*http://fmwwrestling.us/ (Got this from here)
FMW is kind of my blindspot barring the famous Onita matches. And I don't really like anything I've seen from Hayabusa outside of FMW so maybe he'll be better within it.
Akira Hokuto & Bull Nakano vs. Combat Toyoda & Megumi Kudo - FMW 3rd Anniversary Show - Fall Spectacular 1992 19/09/1992
This was a fun interpromotional match. The FMW women were the clear underdogs in the fight, even on their home turf and they took it in their stride. There was some nice animosity in the offence as well. Bull Nakano matches up nicely with Toyoda, hitting her very hard. Kudo as well. The match didn’t go too long and sustained it’s intense feel. ***1/2
Different Style Fight: Shinobu Kandori vs. Victoria Kazumiya - FMW Origin - 4th Anniversary Show 05/05/1993
This was pretty cool. Some great techniques on display. Lovely judo throw by Kazumiya. ***
Megumi Kudo & Combat Toyoda vs Manami Toyota & Toshiyo Yamada - FMW Origin - 4th Anniversary Show 05/05/1993
Kudo and Toyoda were very over with the crowd. Maybe that was in comparison to the AJW duo but they had the crowd behind them whether they were in the driving seat or working from beneath. Toyota, to her credit, was great in spite of getting little from the crowd. She had some great sequences that she strung together. Toyoda was a good base for her high flying. Yamada kicked ass with her stiff kicks. Kudo was a strong sympathetic character with her selling and charisma. And her string of offence to put away Toyoya was awesome. ****
Aja Kong & Kaoru Ito vs. Megumi Kudo & Miwa Sato - FMW Summer Spectacular 1993 22/08/1993
More fuel to the fire in regards to Aja Kong and Kudo. The class of 86 are destined to collide sometime in the future. And this is the first meeting between the two (in any form) since Kudo’s return to wrestling. They would face each other in December for the 3WA World championship. Before that, they have to team with their fellow wrestlers for now.
Love Aja getting in the ring, shooing off Sato and calling for Kudo. And unlike Toyota and Yamada on the Anniversary show, she gets a reaction. It might be small but damn if it didn’t make me smile. Love their initial exchange where Kudo attacks the arm and tries to bring in to the mat only for Aja to blast her in the face with a kick. There was another awesome sequence where Kudo was outwitting Aja with her quickness, countering anything Aja Kong had in store for her. Aja Kong had to rely on the strikes to get anything after a while. Told a great story there. Poor Sato. She got beat up so badly any time she was in the ring. With Ito, there was more give and go but with Aja Kong in the ring, it was dream street. She ran nice interference for Kudo though and even had some cool subsequent offence, following whatever Kudo did nicely, whether it was a clothesline off the top after a Kudo arm wringer or catching Ito with a running clothesline after she missed a footstomp (to Kudo). There was an awesome moment where Aja Kong comes, with no cause to, and hits Kudo with her metal box. She fails to hit it off the top rope the second time though, hitting Ito (which would repeat itself when she accidentally hits the Urakento her for the finish) with it instead. A really, really good tag match with tons of neat spots and match building between Kudo and Aja. Sato and Ito more than pull their weight in their lesser roles. ***3/4
FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Title Explosive Barbed Wire Steel Cage Death Match: Atsushi Onita (c) vs. Hayabusa - FMW 6th Anniversary Show 05/05/1995
Being the Hayabusa skeptic that I am, it was good seeing the start of his popularity. Even though he lost this match (Onita’s retirement btw *roll eyes*), he was put over huge in the match. The powerbomb nearfall after the explosion was a massive one and it caused a mega “Hayabusa” chant. Some of the wrestling was quite good such as the slaps out of the figure four. The moonsault off the top of the cage. And of course, the explosions were cool as hell. ***1/2
FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Title Match (Vacant): Hayabusa vs. Hisakatsu Oya - FMW 27/06/1995
A decent match. Oya was a bit too uneven with his work on the leg. Sometimes it was good, other times it was quite dull to watch. Hayabusa had some good audible selling at least. I didn't care too much for the nearfall finishing stretch though. ***
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