Goodbye Hayabusa was the name of two professional wrestling series of events produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) in 1999. The backstory of the series was that on-screen FMW Commissioner Kodo Fuyuki decided to end Eiji Ezaki 's "Hayabusa" character after August 25, 1999 and the tour consisted of farewell matches of Ezaki's Hayabusa character and the end of it. The first part of the event took place between July 18 and July 31, 1999 and the second part of the event took place between August 20 and August 25, 1999. The series also introduced the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship , a substitute for the FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship , which had been retired and awarded to the departing Atsushi Onita by FMW President Shoichi Arai on November 20, 1998 for establishing FMW and taking it to a huge level.
72-629: On May 5, 1999, Team No Respect reunited when they helped Kodo Fuyuki in retaining the FMW Double Championship against Tetsuhiro Kuroda . After the match, Fuyuki revealed that he had become the new Commissioner of FMW as he had goaded FMW President Shoichi Arai into giving him the position. On May 18, Fuyuki separated the Double Championship by awarding the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship and
144-472: A ladder match which stipulated that Fuyuki would have to eat dog food if TNR lost. Fuyuki chewed it and then spit it in Hayabusa's face and a brawl took place between TNR and FMW wrestlers. On June 23, Hayabusa met Arai to null Fuyuki's decision of ending the Hayabusa character but Arai said that the decision stood. The legitimate reason of ending the gimmick was that Ezaki had suffered many injuries throughout
216-701: A pay-per-view event on August 23 at the Korakuen Hall and the departing character of Hayabusa defeated Yukihiro Kanemura in the main event to win the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship . The final event in the series was the Last Match , also airing on pay-per-view and taking place on August 25 at Nakajima Sports Center in Sapporo . Masato Tanaka retained the Independent Heavyweight Championship against Yukihiro Kanemura and Hayabusa retained
288-469: A tag team match and Yukihiro Kanemura lost to the departing Jinsei Shinzaki in Shinzaki's last FMW match and the team of Horace Boulder and Super Leather defeated ZEN's Tetsuhiro Kuroda and The Gladiator. Kodo Fuyuki defeated Atsushi Onita in a match where Onita put ZEN's existence on the line, forcing ZEN to disband while Mr. Gannosuke lost the Double Championship to Hayabusa. Gannosuke injured his knee during
360-480: A weapons deathmatch to release Kuroda and Hosaka from TNR's slavery at Atsushi Onita Presents Liar, Liar . On August 21, Onita formed Team Zero and took on TNR in a street fight, which TNR won. Go Ito kidnapped Shoichi Arai's niece Kaoruko Arai and began brainwashing her to make her fall in love with him. At Welcome to the Darkside, Nakagawa defeated Darkside of Hayabusa with the help of Mr. Gannosuke, who appeared in
432-506: A " sports entertainment " approach based heavily on comedic storylines and characters similar to American promotions such as World Wrestling Entertainment . The beginning of the end for FMW was realized after its top star Hayabusa suffered a career-ending injury in October 2001; to make matters worse, Mr. Gannosuke injured both his ankles in January 2002. With Hayabusa and Gannosuke gone, Fuyuki
504-468: A BJW event, with TNR winning the match for FMW. TNR turned fan favorites by siding with FMW to feud with Kodo Fuyuki's ECW Japan group. On April 3, Kanemura represented FMW against ECW Japan in a FMW vs. ECW series, losing to ECW Japan member Balls Mahoney. At Night in Shibuya Backdraft Eve , TNR lost the 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Kodo Fuyuki, Kyoko Inoue and Chocoball Mukai, but regained
576-720: A TNR vs. ECW match. Kanemura lost the Hardcore Championship to Ryuji Yamakawa at a Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW) event on February 22. On February 25, TNR was split into two teams: Kanemura and Jado and Nakagawa and Gedo in a four corners match . Nakagawa and Gedo won the match by last eliminating Kanemura and Jado to become the #1 contenders for the Tag Team Championship, which they would win by defeating former TNR member Kodo Fuyuki and Kyoko Inoue on April 1. On March 2, Kanemura, Jado and Gedo represented FMW against BJW's Ryuji Yamazaki, Great Kojika and The Winger at
648-515: A ceremony in Kawasaki stadium honouring Fuyuki, Hashimoto clutched an urn containing Fuyuki's ashes, and he and Kanemura flung themselves into the barbed wire, both giving Fuyuki a final victory. Fuyuki was survived by his wife Kaoru, whom he married in November 1986, and his two daughters. Under his associate Kintaro Kanemura, the promotion reorganized in 2004 as Apache Pro-Wrestling Army , but continued
720-483: A disguise as Jinsei Shinzaki. Team Zero defeated TNR in a street fight on September 1 and then crucified TNR's briefs to end the "Brief Brothers" gimmick. The original Mr. Pogo returned to FMW as "The Great Pogo" and attacked Onita and Pogo #2 in the parking lot, which led to the renewal of a feud between Onita and Great Pogo, allowing TNR to completely focus on feuding with Hayabusa and FMW. During this time, Masao Orihara and Takeshi Ono joined TNR. Nakagawa headlined
792-538: A match on August 20, with Fuyuki as the special guest referee. Later at the event, Mr. Gannosuke lost the Independent Heavyweight Championship to Masato Tanaka. At Goodbye Hayabusa II: Hayabusa Graduation Ceremony, Mr. Gannosuke and Jado defeated Flying Kid Ichihara and Naohiko Yamazaki and Sena Wakana was forced to remove her bra and panties due to the pre-match stipulation, which she did to reveal another pair of bra and panties. Masato Tanaka and Ricky Fuji defeated Kodo Fuyuki and Shoichi Arai while Koji Nakagawa and Gedo lost
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#1732894321558864-653: A match on May 14, where Fuyuki teamed with Yoshiaki Yatsu . One of several wrestlers to leave AJPW with Genichiro Tenryu in July 1990, Fuyuki competed in Tenryu's rival promotion Super World of Sports under his real name, also appearing on interpromotional shows for the World Wrestling Federation , with little to no impact. Following the closing of SWS in June 1992, Fuyuki followed Tenryu to WAR . While there, he became one of
936-574: A new WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship and a tournament was set up for the title which Fuyuki, Nakagawa and Gedo won on July 31 by defeating Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda on July 31. Fuyuki also forced Hayabusa to end the Hayabusa character and compete under his real name Eiji Ezaki after August 25. At Goodbye Hayabusa II: Haunted House, Jado defeated Flying Kid Ichihara in a match which stipulated that Sena Wakana must remove her clothes if Ichihara lost and Wakana undressed to reveal her undergarments. Gedo helped Shoichi Arai defeat Ricky Fuji in
1008-636: A shorter variation of his real name, Kodo Fuyuki . After spending over four months freelancing, Fuyuki found a new home in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in February 1997. Fuyuki-Gun made their FMW debut on February 19 by defeating W*ING Alliance members W*ING Kanemura , Hideki Hosaka and Dragon Winger. Fuyuki-Gun initially performed as freelancers on the Japanese independent circuit until they began competing full time for FMW. They appeared at
1080-452: A tag team called The New Footloose , a spin-off of Fuyuki's old tag team with Toshiaki Kawada called Footloose . Fuyuki began getting influential in FMW by getting the right to book his own matches and he made a match between TNR and ZEN on May 25, with the stipulation that if ZEN lost then TNR would pick a member of ZEN. ZEN lost and TNR picked Hideki Hosaka as their slave. The same stipulation
1152-403: A tournament for the vacant Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship, which they ended up losing to Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in the final on May 3, 1999. TNR formed an alliance with Gannosuke's Outlaws to feud with Battlarts. Former tag team partners Jado and Gedo also began feuding as Jado was irate at Gedo for sticking with TNR and the two had a match on May 5, which Gedo won. Later at
1224-467: A tournament to crown the inaugural champions and the tournament would take place throughout the Goodbye Hayabusa tour. The four teams were Fuyuki, Koji Nakagawa and Gedo , the team of Mr. Gannosuke, Yukihiro Kanemura and Jado , the team of Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda and the team of Super Leather , Armageddon #1 and Armageddon #2 . The first match took place on the first show of
1296-491: A villainous group and entered a rivalry with Atsushi Onita and his ZEN group. In 1998, Fuyuki formed Team No Respect with several of FMW's leading wrestlers which remained the dominant "heel" stable until its disbandment in June 2000. From there, he formed multiple stables, which didn't last as long. He became the head " booker " of the promotion in 1999. Attempting to distance the promotion from its earlier reputation for " garbage wrestling " style, he instead focused more on
1368-609: The 8th Anniversary Show , where they defeated Hisakatsu Oya and The Headhunters in a street fight . Fuyuki began feuding with Terry Funk , the leader of Funk Masters of Wrestling, which culminated in a loser leaves FMW match between the two at Fall Spectacular , which Fuyuki lost. As a result, he was forced to leave FMW. He began promoting his own shows under the "Fuyuki Army" banner. He began competing for FMW full-time on November 15, when Fuyuki-Gun defeated ZEN members Hido , The Gladiator and The Great Fake. They ceased appearing for other promotions and established themselves as
1440-596: The FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship to his Team No Respect teammates Yukihiro Kanemura and Mr. Gannosuke respectively. On June 15, Fuyuki decided to end the Hayabusa character and announced that Eiji Ezaki would not be allowed to compete with the mask or under the "Hayabusa" character after August 25. Later at the event, the FMW team of Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeated Mr. Gannosuke, Yukihiro Kanemura and Hido in
1512-431: The Goodbye Hayabusa tour on July 18, in which the team of Hayabusa, Tanaka and Kuroda fought Fuyuki, Nakagawa and Gedo to a thirty-minute time limit draw. Super Leather and Armageddon defeated Hayabusa, Tanaka and Kuroda to gain two points. Super Leather and Armageddon lost to both TNR teams and then both TNR teams competed in a match, which Fuyuki, Nakagawa and Gedo won. This gave them the advantage and they qualified for
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#17328943215581584-509: The Korakuen Hall in Tokyo , Japan . The event featured matches of a round-robin tournament contested for the new WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship , in which the team of Hayabusa , Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda qualified for the final by defeating the team of Super Leather , Armageddon #1 and Armageddon #2 and the team of Jado , Mr. Gannosuke and Yukihiro Kanemura and then faced
1656-652: The WAR World Six-Man Tag Team Championship five times between June 1994 and June 1996, as well as a single reign with UWFI 's Yoji Anjo and ECW 's Bam Bam Bigelow in October 1996. Lionheart also became a member of Fuyuki-Gun, during their stint in WAR. Upon leaving WAR in October 1996, he wrestled briefly as a freelancer, wrestling in various promotions such as Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling , Big Japan Pro Wrestling , and International Wrestling Association of Japan . Around this time, he started using
1728-515: The "Hayabusa" attire to reveal his briefs. Kodo Fuyuki and Hido defeated Mr. Gannosuke and Yukihiro Kanemura to win the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship on March 29. They lost the title to Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka on April 17. TNR competed in five matches at FMW's first pay-per-view 9th Anniversary Show . Hido won the first match against ZEN's Hideki Hosaka . Jado and Gedo defeated Ricky Fuji and John Kronus in
1800-714: The 1980s and 1990s as the leader of 6-man tag team Fuyuki-Gun with Gedo and Jado . He is also known as a mainstay of FMW where he was the arch rival of the company's top star Hayabusa and a founding member of the stable Team No Respect included Kintaro Kanemura , Hideki Hosaka , Masao Orihara , Tetsuhiro Kuroda , Mr. Gannosuke , Koji Nakagawa , Horace Boulder , Super Leather , Hido , Gedo and Jado. Trained by Isao Yoshihara, Hiromichi Fuyuki made his professional wrestling debut in International Pro Wrestling on May 4, 1980, one week before his 20th birthday. Three months later, IWE folded, and Fuyuki applied to
1872-593: The 6-Man Tag Team Championship while Yukihiro Kanemura failed to win the Independent Heavyweight Championship from Masato Tanaka and Mr. Gannosuke unsuccessfully challenged Hayabusa for the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship in Eiji Ezaki's last match as Hayabusa. After the match, Fuyuki came out to present Hayabusa with the flowers once again and then TNR attacked him and tore his mask and clothes. Shoichi Arai pleaded TNR to stop doing so but he
1944-641: The All Japan Pro Wrestling Dojo. In August 1981, after spending a year training in the dojo, he made his debut in All Japan Pro Wrestling . In November 1984, he went on an excursion of North America, where he made stops in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and San Antonio, Texas, where he wrestled under the name Ricky Fuyuki , in honor of his childhood idol, Riki Choshu . He would also wrestle in Memphis under
2016-507: The Apex of Triangle Championship at a show for Kodo Fuyuki's World Entertainment Wrestling (WEW), a replacement for FMW, which closed in 2002. Hido turned on Kuroda and helped the opposing team win the match. Hido reformed TNR with Fuyuki, Kanemura, Dick Togo and Orihara's Far East Connection group but the reunion did not last long as the group quietly closed in 2003 due to Fuyuki's death. The group performed TNR Dances on many occasions to pay tribute to
2088-511: The Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship in his last match under the gimmick against frequent rival Mr. Gannosuke in the main event of the show. Kodo Fuyuki deactivated the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship and the Independent Heavyweight Championship and created the WEW Single Championship in place of the double titles. After the retirement of the "Hayabusa" character, Eiji Ezaki announced that he would begin competing as "H". H
2160-420: The Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship to Hayabusa and Daisuke Ikeda. TNR was successful on November 20 as Mr. Gannosuke returned to FMW under the guise of Jinsei Shinzaki at the event and defeated Tetsuhiro Kuroda. Yukihiro Kanemura asked him about his antics but Gannosuke refused to answer and walked out on TNR. Go Ito and Hido defeated Kaori Nakayama and Ricky Fuji in an intergender tag team match . Later at
2232-513: The Commissioner of the company. Later at the show, the FMW team of Masato Tanaka, Hayabusa, Hideki Hosaka, Hisakatsu Oya and Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeated TNR in an elimination tag team match. On June 13, Koji Nakagawa and Gedo defeated Tanaka and Kuroda to win the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. On June 15, Sena Wakana walked out on Fuyuki and TNR by leaving with Flying Kid Ichihara, who had been beaten by Jado. Hayabusa, Tanaka and Kuroda defeated
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2304-541: The July tour in August 1999 as a continuation of the "Goodbye Hayabusa" series. The three events concluded with the end of Hayabusa's character. The first event Haunted House took place on August 20 at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo , Japan . At the event, Hayabusa unleashed his "darkside" for the final time and the event was headlined by Masato Tanaka beating Mr. Gannosuke for the FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship . The second event Hayabusa Graduation Ceremony aired as
2376-433: The October 6 pay-per-view against Hayabusa for his Double Championship, where Hayabusa retained the title. The show also featured Daisuke Ikeda and Ricky Fuji defeat Gedo and Hido with the help of Kaori Nakayama , who prevented Go Ito from interfering. TNR defeated Hayabusa and Ricky Fuji in a handicap match when Fuyuki pinned Hayabusa to become the #1 contender for the Double Championship. On October 26, New Footloose lost
2448-598: The WEW Tag Team Championship to Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hisakatsu Oya. Yukihiro Kanemura lost to the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship to Hayabusa. Following the match, Fuyuki offered flowers and handshake to Hayabusa which the latter shook. At Goodbye Hayabusa II: Last Match, Jado defeated Flying Kid Ichihara once again with the stipulation that Sena Wakana had to strip her bra and panties and as she began to do it, Jado stopped it by saying that he did not want to see her naked anyway. The event also saw TNR retain
2520-522: The WEW World Heavyweight Championship to Masato Tanaka in a loser leaves FMW 13,000 volt electrical thunderbolt cage deathmatch , forcing Fuyuki to leave FMW. H defeated Hayabusa in the main event, with Shawn Michaels as the special guest referee. H and Gannosuke reconciled after the match and formed a tag team, which led to Gannosuke turning fan favorite and leaving TNR. Following the departure of Kodo Fuyuki and Mr. Gannosuke from
2592-613: The World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship and regained it later in the night as Fuyuki, Kanemura and Nakagawa defeated Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka and Hisakatsu Oya to win the title. On June 19, Super Leather took on Hido in a loser leaves TNR match due to his recent losing streak and TNR helped Hido in beating Leather and then Go Ito publicly fired Leather from the group. Later at the event, TNR lost to FMW's Hayabusa, Hisakatsu Oya, Ricky Fuji and Daisuke Ikeda . TNR would then split into two rivalries and that were against FMW and
2664-439: The World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Masato Tanaka, Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hisakatsu Oya. A day later, Fuyuki replaced the Independent Heavyweight Championship and the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship with the WEW Single Championship and created a new WEW Hardcore Championship and awarded it to Yukihiro Kanemura, who changed his name to "Kintaro Kanemura". TNR brought a bag and revealed Shoichi Arai's body in
2736-440: The World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to ZEN's Atsushi Onita, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda . After the match, TNR attacked the match referee Go Ito, forcing him to walk on crutches. This turned out to be a ruse as Ito joined TNR by attacking Nakagawa with his crutch in the back to cost Nakagawa and Kuroda, a Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship opportunity against Gannosuke and Kanemura on February 19. Later in
2808-465: The bag and then the group circled around it and urinated on it. TNR's Hayabusa began feuding with H while Fuyuki picked up a rivalry with Tanaka. Shoichi Arai helped Tanaka beat Fuyuki, Kanemura and Jado in a handicap match . TNR and their mystery partner Chocoball Mukai lost to H, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Flying Kid Ichihara and Yoshinori Sasaki in the main event. H and Hayabusa competed in an anus explosion match on October 29, during which Hayabusa tied H in
2880-408: The company between 1998 and 2000. The ideology of the group was that they disrespected all the wrestlers in FMW as well as the company's management and President Shoichi Arai . TNR was formed after Mr. Gannosuke , Yukihiro Kanemura and Hido turned on their ZEN leader Atsushi Onita out of jealousy with Onita due to his high ego and selfishness and formed a major alliance with Fuyuki-Gun . TNR
2952-495: The control over FMW. Onita wanted to maintain the deathmatch style in FMW which made the company successful while Fuyuki wanted to transform it into sports entertainment and had won the support of the majority of FMW's locker room, who were upset at Onita due to his egoism and selfishness. In early 1998, TNR introduced a new gimmick for TNR called "Brief Brothers" in which they would undress to reveal their briefs and held many hilarious pranks which would help TNR get over with
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3024-446: The corner and pulled down his shorts to place a firecracker in his G-string , which exploded. At 10th Anniversary Show , Koji Nakagawa, Gedo and Jado lost to Ricky Fuji, Flying Kid Ichihara and Chocoball Mukai in a ladder match for the vacant 6-Man Tag Team Championship. Later in the show, Hido lost a mixed martial arts match to Willie Williams . Kanemura retained the Hardcore Championship against ECW 's Balls Mahoney . Fuyuki lost
3096-773: The event, Battlarts defeated TNR and Gannosuke's Outlaws in an elimination match. In the main event, Fuyuki retained the Double Championship against Tetsuhiro Kuroda and TNR reunited as Gannosuke and Jado rejoined the group and they did their signature TNR Dance to their theme song "Come Out and Play". TNR turned villains again and Fuyuki revealed that he had become the new FMW Commissioner and they reverted to feuding with Hayabusa and FMW. Following TNR's reunion, Kodo Fuyuki brought in porn star Sena Wakana as his valet and awarded his Independent Heavyweight Championship to Mr. Gannosuke and Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship to Yukihiro Kanemura. On May 31, FMW President Shoichi Arai joined TNR who had been brainwashed by Fuyuki into making him
3168-488: The event, Kodo Fuyuki defeated Hayabusa to win the Double Championship. Shoichi Arai stripped TNR off the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship and awarded it to the departing Atsushi Onita as a tribute for setting up the company and making it very successful. An Over the Top Tournament was set up during which problems arose between the team of Ono and Orihara and the rest of TNR beginning with Hido beating Ono in
3240-727: The event, Kodo Fuyuki defeated Yukihiro Kanemura in a non-title match and then Fuyuki announced that TNR would no longer be looking for control over FMW. On January 6, Fuyuki retained the Double Championship against Hisakatsu Oya and then TNR officially turned fan favorites by quitting their villainous tactics. Jado and Go Ito disagreed with Fuyuki and quit TNR. TNR began feuding with Gannosuke's Outlaws and Fuyuki rescued Hayabusa from an assault on February 21 to end his feud with Hayabusa and form an alliance. TNR also began feuding with Battlarts group. During this time, TNR formed an alliance with Hayabusa's Team Phoenix to feud with Gannosuke's Outlaws and Battlarts. Hayabusa and Fuyuki participated in
3312-410: The fans. During one skit, they pulled a rag on their member Hido and had Jado portray Hido's wife Megumi Kudo as "Megumi Jado" and they conducted a "wedding" between Hido and Megumi Jado. On March 17, TNR mocked the fans into believing that Hayabusa had joined the group by having Hayabusa appear to join them and then he unmasked himself to reveal Yukihiro Kanemura in a Hayabusa outfit and then he removed
3384-468: The final. Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda took on Kodo Fuyuki , Koji Nakagawa and Gedo in the final of the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship tournament as Fuyuki's team got the advantage by topping the round-robin stage. After a back and forth match, Fuyuki performed a running lariat on Hayabusa to win the title. Three more events were conducted as farewell to the " Hayabusa " character following
3456-474: The final. On July 29, Hayabusa, Tanaka and Kuroda fought Gannosuke, Kanemura and Jado to a time limit draw, giving the advantage to the latter team and they qualified for the semi-final. The teams of Hayabusa, Tanaka and Kuroda and Super Leather and Armageddon would compete in a decision match on the July 31 show airing on pay-per-view. The seventh show of the "Goodbye Hayabusa" tour aired live on pay-per-view via DirecTV . The event took place on July 31, 1999 at
3528-587: The first show of the Super Extreme Wrestling War when Onita booked himself in the main event , which angered Mr. Gannosuke and Yukihiro Kanemura , who thought that their FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship match deserved to be the main event of the show. They were irate of Onita's egoism and selfishness. On December 22, Onita, Gannosuke and Kanemura lost a WarGames match to Masato Tanaka , Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki after Hayabusa pinned Onita. Gannosuke and Kanemura attacked Onita after
3600-753: The group, TNR began to lose influence and main event status in FMW and were relegated to mid-card status and Kintaro Kanemura took over as the leader of the group. On December 11, Koji Nakagawa, Jado and Gedo defeated Ricky Fuji, Chocoball Mukai and Flying Kid Ichihara to win the 6-Man Tag Team Championship and Kintaro Kanemura successfully defended the WEW Hardcore Championship against ECW's Axl Rotten . On December 12, Hido left TNR and changed his ring name to "Willie Takayama" in honor of Willie Williams, to whom he had lost at 10th Anniversary Show. TNR defeated ECW's Yoshihiro Tajiri , Super Crazy and Hardcore Chair Swingin' Freaks (Balls Mahoney and Axl Rotten) in
3672-474: The group. Hiromichi Fuyuki Hiromichi Fuyuki ( 冬木 弘道 , Fuyuki Hiromichi ) (May 11, 1960 – March 19, 2003) was a Japanese professional wrestler and promoter better known by his ring name Kodo Fuyuki ( 冬木 弘道 , Fuyuki Kōdō ) best known for his time in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), Wrestle Association R (WAR) and other Japanese and international promotions during
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#17328943215583744-514: The main event, TNR achieved more success as Fuyuki defeated the company's ace Hayabusa in the first-time ever match between the two. Gannosuke demanded that Shoichi Arai set up a tournament to determine the #1 contender for his Double Championship. Kanemura and Jado were entered into the tournament and both men won their quarter-final matches against Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda on March 7 respectively, but lost to The Gladiator and Hayabusa in their respective semi-final matches. Hayabusa won
3816-417: The match and he was out of action for six months. Following Mr. Gannosuke's injury, Kodo Fuyuki took over as the leader of TNR. On May 5, Onita agreed to end ZEN if Fuyuki, Yukihiro Kanemura and Hido were able to beat him, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in a street fight for the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship. TNR won the title, forcing ZEN to disband. On May 19, Fuyuki and Kanemura formed
3888-404: The match and left ZEN, along with Hido . On January 7, 1998, Onita, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeated the trio of Gannosuke, Kanemura and Hido at ZEN's first show. Kodo Fuyuki and Jado attacked ZEN after the match and joined Gannosuke and Kanemura in a meeting in their locker rooms, where Kanemura named the merger "Team No Respect". Gannosuke became the leader of the group as he
3960-669: The name Mr. Helo , teaming with " Mr. Shima , and was managed by Tojo Yamamoto . In December 1985, he returned to AJPW, under the name Samson Fuyuki , and began teaming with Toshiaki Kawada , under the team name " Footloose ". As members of Genichiro Tenryu 's Revolution Army, Footloose captured the All Asia Tag Team Championship three times between March 9, 1988 and October 20, 1989. Footloose would disband in April 1990, as Kawada teamed with Tiger Mask II , who would later unmask, revealing himself as Mitsuharu Misawa , during
4032-434: The next year, he planned to come out of retirement and had been scheduled to face Shinya Hashimoto before his death. Fuyuki died at approximately 6:50pm on March 19, 2003, after an almost year long battle with intestinal cancer. Fuyuki was perhaps the only wrestler to participate in a match posthumously, as the planned barbed wire deathmatch with Hashimoto indeed went ahead, with Kintaro Kanemura taking Fuyuki's place. After
4104-484: The opening round at ECW/FMW Supershow I . Orihara low blowed Hido during the quarter-final match at ECW/FMW Supershow II . Fuyuki also participated in the tournament but lost to Hisakatsu Oya in the opening round. On December 17, TNR let Orihara and Ono out of the group when Gedo caused them to get eliminated during a Come Out and Play match , which TNR eventually lost. Orihara and Ono gained their revenge on TNR by defeating Gedo and Hido on January 5, 1999. Later at
4176-530: The original TNR members Mr. Gannosuke, Yukihiro Kanemura and Hido in a ladder match where Fuyuki would be forced to eat dog food if TNR lost. Fuyuki chewed a bit of it and then spit it on Hayabusa's face and a brawl took place between TNR and FMW. Fuyuki instituted a governing body for FMW called World Entertainment Wrestling (WEW) and renamed Nakagawa and Gedo's FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship to WEW World Tag Team Championship . He slowly abandoned FMW titles and replaced them with WEW titles. He created
4248-434: The past few years and he was unable to do high-flying in the ring and he needed to change his wrestling style to mat wrestling, so he needed a character change. A series of events took place to feature farewell matches of the "Hayabusa" character titled Goodbye Hayabusa from July to August 1999. On July 2, Kodo Fuyuki announced the formation of a new WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship and four teams were selected to compete in
4320-595: The returning Atsushi Onita. On July 10, Nakagawa pinned Hayabusa in an elimination tag team match and Hayabusa wanted retribution by demanding a match with Hayabusa. On July 20, New Footloose defeated Yoshinori Sasaki and Mr. Pogo #2 and then attacked Shoichi Arai until Onita made the save and Go Ito suggested that he, Fuyuki, Nakagawa and Kanemura face Onita, Pogo #2, Sasaki and Arai in a match which stipulated that if TNR won, Arai would lose his presidency and if Onita's team won, then Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hideki Hosaka would be freed from TNR's slavery. Onita's team defeated TNR in
4392-550: The ring and as Fuyuki came, Oya removed his wig to reveal his bald head. The next match was a decision match in the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship tournament pitting Hayabusa , Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda against Super Leather , Armageddon #1 and Armageddon #2 . Hayabusa performed a Firebird Splash on Leather to win the match and to qualify for the semi-final match against Jado , Mr. Gannosuke and Yukihiro Kanemura . Hayabusa slapped Jado and rolled him up to qualify for
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#17328943215584464-479: The team of Kodo Fuyuki , Koji Nakagawa and Gedo in the final. Fuyuki, Nakagawa and Gedo became the inaugural 6-Man Tag Team Champions when Fuyuki performed a Lariat on Hayabusa. Yoshinori Sasaki defeated Naohiko Yamazaki in the opening match by performing a Nodowa Otoshi . Flying Kid Ichihara got a disqualification victory against Team No Respect member Hido . Hisakatsu Oya defeated Hiroshi Usumi with an octopus hold and then called Kodo Fuyuki out to
4536-805: The title on May 3. At 11th Anniversary Show , Kanemura defeated Ryuji Yamakawa to win the Hardcore Championship while Gedo, Jado and Nakagawa retained the 6-Man Tag Team Championship against Willie Williams, former TNR member Willie Takayama and Williams' students Bouzu and Megane. On May 28, Nakagawa turned on Jado and Gedo during a 6-Man Tag Team Championship defense against Kodo Fuyuki, Kyoko Inoue and Chocoball Mukai and left TNR to join Fuyuki's Shin Fuyuki-Gun group. This forced Kanemura to finally disband TNR on June 16 as he joined Shin Fuyuki-Gun. On September 14, 2002, Hido, Tetsuhiro Kuroda and TAKA Michinoku took on Dick Togo , Kintaro Kanemura and Masao Orihara for
4608-568: The top wrestlers and was the main heel. In August 1993, Fuyuki was invited by New Japan Pro-Wrestling to participate in the G1 Climax tournament; he defeated Takayuki Iizuka in the first round, but lost to Masahiro Chono in the quarterfinals. In 1994, he would make a brief stint in EMLL in Mexico, once again under the name Samson Fuyuki , feuding with Vampiro . In early 1994, he started teaming with Jado and Gedo as Fuyuki-Gun , with whom he held
4680-399: The tournament to become the #1 contender to Gannosuke's title. On March 13, Horace Boulder was brought in as TNR's newest member alongside Hido, Gannosuke and Kanemura during a street fight against ZEN, which TNR won. TNR and ZEN's feud would also develop a singles rivalry between Kodo Fuyuki and ZEN leader Atsushi Onita, stemming from the legitimate backstage conflict between the two on
4752-492: The trio defeated Hayabusa, Hisakatsu Oya and Masato Tanaka to capture the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship , the first title that was won by TNR. As a result, Gannosuke held all major FMW's men's titles. TNR soon gained more members as Fuyuki-Gun member Gedo returned to FMW and Super Leather joined the group and TNR's ally Hido also became an official member. On February 13, Gannosuke, Kanemura and Jado lost
4824-476: Was an unmasked cool dude wearing jeans and shirts and was completely different than the serious Hayabusa. He debuted the character on August 27 and continued his war with Team No Respect but the character failed to get over with the fans and attendance declined, forcing FMW to revive the Hayabusa character on July 23, 2000. Team No Respect Team No Respect was a professional wrestling faction in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), which existed in
4896-416: Was attacked as well, thus leaving TNR. Hayabusa would then go by the ring name "H". On August 27, H eliminated all the members of TNR in an elimination match and re-injured Gannosuke's knee by dropkicking him in the same knee which H had injured a year ago. On September 3, Gannosuke attacked H under a Hayabusa disguise and said that he would compete as Hayabusa from then onwards. On September 23, TNR lost
4968-612: Was finally forced to close the promotion in March 2002, one month after it filed for bankruptcy. Soon after the close of FMW, Fuyuki opened his own promotion, World Entertainment Wrestling, and briefly appeared in WEW before announcing his retirement after being diagnosed with cancer. Wrestling his last match at a retirement show held by Pro Wrestling Noah , Fuyuki teamed with Yoshinari Ogawa & Mitsuharu Misawa to defeat Tamon Honda , Masao Inoue & Tsuyoshi Kikuchi on April 14, 2002. Although continuing to promote events for WEW during
5040-552: Was for the next night and TNR won again with Tetsuhiro Kuroda being forced to become TNR's slave. On May 27, New Footloose defeated Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka to win the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. On May 31, New Footloose defended the title against Atsushi Onita and Koji Nakagawa, during which Nakagawa turned on Onita by hitting him with a crutch to end Onita's alliance and joined TNR. TNR misused Hosaka and Kuroda and Nakagawa would often beat and attack his former ZEN teammates to prove his loyalty to TNR. On June 1, TNR vacated
5112-502: Was the company's top villain and the reigning Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion and Independent Heavyweight Champion . TNR primarily feuded with ZEN and FMW's team and TNR also got the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship held by Gannosuke and Kanemura. TNR's first match together took place on January 9, in which Gannosuke, Kanemura and Jado defeated Hayabusa, Jinsei Shinzaki and Ricky Fuji . On January 16,
5184-414: Was the most popular , successful and influential stable in the history of FMW and were involved in FMW's major storylines and rivalries during its two and a half year existence. Atsushi Onita had formed ZEN in late 1997, which quickly removed W*ING and Funk Masters of Wrestling from FMW and absorbed the members of the groups into ZEN. Jealousy arose within the group on December 19, 1997, during
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