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Funaki was there over a decade. I don't think New Japan can try and get him back while he's under WWE contract especially when he left there to begin with because he always wanted to be in WWE.

Gokiburi is Japanese for Cockroach. Also "Ken Tsuyoshi" is a translation error Purolove made. It's Kengo Nishimura going by the name Kengo.

If they were I'd be pissed off if I was Kazuki that's for sure. He didnt get big time matches right away or a Tokyo Dome match offer for who his dad was.

They make more. Young Boys make around 200 per match so MASADA was either lying or getting fucked over. Kobayashi and I believe Sekimoto are the only ones that work for the trucking company. It's not something all the wrestlers in the promotion work for.

"Most of the wrestlers own bars to make more money. Of course, with the property values in Tokyo I wonder how they even get the cash to do that. The DDT crew works at the DDT bar for extra cash." Just Daichi Kakimoto and FUMA work the DDT bar. The night I went DDT just had a show close by at the Shinjuku FACE so HARASHIMA and Antonio Honda came by but other than possiblity of the group HARASHIMA showed up with being sponsors they weren't actually working.

No, Hayabusa was just never going to leave FMW. It was engrained in his brain that FMW was his home and he would never leave it.

Toru Sugiura is from the Nagoya based DEP promotion originally. He joined FREEDOMS officially in May 2012. Karate Brahman is the best thing in FREEDOMS. I like FREEDOMS but actually watching every show from them can drag at times but he was always hilarious in everything he does. I've also been working the last couple of months on covering Mammoth's 3 1/2 year career in FREEDOMS and besides right when he came back you can tell he just does not have the motivation after the car wreck that he did before. Jeff Lynch's supplier does not get in FREEDOMS DVD's anymore. I ended up buying everything from May-September from their official DVD dealer in Japan and 30 bucks a DVD is rough. I was told not to expect them until January-February when I ordered them in November. Still waiting for them but I am sure they will circulate some time later this year when I trade/sell them to Lynch. Also next Shin-Kiba 1st Ring will have Takashi Sasaki vs. GENTARO in the opening match to celebrate 5 years of the promotion as that was the first match of the promotion back in September 2009. GENTARO is obviously still recovering from the stroke and can't really do anything physical but I am guessing it will be very short and very simple.

Nominating Daisuke Sekimoto vs. Ryuichi Kawakami 6/30/13. Shocked it was not nominated before. It was the best of the Sekimoto matches this year and blows away the match with Shinobu which has been nominated. It was the best match I saw live this year.

If you're wanting to incorporate results from all the splinter groups, Onita pro was still running strong in 99, 00, 01, etc.. I noticed because you've got large gaps for Onita in the 00's during periods when he was still really active. I know BAHU doesn't have them on his stie but results shouldn't be too hard to find i'd imagine. I don't think this was suppose to be a "every former FMW wrestlers career total matches from 1989-2013." Then you would be including Gannosuke's IWA or Kanemura in W*ING which directly started up because of FMW like Onita Pro but was its competition. I never included the Onita Pro 99-01 stuff because it was in direct competition with FMW at the time.

Next thing you'll be saying that Kobashi/Muto tag didn't deserve to win in 2011...

It was Dos Caras' Japanese Retirement Match.

No FMW TV back then and it was just a house show but I did scan this from a magazine a couple of years ago.

I looked up the katakana of the name and translated it to Blackburn. So there was just a one letter mess up in the translation of Blackborn when I read it in the magazine. White African was not Louie Spicolli. I think I read it years and years ago that it was and I originally had it has him years ago. But he is not. White African was a Canadian they brought in through either most likely Big Titan at that point. I have a handheld with Pirata Morgan and then he is in the 8/4/90 Commercial tape which had the first Exploding Barbed wire Death Match with Onita vs. Goto.

I got the name Blackborn I believe from a FMW magazine from 1991 that listed every wrestler up at that point in English so there might have been a translation mess up. Also Hi69 = HIROKI

I didn't get to post this cause the site was down but I stayed 10 days in Japan and got to meet Megumi Kudo for the first time overr the Summer. My trip is at http://fmwwrestling.us/Japan13.html

I didn't mean he's a huge fan of Sports Entertainment. I just mean he went along with Kodo Fuyuki's movement for a change cause it allowed him to be the star that he had wanted to be without being in the shadow of Onita and not expected to fill the role of Onita any longer. Ricky Fuji told me that Ezaki was telling everyone back then he was going to be the star of the promotion after about a year or two in the height of Onita's popularity. It didnt matter what kind of style FMW was as long as he was the star of it that's what mattered the most.

I asked Hayabusa back in 2008 where he would be wrestling if he was not injured he said Dragon Gate probably but he didn't seem to have put much thought into it and he was getting a paycheck from them at the time. I asked the same question in 2012 and he did not know. If FMW were to have still ended with Hayabusa still wrestling than the most logical route would be he goes to WMF possibly starts it instead of Gannosuke and if that ends the same way it did probably leaves when the promotion shrinks in 2004 or shrinks even more in 2005 and goes to Dragon Gate and is one of the top guys there because of name value/having more seniorship/all the wrestlers there idolizing him growing up. Thing about Hayabusa is he would want to be the star of the promotion. Most hate the Entertainment era of FMW but not Hayabusa. He enjoyed that time because he was the star of the promotion and not Onita and was no longer in Onita's shadow or expected to wrestle the hardcore style too much which didn't really fit what he preferred. I asked him if he would want to be in New Japan right now if he were wrestling because he is good friends with Jado and Gedo. He said no and it was a very "noooo way" tone because he knows he would never be a top star in New Japan. So it's a lot of what if's but it's either Dragon Gate, freelance, or his own promotion. Although he doesn't really think too much about the what if's himself.

"Yesterday (October 22nd) was 12 years to the day that I was injured. The doctor told me "Please prepare to be bedridden for the rest of your life". When I was told that, I could not believe it honestly. Although I spent three months not knowing my body was there. It is despairing. There was one or two times I went beserk and used abusive language towards the nurses. I could not stop crying. I wanted to die. But now, I am sincerely glad to be alive from the bottom of my heart. There is plenty of serious things now of course, but when compared to the suffering I went through in those days, I would not change anything now. Five years is clearly visible which was not visible three years ago. (He's not specific in this but he's talking about being able to walk without any assistance on his own.) I would like to convey gratitude from the bottom of my heart to those who are aiding, those who support, and all the people I have encountered, and want to convey my sincerity. Thank you again! I will continue working hard and shouting these words "Lets have some fun!" (Hayabusa's catchphrase he would do after every show). I would like to ask you for your throughness of consciousness improvement so that an accident like I or Mr. Misawa does not occur again." - Hayabusa 10/23/13

Pat Tanaka did not work the Juniors Tournament in June 2001. He worked FMW in January 2001 and was running a wrestling school in Missouri back around then. Also Shiraishi admitted he tried to sign Kota Ibushi to All Japan but Takagi refused to allow it. Speculation is he's going to go after Sekimoto and Okabayashi under the same "you are contracted to us and your home promotion" deal

He's not really viewed all that much differently than he is in the states since he is mostly known for his work in the states. I'm sure the same as Paul Diamond would be. He would be known more for his AWA work than WCW. Kodo Fuyuki hated Pat Tanaka though for some reason though even though he worked a tour with FMW while Fuyuki was in charge.

JWA use to run Stadium shows in the 60's. I know they drew up to 15,000 people in Kawasaki. Before the Tokyo Dome in place of it was Korakuen Stadium but I don't know if wrestling was ever held there. As far as the capital names like TAKA it's to show attitude and be cool.

Mauro said he had not been contacted about it.

Steve Austin vs Undertaker from the RAW after KOTR is the highest RAW segment ever at 9.5. The second is Rock vs Shane in a Steel Cage at 9.0 the night after Backlash 2000 when everyone thought Austin was coming out again after being on the PPV. The this is your life segment was not crapped on by the Internet at the same as very little WWF stuff was criticized as everyone loved what WWF was doing at the time. The only thing that I remember that Scott Keith criticized about the segment was that after Vince Russo left WWF in October 1999 when the Internet was worried that him leaving was going to hurt WWF and help WCW that he mentioned Russo had obvious holes in his writing and used This is your life which everyone loved at the time as an example because they didnt write a finish for it and that's why Triple H randomly came out at the end with a sledgehammer to end that nobody seems to remember not do they show when replaying the segment