Misplaced Pages

#757242

51-453: The promotion began in an attempt to show the Mexican fans the wrestling style that was practiced during the nineties in foreign promotions like FMW and ECW . The promotion was founded in 2001 and closed in 2005. However, the promotion was restarted in 2009. In 2000, Ocampo, who was then working for the magazine Luchas 2000 , had a meeting with Antonio Peña , the owner of AAA , to show him

102-423: A "Banishment" match to his old friend Mazada, and was forced to leave All Japan. Soon after that, he would reappear as a masked wrestler named Space Lone Wolf (Keiji Mutoh's old alter-ego), finding more success than his previous character. However, by December, Space Lone Wolf would be unmasked and revealed as being Nosawa. In 2006, Nosawa would begin again wrestling with his old friend Mazada again, and for parts of

153-495: A Minoru Suzuki promoted charity event, losing to Suzuki in the main event. Since September 2013, Tokyo Gurentai, Nosawa included, has worked regularly for Wrestle-1 . Since April 2015, Nosawa joined the newly resurrected Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling , as the leader of Monster-gun, which evolved into W*ING Monster-gun, when Kintaro Kanemura joined the group. On August 27, 2017, Nosawa, as Black Tiger VII, teamed with Taka Michinoku to defeat Atsushi Aoki and Hikaru Sato for

204-455: A Pro-Wrestling A-Tean (Apache Army's successor promotion) event. After this he would come back as a wrestler having matches with Combat Zone Wrestling , Big Japan Pro-Wrestling , World Wonder Ring Stardom and DDT Pro-Wrestling . In 2021, Onita announced that he would be starting Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling-Explosion , a promotion under the FMW name that specialized in exploding death matches,

255-465: A Western audience as FMW could now be seen officially on VHS and DVD in the United States . They would go on to release 12 programs which were old FMW cards shortened down to feature the best matches or they were compilations of specific talent like Hayabusa. They also featured dubbed commentary from Eric Gellar and John Watanabe. Later releases would feature Dan Lovranski replacing Eric Gellar. As

306-399: A changing of the guard as Onita would retire and Hayabusa would step up and be the face of FMW. Onita would go on and sell the company to FMW ring announcer, Shoichi Arai . The Shoichi Arai era of FMW would end up issuing changes to the promotion and gave the promotion a new look and feel. Arai would slowly phase out the deathmatches that Atsushi Onita would help popularize and what put

357-473: A ladder three-way dance where the winner would take the belt, while the two losers would face in a lucha de apuestas match. The competitors were Crazy Boy , Brazo de Plata Jr. and Pirata Morgan, Jr. The winner was Brazo de Plata Jr., so he was awarded with the belt. In the apuestas match, Crazy Boy shaved the Pirate, then bet his mask against Brazo de Plata's belt. The new champion agreed, and right there start

408-460: A letter from his storyline mentor The Great Muta , saying that Muta was coming to JCW to check up on his pupil, Nosawa stepped up his game and began a winning streak. At "East Side Wars", The Great Muta teamed with Nosawa to help him defeat the team of Mad Man Pondo and Necro Butcher. By the following week however, The Great Muta had left. Despite this, Nosawa continued his winning streak into episode 14, where he faced and defeated Ron Zombie. During

459-611: A losing effort against Junta Miyawaki, Alejandro and Yasutaka Yano. On February 21, 2023 , Rongai would have his retirement match where he teamed with Mazada in a losing effort against Bullet Club ( Taiji Ishimori and Gedo ). On May 23, 2012, Nosawa and former girlfriend Io Shirai were arrested at the Narita International Airport in Narita, Chiba upon their return from Mexico to Japan under suspicion of trying to smuggle 75 grams of marijuana , hidden inside paintings of

510-434: A match type in which Onita became famous for. The new promotion will have Hidetaka Kajiki serving as president. Onita stated he got the idea for the promotion after All Elite Wrestling 's 2021 Revolution PPV in which the event held an exploding barbed wire death match and seeing that there was still a market for these types of matches internationally in the pro wrestling world and with the popularity of online media streaming

561-548: A nasty gash on his arm. Onita would take it one step further as he would go on to have the first ever exploding barbed wire match in August of 1990, as he challenged his rival, Tarzan Goto . As the years would progress further, we would see an influx of American & Foreign talent begin to appear in FMW with talent ranging from Chris Jericho , Lance Storm , The Original Sheik , Sabu , Damián 666 , Dr. Luther , Leon Spinks , Tiger Jeet Singh and so forth. During these years,

SECTION 10

#1732902659758

612-658: A project to form a hardcore stable within the company, knowing that Paul Heyman had offered Peña the opportunity to acquire shares of ECW (which at that time was in financial troubles), which would have given the rights to create an "ECW Mexico" group in AAA. Given the refusal of Peña, Ocampo and fellow journalist Manuel Flores began to work on creating their own promotion, raising money for months. In December 2000, both traveled to Tijuana to signing several luchadores with experience in hardcore wrestling, like Damian 666 , Halloween and Nicho el Millonario . The venue chosen to debut

663-562: A second show in El Toreo headlined by a mask vs. hair match between Hijo del Santo and Perro Aguayo, but the idea was scrapped due to the forced retirement of Aguayo after a similar match between him and Universo 2000 in the Arena Mexico . Instead of run Toreo again, a tour was prepared, which was originally called SIEGE, but was renamed LAW AND disORDER. The tour has four dates: Tulancingo, Aguascalientes, Tultitlán and Tlalnepantla. Originally,

714-491: A successor promotion, Apache Pro-Wrestling Army , which continued the WEW titles until 2016 when Kanemura retired and closed the promotion. Today the WEW titles are administered by Tomohiko Hashimoto 's Pro-Wrestling A-Team promotion. On April 3, 2015, Hideki Takahashi, Hayabusa and Choden Senshi Battle Ranger held a press conference, announcing they were reviving FMW under the new name "Chō Sentō Puroresu FMW". Takahashi would serve as

765-544: A tumor in December 2015. She would succumb to the disease in 2018, she was 36 years old. On March 3, 2016, Haybusa would pass away at his home from a brain aneurysm, he was 47 years old. On October 31, 2017, FMW founder Atsushi Onita retired after 43 years in the ring. The promotion held its most recent event as Chō Sentō Puroresu FMW in 2018. Although not officially closing once again the revival seemed to have been forgotten about. In 2018, Onita would come out of retirement at

816-722: Is a Japanese retired professional wrestler , best known for his appearances in All Japan Pro Wrestling and various independent promotions. Nosawa spent most of his early career training and wrestling in Mexico , most notably with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He also spent much of his early career competing on the U.S. independent scene, Nosawa has competed for American promotions such as Ring of Honor (ROH), Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), and Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW). Along with Mitsunobu Kikuzawa , Kazuhiko Masada , Minoru Fujita and Katsushi Takemura , Nosawa created

867-710: The Champion Carnival , Nosawa switched his name to El Nosawa Mendoza and formed a new stable called "Los Mexico Amigos", with Pepe Michinoku (Taka Michinoku) and Miguel Hayashi, Jr ( Kaz Hayashi ). Nobutaka Araya then joined the team as El Hijo del Araya Segundo after the Carnival's final show. Along with changing their names, the group wore the official colors of the Mexican Flag (Red/Green/White). After multiple bouts against Minoru Suzuki , Nosawa offered Suzuki an invitation into Mexico Amigos, to which he declined. This resulted in

918-486: The Global Professional Wrestling Alliance (GPWA) banner up until the alliance's demise, sometimes alongside his mentor Keiji Mutoh . On February 20, 2011, Nosawa was arrested on charges of stealing a taxi and driving it without having a driving license. Two days later Nosawa announced that he was taking an indefinite break from professional wrestling. Nosawa returned from his break on June 25 at

969-648: The XPW Heavyweight Championship. The card also featured the first ever ladder match in Mexico, with Rey Misterio, Sr. and Halloween vs. El Mosco and Depredador. The show was heavily promoted in Luchas 2000 magazine and in other publications like La Afición newspaper and the Tijuana based Frontera daily The show was held on March 4, 2001 gathering a crowd of 7000 people. After Génesis, Ocampo and Flores planned

1020-413: The booker , he would put forth his vision on how FMW should be run as Arai would sign the checks and book the arenas for the promotion. During this time, Onita would return to professional wrestling and start a faction that would rival FMW and they were known simply as ZEN . This group was loosely based on World Championship Wrestling 's group known as The New World Order . Onita would run shows under

1071-448: The "Tokyo Gurentai". Nosawa, Mazada, and Takemura later align themselves with Minoru Suzuki and Taiyō Kea , and dubbed their new group GURENTAI. Nosawa won a game of Jenga for the group's leadership role, but Suzuki immediately shot down the idea of Nosawa as the leader. Nosawa would later return to All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) and was defeated by Rene Dupree in his return match. Outside of AJPW, Nosawa performed for companies under

SECTION 20

#1732902659758

1122-580: The AJPW All Asia Tag Team Championship . They lost the title to Naoya Nomura and Yuma Aoyagi on September 30. Nosawa is currently working as the head booker for Pro Wrestling Noah . In December 2020, Kotaro Suzuki aligned himself with Rongai and his mystery partner, who later revealed to be Ikuto Hidaka . Over the following months, the trio continued their rivalry with Stinger , while also being joined by Yo-Hey in May 2021 following

1173-613: The Pro Wrestling Unplugged/Juggalo Championship Wrestling cross promotional event "Cuffed & Caged: Last Man Standing". Nosawa was featured in the main event War Games match as a member of Team JCW. In 2007, Nosawa went on tour with JCW to film the Internet wrestling show SlamTV! , where he was one of the main heroes of the program. However, he started off his SlamTV! tour with a string of losses, going 0–5 in his first five matches. After receiving

1224-516: The ZEN label and these shows would feature FMW talent. Hayabusa would continue to be featured as the ace of FMW and would go on to feud with the likes of Mr. Gannosuke , Kintaro Kanemura , and, Tetsuhiro Kuroda . As the booker of FMW, Kodo Fuyuki also continued to wrestle and he would go on to help form the top heel faction known as Team No Respect . In 2000, FMW would sign a distribution deal with Tokyopop which would help get their product out to

1275-621: The company on the map and would bring in a more "sports entertainment" look and feel for the promotion that would be almost similar to that of the WWE . In a nod to the WWE, the old Brass Knuckles and Independent championships were abandoned and replaced with new titles, the World Entertainment Wrestling (WEW) championships. Arai would enlist the help of professional wrestler , Kodo Fuyuki as both men would usher in this new era. Having Fuyuki as

1326-673: The company would be at Victory Road '04 , where both Nosawa and Miyamoto competed in the X-Division Gauntlet match, which was won by Hector Garza . Nosawa would originally find little success after arriving in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) in the mid-2000s, losing as many matches as he won. On March 20, 2005, he received an opportunity at the World Junior Heavyweight Championship , but would lose to defending champion Taka Michinoku . On July 26, he lost

1377-511: The crowds continued to decrease, the amount of debt became too much for Arai, as he finally decided to announce that he has filed for bankruptcy and FMW would go on to have their final show on February 4, 2002. As 2001 came to a close, it was stated that Arai owed the sum of what would be the equivalent of one million US dollars to yakuza due to the money he would constantly borrow but never pay back. Running out of options, on May 16, 2002, Shoichi Arai would commit suicide so his family could collect

1428-509: The disbandment of Full Trottle. The following month, Dragon Gate wrestler Eita , who had previously worked in Mexican wrestling promotions and met Rongai in 2017, was revealed to be the newest member of the group. On June 27, at Muta The World, the stable's name was revealed to be dubbed Los Perros del Mal de Japón, as a tribute to the Mexican stable Los Perros del Mal after Eita, Rongai and Yo-Hey won against Stinger (Yoshinari Ogawa, Seiki Yoshioka and Yuya Susumu ). A brawl began between

1479-520: The entire roster of Genesis was contemplated, but was reduced, although they added two wrestlers from the Philadelphia-based promotion Combat Zone Wrestling : John Zandig and Wifebeater . During this tour the company crowned its first Tag Team Champions when, in a rematch from the precedent ladder match, El Mosco and Depredador beat Rey Misterio, Sr. and Halloween. One day later, in Tlalnepantla,

1530-656: The first round to Juventud Guerrera; he then reappeared as captain of Team Japan in the 2004 World X Cup , where he ended up placing last by the end of the tournament. Nosawa would go on to make sporadic appearances on the early episodes of TNA Impact , usually teaming up with fellow Japanese rookie Kazushi Miyamoto . The duo even challenged for the NWA World Tag Team Championship at TNA's second Anniversary show in June 2004, but ultimately came up short against America's Most Wanted . The duo's last in-ring appearance for

1581-504: The group " Tokyo Gurentai ". In 2004, he would adapt the " Nosawa Rongai " or " Nosawa Out of the Question " ring name as a play off to a comment made by Kaz Hayashi , who had replied "Nosawa is out of the question" when he was asked about whether he was going to allow Kazushige to challenge for the World Junior Heavyweight Championship . By doing this, Nosawa forced a title match against Hayashi, and although he lost, he would decide to keep

Xtreme Latin American Wrestling - Misplaced Pages Continue

1632-413: The group changing multiple assets. Their name was changed to Mexico Amigos Black, the previous worn Mexican Flag attire became black and gold attire, and Araya was kicked out of the group. Later in the year, Mexico Amigos teamed with "Ray Suzuki" to defeat the team of Ryuji Hijikata, Kikutaro, T28 and Ryuji Yamaguchi. After the match, Ray Suzuki revealed himself as Minoru Suzuki. Suzuki stated that starting

1683-433: 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 (超戦闘プロレスFMW, Chō Sentō Puroresu FMW). With the resurrected FMW not holding any events since 2018, Onita announced in 2021 that he would be starting Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling-Explosion (FMW-E) in which

1734-418: The life insurance to pay back the money owed to the yakuza. The talent divided into two promotions: Kodo Fuyuki's World Entertainment Wrestling (WEW), the name of FMW's title governing body since 1999, and Mr. Gannosuke 's Wrestlings Marvelous Future (WMF). Some of the talent also made appearances on Onita's special shows. Following Fuyuki's death in 2003, most of the WEW talent under Kintaro Kanemura formed

1785-598: The match, Justin Credible came to the ring and assaulted Nosawa. On the next episode, Nosawa interfered in Credible's match by spitting Asian mist into his eyes. At Bloodymania , Nosawa and The Great Muta teamed up again to defeat Justin Credible and 2 Cold Scorpio . On October 6, 2007, Corporal Robinson , Scott Hall , and Violent J formed the Juggalo World Order (JWO) at Evansville Invasion . At that year's Hallowicked After Party , on October 31, Shaggy 2 Dope

1836-479: The match, which was won by Crazy Boy. Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling-Explosion ( FMW-E ) is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded on July 28, 1989, by Atsushi Onita as Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (フロンティア・マーシャルアーツ・レスリング,Furontia Māsharuātsu Resuringu) ( FMW ). The promotion specializes in hardcore wrestling involving weapons such as barbed wire and fire. They held their first show on October 6, 1989. In

1887-588: The name for the rest of his career. On March 16, 2003, at a Juggalo Championship Wrestling (JCW) event, Nosawa defeated "Ritchie Boy" Breyer Wellington to win the JCW Heavyweight Championship . Later that year, he was featured on JCW Vol. 3 in a match where he again defeated Wellington. In July 2004, Nosawa lost the championship to Kid Kash at the Gathering of the Juggalos . In 2007, he took part in

1938-603: The new champions defended successfully the belts against El Dólar & El Duende, but were challenged by Damián and Halloween. In the same show, the match take place, being won by the members of La Familia de Tijuana. On June 17, 2001, the last day of the tour, Sabu pinned Nosawa in a deathmatch. On December 16, 2001, was held the X-LAW XMAS show in Unidad Deportiva Javier Rojo Gómez, Tulancingo . In that show, X-LAW crowned its first Jr. Heavyweight Champion in

1989-425: The new promotion was El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos , a bullring that for more than two decades host the shows of UWA . Ocampo and Flores also signed ECW wrestlers Super Crazy , Nova and Yoshihiro Tajiri (who was about to start working for WWE ), and former ECW stars Sabu and Juventud Guerrera . X-LAW also established ties with Último Dragón promotion Toryumon , booking for the show almost all his students at

2040-457: The new promotion was formed. The promotion, however, held its last card to date on December 19, 2021, after which Onita went freelance yet again. In October 2022, FMW-E started back up promoting cards. Deceased individuals are indicated with a dagger (†). Nosawa Kazushige Nosawa ( 野沢一茂 , Nosawa Kazushige ) , better known by his ring names Nosawa and Nosawa Rongai ( NOSAWA論外 , Nosawa Rongai ) , (born December 17, 1976)

2091-543: The next year Mendoza would throw his Amigos tights away and return to the Nosawa Rongai ring name, Suzuki then kidnapped Nosawa to start his "early training". This was followed by Pepe and Miguel announcing they would return to Mexico, while Kaz Hayashi and Taka Michinoku were announced as returning to All Japan come the new year. After one last "Viva Mexico", Los Mexico Amigos disbanded. Since disbanding from Mexico Amigos, Nosawa has rejoined teaming with Mazada and Takemura as

Xtreme Latin American Wrestling - Misplaced Pages Continue

2142-586: The president and Hayabusa as the executive producer of the promotion, which would also feature participation from Atsushi Onita. The promotion held its first event on April 21. On October 30, 2015, they announced that they were reviving the FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship , as they set a match to determine new champions on December 22. In 2016, two tragedies had befallen FMW. On February 17, 2016, Ray would announce that she had inoperable stage three brain cancer after being diagnosed with

2193-401: The promotion for his high flying style and it was known that Hayabusa was the "ace" of FMW. Onita was fixing to retire once again from professional wrestling and his retirement match was held at the annual May 5th, Kawasaki Stadium show. This was FMW's biggest show of the year and Onita would take on Hayabusa in an exploding barbed wire cage, timebomb deathmatch. This match now signified

2244-771: The promotion would specialize in exploding death matches . The promotion was highlighted in the third season of the Vice TV 's pro wrestling docuseries Dark Side of the Ring in September 2021. The Atsushi Onita era of FMW originally consisted of a promotion that featured not only professional wrestling but the best martial arts fighters in the world. Onita would bring in American talent that were known in Japan like Jos LeDuc and Dick Murdoch , as well female talent and midget wrestlers. As

2295-409: The time, who then integrated Toryumon 2000 Project (T2P). Another working relationship started with International Wrestling Association from Puerto Rico. IWA promoter Víctor Quiñones travel to Mexico with then IWA Heavyweight Champion Ricky Banderas and taped many segments for his IWA TV show. Two main events were announced: Hijo del Santo vs. Perro Aguayo , and Sabu vs. Damián 666 in a match for

2346-901: The two stables with Suzuki and Ikuto Hidaka coming to help them, outnumbering and overwhelming Stinger. Rongai later revealed that relatives of Perro Aguayo Jr. , the founders of the Los Perros del Mal, had granted him permission to use the stable's name. At Grand Square 2021 In Osaka, Eita and Rongai defeated Atsushi Kotoge and Hajime Ohara to win the GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship . At Noah The New Year 2023 on January 1, Rongai teamed up with Hiroshi Hase and Sugiura-gun members Kazuyuki Fujita and Kendo Kashin to defeat Kongo ( Katsuhiko Nakajima , Masakatsu Funaki , Manabu Soya and Hajime Ohara ). At The Great Muta Final "Bye-Bye" on January 22, Nosawa Rongai and Eita teamed up with Yoshinari Ogawa in

2397-596: The year would also team with Brute Issei and Akira . Towards the end of 2006, Nosawa and Mazada began to team up with Minoru Suzuki to form "Minoru Gundan", which landed Nosawa a more prominent role in the promotion. He and Suzuki would go on to wrestle in the World's Strongest Tag Determination League , but unfortunately the team would come in last place. In 2007, Nosawa promoted several comedy wrestling shows, making fun of Antonio Inoki 's Inoki Genome Federation and using both talent from All Japan, as well as freelancers. During

2448-430: The years progressed with FMW, Onita decided to phase out the martial arts aspect of the company and focus strictly on professional wrestling . Onita would go on to have violent and bloody matches like the first ever barbed wire match in the company where he would team with Tarzan Goto as they took on the team of Mitsuhiro Matsunaga and Jerry Flynn . Onita would use real barbed wire which resulted in him receiving

2499-423: The years progressed, the audiences for the live shows began to decrease and Arai would slowly sink further and further into debt. Tragedy struck the promotion on October 22, 2001, during a match with Hayabusa and Mammoth Sasaki. Hayabusa attempted a springboard moonsault —one of his signature moves—but he accidentally slipped on the ropes and fell directly on his neck, breaking it and paralyzing him. As

2550-408: The young Eiji Ezaki started to slowly work his way through the ranks. He was known as a prodigy in the world of wrestling and like a-lot of promotions in Japan do, send him on excursion away from the company as they will learn and develop. Ezaki would go on excursion to Mexico and wrestle for a couple of different promotions and developed the character of Hayabusa . Hayabusa became a fan favorite in

2601-468: Was introduced as a member of the group. After the main event of the night, special guest referee Nosawa ripped off his referee shirt to reveal that he, too, was a member of the JWO. Nosawa appeared in a few matches with the JWO, before returning to Japan. Nosawa would first gain national U.S. exposure by making appearances for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). He debuted at the 2003 Super X Cup , losing in

SECTION 50

#1732902659758
#757242