History Wrestling / FMW

** PlayingWithFire: The Onita/Tarzan Goto vs. The Sheik[=/=][=Sabu=] No Ropes 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.

* RingOfFire: Infamously GoneHorriblyWrong in a no rope barbed wire match featuring Onita, Goto, Sabu and The Sheik. So much so that in WWC later, a disqualification would be drawn when a {{fireball|s}} was thrown in one of Sabu's barbed wire matches.

* {{Delinquents}}: H became one over due to his frustrations with Team No Respect

* ChainsawGOOD: [[Franchise/TheTexasChainsawMassacre Leatherface]] Also went into CaptainErsatz and WritingAroundTrademarks territory with Super Leather

** After Kodo Fuyuki gave the Hayabusa gimmick to Mr. Gannosuke, he cast Gannosuke in several porno graphic films in order to taint the Hayabusa legacy.

* [[LegacyCharacter Legacy Promotion]]: Unofficially, [=ECW=] in the U.S. and Big Japan Pro Wrestling. Officially, World Entertainment Wrestling, [[FunWithAcronyms Wrestling Marvelous Future]], USO and Onita Pro, which all ended up folding together into The Apache Army, which went on to invade other promotions.

* [[LegacyCharacter Legacy Promotion]]: [=ECW=] in the U.S. and Big Japan Pro Wrestling.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The firs FMW shows featured pro wrestlers taking on fighters from other disciplines like karate and judo but quickly the promotion turned to showcasing many different divisions and styles of wrestling. Then came the death matches...

* {{Kayfabe}}: Katsutoshi Niiyama was fired for breaking it and publicly celebrating with arch rival Koji Nakagawa.

* TenMinuteRetirement: Atsushi Onita
* TheAce: Atsushi Onita

** PlayingWithFire: The Onita/[=Tarzan=] Goto vs. The Sheik[=/=][=Sabu=] No Ropes 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.
* 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.[[/note]] This led to [[UpToEleven the barbed-wire being attached to electrical charges and/or C4 explosives.]]

* NonIndicativeName: Despite the words "Martial-Arts" being in the name, IKnowKarate was not a high priority. The name comes from the original idea of a shoot-style promotion which Onita concocted when he was refused entry to an Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation event. In all its history, Masashi Aoyagi was the only martial arts wrestler in the promotion.

* RingOfFire: Infamously GoneHorriblyWrong in a no rope barbed wire match featuring Sabu and The Sheik. So much so that in WWC later, a disqualification would be drawn when a {{fireball|s}} was thrown in one of Sabu's barbed wire matches.

* SinisterScythe: Mr. Pogo used one.

'''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 2015, now calling itself Cho Sento Puroresu FMW

FMW's Anniversary Show, generally held on May 5, was their equivalent to ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}}'', the show that the whole year centered around.

'''Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling''' was 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.

* TakeThat: The Great Nita, Onita's parody of New Japan Pro Wrestling's the Great Muta.

* BadassBiker: Kurado rode with a group of them when entering arenas.

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Mr. Gannosuke as a heel.

* VillainOfAnotherStory: Wrestling/ShawnMichaels was pretty harmless here as a referee.

* JapanesePoliteness: Through all the blood, broken glass and electrocutions, the crowds tended to sit in near silence, popping bigger for the more conventional fights and wrestling matches but still mostly being silent. The English commentators suggested the quieter than usual responses to the garbage matches was StunnedSilence.

* {{Keet}}: Tetsuhiro Kuroda took full advantage of FMW's referee's frequent neglect to count anyone out and would sprint all over the arena if allowed to by his opponents, in search of better weapons.

* {{Keet}}: Tetsuhiro Kuroda took full advantage of the falls count anywhere nature of FMW and would sprint all over the arena if allowed to by his opponents, in search of better weapons.