History Wrestling / FMW

* CanadaEh: Sudden Impact (Wrestling/ChrisJericho and Wrestling/LanceStorm)

* PandaingToTheAudience: The Pandita gimmick, one of Akihito Ichihara many attempts to endear himself to the audience.

* TurtlePower: Turtle Kamen, if you couldn't tell by his name. A giant turtle man. Or a man in a turtle mask, does it matter?

* GimmickMatches: '''MANY'''. One of Onita's chief innovations was taking down the ring ropes and replacing them with barbed-wire.[[note]]In Puerto Rico and elsewhere in the U.S, barbed-wire, if it was used at all, would be wrapped around the ring ropes or just around the turnbuckle pad.[[/note]] This led to [[UpToEleven the barbed-wire being attached to electrical charges and/or C4 explosives.]]

* IHaveTheHighGround: Hayabusa was the top high-flyer in FMW. This promotion wasn't afraid of things much higher than the top turnbuckle either, like the dreaded scaffold.

* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Hannibal, Dr. Luther
* NiceHat: Hisakatsu Oya's "traditional attire" hat, Emi Motokawa's cowboy hat

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: All Japan was trying to have a formal presentation the way a prominent sports league gets shown, while New Japan was trying to make its matches resemble athletic competition while otherwise retaining "puroresu spirit". Then came these guys taking ultra violent gimmicks from overseas further than anyone ever had before. For this reason it averts SeinfeldIsUnfunny even for foreign viewers because of how much of the '''really''' out there gimmicks (explosives, etc.) were not brought back over to the U.S. by ECW. Wrestling/{{CZW}} has tried, but has not risen to the level of FMW at its best.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: While the name ''Onita'' reads like it would be pronounced "Oh-NEE-Ta," Japanese audiences pronounced it as "Oni-TA."

The basics can be found at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMW The Other Wiki]].

* OurTitansAreDifferent: At 6'6, when Onita, Tarzan Goto, W*ING Kanemura, Koji Nakagawa, Mr. Pogo and others were usually under 6', Big Titan (Rick "[[TheOtherDarrin The Fake]] [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]]"]]/"Ric Titan" Bogner) was a definite Type 2.

* OurTitansAreDifferent: At 6'6, when Onita, Tarzan Goto, W*ING Kanemura, Koji Nakagawa, Mr. Pogo and others were usually under 6', Big Titan (Rick [[TheOtherDarrin "The Fake Razor Ramon"]]/"Ric Titan" Bogner) was a definite Type 2.

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling is a UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}ese ProfessionalWrestling promotion founded by Atsushi Onita in 1989. He started it due to the two main promotions, Wrestling/AntonioInoki's Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and Giant Baba's Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling, rejecting his ideas about how "everything should be allowed in ''[=Puroresu=]''". Onita expanded on the brawling style he had encountered in Wrestling/JerryLawler's Continental Wrestling Association in Memphis, Tennessee and the use of barbed-wire in the World Wrestling Council in Puerto Rico. Baba derisively labeled the FMW style "{{Garbage Wrestl|er}}ing", though it is more respectfully labeled "Hardcore." While Onita was the focus, and many Japanese wrestlers (W*ING Kanemura, Wrestling/MasatoTanaka, Hayabusa, Tarzan Goto, Mr. Gannosuke) made their names there, it also was the promotion where American wrestler Wrestling/MikeAwesome made his career as "The Gladiator" and also where Wrestling/{{Sabu}} first made his name, and, as a result of competing in no-rope barbed-wire matches, became the "scarred-up freak" the world would come to know and love. Much of what FMW pioneered would later be brought to US audiences via Wrestling/{{ECW}}. The company closed down in 2002. It was revived in 2015, with Hideki Takahashi as president and Hayabusa as the main producer, now calling the company Cho Sento Puroresu FMW, with Atsushi Onita promised to participate in some form as well, which turned out to be in the ring!

** PlayingWithFire: The Onita/Tarzan Goto vs. The Sheik[=/=][=Sabu=] No Ropes Barbed Wire [[RingOfFire Fire]] Death Match from the May 6, 1992 show, which went to a No-Contest due to the fire getting out of control. The Sheik, then in his 60s, was too slow to leave the ring as the fire was burning down everything. He had to be rushed to the hospital and treated for third degree burns, but in fact [[Determinator wanted to continue the match at ring side]] and yelled at Sabu for throwing water on him, since it prevented Sheik from throwing a fireball at Goto and Onita. Such was this match's [[GoneHorriblyWrong infamy]] that a disqualification was later declared in WWC when a {{fireball|s}} was thrown in one of Sabu's barbed wire matches.

** PlayingWithFire: The Onita/Tarzan Goto vs. The Sheik[=/=][=Sabu=] No Ropes Barbed Wire [[RingOfFire Fire]] Death Match from the May 6, 1992 show, which went to a No-Contest due to the fire getting out of control. The Sheik, then in his 60s, was left in the ring with the fire burning down everything. He had to be rushed to the hospital and treated for third degree burns. Such was this match's [[GoneHorriblyWrong infamy]] that a disqualification was later declared in WWC when a {{fireball|s}} was thrown in one of Sabu's barbed wire matches.

* BadBoss: Kodo Fuyuki, enemy of garbage wrestling and lover of [[EvilerThanThou something even lower]] than "The Japanese mainstream" or invaders from Puerto Rico, sports entertainment!

* LicensedGame: ''Virtual Pro Wrestling'' is nominally a Wrestling/{{WCW}} series but the "[[BlandNameProduct Dead Or Alive Wrestling]]" sections of the rosters are filled with FMW wrestlers.

* MaleGaze: Unapologetic about it too, at least when it came to the non wrestling valets. A few of the wrestlers made threats to the cameras.(The male gaze didn't start until they started parodying the [=McMahon=]Russo trends during the WEW era. Naturally this would be the one thing they played straight, even if not 100% of the time)

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: All Japan was trying to have a formal presentation the way a prominent sports get, while New Japan was trying to make its matches resemble athletic competition. Then came these guys taking ultra violent gimmicks from overseas further than anyone ever had before. For this reason it averts SeinfeldIsUnfunny even for foreign viewers because of how much of the '''really''' out there gimmicks (explosives, etc.) were not brought over to the U.S. by ECW. Wrestling/{{CZW}} has tried, but has not risen to the level of FMW at its best.

* TurtlePower: Turtle Kamen, if you couldn't tell by his name. A giant turtle man.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The promotion was filled with them.