AIW Issues Statement On Pat Tanaka Missing Advertised Appearance
Absolute Intense Wrestling booked and advertised Pat Tanaka for the Syxxth Sense on Saturday, September 12.
Tanaka did not end up showing.
He was also scheduled for a seminar on Friday, which he no showed as well.
On social media, AIW issued the following statement:
To be fully transparent we made an agreement with Pat Tanaka and gave him the necessary funds to get here after his travel arrangements fell through Wednesday night, he did not arrive for his scheduled seminar Friday night and had not been in any communication with us since Thursday evening after attempting to call him around 15 times until about 3:30PM yesterday. At that time Pat called and claimed to have been in a car wreck and had been in a ditch and said he should’ve called sooner but was trying to figure out how to get here and was booking a flight with his miles that left at 7PM and landed at 7PM somehow (time zones?) and asked for us to move his match to a little later on the card. It is Sunday morning and Pat Tanaka has still not arrived and we have not heard from him since. We wanted the Pat Tanaka experience and it seems we got it. We love to gamble on these wild card old timers so I’m sure we will be in this situation again with one of these guys down the road. As for Pat’s flight and when it is landing that is to be continued but he’s allegedly been up in the air for quite some time at this point……….he is a very nice guy on the telephone though when he does answer and we wish him the best.
To be fully transparent we made an agreement with Pat Tanaka and gave him the necessary funds to get here after his travel arrangements fell through Wednesday night, he did not arrive for his scheduled seminar Friday night and had not been in any communication with us since…
— Absolute Intense Wrestling (@aiwrestling) September 13, 2026
Tanaka has not commented on the situation.
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