Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling
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| Acronym | FMW |
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| Founded | July 28, 1989 (re-established March 4, 2015) |
| Defunct | February 15, 2002 |
| Style |
Hardcore wrestling Sports entertainment |
| Headquarters | Japan |
| Founder(s) |
Atsushi Onita (original) Yukihide Ueno (new) Akihito Ichihara (new) |
| Owner(s) | Atsushi Onita (1989–1995) Shoichi Arai (1995–2002) Yukihide Ueno (2015–present) Akihito Ichihara (2015–present) |
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded on July 28, 1989 by Atsushi Onita that specialized in hardcore wrestling involving weapons such as barbed wire and fire. They held their first show on October 6, 1989. In the late 1990s, FMW had a brief working agreement with Extreme Championship Wrestling, and as well had 14 DVDs released in the U.S. by Tokyopop. On March 4, 2015, FMW was resurrected under the name Chō Sentō Puroresu FMW.
In August 1990, Onita wrestled in the first ever exploding barbed wire match with Tarzan Goto. This match started a revolution amongst the small "garbage wrestling" organizations of Japan. From there, Onita recruited some of hardcore wrestling's most notable names, like Mr. Pogo, Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, Super Leather (Leatherface) and Kintaro Kanemura. In October 1990, they held Japan's first mixed tag team match. In 1995, Onita wrestled his retirement match with young talent Hayabusa in an exploding ring, barbed wire steel cage match. Hayabusa became the central star of the promotion winning its belt several times and battling most of the FMW roster. FMW also had a thriving women's wrestling division, led by Megumi Kudo who was one of FMW's biggest stars in her heyday. All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling talent feared them so much that they rarely had inter-promotional matches against each other, but the FMW women were successful in other feuds with LLPW and JWP. During this time FMW signed a contract to hold a major event every May 5 in the Kawasaki Stadium.
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