Match of the Day

acuya wrote:Now, I'm a straight man, but...phew.

Hot under the collar.

Bluemouse wrote:I'll need to examine said swagger in order to make a fair judgement.

Sometimes we were ridiculed by the audience.
But Onita's ability as a producer was extraordinary.
He felt the limit of using Martial arts style and used Death Match Style instead.

I think the remarkable successful matches were on December 10, 1989 in a 'Pro-Wrestling vs. Karate in a Barbed Wire Death Match' by Onita & Tazan vs. Jerry Blayman & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga as well as August 4, 1990 in a No Rope Barbed wire Exploding Death Match by Atsushi Onita vs. Tarzan Goto.

The Barbed wire Explosion Death Match has become a synonym for FMW later. The first Barbed wire Explosion Death Match was held at Rail City Shiodome, Tokyo. It is next to JR (Japan Rail) Shinbashi Station, near Tokyo Bay. The land used to belong to the old JR. Nowadays, the area is filled by some new office buildings.

It was vacant for a few years for further development, and we used that open space for the event.
The audience went wild with cheering and screaming in the fire spark blast and the blood. Onita-san jumped into the barbed wire and his body was cut. After the match, wearing bloodied, sweated, and a torn up vest top/pants, he talked to the excited audience from the ring. He told them about his passion for the wrestling.
That was the origin of the 'Onita Theater'.

Since this match FMW became very famous.
Fearless, extremely appealing to the audience with the tears & blood.
It was the new wave called 'Jado Puroresu'. (Evil Way Wrestling)
Although people compared with those major wrestling teams and treated us like weirdoes we carried on our style.

Bluemouse wrote:On that note, was that Kota Ibushi? I've always said that Johnny is the Kota of Tension.