FMW FRONTIER MARTIAL-ARTS WRESTLING 1997-1999 DVD VHS
FMW ENTERTAINMENT WRESTLING Tapes Videos


FMW Cluster Battle '97 on FIGHTING TV SAMURAI! taped 2/18 & 2/19/97 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
& FMW Winning Road '97 on FIGHTING TV SAMURAI! 4/14/97
taped 3/14/97 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center, 3/15 Chitose, & 3/21 Sendai
-4hr. Q=VG

Hayabusa & Fuji vs. Oya & Gannosuke, Tanaka vs. Gladiator, Hayabusa & Fuji vs. Gannosuke & Niiyama, Hayabusa & Nakagawa vs. Gannosuke & Niiyama, Fuyuki & Jado & Gedo vs. Oya & Head Hunters-Fuyuki-gun wins 6-man titles, more!


FMW Women on FIGHTING TV SAMURAI!

taped 3/14/97 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center & 3/15/97 Chitose & 3/21 Sendai
& FIGHTING TV SAMURAI! Women's News 4/18-4/21/97
-3hr. Q=1st Gen

Kudo vs. Kandori-no rope barbed wire, Kudo vs. Mongol, Kudo vs. Shark-Shark wins WWA & Independent women's titles, highlights of Kudo vs. Oz death match.

*Regular price + $2.50 for extended length tape so the whole show can be recorded on SP*

Megumi Kudo Final Memorial Anthology Commercial Tape
-2hr 5min. Q=Original

Career retrospective video charting Kudo's career from her AJW days to the present. 30 matches shown in highlight form along with Kudo vs. Kandori barbed wire match from 3/14/97 in unedited form. Jaguar, Combat, Reibun, & Onita hang out with Kudo and look back on her career.

*Special price $18 or $23.50 COOP*

FMW Megumi Kudo Retirement Block on Samurai! TV
-2hr. Q=VG/Ex

This tape charts the events leading up to Kudo s retirement, highlights of 4/29 Yokohama undercard, Kudo vs. Kandori no rope barbed wire death match 3/14/97, Kudo vs. Shark-3/21/97-Shark wins WWA & Independent women's titles, Kudo & Bison vs. Shark & Asuka bunkhouse death match-3/28/97, Kudo vs. Ozaki no rope barbed wire barricade double hell death match ****1/4 -4/18/97, Kudo vs. Shark No Rope 200 Volt Double Hell Double Barbed Wire Barricade Double Landmine Glass Crush Electrical Barbed Wire Death Match for Shark's WWA & Independent women's titles-Kudo s retirement match-Kudo wins WWA & Independent women s titles


FMW Megumi Kudo Intai Commercial Tape 4/29/97 Yokohama Arena

-2hr 35 min. Q=Near Perfect 1st Gen

Hayabusa vs. Gannosuke-mask vs. hair, Atsushi Onita & Masato Tanaka & W*ING Kanemura vs. Terry Funk & Gladiator & Cactus Jack-Texas Western Tornado Street Fight Death Match, Megumi Kudo vs. Shark-No Rope 200 Volt Double Hell Double Barbed Wire Barricade Double Landmine Glass Crush Electrical Barbed Wire Death Match-Kudo wins WWA & Independent women's titles


FMW Women Story Of The F 2nd Stage 4/21/96-7/27/97 Commercial Tape

-2 1/2hr. Q=Ex

This tape is a string of highlights of the best and/or most important FMW women's matches and angles in the given time period. The Kudo vs. Ozaki No Rope Barbed Wire Barricade Double Hell Death Match is an excellent ****1/4 death match. It doesn't have the drama of Combat's retirement match, and you can't really tell much about the build, but it's the best women's death match for workrate and crazy bumps, if not the best women's death match ever. The rest of the tape pretty much shows how bad the FMW women's division really is as the only quality stuff comes when Kudo has an interpromotional match, and some of them aren't even good.

Battle Encore! Puroresu 2/9/01 Battle Station FMW King Of Fight '97 taped 6/13/97 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
-1hr 25min. Q=TV Master

Hayabusa & Mr. Pogo (Goshogowara) & Hayato Nanjo vs. Mr. Gannosuke & Head Hunters

Street Fight 6 Man Tag Match: Masato Tanaka & Koji Nakagawa & Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs. W*ING Kanemura & Hideki Hosaka & Hido

Full match list coming soon

Battle Encore! Puroresu 3/?/00 Battle Station FMW KING OF FIGHT 2 taped 7/27/97
-1hr 25min. Q=TV Master

Hayato Nanjo vs. Hideki Hosaka

Sekai Joshi 6 Woman Tag Oza Kettei Tournament Ikkaisen: Crusher Maedomari & Miss Mongol & Sayori Okino vs. Kaori Nakayama & Miwa Sato & Yuko Kosugi

Masato Tanaka vs. Koji Nakagawa

The Gladiator & Super Leather vs. Jado & Gedo

Hisakatsu Oya & Mr. Gannosuke & Head Hunters vs. Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki & Ricky Fuji & Tetsuhiro Kuroda

No Rope Yushitessen Death Match: W*ING Kanemura vs. Hido

FMW Shiodome '97 on FIGHTING TV SAMURAI! taped 8/2/97 Tokyo Shiodome
-1hr 10min. Q=VG

Koji Nakagawa vs. Mr. Pogo II-clip

Rocky Mountain Middleweight Title: Hayato Nanjyo vs. Ricky Fuji. Edited to hell. Appeared to just be an exhibition of spots, and a good one because Hayato was really off. Fuji wins title.

Hideki Hosaka vs. Tetsuhiro Kuroda. All spots, but the work was pretty good.

Shark & Lioness & Eagle vs. Crusher & Mongol & Okino. Some stiff work, but nothing complex. Better than I expected, but far from good.

Gladiator & Super Leather vs. HeadHunters. Another exhibition of spots. Gladiator looked good, but Hunters can't work anymore.

Kodo Fuyuki vs. Hido. They did all their big moves for near falls and the work wasn't bad, but it was dull and had no heat. This may have been the best match of the first 6, which says little.

Hayabusa & Shinzaki vs. Oya & Gannosuke. Very good match. No build, psychology, or selling, but work was really good. All kinds of great and well-executed spots.

No Rope 200-Volt Exploding Electrical Barbed Wire Death Match: Kanemura vs. Tanaka. Work was good, as always, but the selling sucked. Too many powerbombs and too steeped in spots. Not a bad match by any means, but not nearly as good as last year's Shiodome match.

Battle Encore! Puroresu 3/?/00 Battle Station FMW Shiodome '97 taped 8/2/97 Tokyo Shiodome
-1hr 25min. Q=TV Master

Koji Nakagawa vs. Mr. Pogo II-clip

Rocky Mountain Mid Heavyeight Title Match: Hayato Nanjo vs. Ricky Fuji. Edited to hell. Appeared to just be an exhibition of spots, and a good one because Hayato was really off. Fuji wins title.

Hideki Hosaka vs. Tetsuhiro Kuroda. All spots, but the work was pretty good.

Sekai Joshi 6 Woman Tag Oza Kettei Tournament Ikkaisen: Crusher Maedomari & Miss Mongol & Sayori Okino vs. Lioness Asuka & Eagle Sawai & Shark Tsuchiya. Some stiff work, but nothing complex. Better than I expected, but far from good.

The Gladiator & Super Leather vs. Head Hunters. Another exhibition of spots. Gladiator looked good, but Hunters can't work anymore.

Hido vs. Kodo Fuyuki. They did all their big moves for near falls and the work wasn't bad, but it was dull and had no heat. This may have been the best match of the first 6, which says little.

Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Hisakatsu Oya & Mr. Gannosuke. Very good match. No build, psychology, or selling, but work was really good. All kinds of great and well-executed spots.

No Rope 200-Volt Exploding Electrical Barbed Wire Death Match: Kanemura vs. Tanaka. Work was good, as always, but the selling sucked. Too many powerbombs and too steeped in spots. Not a bad match by any means, but not nearly as good as last year's Shiodome match.

FMW Official Video Series 12th Over The Legend Kawasaki Commercial Tape 9/28/97 Kawasaki Kyujo
-2 1/2hr. Q=Ex

10,000,000-en Street Fight (Royal Rumble style) Battle Royal. Beyond awful. This was so disorganized that it was like they were all rookies trying to do the whole thing on the fly. Offense was horrible with bad strikes, blown spots, and no intensity. Plus there were guys just standing around and doing nothing. -***

Kaori Nakayama & Miwa Sato vs. Crusher Maedomari & Miss Mongol. Mongol & Kaori do a decent job, but Miwa, and especially Crusher, take the match down. *

World Brass Knuckles Tag Titles: Hisakatsu Oya & Mr. Gannosuke vs. Jado & Gedo (Fuyuki Promotions). Good solid match. Everyone worked hard, but there was no heat until the very end. **1/2

WWA World Women's Title & Independent World Women's Title Women's Kenka Match: Shark Tsuchiya vs. Aja Kong (Free). I never thought I'd see the day when I was embarrassed to be an Aja fan. Then again, I never thought I'd see her prostitute herself to Tsuchiya and cronies. There wasn't any blown spots, but still words cannot describe the suckiness of this incredibly one-sided squash. Shark takes both titles. -**

NWA Texas Heavyweight Title: Terry Funk (F.M.W.) vs. Kodo Fuyuki (Fuyuki Promotions). About what you would expect with Funk being ok and Fuyuki sucking as usual. Fuyuki actually does a plancha. *

UFC Rules: Ken Shamrock vs. Vader. These two were so over that Yuki Ishikawa of Battlarts, who was the ref for this match, got the biggest pre-match pop. This was pretty good at points, but the match had to be stopped early because Shamrock was coughing up blood. *3/4

Independent World Heavyweight Title & World Brass Knuckles Title Double Title Match: The Gladiator vs. Masato Tanaka. The best match these two have had together. Tanaka takes titles. Read Review. ****

No Rope Barbed Wire Electrified Dynamite Land Mines Cage Time Bomb Death Match: Atsushi Onita vs. W*ING Kanemura. This match couldn't come close to following the previous two (Kobashi's match didn't make the Comm). It was well booked, but there was absolutely no heat so it came off flat. The explosions were cool, but the actual wrestling was terrible. *1/2

8/31/97 Tokyo Korakuen Hall World Street Fight 6 Man Tag Titles: The Gladiator & Hisakatsu Oya & Mr. Gannosuke vs. Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka & Koji Nakagawa. All kinds of high spots here. Hayabusa's team captures the titles. 1/3 shown.


Battle Station FMW taped 10/14/97, 11/20/97 & 11/24/97

-2hr 25min. Q=Ex

    Battle Station FMW 11/2/97 Power Splash '97 taped 10/14 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center

Mr. Pogo II vs. Toyonori Fujita

Miss Mongol vs. Miwa Sato

Hisakatsu Oya vs. Ricky Fuji

Shark Tsuchiya & Crusher Maedomari vs. Aja Kong & Kaori Nakayama

W*ING Kanemura & Hideki Hosaka vs. Super Leather & The Gladiator

Mr. Gannosuke vs. Jinsei Shinzaki

World Street Fight 6 Man Tag Titles: Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka & Koji Nakagawa vs. Atsushi Onita & Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hido

Battle Station FMW Scramble Survivor '97 taped 11/20 Kita Kyushu & 11/24 Enan Shi Min Taiikukan

    11/20

Fake Great Nita (Hosaka) & Mr. Gannosuke & Yukihiro Kanemura vs. Kodo Fuyuki & Jado & Gedo (Fuyuki Promotion)

Aja Kong & Kaori Nakayama vs. Shark Tsuchiya & Crusher Maedomari

Atsushi Onita & Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hido vs. Masato Tanaka & Ricky Fuji & Mr. Pogo II

    11/24

Super Leather vs. Hisakatsu Oya

Yukihiro Kanemura & Hideki Hosaka vs. Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka

World Street Fight 6 Man Tag Titles: Atsushi Onita & Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hido vs. Kodo Fuyuki & Jado & Gedo (Fuyuki Promotion)


FMW Official Video Series 13th SUPER EXTREME WRESTLING Commercial Tape 12/19-12/21

-2 1/2hr. Q=Near Perfect 1st Gen


    12/19 Komazawa Olympic Koen Taiikukan

The Gladiator (ZEN) vs. Tommy Dreamer (ECW). Clip

ECW SPECIAL MATCH 3 WAY DANCE: Terry Funk vs. Sandman vs. Buh Buh Ray Dudley. Horrible

World Brass Knuckles Tag Titles: Mr. Gannosuke & Yukihiro Kanemura (ZEN) vs. Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki (Michinoku Pro, but representing FMW here). Good work. Lots of cool spots. Selling wasn't much. Finish came out of nowhere. Good match.

Masato Tanaka (FMW) vs. Atsushi Onita (ZEN). Both men looked good here. Onita thinks he's Bret Hart, but his offense isn't low impact here so I'm not going to complain. Crowd was very pro Tanaka. Tanaka had Onita just about beat, but Onita turned his roaring elbow into a small package for pin. Finish sounds bad on paper, but in actuality it was the closest Tanaka could come to winning without actually doing so. Good match.

    12/20 Osaka Rinkai Sports Center

Jado & Gedo (Fuyuki Promotion) vs. Buh Buh Ray & D-Von Dudley (ECW). Clip.

Funk & Dreamer & Sandman vs. Gladiator & Gannosuke & Kanemura. About 1/3 shown.

FMW World Street Fight 6 Man Tag Titles: Onita & Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hido vs. Hayabusa & Tanaka & Hisakatsu Oya. About 1/3 shown.

    12/21 Nagoya Aichi-ken Taiikukan

Oya (FMW) vs. Gannosuke (ZEN). Clip

Onita & Gladiator & Kuroda & Hido & Great Fake vs. Funk & Dreamer & Sandman & Buh Buh & D-Von. Clip

Double Title Match, Independent World Heavyweight & World Brass Knuckles Title: Tanaka vs. Kanemura. A lot of big spots, but overall, they've done a lot better matches in the past.

Sabu vs. Sandman. Garbage.

Gladiator & Hido vs. Funk & Dreamer vs. Dudleys. A couple of good spots and a ton of bad wrestling.

War Games Cage Match: Hayabusa & Shinzaki & Tanaka vs. Onita & Gannosuke & Kanemura. This had slightly different rules than WCW as each team gets a new guy each period instead of one team always having a man advantage. Also, it was only one cage. Exciting for a cage match with a lot of gimmick spots, but a match with no psychology and not much of a storyline the match gets old quick. Tanaka again came close to putting Onita away, but finally it was Hayabusa that did it by moonsaulting off the top of the cage!


FMW Official Video Series 14th WHITE LOVE Commercial Tape 1/6-3/16/98

-2hr 25min. Q=Near Perfect 1st Gen

This tape has highlights of the important matches and angles from this 3-month span, including the match where Gannosuke wins the Independent World Title from Tanaka. It also has the following 3 matches in close to complete form.

3/13/98 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center Independent World & World Brass Knuckles #1 Contender Tournament Round 1: Masato Tanaka vs. Hayabusa. These two really tried to do a solid match. Tanaka was really good here, getting more out of Hayabusa than anyone else in FMW can. Hayabusa was working on Tanaka's arm, and he even focused his high spots on the arm when they left the mat. ***3/4

3/13: Mr. Gannosuke & Yukihiro Kanemura & Hido & Horace Boulder vs. Atsushi Onita & Koji Nakagawa & Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hideki Hosaka. Chaotic brawl. Not so very good. Onita does the job here.

3/17/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall Independent World & World Brass Knuckles #1 Contender Tournament Round 1: Hayabusa vs. The Gladiator. This shows how good Tanaka is because these have both had very good matches with him of late, but when you take him out of the mix you get a spotfest. Certainly the spots were cool, but it was spots from start to finish with no build or psychology. **1/2


FMW on FIGHTING TV SAMURAI! 3/8/98

taped 2/6 Tokyo Korakuen Hall & 3/22/98 taped 2/13 Chiba Koen Taiikukan
-2hr 20min


    2/6/98

Flying Kid Ichihara & Mr. Pogo II vs. Yoshinori Sasaki & Naohiko Yamazaki

Miss Mongol vs. Crusher Maedomari

Hideki Hosaka vs. Super Leather

The Gladiator vs. Ricky Fuji

Kodo Fuyuki & Hido vs. Jado & Gedo

Jinsei Shinzaki (Michinoku Pro) & Hisakatsu Oya vs. Mr. Gannosuke & Yukihiro Kanemura

Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka vs. Koji Nakagawa & Tetsuhiro Kuroda

    2/13/98

Mr. Pogo II vs. Yoshinori Sasaki

Crusher Maedomari vs. Miss Mongol

Super Leather vs. Hido

The Gladiator & Hideki Hosaka vs. The Gladiator & Gedo

Hayabusa & Ricky Fuji vs. Masato Tanaka & Hisakatsu Oya

World Street Fight 6 Man Tag Title Match: Mr. Gannosuke & Yukihiro Kanemura & Hido vs. Atsushi Onita & Koji Nakagawa & Tetsuhiro Kuroda

Battle Encore! Puroresu 2/3/01 Battle Station FMW Winning Road '98 Saishusen taped 3/17/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
-1hr 25min. Q=TV Master

Kodo Fuyuki & Gedo vs. Koji Nakagawa & Tetsuhiro Kuroda

Street Fight 8 Man Tag Match: Jinsei Shinzaki & Masato Tanaka & Hisakatsu Oya & Ricky Fuji vs. Mr. Pogo & Yukihiro Kanemura & Jado & Horace Boulder

Nikansen Jiki Chosensha Kettei Tournament ~Kesshosen~: The Gladiator vs. Hayabusa

Full match list coming soon

FMW OFFICIAL VIDEO 15th FMW ENTERTAINMENT WRESTLING LIVE
Commercial Tape 4/30/98 Yokohama Bunka Taiikukan
-2 1/2hr. Q=Ex

Brief Brothers Presents=Hido Test Match: Hido vs. Hideki Hosaka. A little more than half is shown and it wasn't good at all despite a few good spots.

3 WAY Dance: Hisakatsu Oya vs. Koji Nagagawa vs. Chris Chetti. Highlights

Kronus & Ricky Fuji vs. Jado & Gedo. Highlights

Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Yukihiro Kanemura. Both men worked hard. Heated match with a lot of spots. ***

Street Fight: The Gladiator & Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs. Horace Boulder & Super Leather. Highlights

Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Masato Tanaka. Basically work. Several nice spots, but some sloppiness including Bigelow having some trouble with a table. Tanaka was real good here. Selling could have been better. ***1/4

Street Fight: Kodo Fuyuki vs. Atsushi Onita. These two basically wrestled a straight match. They tried hard, but they just aren't all that good. Executing and impact of moves could have been better. **1/4

Independent World Heavyweight & World Brass Knuckles Double Title Match: Mr. Gannosuke vs. Hayabusa. Hayabusa takes titles. Read Review. ****


FMW Official Video Series 17th Summer Color of Menshi

-2hr 25min. Q=1st Gen

8/11/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall Street Fight 2000: Kodo Fuyuki & Koji Nakagawa & Yukihiro Kanemura & Go Ito vs. Atsushi Onita & Mr. Pogo & Yoshinori Sasaki & Shoichi Arai

8/22/98 DirecTV Studio World Brass Knuckles Tag Titles: Kodo Fuyuki & Yukihiro Kanemura vs. Jado & Gedo

8/22/98 DirecTV Studio: Dark Side Hayabusa vs. Mr. Double Cross Koji Nakagawa

9/8/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall: Ricky Fuji vs. Gedo

9/8/98 Korakuen Hall: Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs. Koji Nakagawa

9/8/98 Korakuen Hall: Kodo Fuyuki & Yukihiro Kanemura vs. Hayabusa & Daisuke Ikeda


FMW OVER THE TOP & ECW Japan Tour PPV 12/13/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

-3hr 5min. Q=1st Gen


Mohammed Yone vs. Tetsuhiro Kuroda

Hido vs. Masao Orihara

Mr. Gannosuke vs. Yukihiro Kanemura

Hisakatsu Oya vs. Hayabusa

Hiromuchi Fuyuki & Koji Nakagawa & Hido vs. Ricky Fuji & Super Leather & Flying Kid Ichihara

ECW Title: Shane Douglas vs. Tommy Dreamer

ECW Tag Titles: Buh Buh Ray Dudley & D-Von Dudley vs. Rob Van Dam & Sabu. Van Dam & Sabu win titles.

Mr. Gannosuke vs. Hido

Hisakatsu Oya vs. Tetsuhiro Kuroda


FMW Official Video Series 19th FMW OVER THE TOP AND ECW Japan Tour Commercial Tape

-2hr 10min. Q=Near Perfect 1st Gen


     12/13/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall
     OVER THE TOP Tournament 2nd Round

Mohammed Yone vs.  Tetsuhiro Kuroda

Hido vs.  Masao Orihara

Mr. Gannosuke vs.  Yukihiro Kanemura

Hisakatsu Oya vs.  Hayabusa

     OVER THE TOP Tournament Semifinals
Mr.  Gannosuke vs.  Hido

Hisakatsu Oya vs.  Tetsuhiro Kuroda

     1/5/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

OVER THE TOP Tournament Final: Hisakatsu Oya vs. Mr. Gannosuke

     12/13/98 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

ECW Title: Shane Douglas vs.  Tommy Dreamer

ECW Tag Titles: Buh Buh Ray Dudley & D-Von Dudley vs.  Rob Van Dam & Sabu.  Van Dam
& Sabu win titles.

     1/5/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

Masato Tanaka Return Match: Masato Tanaka vs. Koji Nakagawa

     1/11/99 Osaka Furitsu Taiikukan 2

Masato Tanaka vs. Hido

FMW OFFICIAL VIDEO 21st
FMW Restore Taisakusen (epic match) ~Kofun (excitement) no Korakuen 3 Days~
-2hr. Q=Near Perfect 1st gen

5/3/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

5 vs. 5 Elimination Match: Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hisakatsu Oya & Hideki Hosaka vs. Kodo Fuyuki & Mr. Gannosuke & Koji Nakagawa & Yukihiro Kanemura & Hido. *3/4

6/15/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

Undercard highlights

Waisha (loser) Dog Food Scramble Bunkhouse Ladder Match: Mr. Gannosuke & Yukihiro Kanemura & Hido vs. Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda. **3/4

Sekai Entertainment Wrestling 6 Man Tag Senshuken Kettei League & Tournament highlights

7/30/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

Sekai Entertainment Wrestling 6 Man Tag Oza Kaichimaku (to win through) One Night Tournament Junkessho: Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs. Mr. Gannosuke & Yukihiro Kanemura & Jado. ***

Sekai Entertainment Wrestling 6 Man Tag Oza Kaichimaku (to win through) One Night Tournament Kesshosen: Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs. Kodo Fuyuki & Koji Nakagawa & Gedo. *1/2

FMW OFFICIAL VIDEO 22nd
Jitsuroku! Hayabusa Saigo no Hi (Hayabusa's last days) Korakuen 2 DAYS & Saigo no Sapporo Nakajima
-2hr. Q=Near Perfect 1st gen.

8/20/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

Undercard highlights

Independent World Sekai Heavykyu Senshuken: Masato Tanaka vs. Mr. Gannosuke. I'm not a fan of the heel ref gimmick (in this case Fuyuki), but that along with Gannosuke trying to take away the elbow arm helped give this match a dramatic storyline to go along with the expected high level of work and spots. ****

8/23/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

Highlights

8/25/99 Sapporo Nakajima Taiiku Center

Undercard highlights including Kanemura slamming Tanaka off a balcony

Hayabusa Last Match Sekai Brass Knuckle Senshukenjiai: Hayabusa vs. Mr. Gannosuke. The match itself was good, but disappointing because Gannosuke fell into Hayabusa's spots, spots, spots, and more spots style instead of trying to instill any psychology to give the spots even a little meaning. I was hoping they'd try to build on their previous matches, but since this one was soley Hayabusa's style, it wasn't the well rounded match we saw from them on 4/30/98. What little potential it still had of being an improvement on that match went out the window due to Hayabusa botching up spots. Although it was Hayabusa's style, Gannosuke was still the one who had a very good showing, holding the match together and keeping the quality up. He even did the best and certainly the most dangerous spot of the match, a reverse fire thunder off the turnbuckle. The post match where Gannosuke rips all of Hayabusa's clothes off is the most reprehensible thing I've seen in Japan from 1999, but I haven't seen many of FMW's other pitiful unentertaining non-sport rip offs. ***1/4

FMW Official Video Series "23th"Odoru (to dance) FMW Daigekisen (big fierce battle) H vs. Hayabusa Komon (anus) Bakuha (explosion) Match
-1hr 55min. Q=Near Perfect 1st Gen

9/3/99 H & Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs. Kodo Fuyuki & Yukihiro Kanemura & Hido. Clip

Hayabusa (Gannosuke) AV movie press conference

9/12/99: H & Tanaka vs. Fuyuki & Hayabusa. Hayabusa blew a big firebll on H's back. Clip

9/24/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

Fuyuki & Co. "urinate" on President Arai

Kaori Nakayama & Emi Motokawa vs. Misae Genki & Yoshiko Tamura. 1:24 shown

Hido martial arts demonstration. He breaks the handle of a baseball bat, not even cleanly, with a kick

Handicap Match: Masato Tanaka vs. Kodo Fuyuki & Kintaro Kanemura & Jado. 4:12 shown

H & Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Flying Kid Ichihara & Yoshinori Sasaki vs. Hayabusa & Koji Nakagawa & Gedo & Chocoball Mukai. Mukai was a mystery partner. Hayabusa put a dog collar with a chain around Sena Wakana's neck and was ready to abuse her when Mukai hit his own teammate to make the save. Hayabusa super powerbombed Mukai for his trouble. Kuroda was driven in later on a motorcyle, but he cleaned house when he finally got there. 7:05 shown

10/29/99 Tokyo Korakuen Hall

Komon Bakuha Match: H vs. Hayabusa. Hayabusa powerbombed him on the floor and H sold it uncharacteristically big. Hayabusa could have pinned him, but instead he handcuffed him to the ropes, pulled his pants down, shoved a "firecracker" up his ass, and "blew him a new hole." At this point, the ref ruled it a no contest. This match could have used one more big spot to set up H's demise only because H isn't known for really putting a move over, even a powerbomb on the floor.

Naohiro Yamazaki vs. Yoshinori Sasaki. Surprisingly good. 3:48 shown

Handicap Match: Kaori Nakayama & Emi Motokawa vs. Miss Mongol. Jazz & Malia Hosaka interfered on Mongol's behalf. 1:49 shown

Kakutogisen: Hido vs. Tarek Paska. This was hilariously bad with Tarek ridiculously overselling everything. Willy Williams had said that he'd fight Hido if he could beat Paska, so after the match he agreed to face him the next month at Yokohama Arena. 2:01 shown

Sena Wakana Puroresu Debutsen Man & Woman Mixed Handicap Tag Match: Gedo vs. Flying Kid Ichihara & Chocoball Mukai & Sena Wakana. Ricky Fuji was the ref and they worked in a good spot where Gedo wound up in kamikaze position, so Fuji gave him his move. The finish was lame with Sena putting over a chumpy little Kintaro Oki headbutt like it killed her. It was nothing special prior to that either.

Captain Fall 8 Man Tag Match: Kodo Fuyuki & Kintaro Kanemura & Koji Nakagawa & Jado vs. Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hisakatsu Oya & Ricky Fuji. This started out as the contract signing for Fuyuki vs. Tanaka at Yokohama Arena, but Fuyuki dumped the table at Tanaka and everyone started brawling. Fuji was locked in a cage and Kaoruko Arai sprayed him with a super soaker to piss him off. Kanemura hg tied Oya. Without his partners, Tanaka was destroyed in the ring, mainly by Fuyuki. Bloody brawl. Hardly the best technical match you'll ever see, but it was dramatic and great for heating up Fuyuki vs. Tanaka.

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