Takao Yoshida

Takao Yoshida(52 years old )

Takao Yoshida better known by his ring name TAKA Michinoku is a Japanese professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist. Michinoku is known in North America for his work for WWE where he had th

Known for

NJPW New Year Dash!! 2025

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

NJPW 53rd Anniversary Event

NJPW New Japan Cup 2025 - Final

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2025 - Night 1

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2025 - Night 2

NJPW The New Beginning in Osaka 2024

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2024 - Night 1

NJPW New Year Dash!! 2024

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2024 - Night 1

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2024 - Night 2

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2024 - Night 2

NJPW The New Beginning in Nagoya

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 1

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 2

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 5

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 4

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 6

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 7

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 12

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 9

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 11

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 8

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 10

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 13

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 5

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 3

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 4

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 6

NJPW New Japan Soul 2024: Day 7

NJPW New Japan Cup 2024 • Day 2

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 17

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 18

NJPW Shingo Takagi's 20th Debut Anniversary Event

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 16

NJPW G1 Climax 34: Day 19 (Final)

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 2

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 3

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 4

NJPW Road to Destruction 2024: Day 5

NJPW Destruction In Kobe 2024

NJPW: Royal Quest IV

NJPW Power Struggle ~ Super Junior Tag League 2024

NJPW Sakura Genesis 2023

NJPW Dominion 6.4 in Osaka-jo Hall

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2023 - Night 1

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2023 - Night 2

NJPW/AJPW/NOAH All Together: Again

NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 1

NJPW New Japan Cup 2023: Day 3

NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 19 (Final)

NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 18

NJPW G1 Climax 33: Day 17

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2023

NJPW Destruction In Kobe 2023

NJPW & NOAH: Wrestle Kingdom 16 - Night 3

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 16: Night 2

NJPW New Year’s Golden Series Night 1

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 1

NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Night 6

NJPW New Years Golden Series 2022 - Day 10

New year’s Golden Series night 14

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 2

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 3

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 4

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 5

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku

JTO 50th Anniversary for TAKATaichi Together ~ Last TAKATaichi

JTO TAKA Michinoku Debut 30th Anniversary: TAKATaichiDespeMania

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 6

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 7

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 10

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 11

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 8

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 9

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 13

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 14

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 15

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 16

NJPW G1 Climax 32: Day 17

GCW Joey Janela's Spring Break 3: Part 1

ROH & NJPW: G1 Supercard

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2019 - Night 1

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2018

NJPW Destruction in Hiroshima 2018

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 11

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 13

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12

NJPW The New Beginning In Sapporo 2018 - Night 1

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 7

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 5

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 9

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 15

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2018

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2018 - Night 1

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 1

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 3

NJPW G1 Climax 28: Day 17

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2017

NJPW New Japan Cup 2017: Night 2

NJPW Power Struggle 2017

NJPW Destruction in Hiroshima 2017

NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2017

NJPW 45th Anniversary Show

NJPW Sakura Genesis 2017

The Great Sasuke

NJPW New Year Dash !! 2015

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 8

NJPW Power Struggle 2014

NJPW Road To Tokyo Dome - Day 6

NJPW Destruction in Kobe 2014

NJPW World Tag League 2014 - Day 11

NJPW World Tag League 2014 - Day 11

NJPW G1 Climax 24: Day 12 (Final)

WWE: Attitude Era: Vol. 2

NJPW Destruction 2013

NJPW King of Pro-Wrestling 2013

NJPW Power Struggle 2013

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 7

WWE: The Best Of In Your House

ECW - Unreleased Vol. 2

NJPW Dominion 6.16

NJPW 40th Anniversary Show

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 6

NJPW The New Beginning 2012

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

NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 1

AJPW Realize

HUSTLE-3

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

WWE Royal Rumble 2001

WWE WrestleMania 2000

The Best of Eddy Guerrero

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

WWE Survivor Series 1999

ECW CyberSlam 1999

ECW Hardcore Heaven 1999

ECW on TNN

ECW on TNN

1999 | 59 episodes

WWE SmackDown

WWE SmackDown

1999 | 2 episodes

WWE Judgment Day: In Your House

WWE Over the Edge: In Your House

WWE SummerSlam 1998

WWE No Way Out of Texas: In Your House

Battlarts Battle Fiction

WWE WrestleMania XIV

WWE King of the Ring 1998

WWE Heat

WWE Heat

1998 | 1 episodes

ECW Barely Legal 1997

WWE In Your House 16: Canadian Stampede

WWE D-Generation X: In Your House

ECW Fan Cam: February 14, 1997

Michinoku Pro 4th Anniversary

NJPW Skydiving J

Michinoku Pro 3rd Anniversary: These Days

NJPW Super J-Cup 1994

ECW Hardcore TV

ECW Hardcore TV

1993 | 363 episodes

Raw

Raw

1993 | 29 episodes

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling

1972 | 872 episodes

New Japan Pro Wrestling

New Japan Pro Wrestling

1972 | 1 episodes

Known for

Acting

Also known as

Pepe Michinoku, Taka, Taka Michinoku, Takako Michinoku