 1

2018

NJPW Power Struggle 2017

2017

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 2

2022

NJPW Destruction in Hiroshima 2018

2018

ECW CyberSlam 1999

19997.0

NJPW New Year Dash!! 2024

2024

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 15

2022

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2023

2023

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 6

2012

NJPW The New Beginning in Nagoya

2024

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2025 - Night 2

2025

NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2024

2024

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2019 - Day 1

2019

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2017

2017

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2018 - Day 2

2018

NJPW The New Beginning 2012

2012

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 7

2013

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 18

2024

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 4

2022

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2019 - Day 2

2019

NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 18

2023

NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 9

2022

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 6

2024

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 1

2007

NJPW Invasion Attack 2014

2014

NJPW New Year Dash!! 2025

2025

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2022

20228.0

NJPW World Tag League 2014 - Day 11

2014

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 3

2018

ROH & NJPW: G1 Supercard

2019

NJPW 45th Anniversary Show

2017

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 13

2018

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 10

2022

NJPW G1 Climax 27: Day 18

2017

NJPW New Japan Cup 2017 - Day 2

2017

NJPW The New Beginning In Osaka 2018

2018

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 3

2024

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 9

2022

Mystery Wrestling #23

20266.0

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2025 - Night 1

2025

NJPW & AJPW 40th Anniversary: We Are Pro-Wrestling Love

2012

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 9

2024

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2018

2018

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 19 (Final)

2024

NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 14

2022

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 13

2024

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 14

2022

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 9

2018

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2018 - Night 2

2018

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2019 - Day 1

2019

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 1

2018

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 5

2018

NJPW Dominion 6.4 in Osaka-jo Hall

2023

NJPW New Japan Cup 2017 - Day 1

2017

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 11

2024

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 16

2022

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 4

2024

NJPW Dominion 6.16

2012

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 7

2022

NJPW Yuji Nagata Produce Blue Justice XVI

202510.0

NJPW New Japan Cup 2025 - Day 9 (Final)

2025

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 17

2022

NJPW Sakura Genesis 2023

2023

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 15

2018

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2019 - Day 2

2019

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 5

2024

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 11

2022

NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 19 (Final)

2023

NJPW New Japan Cup 2024 - Day 2

2024

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 3

2022

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2024 - Night 1

2024

NJPW 47th Anniversary Show

2019

GCW Joey Janela's Spring Break 3: Part 1

2019

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 1

2022

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 17

2024

AJPW Road To Re-BirthxRe-Verse 2003 - Day 11: 31st Anniversary

2003

All Together Again

2023

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 5

2024

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2024 - Day 1

2024

NJPW Super J-Cup 1994

199410.0

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 11

2018

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 7

2018

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2023 - Day 1

2023

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 8

2022

The Best of Eddy Guerrero

1999

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 6

2022

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 7

2024

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2023 - Day 2

2023

NJPW New Japan Cup 2018 - Day 4

2018

Michinoku Pro 4th Anniversary

1997

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 13

2022

ECW International Invasion: The Best of Super Crazy, Tajiri, Taka & Tanaka

1999

NJPW 53rd Anniversary Event

2025

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2024

2024

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 7

2024

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 3

2024

NJPW New Japan Cup 2018 - Day 2

2018

NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 3

2019

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 6

2024

Michinoku Pro 3rd Anniversary: These Days

199610.0

NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 2

2019

ECW Fan Cam: February 14, 1997

1997

NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 4

2019

NJPW Royal Quest IV

2024

NJPW Destruction in Hiroshima 2017

2017

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 4

2024

NJPW New Japan Road in Ishikari 2025

2025

JTO TAKA Michinoku Debut 30th Anniversary: TAKATaichiDespeMania

2022

NJPW Blue Justice XV - Wrestling Life 40th Anniversary Yuji Nagata

20256.0

NJPW Skydiving J

1996

NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 6

2022

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 12

20245.5

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2024 - Day 2

2024

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 5

2022

NJPW Destruction In Kobe 2023

2023

JTO 50th Anniversary for TAKATaichi Together ~ Last TAKATaichi

2022

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 8

2024

NJPW New Japan Cup 2019 - Day 1

2019

NJPW Shingo Takagi's 20th Debut Anniversary Event

2024

The Great Sasuke

20160.5

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 5

2024

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 2

2024

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 10

2024

NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 3

2023

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 2

2024

NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 1

2023

NJPW & NOAH: Wrestle Kingdom 16 - Night 3

2022

NJPW Wrestling Toyonokuni 2017

2017

NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 10

2022

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 16

2024

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 1

2024

NJPW Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Ridiculous One More Time

2025

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 4

2024

NJPW Superhuman Taiji Ishimori Gets Even More Ridiculous

2025