Kouhiro Kanemura was born in Tsu, Mie Japan on August 9, 1970.

Kanemura while in high school enjoyed many different sports including rugby. But Professional Wrestling was his calling and Kanemura would begin to start training in 1989 in the first ever Japanese Independent Promotion Pioneer Senshi and make his debut for the promotion against Akitoshi Saito in Aichi, Japan and work under the ring name Yukihiro Kanemura on December 20, 1990.

The promotion would soon go under afterwards, and Kanemura would move over into a new upstart promotion called W*ING. Kanemura would make his W*ING debut in September 1991and would work undercard matches while the main event spots were held by Mitsuhiro Matsunaga and Mr. Pogo.

W*ING would begin working a partnership with the Smokey Mountain Wrestling promotion in Tennessee, with Kanemura coming in being known as a good blader and would go to America and wrestle all over the Southeastern region during his trip to America, but in a match against Kevin Sullivan in SMW on March 1, 1993, Kanemura would be carved open badly by Sullivan causing an incredible amount of blood to spill by the blade job, causing Smokey Mountain Wrestling to censor the match while being played in America.

Kanemura's biggest win while in W*ING would be teaming with Mitsuhiro Matsunaga to defeat the team of Freddie Krueger & Leatherface on April 3, 1993 for the W*ING Tag Team Titles. 

Kanemura's most memorable match with W*ING would be teaming with Shoji Nakamaki to take on newcomers Jado and Gedo in a scramble fire match on October 31, 1993 at the Odawara City Baseball Stadium when Jado would Powerbomb Kanemura in a blaze of fire set in the ring which would cause 75% of Kanemura's back and shoulder skin tissue burned off. A screaming in agony and pain Kanemura would showered with water, and put in several blankets while screaming an incredible pain. Kanemura would take a stretcher to the hospital due to the severity of the burns.  

W*ING would officially close on March 21, 1994, and in the final match of the promotion, Kanemura would come back many months too early to take on Hido in the last ever W*ING match. Hido would end up scoring the victory over Kanemura to end W*ING.

After W*ING closed, Kanemura would take time off to rest his injured body, but would end up joining the IWA Japan promotion. Kanemura would feud with Shoji Nakamaki in a series of chain matches, but it would be a quick stay as Kanemura would quit IWA after a dispute with IWA President Asano on August 31, 1994. Kanemura would quickly call up Atsushi Onita and FMW for work.

Kanemura would make his first appearance in FMW on  September 7, 1994 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center, and would come out and attack Atsushi Onita with a barbwire bat after Onita had just defeated Mr. Pogo and would bash Onita and FMW about how W*ING is the only real hardcore group and would join with Mr. Pogo's group consisting of The Gladiator and Hideki Hosaka. Kanemura would ask Mitsuhiro Matsunaga to leave the FMW Team, and to return back to his roots, and join the W*ING group. Matsunaga would not answer Kanemura right away, but due to their friendship from the W*ING promotion days, Matsunaga would go visit Kanemura in the hospital, after Kanemura had been checked in due to injuries on his back from his burnt back and shoulder skin tissue. Onita would get word of Matsunaga visiting Kanemura, an enemy in the hospital. Onita would begin screaming at Matsunaga, upsetting Matsunaga so much, that he would leave the FMW team, to join with Kanemura.

Kanemura would make his debut in FMW at the Tokyo Jingyu Pool Stadium on September 25, 1994, when he would team with Mitsuhiro Matsunaga to face Tarzan Goto and Hisakatsu Oya, Oya would end up turning on Tarzan Goto in the match to join the W*ING group, and the three continue to attack Tarzan Goto, until Atsushi Onita would come from the back and swim to the ring to make the save for Goto. With Matsunaga and Kanemura's influence, and former W*ING wrestler Hido joining FMW and aligning himself with the group, Mr. Pogo's Army would turn into the W*ING Alliance in October 1994.

Kanemura would win his first FMW title in the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship on March 7, 1995 teaming with Mr. Pogo defeating Atsushi Onita and Mr. Gannosuke, but would lose those titles in front of the biggest crowd Kanemura would ever wrestle for in 58,250 at Kawasaki Stadium on May 5, 1995 for Atsushi Onita's Retirement show when they would lose to Hisakatsu Oya and Ricky Fuji after Kanemura would be pinned by Oya, and afterwards Mr. Pogo would attack Kanemura for the loss and leave the W*ING group to join The Gladiator, Horace Boulder, Hisakatsu Oya, and Ricky Fuji in the new "Lethal Weapon" group. This would leave W*ING with now Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, Yukihiro Kanemura, Hideki Hosaka, and Hido.

The first show after the big Kawasaki Stadium show, Kanemura would regroup the W*ING team as it would only consist of Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, himself, Hido, Super Leather and Hideki Hosaka from now on. Kanemura would also change his ring name from Yukihiro Kanemura to W*ING Kanemura as he would wrestle Masato Tanaka for the on May 17, 1995 in Hiroshima defeating Tanaka in their single match which would turn out to be the first many spanning their careers. The show would also only draw 1,000 fans, just 12 days after drawing 58,250 for Kawasaki Stadium.

W*ING would add a new member in Super Leather to the group on June 27, 1995 at Korakuen Hall, when Super Leather would take Kanemura's place in the match to team with Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Hido to defeat Mr. Pogo, The Gladiator, and Horace Boulder after Matsunaga would knock Pogo out. 

Kanemura would then be entered into the FMW Young Lions Tournament, along with Hido, Hideki Hosaka, Masato Tanaka, Koji Nakagawa, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in a Round Robin Tournament. Kanemura and Tanaka would manage to score the most amount of points in the tournament, and would face off once again with Tanaka scoring the pinfall victory over Kanemura on July 30, 1995 for a Trophy and the victory in the tournament. 

Kanemura and Tanaka would move on to an even bigger tournament though, an 8 man round robin tournament consisting of Hayabusa, The Gladiator, Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, Super Leather, Hisakatsu Oya, and Katsutoshi Niiyama for the vacant FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Title. Kanemura would lose in every match except to Masato Tanaka on September 5, 1995 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center in which Kanemura would only get 2 points for the whole tournament placing only ahead of Masato Tanaka, who would not win one match in the tournament.

Kanemura and Tanaka would form an alliance and a team and go up against Hayabusa and W*ING member Mitsuhiro Matsunaga who had also formed an alliance during the tournament, and the four would wrestle in a bloody match on October 28, 1995 in which both Kanemura and Tanaka would unmask Hayabusa for the first time in the ring, but Kanemura would get pinned by Hayabusa with the Falcon Arrow in which afterwards all four wrestlers would form a friendship. But W*ING member Hido and Super Leather as well as Lethal Weapon would soon inject himself and insulting Kanemura and Matsunaga with who's suppose to be the enemy in Team FMW as both Hido and Leather would form an Alliance with Lethal Weapon.

The feuding between W*ING would end on November 26, 1995 as Matsunaga and Kanemura would turn on Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka with Super Leather & Hido turning on Horace Boulder to reform the W*ING alliance. W*ING would face off against Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka, Koji Nakagawa, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and Horace Boulder in a Street Fight on December 10, 1995 at Korakuen Hall, and defeat Team FMW after Kanemura would pin Kuroda.

W*ING would face off against each other in a Caribbean Barbwire Double Hell Glass Death Match on December 21, 1995 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym, with Kanemura teaming with Super Leather & Hido to face Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, Hideki Hosaka, and the newest member of the group, Jason the Terrible. Kanemura would be thrown into the barbwire glass outside of the ring, and tortured by forcing to lay in it while Hosaka and Jason the Terrible continue to kick his body around in the glass while Kanemura would begin screaming in pain. Jason the Terrible would manage to pin Hido for the victory, and all six members would unify as W*ING would take over as the lead heel faction in FMW going into 1996.

W*ING would continue dominating the FMW team on January 5, 1996 at Korakuen Hall, after Super Leather & Jason the Terrible would defeat Hisakatsu Oya & Horace Boulder for the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles, and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, W*ING Kanemura, and Hido would defeat Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka, and Koji Nakagawa in a Street Fight after Kanemura would score the pinfall over Tanaka.

Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, W*ING Kanemura, and Hido would continue the W*ING domination over the FMW team of Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka, and Koji Nakagawa in a Spider Net Double Hell Death Match, in which all three W*ING members would declare their easiest death match ever after throwing Hayabusa into a Spider Net full of barbwire which would cause him to miss 4 months worth of action from the injuries and being cut up so much by the barbwire after already having injuries going into the match. Matsunaga would score his first pinfall victory over Hayabusa for the W*ING victory.

Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, W*ING Kanemura, and Hido would take on the new FMW team of Masato Tanaka, Ricky Fuji, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in the first ever War Games match in FMW on February 23, 1996 at Korakuen Hall, which would be a losing effort for the W*ING team as Masato Tanaka would hit the roaring elbow on Kanemura to score the pinfall in the incredible brawl. Victor Quinones along with The Headhunters making their FMW debut would appear afterwards and attack both sides as Victor would create a new group, called Team IWA. The group would consist of former IWA wrestlers to face off against FMW.  Super Leather, who had wrestled in IWA in 1994 before joining FMW would join Team IWA on March 30, 1996 at Korakuen Hall, turning on Jason the Terrible to help The Headhunters win the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles.

The next big match for Kanemura would on May 5, 1996 at Kawasaki Stadium in front of 33,321 fans to take on Team IWA's Cactus Jack in a Caribbean Spider Net Glass Double Hell Death Match for the IWA King of the Death Match honor which Cactus Jack held. Matsunaga had been the original opponent for Cactus Jack, but after giving his notice that he would be leaving the promotion, FMW would decide to move Kanemura in the higher profile match on the show. Kanemura and Jack would put on one of the most brutal matches as both would be supplex and thrown into the barbwire glass many times before Cactus Jack would end up getting the pin on Kanemura. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga would leave afterwards, to join the new upstart Big Japan Pro Wrestling, as Jason the Terrible would also leave FMW.

The W*ING group would hold their first show under the W*ING banner on  June 12, 1996 at Korakuen Hall, with FMW financing the show, but drawing all the old W*ING fans to the promotion to cheer on the old group. Kanemura along with Hido and Hosaka would wrestle in multiple matches, fighting each other as well Team IWA and Team FMW on the card with the main event being Kanemura, Hido, and Hosaka wrestling Team FMW's Masato Tanaka, Koji Nakagawa, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in the main event in which for the first time, Team W*ING would get a majority of the cheers than Team FMW. While the crowd was very hot, and there would be a couple more shows under the W*ING name, the idea would ultimately fail, but that would not be the last of Kanemura trying to restart W*ING.

FMW would then announce an 8 man single elimination tournament to crown a new champion called the FMW Independent Championship. The eight men in the tournament would be Kanemura, Tanaka, Super Leather, Hido, Mr. Pogo, Koji Nakagawa, Horace Boulder, and Hisakatsu Oya. Kanemura would go on to defeat Koji Nakagawa in the first round and then Super Leather in the next round to set up a finals match against Masato Tanaka. Kanemura would face Tanaka for the title on August 1, 1996 at Shiodome, with both wrestlers working a mat based style match, proving to crowd and doubters that both wrestlers could wrestle a completely different style match. There would be no bloodshed during the match, or any weapons used. Tanaka would deliver a missile dropkick to Kanemura, followed by a Tornado DDT by Tanaka, as well as delivering hard elbows to Kanemura's face, and would attempt to finish Kanemura off with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb, but Kanemura would manage to kick out. Kanemura would make a come back as he would duck a Tanaka rolling elbow, and Kanemura would deliver his own rolling elbow on Tanaka, and nearly get the victory from it. Kanemura would follow up with a Liger Bomb, and a guillotine leg drop, and then manage to put away Tanaka with back to back Thunder Fire Powerbombs on Tanaka to win the match, and become the first ever FMW Independent Heavyweight Champion.

The next big match for W*ING would be on September 1, 1996 at the Nagoya Park where Kanemura would team with Hido and Hosaka to take on Tanaka, Nakagawa, and Kuroda in a Exploding Barbed wire Double Hell Death Match which would first see Koji Nakagawa take one of the biggest bumps in wrestling, followed by Kanemura taking an incredible bump by being pushed off the ring by Nakagawa sending Kanemura to be flown into the exploding barbwire as Tanaka would soon pin Hosaka with a Roaring Elbow as Kanemura would have to take a hospital ride soon afterwards for his injuries. A new member to W*ING would soon arrive as The Dragon Winger would join the group.

W*ING Kanemura's first successful title defense for the FMW Independent Heavyweight Title would take place at Korakuen Hall on October 12, 1996 by defeating Hisakatsu Oya with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb on Oya for the win. Kanemura afterwards would be attacked by Oya's team mate The Gladiator and laid out with an Awesome Bomb. The Gladiator would challenge Kanemura for December 11, 1996 at Komazawa to put up his Independent Heavyweight Title for The Gladiator's Brass Knuckles Title in a unification match. 

FMW Independent Heavyweight Champion Kanemura would face FMW Brass Knuckles Champion The Gladiator on December 11, 1996 at the Komazawa Olympic Gym, with the match almost turning into a disaster right away with The Gladiator diving off the top rope, but getting his foot caught in the rope accidentally. Kanemura would begin working on the leg for the entire match, by throwing a chair at it and attempting to make sure The Gladiator attempts no flying maneuvers during the match. But The Gladiator would end up on the top rope at the same time as Kanemura, and deliver a Kamikaze Awesome Bomb on Kanemura, knocking Kanemura out. The Gladiator would finish Kanemura off with a sit out Awesome Bomb to score the pinfall victory over Kanemura to win Kanemura's Independent Heavyweight Title, and merge the titles together.

Kanemura and W*ING would start out 1997 having to deal with a new faction entering in FMW, as Fuyuki-gun consisting of Kodo Fuyuki, Jado, and Gedo would begin challenging W*ING and would defeat the team of Kanemura, Hideki Hosaka, and Dragon Winger on February 19, 1997 at Korakuen Hall after Fuyuki would deliver a Charging Lariat to Winger for the victory. 

Kanemura would then team up with Team FMW members Atsushi Onita and Masato Tanaka to take on Terry Funk, Cactus Jack, and The Gladiator on April 29, 1997 at the Yokohama Arena in a wild brawl which would end with Kanemura hitting the Blast Yama Senton Special on The Gladiator to score his only pinfall ever against The Gladiator, after the match would announce that he plans on facing either Kanemura or Tanaka in a Exploding Barbed wire Cage Death Match in his return to Kawasaki Stadium on September 28. 1997.

Atsushi Onita would team up with Kanemura and Hido to defeat Fuyuki-gun as Kanemura would hit Blast YAMA Senton Special on Gedo for the win on May 8, 1997 at Korakuen Hall. Onita would then team up with Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda to face the W*ING team of Kanemura, Hido, and Dragon Winger on May 13, 1997 at Korakuen Hall, with Onita delivering a Thunder Fire Powerbomb on Winger for the victory.

May 25, 1997 at the Fukouka Hakata Star Lanes, in the determining match to decide who Onita would fight at Kawasaki Stadium, Kanemura would team up with Atsushi Onita and Hido to face Masato Tanaka, Koji Nakagawa, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in a Barbed wire Street Fight with Atsushi Onita scoring the pinfall over Masato Tanaka after a Fire Thunder Powerbomb to give Kanemura the shot at Onita at Kawasaki. Backstage, Masato Tanaka would beg Atsushi Onita and Kanemura for another chance to get the opportunity to face Onita at Kawasaki Stadium, both Onita and Kanemura would act disgusted with Tanaka's begging, but would give him one more chance in a winner face Onita match on August 2, 1997 at Shiodome in a Exploding Barbed wire Death Match. 

Kanemura and Tanaka would battle in tag matches the rest of the summer including Kanemura and Hido successfully defending their FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles on June 22, 1997 at the Hachioji Multipurpose outdoor Plaza with Kanemura pinning Kuroda after a elbow drop with the ring bell gets the win to keep the Titles. 

Kanemura would face his tag team partner Hido on July 27, 1997 at Korakuen Hall in a Barbed wire Street Fight with both men taking insane bumps including Kanemura taking a facebuster into a pile of barbed wire. Kanemura would get the pin over Hido with the Thunder Fire Power Bomb on a stack of barbed wire as the two would embrace afterwards.

August 2, 1997 after 366 days when Kanemura had defeated Masato Tanaka at the Shiodome in one of his best matches on August 1, 1996 for the FMW Independent Title. This time would be different as the two would fight again at Shiodome, this time for the right to main event Kawasaki Stadium against Atsushi Onita. But this time the two would have to fight each other in a Exploding Barbed wire Death Match. Kanemura would again get the victory after moving out of the way of a charging Tanaka that would cause him to be sent right into the exploding barbed wire and then be hit with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb by Kanemura for the win over Tanaka and the right for Kanemura to wrestle in the biggest match of his career on September 28, 1997 at Kawasaki Stadium in the main event against Atsushi Onita.

Kanemura and Hido's next defense of the FMW Tag Titles would be their last as the Funk Masters of Wrestling team of Mr. Gannosuke and Hisakatsu Oya would defeat them on August 21, 1997 at the Yokosuka City Gym as Gannosuke would score the pin on Hido after a Fire Thunder for the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. Soon afterwards, Kanemura would shatter his foot in a match to the point where it would become an incredibly hard for him to walk at all, and with his biggest match of his career coming up, there was no way Kanemura was going to take time off. Instead, he would create stipulations for his match against Onita. If Kanemura would win, then Onita would have to be force to retire once and for all finally, if Kanemura were to lose, the W*ING group would be over at 3 years of existence after originally starting to try and put out Onita.

Kanemura would finally face Atsushi Onita for the first time in a singles match on September 28, 1997 at Kawasaki Stadium which had been filled by 50,012 people to see the main event of a Exploding Barbed wire Bomb Cage Death Match with the explosions being the biggest ever and either the W*ING group ending or Onita retiring for good, in what turned out to be a disappointing match due to Onita's actual in ring ability and Kanemura not be able to help much for his cause with a shattered foot and having trouble being able to walk at all. Kanemura would take the first ever head first bump into the exploding barbed wire cage before the biggest explosion in all of Death Matches would take place, but in the end Onita would score a Thunder Fire Powerbomb to get the victory over W*ING Kanemura to finally end the W*ING group and Kanemura would go back to the ring name Yukihiro Kanemura.

After the match, Onita would travel to the hospital with Kanemura along with Hido and Hideki Hosaka in the ambulance. Two days later at a press conference on September 30, 1997 in Tokyo, Atsushi Onita would announce that he was breaking away from FMW and forming his own alliance called ZEN. It would consist of himself, Kanemura, Hido, Hideki Hosaka, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda and on October 19th at the Sendai Miyagi Sports Center # 2,, Kanemura would team with Onita to win the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles after defeating Hisakatsu Oya and Mr. Gannosuke when Kanemura would pin Oya with a backslide for the win. Soon afterwards, the remaining members of the Funk Masters of Wrestling would leave to officially end the group as The Gladiator, Hisakatsu Oya, and Mr. Gannosuke would join ZEN in what would soon form one of the most infamous tag teams of all time.

Onita and Kanemura would soon vacate the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles as Onita would be unable to defend the titles regularly, so Kanemura would team up with Mr. Gannosuke on November 28, 1997 at Korakuen Hall against Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka and would score the upset pinfall as Mr. Gannosuke would cleanly pin arch rival Hayabusa with a Fire Thunder to win the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles. It would be Kanemura's 4th time winning the titles, all with different partners. It would begin the beautiful friendship between the two. The two would begin dancing to the ring and showing as much disrespect to everyone including ZEN leader Atsushi Onita as the two would begin to argue after their match of defending the tag titles against Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki and would be the semi-main event with Atsushi Onita main-eventing against Masato Tanaka. 

Kanemura and Gannosuke would successfully defend their FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship against Hayabusa and Michinoku Pro's Jinsei Shinzaki on December 19, 1997 at the Komazawa Olympic Gym as Kanemura would score his first career pinfall victory over Hayabusa in the match after Hayabusa would come off the rope, with an awaiting Kanemura landing a knee in Hayabusa's injured ribs, and then rolling Hayabusa up for the victory, with Kanemura scoring his first ever pinfall victory over Hayabusa, and retaining the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. The two would brag about it despite being in the semi-main event and Onita defeating Tanaka in the main event of the show.

Kanemura would then challenge against his rival Masato Tanaka on December 21, 1997 in Nagoya and challenge for the FMW Double Titles. Kanemura who had had Tanaka's number throughout their career together would be unable to take away Tanaka's titles as Tanaka would hit a Running Elbow Smash to score the pinfall over Kanemura to successfully defend both his FMW Brass Knuckles and Independent Titles.

Kanemura would team with ZEN members  Gannosuke and Onita against Hayabusa, Jinsei Shinzaki, and Masato Tanaka on December 22, 1997 at Korakuen Hall in a War Games Cage Match with Hayabusa scoring the pinfall over Onita after hitting a Moonsault off the top of the cage on Onita. Kanemura and Gannosuke frustrated with Onita's ego and now with the loss would attack Onita while handcuffing him to the cage and slap him to show no respect towards him until Koji Nakagawa would chase them out of with a chair as Nakagawa would become the newest member of ZEN while Kanemura and Gannosuke had officially left ZEN.

The new year would begin for Kanemura on January 6th of 1998 as he and Hido would take on and lose to the team of  Hayabusa and Shinzaki. But it would be the main event of Korakuen Hall that would mean a lot to their newly formed group as Mr. Gannosuke would score the victory over FMW Double Titles Champion Masato Tanaka with a Gannosuke Clutch to win the FMW Double Titles. The next day, ZEN would run their first promoted show and Kanemura teaming with Gannosuke and Hido would wrestle in a street fight against Onita, Nakagawa, and Kuroda, despite Nakagawa scoring the pin on Hido for the win, Kanemura and friends would attack ZEN afterwards and be helped by Fuyuki-gun members Kodo Fuyuki and Jado. Afterwards, in the locker room along with Miss Mongol, Kanemura would announce that the new faction of himself, Mr. Gannosuke, Kodo Fuyuki, Jado, Hido, and Miss Mongol would be called "Team No Respect".

Kanemura would team with Mr. Gannosuke & Jado on January 16, 1998 at the Yokkaichi Australian Mansion, and challenge for the FMW 6 Man Street Fight Titles. Kanemura & Gannosuke would show their lack of respect towards Shoichi Arai, by tearing up Arai's paper to declare the match a title match. Kanemura, Gannosuke, and Jado would defeat the FMW 6 Man Street Fight Champions of Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka, and Hisakatsu Oya when Jado would pin Oya with the Gedo Clutch to score the victory and the titles for Team No Respect.

Kanemura would become included in the very heated feud that Mr. Gannosuke and Jinsei Shinzaki had been having ever since April 29, 1997 at the Yokohama Arena as he would help Gannosuke choke Shinzaki out with his own finishing move to give Mr. Gannosuke & Yukihiro Kanemura the win against Jinsei Shinzaki and Hisakatsu Oya on February 6, 1998 at Korakuen Hall.

Team No Respect would lose their first big match on February 13, 1998 at the second ZEN show as Atsushi Onita, Koji Nakagawa, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda would win the FMW 6 Man Street Fight Tag Titles after Nakagawa choking out an incredibly bloodied Kanemura for the win and the titles, afterwards Team No Respect would attack referee of the match Go Ito and send him into the hospital. On February 16, 1998 at Korakuen Hall at a Fuyuki-gun promoted show, Kanemura and Gannosuke would defend the Tag Titles defeating Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda after Go Ito who was on crutches to watch the match would smash the crutch over Nakagawa to set up Gannosuke to get the pin on him for the win as Go Ito would be proclaimed the new member of Team No Respect along with Fuyuki-gun member Gedo.

Kanemura would really begin to show his comedy side as earlier he would come up with the idea of the Brief Brothers with all the TNR wrestlers appearing to the ring to do comedy skits in their white briefs, and would also mock Hayabusa on March 17, 1998 appearing in Hayabusa's costume and revealing his white briefs while as all the Team No Respect members especially Gannosuke would make fun of Hayabusa at his expense..

An eight man single elimination tournament for the right to face Mr. Gannosuke for the FMW Double Titles on April 30, 1998 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym. Kanemura along with Go Ito's help would advance after defeating Koji Nakagawa in the first round but would then get squashed by The Gladiator on March 16, 1998 who would lose to Hayabusa in the finals of the tournament. Kanemura and Gannosuke would end up losing their FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles and ending their great reign as champions on March 29, 1998 after losing to fellow Team No Respect members Kodo Fuyuki and Hido when Fuyuki would lariat Kanemura for the titles.

Kanemura would challenge Jinsei Shinzaki on April 30, 1998 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym with Shinzaki leaving FMW after the match, the two would put on a fast pace match which included tables and barbwire bats before Shinzaki would score the pinfall over Kanemura with a Praying Powerbomb for the win. Mr. Gannosuke would also not fair so well as he would injure his knee in defending the Double Titles against Hayabusa on the show and would go on to lose the FMW Double Titles to Hayabusa. Gannosuke would be out of action with the injury for over 6 months. 

Kodo Fuyuki who had defeated Atsushi Onita on the show would take over soul leadership of Team No Respect and Kanemura would team with Fuyuki and Hido to defeat Onita, Nakagawa, and Kuroda for the FMW 6 Man Street Fight Tag Team Titles on May 5, 1998 in Wakayama in which afterwards, Onita would officially end ZEN after the match.

Kanemura would begin his tag team partnership with Kodo Fuyuki on May 19, 1998 after defeating Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda. Kanemura and Fuyuki would then go on and defeat FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champions Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka on May 27, 1998 at the Fukouka Hakata Star Lanes when Kanemura would roll up Tanaka for the pinfall to become a five time FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champion with each reign being with another partner.

Their first defense would be against Atsushi Onita and Koji Nakagawa in which Nakagawa would turn on Onita after being handed a crutch by Go Ito to smash it against Onita's back for Fuyuki to get the pin on Onita on May 31, 1998 in Ishikawa. The FMW 6 Man Street Fight Tag Titles had been declared vacant earlier in the month and the team of Kanemura, Fuyuki, and Nakagawa would go on to defeat Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka, and Hisakatsu Oya after Nakagawa would pin Masato Tanaka. 

Kanemura would go on to earn a shot against Hayabusa for the FMW Double Titles on June 26, 1998 in Sendai, but even with help from a Barbwire Bat, Hayabusa would manage to defeat Kanemura to retain the FMW Double Titles. Kanemura would then face The Gladiator in a singles match, for the what would turn out to be the last time on July 10, 1998 at Korakuen Hall and would end up getting Awesome Bomb not only off the apron through a table, but Awesome Bombed off the top rope landing right directly on his neck for the The Gladiator to get the victory.

Kanemura and Fuyuki would team up to defend the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles against fellow Team No Respect members Jado and Gedo on August 22, 1998 at a Tokyo TV Studio when Fuyuki would hit a Charging Lariat to score the victory for the New Footloose tag team.

Kanemura would then lose a non title tag match with Fuyuki to Hayabusa and Battlarts' friend Daisuke Ikeda on September 8, 1998 after Hayabusa would get the pinfall on Kanemura earning them a tag title shot in the future. Kanemura would also begin to feel pain in his shoulders and have to bandage them up once again because of the fire incident in W*ING almost 5 years earlier. Kanemura would also lose to young up and comer Tetsuhiro Kuroda on October 6, 1998 at Korakuen Hall in a bloody match, that would be Tetsuhiro Kuroda's biggest win of his career at the time.

Hayabusa and Daisuke Ikeda would end up winning the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles on October 26, 1998 after Ikeda would knock out Kanemura with a kick to the head, causing the referee to award the match to Hayabusa & Daisuke Ikeda, and the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles.

Kanemura would go on to wrestle ECW's Sabu and The One Man Gang and lose to Sabu in a Three Way Dance on FMW's biggest show of the year at the Yokohama Bunka Gym on November 20, 1998 after both Sabu and Kanemura would roll up the One Man Gang to eliminate him, and Sabu would manage to put away Kanemura with a flying legdrop to score the victory over the bloody Kanemura. But more importantly, it would also be the return to Mr. Gannosuke who defeated Kuroda and made it very well clear he did not want anything to do with Kanemura and Team No Respect anymore. Fuyuki would also go on to win the FMW Double Titles defeating the Champion Hayabusa to give Team No Respect incredible power in FMW.

Kanemura would then be entered into the "Over the Top" Tournament to see who would get the next shot at Kodo Fuyuki's championship titles. A 16 man single elimination tournament in which Kanemura would advance to the second round of after defeating Hideki Hosaka and moving on to wrestle his former friend Mr. Gannosuke on December 13, 1998 at Korakuen Hall. Kanemura would jump Gannosuke before the match and the two would begin to brawl all around ringside, with both wrestlers being busted open, but Gannosuke would manage to deliver a Praying Powerbomb and then finish Kanemura off with the Nirvana Strangle forcing Kanemura to submit, eliminating Kanemura from the tournament. Gannosuke would go on to win the Tournament and earn a shot at the Double Titles on March 19, 1999 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center against Kodo Fuyuki.

Kanemura would face Kodo Fuyuki in a friendly contest on January 5, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, and would eventually fall to Kodo Fuyuki's Charging Lariat. After the match, Kodo Fuyuki would announce that Team No Respect would no longer begin to attempt to takeover FMW. An injured Jado & Go Ito would disagree with the comments stated by Fuyuki, and both would leave the group as a result. 

Kanemura and TNR would begin a feud with Battlarts in the next month, and Kanemura would lose to Daisuke Ikeda at the March 19, 1999 Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center show after being knocked out. Fuyuki would also go on to defend his Titles against Mr. Gannosuke after pinning Gannosuke after a table shot. Kanemura would then team up with Hido for the opening of the FMW Tag Team Tournament to decide the new FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champions, but the tournament would not be a very successful one for Kanemura and Hido as they would lose all seven of their matches in the tournament, and then Kanemura would go on to lose to Mr. Gannosuke again on April 20, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, but this time there wasn't as much hate in the hate as their was before, and the two had began to share an interest again, which was feuding with Battlarts. But before Kanemura would compete in the big Yokohama Bunka Gym show he would get the chance to make his Tokyo Dome debut on May 2, 1999 teaming with Team No Respect members Koji Nakagawa and Gedo but would lose to the All Japan team of Johnny Smith & Tamon Honda & Masa Fuchi after Honda would pin Gedo in front of over 30,000 fans.

Kanemura would then team with Team No Respect member Hido as well as Mr. Gannosuke, Hisakatsu Oya, and Hideki Hosaka to represent Team FMW against Team Battlarts on May 5, 1999 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym in which would end up Kanemura and Gannosuke being the last two men for their team, teaming once again against the last two members of Battlarts in Daisuke Ikeda and Muhammed Yone. Kanemura would eventually be eliminated after being knocked over the top rope and Gannosuke would end up putting up the fight of his life before being pinned by Ikeda for the lost but that wouldn't be the last seen of them on the show as before Kodo Fuyuki came out to defend his FMW Double Titles against Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Fuyuki came out to Come out and Play which was Kanemura's TNR song, and there along with Fuyuki was Kanemura, Mr. Gannosuke, Koji Nakagawa, Jado, Gedo, and Hido. Fuyuki would go on to defeat Kuroda after help from Team No Respect as the battle lines had been crossed and it would Team No Respect against Team FMW consisting of Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Hisakatsu Oya, Ricky Fuji, Hideki Hosaka, Flying Kid Ichihara, Yoshinori Sasaki, and Naohiko Yamazaki.

Soon after, on May 18, 1999, Fuyuki held a press conference to announce that he was separating the FMW Double Titles and giving the FMW Brass Knuckles Title to Kanemura and giving the FMW Independent Title to Mr. Gannosuke. Kodo Fuyuki would also announce that he was now the new commissioner of FMW and friends with owner Shoichi Arai, but the first bit of war on May 31, 1999 would not turn out to well for Team No Respect as Team FMW would defeat TNR in a Single Elimination without one member of Team FMW being eliminated. Kanemura would be knocked out by Hosaka and eliminated and Hido would be the last eliminated by a Hayabusa 450 Firebird Splash. 

A Round Robin tournament of four 6 man teams would start on July 18, 1999 with Kanemura teaming with Gannosuke and Jado to try and win the brand new WEW 6 Man Tag Team Titles. Kanemura's team would go on to defeat the team of Super Leather and Armageddon, and go to a 30 minute time limit draw with the team of Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda, but lose to the team of Kodo Fuyuki, Koji Nakagawa, and Gedo. Then on July 31, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Kanemura, Gannosuke, and Jado would go on to lose to Hayabusa, Tanaka, and Kuroda who would fall to the winning team of Fuyuki, Nakagawa, and Gedo.

With Hayabusa's last days under the gimmick for the time being taking place as he would soon take off the mask and become H, Kanemura would team with Nakagawa and Hido in a losing effort against Darkside Hayabusa, Kuroda, and Oya after Hayabusa pinned Hido on August 20, 1999. Kanemura would then defend his FMW Brass Knuckles Title against Hayabusa on August 23, 1999 in Hayabusa's last Korakuen Hall match under the gimmick, Kanemura would lose the title to Hayabusa just as his friend Mr. Gannosuke had lost the FMW Independent Title to Masato Tanaka three days earlier. Kanemura would challenge Masato Tanaka on August 25, 1999 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center in what turn out to be the last ever FMW Independent Title match as the two had also been the first two to wrestle in a FMW Independent Title match. But this time, it was a different result, despite Kanemura pushing Tanaka off a high balcony onto a table to the floor, Tanaka would still defend his FMW Independent Title for the last time. Hayabusa would also go on to defeat Mr. Gannosuke in the last FMW Brass Knuckles Title match as well as Hayabusa's last match under the gimmick, after the match the entire Team No Respect group attacked and unmasked Hayabusa for what was suppose to be the last time. H would debut two days later beating five members of TNR including Kanemura all by himself. Mr. Gannosuke would end up countering by showing up on September 3, 1999 in a mask calling himself Hayabusa

Kanemura would then go under a new name change and go under the ring name Kintaro Kanemura and would be rewarded the brand new WEW Hardcore Title in which he would defend for the first time against Balls Mahoney on November 23, 1999 at the Yokohama Arena, coming to the ring with two Mafia friends. Kanemura and Mahoney would begin fighting inside parking lot, where the two would begin using a car as a weapon. Mahoney would attempt to use the broken glass of the windshield to cut Kanemura up, as well as the car doors. They would continue to brawl until reaching back to the crowd, and Kanemura would manage to chain Balls Mahoney to a chair next to the entry way. Kanemura would climb the top of the entrance ramp and jump off the top and dive to send Mahoney through a table to score the pin and defend his title. But after the match, Fuyuki would end up losing a loser leaves FMW match to Masato Tanaka and leave TNR and Mr. Gannosuke who had wrestled under Hayabusa left TNR as well and would begin to team with H leaving Kanemura as the new leader of TNR along with Koji Nakagawa, Jado, and Gedo.

Kintaro Kanemura would defend his WEW Hardcore Title against Balls Mahoney's ECW partner, Axl Rotten on December 11, 1999 at Korakuen Hall. The two would would brawl all around ringside, with Kanemura being busted open badly during the match. Kanemura would still manage to defeat Rotten after hitting the Blast YAMA Senton Special off the top of a ladder to score the pin over Rotten. 

To begin the new millennium on January 2nd, Kanemura along with Jado and Gedo invaded a Big Japan show in which Kanemura challenged Big Japan's Ryuji Yamakawa to a WEW Hardcore Title match to decide who was more hardcore. Yamakawa would invade the FMW January 5, 2000 Korakuen Hall show by attacking Chocoball Mukai and accepting Kanemura's challenge to a WEW Hardcore Title match on February 22, 2000 at the Big Japan Korakuen Hall show. Yamakawa would go on to win the WEW Hardcore Title on that day in a match in which they both used light bulb sticks against each other before Yamakawa would get the pin and the title. Kanemura would be badly injured after the match, noticing limping but would wrestle on FMW's February 25, 2000 in a 4 way tag match with Jado in which Kanemura would have to do comedy throughout the match to get through it.

Kanemura would then fly to America and attend his first ever American PPV in ECW's Living Dangerously where he would be quickly defeated by Balls Mahoney when coming in still badly limping from his match against Yamakawa back in February.

Kanemura would get revenge on Yamakawa on May 5, 2000 at the Komazawa Indoor Stadium as he would fight in another crazy hardcore match for the WEW Hardcore Title with both men taking sick bumps and high risk bumps before Kanemura would get the Fire Thunder Powerbomb on Yamakawa to win back the WEW Hardcore Title as afterwards the two would become friends and partners.

Soon afterwards, Kodo Fuyuki had formed a group called Shin Fuyuki-gun along with Mr. Gannosuke, Shoichi Arai, Hideki Hosaka, Kyoko Inoue, Yoshinori Sasaki, and Chocoball Mukai and Koji Nakagawa had turned on Jado and Gedo and TNR to become GOEMON and join Fuyuki's new group so on June 16, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Kanemura announced that he was officially ending Team No Respect and would join up with Fuyuki's new group as he teamed to with the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Champions Hideki Hosaka and Yoshinori Sasaki to defeat Kuroda, Oya, and Flying Kid after Kanemura pinned Flying Kid with a senton. 

Kanemura would go on to a comedy feud with Hisakatsu Oya in which he would lose a ladder match to Oya on July 23rd and then later on the show lose to the returning for good Hayabusa as well. Kanemura would defend the WEW Hardcore Title in a horrible match against Mike Samples on July 28th which would also be Samples' last FMW match.

Kanemura would team with Mr. Gannosuke and GOEMON in 6 man match against Hayabusa, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and Hisakatsu Oya on August 20, 2000 at the Tokyo Differ Ariake with losing team being smashed in the face with pies by the winning team. Kanemura would rip off Hayabusa's mask and put it on himself after GOEMON scored the pin on Kuroda and the three as well as the fans would begin to smash Hayabusa, Kuroda, and Oya in the face with pies. Kanemura would team with GOEMON on August 28th and the two would beat Masato Tanaka and FMW newcomer Onryo in a tag match after Kanemura would pin Onryo with a Fire Thunder Powerbomb.

Kanemura would team up with Ryuji Yamakawa at the Sapporo Green Dome on September 21, 2000 in a 3 way hardcore match against Hosaka and Sasaki and Jado and Gedo for the WEW Hardcore Tag Titles but Kanemura would end up getting pinned by Gedo for Jado and Gedo to win the titles. Kanemura and his friendship with Hosaka and Sasaki who end five days later on September 26, 2000 at Korakuen Hall as they would walk out on Kanemura in a 6 man causing him to get pinned by Tanaka.

Kanemura would get his revenge on Masato Tanaka on November 12, 2000 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym, as Kanemura would attempt just about everything to finish Tanaka off. Kanemura would tie Tanaka to a table, and climb up to the balcony and jump off the balcony and send Tanaka through the table. Tanaka would become busted up as the two would fight back to the ring. Tanaka would attempt to use a chair as a weapon, but Kanemura would follow with a Barbwire Baseball Bat, and would eventually score the pinfall victory over Masato Tanaka with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb on the baseball bat to defend the WEW Hardcore Title, and score his first pinfall victory over Tanaka since May 27, 1998, and first singles victory since August 2, 1997.

Then on November 28, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Tetsuhiro Kuroda Kuroda would turn against Tanaka and side with Kanemura and Fuyuki as they would begin a feud with Tanaka, Jado, and Gedo. The two teams would trade victories at Korakuen Hall, but Kanemura would begin to work with Big Japan once again as he teamed with Ryuji Yamakawa and Men's Teioh in a lost to Masato Tanaka, Jado, and Gedo on January 16, 2001 after Tanaka would pin Kanemura with a roaring elbow.

Kanemura and Yamakawa would team up but lose in a WEW Tag Title match against Tanaka and Gedo on February 6, 2001 after Tanaka would pin Yamakawa. Masato Tanaka, Jado, Gedo, and Hideki Hosaka would leave FMW soon afterwards as it seemed like the Tanaka/Kanemura rivalry had finally came to an end.

Kanemura and Yamakawa would go on to defeat GOEMON and Onryo for the WEW Hardcore Tag Titles on February 23, 2001 after Yamakawa pinned Onryo in which would be another Kanemura tag team victory in FMW with a different partner. Kanemura and Yamakawa would defend the titles against Mammoth Sasaki and Azusa Kudo on March 5, 2001 after Kanemura would pin Kudo, but just days afterwards, Yamakawa would suffer a injury in which he would bruise his brain in a spot gone wrong.

Kanemura would then be given a number one Contendership match against Kuroda on March 13, 2001, and despite blooding Kuroda to an incredible extent, Kuroda would still pin Kanemura with a Technan Buster to win. Kanemura would then lose his WEW Hardcore Title on April 1, 2001 after Mammoth Sasaki would slam him on to a stack of chairs and get the upset win and Sasaki's biggest singles win of his career.

Another attempt at restarting W*ING would take place on April 22, 2001 at the Tokyo Differ Ariake as the old members of the old promotion would get back together and run the show. Kanemura would team up with Shoji Nakamaki to take on Jado and Gedo in a fire match in a rematch from their infamous October 31, 1993 match, and while Kanemura would not burn any tissue of his skin like the time before, he would get a pinfall over Jado as it would be the first time an FMW wrestler had wrestled any of the wrestlers that had left the promotion back in February. The W*ING show would be a success, but soon after, the promotion would be run by different people as soon another attempt at recreate W*ING would end.

Kanemura would then enter himself into Big Japan's tournament to crown a new Death Match Champion, and although on May 4, 2001 he would beat The Winger to advance, he would lose in the finals to John Zandig and would injure himself greatly wrestling in two death matches on the show.

With all the injuries from the day before he would still have to challenge Mammoth Sasaki on May 5, 2001 at Kawasaki Stadium for the WEW Hardcore Championship with the match being kept short because of Kanemura noticeable injuries causing Kanemura to limp through the entire match but Kanemura would still get the victory after pinning Mammoth with the Thunder Fire Powerbomb to win back the WEW Hardcore Title. Kanemura would follow up with his first defense being against Big Japan's Jun Kasai on May 22, 2001 at the Sapporo Green Dome with match involving Kanemura being knocked off a ladder into the table and Jun Kasai delivering a splash off the ladder onto Kanemura, but it would not be enough as Kanemura would put away Jun Kasai with the Fire Thunder Powerbomb. Kanemura afterwards would announce that he was retiring the WEW Hardcore Championship Title.

Kanemura would then reunite with Mr. Gannosuke on June 8, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, with Kanemura siding with Kodo Fuyuki and Tokyo Pop's Stuart Levy along with Mammoth Sasaki, Shinjuku Shark, Chocoball Mukai, Flying Kid Ichihara, Tomokazu Morita, Yoshihito Sasaki, and Satoshi Makita against Team FMW of Shoichi Arai, Hayabusa, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, GOEMON, Onryo, Hisakatsu Oya, Ricky Fuji, Azusa Kudo, and Naohiko Yamazaki. As their first match back together Kanemura and Gannosuke would be successful and end up defeating Hayabusa and Kuroda after Gannosuke would pin Hayabusa with a Gannosuke Clutch.

Kanemura would then score a pinfall victory over Hayabusa in a six man tag on August 3, 2001 at Korakuen Hall in a match with Mr. Gannosuke & Mammoth Sasaki against Hayabusa, GOEMON, and Onryo after Gannosuke would deliver a Fire Thunder Powerbomb to Hayabusa, and Kanemura would follow up with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb to score the pin over Hayabusa, which would be only Kanemura's second time ever pinning Hayabusa, and would set up a singles match for the main event at the Komazawa Olympic Gym on August 11, 2001 against Hayabusa for the WEW World Title.

Kanemura would get his biggest singles victory by beating Hayabusa for the first time after interference by Mammoth Sasaki who would choke slam Hayabusa  and then multiple Powerbombs including moving out of the way of Hayabusa's Phoenix Splash and then delivering  a Thunder Fire Powerbomb to Hayabusa off the top rope to knock out Hayabusa out get the pinfall victory on August 11, 2001 in Komazawa to win the WEW World Championship which would also give Tokyo Pop ownership of FMW. The entire faction would raise Kanemura over their shoulders for the win and would all do a Team No Respect dance in celebration of Kanemura winning it for the team as well as the WEW World Championship.

The title reign for Kanemura seem to be short though as on September 5, 2001 at the Sapporo Green Dome, Hayabusa pinned Kanemura cleanly with a 450 firebird splash to win back the WEW World Title, but on September 9, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, due to Hayabusa during the match up using the lowblow as well as Kanemura's group having power due to winning back at Komazawa, Kanemura was rewarded back the WEW World Title. 

FMW would be turned upside down on October 22, 2001 when Hayabusa would be paralyzed in a match against Mammoth Sasaki at Korakuen Hall, when he would slip off the middle rope and end up landing directly on his head. Mammoth, not knowing what to do would put Hayabusa in a headlock until FMW Referee Marty Asano would call for the match to end. Wrestlers from the FMW side would all gather in the ring, as Kanemura would come in the ring to escort Mammoth out of the ring, as a stretcher would be brought out, and soon medical assistance for Hayabusa. FMW would have to make big changes with Hayabusa out. 

FMW would have to change things for the November 23, 2001 show at the Yokohama Bunka Gym in which Kanemura would defend his WEW World Title against Michinoku Pro's The Great Sasuke, the match would turn into a brawl early with Kanemura tossing  Sasuke off a balcony on to a table, as well as supplexing Sasuke head first onto a table. Kanemura would finish off Sasuke to remain his championship. But after the main event of the show, when Kodo Fuyuki would defeat Garuda who would be replacing Hayabusa in the main event of the show, Kanemura, Gannosuke, and Mammoth Sasaki would all come to the ring due to Kodo Fuyuki's recent alliance with WAR. Gannosuke and Mammoth Sasaki would begin screaming at Fuyuki for leaving FMW behind, when Kanemura would come to the ring, and would lead Fuyuki to believe that Kanemura was still aligning with him. Instead, Kanemura would turn around and attack Fuyuki and the rest of WAR with Gannosuke & Mammoth. After clearing the ring, Kanemura, Mammoth, Gannosuke, and Kuroda would all put their hands out to symbolize a new team to represent FMW.

Kanemura would then go on to wrestle at Big Japan's biggest show ever on December 2, 2001 at the Yokohama Arena as he would team up with Ryuji Yamakawa in Yamakawa's first match back since a bruised brain injury earlier in the year to defend their WEW Hardcore Tag Titles in the main event of the show against Men's Teioh and Daisuke Sekimoto, with Kanemura wrestling  under the name Yukihiro Kanemura for the first time in over 2 years, and although the result would be Yamakawa getting pinned to lose the belts, a celebration afterwards would take place for Yamakawa for coming up back after such an horrendous injury with Kanemura being right there next to him. 

Kanemura along with Team FMW would get their victory over Team WAR on December 9, 2001 as the four of them would attack leader Genichiro Tenryu and finally would be successful against him as the ending result would be Gannosuke pinning Fuyuki with a Gannosuke Clutch for the win. Kanemura would then team with Mammoth Sasaki in a eight team tournament for the vacant WEW Tag Titles on December 21, 2001 and end up making it to the finals of the tournament after defeating Horace Boulder and Balls Mahoney in the first round, and then Super Crazy and Crazy Boy, but would lose to Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Mr. Gannosuke in the finals in a bloody match after Kuroda would pin Mammoth with a Technan Buster. 

2002 would start with Kanemura teaming with Yamakawa once again to try and recapture the WEW Hardcore Tag Titles against Sekimoto and Teioh on January 2nd at Korakuen Hall, but Yamakawa would be pinned once again in a crazy brawl. Kanemura would then go on to lose the WEW World Title on January 6th at Korakuen Hall to Kodo Fuyuki who had just began to start an alliance of foreigners. Kanemura would then team up with GOEMON and Mammoth Sasaki to defeat Vic Grimes, Paul LeDuc, and Mitsunobu Kikuzawa on February 4, 2002 after Mammoth would pin Kikuzawa as Kanemura would the TNR Dance in celebration after the match, as it would turn out to be for the last time.

Less than two weeks after their last show, on February 15, 2002, FMW would file for bankruptcy, ending the promotion and home of Kanemura for 7 1/2 years with a 2 million dollar debt. FMW owner Shoichi Arai would go into hiding afterwards, and only keep in small contact with anyone.

Kanemura would make his first appearance after the bankruptcy just two days later as he along with Kodo Fuyuki who had align himself with Kanemura once again showed up at a IWA Japan show which would be Kanemura's first appearance for the promotion since 1994 as they would both attack Takashi Uwano & Keizo Matsuda during a match. Just three days after that, Kanemura would show up for the DDT promotion which Kodo Fuyuki had earlier struck an alliance with as he would become their Commissioner, and then the next day Kodo Fuyuki announced that he would run in place of the scheduled FMW events as Fuyuki Army Promotion shows, and would soon create his own full time promotion. Kanemura would also work for Big Japan's March 3, 2002 Yokohama Bunka Gym as he would defeat former W*ING friend Hido in the semi-main event. 

The opening of the Fuyuki Army Promotion would start on March 10, 2001 at Korakuen Hall as Fuyuki would give FMW a 10 bell salute, but then out would come Atsushi Onita who would blame Fuyuki for hiding money and being a main reason FMW would go under. Kanemura along with Fuyuki would beat Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Yoshihito Sasaki when Fuyuki would pin Sasaki, but afterwards Onita would lay a challenge down for the both Kanemura and Fuyuki as a 6 man tag would be made for the next Fuyuki Army Promotion Korakuen Hall show on April 9th. Before that though, Kanemura would once again work under the ring name W*ING Kanemura as he would wrestle in the main event of a independently funded promotion called Rainbow Promotion against former W*ING friend and enemy Mitsuhiro Matsunaga on March 21, 2002. While Kanemura would lose to Matsunaga in a barbwire spider net nail board lights out Death Match to Matsunaga, it allowed them to work a match that had become cult icons all over the world for. 

A new feud for Kanemura would start on March 25, 2002 at a DDT show as Kanemura would team with DDT wrestler Super Uchu Power defeating Poison Sawada JULIE and Sanshiro Takagi after Sawada would turn on Takagi in the match allowing Kanemura to get the pin, and afterwards both Takagi and Sawada would have to kiss for one minute do to a stipulation before. 

Kanemura would then go from DDT to appearing for Pro Wrestling NOAH in one of their biggest shows of the year as he would accompany Kodo Fuyuki in his match against Mitsuharu Misawa on April 7, 2002 at Tokyo Differ Coliseum. Kanemura would become the first wrestler to send Misawa through a table during a match, but Misawa would still manage to get the pinfall victory over Fuyuki. Kanemura would then team with Fuyuki and Chocoball Mukai against Onita, Kuroda, and Ricky Fuji on April 9, 2002 in a battle over the FMW name, with Onita pinning Mukai with a Fire Thunder Powerbomb. Fuyuki who days before the show announced that the new promotion he was starting would be called WEW announced that he had intestinal cancer and would have to get it removed immediately causing him to retire right away. Misawa would promote a Fuyuki retirement match and celebration on April 14, 2002 in which Kanemura would be right beside his friend during the retirement ceremony and along with Kyoko Inoue, Chocoball Mukai, and Shinjuku Shark would all do the TNR Dance one last time for Fuyuki.

Kanemura would then go on to win the DDT Iron man Heavy Metal Championship after pinning champion Sanshiro Takagi once again on April 18, 2002, but the reign would not last long as Takagi would win the title back by pinning Kanemura on April 25, 2002. Kanemura would then get the opportunity once again to wrestle at the Tokyo Dome this time by making his New Japan debut as apart of Big Japan as he would wrestle an injured Daisuke Sekimoto in front over 50,000 fans in the opening matches in what turned out to be a disappointing match as Sekimoto would take away from the match, but Kanemura would end up getting the win after a Thunder Fire Powerbomb for the pinfall. 

Kanemura would then go on to DDT's big show at Korakuen Hall as he take Fuyuki's role as DDT commissioner for the show on May 3, 2002 as he would start out the show by attacking Sanshiro Takagi and getting his DDT friend Kazuhiko Miwa, while Takagi would end up winning the title back by the end of the night, Kanemura would participate as Team FMW with Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Chocoball Mukai along with friend Poison Sawada JULIE in a 4 on 4 elimination match against the DDT team in which DDT's Takashi Sasaki would end up defeating Kanemura for the last elimination oft he match for the win for Team DDT. Kanemura would return though the next day at Korakuen Hall to wrestle for Atsushi Onita's new FMW promotion in which he would team up with Tetsuhiro Kuroda in the main event to take on Atsushi Onita and Masato Tanaka which would be the first time Kanemura and Tanaka would wrestle each other since February 2001 just days before Tanaka would leave FMW for good. Tanaka would also the score the victory over Kanemura in the match which would be a wild brawl all over Korakuen Hall, but as it would turn out to be one of Kanemura's busiest weeks, he would have to travel to Kawasaki Stadium for the next day.

Kanemura would appear for Kodo Fuyuki's WEW show on May 5, 2002 at Kawasaki Stadium and would wrestle Pro-Wrestling NOAH's Vader, and while Kanemura was basically squashed in his semi-main event match, he was able to attend a 10 bell salute for friend Kodo Fuyuki's career along as he along with Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Biomonster DNA, and Chocoball Mukai would become full time WEW workers. But tragedy strike for all former FMW workers as on May 16, 2002 it was announced that FMW owner Shoichi Arai had committed suicide in Tokyo. A ceremony for Shoichi Arai would be held for Arai at the next WEW show on May 27, 2002 at Korakuen Hall. Kanemura along with other WEW members as well as former FMW members attended the ceremony for the show in which they honored a picture of Shoichi Arai flowers and a 10 bell salute to once owner of FMW. Kanemura would team with Kuroda for the main event of the show to wrestle his rival Sanshiro Takagi and Dick Togo, as Togo would turn on Takagi setting up Kanemura to get the pin on Takagi with a singles match between the two coming up very soon in DDT.

In a match for both the DDT Iron man Heavy Metal Championship and the DDT KO-D titles, Kanemura would wrestle Sanshiro Takagi in a Double Titles match at the DDT May 31, 2002 show and Kanemura would end up walking way holder of both belts after Takagi would suffer an injury during the match and Kanemura would get the win. Kanemura would end up losing the Iron man Heavy Metal title after being pinned in his sleep by friend Chocoball Mukai on June 6, 2002.

Kanemura would then team up with Tetsuhiro Kuroda and challenge Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka for the NWA Intercontinental Tag Team titles on June 29, 2002 when Otani would pin Kanemura to defend the Tag titles, the next day at Korakuen Hall on June 30, 2002 at an WEW show, Sanshiro Takagi would get his revenge on Kanemura after Takagi and TAKA Michinoku would beat Kanemura and Kuroda after Takagi would finally get his pinfall victory over Kanemura. After the match, Kanemura and Kuroda would break up their friendship but would still team up at Zero One's July 7, 2002 show and would end up losing to Kohei Sato & Ryouji Sai after Sato would pin Kuroda, but Kuroda and Kanemura would team up once again on the same day at a Big Japan Korakuen Hall show after beating Ryuji Yamakawa and Shadow WX with Kanemura pinning his former tag partner and friend Yamakawa to win.

Kanemura would then go on to team with Masao Orihara and Chocoball Mukai on July 22, 2002 at the WEW Korakuen Hall show against Tetsuhiro Kuroda, TAKA Michinoku, and Takashi Sasaki and would lose in a bloody match as Kuroda would get the pinfall over Chocoball with the Technan Buster DDT as Kanemura would then set off to participate in the Fire Festival tournament. 

In his first Fire Festival tournament match Kanemura would take on the newly renamed King Joe at the Tokyo Differ Ariake, Kanemura would turn this match into his kind of match getting a table involved as he would dive twenty feet in the air sending King Joe through a table, but Joe's power would be the factor as he would eventually overpower Kanemura and get the victory for Kanemura's first lost in the tournament.

Kanemura's second opponent would be a very familiar one in Masato Tanaka. Kanemura would face Tanaka on July 30, 2002 at the Osaka Prefectural Gym # 2 for the first time the two would be facing off in a singles match since their November 12, 2000 Yokohama Bunka Gym WEW Hardcore Title match, which Kanemura won. This time Kanemura was hoping to get his first win in the tournament to stay alive in the tournament. The two would wrestle all over the building bringing along a table which Kanemura would repeatedly smash Tanaka's head into it causing a huge gash to be opened, as Kanemura would work on opening the gash even more, Tanaka would begin to lose more and more blood which would lead to him going for the win right away before passing out due to blood loss, what would end up happening is both going for a clothesline against each other and both smashing their elbows right into each other's face knocking both wrestlers out cold as the referee would declare the match over rewarding both men a point for the match, but would most likely eliminate Kanemura from the tournament due to his lost to King Joe the day before. Kanemura would wrestle TAKA Michinoku the next day on July 31, 2002 at Korakuen Hall and have to win for any chance of winning his bracket and he would do so by putting away TAKA with a senton onto a stack of chairs for his first win in the tournament. Kanemura would wrestle his last match in the tournament on August 2, 2002 at the Oita Prefectural Gym against Shinjiro Otani. Kanemura would attack Otani before the bell would ring for the match to start and brawl into the crowd and then back to the ring where Kanemura would leave Otani laying by the ring. But as Kanemura would head back in the ring, Otani would be back up, and climb the top turnbuckle and deliver a dropkick off the ropes on Kanemura and as the referee would call for the bell and the match to start, Otani would hit the supplex for the three count ending the match in three seconds for Kanemura's final Fire Festival match eliminating him from reaching the finals.

Then it was time for a tournament that Kanemura did make it to the finals in. Big Japan's World Extreme Cup tournament and Kanemura would face former friend and tag partner Seiji Yamakawa in the match on August 18, 2002 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym. Although Kanemura won the last time the two fought on May 5, 2000 in a WEW Hardcore Title match, this time Yamakawa would get the victory in the bloody death match beating Kanemura to win the World Extreme Cup tournament. 

Kanemura would respond to that lost by challenging Tetsuhiro Kuroda for the WEW World Title which had been vacated due to Kodo Fuyuki retiring back in April on August 23, 2002 at the Tokyo Differ Ariake. The two would hit their signature spots as well as Kanemura would work on making Kuroda bleed just like he did Masato Tanaka the month before, but as it seemed Kuroda going to finally going to put Kanemura away, WEW's Garuda came out and attacked Kuroda and then hit 450 Firebird Splash on Kuroda as Kanemura picked up Kuroda and put him away with the Thunder Fire Powerbomb for the win and the WEW World Title once again around Kanemura. Kanemura will now go on to the Tokyo Differ Ariake on September 14th to team with Masao Orihara and Dick Togo against Tetsuhiro Kuroda, TAKA Michinoku and a mystery partner for the Mobius promotion's Apex 6 man Tag Titles.

Kanemura would go on to the Yokohama Bunka Gym on November 4, 2002 against Masato Tanaka for the WEW World Title. The match would just be as brutal as their Fire Festival match. The two would brawl all over the Gym before Kanemura would place Tanaka on a table and climb up a scaffold to dive off of right on Tanaka. Tanaka though would get up while Kanemura was climbing it and meet Kanemura at the top, the two would begin to trade punches before Kanemura would win by knocking Tanaka off the scaffold and sending him through the table that was placed for him. Then Hido come to the ring with a barbwire baseball bat, Kanemura would set the bat on fire. While Kanemura would attempt to get Tanaka in position, the fire on the bat would get larger and larger until finally the fire bat would be placed in the ring. Kanemura would then Powerbomb Tanaka on the barbwire baseball set on fire. Tanaka would still kick out, as the flaming barbwire baseball bat was put out, Kanemura would finish Tanaka off with another Thunder Fire Powerbomb for the win and to retain the WEW World Title for the 1st time. The show would end with Team No Respect and The Far East Connection doing the TNR Dance together.

After his victory and WEW World Title defense against Masato Tanaka, Kanemura would go on a string of very big matches for the next month. Kanemura's first big match would be against Zero-One's Shinya Hashimoto in the main event of Zero One's December 29, 2002 Korakuen Hall show. Kanemura would be accompanies with fellow WEW wrestlers as well as Kodo Fuyuki. Kanemura would bring his weapons in the match, using a table for the most part. Kanemura would get some very hard hitting smashes against Hashimoto's head using the table. But Hashimoto would basically no sell all attacks on him and begin to just beat the crap out of Kanemura with stiff punches and kicks as well as dropkicks. Fuyuki and the rest of WEW would interfere on behalf of Kanemura, but Kanemura would ultimately get defeated after two DDT's by Hashimoto for the win. This would begin to spark up the Hashimoto/Fuyuki feud. 

Kanemura's next big match would be against Zero-One's Shinjiro Otani in the main event of the WEW Korakuen Hall show on January 7, 2003. This would be a rematch of their Fire Festival Match in which Otani manage to beat Kanemura in just 3 seconds. This time the match would go longer, but the outcome would remain the same. Kanemura who would be busted open early in the match, would attempt use usual arsenal of chairs and tables, but Otani's stiff kicks, drop kicks, and his Spider Bomb would finish Kanemura off in just over 10 minutes to win the match.

Kanemura would then face All Japan's Satoshi Kojima at a Rainbow Promotions show on January 25, 2003 at Korakuen Hall. The two would put on one of the better matches on the show, with Kanemura using some creative ways to use a table as a weapon during the match. Kojima would become extremely bloody as both wrestlers would be put through a table during the match, as well as be smashed by a piece of table repeatedly. Kojima would get much more offense on Kojima than his two singles matches against the Zero-One wrestlers, but Kojima would end up winning the match after hitting Kanemura with his lariat for the win. After the match, Kojima would ask for a handshake but not be given one and as a bloody Kojima would walk to the back, Kanemura would call him back to the ring. Kanemura would then get Kojima to do the TNR Dance together to Come out and Play.

January 31, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, Kanemura and Kuroda would team up to take on the Pro Wrestling NOAH team of Daisuke Ikeda and Takeshi Sugiura in a 60 minute Iron Man Match. Both Kanemura and Kuroda were no strangers to Daisuke Ikeda who worked for FMW for Battlarts in 1995-1996 and then again in 1998-1999. The team of Kuroda and Kanemura would start with the early lead as Kuroda would score a pinfall over Sugiura in less than a minute into the match. Kanemura would then get a pinfall over Ikeda giving the WEW team a 2 falls to 0 lead. The NOAH team would come back though as Sugiura would get a pinfall over Kanemura cutting the lead to 2-1. Both Kuroda and Ikeda would then begin to brawl into the crowd as referee Marty Asano would count both men out of the ring at a little past the 30 minute mark.. The WEW team  would be in the lead 3-2 until Sugiura would score another pin fall over Kanemura to tie the match up. Daisuke Ikeda would then cause the NOAH team to take the lead after hitting a muscle buster on Kuroda to cause Kuroda to be pinned for the first and only time during the match. With the NOAH team up on WEW 4-3, Kuroda would hit a lariat on Ikeda and get the pin fall to tie it back up at 4-4. But with only 9 minutes left in the match, Ikeda while on a table set up at the top turnbuckle would hit a Burning Hammer on Kanemura right through another table to get the pinfall and the lead at 5-4. Neither Kuroda or Kanemura could get a pinfall in the remaining members and the NOAH team would win the Iron Man match at 5-4. All four men would congratulate each other on such a well performed match afterwards, and both Kuroda and Kanemura would state that they were very happy with how they did in the match despite the loss.

February 2, 2003 at Tokyo Differ Ariake, Kanemura would once again main event a Zero One show, this time teaming with Kuroda to take on Shinya Hashimoto and Tengu Kaiser who would be former Big Japan wrestler Kamikaze dressed up in a Hayabusa like outfit. Kodo Fuyuki would interfere in the match attacking Hashimoto while Kanemura brawled with Kaiser all around the ring, but Fuyuki would end up collapsing after hitting Hashimoto with a Charging Lariat and Hashimoto would end up finishing Kuroda off with a DDT for the win.

March 11, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, Kodo Fuyuki's cancer had spread throughout his body, causing him to have to live in the hospital for the rest of his life knowing his days were numbered. Fuyuki's dream would still to wrestle Shinya Hashimoto at the May 5, 2003 Kawasaki Stadium Show. Fuyuki would inject many pain killers and leave the hospital to attend the WEW Korakuen Hall show. Fuyuki would come to the ring along with former FMW booker and referee Go Ito and announce Go Ito as the new booker for WEW once he dies. Kanemura would come to the ring after Fuyuki would be in too much pain to finish his sentences and would finish them for him. It would be announced that if Fuyuki were not able to make it to the Kawasaki Stadium show, then Kanemura would take his place in the main event. Kanemura would then team up with Kuroda and defeat the team of Takeshi Sasaki and GENTARO in the main event for the WEW Tag Team Titles after Kanemura would finish Sasaki off with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb to bring the WEW Tag Team Titles back to WEW.

Just 8 days later, on March 19, 2003 at a Yokohama Hospital, Kodo Fuyuki would die at 6:50 PM while wife Kaoru, his two children, Kanemura, Kuroda, and Chocoball Mukai watched on. Many wrestlers would rush to the hospital after hearing the news. A funeral and vigil with tons of wrestlers from many different promotions attending would be held on March 23 and March 24 in Yokohama to give their last respects to Kodo Fuyuki. Kanemura would lead a special TNR Dance in memory of Fuyuki at the vigil and announce that he will live his friends last dream of wrestling Shinya Hashimoto on May 5, 2003 at Kawasaki Stadium in a Exploding Barbwire Death Match.

Zero-One would hold a 10 bell salute ceremony to the late Kodo Fuyuki on March 27, 2003 at Korakuen Hall. Kanemura and Kuroda who were slated to take on Zero-One's Tengu Kaiser and Kuroge Wagyuta would have it changed to an 8 Man match with Kanemura teaming with Kuroda, Hido, and Chocoball Mukai to take on Tengu Kaiser, Kuroge Wagyuta, Fuyuki Takahashi & Shinsuke Z Yamagasa. The WEW team would defeat the Zero One team after Kanemura would end up pinning Yamagasa to win the match. 

Kanemura would then go on to the Yokohama Bunka Gym to participate in Big Japan's March 30, 2003 show. Kanemura would face Shadow WX in the main event. Kanemura would defeat Shadow WX in a bloody a Light Bulbs and Glass Death Match to win the vacant Big Japan King of the Death Match Championship after pinning Shadow WX with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb.

Kintaro Kanemura would then defeat friend and team mate Tetsuhiro Kuroda to defend the WEW World Title on April 29, 2003 at Tokyo Differ Ariake. The two brawled all over the arena, including setting Kuroda on to a table, as Kanemura would dive off the balcony of the arena right on to Kuroda. They would fight back in to the ring where tables and chairs would begin to get involved. Kanemura would crotch Kuroda with a table as well as supplex him off a table set on the turnbuckle through another table. Both wrestlers would bleed heavily during the match, as Kanemura would honor Kodo Fuyuki by hitting Kuroda with the Charging Lariat for 2. Kanemura would eventually get the win after hitting Kuroda with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb on to a pile of chairs for the win. 

Kintaro Kanemura would then team up with Tetsuhiro Kuroda to take on Zero-One's Shinjiro Otani and Masato Tanaka on May 3, 2003 at Korakuen Hall in the main event. Kanemura would be busted open in the same spot that he was for his match against Kuroda earlier in the week, and would bleed big time once again. Otani would end up hitting a dragon supplex on Kuroda and then finishing him off with the Spiral Bomb for the win. After the match, a video of Shinya Hashimoto played talking about his match against Kanemura at Kawasaki. Hashimoto stated that although he in inexperienced at an exploding barbwire death match, he will defeat Kanemura. Hashimoto stated he made a promise to Fuyuki that he would give it his all for the match, and Kanemura is going to have to pay as a result of that promise. Kanemura would reply to the video by stating that he is going to symbolize all of WEW and its fighters for this match, in memory of Fuyuki.

May 5, 2003 at Kawasaki Stadium, Kanemura would come out along with Kodo Fuyuki's wife Kaoru, Go Ito, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, TAKA Michinoku, Hido, Gosaku Goshogawara, Shinjuku Shark, and Chocoball Mukai to gather in the ring with a picture of Kodo Fuyuki. Kanemura and Kaoru would speak to the crowd about Fuyuki. A 10 bell salute would play, and Kodo Fuyuki's "Shoot It '95" theme  would play as all the wrestlers exited in the ring. Kanemura would now have to live Fuyuki's last dream of wrestling Shinya Hashimoto on May 5, 2003 at the WEW Kawasaki Stadium main event which would draw 18,500 fans. Kanemura would enter the ring wearing Fuyuki's robe and would perform the Team No Respect Dance. The late Shinya Hashimoto would come out, and would be given the box of Kodo Fuyuki's ashes by his wife Kaoru. With both men in the ring, Hashimoto with Fuyuki's ashes would fling himself into the Exploding Barbed wire letting many of Fuyuki's ashes spill out onto the ring. Kanemura would then take the ashes and fling himself into the Exploding Barbwire letting more of the ashes fall onto the ring. Kanemura would then start the offense early, trying to throw Hashimoto into the Exploding Barbed wire. He would manage to knock Hashimoto down onto the mat with several clotheslines, and then Kanemura would manage to throw Hashimoto once again into the Exploding Barbed wire, causing a huge explosion. WEW wrestlers around ringside would throw in a barbwire baseball bat as Kanemura would begin to choke Hashimoto with it. Although, Hashimoto would begin to overpower Kanemura and then would begin hitting him with lethal kicks and then would throw Kanemura into the Exploding Barbwire. Hashimoto would then deliver a DDT on Kanemura and then would finish Kanemura off with a Brainbuster for the pinfall victory. Afterwards, Kintaro Kanemura would grab the mic and say that although he is disappointed in the outcome, he hopes that he was able to make Kodo Fuyuki proud of his performance. 

Kintaro Kanemura would team up with Shinya Hashimoto on May 29, 2003 at Korakuen Hall to face The Predator & John Heidenreich, with Hashimoto announcing that if Kanemura would not show his fighting power in the match, then Hashimoto would end the Zero-One relations with WEW. Kanemura would be matched up against the much larger Predator, but Kanemura would still mange to carry his own against the Predator, and would lay Predator on a table on the outside, and come off the top turnbuckle sending Predator through the table. Predator would immediately get up and begin using his chain in the match. Kanemura would retaliate by grabbing his barbwire baseball bat to fend off the swinging chain. The Predator would swing the chain at Kanemura's bat, and as it would get stuck to the bat, a tug of war would begin with Hashimoto and Kanemura tugging the bat, and Predator and Heidenreich tugging the chain. Kanemura would eventually let go of the bat, causing the bat to fly into The Predator. Predator would retaliate with a big boot to Kanemura's face, knocking him to the ground. Kanemura would be double teamed by Predator and Heidenreich, before finally managing to tag in Hashimoto. Hashimoto would place The Predator in an armbreaker, but after letting go, would signal for Kanemura to climb up the top rope. Kanemura would come off the top rope, but would be met with a clothesline. The Predator and Heidenreich would deliver a double Brainbuster. The Predator would wrap his barbwire baseball bat with the chain still wrapped around it, and begin trying to choke Kanemura out. The Predator would then deliver a dropkick with the bat still on Kanemura, and would score the pinfall victory over Kanemura. Despite the loss, Hashimoto would agree to Kanemura to continue to keep Zero-One relations with WEW going.

After Go Ito would take control of WEW, the booking of WEW's June 6th Korakuen Hall show would be given to Goro Tsurumi's International Pro Wrestling, with WEW agreeing to send their talent for the show. Kanemura would face former FMW wrestler Goro Tsurumi in a Chain Match with both wrestlers being locked to the chain. Tsurumi would be attacked before the match, and then begin to be choked out by Kanemura with the chain. Both wrestlers would be busted open from the chain, and Tsurumi would end up being swung into the referee, knocking him out. A International Pro Wrestling Referee would hit the ring, but Kanemura end up being swung into him, and knocking him out. Hido & Gosaku Goshogawara would come into the ring, and help Kanemura deliver a Blast YAMA Senton Special on Tsurumi. The International Pro Wrestling Referee would wake up first, and grab the key and give it to Tsurumi to unlock the chain. The International Pro Wrestling Referee would announce Tsurumi the winner of the match for unlocking the chain, but the first referee would manage to wake up, and explain that is not how victory is determined, and announce an invalid match as the final decision.

With Go Ito in control of WEW, the decision to turn the Entertainment Pro Wrestling based promotion into a more hardcore and street fight oriented promotion would be made by the former FMW booker. The name of the WEW promotion would be changed back to the Fuyuki Army Promotion, with the promotion agreeing to work with WMF. The first show would entitled a FMW Reunion show on July 7, 2003 at Korakuen Hall. Kanemura would team up with Genichiro Tenryu & Masao Orihara to face Mr. Gannosuke, Mammoth Sasaki, and TAKA Michinoku. Kanemura would face off against his former FMW and Team No Respect friend Mr. Gannosuke for the first time since the finals of the WEW Tag Team Title Tournament on December 21, 2002. This time, Mr. Gannosuke would not act friendly towards Kanemura, after the separation as a result of the WMF and WEW splitting up the FMW alliance. Kanemura would work on a bloody Mammoth for a majority of the time, but Gannosuke would see an opening at Kanemura, and deliver his Praying Powerbomb on Kanemura. With Gannosuke & Mammoth looking to double team Kanemura though, Gannosuke would look to send Mammoth into the turnbuckle to nail Kanemura, but instead, would send Mammoth back to the other turnbuckle, and deliver a clothesline by himself. Gannosuke would continue to attack Mammoth before walking out on his team. Kanemura would take the opportunity and and with Tenryu & Orihara's help, Kanemura would finish Mammoth off with a Blast YAMA Senton Special for the victory for his team. Kanemura, Tenryu, and Orihara would end the show by doing the TNR Dance.

Kanemura would then team up with Tetsuhiro Kuroda to enter a round robin tournament for the vacant All Japan All Asian Tag Team Titles, with the winner having the most points at the end of the tournament. Their first match would be against Hideki Hosaka & Kuroge Wagyuta in All Japan on July 10, 2003 at the Fukouka Hakata Star Lanes, and Kanemura would get to place Hosaka in the turnbuckle, and place a table at his crotch, and begin smashing the table with a chair into Hosaka's crotch. Kuroda would manage to finish off Wagyuta with a lariat to score the victory, and earn the team two points in the round robin tournament. Afterwards, both teams would do the TNR Dance together, with Kanemura shaking hands with his former W*ING friend Hideki Hosaka. Their second opponents would be Shigeo Okumura & Nobukazu Hirai on July 16, 2003 at the Niigata Joetsu Welfare Hall, but due to both teams continuing to brawl outside, it would end up costing both teams, as all four wrestlers would be counted out, and both would be rewarded only one point. Their next opponents would be Zero-One's Kohei Sato & Hirotaka Yokoi  on July 17, 2003 at the Yokosuka Sports Center, but again due to brawling outside for too long, Hirotaka Yokoi and Kanemura would be counted out, and both teams would again be rewarded one point. 

Kanemura & Kuroda would wrestle in their final match of the tournament against Tomoaki Honma & Kazushi Miyamoto, with the winner moving on to the finals for the All Japan All Asian Tag Team Titles. Kanemura & Kuroda would face Honma & Miyamoto on July 19, 2003 at Budokan Hall, which would be Kanemura's debut at the building. Kanemura would bring a ladder into the match, and place the ladder over both Honma and Miyamoto's head, with Kuroda smashing the ladder while over their heads. Kanemura and Kuroda would begin double teaming Honma using the ladder, and busting Honma open. Kanemura would supplex the bloody Honma off the top turnbuckle, sending Honma through a table. Kuroda eventually take over trying to finish Honma off with lariats, but Honma would end up catching a Kuroda lariat, and turning it into the Gannosuke Clutch and would manage to score the victory over Kuroda, eliminating Kanemura and Kuroda from the tournament. Honma and Miyamoto would go on later in the show to win the All Japan All Asian Tag Team Titles. 

Kanemura would make his WMF debut on July 25, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, as the Mystery Partner for Mammoth Sasaki & Tetsuhiro Kuroda to take on Mr. Gannosuke & The GUN's with the future of WMF being on the line. Kanemura would go after Gannosuke right away, but would be cut off by Mr. Rocknosuke & Mr. Iwaonosuke, although Kanemura wouldn't get much of a chance to go up against Gannosuke, he would take care of Mr. Rocknosuke by delivering a elbow off the top rope on him. Mammoth Sasaki would manage to finish off Mr. Iwaonosuke with the 29 Year Old Jack Hammer to score the victory to keep WMF going.

Kintaro Kanemura would then enter into his second Fire Festival Tournament, and would be entered into the A block. Kanemura would be put in the same block as Shinjiro Otani, Arashi, Hirotaka Yokoi, and Yoshiaki Fujiwara.  

Kanemura's first Fire Festival match would be on July 27, 2003 in All Japan at the Ishikawa Industrial Exhibition # 1, where he would face Arashi. Kanemura would struggle at the beginning, after being thrown off the top turnbuckle to the outside through a table. Kanemura would manage to follow it up by blowing mist into Arashi's eyes, and then throwing powder in Arashi's face and rolling him up for the victory to score the upset win for Kanemura.  would manage to score the upset victory over Arashi after getting Arashi knocked down to the mat, and then rolling him up for the victory and two points in the tournament right away. Kanemura's second match would be against Hirotaka Yokoi on July 30, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, Kanemura would ambush Yokoi before even making it to the ring, and would begin brawling all over the Korakuen Hall crowd. Yokoi would manage to fight back while making it back in the ring, and fight off Kanemura, with Kanemura bringing a table into the match, and flying off the top turnbuckle to the outside to send Yokoi through a table. Kanemura would begin smashing a piece of the table over Yokoi, but Yokoi would counter with a lowblow, then a hard punch to the face knocking Kanemura to the mat, and Yokoi would begin choking out Kanemura, with the referee stopping the match, and giving the victory to Hirotaka Yokoi. 

Kanemura's biggest challenge in the tournament would be on July 31, 2003 at the Osaka Prefectural Gym # 2 against Shinjiro Otani, with the winner being a good spot to win their bracket. Otani who had defeated Kanemura in 2002 in just three seconds with a Dragon Supplex. Kanemura would attack Otani before the match would start and attempt to get revenge on Otani for the year before by deliver a Thunder Fire Powerbomb on Otani right as the match would start to finish Otani off in three seconds, but Otani would manage to kick out. Kanemura and Otani would begin brawling around ringside where Kanemura would become busted open, but also bring in a table to the ring. Kanemura would send Otani through the table, and smash it over Otani's head as well. Kanemura would also mock Otani by delivering several kicks to Otani's face, and then following with Otani's signature running kick towards the turnbuckle. Upsetting Otani would turn out to be a mistake, as Otani would begin to control Kanemura for a majority of the match, trying to finish Kanemura off, but Kanemura being able to kick out each and every pinfall attempt. Kanemura would deliver a one last ditch effort by rolling up Otani for the Samson Clutch out of nowhere, but Otani would be able to kick out, and finish off Kanemura with a Spiral Bomb for the victory, and once again eliminating Kintaro Kanemura for the Fire Festival Tournament as a result.

Kanemura would not be done with the Fire Festival though, and would still have one more match with Yoshiaki Fujiwara on August 1, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, Fujiwara would manage to start the match in his tempo, starting it out slow. Kanemura would follow by turning the match into more of his tempo, by taking the match outside and brawling around ringside. Kanemura would bring out a table, and send Fujiwara through it after diving off the top turnbuckle. Fujiwara would be busted open as both wrestlers would go back inside of the ring. Fujiwara would bring a weapon of his own back in the ring, attempting to use a chair on Kanemura. Kanemura would grab the referee and shield himself from the chair using the referee. Kanemura would then throw the referee into Fujiwara, abling Kanemura to grab the chair from Fujiwara. But as Kanemura would attempt to swing the chair, Fujiwara would grab Kanemura by the arm and place him in the Fujiwara armbar. Kanemura would begin to tap, but the referee would still be out after being thrown into Fujiwara. Fujiwara would let go to see why the referee was not in position to end the match, but as the referee would get up, Kanemura would roll up Fujiwara for the pinfall victory in his last Fire Festival match. Kanemura would end the tournament with 4 points, just one point away from being able to advance to the finals. 

Kanemura would then defend his Big Japan King of the Death Match Title on August 24, 2003 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym against Ryuji Ito in a Cage Match, Kanemura would control a majority of the match, using fluorescent light sticks on Ito, but would fail to put Ito away. Ito would take control and lay Kanemura on top of a table in the ring, and then hit a frog splash off the top of the cage, sending Kanemura through the table and scoring the pinfall over Kanemura to win the Big Japan King of the Death Match Title.

Kanemura would have little time to recuperate, as he would face off against former friend Mr. Gannosuke on August 25, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, who would come into the match, prepared for a battle by bringing a chair to the ring. Kanemura would grab a chair of his own, and the two would begin dueling. Gannosuke would win the duel and smash the chair over Kanemura's head, busting Kanemura open right away. Gannosuke would begin working on the cut, but Kanemura would grab Gannosuke and the two would begin brawling in the crowd, where Kanemura would lay Gannosuke on the table, and dive off the entrance way sending Gannosuke through the table. Gannosuke would get revenge when both would make it back in the ring by delivering a Fire Thunder off the apron of the ring, sending Kanemura through a table. Gannosuke would grab a piece of the broken off table, and attempt to smash it over the bloody Kanemura's head, but Kanemura would counter with a lowblow, and smash it over Gannosuke's head. Gannosuke would come back with a fierce lariat. Gannosuke would then knock out the referee as TAKA Michinoku, GENTARO, and Hido would hit the ring and attack Kanemura. Mammoth Sasaki, GOEMON, and Onryo would come out to make things even as Mammoth would smash a chair over Gannosuke. Go Ito would rush to the ring and substitute for the referee, as Kanemura would deliver a Fire Thunder Powerbomb to Gannosuke with Go Ito counting the pinfall victory for Kanemura. Afterwards, Kanemura would ask that all the Independent wrestlers form an alliance together to take out the major promotions, most notably Zero-One. Go Ito, GOEMON, Onryo, TAKA Michinoku, GENTARO, Takashi Sasaki would all agree to join Kanemura. Kanemura would turn his attention to Gannosuke and ask him to join the group. With the crowd, and every wrestler in the ring asking for Gannosuke to join the group, he would accept. The new group would be called, the Apache Army.

The Apache Army would make their debut at WMF's 1st Year Anniversary show on September 6, 2003 at the Tokyo Differ Ariake, and also bring back The Brief Brothers for the first time in five years. Kanemura, Mr. Gannosuke, Hido, TAKA Michinoku, and GENTARO would all dawn to the crowd their white briefs for huge laughs from the crowd.

Kintaro Kanemura & Mr. Gannosuke would reform their team on September 19, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, and show that the Apache Army was a legitimate threat to Zero-One while facing Shinjiro Otani & Masato Tanaka. The match would start right away in the Apache Army favor as Gannosuke would manage to hook his Gannosuke Clutch to Otani, right at the start of the match for a near victory. The rest of the Apache Army would make their presence known by attacking Otani every time he was thrown outside the ring. Kanemura & Gannosuke would cut open Otani, who would begin bleeding from his forehead while Kanemura & Gannosuke would deliver their special double team maneuvers together for the first time in years. Kanemura, who had asked Masato Tanaka before the match to return to his roots and join the Apache Army, would be telling Tanaka to join them all through the match. Finally, Tanaka would grab Otani, looking like he was to join the Apache Army, when Kanemura & Gannosuke would attempt to clothesline Otani while Tanaka held on to him. Instead, Tanaka would throw Otani to the match and spear both Kanemura & Gannosuke to stay with Zero-One. Tanaka would hit a Stunner on Gannosuke, and a DDT on Kanemura at the same time, and then deliver a swinging arm DDT to both, before tagging in Otani. Otani would deliver a Full Nelson Supplex to Gannosuke, but as Kanemura would come in to make the save, he would bring a chair to smash it over the back of Otani, and then over the referee to knock the referee out of the match. Otani would manage to fight back, as another Zero-One referee would come in to replace the injured referee. Otani would deliver a Spiral Bomb to Kanemura, but as the second Zero One referee went to make the count, the Apache Army would grab him and throw him out of the ring. Tetsuhiro Kuroda, GOEMON, Onryo, Hido, and GENTARO would all begin attacking Otani with chairs. The group would drop the stack of chairs in the ring as Gannosuke would deliver a Fire Thunder to Otani on the stack of chairs, as Go Ito would rush to the ring as Kanemura would deliver the Blast YAMA Senton Special to Otani, and with Go Ito delivering the count, Kanemura & Gannosuke would get the victory, with Kanemura scoring his first pinfall over Otani. The Apache Army wouldn't be done, as they would hold on to Zero-One President Nakamura who would begin protesting the decision, and allow Go Ito to deliver a spinning heel kick to Nakamura. The Apache Army would end the show doing the TNR Dance, as they had already made their mark in the war against Zero-One. 

The Apache Army would follow up the big win by facing a Zero-One team again on September 22, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, as Kanemura would team up with Mr. Gannosuke & Tetsuhiro Kuroda to face Masato Tanaka, Hideki Hosaka, and Yoshihito Sasaki. Kanemura would jump Tanaka right away by delivering a dropkick and kicking Tanaka out of the ring, and would begin brawling outside while Kuroda and Sasaki would begin going at it. Gannosuke and Hosaka would begin going at it, but both Kanemura & Kuroda would come in to help, and deliver a Super Powerbomb to Hosaka. A stick would be broken off, and the three Apache Army members would begin carving their former friends arm and forehead up. The three would then kiss with Kanemura & Gannosuke dropping elbows on Hosaka, with Kuroda following it by stepping on Hosaka. Kanemura would grab a piece of a table to hold back Tanaka from making the save for Hosaka. Hosaka would manage to grab the piece of table from Kanemura, and the bloody Hosaka would smash it over Kanemura's head. Tanaka would make a come back by delivering a clothesline to Kanemura. Gannosuke would manage to make the save for Kanemura, and deliver a Praying Powerbomb to Tanaka. Gannosuke would end up by nailed with a 3D by Tanaka & Hosaka, when Go Ito would hit the ring with a chair and throw it at Tanaka, as Tanaka was climbing the top rope looking for a frog splash on Gannosuke. Zero One President Nakamura would then hit the ring, but would be pulled in the ring by Gannosuke, who would allow Go Ito to deliver his own frog splash on Nakamura before leaving the ring. Kuroda and Sasaki would manage to go at it, with Kuroda delivering several lariats to Sasaki, before finishing off Sasaki with a Shining Wizard to score another victory for the Apache Army over Zero-One. 

Kanemura would then team up with Tetsuhiro Kuroda and once again compete for the All Japan All Asian Tag Team Titles, this time in Zero-One by challenging the champions Hirotaka Yokoi & Kohei Sato on October 10, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, Kanemura would start right away with Sato, by making the match into his style, and diving off the top turnbuckle to send Sato through the table, and begin delivering chair shots to Yokoi. Kanemura and Kuroda would manage to control a majority of the match, and Kohei Sato would manage to come back by delivering a supplex on Kanemura on to a chair, but Kanemura out of nowhere would deliver a lowblow to Sato, and roll him up for the Samson Clutch to claim the All Japan All Asian Tag Team Titles with Tetsuhiro Kuroda. Zero-One President Nakamura would refuse to wrap the belts around Kanemura & Kuroda's waist, upsetting the Apache Army. The Apache Army would grab Nakamura and tear his shirt off when Go Ito would come to the ring with a barbwire bat. Kanemura would take the bat away from Ito, and instead hit Nakamura with the bat himself as the Apache Army celebrated.

Kanemura would team with fellow Apache Army members Mr. Gannosuke, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and Hido to face the Zero-One team of Shinjiro Otani, Masato Tanaka, Hideki Hosaka, and Wataru Sakata on October 18, 2003 at the Osaka Prefectural Gym # 2 in a Single Elimination match with over the top rope eliminations rule applied. Gannosuke would get the first elimination on Hosaka by rolling Hosaka up with the Gannosuke Clutch. Sakata and Kuroda would begin brawling over the top rope on to the apron, and end up falling off, eliminating each other. Kanemura would begin brawling with Tanaka, and manage to throw Tanaka over the top rope, but Tanaka would land on the apron. With the help of Go Ito interfering and holding on to Tanaka, Kanemura would manage to eliminate his long time rival. Otani would manage to eliminate Hido with a Spiral Bomb next, but with Kanemura & Gannosuke double teaming Otani, Kanemura would deliver a Blast YAMA Senton Special and both Kanemura and Gannosuke would pin Otani to score the victory, and another Apache Army victory over Zero-One, and Kanemura's second straight pinfall victory over Otani. 

Kanemura would team with Mr. Gannosuke, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and TAKA Michinoku to face off against the Zero One team of Shinjiro Otani, Masato Tanaka, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, and Yoshihito Sasaki on October 24, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, in a Captain Falls Elimination Match. Kanemura & Otani would be represent their teams as the captains for the match. Kanemura would make his presence known in the match by throwing a chair at Yoshihito Sasaki's face, and then climb the top turnbuckle when Go Ito would rush to the ring and hurricanrana Kanemura on top of Sasaki. Zero-One President Nakamura would once again come to the ring to try and get revenge on Go Ito, but once again, he would get grabbed by Kanemura, and Go Ito would deliver a spinning heel kick to the face of Kanemura, as Otani would grab Kanemura and begin brawling around ringside. Otani would lay Kanemura on a table, and Yoshihito Sasaki would come off the top turnbuckle, sending Kanemura through the table. Kanemura would come back in the ring, with a piece of the table and would smash it over Sasaki's head. It would turn out to be a mistake, as it would set a fire in Sasaki, who would grab Kanemura, and place him in the Canadian Backbreaker, with Kuroda making the save for Kanemura. Kuroda would stay in the ring to face Takaiwa, but it would turn out to be a mistake for the Apache Army, as Takaiwa would end up hitting Kuroda with a Death Valley Driver and score a pin over Kuroda, eliminating Kuroda from the match. Kanemura would come in for the eliminated Kuroda, but Otani would come in as well and get the advantage over Kanemura, and would begin kicking Kanemura in the face hard before Gannosuke would come in to help Kanemura out, and Kanemura & Gannosuke together would deliver a Double Powerbomb to Otani. Kanemura would then deliver a Blast YAMA Senton Special on Otani, but Otani would manage to kick out. Sasaki would then grab Kanemura and deliver a German Supplex to Kanemura, with Otani following up by putting Kanemura in a Crossface, forcing Kanemura to tap out to give Zero-One the victory. Zero-One would not be done though, as they would pile all four members of the Apache Army on top of each other, and pose over them victorious before leaving. An upset Apache Army would take it out on a Zero-One trainee Osamu Namiguchi, as they would attack Namiguchi, and leave him busted up before recognizing Shinya Hashimoto watching from the entrance way. Kanemura would call out Hashimoto, and Hashimoto would be hesitant by finally coming into the ring. Kanemura would begin calling Hashimoto out before the two would finally begin brawling, with Hashimoto knocking Kanemura to the ground. The Apache Army would all begin ganging up on Hashimoto, with Hido, Kuroda, Gannosuke all delivering clotheslines, with GENTARO & TAKA Michinoku delivering Superkicks to Hashimoto, before Kanemura would deliver Kodo Fuyuki's Charging Lariat to knock Hashimoto on the ground to the Apache Army celebrating with Hashimoto leaving the ring, and the Apache Army ending the show with the TNR Dance.

Kanemura would team up with fellow Apache Army members Mr. Gannosuke, Hido, and GENTARO looking for revenge against Zero One on November 5, 2003 at the Shonan Town Gym, facing off against Shinjiro Otani, Masato Tanaka, Hideki Hosaka, and Jun Kasai in a winner moves on format. Shinjiro Otani and Hido would start off first with Hido's game plan to make sure Otani is eliminated no matter what, and would manage to keep Otani outside of the ring, brawling with him for them both to be counted out, with both being eliminated. Kanemura and Jun Kasai would then go at it, with Kanemura eliminating Kasai after rolling him up with a cradle for the elimination. Yoshihito Sasaki would then come in next, and would do his job by fighting with Kanemura outside of the ring, causing both of them to be counted out and eliminated. Masato Tanaka would manage to be the survivor for the Zero One team after eliminating Mr. Gannosuke & Tetsuhiro Kuroda for the Zero One victory.

Kanemura & Kuroda would team up on November 7, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, to face off against Wataru Sakata & Osamu Namiguchi, who would be making his professional debut in the match. Kanemura & Kuroda would brutalize the rookie during the match, and would just be far too much for the rookie to handle, as Kanemura would manage to finish Namiguchi off with a Blast YAMA Senton Special for the win.

Kanemura would team up with GOEMON & Chocoball Mukai to face off against the Michinoku Pro team of Jinsei Shinzaki, Seiji Ikeda, and Kazuya Yuasa on November 20, 2003 at Korakuen Hall for WMF, as Kanemura would face off against Shinzaki, and would also show Shinzaki that he had not changed over the years by mocking Shinzaki with his own walking of the ropes on Shinzaki and coming down, but it would be Ikeda to score the victory pinfall over GOEMON with a lariat for the Michinoku Pro victory. 

Kanemura & Kuroda would then successfully defend their All Japan All Asian Team Titles on November 24, 2003 at Tsukuba Kapio in Zero One, after defeating the team of Tatsuhito Takaiwa & Wataru Sasaki, after Kanemura would roll up Takaiwa with the Samson Clutch for the victory. It would be their first title defense, but then on the next day, on November 25, 2003 at the Kira Messe Numazu, in Osaka Pro, they would defend their tag titles for the second time against Big Boss MA-G-MA & Daio QUALLT, and would defeat the Osaka Pro team after Kuroda would deliver a lariat to QUALLT for the victory, and the second successful title defense.

Kanemura would then announce for the next Fuyuki Army show, that he would team with Mr. Gannosuke & Tetsuhiro Kuroda against the Zero One team of Shinjiro Otani, Masato Tanaka, and Tatsuhito Takaiwa on December 5, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, but the day of the show, it would be announced Kanemura was being pulled off the show after an emergency injury. It would turn out that Kanemura's injury would be from a lymph infection, that caused an incredible amount of swelling all around Kanemura's mouth. The injury would be caused from an enormous amount of germs of someone else's blood that would get inside of Kanemura's body through a cut that had failed to heal. Kanemura would be force to stay in the hospital due to the injury, and would be told to not wrestle for several months due to the injury. Mammoth Sasaki would end up replacing the Apache Army in the War Games match on December 5, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, and would become the newest Apache Army in the process. The Zero One team would once again win after Otani would hit a bloody Kuroda with the Spiral Bomb with the win. Due to the injury, Kanemura & Kuroda would vacate the All Japan All Asian Tag Team Titles. Mr. Gannosuke & Tetsuhiro Kuroda would end up winning the vacant titles, but would lose them to The Great Kosuke & Shiryu a week later in All Japan.

Kanemura would make his first public appearance at a New Years Party for Fuyuki Army, heavily bandaged from the swelling of his mouth, and would announce his return to the Fuyuki Army Promotion at Korakuen Hall on January 14, 2004.

Kanemura would return to the ring to team with Mr. Gannosuke & Hido to face the Zero One team of Tatsuhito Takaiwa, Jun Kasai, and Yoshihito Sasaki on January 14, 2004 at Korakuen Hall, with Sasaki going right at Kanemura to start the match, but Kanemura would immediately deliver a hurricanrana to Sasaki. Kasai would bring a piece of a table in the ring, and attempt to smash it over Kanemura's head, but Kanemura would manage to grab a hold of the table, and as Sasaki would charge Kanemura, Kanemura would grab the piece of table and smash it over Sasaki's head, and then Kasai's head. Takaiwa would grab Kanemura, and deliver a Death Valley Driver to Kanemura, but would fail to put Kanemura away. Sasaki would come in and attempt to put a Canadian Backbreaker on Kanemura, but Gannosuke would come in to attempt to make the save, but Sasaki would grab Gannosuke and put him in the Canadian Backbreaker. Gannosuke would manage to get out, and deliver a lariat to Sasaki, and then tag in Kanemura who would deliver a Blast YAMA Senton Special on Sasaki to score the pinfall victory for the Apache Army.

Kanemura would check himself back into the hospital after the match, where doctors would be furious with him for wrestling while not being cleared to. The doctors would demand that Kanemura stay at the hospital for 20 days due to his injury, and to make sure, that he doesn't risk making his injury worse by getting in the ring. 

Kanemura would be force to cancel out of a scheduled match for WMF on February 11, 2004 at Korakuen Hall, as it would fall on the 20th day of his hospital stay, but the first day of being cleared from the hospital, Kanemura would participate on the Fuyuki Army Promotion show on February 12, 2004, where Kanemura would team up with TAKA Michinoku and Big Japan's Daisuke Sekimoto against Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Mr. Gannosuke, and DDT's Sanshiro Takagi in a Captain Falls Match, with Kanemura and Kuroda as the teams captain, and the winning captain fighting Shinya Hashimoto on March 19, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, on the one year anniversary of Kodo Fuyuki's death. Kanemura would face off against Sanshiro Takagi for the first time since their feud in DDT in 2002, and with Takagi's help, Kuroda would charge Kanemura with a lariat, but Kanemura would manage to block it, but would be unaware of another lariat by Kuroda right after, and Kuroda would get the victory over Kanemura, in the disappointing match to earn the right to face Hashimoto at the next Korakuen Hall show.

Kanemura would participate at Osaka Pro's Super J Cup on February 21, 2004 at the Osaka Castle Hall, in a non tournament match, Kanemura would team up with with Kageki's Azteca and Osaka Pro's Big Boss MA-G-MA to face Men's Teioh, Tomohiro Ishii, and MIKAMI, as Kanemura would go at it right away with Ishii, as Ishii would gain the upper hand and deliver a power slam to Kanemura. MIKAMI would be tagged in, and deliver a hurricanrana to Kanemura, but Kanemura would throw MIKAMI out of the ring, and begin brawling with MIKAMI outside of the ring, bringing a ladder back in the ring afterwards. Kanemura would throw the ladder into MIKAMI's crotch as he laid on the turnbuckle. The ladder would end up costing Kanemura's team as MIKAMI would deliver a swan dive off the top of the ladder to Azteca, with Ishii following up and delivering a brainbuster to Azteca to score the pinfall for his team.

Kintaro Kanemura would then make his return to the Yokohama Arena for the first time since participating in Big Japan's December 2, 2001 Yokohama Arena show by teaming with Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda on March 7, 2003 at HUSTLE-2 against The Gladiator, Sabu, and Justin Credible. It would be the first time since the April 29, 1997 Yokohama Arena show that Kanemura had even teamed up with Tanaka, but due to Tanaka turning on Otani in February to align himself with Kuroda, Kanemura would put his differences aside with his rival for the match. It would also be the first time that Kanemura would face The Gladiator in any type of match since July 10, 1998 after Gladiator nearly broke Kanemura's neck with a Kamikaze Awesome Bomb. Tanaka would do the TNR Dance before the match, the first time while doing so in the ring with Kanemura. Sabu would deliver a triple jump Moonsault on to Kanemura, and The Gladiator would deliver an Awesome Bomb off the apron, sending Kanemura through two tables. Tanaka would manage to get the pinfall victory over Justin Credible after delivering a rolling elbow, but afterwards, words would be exchanged between Kanemura & Tanaka, who would not let their differences be put aside, and Tanaka would end up walking off as Kanemura & Kuroda would do the TNR Dance together.

Kanemura & Hido would then team up on the one year anniversary of Kodo Fuyuki's death on March 19, 2004 at Korakuen Hall, to challenge the All Japan All Asian Tag Team Titles against The Great Kosuke & Shiryu. Before the show, every wrestler on the card would present a yellow flower in the ring with a cardboard cut out of Kodo Fuyuki would be placed in the ring. Kodo Fuyuki's widow Kaoru Fuyuki would announce that the Fuyuki Army Promotion would be coming to a close on May 5, 2004 at Kawasaki Stadium. Kanemura would start off going against Kosuke, exchanging slaps, before Kanemura would deliver a hurricanrana to Kosuke, but Kosuke would counter with a spine buster. Kanemura would deliver a lowblow to Kosuke, and then unmask Kosuke to show Satoshi Kojima's face. An upset Kojima would begin punching Kanemura outside of the ring, and the two would begin brawling around ringside. Kanemura and Kojima would come back in the ring, with Kanemura bringing a table with him, and would begin smashing Kojima's face over the table, busting Kojima open. Hido would come in, and help work on making the cut worse for Kojima, as Kanemura would come back in the ring and begin scratching Kojima's cut on the forehead. Kanemura would place Kojima on the turnbuckle, and then begin ramming the table at Kojima's groin, and then follow it up by throwing a chair at the table into Kojima's groin. Kojima would finally manage to tag in Shiryu, who would deliver a hurricanrana and then a spinning heel kick to Kanemura. Shiryu would deliver a German Supplex, causing Kanemura to land directly on his head while tagging back in the bloody Kojima. Kojima would deliver a elbow off the top rope on Kanemura, and begin working on Hido with a chair. Kanemura would grab the chair, but would hit with a Superkick to the face by Shiryu, and then a Moonsault. With Hido's help, Kanemura would gain control on Shiryu with a double team, and deliver a Praying Powerbomb to Shiryu. Kanemura would supplex Shiryu off the top turnbuckle onto the table, but with the table failing to break, Kanemura would end up smacking his back against it. Kojima and Hido would exchanging lariat but Shiryu would help double team Hido, and Kojima would manage to finish Hido off with a lariat to successfully defend the All Asian Tag Team Titles, the titles that Fuyuki had held three times.

Kintaro Kanemura would begin to get frustrated with Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and his recent friendship with Kanemura's long time rival Masato Tanaka, and on March 26, 2004 at Korakuen Hall in Zero-One, Kanemura would team up with Jun Kasai to face Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda, but before the match, Kanemura would straight up ask Kuroda to make up his decision, on whether he was going to stay a friend with Tanaka, or rejoin with Kuroda. Kuroda would make his decision quickly, and clothesline Kanemura to start the match. Kuroda would end up defeating Kasai with a lariat to win the match for his team, as Kuroda would leave the Apache Army for Masato Tanaka & Yoshihito Sasaki's group in Zero One. 

As punishment for Kuroda deciding to turn his back on Kuroda, Kanemura would announce that Kuroda would have to face Kintaro Kanemura, Jado, and Gedo in a handicap match at Fuyuki Army's next Korakuen Hall show. Kuroda would square off against Kanemura, Jado, and Gedo in the handicap match on April 8, 2004 at Korakuen Hall, with Kanemura's team getting the upper advantage on Kuroda right away, by triple teaming him. Kuroda would begin brawling with Gedo in the crowd, but when Kuroda would make it back in the ring, he would be attacked by Kanemura who would work on busting Kuroda open. Kanemura would work on scratching Kuroda's cut open forehead, making more blood spill out, but Kuroda would manage to fight back at every opportunity. Kanemura would just respond with a lowblow kick, and tag in Gedo to work on Kuroda's cut. Jado would end up coming, and putting Kuroda in the Crossface, but would fail to make Kuroda tap. Kanemura would then tag in, when Go Ito would rush to the ring, and climb the top turnbuckle. Kanemura would set Kuroda down for Go Ito to be able to hit the frog splash on Kuroda, but instead Go Ito would deliver a flying dropkick to Kanemura, turning on his long time Team No Respect friend. Go Ito over Kanemura making the match unfair would be attacked by Gedo, but would manage to block Gedo's punches, until Jado would blindside Go Ito with a lariat. Kuroda would manage to come back and deliver a lariat to Gedo, but the numbers again would be too much for Kuroda, as Jado and Gedo would pick Kuroda up and allow Kanemura to deliver a Super Powerbomb to Kuroda, as Gedo would then deliver a Frog Splash, and Kanemura would come off the top rope with a Blast YAMA Senton Special, and would finally manage to score the victory over Kuroda for the win. Kanemura would then announce a challenge to Riki Choshu for the upcoming May 5th Kawasaki Stadium show.

Kanemura would come to the ring at the Zero-One April 30, 2004 Korakuen Hall show after the main event, and would finally challenge Riki Choshu to a match at Kawasaki Stadium. Choshu would accept the challenge, but Choshu's partner Shinya Hashimoto would ask to make it a tag team match between Hashimoto and Choshu facing Kanemura and a Mystery Partner. Kanemura would eventually turn down that offer of the match, and announce the main event to be Kanemura and Hido facing World Japan's Riki Choshu and Tomohiro Ishii.

Kintaro Kanemura and Hido would team up on May 5, 2004 at the very cold Kawasaki Stadium, in the last Fuyuki Army Promotion match, to face World Japan's Riki Choshu and Tomohiro Ishii with Kanemura attacking Choshu right away, but Choshu getting the upper hand, and throwing Kanemura face first into the turnbuckle. Kanemura would be thrown inside the ring, and Ishii would take off the turnbuckle padding and smash Kanemura's head into it, and begin clawing at Kanemura's head, causing Kanemura to be busted open within the first minute of the match. Choshu would come in and smash Kanemura's head against the unprotected turnbuckle as well, and Ishii would begin head butting Kanemura. Kanemura would manage to fight back against Ishii, and Hido would finally have enough of his partner being double teamed, and would begin to go after Choshu. Choshu and Hido would begin brawling outside the ring, with Kanemura throwing Ishii out of the ring, and with the rest of the Apache Army holding onto Ishii, Kanemura would set up a table, and Powerbomb Ishii off the apron of the ring into the table. Kanemura would then bring a bloody Ishii back in the ring, with a piece of the table, and place it on Ishii's groin, and begin hitting the table piece with a chair. Kanemura would hit Ishii in the head with the piece of the table, but Kanemura would tag in Hido, and Ishii would begin fighting back against Hido. Kanemura would run back in, but Ishii would deliver a powerslam to Kanemura, and tag in Choshu. Choshu would deliver a lariat to Kanemura, and then place the Scorpion Death Lock on Kanemura. Hido would manage to make the save for Kanemura by delivering chair shots to Choshu until the move would be broken. Choshu would not be done with Kanemura though, but when Choshu would go over to pick Kanemura up, Kanemura would deliver a lowblow to Choshu. Hido would Kanemura the piece of the broken table, and Kanemura would smash the piece of table over Choshu's head incredibly hard. Choshu would fight back with hard strikes to Kanemura, and tag in Ishii. Ishii would deliver a superplex off the top turnbuckle, followed by a brainbuster on Kanemura, with Hido making the save for Kanemura. Ishii would then charge Kanemura with a lariat, but Kanemura would manage to duck it, grab his arms around Ishii's waist and attempt to supplex Ishii. Ishii would manage to block the supplex, and reverse it, but Kanemura would deliver a kick downstairs to Ishii, and roll him up for the Samson Clutch to score the victory for Kanemura and Hido on the final Fuyuki Army Promotion show. Kanemura would announce that the war between the Apache Army and World Japan was not over, and that the Apache Army would be fighting World Japan on May 27, 2004 at Korakuen Hall, as the show would end with a bloody Kanemura, and the rest of the Apache Army doing the TNR Dance together.

Kanemura would then team up with Sabu & The Gladiator for HUSTLE-3 on May 8, 2004 at the Yokohama Arena, to this time face off against Masato Tanaka, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and Tomoaki Honma in a Weapons Hardcore match, with weapons appearing on the ramp during the match. Kanemura would be accompanied by Apache Army members Hido & MIYAWAKI to the ring. Kuroda would attack Kanemura right away, but when Kuroda would attempt a lariat, Kanemura would deliver a hurricanrana to Kuroda to the outside of the ring. MIYAWAKI would attack Kuroda, and would Kuroda on a table as Kanemura would climb the top of the turnbuckle, Sabu would take the advantage and jump off the top rope and deliver a leg drop to send Kuroda through the table. Kanemura would remain on the top turnbuckle when another table would placed, but Honma would climb up and deliver a hurricanrana to Kanemura, but Kanemura would only crack a little bit of the table before falling off and hitting the floor hard. The first weapon to appear would be a guitar, but Masato Tanaka would manage to get it, and smash it over The Gladiator's head. Tanaka then would begin delivering elbows to Kanemura, and then set up Kuroda to deliver a lariat, as Tanaka would deliver a frog splash and make the cover, with Kanemura kicking out. Tanaka and Kuroda would bring Kanemura to the ring where Kuroda would deliver a DDT to Kanemura on the ramp. Another weapon would appear on the ramp, in a bicycle. Hido would be the first to grab the bicycle and begin riding it right into a lariat by Kuroda. Kuroda would grab the bike, and as Tanaka would lay down Kanemura and Hido side by side, Kuroda would roll it over both of them, but would keep going and be nailed with a vicious flying clothesline by The Gladiator. Kanemura would come back in the ring and deliver a Blast YAMA Senton Special to Honma, but Honma would manage to kick out. The next weapon to appear would be a trash can, that would end up getting put on Kanemura's head as Honma would deliver a dropkick off the top rope on the trash can over Kanemura's head. Tanaka would place Kanemura upside down on the turnbuckle with Kanemura's head again in the trash can, as Tanaka would place a chair besides the trash can, and Honma would deliver a running kick to the chair to the trash can. The next weapon would be Giant Silva, who Honma would walk over to grab, but would end getting attacked by Silva. Silva would walk to the ring, attacking Tanaka and Kuroda on his path as The Gladiator would deliver a running Awesome Bomb on Honma from the ramp to the ring. The Gladiator and Honma would then begin climbing the top rope as Kanemura would place a table next to the turnbuckle. The Gladiator would deliver a lowblow to Honma, and deliver a Kamikaze Awesome Bomb to Honma, with Honma's head barely making a nudge on the table. Kanemura would help The Gladiator deliver another Kamikaze Awesome Bomb to Honma through the table again, and this time it would be enough to get the victory over Honma.

Kintaro Kanemura would team with Apache Army members Mr. Gannosuke, Hido, and GENTARO to face World Japan's Riki Choshu, Tomohiro Ishii, Ichiro Yaguchi, and Takashi Uwano on May 27, 2004 at Korakuen Hall, as the World Japan team would attack Kanemura right away with all four members going after Kanemura. Kanemura and Ishii would go right at it, with Kanemura winning and placing the bloody Ishii on a table, as Kanemura would jump off the top turnbuckle sending Ishii through the table. Gannosuke, Hido, and GENTARO would all deliver a clothesline to Ishii once he got back in the ring, but once Kanemura would charge at Ishii, Ishii would come back and clothesline Kanemura and tag in Choshu. Choshu would get revenge on Kanemura for Kawasaki by delivering a piece of table shot to Kanemura's hard, and then slam a chair over Kanemura's back. Hido would be tagged in eventually and would go after Ishii, and would attempt to finish Ishii off with a Piledriver. Choshu would deliver a lariat to Hido before he could deliver the move, and would allow Ishii to deliver a brainbuster on Hido and score the victory for the World Japan team. 

Kintaro Kanemura would hold his own promoted show called the Kintaro Kanemura Festival on July 4, 2004 at the Chiba Blue Field, teaming with Hido to face Big Japan's Ryuji Ito & Daisuke Sekimoto in a Hardcore Rules Match, with all four wrestlers bleeding after using weapons throughout the match, and brawling all around the arena, using the barbwire baseball bat, and Kanemura would end up scoring the victory over Sekimoto for the victory. Kanemura afterwards would announce that the Apache Army would be running their own show at Korakuen Hall on August 30th.

Kanemura would team up with Spanky and Zero-One's Jason the Legend on July 10, 2004 at the Niigata City Gym to once again defeat the World Japan team of Riki Choshu, Tomohiro Ishii, and Takashi Uwano in a Steel Cage match after Kanemura would pin Uwano for the victory.

Kintaro Kanemura would return to the Yokohama Arena on July 25, 2004 for HUSTLE-4 in a Hardcore Battle Royal against Steve Corino, Flying Vampire # 16, Tomoaki Honma, Masato Tanaka, and Tomohiro Ishii. Kanemura would manage to eliminate Ishii after several chair shots would be enough to manage to throw Ishii over the top rope for the elimination. Kanemura would eventually be eliminated by Steve Corino after being tossed over the top rope but Masato Tanaka would eventually win the Battle Royal after smashing Corino with a guitar shot and then pinning him for the victory.

Kanemura would enter into his third Fire Festival Tournament and would be placed in the B bracket with Shiro Koshinaka, Kohei Sato, Masato Tanaka, and Shinjiro Otani. Kanemura's first opponent in the tournament would be his long time rival Masato Tanaka on July 27, 2004 at the Iwaki City Gym # 2 with the match starting out with both Tanaka and Kanemura bringing chairs to the ring and doing a dueling chair spot right at the beginning of the match. Kanemura would take a cheap spot and smash the chair into Tanaka's midsection, but Tanaka would come back with a running elbow towards Kanemura. Tanaka would then grab a chair and smash it over Kanemura's head, but when Tanaka would once again go for a charging elbow, Kanemura would counter by jumping up and delivering a hurricanrana sending Tanaka to the outside. Kanemura would take the match to the outside, but when trying to swing Tanaka into the guard rail, Tanaka would reverse it and send Kanemura right into the steel railing instead. Tanaka would grab chair from the audience and use it to the deliver a Tornado DDT on Kanemura on the floor. Tanaka would then take a table and bring it in the ring, but when this time when trying to send Kanemura into it, Kanemura would manage to reverse it and send Tanaka flying into the table. Kanemura would then grab his own table and place Tanaka on it and climb up the top of the turnbuckle and send Tanaka straight through the table. It would be revealed that Tanaka had been busted open. Kanemura would then take Tanaka and sandwich him in between two tables and rush straight into the top of the table to smash right into Tanaka's bloody head. Kanemura would then take a piece of the board and smash it over Tanaka's head, but it would make Tanaka stronger as Tanaka would spit a mist of blood in Kanemura's face. Tanaka would come charging back with an elbow to the head, and then deliver a brainbuster to Kanemura. Tanaka would try to take advantage and deliver a powerbomb on the piece of table, but Kanemura would manage to counter it and pick up Tanaka and deliver a Reverse Fire Thunder sending Tanaka's head straight into the board. Kanemura would take advantage by placing two tables on the turnbuckle, but as Kanemura laid Tanaka down on the tables and Kanemura climbed the top turnbuckle, Tanaka would get up and deliver a Death Valley Driver sending Kanemura through two tables, but before being able to get a three count Apache Army member MIYAWAKI would make the save for Kanemura. Tanaka would come back with a Diamond Dust, but when trying to deliver a supplex, Kanemura would deliver a lowblow and roll up Tanaka with the Samson Clutch with Tanaka barely kicking out. Kanemura would try one more time to finish Tanaka off with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb but again Tanaka would kick out. Both Kanemura and Tanaka would struggle to get back up, but when Kanemura would charge at Tanaka, Tanaka would deliver a kick to the face on Kanemura and then nail the Roaring Elbow which would be enough for Tanaka to score the pinfall victory and Kanemura's first defeat in the tournament losing to Tanaka in a singles match for the first time in almost five years. The bad luck for Kanemura would be that on the next day that Tanaka would end up with an injured shoulder and not be able to participate in the Fire Festival tournament anymore. Everyone in Kanemura's bracket except Kanemura would be given points via forfeit because of Tanaka's injury. 

Kanemura's next match in the Fire Festival tournament would be on July 29, 2004 at Korakuen Hall with his opponent being Kohei Sato. Kanemura's bad luck due to the Tanaka situation would become worse after the match with Sato as Kanemura would have less success and Sato would manage to put away Kanemura with a German Supplex causing Kanemura to start out 0 for 2 right away in the tournament.

Kanemura would then move on to July 30, 2004 at the Osaka Prefectural Gym # 2 to face off against Shiro Koshinaka in a match that would not last long. Kanemura and Koshinaka would end up brawling right away and neither would be able to make it back to the ring for the count as both Kanemura & Koshinaka would be counted out. It would pretty much eliminate Kanemura from having any shot to win the Fire Festival, but he would earn his first point in the tournament as a result. 

Kanemura's last match in the Fire Festival would also be his toughest opponent in Shinjiro Otani on August 1, 2004 at Korakuen Hall, which would also be Kanemura's last chance at a win the tournament. Kanemura had lost the two previous years to Otani in the tournament with the first one being a second match between the two in favor of Otani. Kanemura would try to revenge those losses against Otani by along with Takashi Sasaki and MIYAWAKI jumping Otani before the match. Otani would be thrown out of the ring, and Kanemura would take the opportunity to rub Otani's flag against his crotch. Sasaki and MIYAWAKI would setup a table and place Otani on it with Kanemura sending Otani through the table. Kanemura would bring Otani into the ring, but as he would charge at him, Otani would meet him with a kick to the head. Otani would ask for the bell to be rung to start the match, and attempt to set him up for a supplex and pin Kanemura again, but Kanemura would deliver a lowblow as the bell would ring and roll up Otani with the Samson Clutch and just barely get the victory over Otani in three seconds himself. Kanemura would be handed a piece of the table by the Apache Army but Otani would be up and kick Kanemura in the face before Kanemura could use it, and instead Otani would smash the table piece over Kanemura's head repeatedly. Otani would deliver his running kick to the face on Kanemura against the turnbuckle, as well as the flying dropkick, but as Otani would setup for the Spiral Bomb, the Apache Army would interfere once again and put a stop to that. Otani would clear the ring, and this time attempt another supplex, but Takashi Sasaki would come from behind with a chair and smash it over Otani's back. Kanemura would take the advantage and rollup Otani with the Samson Clutch and get the victory over Otani in just 76 seconds. Although Kanemura would finish the tournament with just three points and unable to advance to the finals of the Fire Festival, he would end in a high note getting revenge on Otani for the three second lost two years earlier as well as being the one to eliminate Otani from the tournament finals as a result of the win. Kohei Sato would end up winning the B Bracket and winning the Fire Festival after defeating Takao Omori in the finals later in the show. 

Due to his hatred for Masato Tanaka, Kanemura would find an unlikely friend in Shinjiro Otani who shared his hatred for Tanaka. Kanemura would team up with Otani and Takao Omori to face Riki Choshu, Tatsuhito Takaiwa, and Tomohiro Ishii on August 15, 2004 at Korakuen Hall with Kanemura getting the pinfall victory over Ishii with the Blast YAMA Senton Special. Kanemura and Otani were now partners. 

Kintaro Kanemura & Hido would team up on August 19, 2004 at Korakuen Hall for the new Riki Pro group that was formed after Riki Choshu's World Japan went under. Kanemura & Hido would challenge for the vacated WMG Tag Team Titles against Tomohiro Ishii & Kendo Kashin. Kanemura would not do any favors screaming at the referee Yoshiaki Fujiwara. Kanemura would get slapped in the face for disrespecting Fujiwara before the match would even start. Hido would setup Ishii on a table early in the match, but before Kanemura could jump off the top turnbuckle to the outside, Kashin would push him off the turnbuckle and instead bodyslam Hido through the table. Kanemura and Hido would make their comeback using weapons with Hido using a barbwire bat on Kashin and Kanemura about to use a chair on Ishii, but as Kanemura would go to pick up the chair, Ishii would clothesline the chair into Kanemura's face. Kashin would eventually attack Fujiwara from behind and with the referee down he would begin beating Kanemura and Hido with a chair and then throw it at Hido as soon as Fujiwara was getting up. Fujiwara would headbutt Hido for believing he had been the one to attack him from behind, but Kashin's temper would eventually cause him to go crazy and leave his partner and just begin fighting with the Dojo boys in the crowd. This would leave Ishii in a handicapped situation and Kanemura & Hido would take advantage of it and eventually Kanemura would deliver the Blast YAMA Senton Special to Ishii and score the pin to win the WMG Tag Team Titles and his first tag team title with Hido since winning the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles in 1997.

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