Pat Tanaka

Patrick Tanaka is an American professional wrestler best known for his work in the American Wrestling Association as one half of Badd Company and the World Wrestling Federation as one half of The Orient Express He is the son of Duke Keomuka In his career which has spanned almost three decades Tanaka has appeared in the American Wrestling Association AWA World Wrestling Federation WWF World Championship Wrestling WCW Extreme Championship Wrestling ECWContinental Wrestling Association CWA and New Japan Pro Wrestling Trained by his father Duke Keomuka Hiro Matsuda and the New Japan Pro Wrestling Dojo Pat Tanaka debuted in 1984 for NJPW During his time there he wrestled the likes of Keiichi Yamada Shunji Kosugi Black Cat Naoki Sano Tatsutoshi Goto Shinichi Nakano and Hirokazu Hata After a year in New Japan Tanaka started wrestling as a jobber in Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985 In 1986 Tanaka moved to Memphis Tennessee where he worked for Jerry Lawler and Jerry Jarretts Continental Wrestling Association Early on Tanaka teamed with Jeff Jarrett to win the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship3 In late 1986 the tagteam specialist Tanaka was teamed up with Paul Diamond who was also seen as a tagteam specialist to form Badd Company4 a move that paid off pretty soon as the two won the CWAAWA International Tag Team Championship beating Tarzan Goto and Akio Sato on December 15 1986 The first reign was short lived as The Sheepherders Luke Williams Butch Miller defeated the duo on January 10 1987 Badd Company quickly regained the titles only to lose them to Tarzan Goto and Akio Sato on February 5 1987 The third reign with the tagteam titles came on May 9 1987 when the team beat Mark Starr in a handicap match but lost them back to Starr and his new tag team partner Billy Joe Travis Badd Company had one last run with the International tag team titles as they won the vacant titles on May 25 1987 and held them until July 6 1987 where they lost the titles to Bill Dundee and Rocky Johnson who were the last International tag team champions While in Memphis Badd Company also won the CWAs main tag team title the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship defeating Jeff Jarrett and Billy Joe Travis on August 8 1987