FMW You Might Have Missed

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I'm really glad that I've had the opportunity to dig into FMW. As an ECW fan in high school, FMW always seemed like the cooler cousin of ECW...if just for the Tanaka vs Awesome stuff. In my VHS days, I had BJW & IWA Japan stuff but not FMW. Eventually I got an Explosion Death Match comp tape. Then a few years later, I got the Highspots Hayabusa comp which was very good but not great as a taste of the true best of Hayabusa. So finally digging my teeth into the meat of FMW has been fulfilling. As garbage/hard core wrestling has fallen out of mainstream favor for a long while, I think the memory of ECW and FMW is fading. So I'm glad to keep the flame burning. I need to watch more but my absolute favorites so far are:


Atsushi Onita & Tarzan Goto vs Masanobu Kurisu & Dragon Master [Kendo Nagasaki] (FMW 04/01/90)

Masato Tanaka, Kuroda & Koji Nakagawa vs Kanemura, Hido & Hosaka (FMW - Exploding Barbwire match - 09/01/96)

Masato Tanaka vs Mr. Gannosuke (01/06/98 FMW)

Hayabusa vs Masato Tanaka (03/13/98 FMW)

Hayabusa vs Mr. Gannosuke (04/30/98 FMW)

Jado & Gedo vs Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka (05/05/98 FMW) 

Hayabusa & Tanaka vs W*ing Kanemura & Kodo Fuyuki (05/27/98 FMW) 

Tetushiro Kuroda vs Masato Tanaka (06/19/98 FMW)

Hisakatsu Oya vs Tetsuhiro Kuroda (12/12/98 FMW)

Masato Tanaka vs. Tetsuhiro Kuroda (FMW 02/27/99)

Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki vs Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda (FMW 03/19/99)

Update: Seems like folks are into FMW so I'll be posting more FMW materials. Hope you like reading!

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