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FMW Vs. W*ING

Art imitating life is on top of the FMW cards right now. From Wiki:

After leaving Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in the summer of 1991, Kazuyoshi Osako and Kiyoshi "Mickey" Ibaragi founded Wrestling International New Generations (W*ING), with Osako as President and Ibaragi as Vice President. They would also lure away Mr. Pogo and Victor Quinones from FMW, taking away their number one heel and booker/talent exchanger.

For years the promotions have been at war, problem is W*ING's finacials are a huge mess and over the last few months both top heel Mr. Pogo, & top baby face Mitsuhiro Matsunaga have bolted from W*ING to FMW. Together they are currently the top heel act, under the W*ING name, doing the outsider thing with former W*ING alumni: Hideki Hosaka & Masaru Toi backing them up. Mr. Pogo has already put FMW founder Atsushi Onita over, unsuccessfully challenging for Onita's Brass Knuckles Championship in an Exploding Barbed Wire Match back on August 23rd. Onita has since lost the championship, but is scheduled to defend FMW's honor on December the 8th against Matsunaga in an in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Explosive Corners Death Match. Also on the very same show the FMW trio of Mr. Gannosuke, Koji Nakagawa & Katsutoshi Niiyama will take it to the W*ING trio of Hideki Hosaka & Masaru Toi & and mystery partner in one of W*ING's speciality matches: A Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Scramble! And in a standard street fight FMW's Tarzan Goto will face W*ING's Mr. Pogo for a future Brass Knuckles Title Opportunity.

The real life W*ING is banking on Kodo Fuyuki's Fuyuki-gun (Hido, Jado, Gedo, & Hisakatsu Oya) to choose W*ING over FMW, and is expected to close up shop if they do not. The mystery partner element adds a lot to the up coming show as clearly someone else from W*ING seems to be headed to FMW to join Hosaka & Toi, as to who it is remains a mystery.

Awesome Gladiator Vs. Team Canada

Awesome was initially only working FMW part time for the majority of the year, but still managed to join/form Ricky Fuji's Team Canada stable along side Dr. Luther, Dr. Hannibal, & Big Titan back in January. Mostly without Awesome the stable would feud with Onita and company on just about every show until the W*ING angle kicked off. With Awesome appearing less and less for FMW and more and more for NJPW, tensions began to mount. These tensions came to a head when Awesome WALKED OUT of NJPW after FMW booker Riki Choshu spoke negatively about the promotion and showed up in FMW in late October, declaring his loyalty to the promotion. Onita in turn rewarded him with a title shot at his Brass Knuckles Championship in the main event (Onita DID work earlier in the show teaming with Gannosuke & Goto against Pogo, Matsunaga & Hosaka), and Awesome scored a rare clean pinfall victory of the FMW founder to take home the championship.

Fuji attempted to embrace the new Champion, but Awesome blew him off, declaring his loyalty to ONITA and the FANS of FMW, and that was it for him in Team Canada. Awesome has been at war with the group ever since and coming up on the 8th will team with Sambo Asako to battle Fuji, Titan & Dr. Luther in a handicapped match.

Other stories:

The FMW Independent World Jr. Heavyweight Championship was vacant once the FMW/NJPW relationship fell apart. The title had previously been held by NJPW's Gran Hamada, but hadn't been defended in quite some time. A tournament took place throughout much of November, with the finals set up for the 8th with Battle Ranger Z going head to head with his evil counter part the Dark Ranger.

The FMW women have had a challenge accepted by All Japan Women stars: Bull Nakano, Takako Inoue, Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue. Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue of AJW will battle WWA Women's Champion: Crusher Maedomari & her partner Shark Tsuchiya; Bull Nakano will battle Combat Toyoda; & Takako Inoue will face off against Megumi Kudo respectively.

Planning For The Future

FMW really seems to be planning for the future as young lion's Mr. Gannosuke (a favorite of Tarzan Goto), Koji Nakagawa & Katsutoshi Niiyama have had their fair share of main events as of late (typically teaming with Onita or Goto). Also Onita favorite Eiji Ezaki has been sent to CMLL for seasoning, in hopes that either he & Gannosuke will take over the top spots held by Onita/Goto in the years to come. Flying Kid Ichihara is with Eiji right now in CMLL, but honestly he isn't very good.

Up coming shows:

Tokyo International Trade Harumi Dome
12/8/93

Main Event
No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Explosive Corners Death Match[/u]

Atsushi Onita (FMW)

Vs.

"Mr. Danger" Mitsuhiro Matsunaga (W*ING)

Street Fight

Tarzan Goto (FMW)

Vs.

Mr. Pogo (W*ING)

W*ING Style Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Scramble

Katsutoshi Niiyama & Mr. Gannosuke & Koji Nakagawa (FMW)

Vs.

Masaru Toi, Hideki Hosaka, & X (W*ING)

3 On 2 Handicapped Match

Ricky Fuji, Big Titan & Dr. Luther (Team Canada)

Vs.

The Gladiator & Sambo Asako (FMW)

FMW Vs. AJW
Takako Inoue (AJW)

Vs.

Megumi Kudo(FMW)

FMW Vs. AJW
Bull Nakano (AJW)

Vs.

Combat Toyoda (FMW)

Independent World Jr. Heavyweight Championship
Decision Match

Battle Ranger Z

Vs.

Dark Ranger

FMW Vs. AJW
Aja Kong & Kyoko Inoue (AJW)

Vs.

Shark Tsuchiya & Crusher Maedomari (FMW)

Opener

Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda

Vs.

Mr. Chin & Gosaku Goshogawara[/color]

FMW Year End Spectacular
12/26/93
Tokyo Korakuen Hall
TBA![/center] [/size]

[somethingsavage]

I'm afraid the ultra-violent stuff is going to turn me away from some of the main events, but the stories in place are great. Hopefully the action won't be TOO ugly or repetitive in the sense of "brawl, scramble, brawl" and so on. It's strange to see ya even taking this approach, ALTHOUGH ya did an awesome job keeping it all in balance with your ECW stuff. So I could be entirely wrong. I'll definitely be giving this a chance though.

Solid lineups, and some of the performers here are among my personal favorites. Looks good enough @ first glance, man.

[promoterx]

I had a bunch of FMW tapes back in the day, the dude that I got Michinoku Pro tapes from used to give me FMW ones as freebies. So I am pretty familiar with your roster, going to be fun to watch.

[Grape Ape]

Looking forward to this. When it comes to Japanese wrestling, I think I've seen more of this than anything else minus Super Delphin's group.

Well thought out as we head into the "debut", giving it a solid history.

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Those top 3 matches should be pretty crazy with FMW vs W*ING's faction. Personally I have no issue with the ultra violence and having never reached this era in fantasy stuff before, cannot wait to see it play out in written form, especially that Onita vs Matsunaga match. At least I can say the first time will have me awaiting its arrival. Curious to see if it has a lot of repeat value to revisit. I assume this will be less a weekly thing from the schedule given here? Probably works better that way.

You did a great job with writing Awesome and rather than being part of the stable this time, it will be him against the stable, presumably having to go through them instead. While not overly familiar with a lot of these names, it helps to have him in there and have a back story that applies to everything you wrote for the last year.

The use of women should be interesting too. They tend to get underutilized in this stuff, and especially this era. The Japanese ones could really go though and with your match writing, we could get some gems there spread across 3 matches with another interpromotional twist to it.

Look forward to not only this, but looking at the card, how you then top it for the next show on the 26th as the year end card. I presume that is a bigger card, although not being familiar with FMW, I guess that could be mistaken.

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Their wasn't TV at this stage IRL. However VHS played a huge part in FMW's rise to fame. So major shows will get "covered" for VHS. So yeah, no weekly stuff BUT it's a full touring company so there will still be fair amount of content getting pumped out on my end.

Also since some of the VHS' will cover multiple shows, angles will get released from time to time before a match gets a major write up (toying with that idea right now actually, the idea of combining the 12/8 show with the end of the year show, but not sure yet).

The Fuyuki-gun shows on Gaora TV will also play into things around here, and in fact may just become FMW shows, although that's just a thought at this stage.

And yes, they'll be some ultra-violence, BUT it'll all be part of the story. W*ING, IWA, and BJW were just violence for the sake of violence at points, where as FMW always had angles going to somewhat justify the death matches. That's the approach I'll be taking here.

As far as the year end show being "bigger" than the show on the 8th, it really won't be. The real life year end show was co-promoted with Michinoku Pro and wasn't a big deal. The big sell was the novelity of Sasuke teaming with Onita, but at the same time Sasuke himself wasn't a big deal back then (he was just starting to as M Pro was just starting to get some attention), this show won't have any involvement from MPro and will more or less be a way to further the big angle I have planned for the next year.