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History of FMW Volume 19 is up on YouTube with clips and videos of what we are talking about. We go over the first half of 1998. This is a massive 2 hour episode because of so much happening as FMW changes the direction of the company and begin the Entertainment Pro-Wrestling route with angles and storylines as they begin airing exclusively on DirecTV. Team No Respect is formed and Onita's ZEN group dies and Onita is humiliated through out by them as Hayabusa finally regains the reign of being the top guy in FMW and Onita is not happy about it. Both Masato Tanaka and Atsushi Onita show up in ECW and we go over many different great matches. The audio versions are also on iTunes, Sticher, and other podcast sites.

History of FMW Volume 18 is up on YouTube with clips and videos of what we are talking about. We go over the second half of 1997 with FMW returning to Kawasaki Stadium with Onita putting up his career on the line again against Kanemura's W*ING faction. Onita goes heel in FMW and forms ZEN and all the issues that went along with that in story line and backstage. Hayabusa works the All Japan Real World Tag Team Tournament and the end of the year concludes with ECW wrestlers on the last set of shows as well as a War Games Cage Match between FMW and ZEN with Hayabusa diving off the cage on Onita again. These take forever to make, but I am hearing only positive about them. These are also still on iTunes, stitcher, and other podcast sites for the audio only.

History of FMW Volume 17 is up on YouTube with clips and videos of what we are talking about. We go over the first half of 1997 with Mr. Gannosuke returning to FMW feuding with Hayabusa. Hayabusa meets Giant Baba to start working for All Japan. Atsushi Onita ends his feud with Terry Funk and the Funk Masters of Wrestling and Masato Tanaka and W*ING Kanemura begin a war to see who will face Onita at Kawasaki Stadium. We go over the April 29, 1997 Yokohama Arena show and Megumi Kudo's road to retirement before she takes a hell of a beating in Exploding Barbed wire Double Hell Death Match in her retirement match.

History of FMW Volume 16 is up on YouTube as well as other Podcast sites like iTunes. We go over the second half of 1996 with Hayabusa coming back from injuries but not too much later Onita has decided he is breaking his retirement already and is coming back. He's also going to make Mr. Pogo retire for his come back and FMW has to deal with all the issues that Onita coming back causes. We also go over the hot Korakuen Hall shows as well as an Exploding Barbed wire Match between W*ING and FMW as well as much more. I am re-uploading the series to my YouTube and I have decided to create a long term project of adding clips/pictures of what we are talking about. I have done this for the History of FMW Volume 2 which you can check it out by clicking the link.

History of FMW Volume 15 can be accessed clicking the link to YouTube as well as iTunes among other podcast sites. We go over the first half of 1996 dealing with Hayabusa and all his injuries, Mr. Pogo's dealing as a freelancer, Onita planting the seeds on coming back out of retirement already, and I go on and on and on about my favorite FMW show of all the time the May 5, 1996 Kawasaki Stadium show.

History of FMW Volume 14 is up covering the second half of 1995 where we go over Hayabusa becoming the ace and his body beginning to break down already. Also, Megumi Kudo becoming the hardcore queen, IWA running Kawasaki for the King of the Death Match, and how Shoichi Arai was able to get the new FMW started. This is also on iTunes and stitcher.

History of FMW Volume 13 is up as well as a bunch of other podcast sites like iTunes and Stitches. We cover the first half of 1995 leading up to the biggest FMW show ever with Onita's retirement at Kawasaki Stadium against Hayabusa. We go over Tarzan Goto leaving FMW right before the show and the reasons that could have lead him leaving and changing up everything. We also talk about FMW holding a W*ING show, Cactus Jack showing up for IWA Japan, a new W*ING promotion, and why Hayabusa left Mexico for Florida and WWF having interest in him

History of FMW Volume 12 is up at where we go over the second half of 1994. Hayabusa switching over to EMLL and how he learned many of his signature moves, why FMW went to Russia, Kanemura joining FMW and what he had to do to avoid the Yakuza for joining, the Exploding Pool Death Match, and a lot more. It is also up on iTunes, Stitcher, and I am sure others.

Yeah, someone commented on YouTube that day about it and I know they difference in them. It's just one of those things where I am trying to remember 500 different things at once as this was a difficult episode for me since everything was so far back and I just mixed up the names and can't go back and edit it. This was before I started taking notes before the show so I wouldn't make mistakes like that again.

I just wanted to let everyone know that for the last 6 months or so I have been doing a podcast on the History of FMW. Every episode we go over about 6 months or 12 months worth of stuff that was going on with FMW as well as its rival promotions/the off shoot promotions that followed it. I have posted YouTube links to all the episodes. History of FMW Volume 1: Before they were FMW History of FMW Volume 2: 1989 History of FMW Volume 3 - First half of 1990 History of FMW Volume 4 - Second half of 1990 History of FMW Volume 5 - First half of 1991 History of FMW Volume 6 - Second half of 1991 History of FMW Volume 7 - First half of 1992 History of FMW Volume 8 - Second half of 1992 History of FMW Volume 9 - First half of 1993 History of FMW Volume 10 - Second half of 1993 History of FMW Volume 11 - First half of 1994 History of FMW Volume 12 - Second half of 1994 History of FMW Volume 13 - First half of 1995 History of FMW Volume 14 - Second half of 1995 History of FMW Volume 15 - First half of 1996 History of FMW Volume 16 - Second half of 1996 History of FMW Volume 17 - First half of 1997 History of FMW Volume 18 - Second half of 1997 History of FMW Volume 19 - First half of 1998 History of FMW Volume 20 - Second half of 1998 History of FMW Volume 21 - First half of 1999 History of FMW Volume 22 - Second half of 1999 History of FMW Volume 23 - First half of 2000 History of FMW Volume 24 - Second half of 2000 History of FMW Volume 25 - First half of 2001 History of FMW Volume 26 - Second half of 2001 History of FMW Volume 27 - First half of 2002 History of FMW Volume 28 - Second half of 2002 History of FMW Volume 29 - First half of 2003 History of FMW Volume 30 - Second half of 2003 History of FMW Volume 31 - 2004 History of FMW Volume 32 - 2005 History of FMW Volume 33 - 2006 History of FMW Volume 34 - 2007 History of FMW Volume 35 - First half of 2008 History of FMW Volume 36 - Second half of 2008 History of FMW Volume 37 - 2009 History of FMW Volume 38 - 2010 History of FMW Volume 39 - 2011 History of FMW Volume 40 - 2012 History of FMW Volume 41 - 2013 History of FMW Volume 42 - 2014 History of FMW Volume 43 - 2015 History of FMW Volume 44 - First half of 2016 History of FMW Volume 45 - Second half of 2016 History of FMW Volume 46 - First half of 2017 History of FMW Volume 47 - Second half of 2017 History of FMW Volume 48 - 2018 History of FMW Volume 49 - 2019 History of FMW Volume 50 - 2020 History of FMW Special: Kintaro Kanemura Interview FMW Stories Episode 1: - The Creation of FMW FMW Stories Episode 2: - Tarzan Goto FMW Stories Episode 3: - Megumi Kudo FMW Stories Episode 4: - Early Days of FMW FMW Stories Episode 5: - W*ING FMW Stories Episode 6: - Matsunaga

I don't think Hayabusa nor Fuyuki will be reading your comment towards them for multiple reasons.

Updated my biography of Hayabusa with a life story added and very graphic details of his death. http://fmwwrestling.us/Hayabusa.html

It's in Part 2 of the Biography that was linked here. But FMW was actually two seperate companies. Atsushi Onita's FMW, Inc. which he has left dormant for 20 years next month because it actually owed money to people could actually still be used if Onita wanted it to. Onita chose not to start in the red and pay back the people he owed money to when he left FMW after his first retirement and just started up "Onita FMW" instead in 2002 and it only lasted 3 months before the nostalgia stopped making money and he stopped promoting under that name. The nostalgia stopped making money in 2002. Shoichi Arai then borrowed $100,000 dollars from Onita to create the new company Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling, Inc. and then bought the belts, buses, and photo scanners from Onita for another $50,000 so Arai's FMW company actually saw none of the profit that Onita's FMW made from the successful May 5, 1995 Kawasaki Stadum show. This FMW that Arai owed is still in bankruptcy court and will most likely forever be due to the millions that Arai owed. So that is why every promotion has not been able to just simply use the name "FMW" as Tarzan Goto had to use Shin-FMW and then Super FMW and now Yukihide "Battle Ranger" Ueno has to use the name Super Battle FMW. This promotion is the first promotion to claim it is the re-opening of FMW but legally it's just as much FMW as Super FMW is (it still runs in front of like 20 people outside where there's just an open field with no ring now THAT'S a sleazy promotion) They have been able to book Onita and pay money for Hayabusa to represent it to make it look as FMW as possible. There is a negative stigma with the Japanese FMW fans that were there for throughout the 90's as they see it as Battle Ranger trying to recreate his glory days of 20 years when he left FMW right at the start of the Arai era because Hayabusa got the top spot and not him/make money because ZERO1's Atsushi Onita led exploding matches have proven to make them money. They are going to do house shows but they are so far too small to run Korakuen and Shinjuku FACE will be its home base for now. They actually had a poster for one of their shows that promoted Mr. Gannosuke, Kintaro Kanemura, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda on the show with none of them actually booked and Gannosuke telling me he had no idea why he was being promoted for the show. So that is not a good first impression for me that this company is going to know what they are doing.

Oya runs Hokuto Pro which is a independent promotion that runs mostly out of the Hokkaido region.

No. It was a full show. FMW 9/25/94 Tokyo Jingu Pool Stadium 3200 Fans (Sold Out) Battle Ranger Z & Koji Nakagawa & Masato Tanaka d. Mach Hayato & Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Gosaku Goshogawara when Nakagawa pinned Hayato (12:45) Sambo Asako d. Ricky Fuji (9:33) Damian d. Cockroach # 1 (12:32) Shark Tsuchiya & Crusher Maedomari & Keiko Iwami d. Megumi Kudo & Combat Toyoda & Miwa Sato when Tsuchiya pinned Sato (19:21) Tarzan Goto & Hisakatsu Oya vs. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Yukihiro Kanemura went to a No Contest (6:58) Atsushi Onita & Mr. Gannosuke & Katsutoshi Niiyama d. Mr. Pogo & The Gladiator & Hideki Hosaka in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Dynamite Pool Elimination Death Match. The Gladiator eliminated Katsutoshi Niiyama (6:01) Mr. Gannosuke eliminated The Gladiator (8:20) Mr. Pogo & Mr. Gannosuke eliminated each other (12:59) Atsushi Onita eliminated Hideki Hosaka (13:08) The last two matches made the Triple Onita commercial tape. The women's match made highlights of a Megumi Kudo commercial tape where all six of them end up in the pool. I would not say this match was FMW. Not even Onita FMW as there a lot to Onita during his era of FMW. I would say this was more Onita/Pogo FMW.

Onita/Funk in 93 finished before the ring exploded The explosions still go off even if the three count takes place. Now the previous two times (5/5/95 and 5/5/96) had explosions during the match so I am sure that it was expected but it wasn't unheard of to have the explosion go off after the match.

This is because Toshiba EMI would get the wrestlers to announce the match afterwards. So one of the announcers for this match was Kudo, so they don't pretend that it's being done live and instead it's more of a "talk about the match" instead of "call the match".