Summer Spectacular (1993)
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| Promotion | Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling | |||
| Date | August 22, 1993 | |||
| Attendance | 36,223 | |||
| Venue | Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium | |||
| City | Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan | |||
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Summer Spectacular (1993) was the second Summer Spectacular professional wrestling event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event took place on August 22, 1993 at the Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan.
Thirteen matches were contested at the event. In the main event, Atsushi Onita defeated Mr. Pogo in a no ropes exploding barbed wire time bomb cage deathmatch to win the new FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship, which replaced the WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship.
Mr. Pogo left W*ING as FMW had offered him an annual salary of $120,000, and he returned to FMW in June 1993 by attacking Atsushi Onita after a match and then quickly escaped in a car. The two men renewed their rivalry and Pogo joined Team Canada. On July 16, Pogo made his in-ring return to FMW with Big Titan and The Gladiator against Onita, Sambo Asako and Tarzan Goto in a street fight, which Pogo's team won. Onita defeated Pogo in a no ropes exploding barbed wire double hell deathmatch on July 24, which was the first singles encounter between the two since 1991 and a rematch was set up between the two at Summer Spectacular. Onita vacated his WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship as FMW's martial arts style had ended and FMW completely shifted to deathmatch wrestling style. Martial arts was limited only to kickboxer Katsuji Ueda's exhibition matches. The title was replaced by the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship, which would represent FMW's deathmatch competition and the title would be decided in Onita and Pogo's match. Onita combined his barbed wire cage match against Tarzan Goto from the 2nd Anniversary Show and the exploding ring time bomb stipulation against Terry Funk from the 4th Anniversary Show to make the first-ever no ropes exploding ring barbed wire time bomb cage deathmatch against Pogo at Summer Spectacular.
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