TAJIRI
While competing in ECW and then in WWF, Michinoku also had a spell in CMLL in 1997, competing as a "tecnico". In that period, two other Japanese wrestlers wrestled in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, namely Ultimo Dragon and Yoshihiro Tajiri. Michinoku fought between the others The Headhunters and Val Venis, at the time using the mask of "Steele". In the summer of 1997, both Taka Michinoku and Yoshihiro Tajiri moved to World Wrestling Federation.