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FMW 1st Anniversary Show

FMW 1st Anniversary Show
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Information
Promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
Date November 5, 1990
Attendance 7,352
Venue Komazawa Gymnasium
City Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
Summer Spectacular in Shiodome FMW 1st Anniversary Show FMW 2nd Anniversary Show: Fall Spectacular
FMW Anniversary Show chronology
First FMW 1st Anniversary Show FMW 2nd Anniversary Show: Fall Spectacular

FMW 1st Anniversary Show was the first professional wrestling supercard produced by the Japanese professional wrestling promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event took place on November 5, 1990 at the Komazawa Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan and was held to celebrate the first anniversary of FMW, which was founded on July 28, 1989. This was the first edition of the Anniversary Show, FMW's biggest event of the year.

The main event was a Texas Deathmatch between the company's promoter and owner Atsushi Onita and Mr. Pogo for Onita's WWA Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. Onita won the match to retain the title.

FMW owner Atsushi Onita originally planned to hold the company's 1st Anniversary Show on October 19, 1990 at the Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Japan but the plans were shelved after the arena management did not allow FMW to hold their show at the venue due to their intense brutal and barbaric deathmatches and due to the brutality of a storyline, which Onita had worked with World Wrestling Council (WWC) in Puerto Rico to bring WWC wrestlers to compete at the event. In the storyline, he was brutally attacked by Invader I, Victor Quiñones, Mr. Pogo and El Gran Mendoza and a Japanese photographer took pics of his stitches. Onita and FMW received criticism and backlash from the Japanese audiences for working the storyline with Invader I (José González), who had murdered Bruiser Brody in reality, forcing FMW to withdraw the event from Sumo Hall and postpone it for November 5 and changed the venue to Komazawa Gymnasium.


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