Trivia / Fire Pro Wrestling

• Bad Export for You: Not to be expected for the series that barely ever gets an overseas release, but Fire Pro Wrestling 2 on GBA is the worst offender so far. Despite it adding several U.S. wrestlers, it also removes several Japanese wrestlers, as well as removing the highly praised Management of the Ring mode.
  • The content of Returns, on the other hand, remains unchanged compared to the Japanese version, though the translation has been criticised, see "Blind Idiot" Translation on the main page.
• Franchise Killer: No matter how good it was as a standalone game, G was a huge step backward from 6-Man Scramble in the eyes of the Japanese fans, which would supposedly end the series at this point... Not until Spike stepped in.
  • Z was this both literally (it was meant to be the last game in the series) and figuratively, as fans felt the game was a step backward from the very popular D. Thankfully, Returns pretty much fixed everything.
  • The Xbox 360 game threw out the trademark sprite graphics for using the 360's avatar system and traded the timing based gameplay for button mashing, had massively cutdown customization and was generally considered a massive step backward from Returns, which was on the Playstation 2 and was already seven years old at that point. The series remained dormant and Spike made little mention of it since their 2012 merger with Shiren the Wanderer creators Chunsoft other than a PSN rerelease of Returns a year afterward. Thankfully, the series would later be brought out of hiatus with Fire Pro Wrestling World, which was released on Playstation 4 and Steam, marking the first time the series has released on PC, to much more positive reviews.
• No Export for You: Only four games in the series have had official releases in the US: Fire Pro Wrestling A, Final Fire Pro Wrestling (both being called just Fire Pro Wrestling and numbered as such in the States), Fire Pro Wrestling Returns (released overseas after a two-year tenture) and Fire Pro Wrestling World, which was released as an early access title on Steam on the 11th of July 2017.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: The Gruesome Fighting mode was removed from the US release of Final, apparently due to legal threats from UFC. It would later be reinstated but with the shape changed to a dodecagon.
  • Giant Baba (as Great Shiba) was removed from the series upon request from his wife Motoko, the (as far is known) only time this happened during the series' No Celebrities Were Harmed era. He would be reinstated following his passing.
• Sequel Gap: World's Champion Road Beyond DLC, which is a sequel to the story mode from Special. This makes a 26 year gap between the two, which is reflected in-game (as it stars the son of the previous protagonist, who has been born and grown into adulthood between stories).
• What Could Have Been: Thunder Pro Wrestling Retsuden was going to be released in the U.S. under the title Jesse "The Body" Ventura Wrestling Superstars.

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