Added: 12/31

Atsushi Onita and Megumi Kudo held a press conference on December 16, 2014 at the ZERO1 Dojo in Tokyo to announce that the Big Fireworks series that included Atsushi Onita matches in Exploding Barbed wire Death Matches will begin to be called "Super Fireworks" and that Megumi Kudo will begin producing the events starting with the first show in 2015 on January 23rd at the Osaka Bodymaker Colosseum # 2. That show will include a playoff to determine the first ever Super Fireworks Champion that Onita showed the design of the brand new belt with Kudo showing the logo of the Super Fireworks series. It was announced that there would be a show once a month although no show has been announced for February yet but there has been a show scheduled for the Fukuoka Hakata Star Lanes just like last year to take place on March 21st. Kudo mentioned that she would be attending every one of the shows.

The Atsushi Onita and Masashi Aoyagi did not make it very long in the Furinkazan Tag Team Tournament as like expected they ended up losing on December 14, 2014 at the Tahara City Gym in Aichi to the team of Kamikaze and Demon Ueda at 13 minutes, 11 seconds in the first round after Onita was counted out. This allowed Onita to only wrestle one time on December 19, 2014 at the Ibaraki Prefectural Sports Center for the Hitachi Big Fireworks show where he teamed up with Yoshihiro Takayama for the first time after a near two year Death Match to defeat the team of TARU and brother YASSHI in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire and Exploding Bat Death Match. Onita ended up being the first one thrown into the exploding barbed wire and Takayama would end up bringing both TARU and brother YASSHI in with him to feel the explosions together and eventually Takayama would end up picking up win for his team at 13 minutes, 2 seconds after hitting YASSHI with a Backdrop Suplex for the win. Onita will get another chance at the VooDoo Murderers on January 1, 2015 for ZERO1's Korakuen Hall show as Onita will team up with a Mystery Partner to take on TARU and brother YASSHI in a match built as a Super Fireworks Commemoration Match. 

Aki "Miss Mongol" Kambayashi promoted her World Pro-Wrestling Association 1st Year Anniversary show on December 27, 2014 at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring drawing announced 233 fans for a show built as an "FMW 25th Anthology" which would be the last show to mark the 25th Year Anniversary of FMW starting back in 1989. Kambayashi booked former FMW wrestlers Atsushi Onita, Megumi Kudo, Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, Mr. Pogo, Masato Tanaka, and Hideki Hosaka for the show. Mr. Pogo ended up going to a No Contest Match against Kenichiro Arai at 9 minutes, 4 seconds in a Hardcore Match after the referee threw the match out. Aki Kambayashi wrestled under her given name as she faced off against Aoi Ishibashi in a Rose and Thorns Death Match where flowers with thorns were used in the match with Megumi Kudo as the Special Referee with Mitsuhiro Matsunaga being announced as having promoted the match with Kambayashi getting the win at 11 minutes, 43 seconds. The main event saw Atsushi Onita, Masato Tanaka, and Hideki Hosaka defeat the team of Ichiro Yaguchi, The Winger, and Miss Mongol in a Barbed wire Board Death Match as Onita piledrove Mongol through a table before putting her away at 11 minutes, 22 seconds with the Thunder Fire Powerbomb. The wrestlers stayed in the ring as Megumi Kudo and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga also came into the ring. Kambayashi then grabbed the mic and announced to the crowd that she was engaged and asked that her fiancée Samurai TV's Battle Man host Akinaga Toyomoto come to the ring as the two kissed in as everyone in the ring popped party poppers for confetti to come out to celebrate the engagement. 

Naoshi Sano promoted his now annual December 31, 2014 show at the Tokyo Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. The semi-main event saw a match between Atsushi Onita, Ichiro Yaguchi, and Hideki Hosaka defeat the team of Mr. Gannosuke, Jun Kasai, and Shibatar in a Street Fight Death Match. It was the first time in months that Jun Kasai would be going up against Onita after feuding with him through out last year and it was the first time that Onita would be going up against his former tag team partner Mr. Gannosuke since April 4, 1998 for a ZEN promoted show that saw ZEN take on Team No Respect in a six man match in Osaka. Gannosuke and Onita ended up both grabbing a pair of chairs and began swinging at one another in a FMW spot with Gannosuke managing to knock Onita's chair out of of his hands and right as Gannosuke was about to hit Onita with his chair he was then met with red mist spit into his face by Onita. The finishing spot saw Onita, Yaguchi, and Hosaka deliver a Triple Thunder Fire Powerbomb to Shibatar with Yaguchi delivering an Olympic Slam before covering Shibatar for the pin at 12 minutes, 23 seconds for the Jado Army win. Naoshi Sano will end up promoting his biggest show in 2015 as he will hold a show on July 17, 2015 at the Tokyo Ryogoku Sumo Hall. 

Jun Kasai produced his annual Christmas Death Match show on December 25, 2014 at Korakuen Hall drawing an announced 958 fans for the show. The main event saw Masashi Takeda defeat Jun Kasai in a Glass Board Death Match to win the King of Freedom World Championship. More details and pictures of the show can be found at http://fmwwrestling.us/Korakuen14.html

The first FREEDOMS show of 2015 will take place on January 3rd at the Tokyo Shin-Kiba 1st Ring as the main event will be a 5 Way Tag Team Title Match with the King of Freedom World Tag Team Champions Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda defending their titles for the third time as they go up against Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa, The Winger and Kenichiro Arai, Mammoth Sasaki and Kamui, and the Brahman Brothers. There will also be an 8 man One Night Tournament with the first round matches consisting of Great Kojika against Hi69, GENTARO against SUSUMU, Kenji Fukimoto against Toru Sugiura, and Daisuke Masaoka going up against Kenta Hattori. The semi-finals and finals match will then proceed to take place on the show following the first round matches. The only scheduled match for the FREEDOMS show on January 12th at the Nagoya Chigusa Gym is Masashi Takeda against Toru Sugiura. A ZERO1 show will take place in the building later that night so some ZERO1 talent would be expected to be on the show as well. 

The Apache Army held one of their biggest shows of the year on December 23, 2014 at the Osaka Higashinari Inhabitants Ward Center drawing an announced crowd of 402 fans for the show. Kintaro Kanemura and Tomohiko Hashimoto who were teaming for the first time since Hashimoto joined Apache Demolition in October 2011. They defeated the VooDoo Murderers teams of TARU and Kengo when Kanemura finished off Kengo at 13 minutes, 20 seconds with the Baku YAMA Senton Special for the win in what looks to be the end of the Kintaro Kanemura against VooDoo Murderers feud. Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeated Tadasuke in a singles match at 13 minutes, 20 seconds with a high lariat for the win. Hi69 and HASEGAWA got the win over the team of Naoki Tanizaki and Jun Masaoka when HASEGAWA got the pinfall over Masaoka at 17 minutes, 27 seconds with a Ebisu Drop. Mitsuya Nagai defeated Daisaku Shimoda in a singles match at 9 minutes, 39 seconds with the Rikukiba. Kenichi Fujii teamed with the former Craig Classic now going by the name Classic Kid as they defeated Hiroaki Moriya and Shunto Yamada when Fujii got the win over Yamada at 8 minutes, 7 seconds with a Backslide. Nanjyo Hayato made his Apache Army debut as he teamed with Hiromasa Koyama and HANA as they defeated Hazard and the new masked Hazard gimmicks Hazard Prison and Hazard Soldier when Nanjyo pinned Soldier at 11 minutes, 55 seconds with a La Magistral. Kazushi Miyamoto opened the show by defeating TANAKA at 6 minutes, 33 seconds after making him submit to the Boston Crab.

The next Apache Army show will be on January 11, 2015 at the Tokyo Island BumB Sports Culture Hall. The main event will have Kintaro Kanemura team with a Mystery Partner as they will go up against Arashi and Wrestle-1's Kazushi Miyamoto. The former Apache Kosakai will return to the promotion he left in 2012 after pursuing a career in MMA as he will wrestle under his real name Hiroshi Kosakai as he teams up with Tomohiko Hashimoto to take on the VooDoo Murderers team of TARU and Kengo. Tetsuhiro Kuroda will team up with HASEGAWA as they go up against Hiro Saito and Bear Fukuda. Hi69 will face off against brother YASSHI in a singles match and Kenichiro Arai returns to to go up against TANAKA. The opening match will be Daisaku Shimoda and the returning Shinobu who will take on independent wrestlers with a shoot background in Daijirou Matsui and Kotaro Nasu. The Apache Army will then return to the Tokyo Island BumB Sports Culture Hall on February 15th.

Hayabusa attended NOSAWA Rongai's Tokyo Gurentai show on December 11, 2014 at Korakuen Hall. Hayabusa did not appear in front of the crowd but he got to see Mil Mascaras and Terry Funk and posed for pictures with him. Mil Mascaras who was Hayabusa's child hood favorite wrestler have seen each other numerous times through out the years but this was the first time in many years that he got to see Terry Funk as all three took a picture together. The 72 year old Mil Mascaras teamed up with the 70 year old Terry Funk as both had difficulties getting to the ring due to so many fans in the way wanting touch them and take pictures of them as they teamed with the young man of the team in 45 year old Masakatsu Funaki as they defeated the team of 65 year old Yoshiaki Fujiwara, NOSAWA Rongai, and Kaz Hayashi when Mascaras pinned NOSAWA with a Diving Cross Body for the win. 

Added: 12/10

Atsushi Onita reunited his three year feud with Satoru Sayama as he teamed up with Jado Army and former FMW wrestlers Masato Tanaka, Ichiro Yaguchi, Hideki Hosaka, and Ricky Fuji as they did battle against the team of Original Tiger Mask, Takatoriki, Super Tiger, Alexander Otsukam and Taka Kuno on December 5, 2014 for Real Japan's Korakuen Hall show that drew an announced crowd of 1958 fans. The match stipulation was a Barbed wire Board Falls Count Anywhere Street Fight Death Match. Onita ended up spitting his rid mist into Takatoriki's face but he would also end up getting suplexed into the barbed wire board by Tiger Mask and Takatoriki and eventually Tiger Mask would end up putting away Ricky Fuji who was facing Sayama for the first time in his career as Sayama would nail him with the Tombstone Piledriver to get the win 13 minutes, 8 seconds for the Real Japan team win. 

As Atsushi Onita was leaving Korakuen Hall, he would be approached by the VooDoo Murderers team of TARU and brother YASSHI with YASSHI getting in Onita's face. brother YASSHI and TARU would end attacking Onita afterwards and leaving him on the floor laying. Atsushi Onita would ask that Yoshihiro Takayama team up with him as they would take on the TARU and brother YASSHI on December 19, 2014 at the Ibaraki Mito Prefectural Sports Center in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match which Takayama would accept. YASSHI and TARU would then end up attacking Takayama at the ZERO1 Dojo on December 10th and leave him laying as well.

Atsushi Onita would team up with fellw 1974 All Japan Dojo graduate Masa Fuchi as they would team up for All Japan's December 6, 2014 at the Osaka BODYMAKER Colosseum to defeat the team of Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Ultimo Dragon for Fuchi's final 40th Anniversary Match as Fuchi would end up getting the win at 12 minutes, 13 seconds after a inside cradle on Kanemaru.

Atsushi Onita and Masashi Aoyagi will end up teaming up on December 14th for ZERO1's Furinkazan Tag Team Tournament in a 1st Round Match as they go up against the team of Kamikaze and Demon Ueda. Their odds of advancing are not good as if they do happen to win then they will complete in a second round match Masato Tanaka and Takashi Sugiura on December 19th which is the same show that Onita will also be competing in the main event in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match. 

Atsushi Onita will be presented his first Tokyo Sports Award since 1994 as it was announced that he will be winning his first Fighting Spirit Award. Onita had previously won Tokyo Sports' MVP in 1990 and won Best Match for 1990 for his No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match against Tarzan Goto on August 4th and then again in 1994 for his FMW vs. WAR match as they teamed with Tarzan Goto against Genichiro Tenryu and Ashura Hara on March 2nd. Onita becomes the fourth former FMW wrestler to win the Fighting Spirit Award as Kodo Fuyuki won the award in 1995, Hayabusa won it in 1997, and Masato Tanaka won it in 2008.

FREEDOMS returned to the Tokyo Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on December 10, 2014 drawing an announced 163 fans for their show to setup the Christmas Death Match show at Korakuen Hall. The main event saw Masashi Takeda and Buffalo team up to defeat Jun Kasai and Daisuke Masaoka in a Fluorescent Light Tubes Death Match when Buffalo got the win over Masaoka at 16 minutes, 17 seconds with a Lariat in a Fluorescent Light Tubes Death Match. Mammoth Sasaki and Kamui defeated GENTARO and The Winger when Kamui got the upset win with at 14 minutes, 50 seconds with the Kamui Clutch over GENTARO. Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa ended up fighting the Brahman Brothers to a No Contest at 11 minutes, 21 seconds. Great Kojika and Minoru Fujita defeated Hi69 and SUSUMU when Kojika got the win over Hi69 at 11 minutes, 28 seconds when he used the roll up for the win. Kenichiro Arai also got the win with a cradle after defeating Kenji Fukimoto at 7 minutes, 3 seconds. The opening match saw FREEDOMS get the win over Ryukyu Dragon as Toru Sugiura defeated Tide Heat at 9 minutes, 45 seconds with the Dragon Sleeper Camel Clutch.

The full announced lineup should come soon the next day or two for the Jun Kasai promoted Christmas Death Match show on December 25, 2014 at Korakuen Hall. Four matches have already been announced for the show as Jun Kasai will defend his King of Freedoms World Championship against Masashi Takeda in a Death Match that has not been named yet. Daisuke Masaoka will take on Isami Kodaka in a Fluorescent Light Tubes Death Match while Mammoth Sasaki will finally get his shot at a singles match against Akebono in a Hardcore Match on the show. Takashi Sasaki and GENTARO will reunite as a team as they take on another reuniting team of Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita.

FREEDOMS has already announced their four shows for Korakuen Hall in 2015. The first one will be a show on March 23rd, their usual biggest show under the FREEDOMS name will which has been on May 2nd the last three years will end up on being May 1st instead. The annual Death Match Tournament Finals will take place on August 28th, and the Christmas Death Match show will again take place on December 25th.

Mr. Gannosuke returned to wrestle at the Tokyo Shin-Kiba 1st Ring for the first time since he retired back six years earlier as he teamed with Guts Ishijima to take on the team of Mr. Gannosuke and Guts Ishijima d. The Winger & Katzuhiko Matsuzaki when Ishijima pinned Matsuzaki at 15 minutes, 40 seconds with a Demon Bomb. Mr. Gannosuke's next scheduled match is for December 31, 2014 at the Tokyo Shin-Kiba 1st Ring for Naoshi Sano's New Years Eve show as the main event will be Atsushi Onita, Ichiro Yaguchi, and Hideki Hosaka against Mr. Gannosuke, Jun Kasai, and Shibatar in a Street Fight Death Match. Shibatar is a masked wrestler that Gannosuke himself had never heard of when he saw the match had been booked. It will be the first time that Gannosuke will be going up against Atsushi Onita in a match of any sort since a show promoted under the ZEN name on April 4, 1998 when Onita's ZEN team took on Gannosuke's Team No Respect team in a six man. Gannosuke was originally suppose to face off against Atsushi Onita in a tag match for Gannosuke's WMF show on July 25, 2003 for a Korakuen Hall show but Onita canceled the appearance right before the start of the show.

The Apache Army will return after several months off as they run their last show of 2014 on December 23rd at the Osaka Higashinari Inhabitants Ward Center which is also one of the bigger shows they have held in awhile. The main event will be Kintaro Kanemura and Tomohiko Hashimoto teaming up together for the first time in over 3 years after Hashimoto went heel and joined Apache Demolition as they will go up against the VooDoo Murderers team of TARU and Kengo. Tetsuhiro Kuroda will go up against Osaka talent Tadasuke in a singles match in the semi-main event. Dragon Gate's Naoki Tanizaki and Jun Masaoka team up against Apache's Hi69 and HASEGAWA. Daisaku Shimoda will face off against Mitsuya Nagai in a mat based singles match. Kenichi Fujii teams with Classic Kid against Hiroaki Moriya and Shunto Yamada. Nanjyo Hayato makes his Apache debut as he teams with Hiromasa Koyama and HANA against the masked Hazard team of Hazard, Hazard Prison and Hazard Soldier. The opening match will be Kazushi Miyamoto against TANAKA in a singles match.

The Koichiro Kimura Memorial Show was held on December 8, 2014 at the Tokyo Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. A table that held up his picture as well as his MMA robe and his Super Uchu Power costume that he wore in DDT. Kintaro Kanemura won a 12 Man Battle Royal after last eliminating Rikiya Fudo with a inside cradle roll up for the win at 17 minutes, 5 seconds. Kanemura credited Kimura for helping him get started while the two were in W*ING in 1991. Ricky Fuji, Naoshi Sano, Daisaku Shimoda, Kengo Takagi, and the returning for one time only Poison Sawada JULIE also competed in the Battle Royal. The main event was an old school DDT match as the team of Sanshiro Takagi, MIKAMI, and NOSAWA Rongai defeated Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO, and Tomohiko Hashimoto at 16 minutes, 9 seconds with Takagi getting the win with a Sit Down Sunflower Bomb on Hashimoto for the win. Afterwards, all the wrestlers gathered in the ring with MIKAMI who was visibly upset holding the picture of Koichiro Kimura. 

Another former FMW wrestler in David Ferrier passed away on December 6, 2014 in Tampa, Florida after a truck accident at the age of 52. Ferrier best known from his run in WWF as Jimmy Del Ray competed in FMW as Jimmy Backlund. Jimmy Backlund made his FMW debut teaming up with Atsushi Onita on March 24, 1990 as they defeated the team of Masanobu Kurisu and Beast the Barbarian in a Street Fight in the main event of the show. Backlund who came in as AWA Light Heavyweight Champion would lost that belt a week later on April 1, 1990 to Lee Gak Soo at Korakuen Hall. Jimmy would win back that title on November 5, 1990 defeating Katsuji Ueda at the Tokyo Komazawa Olympic Gym. His last match for the promotion would be on May 29, 1991 as he would lose his AWA Light Heavyweight Title to Ricky Fuji at the Tokyo Ota Ward Gym before heading over with Victor Quinones' to join the new W*ING promotion. 

Added: 11/20

Atsushi Onita participated in his seventh No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match of 2014 as he teamed with Dragon Gate's Shingo Takagi and Masato Tanaka against Yoshihiro Takayama, Kintaro Kanemura, and NOSAWA Rongai in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Triple Thunder Death Match on November 3, 2014 at the Kumamoto Grand Messe. Yoshihiro Takayama and Shingo Takagi would first pair off against each other with Takayama delivering a  knee to Shingo into the explosion. Kanemura and Tanaka would begin to go at it and they would both end up falling into an explosion at the same time. Takayama and Takagi would begin brawling to the outside with Shingo throwing Takayama in the guard rail. Kanemura would come over and Takagi would grab a chair and begin smashing it over Kanemura. Takayama and Onita would then begin brawling in the ring when Takayama would deliver a boot to Onita into the explosion. Takayama would then set the alarm for the Triple Thunder exploding bat as NOSAWA would sit Onita in a chair and hold on to him as Takayama would smash the exploding bat across Onita's chest. Takayama would then cover Onita but Onita would manage to kick out. Takayama would attempt to powerbomb Onita but Onita would flip Takayama over. Tanaka and Takagi would then charge at Takayama and send him into the exploding barbed wire. Tanaka would then grab NOSAWA and send him into the exploding barbed wire and Onita would grab him and deliver a Thunder Fire Powerbomb on NOSAWA for the pinfall at 16 minutes, 42 seconds for the Onita, Takagi, and Tanaka win although Takagi would come out of the match with a bust up shoulder.

Atsushi Onita's next big match will be on December 5, 2014 at Korakuen Hall for the Real Japan as he will team up with Masato Tanaka, Ichiro Yaguchi, Hideki Hosaka, and Ricky Fuji against the team of the Original Tiger Mask, Takatoriki, Super Tiger, Alexander Otsuka and Taka Kuno in a Street Fight in what turn into an Elimination Match. He will then team up with Masa Fuchi as fellow All Japan Dojo graduates 1974 for Masa Fuchi's last 40th Anniversary Match as they team up to take on juniors Yoshinobu Kanemaru and Ultimo Dragon. Onita will then compete in his last Exploding Barbed wire Death Match on December 19, 2014 at the Ibaraki Mito Prefectural Sports Center where no match has been announced but Tiger Jeet Singh might participate in some type of tag match against Onita. 

Mr. Gannosuke promoted his Kishindo Returns 17 show on November 18, 2014 at the Tokyo Shin-Kiba 1st Ring drawing an announced 248 fans for the show. This was the first time Gannosuke was wrestling on his own promoted show since his retirement show on December 27, 2008 and his first singles match since December 25, 2008 against Yoshihito Sasaki. Gannosuke would face off against GENTARO who went to a 40 minute time limit the last time they faced off against each other back on November 14, 2008. Gannosuke would use all his trademark moves including the Gannosuke Clutch, the Praying Powerbomb, and finally would finish GENTARO off with the Fire Thunder at 20 minutes. Kenichiro Arai would defeat Buffalo at 13 minutes, 12 seconds in a match where they would brawl into the crowd leaving Arai busting open but when they would get back in the ring Arai would manage to use a Backslide to get the win over Buffalo. Isami Kodaka and Takeshi Minamino would defeat Yuko Miyamoto and Atsushi Maruyama when Kodaka pinned Maruyama at 11 minutes, 29 seconds with the 689. Yasu Urano defeated Shota at 8 minutes, 41 seconds with an Umbrella Dora. Mineo Fujita against Shinobu and Michael Nakazawa in a Three Way went to another No Contest at 8 minutes, 40 seconds when Micro interfered in the match. Keita Yano defeated Taro Yamada at 8 minutes, 12 seconds with a Black headed Gull Break. Mika Iida and Aki Shizuku defeated Makoto and Haruka Kato when Iida pinned Kato at 12 minutes, 19 seconds with a counter to the Gannosuke Clutch. Guts Ishijima defeated the returning Gosaku at 5 minutes, 12 seconds in the opener with a Horizontal Cross Attack.

The FREEDOMS subgroup FLYDOM ran their first show in 18 months on November 11, 2014. The show drew an announced crowd of 124 fans. The main event of the show was an Elimination Match with the FLYDOM group of SUSUMU, Daisuke Masaoka, Toru Sugiura, and Kenji Fukimoto defeating the FREEDOMS group of Jun Kasai, Takashi Sasaki, Mammoth Sasaki, and GENTARO. Sugiura ended up doing the most for his team as he first eliminated Mammoth by throwing him over the top rope at 9 minutes, 31 seconds. Jun Kasai then eliminated Kenji Fukimoto at 11 minutes, 12 seconds with the Pearl Harbor Splash. Sugiura then eliminated Jun Kasai at 13 minutes by throwing him over the top rope. Daisuke Masaoka eliminated himself at 13 minutes, 14 by delivering a Top con Hilo over the top rope. Sugiura then eliminated Takashi Sasaki by throwing him over the top rope at 15 minutes, 15 seconds. Sugiura was unable to eliminate all members by himself as he ended up tapping out to GENTARO's Sharpshooter at 17 minutes, 31 seconds for the elimination. It came down to SUSUMU and GENTARO with SUSUMU eliminating GENTARO for the win at 19 minutes, 14 seconds after getting the pin with the Dawn of the Dead for the FLYDOM win. SUSUMU and Kenji Fukimoto earlier competed in the semi-finals match as they defeated the masked team of Sasuke The Great and Black Tiger when Tiger was counted out at 12 minutes, 11 seconds for the SUSUMU and Fukimoto win. Toru Sugiura also competed earlier in the show as he defeated Kamui at 11 minutes, 21 seconds with a Running Elbow. Daisuke Masaoka against Hi69 went to a 20 minute time limit draw. The Jorge Pro-Wrestling Offer Match of El Bakyun, Great Giant and That Fellow against Monkey Magic Jun, Super Okyanon and NAOSHI went to a Double Count Out to a total combine of 13 minutes, 9 seconds after a restart. GENTARO opened the show returning as his BENTEN gimmick as he defeated Kenta Hattori at 7 minutes, 23 seconds with a Pedigree for the win.

The next FREEDOMS show will be on November 24, 2014 at the Yokohama Radiant Hall. The group of Great Kojika, GENTARO, The Winger, Kenichiro Arai, and Minoru Fujita which formed at the Tenryu Project show earlier this month challenged the FREEDOMS group of Takashi Sasaki, Mammoth Sasaki, Kamui, Kenji Fukimoto, and Toru Sugiura in a best of 5 single matches that will be determine the day of the show. Other matches will include Jun Kasai going up against Daisuke Masaoka in a Fluorescent Light Tubes Death Match. Tatsuhito Takaiwa and SUSUMU will team up against Hi69 and Masamune. A Ice Ribbon Offer Match will have Tsukushi against Kazumi Shimouma in a singles match. The returning Keizo Matsuda will open up against Kenta Hattori.

Today marks the 16th Anniversary for this site. I am pretty sure this is the longest active website that covers Japanese wrestling and one of the older active sites that covers pro-wrestling in general especially by just one person. I use to run this site off of AOL's webpage that's how long it has been. I just had all the FMW results I could find that were mostly just big shows through out the promotion up to 1998, a news section that I had to keep deleting as I had so little space I had to make sure I didn't have too much text on the site even, and the tape section. I'm still amazed that after all these years and over 12 years since the promotion that this site covers has ended that I still have plenty enough to write about and cover and that I would still love doing it as well.

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Mr. Gannosuke made his return as an active pro-wrestler on October 12, 2014 at Korakuen Hall for the Guts World promotion. Mr. Gannosuke who had been attacked by Masao Orihara, Kenichiro Arai, and Masked Mystery back on September 6, 2014 announced he was making his come back. Gannosuke trained hard to be able to get back in shape and returned with no t-shirt which had started wearing the last few years of his career before retiring back on December 27, 2008. Gannosuke teamed up with Guts Ishijima as they faced off against Masao Orihara and Masked Mystery with Gannosuke getting jumped by Masked Mystery and Orihara at the start of the match. Gannosuke would pull out all his trademark spots including a flying drop kick off the top turnbuckle, the Gannosuke Clutch, the Fire Thunder, and the Scorpion Death Lock which Orihara would break up with a chair attack. Gannosuke would eventually get Masked Mystery to tap out to the Waki-Gatame submission at 15 minutes, 37 seconds for the win. 

Gannosuke will be making a full time return as GENTARO who also participated on the show challenged Gannosuke to Gannosuke's first singles match since his return at Gannosuke's promoted show on November 18, 2014 at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring with Gannosuke accepting. Gosaku also returned for the first time in several years to win a 16 person Battle Royal. Gosaku had gotten out of wrestling following alcohol problems that resulted him in having to go back home and focus on getting sober. The next match that Gannosuke will participate in will be teaming up with Guts Ishijima on November 8, 2014 at the Tokyo Nishi-Chofu Martial Arts Arena as they will take on Kenichiro Arai and Masao Orihara.

Mr. Gannosuke announced the lineup for the Kishindo Returns 17 show on November 18, 2014 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. Mr. Gannosuke will take on GENTARO in Gannosuke's first singles match since December 25, 2008 after defeating Yoshihito Sasaki. Gannosuke last faced off against GENTARO in a singles match on November 14, 2008 which went to a Time Limit Draw of 40 minutes. The rest of the show will see Kenichiro Arai take on Buffalo in a singles match in the semi-main event. Yuko Miyamoto and Atsushi Maruyama teaming up against Isami Kodaka and Takeshi Minamino. The Joshi match on the show will be Mika Iida and Aki Shizuku against Gannosuke student Makoto and Haruka Kato. Gannosuke friend Yasu Urano will take on Shota in a singles match. A rematch from the last Kishindo Returns show will be Mineo Fujita vs. Shinobu vs. Michael Nakazawa in a Three Way Match with the last time the match taking place no cameras were allowed to take any pictures as there ended up being nudity during the match. The opening match will be a battle of Gannosuke friends as Guts Ishijima will take on the returning Gosaku. 

FREEDOMS promoted their 5th Anniversary show on October 16, 2014 at Korakuen Hall drawing an announced 653 fans for the show. Jun Kasai won the main event against Takashi Sasaki to defend his King of Freedom World Championship in a Fluorescent Light Tubes, Ladder, Razor Board, Glass Board, and Kenzans Death Match. More details and pictures of the show can be found at http://fmwwrestling.us/Korakuen14.html

FREEDOMS promoted the Daisuke Masaoka 10th Anniversary show on October 19, 2014 at the Osaka Joto Ward Citizen Hall drawing an announced 328 fans for the show. The main event saw Daisuke Masaoka face off against Mammoth Sasaki in his first singles main event match. Mammoth would end up being too much for Masaoka as Mammoth would put away Masaoka at 14 minutes, 43 seconds with the 29 Years Old. Jun Kasai would team up with Kuga as they would defeat the team of Masashi Takeda and Kenji Fukimoto with Kasai finishing off Fukimoto at 11 minutes, 30 seconds with the Pearl Harbor Splash. The FREEDOMS team of Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO, and The Winger would defeat the Osaka team of Rapid, TORU, and Yuki Tanaka when Sasaki would place the Sharpshooter on Tanaka at 18 minutes, 23 seconds to get the submission win. Hide Kubota and Yasu Kubota defeated the team of HAYATA and YO-HEY when Yasu got the win over YO-HEY at 17 minutes, 7 seconds with the small package. The Secret Base team of Kamui, Mototsugu Shimizu, and Dyna Mido would fall to the team of Brahman Shu, Kei, and Orochi when Shu would get the win over Dyna Mido at 11 minutes, 29 seconds with the Zombie Kick. The opening match saw SUSUMU and Toru Sugiura defeat the team of Tadanobu Fujisawa and Masao Ando when Sugiura pinned Ando at 9 minutes, 13 seconds with a Moonsault.

FREEDOMS returned to the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring for their monthly show on October 29, 2014 drawing an announced 182 fans which seems to be the new normal standard for them in the building. The theme of the show seemed to be upsets as there were several of them in who got the win and who got the loss. Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda defended their King of Freedom Tag Team Championship against Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa when Takeda made Sasaki tap out at 20 minutes, 48 seconds to his Megaraba which is a Crossface in a Barbed wire Board Death Match. Kenichiro Arai and Minoru Fujita continued their hot streak as they defeated the team of GENTARO and Great Kojika when Fujita used the ropes as leverage to get the pinfall at 20 minutes, 24 seconds over GENTARO for the win. Mammoth Sasaki and Kamui reformed their tag team for the first time in 18 months as they defeated The Winger and Buffalo when Kamui got the upset win over Buffalo at 12 minutes, 26 seconds with a Small Package. Daisuke Masaoka got the biggest singles win in his FREEDOMS career by defeating SUSUMU at 10 minutes, 42 seconds with the La Magistral. In a FREEDOMS vs. Ryukyu Dragon match, Eagle Brother and Tida Heat defeated Toru Sugiura and Kenji Fukimoto with Tida Heat getting a pin over Sugiura at 12 minutes, 28 seconds with a High Angle Backslide. The opening match saw Brahman Shu and Kei defeat Hi69 and Kenta Hattori after Shu used the Zombie Kick on Hattori at 9 minutes, 34 seconds for the win. Following the show, Masashi Takeda made a challenge to Jun Kasai for the King of Freedom World Championship at Jun Kasai's promoted show at Korakuen Hall on December 25, 2014 for his Christmas Death Match show.

The FREEDOMS sub promotion FLYDOM will return after 18 months as they will run at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on November 11, 2014. The recent members to join FREEDOMS over the last two years of SUSUMU, Daisuke Masaoka, Kenji Fukimoto, and Toru Sugiura will take on the FREEDOMS veterans of Jun Kasai, Takashi Sasaki, Mammoth Sasaki, and GENTARO in a Single Elimination Match. The Great Sasuke and Black Tiger will team up to take on the team of SUSUMU and Kenji Fukimoto. Kamui will go up against Toru Sugiura in a singles match and Hi69 will go up against Daisuke Masaoka in a singles match. The opening match will be a match with independent wrestlers El Bakyun, Great Giant, and That Fellow against Monkey Magic Jun, Super Okyanon, and NAOSHI.

The next show that ZERO1 and Atsushi Onita will be put together has been scheduled on November 3, 2014 at the Kumamoto Grand Messe. The main event of the show will be Atsushi Onita teaming up with Masato Tanaka and Dragon Gate's Shingo Takagi against Yoshihiro Takayama, Kintaro Kanemura, and NOSAWA Rongai in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match. It will be Kanemura's first Exploding Barbed wire Death Match since May 5, 2003 against Shinya Hashimoto and it will be Shingo Takagi's first ever Death Match to this degree.

Koichiro Kimura passed away on October 28, 2014 at the age of 44 due to pneumonia. Kimura made his debut pro-wrestling debut in FMW back on July 18, 1990 against Ryo Miyake. I don't know where he got his training from prior to making his debut in FMW but he is not listed as FMW Dojo graduate and he only lasted over a month as his last match listed in FMW was on July 31, 1990. He ended up joining W*ING and then eventually went to DDT as Super Uchu Power where he was aligned with Kintaro Kanemura back in 2002 as Kanemura filled in for Kodo Fuyuki as the Commissioner of DDT. He would also compete in World Japan and All Japan. Kimura would also go onto fight in MMA for Vale Tudo Japan as he took on Rickson Gracie in a losing effort. He would go on to create female MMA promotions AX and G-Shooto. His last match was back on July 21, 2014 for the EAGLE promotion in Sapporo. There will be a Koichiro Kimura show held on December 6, 2014 at the Tokyo Shin-Kiba 1st Ring with Takashi Sasaki and GENTARO of FREEDOMS and Kintaro Kanemura and Tomohiko Hashimoto participating on the show.

Added: 10/9

Atsushi Onita appeared for the NOAH wrestling promotion to appear in the promotions first ever no No Rope Exploding Barbed wire Death Match on September 23, 2014 at the Niigata City Gym. Onita teamed with Ichiro Yaguchi and Hideki Hosaka against the NOAH team of Takashi Sugiura, Yoshihiro Takayama, and Genba Hiryanagi in the main event of the show. Onita and Sugiura would square off right away to start the match while Yaguchi would go at Takayama and Hosaka would face off against Hiryanagi. Onita would end up getting knocked down leaving Sugiura to go over to help Takayama as they would be throw shove Yaguchi into the exploding barbed wire. All six wrestlers would then go outside where Onita and Takayama would begin brawling in the crowd. Onita would throw Takayama in the guard rail and then hit Takayama with a chair. Yaguchi would grab a barbed wire bat and swing at Takayama, and then throw him back in the ring. Onita would try to suplex Takayama but would end up messing up and doing a horrible looking suplex. Sugiura would end up ripping off his shirt and grabbing Onita and sending him into the exploding barbed wire. Takayama would begin fighting off Yaguchi and Hosaka when Onita would come back and hit Takayama with a chair. Onita, Yaguchi, and Hosaka would all send Takayama into the exploding barbed wire. Onita would then grab the barbed wire bat and hit Sugiura with it until Sugiura would end up going into the explosions. Hosaka would sit Sugiura down on a chair with Onita spitting in his face. and hits him with a barbed wire bat. All six would then begin to pair off with one another and all six would go into the exploding barbed wire together. Onita would cover Sugiura for a two count. Onita and Hosaka would then grab Hiryanagi and send him into explosion. Onita would then cover Hiryanagi for two. Takayama trying to make the save would get red mist spit in his face by Onita. Hosaka would throw Takayama out of the ring and Onita, Yaguchi, and Hosaka would hit a Unified Thunder Fire Powerbomb on Hiryanagi with Onita getting the three count over him at 8 minutes, 37 seconds while holding his middle fingers in the air for the win.

FREEDOMS ran at the Chiba Tobu Sports Club on September 23, 2014 drawing an announced crowd of 125 fans. The main event saw Great Kojika and The Winger's 6 month reign as King of Freedom Tag Team Champions come to an end as they lost it to Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda after Kasai would get back his win from losing to The Winger earlier in the month when Kasai hit Winger with the Pearl Harbor Splash and go the win at 16 minutes, 50 seconds to win the King of Freedom Tag Team Titles. GENTARO defeated Kaientai Dojo's Ryuichi Sekine after making him submit at 17 minutes, 45 seconds with the Sharpshooter. Ricky Fuji returned to FREEDOMS for the first time in 9 months as he teamed with Mammoth Sasaki to form an FMW team as they defeated Takashi Sasaki and HIROKI at 16 minutes, 6 seconds when HIROKI was counted out of the ring. Kaientai Dojo's Tank Nagai defeated Kenji Fukimoto via DQ at 10 minutes, 24 seconds after Fukimoto was DQ'd for using a chair. The opening match saw SUSUMU and Toru Sugiura defeat Kenichiro Arai and Kenta Hattori after Sugiura got the win over Hattori at 12 minutes, 59 seconds with a Moonsault.

FREEDOMS returned to the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on September 25, 2014 drawing an announced crowd of 181 fans. The main event saw the new King of Freedom Tag Team Champions Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda defending against Kenichiro Arai and Minoru Fujita in a TLC Death Match. Arai and Fujita jumped Kasai and Takeda as they were making their way to the ring but Kasai and Takeda would end up coming away with the win after Takeda hit a German Suplex on Fujita to get the pinfall at 19 minutes, 59 seconds to defend their tag titles for the first time. Buffalo defeated GENTARO at 13 minutes, 19 seconds after rolling him up with a small package for the win. Mammoth Sasaki defeated SUSUMU at 11 minutes, 3 seconds with a 29 Years Old. Mammoth afterwards made a challenge to Akebono in a tag match for FREEDOMS' 5th Anniversary at Korakuen Hall. FREEDOMS faced off against the Ryukyu Dragon promotion in a best of three matches. The first match saw Takashi Sasaki get the first win for FREEDOMS as he defeated Shuri Joe with a Sharpshooter at 6 minutes, 2 seconds for the win. Guruken Mask tied it up by defeating Daisuke Masaoka at 6 minutes, 21 seconds with a Brainbuster off the top turnbuckle. Tida Heat got the decisive win at 9 minutes, 42 seconds over Toru Sugiura with a Sunset Flip to give the 2-1 win for the Ryukyu Dragon promotion. The opening match saw Brahman Shu, Brahman Kei, and Kenta Hattori defeat Tatsuhito Takaiwa, The Winger, and Kenji Fukimoto when Takaiwa at 12 minutes, 22 seconds was counted out of the ring.

FREEDOMS will hold their 5th Anniversary show on October 16, 2014 at Korakuen Hall. The main event will be the two big stars of the promotion fighting for the King of Freedom World Championship as Jun Kasai puts his title on the line against Takashi Sasaki in a Fluorescent Light Tubes, Glass Board, Ladder, Razor Board, and Thumbtacks Death Match. The semi-main event will be FREEDOMS vs. All Japan as Mammoth Sasaki and GENTARO will take on the All Japan team of Akebono and Takao Omori. In a match against the two up and comers that have joined FREEDOMS over the last couple of years, Daisuke Masaoka will go up against Toru Sugiura in a singles match. The Winger will team with fellow masked wrestler Buffalo as they go up against Kenichiro Arai and Minoru Fujita. Kamui returns from being out of action for two months due to nerve damage as he will go up against Ryukyu Dragon's Guruken Mask. SUSUMU will team up with MIKAMI as they go up against HIROKI now returning under his old ring name Hi69 as he will team up with ZERO1's Mineo Fujita. Kenji Fukimoto will team up with independent wrestler Ultrman Robin as they go up against Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei with Karate Brahman returning to referee the match. 

FREEDOMS will then run the Osaka Joto Ward Citizen Hall on October 19, 2014 for Daisuke Masaoka's 10th Anniversary show. Daisuke Masaoka will go up against Mammoth Sasaki in a singles match in the main event of the show. Jun Kasai will team up with Kuga as they go up against Masashi Takeda and Kenji Fukimoto in a Hardcore Match. The FREEDOMS team of Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO and The Winger will face off against the local Osaka talent team of Rapid, TORU and Yuki Tanaka. HAYATA will team with YO-HEY against brothers Hide Kubota & Yasu Kubota in a local Osaka talent match. Kamui will team with Secret Base wrestlers Mototsugu Shimizu & Dyna Mido against Brahman Shu, Brahman Kei and Orochi. The opening match will have SUSUMU teaming with Toru Sugiura against Osaka wrestlers Tadanobu Fujisawa and Masao Ando to start the show.

Apache Army ran at the Tokyo Kitasenju Theater 1010 on September 28, 2014 drawing an announced sell out of 170 fans for the show. The main event saw a rematch of earlier in the month as Kintaro Kanemura, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and HASEGAWA teamed up to take the VooDoo Murderers in a Single Elimination Match. Kanemura would be the first one eliminated, and then Kuroda would be eliminated as it would come down to HASEGAWA. HASEGAWA would end up getting eliminated by Kengo who HASEGAWA had beat the previous month as Kengo would get the win at 19 minutes, 56 seconds with a Diving Body Press. The Apache Demolition team of Tomohiko Hashimoto, Shoichi Ichimiya and Kenichiro Arai would defeat the team of the returning Arashi, Masato Shibata, and Wrestle-1's Josh O'Brien when Ichimiya pinned O'Brien with a Diving Senton at 14 minutes, 44 seconds for the Demolition win. Shingo Garyu defeated Shinobu in 1 minute, 22 seconds into Round 3 with two minute rounds in a Different Style Match via KO after the Referee would be forced to stop the match. Mototsugu Shimizu would defeat the former Craig Classic now going by Classic Kid after Shimizu would have help with interference and would end up picking up the win at 8 minutes, 45 seconds. The opening match would have Kazushi Miyamoto and TANAKA defeat Daisaku Shimoda and Hirota Urano after Miyamoto would get the win over Urano at 10 minutes, 51 seconds with the Turmeric Storm.

The Apache Army was a part of a several hour event in in the Miyagi Onagawa Dome on October 5, 2014. The event held had dance numbers from a group of women and matches from other small promotions. The Apache Army show had a match with Atsushi Onita teaming up with Tomohiko Hashimoto and Kenichi Fujii as they would defeat the Apache Army team of Kintaro Kanemura, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and HASEGAWA when Onita pinned HASEGAWA at 17 minutes, 26 seconds with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb in a Street Fight. You can watch the whole match here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNkg7dVGvXc

An FMW 25th Anniversary event was held on September 27, 2014 by Megumi Kudo in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Megumi Kudo put together the show with Ken Suzuki as the MC of the event. Kudo's special guest for the show would be Hayabusa. Kudo came out first and noticed Kumiko Matsuda who also went by Tsuppari Mack in FMW. Kudo called the shy Matsuda up to the front to talk with her for a few minutes. Hayabusa then came out and presented Kudo with flowers. Kudo's birthday was the previous week so she had received many presents from those attending the show. Kudo and Hayabusa spoke for awhile about FMW and answered questions from the fans before ending the show. Hayabusa, Kudo, and Matsuda chatted after the show and took pictures with one another following the event. 

Hayabusa got some mainstream media attention on September 28th as an article was written about him for Yahoo! Japan. The article goes over the accident that Hayabusa suffered back on October 22, 2001 and how he dealt with the injury. How he wanted to commit suicide following the accident, but couldn't move to be able to do anything. How he can now walk with a cane so many feet by himself and about how he continues to do Hindu squats every day. The article then mentions how Hayabusa has proclaimed that he wants to return one more time and be able to walk to the ring and be introduced as Hayabusa one last time in five years. Hayabusa told me personally back in June 2013 that he wanted to return to the ring in five years. I am guessing that has now been pushed back one more year to 2019.

Added: 9/17

Mr. Gannosuke announced on September 6, 2014 at the Tokyo Nishi-Chofu Martial Arts Arena that he would be returning to the ring at the Guts World show on October 12, 2014 at Korakuen Hall. It all started during a match between Masao Orihara and Guts Ishijima. Masked Mystery attacked Guts Ishijima during the match and begin brawling with him outside the ring until the referee counted out Ishijima out to give Orihara the win. Gannosuke who is the ring announcer for the promotion began talking to Orihara about his way to win the match. Orihara began yelling back at Gannosuke when Masked Mystery then came up and attacked Gannosuke. Mystery threw Gannosuke in the ring and Orihara along with Kenichiro Arai who would appear would begin attacking Gannosuke. Other wrestlers like Tatsuhiko Yoshino and Shota would run to the ring to make the save for Gannosuke. Orihara would begin mocking Gannosuke how he was retired and could not do anything. Guts Ishijima then got on the mic and ask for Gannosuke to come team with him against Orihara and Masked Mystery.  Gannosuke with his shirt off following the brawl would grab the microphone and announce that he would return to the ring for the first time in almost 6 years to team with Guts Ishijima against Masao Orihara and Masked Mystery on October 12th at Korakuen Hall. 

It will be Mr. Gannosuke's return to the ring since his retirement match on December 27, 2008 so that makes it officially 5 years and almost 10 months since his last match. Gannosuke who never planned on retiring was very enthusiastic about never wrestling again when I asked him about ever returning back in June 2009. Gannosuke was very split about the decision to come back. It is obvious that it is a favor to his good friend Guts Ishijima to try and create some more interest for the biggest show ever for the small promotion as they run Korakuen Hall for the first time and have been promoting the show since the beginning of the year. Gannosuke stated that he use to be very critical of wrestlers that retire and come back so he understands if anyone is critical about him returning again and understands if he hears boo's from the crowd. Gannosuke was very happy to hear that Hayabusa was okay with him returning to the ring after hearing about it. Gannosuke has always stated he would return to the ring only for Hayabusa's return to the ring. Gannosuke who was 220 pounds when wrestling has dropped down to 187 pounds since retiring. Gannosuke stated he wants to try and gain as much weight as he possibly can before returning to the ring. Gannosuke will also be promoting his Kishindo Returns 17 show on November 18, 2014 with no matches announced so far. 

GENTARO promoted his own show on August 25, 2014 at the Tokyo Shinjuku FACE. It was promoted as a "GENTARO AID" show much like a show two years prior to help pay for GENTARO's hospital bills following his stroke. I believe that would mean that the wrestlers like two years ago would not be paid for the show and the money was only for GENTARO. The show drew an announced 324 fans which is about a half crowd for the show. The main event saw GENTARO face off against Atsushi Onita in a Special Strong Style Match. The two had a basic match with one another Atsushi Onita delivering a Thunder Fire Powerbomb and after GENTARO would manage to kick out, Onita would then roll up GENTARO with an Inside Cradle for the win at 18 minutes, 27 seconds. The ending sequence did not end up looking good as GENTARO most likely had to lose but wanted to be able to kick out of Onita's Thunder Fire Powerbomb but Onita rolling up someone with a cradle is never going to look good. Onita and GENTARO embraced afterwards in what would seem to officially put the end to the Onita vs. Kasai/FREEDOMS feud that ended last year without Onita or Kasai having to job to one another. A lot of screw jobs for the undercard matches. Sanshiro Takagi, Brahman Shu, and Brahman Kei against Takashi Sasaki, MIKAMI, and Masa Takanashi went to a Double Count Out twice with the first double count out at 1 minutes 7 seconds and then the final double count out coming at 7 minutes, 42 seconds. Brahman Kei and referee Barb Sasaki would get into an altercation during the match where Barb Sasaki would put on a Ultimo Dragon mask and deliver a Asai DDT on Kei. The Tag Team Gauntlet Match would turn into a Tag Team Battle Royal with the big surprise being Takashi Sasaki's mystery partner being YOSHIYA who had retired two years ago. Ryuichi Sekine and Yuiga would end up getting the win at 18 minutes, 37 seconds after last eliminating Kazuhiro Tamura and Tsukasa Fujimoto. Mammoth Sasaki, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, and Tsukushi would defeat the team of Rikiya Fudo, Daisaku Shimoda, and Hamuko Hoshi when Tsukushi pinned Hoshi at 13 minutes, 33 seconds with a Tiger Suplex. Naoshi Sano would get the DQ win over The Winger at 5 minutes, 49 seconds due to referee violence. The opening match would be Shuji Ishikawa, Antonio Honda, and Takumi Tsukamoto going to a Double Count Out finish at 13 minutes, 22 seconds against Great Kojika, PSYCHO, and Kurumi. 

Jun Kasai promoted his annual PAIN LIMIT Death Match Tournament show on September 4, 2014 drawing a very successful announced 1,114 fans for the show. The Winger ended up defeating Jun Kasai in the main event and the finals of the show to win his third Death Match Tournament. More details and pictures of the show can be found at http://fmwwrestling.us/Korakuen14.html

FREEDOMS ran their annual Iwate Ichinoseki City Gym U Dome Main Arena on September 15, 2014. They drew a dissapointing announced crowd of 610 fans. The previous year they drew 938 fans and the year before that they drew 1,382 fans to the building. The main event saw Takashi Sasaki and Mammoth Sasaki defeat GENTARO and Yoshihiro Takayama after Sasaki got the pin over his long time friend GENTARO at 21 minutes, 32 seconds with a Directly under D-Geist for the pin. Jun Kasai would manage to defeat Yuji Hino for the King of Freedom World Championship at 18 minutes, 10 seconds with a Back slide Bomb for the win. Kasai would become the third King of Freedom World Champion ending Hino's reign at a little 4 months. Shiro Koshinaka and Tatsuhito Takaiwa would defeat the team of HIROKI and Shinobu when Koshinaka would get the win at 14 minutes, 43 seconds with a Powerbomb over Shinobu. Minoru Fujita and Kenichiro Arai would team up to defeat the team of Daisuke Masaoka and Kenji Fukimoto in a Barbed wire Board when Fujita would get the win at 15 minutes, 31 seconds with a School Boy on the Barbed wire Board on Masaoka. The Dragon Ryukyu team of Guruken Mask and Hibiscus Mii would defeat the FREEDOMS team of The Winger and SUSUMU when Mii would get the roll up win at 15 minutes, 8 seconds over SUSUMU. The opening match would see Shuji Ishikawa defeat Toru Sugiura at 9 minutes, 48 seconds with a Running Knee to the face for the win.

FREEDOMS will run at the Chiba Tobu Sports Club on September 23, 2014. The main event of the show will be Great Kojika and The Winger defending their King of Freedom Tag Team Titles against the team of Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda. GENTARO will face off against Kaientai Dojo's Ryuichi Sekine. Mammoth Sasaki will team up with former FMW friend Ricky Fuji who is making his first appearance in FREEDOMS since December 2013 as they take on Takashi Sasaki and HIROKI. Kenji Fukimoto will take on the Kaientai Dojo member Tank Nagai in a singles match. The opening match will have SUSUMU and Toru Sugiura against Kenichiro Arai & Kenta Hattori.

FREEDOMS will then return to the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring for the first time in two months on September 25, 2014. The main event of the show will have the winner of the match between Great Kojika and The Winger against Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda defending their tag team titles against the team of Minoru Fujita and Kenichiro Arai. GENTARO will then take on Buffalo in a singles match in the semi-main event. Mammoth Sasaki will go up against SUSUMU in another singles match as well. There will also be three single matches between FREEDOMS against Ryukyu Dragon. There will be three ropes in the ring with each wrestler from each side grabbing one. The wrestlers that grab the same rope will face off against each other. The three FREEDOMS wrestlers will be Takashi Sasaki, Daisuke Masaoka, and Toru Sugiura and the three Ryukyu Dragon wrestlers will be Guruken Mask, Shuri Joe, and Tida Heat. 

Atsushi Onita would go up against Yoshihiro Takayama on September 14, 2014 at the Sapporo Teisen Hall in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Exploding Barbed wire Bat Death Match. It would be a rematch of their December 13, 2013 Exploding Barbed wire Death Match that Onita won. Yoshihiro Takayama would get the first shot in as he would deliver a boot to Onita in the face causing Onita to fall into the exploding barbed wire for the first explosion. Onita would come back by spitting red mist in Takayama's face. Takayama would end up grabbing Onita and throwing him in exploding barbed wire for another explosion. Takayama would then get Onita in ankle lock and in the spot of the match Onita would break the hold by grabbing the exploding barbed wire with his hand. Onita would come back by delivering a drop toe hold sending Takayama's face into the in the exploding barbed wire. Onita would then shove Takayama with his shoulder in to the exploding barbed wire again. Onita would then hit the turnbuckle setting a siren off meaning the barbed wire bat had been turned on as he would smash it it across Takayama's chest causing an explosion. Takayama would still manage to kick out. Both Onita and Takayama would then begin punching each other and at the same time falling into the exploding barbed wire together. Onita would be the first to get up and make the cover and get the win at 11 minutes, 59 seconds. Onita and Takayama would shake hands afterwards. Atsushi Onita will go on to team up with Ichiro Yaguchi and Hideki Hosaka against Takashi Sugiura, Yoshihiro Takayama, and Genba Hiryanagi in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match on September 23, 2014 at the Niigata City Gym for NOAH's first ever No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match in their history. 

The Great Nita would team up with Masato Tanaka earlier in the show to go up against Demon Ueda and Kamikaze. Nita would spit green mist in Ueda's face right away. Nita would throw Ueda in the crowd and begin brawling with him. Nita would then place Ueda on a table and grab his sickle and place the sickle in Ueda's mouth so that he could not move. Tanaka would then climb up the top rope and send Ueda through the table as Nita would move the sickle seconds before Tanaka would crash him through the table. Tanaka would then end up finishing Kamikaze off at 13 minutes, 11 seconds with the Sliding D. This show would be the last of the FMW 25th Anniversary Tour that started back in July. The FMW 25th Anniversary match on this show would see Miss Mongol defeat Freddy Krueger with Megumi Kudo as the Special Referee after Kudo would hit Krueger with a Hip Attack and Mongol would then roll up Krueger with a School Girl with Kudo counting the pin at 8 minutes, 12 seconds with Kudo raising the Mongol who she trained 20 years ago hand in victory. 

The Apache Army ran their first show in over three months when they ran at the Osaka Taisho Hall on September 7, 2014 drawing an announced 160 fans. The main event saw Kintaro Kanemura, Magnitude Kishiwada, and HASEGAWA defeated Voodoo Murderers team of TARU, brother YASSHI, and Kengo in a No Ropes Barbed wire Death Match when after being beaten and bloodied through out the entire match, HASEGAWA would get the win at 10 minutes, 53 seconds after finishing Kengo off with the Go To Sleep for the win. Tetsuhiro Kuroda teamed with ZERO1's Ryoji Sai as they defeated the WEW Tag Team Champions of Tomohiko Hashimoto and Tadasuke after Sai used his Naichi Waterfall on Tadasuke to get the win at 17 minutes, 37 seconds to win the WEW Tag Team Titles. It is Kuroda's 7th reign as WEW Tag Team Champion. Kenichiro Arai defeated TORU at 6 minutes, 55 seconds with a Diving Headbutt. The Apache Demolition team of Kuga and Hazard teamed with Kazushi Miyamoto who when he last seen in Apache Army in 2012 was feuding with Apache Demolition as defeated the team of Daisaku Shimoda, Kenichi Fujii, and TANAKA who formerly went by his given name Yuki Tanaka after Miyamoto got the win over TANAKA at 12 minutes, 29 seconds after forcing a Referee Stoppage due to a Sleeper Hold. Mima Shimoda defeated Kusihinbo Kamen at 5 minutes, 29 seconds in the comedy match with a School Girl. The opening match saw NOSAWA Rongai and MAZADA defeat HIROKI and YO-HEY at 19 minutes, 38 seconds with the Shoda Destroy for the win.

The Apache Army announced their lineup for September 28, 2014 at the Tokyo Kitasenju Theater 1010. The main event will be a rematch as Kintaro Kanemura, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and HASEGAWA take on the Voodoo Murderers team of TARU, brother YASSHI, and Kengo in a Single Elimination Match. They will then run at the Miyagi Onagawa Gym on October 5, 2014 as Atsushi Onita returns to the promotion for the first time since November of last year as Onita will team up with Tomohiko Hashimoto and Kenichi Fujii against Kintaro Kanemura, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and HASEGAWA in a Street Fight.

Hayabusa and Mr. Gannosuke reunited on August 25, 2014 on the 15th Anniversary of them in the main event at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center where Gannosuke faced what was suppose to be Hayabusa's last match with the mask on. They got together for Yoshinori Murata's 80th Birthday Celebration at the Kumamoto Beer Man Hall. Murata who is best known for creating a Antonio Inoki bronze statue in the 1980's that was a big time seller and made him a lot of money is a big fan of the local Hayabusa and Mr. Gannosuke and created bronze statues of them as well. Hayabusa and Gannosuke spoke to fans and then Hayabusa sang along with his guitarist Fumi Taguchi and Sana Sakura who does backup singing for Hayabusa. Gannosuke even wore the Hayabusa mask for a portion of the show. They took a group photo together and Hayabusa stated that they hope to do this again next year.

Added: 8/24

Onryo celebrated his 20th Anniversary in Pro-Wrestling on August 16, 2014 for the 666 promotion at the Tokyo Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. He teamed up with his long time rival and tag team partner GOEMON to take on another former FMW tag team in Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in a Hardcore Match. Kanemura before the match wrote how this would be the first time he was facing off against Koji Nakagawa in 12 years and that he will always remember him teaming up with Kodo Fuyuki and facing off against GOEMON and Onryo in a 30 minute time limit draw back on May 11, 2001 at Korakuen Hall in FMW. Onryo would start the match off against Kanemura as Kanemura would toss him a chair as they would do the dueling chair spot with one another. Kanemura would end up pulling out a fork and begin cutting open Onryo to have him bleed the rest of the match. Onryo would end up making a come back while bloody after grabbing a piece of a broken table and smashing it over Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Kanemura's head. Onryo would deliver his signature spots including a flying dropkick off the top turnbuckle on Kanemura as well as the Onryo Clutch to get the two count. Kanemura would come back on Onryo and eventually put him away with the Bakku YAMA Senton Special for the win at 16 minutes, 24 seconds. Kanemura would get on the mic and state how that match really had the old FMW spirit to it and praised Onryo afterwards for his 20 years in pro-wrestling. All four embraced afterwards as a show of respect.

The FMW 25th Anniversary Tour continued on August 1, 2014 at the Nagoya International Conference Hall which is the same building that Eiji Ezaki made his debut in on May 5, 1991. The main event of the saw Atsushi Onita and KAI team up in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Exploding Shins Death Match against Onita's rival of 25 years in Masashi Aoyagi and Onita's rival of 11 years in Shiro Koshinaka. Aoyagi would end up using the exploding shins to cause explosions for each of his kick to Onita and all four would end up getting sent into the exploding barbed wire but Onita would end up picking up the win over the man he lost to in the first ever FMW main event as he would end up falling on Aoyagi following an explosion. The opening match on the show would be an FMW Memorial Match as Yoshika Maedomari would return to the ring for the first time in years to team with former Mad Dog Military partner Bad Nurse Nakamura as well as Freddy Krueger as they would defeat Kyoko Inoue, Aki Kambayashi going by the La Malcriada gimmick, and El Pandita when Maedomari would pinned Pandita at 10 minutes, 4 seconds with a Moudoku Press. The next stop on the FMW 25th Anniversary Tour would be on August 10, 2014 at the Yamagata Hills Sunpia with the main event as a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Exploding Helmet Death Match with Yoshihiro Takayama, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, and NOSAWA Rongai defeating the team of Atsushi Onita, Ichiro Yaguchi, and Hideki Hosaka when Takayama would end up using a Blackdrop Suplex on Yaguchi for the win at 14 minutes, 12 seconds which would end up snapping Onita's seven Exploding Barbed wire Match win streak dating back to August 29, 2012 against Akebono.

Atsushi Onita and ZERO1 co-promoted a show entitled "FMW 25th Anniversary" on August 17, 2014 at the Ibaraki Torida Fujishiro where they setup a ring outside. The main event saw Atsushi Onita, Masato Tanaka, and Hideki Hosaka defeating Demon Ueda, Takuya Sugawara, and Ichiro Yaguchi when Onita pinned Sugawara at 14 minutes, 29 seconds with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb in a Scramble Bunkhouse Street Fight Death Match. Kohei Sato and Yoshikazu Yokoyama defeated Jado Army's Hideki Hosaka and Kenichi Fujii when Yokoyama pinned Fujii at 9 minutes, 49 seconds with a Death Valley Bomb. Ikuto Hidaka and El Pandita defeated Ichiro Yaguchi and Freddy Krueger when Hidaka pinned Krueger at 10 minutes, 33 seconds with the Iwami Silver Mine. La Malcriada defeated Manami Kanda at 10 minutes, 45 seconds with a Rolling Clutch Hold and the opening match saw Yusaku Obata and Ibaraiga Z defeat Kazuhiko Matsuzaki and Gabbaiji-chan when Ibaraiga got the win over Gabbaiji at 14 minutes, 1 second with the Moonsault.

The next show on the FMW 25th Anniversary Tour will be on September 14, 2014 at the Sapporo Teisen Hall. No matches have been announced for that show. It is looking like Atsushi Onita will return to NOAH on September 23, 2014 for their Niigata City Gym show where he would team with Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka against Takashi Sugiura and two other NOAH wrestlers in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match which would be the first of its kind for the NOAH promotion. Nothing has been officially announced though.

Jun Kasai promoted two shows earlier this month to build up to the upcoming to his annual Korakuen Hall Death Match Tournament Final show on September 4th. The first show was on August 3, 2014 at the Hiroshima Trade Center West # 2 Hall where 431 fans were announced. The main event saw Jun Kasai and Takashi Sasaki defeat Yuko Miyamoto and Takumi Tsukamoto in a Fluorescent Light Tubes Death Match when Kasai nailed his Reverse Tiger Driver to get the win at 16 minutes, 26 seconds over Tsukamoto. Mammoth Sasaki and GENTARO would end up going to a No Contest at 9 minutes, 26 seconds against the Brahman Brothers in a Hardcore Match where things would end up getting too crazy and the referee would have to end it. Before the match, an impromptu match took place as Brahman Kei defeated Dyna Mido at 27 seconds with an inside Cradle. In a match where the winner would be entered into the 8 man Death Match Tournament, Masashi Takeda defeated Minoru Fujita at 15 minutes, 38 seconds with the Reverse U-Crash in a Thumbtacks Death Match allowing Takeda to earn the right to repeat at becoming Death Match Tournament Champion. The other match to determine participation in the Death Match Tournament saw Daisuke Masaoka defeat Kenji Fukimoto at 10 minutes, 35 seconds with a by reversing a cradle for the win in a Barbed wire Death Match. Local talents Sakigake and GUNSO defeated the FREEDOMS team of Kamui and Toru Sugiura in a Scramble Bunkhouse Death Match at 11 minutes, 36 seconds with Sakigake hit the Sliding D on Sugiura for the pin. The opening match had The Winger and SUSUMU defeat The Devil Magician and Kenshin Konno when SUSUMU used an inside cradle for the win at 8 minutes, 58 seconds for the win over Konno.

The next show that Jun Kasai promoted on August 10, 2014 at the Osaka Higashinari Ward Citizen Center where they announced a sell out crowd of 524 fans. All 1st Round Death Match Tournament matches took place on this show. The main event saw Jun Kasai finally end his Summer feud with Buffalo in a Glass Board Death Match after defeating the bloody Buffalo at 17 minutes, 43 seconds with a Reverse Tiger Driver on Barbed wire. Masashi Takeda ended up defeating Kamui in their 1st Round Construction Scaffold Barbed wire Board Death Match with the referee stopping the match due to a TKO and giving the win to Masashi Takeda at 10 minutes, 38 seconds. It would be announced afterwards that Kamui had suffered nerve damage during the match and will be out of action for an undisclosed amount of time as a result. Takumi Tsukamoto defeated Daisuke Masaoka at 14 minutes, 10 seconds after hitting the Killswitch on a Ladder for the pinfall in a Ladder and Weapons Death Match. The non-tournament matches saw SUSUMU, HAYATE, and YO-HEY defeat Mammoth Sasaki, Toru Sugiura, and Dyna Mido when SUSUMU pinned Sugiura with a Dawn of the Dead at 9 minutes, 14 seconds in a Hardcore Tornado Death Match. The opening match saw Kenji Fukimoto and Keita Yano defeat GENTARO and Yuki Tanaka in a Falls Count Anywhere Street Fight when Fukimoto got the pinfall at 13 minutes, 19 seconds using the Package Piledriver on Tanaka for the win.

The next show will be a GENTARO promoted show on August 25, 2014 at the Tokyo Shinjuku FACE. The main event will be GENTARO facing off against Atsushi Onita in the main event of the show in a Special Strong Style Match. It will be the first time since September 27, 2014 that Atsushi Onita will be competing in a FREEDOMS ring after his feud with Jun Kasai just abruptley ended last year. Other matches on the show will have Takashi Sasaki team up with MIKAMI and Masa Takanashi against Sanshiro Takagi and Brahman Shu and Kei. There will be a 9 team Tag Team Gauntlet Match. The teams will be Jun Kasai and Kenji Fukimoto, Takashi Sasaki and a Mystery Partner, Toru Sugiura and Daisuke Masaoka, HIROKI and SUSUMU, and Keizo Matsuda and Bear Fukuda, Masashi Takeda and Kotaro Nasu, Kazuhiro Tamura and Tsukasa Fujimoto, Fugofugo Yumeji and Keita Yano, and Ryuichi Sekine and former BJW wrestler Yuiga Hara. Mammoth Sasaki will team up with Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Tsukushi against Rikiya Fudo, Daisaku Shimoda and Hamuko Hoshi. The Winger will face off against Naoshi Sano in a singles match. The opening match will be Antonio Honda, Shuji Ishikawa and Takumi Tsukamoto against Kurumi, Great Kojika and PSYCHO.

Jun Kasai's promoted Korakuen Hall show will take place on September 4, 2014. The lineup is not as deep as it has been in the past so I would expect a number in the 700's to attend for this show. The main event will be the Finals of the Death Match Tournament which will be a No Canvas Glass Board Death Match. A rematch from August 1st will take place as Mammoth Sasaki and GENTARO will team up to take on the team of Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei in their Tokyo Deserted Homeless Death Match. Takashi Sasaki and Daisuke Masaoka will team up against Buffalo and Kenji Fukimoto in a Barbed wire Board Death Match. Jun Kasai looks to get revenge for his Death Match Tournament Finals lost last year as he takes on friend Masashi Takeda in a Semi-Finals Razor Board Death Match. The Winger looks to become the first 3 time Death Match Tournament Champion as he takes on Takumi Tsukamoto in a Fluorescent Light Tubes Death Match. If Winger and Kasai were to advance it would be a rematch of the first Death Match Tournament Finals back in 2006. The opening match will have the Kaientai Dojo team of King of Freedoms Champion Yuji Hino and HIROKI against the team of SUSUMU and Toru Sugiura. 

Two matches have been announced for FREEDOMS' 1st 5th Year Anniversary show on September 15, 2014 at the Iwate Ichinoseki City Gym U Dome Main Arena with the main event as Takashi Sasaki and Mammoth Sasaki against GENTARO and Yoshihiro Takayama. The other match will have Yuji Hino defend his King of Freedom World Championship against Jun Kasai for Hino's second defense. The second 5th Year Anniversary show will be a special Korakuen Hall show on October 16, 2014.

The Apache Army announced their first show in nearly three months as they will run on September 7, 2014 at the Osaka Taisho Hall. The main event will be Kintaro Kanemura, Magnitude Kishiwada, and HASEGAWA teaming up to take on the Voodoo Murderers of TARU, brother YASSHI, and Kengo in a No Ropes Barbed wire Death Match. The WEW Tag Team Titles will be defended for the first time in months as Tomohiko Hashimoto and Tadasuke defend against Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Ryoji Sai. Kenichiro Arai will take on local Osaka wrestler TORU. HIROKI and YO-HEY team up to take on the team of NOSAWA Rongai and MAZADA in a tag team match. Kazushi Miyamoto returns to the Apache Army in two years to team up with Kuga against the team of Daisaku Shimoda and Kenichi Fujii. The opening match will be the comedy match as Kuishinbo Kamen takes on Mima Shimoda.

Hayabusa was challenged on August 20, 2014 to do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge by Kota Matsuda who is the founder of the Tully's Coffer Japan. Hayabusa responded the next day on August 21st in his home town of Yatsuhiro, Kumamoto and posted the video of YouTube that you can find by clicking here. Hayabusa did not challenge anyone although Masato Tanaka did the challenge as well the next day. 

My friend Emu and I finally ended up translating the Shoichi Arai's autobiography "Bankruptcy! FMW". I want to thank her for all the time she put into translating it. She turned the Japanese into British English which I tried my best to turn into an American English and tried to have it make as readable as possible. It is 254 pages total broken up into 6 chapters. This whole process also cost a lot of money for me as well. Going through it is sad knowing that Shoichi Arai wrote all this knowing that he would be killing himself just weeks later. A lot of it is about his financial situations of FMW and he goes into deep detail about his dealing with loan sharks as the whole first chapter is the day that resulted in FMW going under. Going through this, all you can say is Arai really did everything possible he could to try and make FMW survive as long as possible and realistically he should have thrown in the towel months if not a year earlier before ruining his life and many of his friends and family by owing so much money. Onita comes off horrible in this and it really puts a light to why Onita had to leave FMW. You can read it http://fmwwrestling.us/FMWChapter1.html and it will be put in the Bio section of the site as well. 

Added: 7/30

Atsushi Onita promoted the first of the FMW 25th Anniversary tour that will go into September. The show saw the return of many of the old FMW gimmicks and wrestlers from the very beginning of FMW as El Pandita and The Shooter gimmicks were brought back and 69 year old Katsuji Ueda participated in his first match since 2002 as well as long time Onita rival Mr. Pogo. The show drew an announced crowd of 550 fans so it was short of about 100 of a sell out. The main event saw Atsushi Onita team up with Ichiro Yaguchi and Hideki Hosaka defeat Mr. Pogo, Great Pogo who I could not recognize who it was when seeing a picture of him, and Masayoshi Motegi when Onita pinned Motegi with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb at 16 minutes, 59 seconds in a Double Hell Barricade Falls Count Anywhere Tornado Death Match. The team of Magnitude Kishiwada, NOSAWA Rongai, and Keita Yano spoiled the return of Katsuji Ueda who teamed with Katzuhiko Matsuzaki, and Raiden when Kishiwada pinned Raiden at 13 minutes, 49 seconds with a Diving Body Press. Dump Matsumoto teamed with Naoshi Sano and Kenichi Fujii when they defeated the team of Miss Mongol, Katsunari Toi, and Gabbaiji-chan when Matsumoto pinned Gabbaiji at 12 minutes, 19 seconds with a Body Press. Leatherface and Jason beat Naoya Takase and Monjiro when Jason pinned Monjiro at 10 minutes, 12 seconds with a Piledriver. The opening match saw a Three Way Match where El Pandita defeated The Shooter and Kisarazu Kid when Pandita pinned Kid at 7 minutes, 11 seconds with the Panda Clutch. Megumi Kudo attended the show as she was the ring announcer for the mix tag team match as well as former FMW women's wrestler Miwa Sato and Apache Army's Kazutaka Hasegawa. 

The Miso Katsu Big Fireworks show on August 1, 2014 at the Nagoya Aichi International Conference Hall will be the next show on the FMW 25th Anniversary tour. The main event will be Atsushi Onita and KAI taking on Onita's rival of 25 years in Masashi Aoyagi and a rival of his over 10 years in Shiro Koshinaka in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Exploding Shin Guard Death Match. Every other match besides the opening match will be a normal ZERO1 card with the opening match being a FMW anniversary match with Kyoko Inoue teaming up for the first time with Aki Kambayashi going by her La Malcriada gimmick and El Pandita as they take on Yoshika Maedomari will be wrestling for the first time in years who teams up with Bad Nurse Nakamura and Freddy Krueger as ZERO1 loves to relate the Freddy Krueger gimmick with FMW. Megumi Kudo will be the special ring announcer for that match.

Most of the matches were announced for the Hanagasa Big Fireworks show on August 10, 2014 at the Yamagata Hills Sunpia. Atsushi Onita will team up with his regular crew of Ichiro Yaguchi and Hideki Hosaka against the team of Yoshihiro Takayama, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, and NOSAWA Rongai in a rematch of their match back on May 4, 2014. This match will be a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Helmet Death Match. The helmet will be covered in barbed wire that will be used during the match but I do not know if explosions will be added to it as well. 

The annual Yokohama Big Fireworks at the Yokohama Bunka Gym on August 31, 2014 has been officially postponed with no scheduled date made up. The official reason given was that they could not lock up talent that they had planned for the show. My guess is that due to Akebono's health issues he was not going to be able to appear in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match like he has the previous two years and Ribera's Steakhouse will only sponsor a show with Akebono on it. As a result they announced another show for the FMW 25th Anniversary tour instead with the show actually entitled FMW 25th Anniversary which will be outside at the Ibaraki Torida Fujishiro Special Ring as the main event will be Atsushi Onita and Masato Tanaka taking on Takuya Sugawara and Demon Ueda in a Barbed wire Death Match. ZERO1's Kohei Sato and Yoshikazu Yokoyama will take on Jado Army's Hideki Hosaka and Kenichi Fujii. Ikuto Hidaka will team up with El Pandita against Ichiro Yaguchi and Freddy Krueger. La Malcriada will face off against Manami Kanda and the opening match will be Yusaku Obata against Kazuhiko Matsuzaki. 

FREEDOMS returned to the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on July 24, 2014 drawing an announced crowd of 236 which is considerably up from the previous couple of months in the building. The main event saw Buffalo team up with the newly masked Takumi Tsukamoto defeated Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda in a Barbed wire Board Death Match when Tsukamoto pinned Kasai after nailing him with a Superkick at 20 minutes, 7 seconds for the pin. Yuji Hino defended his King of Freedom Title for the first time by defeating Minoru Fujita whose chest was beat red from the chopping exchange with Hino before Hino finished him off at 13 minutes, 48 seconds with the Fucking Bomb Powerbomb. The FREEDOMS veterans vs. FREEDOMS youngsters saw the veterans side win the elimination match. Daisuke Masaoka managed to eliminate Takashi Sasaki first at 10 minutes, 20 seconds by throwing him over the top rope. Masaoka was then eliminated by Mammoth Sasaki at 11 minutes, 17 seconds by also being thrown over the top rope. Kenji Fukimoto scored the first pinfall elimination by eliminating The Winger at 13 minutes, 14 seconds with the Package Piledriver. GENTARO and SUSUMU who have been feuding since the last month eliminated each other as they both went over the top rope at 16 minutes, 7 seconds. This left just Mammoth Sasaki against Toru Sugiura with Mammoth eliminating Sugiura at 18 minutes, 38 seconds by finishing him off with the 29 Years Old for the FREEDOMS veterans win. Atsushi Maruyama made Kamui submit at 10 minutes, 14 seconds with a cross armbreaker. Kenichiro Arai and Antonio Honda defeated Brahman Shu and Kei when Honda hit a Running Guillotine at 12 minutes, 11 seconds to get the pinfall over Kei. GENTARO who was the replacement for the injured HIROKI opened the show by defeating Kenta Hattori at 8 minutes, 4 seconds by finishing him off with a Backdrop. 

FREEDOMS ran their annual mid July show in Fukuoka as they ran at the Fukuoka Mojikou Red Brick Place. They drew an announced 253 fans for the show. The main event was a 20 person Battle Royal with Nozomo Kubo getting the win at 11 minutes, 1 seconds after last eliminating Kamui by throwing him over the top rope. The former Unchain group of Jun Kasai, Minoru Fujita, and Kenji Fukimoto defeated Takashi Sasaki, Mammoth Sasaki, and Toru Sugiura when Kasai hit the Pearl Harbor Splash at 17 minutes, 15 seconds to get the win over Sugiura. GENTARO defeated Nozomi Kubo at 15 minutes, 56 seconds with a Snowslide Suplex. Brahman Shu and Kei defeated Ryukyu Dragon's Guruken Mask and Hibiscus Mii when Shu pinned Mii at 12 minutes, 18 seconds with a inside cradle. The Winger and SUSUMU defeated Kamui and Daisuke Masaoka at 11 seconds, 30 seconds when Winger hit a flying modification cross for the pin on Masaoka. The local talent opened the show with large cross dresser Sexy Rosie, TOSSHI, and Tessei defeating Panchi-kan, YASU, and Seki when Rosie pinned Panchi-chan at 10 minutes, 20 seconds with a Running Body Press for the victory.

Jun Kasai announced the lineup for his August 3, 2014 show at the Hiroshima Trade Center West # 2 Hall. Jun Kasai and Takashi Sasaki will take on Hiroshima's Yuko Miyamoto and Takumi Tsukamoto in a Fluorescent Light Tubes Death Match. Mammoth Sasaki and GENTARO will team up to go up against the Brahman Brothers in a Hardcore Match. The next two matches will be play in matches in order to get in the Death Match Tournament. Last years winner Masashi Takeda will take on Minoru Fujita in a Thumbtacks Death Match and Kenji Fukimoto going up against Daisuke Masaoka in a Barbed wire Board Death Match with the winners making it in the tournament. Kamui and Toru Sugiura will team up against Sakigake and GUNSO in a Scramble Bunkhouse Death Match and the opening match will see The Winger and SUSUMU go up against local talent in the Evil Magician and Kenshin Kono. 

The 2014 Death Match Tournament will officially start on August 10, 2014 at the Osaka Higashinari Inhabitants Ward Center. The torunament will be much smaller than the previous two years with only 8 making it in after the two play in matches. The Death Matches have not been announced. Kamui will go up against the winner between Masashi Takeda against Minoru Fujita. Jun Kasai will settle his summer rivalry with Buffalo as they will take on each other. Takashi Sasaki who is the only one to be in every Death Match tournament and never win it will take on two time winner The Winger. Takumi Tsukamoto will face off and most likely advance against the winner of the Daisuke Masaoka vs. Kenji Fukimoto. The semi-finals and finals of the tournament will be held on September 4, 2014 at Korakuen Hall. 

GENTARO has announced that 50 wrestlers will wrestle on his promoted show on August 25, 2014 at the Shinjuku FACE. Most of the wrestlers are wrestlers that have a friendship with GENTARO that participated two years ago in the GENTARO AID show. 

Back in November 2010, I wanted to make a page with pictures of all the FMW items that I had collected over the years. I ended up taking pictures but never managing to really organize it and put it together. I finally managed to put it together. It has gotten a little bigger over the years but I doubt I don't see myself putting more time into this than I already have. You can find the page by going to http://fmwwrestling.us/FMWItems.html

Added: 7/10

Kintaro Kanemura promoted his "25th Anniversary" and "Kodo Fuyuki 13th Memorial" show on June 18, 2014 at Korakuen Hall. No crowd attendance was announced for the show but I had a friend that attended that guessed there was about 500 people in the building although just looking at pictures it does not look that empty. The main event of the show saw Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda face off against Masato Tanaka and TAIJIRI in a FMW vs. ECW Hardcore Match. Kanemura would come to the ring from the crowd to do the TNR Dance with Kuroda before the start of the match in Fuyuki's robe. Tanaka and Kanemura would do a dueling chairs spot that that would lead to Tanaka smashing the chair over Kanemura's head. Kuroda would do his running clothesline spot through the crowd at Korakuen for the first time in years while Kanemura set up a table in the crowd and dove off the top of the entrance sending Tanaka through the table. They would make it back in the ring where Kanemura would deliver the Fuyuki Charging Lariat to TAJIRI and then nail the Bakku YAMA Senton Special on TAJIRI. Kanemura would place Tanaka in the Fuyuki Special while Kuroda would do the same to TAJIRI until TAJIRI would manage to spit green mist in Kuroda's face in order for both Tanaka and TAJIRI to get out of them. TAJIRI would then deliver the Buzzsaw Kick to Kanemura's head. Kanemura would eventually roll up Tanaka for the Samson Clutch but in the end Kanemura would end up falling after Tanaka would smash a chair over Kanemura's head and then deliver a Brainbuster. Kanemura would manage to kick out but Tanaka would come back with the Sliding D to finish off Kanemura at 15 minutes, 55 seconds for the win. Kanemura, Kuroda, Tanaka, and TAJIRI would all hold up each others hands in celebration following the match. Tanaka would end up injuring his eye and would have to wear an eye patch for over a week and Kanemura would come out of it with a bruised neck. Kanemura after the match would go to the lobby of Korakuen Hall and take pictures with fans and sign t-shirts afterwards.

Atsushi Onita teamed with Dragon Gate's Shingo Takagi and Hideki Hosaka in the semi-main event of the show against the reuniting Heisei Ishingun team of Masashi Aoyagi, Shiro Koshinaka and The Great Kabuki in a Street Fight Death Match. This match reunited the decade long feud that Onita has had against Shiro Koshinaka in World Japan and LOCK UP as Onita and Koshinaka exchanged headbutts to one another. Onita then began to setup a Thunder Fire Powerbomb on Kabuki when Aoyagi came at Onita but got red mist spit in his face as a result. Onita and Takagi delivered a Double DDT to Kabuki instead. Onita was about to deliver a Thunder Fire Powerbomb to Aoyagi when Koshinaka delivered a back side attack at Onita and Aoyagi delivered his Medulla Oblongata Murder kick to Onita's head to put get the pinfall at 7 minutes, 58 seconds for the Heisei Ishingun win. In a Kodo Fuyuki Memorial Match, Sanshiro Takagi who brought a picture of Kodo Fuyuki to the ring teamed with Shinjuku Shark who celebrated his 20th Anniversary in this match as well as Onryo against the team of Kyoko Inoue, Yasu Urano, and Kikutaro. Takagi would clothesline Inoue but she would come right back and clothesline Takagi herself. Takagi would deliver a drop toe hold to Kikutaro and turn that into a La Magistral to get the win at 8 minutes, 5 seconds. 

ZERO1's Shinjiro Otani would take on TAKA Michinoku in a rematch of their May 5, 2003 Kodo Fuyuki Memorial Match although this time there would be no winner as they would end up going to a 15 minute time limit draw. In the Oz Academy Offer Match, Dynamite Kansai & AKINO would defeat Mayumi Ozaki and Yumi Oka when Kansai would pin Ozaki at 13 minutes, 8 seconds with the Splash Mountain. In the JWP Offer Match, Command Bolshoi and Kyoko Kimura defeated Kayoko Haruyama and Yuina Kanaynchura when Bolshoi would pin Haruyama at 7 minutes, 26 seconds with the Limelight. In a East vs. West Match, Yuji Hino and Masao Orihara against the Osaka team of Magnitude Kishiwada and Kuga would get out of control fast as the referee would rule the match a No Contest at 5 minutes, and 34 seconds. In a 2 vs. 5 match, the team of KENSO and Arashi would defeat the team of Buffalo, Yuki Sato, HARU, Southern Cross, and Naoshi Sano when KENSO would deliver an elbow drop on Sano at 5 minutes, 58 seconds for the win. In the WAVE Offer Match, Kana and Shu Shibutani defeated Misaki Ohata and Sumire Natsu when Kana would use an Armbreaker to make Natsu submit at 8 minutes, 50 seconds. The opening match would be an Apache Army vs. Guts World match as HIROKI and Daisaku Shimoda would defeat the team of Daisuke and Shota when HIROKI would get the win at 6 minutes, 23 seconds with the Torrance Leif over Daisuke.

Mr. Gannosuke who was the ring announcer for Kintaro Kanemura's show wrote about Kintaro Kanemura after the show. Gannosuke wrote that he needed a place to stay the night that was between his college in Kumamoto and the FMW Dojo in Tokyo in February 1991. His friend from school who was another university wrestler set it up where he would be able to stay the night at the Pioneer Senshei Dojo. That is where Gannosuke met Kanemura for the first time just two months following Kanemura having just made his pro-wrestling debut. Gannosuke and Kanemura took the subway train together the following morning to Tokyo and Kanemura wished Gannosuke good luck at becoming a wrestler before heading their own ways. Gannosuke would not see Kanemura until a year or two later in the Korakuen Hall dressing room when by chance Kanemura would also be there as Kanemura would go up to Gannosuke and laugh that it looks like he had pass the test to become a wrestler also. Gannosuke would write how they would end up working together after Kanemura joined FMW and they became rivals in the ring and then tag team partners and would go out drinking every night. Gannosuke would write that they would end up coming to blows in the dressing room with Kodo Fuyuki and others having to break them up. Gannosuke would then finish by writing that even though Kanemura is a moron, he is indispensable to his pro-wrestling career.

Tomohiko Hashimoto and HIROKI promoted their 15th Anniversary show at the Osaka Citizen Exchange Center drawing an announced crowd of 630 fans for the show. The main event of the show Tomohiko Hashimoto team up with Minoru Suzuki and Yoshiaki Fujiwara against Atsushi Onita who has been feuding with Suzuki and Fujiwara for months as well as Sanshiro Takagi and Tetsuhiro Kuroda with Hashimoto getting the big win over Kuroda at 12 minutes, 20 seconds following nailing his XCT move. NOAH's Naomichi Marufuji defeated HIROKI in the semi-main event with the Tiger Flowsion at 18 minutes, 37 seconds leaving large marks all across HIROKI's neck following the match. Tatsumi Fujinami and Yasu Urano defeated TAKA Michinoku and NOSAWA Rongai when Fujinami got the win at 7 minutes, 56 seconds over NOSAWA. NOAH's Takashi Sugiura defeated Tadasuke at 14 minutes, 5 seconds with a Olympic Qualifying Tournament Slam. Kintaro Kanemura and Magnitude Kishwada went to a Double DQ with Zeus and The Bodyguard when Kanemura and Bodyguard were both DQ'd. Masato Tanaka defeated Dotonbori Pro's TORU at 9 minutes, 47 seconds with the Sliding D. Kazma Sakamoto and Rapid defeated Kuga and Kenichiro Arai when Arai was DQ'd at 7 minutes, 22 seconds. Kengo defeated YO-HEY at 8 minutes, 7 seconds with the Frog Splash. Mima Shimoda defeated Kikutaro with a roll up in the comedy match at 8 minutes, 53 seconds. Daisaku Shimoda, Kenichi Fujii, and HASEGAWA defeated Hiroaki Moriya, Rising Kid and Hirota Urano when HASEGAWA pinned Kid with a Diving Double Foot Stomp at 9 minutes, 3 seconds for the first win of his career in the opening match.

The Apache Army promotion announced their next shows will be in a couple of months. The next show will be on September 28, 2014 at the Tokyo Kitasenju Theater 1010, and then on October 5, 2014 at the Miyagi Onagawa Gym. They will be off for over two months after that and return with a pretty big show for them at the Osaka Higashinari Inhabitants Ward Center on December 23, 2014. They will then return to the Tokyo Island BumB Sports Culture Hall on January 11, 2015.

Atsushi Onita and KAI teamed up for the first time on July 7, 2014 at Tokyo Gurentai's TOKYO STARRCADE show at the Shinjuku FACE. Onita and KAI faced off against the team of Yoshihiro Takayama and KIKUZAWA in a Street Fight Tornado match with KAI getting the pin after Onita nailed the Thunder Fire Powerbomb on KIKUZAWA for the win at 7 minutes, 17 seconds. After the match, the match was made for August 10, 2014 for the Hanagasa Big Fireworks at the Yamagata Hills Sunpia where Onita and KAI will team up against Yoshihiro Takayama and NOSAWA Rongai in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match. 

Onita had previously announced for the Miso Katsu Big Fireworks show on August 1, 2014 at the Nagoya Aichi International Conference Hall that he would team up with KAI to take on his long time rivals of Masashi Aoyagi and Shiro Koshinaka in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match. 

Onita also announced the lineup for the first show of the FMW 25th Anniversary Tour which would be his Atsushi Onita promoted show on July 25, 2014 at the Shinjuku FACE. Onita will team up with Ichiro Yaguchi and Hideki Hosaka against the team of Mr. Pogo, someone going by the name of Great Pogo, and Masayoshi Motegi in a Double Hell Barricade Falls Count Anywhere Tornado Death Match. Other matches on the show will be the return of former Onita body guard Katsuji Ueda teaming up with Katzuhiko Matsuzaki and old FMW gimmick The Shooter against Magnitude Kishiwada & NOSAWA Rongai & Keita Yano and Dump Matsumoto & Katsunari Toi & Kenichi Fujii vs. Miss Mongol & Naoshi Sano & Gabbaiji-chan.

FREEDOMS held their Shin-Kiba 1st Ring show on June 25, 2014 drawing an announced 183 fans for the show. The main event saw GENTARO defeat Toru Sugiura at 18 minutes, 28 seconds with a Top Rope Suplex. SUSUMU who is now doing a shoot style approach to his matches and has changed his attire came out and challenged GENTARO to a match. The match was mostly ground based with GENTARO locking an Armlock on SUSUMU to get the win at 9 minutes, 47 seconds with a submission. They are going with a veterans vs. younger wrestlers feud going forward. Takashi Sasaki, Jun Kasai, and Masashi Takeda defeated Buffalo, Keizo Matsuda, and Atsushi Maruyama when Kasai pinned Buffalo at 15 minutes, 36 seconds with a Pearl Harbor Splash. Kasai and Buffalo go into a pull apart brawl after the match and had to be separated. Kenichiro Arai defeated Great Kojika at 14 minutes, 23 seconds with a roll up. Mammoth Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Kamui and Kenji Fukimoto when Mammoth finished off Fukimoto at 9 minutes, 49 seconds with a 29 Years Old. The opening match saw The Winger against Kikujiro Umezawa went to a Double Count at 3 minutes, 41 seconds. Mineo Fujita against HIROKI during their match was turned into a tag team match with Mineo Fujita and Kikujiro Umezawa against HIROKI and The Winger which again after a total of 10 minutes, 19 seconds went to another Double Count Out.

FREEDOMS announced the lineups for their next two shows in July. The first show will be on July 14, 2014 at the Fukuoka Mojikou Red Brick Palace with the main event being a Battle Royal of all the wrestlers from the show participating in it. Takashi Sasaki, Mammoth Sasaki, and Toru Sugiura will take on the former Unchain team of Jun Kasai, Minoru Fujita, and Kenji Fukimoto. GENTARO will take on local Hakata wrestler Nozomi Kubo in a singles match. Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei will take on the Ryukyu Dragon team of Guruken Mask and Hibiscus Mii. The Winger and SUSUMU team up to go up against Kamui and Daisuke Masoka and the opening match will be the local Hakata promotion match of Sexy Rosie who is an overweight crossdresser teaming with TOSSHI and Tessei against comedy wrestler Panchi-kan, YASU, and Seki. 

Their next Shin-Kiba 1st Ring show will be on July 24, 2014. Their announced lineup will be Jun Kasai teaming with Masashi Takeda against new rival Buffalo and a Mystery Partner in a Death Match with the stipulation to be announced later. Yuji Hino will defend the King of Freedom Championship for the first time against Minoru Fujita in the semi-main event. In a veterans vs. younger wrestlers match the team of Takashi Sasaki, GENTARO, Mammoth Sasaki, and The Winger will go up against SUSUMU, Toru Sugiura, Kenji Fukimoto, and Daisuke Masaoka in a Single Elimination Match. Kamui will take on Atsushi Maruyama in a singles match. Antonio Honda will return to FREEDOMS to team up with Kenichiro Arai against the Brahman Brothers and the opening match will have HIROKI against Kenta Hattori. 

FREEDOMS announced the rest of their scheduled shows for the rest of 2014 They will make their first appearance at a spot show on September 23rd at the Chiba Tobu Sports Club two days before returning to Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on September 25th. They will then hold their 5th Year Anniversary show on October 16th at Korakuen Hall. They will then return to Shin-Kiba 1st Rin on October 29th. No Shin-Kiba 1st Ring show has been scheduled for November as they will run at the Yokohama Radiant Hall on November 24th instead. They will then return Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on December 10th and then finish out the year with Jun Kasai's annual X'MAS Death Match show on December 25th at Korakuen Hall. 

Ricky Fuji will end up taking on Masato Tanaka on July 17, 2014 at Kaientai Dojo's Shinjuku FACE show. The match originally scheduled to be Masato Tanaka and Ricky Fuji teaming up to take on Saburo Inematsu and Daigoro Kashiwa has changed to become a special FMW match. It will be one week prior to when Ricky faced off against Masato Tanaka in his pro debut 21 years earlier on July 23, 1993. Ricky has expressed much excitement to get the chance to face off against his friend. 

Added: 6/13

Atsushi Onita had emergency surgery on both his knees on May 19, 2014 to be ready for both his next booked date on June 15th for Tomohiko Hashimoto and HIROKI's 15th Anniversary show as well as to be able to be able to make it through the FMW 25th Anniversary tour that he will be holding from July 25th to September 14th. It was announced that Onita cartilage damage in both knees one in his right that stems back from his knee injury in 1984 that forced his original retirement. The surgery ended up being a success and Onita will be ready to go for all his booked appearances.

Atsushi Onita then held a press conference on June 11, 2014 at the Tokyo Takeshiba Coliseum where he announced some of the participants for the FMW 25th Anniversary tour starting on July 25, 2014 at the Shinjuku FACE. He announced Mr. Pogo, The Shooter, Pandita, Leatherface, Jason, 69 year old Katsuji Ueda, Ichiro Yaguchi, Miss Mongol, Kazuhiko Matsuzaki, Keita Yano, Katsunari Toi, and Dump Matsumoto along with Megumi Kudo making an appearance as a special guest. Onita brought up that his former body guard still trains 2 hours everyday in kickboxing like he did back in the early 90's while competing in FMW. Onita then offered a invite to Mitsuhiro Matsunaga to appear on the shows although Onita said he does not expect Matsunaga to accept because he has retired and is living a personal life. 

Onita then announced the main event of the August 1, 2014 show at the Nagoya Aichi International Conference Hall which will be a tag team match between Onita and a mystery partner against Masashi Aoyagi and a mystery partner in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match. Onita noted that nostalgia involved in the match as it was 25 year ago in Nagoya that Onita faced off against Aoyagi in the main event of the first ever FMW match. Onita also during the press conference placed a picture of Minoru Suzuki on a punching bag and begin swinging a chair at it to promote his continued feud with Suzuki back from April as they will face off against each other in a tag team match on June 15th at Hashimoto and HIROKI's show.

FREEDOMS returned to the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring for their May 28, 2014 show drawing an announced crowd of 163 fans. The main event saw GENTARO who has been teasing a heel turn since his return teamed with Great Kojika and The Winger to defeat the team of Takashi Sasaki, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, and Toru Sugiura when GENTARO got the win over Sasaki at 20 minutes, 32 seconds with a German Suplex. The team of Minoru Fujita and Kenichiro Arai defeated the teams of Brahman Shu and Kei as well as Jun Kasai and Kamui in a Three Way Weapons Death Match when Fujita pinned Kei at 18 minutes, 11 seconds with a Modified Small Package. King of Freedom Championship Yuji Hino sat at ringside and watched the match and afterwards accepted the challenge made by Minoru Fujita for an upcoming championship match which will be on July 24, 2014. The BJW Tag Team Champions at the time in Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto appeared to defeat the team of Mammoth Sasaki and Kenji Fukimoto when Kodaka would get the win over Fukimoto at 13 minutes, 24 seconds with a European Clutch in a Hardcore Match. A match that was setup after a series of three matches between the junior heavyweights and the heavyweights took place as Keizo Matsuda, Kikujiro Umezawa, and Guts Ishijima defeated the team of HIROKI, SUSUMU, and Daisuke Masaoka when Umezawa pinned Masaoka at 5 minutes, 45 seconds with a Jackhammer. The match between HIROKI against Guts Ishijima went to a No Contest at 4 minutes, 40 seconds to setup the six man tag team match. SUSUMU managed to defeat Kikujiro Umezawa at 6 minutes, 29 seconds via count out and the opening match saw Keizo Matsuda beat Daisuke Masaoka at 11 seconds when he countered a pinfall attempt by Masaoka. 

FREEDOMS and the Okinawa based Ryukyu Dragon promotion co-promoted a show on June 8, 2014 at the Okinawa Naval Kadana drawing an announced 485 fans for the show. The show was to make up for FREEDOMS canceling back on February 9, 2014 due to a snow storm that prevented the wrestlers from being able to fly down to Okinawa. All the matches were FREEDOMS vs. Ryukyu Dragon matches as the main event saw the FREEDOMS team of Takashi Sasaki, Jun Kasai, and GENTARO defeat the team of Guruken Mask who had previously gone by Guruken Driver while in FREEDOMS, Yoshihiro Takayama, and Ryukyu Dog Dingo with the FREEDOMS team picking up the win after Kasai got the pinfall over Dingo at 17 minutes, 51 seconds with a Pearl Harbor Splash. Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Shuri Joe at 12 minutes, 50 seconds with a Death Valley Bomb. The Winger who always does a stalking pervert gimmick who loses every time he faces off against a female took on the former Apple Miyuki now going by of Hibiscus Mii with Mii getting the win at 10 minutes, 25 seconds with a inside cradle. The only other Ryukyu Dragon win saw the team of Eagle Brother & Supermantaro defeat SUSUMU and Daisuke Masaoka when Eagle pinned Masaoka at 8 minutes, 52 seconds with a Backslide. Kenji Fukimoto picked up a rare singles win after defeating Lecca at 6 minutes, 22 seconds with a Package Piledriver. The opening match saw Kamui and Toru Sugiura defeat Churaumi Saver and Tida Heat when Sugiura picked up the win at 9 minutes, 25 seconds with a Backdrop over Tida Heat.

FREEDOMS held their press conference on June 13, 2014 to announce the lineup of the June 25, 2014 show at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. During the press conference, GENTARO began his turn as he said something that enraged Toru Sugiura who attacked him at the conference as the main event of GENTARO against Sugiura was made. Masashi Takeda will be making his return after injuring his knee from his motor bike accident back in February as he will team up with Takashi Sasaki and Jun Kasai against the team of the debuting former Osaka Pro wrestlers Buffalo and Atsushi Maruyama who will team with Keizo Matsuda. Great Kojika will take on Kenichiro Arai in a singles match. Mammoth Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa will team up to take on the team of Kamui and Kenji Fukimoto. Mineo Fujita will make his FREEDOMS debut as he teams up with SUSUMU to go up against the team of HIROKI and Daisuke Masaoka. The opening match will have The Winger take on Kikujiro Umezawa.

The Apache Army returned to the Osaka Higashi Young Lion Hall on May 18, 2014. The Apache Army promotion does not release official results of their show to the public so these results are based off help from a fan that attended the show. Kintaro Kanemura defeated Kuishinbo Kamen in a Hardcore Weapons Death Match. Both Kanemura and Kamen really gave it to each other during this match. Kanemura cut open Kamen's mask and began cutting open his forehead with blood pouring from Kamen's head. Kamen in returned hit Kanemura so hard in the head that Kanemura said it was only the second time in his career he was hit so hard that he thought he was going to die from it. Kanemura ended up picking up the win with a Blast YAMA Senton Special for the win in what was apparently a great hardcore match between the two. Tetsuhiro Kuroda and HIROKI ended up defeating the team of Tomohiko Hashimoto and Kenichiro Arai when Kuroda pinned Hashimoto with a lariat after Hazard tried to set a firecracker at Kuroda but when Kuroda moved out of the way it ended up going into Hashimoto's face. ZERO1's Ryoji Sai defeated Daisaku Shimoda at 16 minutes, 46 seconds with the Nachi Waterfall. Kuga and Shinga defeated the team of YO-HEY and HASEGAWA when Kuga. Kikutaro defeated Gabbaiji-chan and Kanjuro Matsuyama when Kikutaro pinned Matsuyama in the comedy three way match. Fairy Nihonbashi defeated Lina Yamashita in the women's match and Naoshi Sano and Kenichi Fujii defeated Hiroaki Moriya and Hirota Urano when Fujii pinned Urano to open the show. 

Apache Army then ran a show a week later on May 25, 2014 at the Tokyo Island BumB Sports Culture Hall. I feel like I had to bother just about every fan that I can get in contact with that attended the show and wrestler that wrestled on the show. The main event saw Kintaro Kanemura and Magnitude Kishiwada defeat the team of Bear Fukuda and Mototsugu Shimizu when Kanemura put away Shimizu  in a bloody match, the Voodoo Murderers team of TARU, brother YASSHI, and Kengo defeated Tetsuhiro Kuroda, HIROKI, and HASEGAWA when Kengo pinned HASEGAWA around the 14 minutes, 23 seconds mark. Tomohiko Hashimoto and Shingo Garyu defeated Daisaku Shimoda and NORI when Hashimoto put away Shimoda. Menso~re Oyaji defeated Kenichiro Arai by DQ after Arai pulled off Oyaji's mask and Masato Shibata defeated Hiroto Urano in the opening match.

Kintaro Kanemura held a press conference on May 29, 2014 to announce the lineup for his Kintaro Kanemura 25th Anniversary & Kodo Fuyuki 13th (I don't know how they get 13) Memorial show on June 18, 2014 at Korakuen Hall. Kanemura along with Atsushi Onita, Masato Tanaka, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Masao Orihara, Onryo, Command Bolshoi, Shinjuku Shark, and Naoshi Sano attended the conference. The main event will be Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda who were the best friends of Fuyuki in the business towards the end of his life teaming up to take on Masato Tanaka and TAJIRI in a FMW vs. ECW match that will also be a Hardcore Death Match. Atsushi Onita will team up with Dragon Gate's Shingo Takagi and Hideki Hosaka against the old man team of Shiro Koshinaka, Masashi Aoyagi, and The Great Kabuki. Having spent a little bit of time with Great Kabuki and seeing his physical shape he is being brought in specifically just to do a mist exchange with Onita. Yuji Hino will team up with Masao Orihara against the Osaka team of Magnitude Kishiwada and Asian Cougar who will be going by that original name instead of Kuga for this match. A match where 5 people of the 6 were announced but there has been no announcement on who is on who side for the match as the match will have Shinjuku Shark (the show is also his 20th Anniversary), Sanshiro Takagi, Onryo, Kyoko Inoue, Yasu Urano, and a Mystery Partner. I personally think the mystery partner should be Hido as he should be apart of this Kanemura show. TAKA Michinoku will take on Shinjiro Otani in a singles match. Akebono was originally scheduled to face off against a mystery opponent on the show. Nothing has been announced but Akebono will have to be scratched from this show unless the match will only be a couple of seconds as Akebono is out with an illness and had to recently vacate his Triple Crown as a result. HIROKI and Daisaku Shimoda will take on the GUTS World team of Daisuke and Shota. It was announced that Mr. Gannosuke will be at the show and do the ring introductions for this match atleast. Not sure on if he will be ring announcing just this match or every match on the show. The opening three matches will be Joshi promotion offer matches as Dynamite Kansai and AKINO will take on Mayumi Ozaki and Yumi Oka in the Oz Academy match. Kana and Shu Shibutani will go up against Misaki Ohata and Sumire Natsu in the WAVE match on the show, and the opening match will be Command Bolshoi and Kyoko Kimura against Kayoko Haruyama and rookie Yuina Kanaynchura in the JWP match on the show.

Mr. Gannosuke promoted his Kishindo Returns 16 show on May 26, 2014 at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring announcing a crowd of 233 fans for the show. The main event saw DDT's Kenny Omega defeat the former Black Buffalo now going by just Buffalo in the main event at 19 minutes with the Croyt's Wrath. HUB defeated Kenichiro Arai at 12 minutes, 36 seconds with the Modoku Habu Kubaku (Deadly Poison Air Frog Splash). GENTARO scored his first win since returning back to wrestling as he defeated the former Tigers Mask now going by his real name Atsushi Maruyama at 12 minutes, 6 seconds when GENTARO made Maruyama submit to the Sharpshooter. Yasu Urano defeated Gabbaiji-chan at 8 minutes, 3 seconds when he cradled Gabbaiji while down on the mat to score the pinfall. Yuko Miyamoto defeated Keita Yano at 9 minutes, 37 seconds while being upside down while holding Yano down. Mineo Fujita went to a No Contest in a Three Way against Shinobu and Michael Nakazawa at 11 minutes, 48 seconds. Everyone before the match including media photographers were told not to take pictures during this match. The match ended up getting out of control and either all three men were naked by the end or very close to naked when the referee ended the match. Hikaru Shida defeated Micro at 6 minutes, 11 seconds with the Falcon Arrow. The opening match saw The Winger defeat Guts Ishijima at 6 minutes, 11 seconds with an Inside Cradle for the win.

666 ran their June 6, 2014 show at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring which was actually their 10th year anniversary since their first show back on June 6, 2004. They celebrated it as Shinobu's 10th Anniversary instead as Shinobu made his debut on the first show for his home promotion. In honor of Shinobu it was a very sexual show. Shinobu will get naked pretty much time every time he is at a bar and try and make out with any guy willing. So there was an S&M Match where Yuko Miyamoto came out as Brutal Punishment Miyamoto dressed up as a master in all black with whips and chains and the regular Crazy SKB, Jun Kasai, Kana, Beggar, and Senpai match that is on every show where they face off against celebrities took on the gay team of Freddie Mercury, Mastuko Deluxe (a famous Japanese drag queen columnist), Boy George, Akihiro Miwa (a Japanese drag queen singer/actress), and Chris Hart (American that sings J-Pop). Also, on the show saw the return of the team of GOEMON and Onryo as they faced off against GENTARO and The Winger. GENTARO was presented a banana at the start of the match to celebrate his return to the ring from 666. Onryo and The Winger would end both knocking each other down from the turnbuckle. As they lay down the ring the banana would come into play during the match as GOEMON would end up grabbing the banana and delivering a Pedigree to GENTARO on the banana. The Winger would end up rushing to the ring and knocking GOEMON out of the ring when he would end up slipping on the banana causing him to fall down as the referee would begin to count both Onryo and Winger down with Onryo making it up before the ten count to reward the victory to Onryo and GOEMON at 6 minutes, 51 seconds via KO.

I noted last month that my friend Emu and I have been working on translating Shoichi Arai's book about FMW that was published just a little over two weeks before he passed away. We are currently on page 129 out of 254. Emu found a column online that was posted by Shoichi Arai's daughter Rika. She wrote it back on November 4, 2012 at the age of 16. In the piece she talks about life after her fathers death even though she barely remembers her father and what she went through in her life due to her mother. It is a sad read about what a young girl has had to deal with. We got it translated and you can find it at http://fmwwrestling.us/AraiLetter.html 

Added: 5/16

Atsushi Onita and ZERO1 booked several shows for 2014 with the main event being Atsushi Onita in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match. The show on May 4, 2014 booked for the Chigasaki Vegetables and Fruits Wholesale Market ended up being promoted by Atsushi Onita instead of ZERO1 with ZERO1 supplying their talent to fill out the rest of the card. As a result it looks like this show will be the first to not make Samurai TV. The announced crowd was a sell out of 1800 fans.

Atsushi Onita teamed up with usual partners Ichiro Yaguchi and Hideki Hosaka along with two Eboshimaros which is a mascot for the city of Chigasaki as they took on the team of Yoshihiro Takayama, Yoshiaki Fujiwara and NOSAWA Rongai in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Exploding Baseball Bat Death Match. The first explosion would be Takayama kicking Yaguchi right into the barbed wire causing an explosion right away. Onita would begin brawling with NOSAWA on the outside when Eboshimaro would begin head butting NOSAWA with its gigantic head. Onita would make it back in the ring and go up against Takayama who he would shove into the exploding barbed wire but just seconds later Fujiwara would grab Onita and put him in the Fujiwara arm bar. Hosaka would grab Fujiwara to save Onita but Fujiwara would back Hosaka into the exploding barbed wire. Takayama would kick Onita into the exploding barbed wire as well and then turn on the exploding barbed wire baseball bat. Takayama would place Onita on a chair and smash the bat across Onita's chest causing an explosion. Yaguchi would make the save for Onita and both Onita and Yaguchi would shove Takayama back into the exploding barbed wire. Onita would grab the bat and nail NOSAWA across with it causing an explosion before finishing off NOSAWA with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb to get the win at 14 minutes.

Onita afterwards would bring up Yoshihiro Takayama who works for NOAH and then mentioning that he never finished his feud with NOAH and Takashi Sugiura. Onita mentioned that he wants to renew his feud with Sugiura that was left off last July.

Atsushi Onita was at the ZERO1 Dojo in Tokyo on May 8, 2014 to announce a "FMW 25th Anniversary" Tour this Summer. It will start on July 25, 2014 as Onita announced he will promote a show at the Shinjuku FACE for the first time since October last year. The other shows will be shows that have already been booked by ZERO1 to have Exploding Barbed wire Death Matches which will be August 1st at the Nagoya Aichi International Conference Hall, August 10th at the Yamagata Hills Sunpia, August 31st at the Yokohama Bunka Gym, and September 14th at the Sapporo Teisen Hall. Onita stated that he would like rivals of the old days to show up. Onita stated that he has won the last 6 Exploding Barbed wire Death Matches dating back to February 2013 and hopes to reach 10 in a row after the tour ends in September. He then issued a challenge to KENTA to an Exploding Barbed wire Death Match stating that now that he has left NOAH that he is free to participate in a match like that. Onita then grabbed the ZERO1 ring announcer and showed what he wanted to do to KENTA with a Barbed wire chair.

Atsushi Onita returned to Dragon Gate on May 11, 2014 in Yamanashi to team with Masato Tanaka and former FMW referee Dragon Kid to take on the Dragon Gate team of Shingo Takagi, Masato Yoshino, and Akira Tozawa. The match was Shingo Takagi's 10th Year Anniversary as he was a huge FMW fan growing up so the match was made for him as Takagi brawled with Onita around ringside before putting away Dragon Kid at 19 minutes, 27 seconds with the Last Falconry. Takagi afterwards did a promo with Onita to close out the show.

FREEDOMS returned to Korakuen Hall on May 2, 2014 drawing an announced 890 fans for the show. GENTARO returned to the ring to take on Isami Kodaka in the main event in GENTARO's first match since his stroke on August 5, 2014. Yuji Hino ended up defeating Takashi Sasaki which would end his King of Freedom World Title run. More details and pictures of the show can be found at http://fmwwrestling.us/Korakuen14.html

FREEDOMS returned to the Yokohama Radiant Hall on May 6, 2014 as part of Golden Week as WNC, ZERO1, Ice Ribbon, and FREEDOMS all ran the building in two days. They drew an announced crowd of 210 fans which is one less fan than last the last time they ran the 360 seat building back on January 19th. The main event saw the return of the Takashi Sasaki and GENTARO tag team for the first time since July 7, 2012. Takashi Sasaki and GENTARO took on the team of Jun Kasai and Mammoth Sasaki in a Two out of Three Falls Match. The first fall came at just 5 minutes, 15 seconds when GENTARO would manage to hook Mammoth in the GENTARO Clutch for the pinfall and the first fall. Kasai would tie it up with a Reverse Tiger Driver on Sasaki for the second fall that would go 13 minutes, and 5 seconds. The third fall saw Mammoth Sasaki choke slam GENTARO and then finish him off with the 29 Years Old at 9 minutes, 12 seconds for the 2-1 fall win at a total 27 minutes, 32 seconds. The semi-main event saw the reunion of the Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita as they defeated the team of Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Toru Sugiura when Hidaka nailed a Stray High Dog High Kick on Sugiura to get the pin at 15 minutes, 32 seconds for the win. Great Kojika and The Winger successfully defended their King of Freedom Tag Team Titles for a third time against the female team of Mio Shirai and Miyako Matsumoto with Winger doing his creepy pervert gimmick that he does whenever he is facing off against women before putting Matsumoto in a La Magistral for the win at 12 minutes, 51 seconds to successfully defend their titles. SUSUMU teamed up with Ice Ribbon's Hamuko Hoshi to defeat HIROKI and Daisuke Masaoka when SUSUMU pinned Masaoka with a Modified Trance Rave on Masaoka at 10 minutes, 26 seconds to get the pinfall. Kamui would defeat Kenji Fukimoto at 10 minutes, 6 seconds in a Hardcore Match with a Swanton Bomb off a ladder. Kenichiro Arai would open the show by defeating WNC's Yuji Kito at 8 minutes, 27 seconds with a Small Package.

Takashi Sasaki and GENTARO announced the lineup for the May 28, 2014 show at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. Takashi Sasaki, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, and Toru Sugiura will team up to take on the team of GENTARO, Great Kojika, and The Winger as GENTARO ended up giving Sasaki a Sweet Chin Music after the match was announced at the press conference. Other matches on the show will see a Three Way Tag Team Weapons Death Match with Jun Kasai and Kamui teaming up to take on Brahman Shu and Kei as well as Minoru Fujita and Kenichiro Arai. Mammoth Sasaki will team up with Kenji Fukimoto as they take on the BJW Tag Team Champion team of Isami Kodaka and Yuko Miyamoto in a Hardcore Match. The first three matches will be matches will consist of the smaller highflyers vs. the bigger wrestlers as HIROKI will take on Guts Ishijima, SUSUMU will go up against Kikujiro Umezawa, and Daisuke Masoka will open up against the returning Keizo Matsuda.

Takashi Sasaki and GENTARO before announcing the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring lineup also announced that they will be running the make up date Okinawa Naval Kadana for the show that was originally scheduled for February but had to be cancelled due to snow for June 8, 2014 and that the show will be co-promoted with the local Okinawa promotion Ryukyu Dragon. The matches will all be FREEDOMS vs. Ryukyu Dragon with Yoshihiro Takayama being the big outside name talent on the show. The main event will be the top three FREEDOMS wrestlers in Takashi Sasaki, Jun Kasai, and GENTARO against Guruken Mask who runs Ryukyu Dragon, Yoshihiro Takayama, and Ryukyu Dog Dingo. Tatsuhito Takaiwa will take on Shuri Joe in a singles match, the former Apple Miyuki now going by Hibiscus Mii will take on The Winger so that he could do his creepy pervert gimmick he does against all women. SUSUMU and Daisuke Masaoka will go up against Eagle Brother & Supermantaro in a highflying match. Kenji Fukimoto will take on Lecca and Kamui will team up with Toru Sugiura to open up against Churaumi Saver and Tida Heat.

FREEDOMS announced that annual finals of the Death Match Tournament show at Korakuen Hall that was scheduled for August 29, 2013 has to be moved back a week due to Korakuen Hall making a mistake and making a double booking on the same night. The show will now be on September 4, 2014 instead. They also announced that Jun Kasai will be promoting a show on August 3, 2014 at the Hiroshima Trade Center West # 2 Hall but that it won't have any Death Match Tournament matches on the show. The first round matches are scheduled for August 10, 2014 at the Osaka Higashinari Inhabitants Ward Center so either the tournament will have fewer rounds this year than last years or the Korakuen Hall show will have three rounds in one night.

Kintaro Kanemura announced more details to his June 18, 2014 show at Korakuen Hall that is celebrated as 25th Year Anniversary in Pro-Wrestling and 11th Year Memorial of Kodo Fuyuki. Kanemura announced that the main event will be Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda teaming up against a team not yet announced although Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka would be the most logical choice. The other match announced is Atsushi Onita teaming up with Hideki Hosaka and Magnitude Kishiwada against the Onita rival team of Shiro Koshinaka, Masashi Aoyagi, and a Mystery Partner. Promotions that have agreed to participate on the show are JWP, Oz Academy, Kaientai Dojo, WNC and ZERO1. TAJIRI, Sanshiro Takagi, and TAKA Michinoku have agreed to participate on the show. 

Ricky Fuji and Kotaro Nasu captured the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Titles on May 3, 2014 at the Chiba Blue Field after defeating the female team of Makoto and Bambi when Nasu pinned Bambi. This marked Ricky's first time as WEW Hardcore Tag Team Champion despite the FMW connection both he and the belts have. Ricky then teamed with Jado Army members Ichiro Yaguchi and Hideki Hosaka on May 11, 2014 at the Chiba Blue Field as they defeated the Kaientai Dojo team of Saburo Inematsu, Daigoro Kashiwa, and Ryuichi Sekine when Hosaka pinned Sekine with a Building Bomb in a Street Fight. Ricky mentioned afterwards that it was uncomfortable him going up against fellow Kaientai Dojo wrestlers like that but it was an order made by Onita to team with the Jado Army members and he followed the order.

Yuko Miyamoto challenged for Isami Kodaka's BJW Death Match Heavyweight Title on May 5, 2014 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym. The show ended up drawing an announced 2,080 fans for the show which is up from most recent shows in the building but still would not be considered that much of a success. Miyamoto and Kodaka have a history with one another in the ring longer than they have been professional wrestlers. Miyamoto and Kodaka as college wrestlers at the age of 18 competed against one another while in college for the WWS promotion in June 2000 long before they would make their pro debuts. Kodaka would end up joining TAKA Michinoku's Kaientai Dojo in 2002 and Miyamoto would join Mr. Gannosuke's WMF Dojo in 2003. Miyamoto who would leave WMF for the 666 promotion in 2004 would end teaming with Kodaka for the first time as the team of Yuko Miyamoto and isami would team up for the first time on May 21, 2005 for the 666 promotion as they would defeat the team of Shinobu and Lingerie Muto (Munenori Sawa) when Miyamoto would pin Shinobu. They would begin teaming in Big Japan on July 30,  2006 as they would lose to the team of Takashi Sasaki and Ryuji Ito. Kodaka had challenged Miyamoto for the Big Japan Death Match Title twice but lost both times on September 28, 2009 and March 19, 2010 as well as lose the DDT Extreme Title to Miyamoto on March 29, 2012. This time it was Miyamoto's time to put over Kodaka in a Fluorescent Light Tubes TLC Death Match as Miyamoto delivered several Fire Thunders to Kodaka including one through a table off the apron but Kodaka would end up finally getting his win over Miyamoto with the Isami ashi-zan kick to the head for the win at 21 minutes, 31 seconds to defend the titles for the 4th Time. The two still hold the BJW Tag Team Titles as they look to defend their tag team titles for a 17th time on May 31, 2014 against the Twin Tower team of Kohei Sato and Shuji Ishikawa at Korakuen Hall.

Today marks 12 years that FMW President and CEO Shoichi Arai took his own life on May 16, 2002 in a Tokyo Park to try and pay back all the money that he had borrowed over the previous months to try and keep FMW alive. Mr. Gannosuke tweeted about the day and stated that nobody loved pro-wrestling more than Shoichi Arai and that he knows he is in the sky right now. My friend Emu and I have been working on translating his book about FMW that was published just weeks before he took his life. It is very informative and interesting as I have personally learned a lot already from the book. It is taking awhile though so we probably won't be finished for another couple of months. It has taken a month to get to page 76 for a 254 page book. I will publish it to the site whenever we do get finished though. 

Added: 4/22

Atsushi Onita returned to Real Japan on April 16, 2014 at the Tokyo Yoyogi Stadium Gym # 2 to main event the show teaming with Ichiro Yaguchi against Minoru Suzuki and making his pro-wrestling debut Takatoriki in a Barbed wire Board Street Fight Tornado Death Match. Onita spit red mist into Takatoriki's face immediately at the start of the match and began brawling with him into the crowd. Yaguchi would end up attacking Suzuki with his barbed wire bat but Yaguchi would not be able to handle Suzuki and would end up getting kicked in the face and pinned with Onita having to quickly make it back in the ring for the save. Takatoriki would make his way back in the ring and Onita and Yaguchi would throw him into the barbed wire board. Takatoriki would make a come back and end up delivering a brainbuster to Onita through the other barbed wire board. Suzuki would place Onita in the Octopus Hold while Takatoriki would begin kicking at Onita with Yaguchi making the save by throwing white powder at Suzuki. Takatoriki would smash Onita over the head with a chair. Suzuki would then catch Yaguchi in a sleeper and then Takatoriki would nail Yaguchi with a lariat to put him away at 11 minutes, 10 seconds for the win. 

Atsushi Onita promoted a show on April 19, 2014 at the Fukushima Iwaki-shi Gym working with Apache Army and WNC talent. No results were ever published of the show. I found a fan review of the show with grades of some of the matches. The main event saw Atsushi Onita, Hideki Hosaka, and Kenichi Fujii defeat Ichiro Yaguchi, The Winger, and WNC's Mitoshichi Shinose in a No Ropes Barbed wire Death Match with Onita pinning Winger with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb with the fan writing that it was a good match and giving the match an A. Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeated the team of Onryo and WNC's Koji Doi when Kanemura pinned Doi in a match that got a B grade. The women's match was Dump Matsumoto and ZAPT defeating Sareee and Kaho Kobayashi when Matsumoto pinned Kobayashi with a Body Press in another match that got a B. WNC's Jiro Kuroshio defeated Kikutaro with a School Boy in a B match. The opening match saw Shinigami defeat WNC's Horizon via DQ in a match that got a C.

Atsushi Onita's next promoted show will be on May 4, 2014 as he will promote the Chigasaki Vegetables and Fruits Wholesale Market show. ZERO1 will provide talent for the undercard. The only match announced for the show is the main event as Onita will team with Ichiro Yaguchi and Hideki Hosaka against the team of Yoshihiro Takayama, Yoshiaki Fujiwara, and NOSAWA Rongai in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match.

Onita has began talks with competing in Kaientai Dojo against their new champion Saburo Inematsu. They will begin the feud by having Onita's allies of Ichiro Yaguchi and Hideki Hosaka teaming with Ricky Fuji against Saburo Inematsu, Daigoro Kashiwa, and Ryuichi Sekine on May 11, 2014 at the Chiba Blue Field. Onita will not be on the show as he will be competing in Kofu for Dragon Gate that day for Shingo Takagi's 10th Year Anniversary in wrestling. Takagi an FMW fan growing has requested for his anniversary match he take on the FMW team of Atsushi Onita, Masato Tanaka, and former FMW referee Dragon Kid against the Dragon Gate team of Takagi, Masato Yoshino, and Akira Tozawa.

FREEDOMS returned to Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on April 3, 2014 drawing an announced crowd of 184 fans. The main event saw Great Kojika and The Winger defend their King of Freedom Tag Team Championship defeating Brahman Shu and Kei when Kojika made Kei submit to his Figure 4 Leg lock at 14 minutes, 34 seconds to defend the titles for the first time. The semi-main event saw Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeat the Kaientai Dojo team of Yuji Hino and Ryuichi Sekine when Takaiwa pinned Sekine at 16 minutes, 10 seconds with the Death Valley Bomb. Jun Kasai defeated Kenji Fukimoto at 13 minutes, 29 seconds in a U.S. Mid South Fluorescent Light Tubes Death Match when Kasai pinned Fukimoto with a Vertical Reverse Tiger Driver. Mammoth Sasaki and Toru Sugiura defeated the team of SUSUMU and Daisuke Masaoka when Mammoth pinned SUSUMU at 9 minutes, 16 seconds with the 29 Years Old. Kenichiro Arai ended up going to a draw with Karate Brahman in a two out of three falls match that saw Karate Brahman stripped down to his underwear. Arai made Karate submit to a wrist lock right away at 23 seconds and then Karate made Arai submit to a wrist lock at 1 minutes, 48 seconds in the third fall. The third fall went 8 minutes, 30 seconds when Arai and Karate fought to a Double KO finish for the draw. The opening match saw Antonio Honda defeat Minoru Fujita at 7 minutes, 33 seconds via Count Out. 

FREEDOMS announced their full lineup for the May 2, 2014 at Korakuen Hall. GENTARO on April 3rd announced that his Return Match will be against Isami Kodaka who he competed against to a 45 minute time limit draw in his last match before the stroke on August 5, 2012 before he suffered his stroke backstage. The match will be the main event of the show. The other matches on the show will be Takashi Sasaki defending his King of Freedom Title against Yuji Hino in the semi-main event. Jun Kasai will take on Minoru Fujita in a Bare Feet Thumbtacks Death Match while Great Kojika and The Winger defend their King of Freedom Tag Team Titles for a second time against Kenji Fukimoto and Karate Brahman. Kamui will make his return back to the ring after his knee injury as he faces off against Kenichiro Arai and Mammoth Sasaki teams with Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Kikujiro Umezawa against the team of HIROKI, SUSUMU, and Daisuke Masaoka. The opening match will have Toru Sugiura going up against the much bigger Shuji Ishikawa.

The following FREEDOMS show will be on May 6, 2014 at the Yokohama Radiant Hall. Apart of Golden Week as FREEDOMS, ZERO1, WNC, and Ice Ribbon will all be running the building in a two day span. The main event of the show will be the return of Takashi Sasaki and GENTARO as a tag team as they take on Jun Kasai and Mammoth Sasaki. Another reuniting team for the semi-main event will be Ikuto Hidaka and Minoru Fujita as they face off against Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Toru Sugiura. The winner of the King of Freedom Tag Team Title match on May 2nd will defend their tag team titles against Miro Shirai and Miyako Matsumoto. Kamui will face off against either The Winger or Kenji Fukimoto in a Hardcore Match depending on the result again of the tag team title match on May 2nd. HIROKI and Daisuke Masaoka will team up against SUSUMU and Ice Ribbon's Hamuko Hoshi and the opening match will have Kenichiro Arai against WNC's Koji Doi.

Apache Army will return to the Osaka Young Lion Hall on May 18, 2014 with the main event being Kintaro Kanemura going up against Kuishinbo Kamen in a Hardcore Mastch. The Apache Demolition team of Tomohiko Hashimoto and Kenichiro Arai will team up against the Apache Army team of Tetsuhiro Kuroda and HIROKI. YO-HEY teams with HASEGAWA against the team of Kuga and Shinga. The comedy match will have Gabbaiji-chan against Kanjuro Matsuyama and Daisuke Shimda will take on Kenichi Fujii while the opening match will have Lina Yamashita against Fairy Nihonbashi. No lineup has been announced for the Tokyo Island BumB Sports Culture Hall show on May 25, 2014 as of yet.

Tomohiko Hashimoto and HIROKI have booked a very loaded show for their 15th Anniversary for June 15, 2014 at the Osaka Citizen Exchange Center with many big names in wrestling. The main event will have Atsushi Onita, DDT's Sanshiro Takagi, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda against the team of Tomohiko Hashimoto, Minoru Suzuki, and Yoshiaki Fujiwara. The semi-main event will have HIROKI face off against NOAH's Naomichi Marufuji in a Special Singles Match. Tatsumi Fujinami will team up with Yasu Urano against TAKA Michinoku and NOSAWA Rongai. NOAH's Takashi Sugiura will take on Osaka talent Tadasuke in a singles match. Kintaro Kanemura and Magnitude Kishiwada will team up to take on the Osaka team of Zeus and The Bodyguard. Apache Demolition of Kuga, Kenichiro Arai, and Kengo Nishimura will take on Kazma Sakamoto, YO-HEY, and Rapid. The comedy match will see Kikutaro go up against Mima Shimoda and the opening match will have Daisaku Shimoda, HASEGAWA, and Kenichi Fujii go up against Hiroaki Moriya & Rising Kid & Hirota Urano in the 8 match show.

A few notes for Kintaro Kanemura's promoted 25th Anniversary show on June 18, 2014 at Korakuen Hall. The show will be called "Ghetto Style" and will also be a 11 year memorial show for Kodo Fuyuki's passing. TAKA Michinoku has agreed to participate so he has Kaientai Dojo on board for the show as well JWP and Oz Academy. Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Magnitude Kishiwada and Onryo have also agreed to do the show. Kanemura has hinted about the main event being him against Masato Tanaka his long time rival but nothing has been made official. 

Mr. Gannosuke announced the full lineup for his Kishindo Returns 16 show on May 26, 2014 at Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. The main event will have Kenny Omega who looks to have become the new ace of the promotion now that Kazuhiro Tamura is no longer being booked with Omega going up against Osaka's Black Buffalo. Kenichiro Arai will go up against another Osaka talent in HUB in the semi-main event. GENTARO will wrestle in his first non FREEDOMS match as he goes up against another Osaka wrestler in Tigers Mask. Gannosuke trainees will have their usual matches on the shows as Yasu Urano will go up against Gabbaiji-chan, Yuko Miyamoto will go up against Keita Yano, Mineo Fujita will go up against Shinobu and Michael Nakazawa in a Three Way Match, and Micro will go up against Hikaru Shida. The opening match will have Gannosuke's friend Guts Ishijima go up against The Winger. 

Hayabusa appeared at Mr. Gannosuke's Bar in Ikebukuro during the early hours of April 17, 2014 for the first time. It was not promoted ahead of time but when Hayabusa told Gannosuke that he was heading over to the bar Gannosuke announced it to everyone over Twitter that Hayabusa would be appearing. Hayabusa sang, talked, and drank with Gannosuke and everyone at the bar until early in the morning as Gannosuke's bar opens late compared to others with a 11:30 PM open time and a 5:30 am close time. Hayabusa earlier that day had done a radio interview talking about the 20th Anniversary of his Super J-Cup match against Jushin Thunder Liger which was the first time that the Hayabusa gimmick had been seen in Japan.

Added: 3/26

ZERO1 along with many sponsors promoted the Hiroshi Hakata Big Fireworks on March 21, 2014 at the Fukuoka Hakata Star Lanes. No attendance was announced like the usual for a ZERO1 type show but this show looked to have around 1800-2000 fans in the building. 

Atsushi Onita and Shinjiro Otani teamed up to take on the team of Yoshihiro Takayama and Yoshiaki Fujiwara in the main event of the show in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Exploding Barbed wire Chair Death Match. Takayama would head butt Otani into the barbed wire for the first explosion of the match. Onita would grab Takayama and take him to the outside where they would begin brawling into the grab. Onita and Takayama would make it back in the ring and Onita would smash Takayama with a barbed wire bat but Takayama would come back with a kick to Onita causing him to hit the exploding barbed wire. Fujiwara would then grab Onita's arm and place him in his Fujiwara arm bar. Onita would grab the barbed wire to break the arm bar causing an explosion to go off in Onita's hand as a result. Otani would place Takayama in the corner to set up for his signature running kick to the face but Otani's force after the kick to the face would result in him crouching himself into the barbed wire as an explosion would go off while Otani fall outside to the ring. Onita and Otani together would end up shoving Takayama into the exploding barbed wire and then Onita would blow green mist in Fujiwara's face. Onita would then press a button in the corner that would make a loud alarm sound signifying that the barbed wire chair has been activated with explosions. Otani would place the blinded Fujiwara on a chair when Onita would smash the barbed wire bat at Fujiwara's chest causing a huge explosion. Onita would then try to shove Fujiwara into the barbed wire but Takayama would make the save. Otani would then grab Takayama and all four men would end up going into the barbed wire together for the last explosion of the match. Fujiwara would not end up getting up from that explosion as Onita would land on Fujiwara's body for the three count and the win. Onita and Otani would both cut their promos and hug after the match. 

Atsushi Onita's next Exploding Barbed wire Death Match will be on May 4, 2014 at the Chigasaki Vegetables and Fruits Wholesale Market. Nothing has been announced for that show yet. Onita's next match scheduled will be on April 16, 2014 for Real Japan at the Yoyogi Stadium Gym # 2 when Atsushi Onita and Ichiro Yaguchi team up to take on Minoru Suzuki and the debuting Takatoriki.

The big news to come out of FREEDOMS show at Korakuen Hall on March 13, 2014 was GENTARO announcing that he would be returning to the ring on May 2, 2014 at Korakuen Hall. GENTARO has been out since August 5, 2012 after suffering a stroke in Sapporo following a 45 minute match with Isami Kodaka where he took several hard kicks to the head and passed out backstage after the match. GENTARO who has been mentally different since the stroke which is a regular case for stroke victims. He has apparently been physically cleared to wrestle and he looks to continue wrestling as he is on the poster for the May 6, 2014 show at the Yokohama Radiant Hall as well. His opponent will be announced at the April 3, 2014 show for FREEDOMS in Shin-Kiba.

The main event of the show was the King of Freedom Tag Team Tournament Scramble Finals Match with Great Kojika and The Winger defeating Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa when Winger used his cradle out of nowhere on Takaiwa at 15 minutes, 48 seconds to become first ever King of Freedom Tag Team Champions. The win got some Japanese media attention for Great Kojika holding a title at the age of 72 years and 10 months old. Kaientai Dojo's Yuji Hino defeated Jun Kasai in a Hardcore Match with the spot of the match being Kasai climbing up to the top of the ladder and diving off it and sending Hino through a table on the outside. Hino would still be too much for Kasai though and would finish him off at 17 minutes, 48 seconds with the Fucking BOMB. The Great Sasuke, Brahman Shu, and Kei defeated Shuji Ishikawa, Kenji Fukimoto, and Karate Brahman when Sasuke pinned Fukimoto at 11 minutes, 38 seconds with the Messiah Advent which is when both Shu and Kei pick up Sasuke and drop him on Fukimoto's body for the pin while Sasuke prays. The Guts World team of Guts Ishijima, Daisuke, and Tatsuhiko Yoshino defeated Kenichiro Arai, HIROKI, and Daisuke Masaoka when Yoshino got the pin over Masaoka at 10 minutes, 41 seconds with the Athletic German Suplex. The semi-final matches of the tournament saw Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa defeated Mammoth Sasaki and Toru Sugiura when Takaiwa put away Sugiura at 16 minutes, 36 seconds with a Death Valley Bomb to advance. The other semi-finals tag team tournament match was Great Kojika and The Winger advancing over Kamui and SUSUMU with Winger getting his Jackknife roll up for the win at 10 minutes, 12 seconds over SUSUMU to advance to the finals. The opening dark match was WNC's Josh O'Brien defeating Kenta Hattokeen at 5 minutes, 59 seconds with the Number 9 to start the show. 

Kamui who announced that he would be taking some time off due to having felt numbness in his elbow joint for some time but making sure to finish through the tag team tournament. It looks like he will be out for atleast 2-3 months. 

FREEDOMS announced the lineup for their return to the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on April 3, 2014. The main event will be Great Kojika and The Winger teaming up to defend their King of Freedom Tag Team Titles against Brahman Shu and Kei. The semi-main event match will be Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa against Kaientai Dojo's Yuji Hino and Ryuichi Sekine. Jun Kasai will take on Kenji Fukimoto in a U.S. Mid South Fluorescent Light Tubes Death Match. The Mammoth Busters of Mammoth Sasaki and Toru Sugiura will team up to take on the team of SUSUMU and Daisuke Masaoka. Kenichiro Arai will go up against Karate Brahman and the opener will see Minoru Fujita face off against the returning Antonio Honda. The only official match announced for the upcoming FREEDOMS show at Korakuen Hall on May 2, 2014 is that Takashi Sasaki will be defending his King of Freedom Championship for the 5th time against Kaientai Dojo's Yuji Hino. 

The Apache Army ran their March 15, 2014 show at the Tokyo Island BumB Sports Culture Hall drawing an announced sell out crowd of 134 fans. The main event saw the Osaka based team of Magnitude Kishiwada and Kuishinbo Kamen defeating Kintaro Kanemura and Rikiya Fudo in a Street Fight Death Match when Kamen pinned Fudo at 15 minutes, 10 seconds with his Kankuu Tornado for the win. Tetsuhiro Kuroda defeated HIROKI in a semi-main event singles match as Kuroda pinned HIROKI at 13 minutes, 40 seconds with his lariat. Hikaru Sato defeated Daisaku Shimoda in a hard kicking contest with Sato making Shimoda submit at 15 minutes, 29 seconds to a heel hold. HASEGAWA continued his journey on becoming a pro-wrestler as he teamed up with Masato Shibata against Secret Base's Bear Fukuda and Mototsugu Shimizu when Fukuda getting the pinfall over HASEGAWA at 14 minutes, 29 seconds with a Body Press. NORI who is affiliated with Ryuji Walters team and U-File's Kotaro Nasu defeated UWS' Hiroaki Moriya & Hirota Urano when NORI got the win over Urano at 14 minutes, 52 seconds. The opening match saw Tomohiko Hashimoto easily put away Kenichi Fujii at 6 minutes, 24 seconds with the XCT.

Kintaro Kanemura announced that he will be promoting his 25th Anniversary show some time in June at Korakuen Hall. No official date has been announced. It will not be an Apache Army promoted show which is done by Tomohiko Hashimoto and sponsors but by Kanemura himself and his sponsors. Kanemura announced that he wants all different promotions to offer matches on the undercard like Weekly Pro did back in April 1995 for a Tokyo Dome show. This will most likely be the best way to try and get the show to draw. The issue is getting promotions that would be willing to work with Kanemura despite his sexual harassment now being over 6 years ago. ZERO1, WNC, and NOAH have all worked with Kanemura in the past. Big Japan and FREEDOMS want nothing to do with Kanemura. This also would most likely eliminate K-Dojo and DDT who are close with Big Japan. New Japan has had nothing to do with Kanemura since the incident and All Japan there just simply has been no reason to work with him since changing management last year. 

The Apache Army announced that they would be running on June 15, 2014 at the Osaka Citizen Exchange Center for both HIROKI & Tomohiko Hashimoto's 15th Anniversary show. No word on if this show will take the place of the originally announced May 18th show in Osaka with no building ever being announced for the show. 

Added: 3/4

Atsushi Onita appeared at a press conference at the ZERO1 Dojo in Takeshiba, Tokyo on February 21, 2014 to announce that he along with Shinjiro Otani would be teaming up in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match. Onita told Otani who sat next to Onita during the conference that this was his wedding present to him as Otani was married on February 16th. Onita and Otani will team up to take on the team of Yoshihiro Takayama and Yoshiaki Fujiwara on March 21, 2014 at the Fukuoka Hakata Star Lanes with Onita stating to Takayama that the explosions will be much greater in this match then their match back in December. There was nothing mentioned about Onita challenging Akebono for the All Japan Triple Crown as it looked like plans have changed and either the match has been scrapped due to politics or it has been pushed to a late date.

Atsushi Onita also announced at the conference that he was going to have a "Exploding Barbed wire Death Match Tour" all over Japan for 2014. He announced that there will be compete in 7 Exploding Barbed wire Death Matches this year and possibly even more than that. The shows announced would be Onita having his first No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match during Golden Week since his May 5, 1995 Death Match against Hayabusa at Kawasaki Stadium as he would compete on May 4, 2014 at Chigasaki Vegetables and Fruits Wholesale Market which is about 16 miles from Yokohama. The show will most likely be outside in a open space as there is no building under this name. The next show will be on August 1, 2014 at the Nagoya Aichi International Conference Hall which is a 3,000 seat building that FMW ran back on May 5, 1991 which is also where Eiji Ezaki made his debut. The next show will be on August 10, 2014 at the Yamagata Hills Sunpia which is a hotel in Yamagata that rents out large gymnasiums although no mention of how many seats the building can fit. The next show will be the third annual show at the Yokohama Bunka Gym on August 31, 2014 which if I were to guess will be when Onita challenges Akebono for the Triple Crown if he still is champion by then. The next show will be on September 14, 2014 at the Sapporo Teisen Hall which many promotions over the years has run and can hold up to about 2,000 fans. The last show scheduled will be on November 3, 2014 at the Grand Messe in Kumamoto which is about the same size as the Yokohama Bunka Gym so it will most likely hold around 5,000 people or so.

Onita will be competing on Real Japan's show in Yoyogi on April 16, 2014 in a match against Takatoriki in his pro-wrestling debut match although it has not been announced whether it will be a singles or tag team match. Onita appeared at Takatoriki's Restaurant on March 4, 2014 along with Ichiro Yaguchi where he challenged Takatoriki to an Exploding Barbed wire Death Match before leaving the restaurant without paying the bill. 

FREEDOMS returned to the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring drawing better than what they have been lately during this tournament in the building at 178 fans on February 13, 2014. The main event saw Jun Kasai defeat Kenichiro Arai once again after nailing Reverse Tiger Driver at 18 minutes, 52 seconds for the win. In a King of Freedom Tag Team Tournament Block B Match the team of Brahman Shu and Kei defeated Great Kojika and The Winger at 13 minutes, 43 seconds when Kojika was DQ'd for throwing a chair at a Brahman which he ducked and the chair ended up hitting the referee instead giving the Brahmans the DQ giving Shu and Kei their first two points of the tournament and keeping Kojika and Winger at 4. The other B Bracket Match saw Mammoth Sasaki and Toru Sugiura defeat Daisuke and Tatsuhiko Yoshino when Mammoth put away at Yoshino at 11 minutes, 51 seconds with the 29 Years Old giving the Mammoth Busters four points and pretty much eliminating Daisuke and Yoshino at 2 points. Minoru Fujita defeated Daisuke Masaoka with his Sasuke Damashi Segway at 12 minutes, 57 seconds. HIROKI defeated Kamui and SUSUMU in a Three Way Match at 7 minutes, 1 second after HIROKI used a cradle on Kamui for the win. The opening match was a Block A match as Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa earned their first two points by defeating Kenji Fukimoto and Karate Brahman at 13 minutes, 8 seconds after Sasaki made Karate tap out to the Sharpshooter.

FREEDOMS then ran at the Hiroshima Trade Center West Building # 4 Hall on February 16, 2014 drawing an announced 296 Fans to the show. Kamui and SUSUMU automatically a victory over the Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda via forfeit due to Takeda's injury. The opening match saw Kenji Fukimoto get revenge on Toru Sugiura for losing to him back on November 28th of last year when Fukimoto put Sugiura away at 7 minutes, 20 seconds with the Package Piledriver. The Winger and HANZO defeated HAYATA and Kenshin Konno after Winger pinned Konno at 8 minutes, 43 seconds with a Jack Knife Rollup. The local Hiroshima team of Yuko Miyamoto, Sakigake and Nidojiro defeated the FREEDOMS team of Takashi Sasaki, Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Daisuke Masaoka when Miyamoto put away Masaoka at 14 minutes, 6 seconds with the Fire Thunder. Brahman Shu and Kei defeated Minoru Fujita and Kenichiro Arai in a King of Freedom Tag Team Tournament Block B Match giving Shu and Kei four points as Shu pinned Fujita at 13 minutes, 52 seconds with the Hirotada Ototake. SUSUMU competed in his 10th Anniversary Match in the main event of the show as he teamed with Kamui to take on Takashi Sasaki and Jun Kasai with Kasai putting away SUSUMU at 21 minutes, 15 seconds with the Reverse Tiger Driver for the win. 

The last scheduled tournament matches for the King of Freedom Tag Team Tournament will take place on March 9, 2014 at the Nagoya Sports Center. The main event will be the Mammoth Busters team of Mammoth Sasaki and Toru Sugiura against Brahman Shu and Kei in a Block B Match as both teams have four points and the winner will automatically advance to the semi-finals of the tournament for March 13th. The semi-main event of the show will be another qualifying match for the semi-finals as Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa take on HIROKI and Daisuke Masaoka in the Block A Match. Jun Kasai will team up with Kenji Fukimoto and Karate Brahman against the team of Nagoya based team of Kengo Takai, Michio Kageyama, and Konaka Pale One. The first tournament match on the show will be a Block B match as Great Kojika and The Winger take on Kenichiro Arai and Minoru Fujita. Kamui and SUSUMU who have already advanced into the semi-finals due to the team of Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda being eliminated despite their four points as well will team up in a non tournament opening match against Yusaku Ito and Koji Iwato. 

The only officially announced match for the March 13, 2014 show at Korakuen Hall will be Jun Kasai taking on Kaientai Dojo's Yuji Hino in a Hardcore Match. Kamui and SUSUMU will team in a semi-finals match but the other three teams will be decided after the March 9th show in Nagoya. The Great Sasuke and Guts Ishijima have both been announced for the show as well. 

Masashi Takeda ended up suffering a torn MCL and injuring his ACL during his motor bike accident that resulted in his bike landing on his leg. Takeda is expected to return to the ring some time in May. Takeda's home promotion of U-File ran a Takeda AID show on February 22, 2014 and then Naoshi Sano at his Stanley Club Bar took donations to try and help pay for Takeda's medical expenses. 

Mr. Gannosuke promoted his "Kishindo Returns 15" show on February 18, 2014 at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring drawing an announced 238 fans to the show which is around what the shows have been doing as of late. The main event saw Kenny Omega defeat Kenichiro Arai at 18 minutes, 25 seconds with the Croyt’s Wrath. NOSAWA Rongai defeated Yuko Miyamoto in the semi-main event at 13 minutes, 48 seconds with the Ultra High School Class La Magistral for the pinfall. Magnitude Kishiwada defeated Masao Orihara at 9 minutes, 52 via DQ after Orihara pulled off Kishiwada's mask during the match. Kazuhiro Tamura defeated Yuki Sato at 7 minutes, 29 seconds with the Minoru Special submission. The Winger defeated Keita Yano at 11 minutes, 8 seconds with a cradle. Mineo Fujita defeated good friend Shinobu at 10 minutes, 12 seconds with the Chin Plant. Yasu Urano defeated Mr. 450 at 9 minutes with a pinfall and in the opening match Guts Ishijima and Micro defeated Nissan Ariga and Aki Shizuku when Ishijima pinned Ariga at 7 minutes, 9 seconds with Gannosuke's Praying Powerbomb. 

The Apache Army announced the lineup for their March 15, 2014 show at the Tokyo Island BumB Sports Culture Hall. The main event will be a Death Match to be determined later with Kintaro Kanemura and Rikiya Fudo taking on the masked Osaka team of Magnitude Kishiwada and Kuishinbo Kamen. Apache Army members will face off in the semi-main event as Tetsuhiro Kuroda will take on HIROKI in a singles match and Daisaku Shimoda will go up against Hikaru Sato in another singles match. HASEGAWA & Hiroaki Moriya take on the Secret Base team of Bear Fukuda and Mototsugu Shimizu. The opening match will be Tomohiko Hashimoto against Kenichi Fujii. 

Tetsuhiro Kuroda faced off against Onryo at 666's show at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on March 1, 2014. It has become some what of a rivalry over the last year between the two former FMW wrestlers in Onryo's home promotion. They went to a time limit draw back on March 2, 2013 and then Kuroda teamed with Hideki Hosaka to defeat Onryo and his partner GOEMON back on June 6, 2013 when Kuroda pinned GOEMON. Kuroda then teamed up with another former FMW wrestler in Shinjuku Shark on October 31, 2013 but lost to the team of GOEMON and Onryo when GOEMON pinned Shark. Kuroda finally managed to get the pinfall over Onryo at 12 minutes, 51 seconds with a Lariat for the win to conclude their one year feud.

Ricky Fuji will be making his All Japan debut on March 16, 2014 as All Japan will be coming to Kaientai Dojo's home building of the Chiba Blue Field as there will be several matches between K-Dojo and All Japan wrestlers. Ricky will end up facing off against long time All Japan wrestler Masao Inoue. Flying Kid Ichihara who is semi-retired and has an office job made his NOAH debut in Ichihara's home town of Tokushima on March 2, 2014 as he competed in a Three Way Match against Zack Sabre, Jr. and Genba Hirayanagi when Sabre pinned Hirayanagi at 9 minutes, 20 seconds with a Muscle Buster. 

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FREEDOMS returned to the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring on January 30, 2014 drawing an announced a crowd of 137 fans. This seems to be around what they will be drawing in Tokyo during the tag tournament. The main event was a King of Freedoms Tag Team Tournament Block A Match with Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda against Kenji Fukimoto and Karate Brahman going to a Double Count at 11 minutes, 52 seconds to give neither team any points. Takeda was about to finish off Fukimoto but the lights turned off and when they came back on Karate Brahman was in the ring and spit black Indian ink in Takeda's face. Kasai and Fukimoto brawled on the outside as Karate Brahman took Takeda to the ramp and placed him in the Octopus submission not knowing the referee was counting both men out to keep both teams at two points each. The other A Block Tournament match saw HIROKI and Daisuke Masaoka score their first win in the tournament and earn two points by defeating the team of Kamui and SUSUMU after Masaoka would reverse a cradle by Kamui at 15 minutes, 33 seconds to keep Kamui and SUSUMU scoreless. Tatsuhito Takaiwa would defeat Great Kojika at 8 minutes, 41 seconds making him submit to the ankle lock. The B Block Tournament match would have Minoru Fujita and Kenichiro Arai win their first match in the tournament by defeating Daisuke and Tatsuhiko Yoshino when Fujita would make Yoshino submit at 13 minutes, 45 seconds to the BONE YARD. Brahman Shu and Kei would beat The Winger and Toru Sugiura when Kei would pin The Winger at 9 minutes, 39 seconds with a Jack Knife Roll up. The opening match would see GENTARO's mystery selection be Kaientai Dojo's Yuji Hino against Takashi Sasaki with the match going to a 15 minute time limit to start the show.

FREEDOMS then ran at the Osaka Dotonbori Arena on February 2, 2014 for the first time as they would announce a sell out of 358 fans for the show. The main event of the show would have Kamui and SUSUMU get their first win in the A Block Tournament match defeating the still winless team of Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa when Kamui would pin Sasaki with the Norisuke Clutch at 16 minutes, 50 seconds to the shock of the crowd and Sasaki. Mammoth Sasaki and Toru Sugiura would earn their first two points in the tournament as well as they would win their B Block Tournament match by defeating Minoru Fujita and Kenchiro Arai when Mammoth would finish off Fujita at 11 minutes, 31 seconds with the 29 Years Old. Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda would earn 4 points in the tournament in the A Block as they would defeat HIROKI and Daisuke Masaoka at 13 minutes, 57 seconds when Takeda would deliver the U-Crash on Masaoka for the win. Kuga would defeat Kenji Fukimoto at 8 minutes, 33 seconds in a singles match. The Winger, MIYAWAKI, and Yuki Tanaka would defeat Keita Yano, Mototsugu Shimizu, and Skayde Jr. when Winger would would get the inside cradle at 15 minutes, 10 seconds on Skayde Jr. The Osaka team of Shoichi Uchida, HAYATA, and Rapid would defeat Brahman Shu, Kei, and Dyna Mido when HAYATA would get the pinfall at 7 minutes, 52 seconds over Dyna Mido with a Moonsault to open the show.

The FREEDOMS return to Okinawa on February 9, 2014 at the Okinawa Naval Kadena would be canceled due to the snow storm that would hit on February 8th leaving all flights outside of the Tokyo and Chiba region canceled so the wrestlers would be unable to make it to the show. No word on a return date to make up for the show. 

Masashi Takeda ended up suffering a knee injury and will be out "for atleast 10 days" although it looks like it will end up being more. Takeda injured himself on February 10th on his motorbike traveling about 5 miles from his home. The snow storm that took place two days earlier resulted in the roads still being very icy even though most of the snow had melted by that point. Takeda ended up losing control of his bike causing Takeda to fall off with his bike falling on his leg while in the street. The accident took place right in front of a store and the people working there came out to help Takeda get the bike off of him and called for an ambulance. Takeda was taken to the hospital where they told him that he had suffered ligament damage to his right knee. Takeda is currently on crutches right now and will be force to miss the next two shows for FREEDOMS as a result and will probably end up being out for some time longer although that is nothing has been officially announced as far as him missing his Big Japan booked shows later this month. Takeda's has expressed his regret for his irresponsibleness and announced he was truly sorry to all those expected to see him compete on the shows that he will be missing as a result.   

FREEDOMS announced their new lineup for the February 13, 2014 show at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. It has been changed slightly due to Masashi Takeda's injury. The main event will be a singles match as Jun Kasai will take on Kenichiro Arai in a rematch of their Gannosuke promoted match back on July 9, 2013 which Kasai won. Great Kojika and The Winger look to be the first team to earn 6 points in the tournament as they compete in a Block B match against Brahman Shu and Kei. Mammoth Sasaki and Toru Sugiura go up against Daisuke and Tatsuhiko Yoshino in another Block B Tournament Match. Minoru Fujita will take on Daisuke Masaoka who will be taking Masashi Takeda's place due to his injury. Masaoka was suppose to compete in a 4 way but the match instead has been changed to a 3 Way with Kamui against SUSUMU as well as HIROKI. The opening match will be a Block A Match as Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa looking to earn their first victory in the tournament against Kenji Fukimoto and Karate Brahman who look to finish out the tournament with 4 points. 

FREEDOMS will then run on February 16, 2014 at the Hiroshima Trade Center West Building # 4 Hall. Kamui and SUSUMU who were originally scheduled to compete against Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda will be given a forfeit victory at the start of the show due to Takeda's injury which will pull them up to 4 points. This show will be SUSUMU's 10 Year Anniversary in Pro-Wrestling show so Kamui and SUSUMU will still main event the show as they will take on the team of Takashi Sasaki and Jun Kasai now instead. Minoru Fujita and Kenichiro Arai will take on the Brahman Brothers in a Block B Tournament Match in the only tournament match on the show. Takashi Sasaki will compete twice on the show as he teams up with Tatsuhito Takaiwa and Daisuke Masaoka against the Hiroshima wrestlers of Yuko Miyamoto, Sakigake and Nidojiro. The Winger will team up with another Hiroshima wrestler in HANZO as they take on HAYATA and Kenshin Konno. Kenji Fukimoto will take on Toru Sugiura in the opening match.

Apache Army returned to the Osaka Dotonbori Arena on February 9, 2014 drawing an announced 257 fans which is considerably less than the 378 they announced back in November although that strong was much stronger with Onita and a Barbed wire Death Match on top. The opening match saw Billy Ken Kid, HIROKI, and HASEGAWA originally go to a No Contest with the Apache Demolition team of Tomohiko Hashimoto, Tadasuke, and Kenichiro Arai at 2 minutes, 24 seconds but the referee would restart the match and Tadasuke would end up putting HASEGAWA away at 13 minutes, 8 seconds after the restart with the Psycho Killer to get the win for the Apache Demolition at a total time of 15 minutes, 32 seconds. Kintaro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda would take on the team of Kohei Sato and Ryoji Sai in the semi-main event of the show although the biggest drawing match of the show in a Apache Army vs. ZERO1 match that would end up going to a 30 minute time limit draw. Mitsuya Nagai, Kuga, and Kenichi Fujii who had got the pinfall in the dark tag match on the show to earn himself a right in the match would take on the team of Magnitude Kishiwada, Hiroaki Moriya and Rising Kid with Kishiwada getting Fujii to submit at 13 minutes, 37 seconds to the Octopus Hold. In a battle of brothers match, the team of Daisaku Shimoda and Rikiya Fudo would defeat Yasu and Hide Kuboata as Shimoda would deliver a kick low to Hide to get the win at 10 minutes, 17 seconds. Aki Kambayashi as her La Malcriada gimmick would defeat Aoi Ishibashi after making Ishibashi tap out at 8 minutes, 24 seconds to the STF. Kikutaro would get the opening comedy match win over Gabbaiji-chan at 7 minutes, 48 seconds with a Small Package.

Tomohiko Hashimoto announced the upcoming shows for the Apache Army promotion as they will actually be running more than once every three months in Osaka coming up. They will run a show on March 15th at the Tokyo Island BumB Sports Culture Hall which is where they ran back on September 1, 2013 with Kanemura defeating Kuroda in the main event for the WEW World Title. They will then run a show on May 18th in Osaka but no official building has been announced yet and then the following week on May 25th they will return to the Tokyo Island BumB Sports Culture Hall.

Hayabusa appeared on a talk show called "Everybody's Olympic Games and the Paralympics" with psychiatrist Ms. Rika Kayama and former judo expert Ms. Kaori Yamaguchi on January 31, 2014 in Roppongi, Tokyo. They talked about how being handicap was a shameful thing in the Edo period of Japan and some of those customs still remain to this day. Hayabusa feels there so many things that can still be improved for those who are handicapped like cars and chairs. They talked about how the Paralympics will be held in Tokyo in 2020 and they hope that will change the trend. Hayabusa stated that he felt it was a good thing that a disabled person is accepted by sport and hopes that becomes a model around the world as a result by all people as well.

Hayabusa then was invited to attend Genichiro Tenryu's Tenryu Project show on February 4, 2014 at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring. Hayabusa watched from a ringside seat as Genichiro Tenryu returned as Big Hayabusa for the first time since October 7, 2011 as he teamed with fellow WAR friend Arashi as well as Dragon JOKER to defeat the team of former FMW wrestler Masaru Toi, Big Japan's Ryuichi Kawakami, and Kikutaro wearing his mask but wearing the bright yellow tights and going by the name Kodo Fuyukitaro as Arashi would put away Fuyukitaro with a Powerbomb at 19 minutes, 17 seconds for the WAR team victory. Hayabusa would get on the mic and cut a promo to end the show. 

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FREEDOMS ran their first show of 2014 on January 8, 2014 at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring drawing an announced crowd of 138 fans for the show. The main attraction of the show was the start of the King of Freedom Tag Team Scramble Tournament to crown the first ever King of Freedom Tag Team Champions. The main event of the show was an A Block Tournament match as Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda defeated Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa when Takeda made Sasaki tap out at 14 minutes, 18 seconds to the Magara Bar to give Kasai and Takeda two points. Great Kojika and The Winger earned two points in the B Block as they defeated the team of Mammoth Sasaki and Toru Sugiura when Winger used a leg roll up to get the pinfall at 15 minutes, 52 seconds for the win. Kenji Fukimoto and Karate Brahman scored an upset win in the A Block as they defeated the team of HIROKI and Daisuke Masaoka when Fukimoto delivered a Piledriver to Masaoka and Karate Brahman went over and got the pin over Masaoka at 9 minutes, 54 seconds for the win. An upset also happened in the B Block as Daisuke and Tatsuhiko Yoshino scored two points as they defeated the team of Brahman Shu and Kei when Yoshino delivered the Messenger on Kei for the win at 10 minutes, 22 seconds. Other matches on the show Kamui score an upset over Minoru Fujita when he nailed Fujita with an Overhead Kick at 10 minutes, 39 seconds for the win. Kenichiro Arai won the opening match by using an inside cradle at 10 minutes, 3 seconds over SUSUMU for the win.

The next FREEDOMS show took place on January 19, 2014 at the Yokohama Radiant Hall drawing an announced 211 fans for the show. They did much lower compared to the last time they ran the building in November and sold out the show with 360 fans. This shows lineup was considerably much weaker on paper though. The main event was Takashi Sasaki, Jun Kasai, and Mammoth Sasaki defeat Kenichiro Arai, Brahman Shu, and Brahman Kei. The Brahman Brothers threw powder in the FREEDOMS team face at the start of the match and Kei rolled up Kasai at 6 seconds for the pinfall. Kasai ended up pulling out a phone that had taken a picture of the Brahman Brothers cheating although exactly what the picture that was shown to the referee was never shown to the crowd. The referee ended up restarting the match as a result with Kasai getting the pin over Kei at 15 minutes, 10 seconds total with the Pearl Harbor Splash. Minoru Fujita would come back after losing in a big upset to Kamui earlier in the month and manage to defeat Tatsuhito Takaiwa in the semi-main event of the show with a transformation roll up as both Fujita and Takaiwa would keep reversing each others roll ups until Fujita would finally manage to get Takaiwa's shoulders down at 11 minutes, 48 seconds for the three count and the win. Two King of Freedom Tag Team Tournament matches took place on the show as the A Block saw Kamui and SUSUMU take on Kenji Fukimoto and Karate Brahman. The four would end up fighting down the aisle while Karate Brahman would begin dropping multiple banana peels on the aisle. SUSUMU would realize the referee was counting them out and begin to run to the ring and slip on the banana peels. Karate Brahman would then try to make it back in the ring but he would also slip on the banana peel resulting in a double count at 10 minutes, 22 seconds with both teams not receiving any points. Great Kojika and The Winger would manage to be the first team to score 4 points in the tournament in the B Block as they would defeat Daisuke and Tatsuhiko Yoshino when Winger would pin Yoshino at 13 minutes, 43 seconds with a Jack Knife Roll up. Keizo Matsuda would return to FREEDOMS to defeat HIROKI in a singles match at 13 minutes, 29 seconds with a Full Nelson Buster. Toru Sugiura would take on Daisuke Masaoka in the opening match as they would end up fighting to a 15 minute time limit draw.

The next FREEDOMS show will take place on January 30, 2014 at the Shin-Kiba 1st Ring as the main event of the show will be Kamui and SUSUMU against HIROKI and Daisuke Masaoka in a A Block Tag Team Tournament match as both teams look to earn their first points. Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda team up to take on Kenji Fukimoto and Karate Brahman with the winner taking the lead in the A Block. Kenichiro Arai and Minoru Fujita team up for the first time in the tournament for a B Block match against Daisuke & Tatsuhiko Yoshino who look to move up to four points. Tatsuhito Takaiwa will take on Great Kojika in their first singles match against each other while The Winger and Toru Sugiura take on Brahman Shu and Kei. The opening match will have Takashi Sasaki take on GENTARO's pick of an opponent in K-Dojo's Yuji Hino. The match is to symbolize the first ever FREEDOMS match on September 2, 2009 when Takashi Sasaki faced GENTARO.

FREEDOMS will then run at the Osaka Dotonbori Arena for the first time on February 2, 2014. The main event will have Takashi Sasaki and Tatsuhito Takaiwa against Kamui and SUSUMU in their A Block Match. Jun Kasai and Masashi Takeda will take on HIROKI and Daisuke Masaoka in the semi-finals match in another A Block match. Mammoth and Toru Sugiura who go by the name of the "Mammoth Busters" will take on the team of Kenichiro Arai and Minoru Fujita in a B Block Match. Kuga returns to FREEDOMS to take on Kenji Fukimoto in a singles match. Brahman Shu, Kei, and Dyna Mido take on the Osaka talent of Shoichi Uchida, HAYATA, and Rapid in the opening match.

FREEDOMS returns to Okinawa on February 9, 2014 for the first time since May 20, 2012 when they run at the Okinawa Naval Kadena which I believe is the former Delfin Arena after Okinawa Pro closed. The main event will be Takashi Sasaki teaming up with the former Guruken Driver who now goes by the name Guruken Mask as they take on Jun Kasai and Kenji Fukimoto. Masashi Takeda will take on Toru Sugiura in a singles match in the semi-main event. Kamui and SUSUMU team up to take on Okinawa wrestlers Churaumi Saver and Supermantaro. The Winger will perv it up against Apple Miyuki in a singles match and the opening match will have Yusaku Ito return two months after injuring his shoulder against Mammoth Sasaki in Chiba as he takes on Daisuke Masaoka in the opening match.

Atsushi Onita expressed his frustrations on January 15, 2014 in a interview with ZERO1 that Akebono had not yet accepted his request to challenge for All Japan's Triple Crown in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed wire Death Match on March 21, 2014 at the Fukuoka Hakata Star Lanes. Onita issued the challenge back on December 25, 2013 and Akebono still had a title defense scheduled. Akebono ended up defeating Takao Omori on January 3, 2014 at Korakuen Hall to defend the title leaving him open to defend the title. It has now been made official as Akebono will defend his Triple Crown Title against Atsushi Onita on March 21, 2014 in their fourth Exploding Barbed wire Death Match. 

The Apache Army promotion will be running their first show since November when they return to the Osaka Dotonbori Arena on February 9, 2014. The main event will be Kintaro Kanemura teaming up with HIROKI and HASEGAWA against the Apache Demolition team of Tomohiko Hashimoto, Tadasuke, and Kenichiro Arai. The semi-main event will be an Apache Army vs. ZERO1 match as Tetsuhiro Kuroda and YO-HEY team up to take on the team of Kohei Sato and Ryoji Sai. Mitsuya Nagai makes his Apache debut as he teams up with Jo Kyung-ho and a Mystery Partner against the Osaka team of Magnitude Kishiwada, Hiroaki Moriya & Rising Kid. A brothers vs. brothers tag team match will take place as Daisaku Shimoda and Rikiya Fudo team up to take on the Kubota brothers of Hide and Yasu. The Joshi match on the show will be La Malcriada making her Apache debut as she takes on Aoi Ishibashi and the opening match will be a comedy match of Kikutaro taking on Gabbaiji-chan.

Mineo Fujita challenged for the International Jr. Heavyweight and NWA World Jr. Heavyweight Titles on January 1, 2014 at ZERO1's Korakuen Hall show. Fujita challenged HUB who he lost to in the finals of the Tenka-Ichi Jr. Heavyweight Tournament back on September 16, 2013. HUB once again was too much for Fujita as HUB would end up finishing off Fujita with the Viper Strike at 14 minutes, 51 seconds for his third defense. Since the loss Fujita has struggle taking pinfalls to both Yusaku Obata in a tag match and the younger more inexperienced Daichi Hashimoto in a singles match.

Mr. Gannosuke is giving running a bar another chance. Gannosuke opened his "Mr. Gannosuke BAR a la doll" in the East Ikebukuro district in Tokyo on January 10, 2014. The bar will open late at 11:30 pm and will stay open until 5 am with it being closed on Sundays and Mondays. Not much gimmicks for the bar to stand out other than karaoke will be available. Gannosuke's original try at a bar ended up being a financial flop as his NOV Bar in Shin-Nakano in Tokyo only ended up lasting from June 26, 2010 to September 11, 2010 and he would book wrestlers once a week to appear with him at the bar. 

Chris Harrington has compiled all the results from this website that I have listed for FMW and all the promotions based off it as well as shows that had an FMW reunion theme to it that spans from 1989-2013 and added the wrestlers total matches, wins/losses in singles and tags as well as their winning percentage. I am going to try to keep up with updating it based off results from 2014. You can find the page at http://fmwwrestling.us/FMWStats.html although it is still a work in progress as far as presentation goes.

BAHU's Japanese Trip Diary 2013

BAHU's Japanese Trip Diary 2012

BAHU's Japanese Trip Diary 2011

BAHU's Japanese Trip Diary 2010

BAHU's Japanese Trip Diary 2009

BAHU's Japanese Trip Diary 2008

Apache Army/FREEDOMS & Production Shows News 2013 (January - December 2013)

Apache Army/FREEDOMS & Production Shows News 2012 (January - December 2012)

Apache Army/FREEDOMS & Production Shows News 2011 (January - December 2011)

FREEDOMS & Production Shows News 2010 (January - December 2010)

Apache Army/FREEDOMS & Production Show News 2009 (January - December 2009)

WMF & Apache Army News 2008 (January - December 2008)

WMF & Apache Army News 2007 (January - December 2007)

WMF & Apache Army News 2006 (January - December 2006)