Greatest FMW match

[The Great Gouki]

In the history of FMW...what do you people think is the Greatest Match of all time? It can be a technical masterpeice, a "hardcore" massacre, or just the most important match.

[Ganso]

Definately Combat Toyoda vs. Megumi Kudo from the May Kawasaki Baseball Stadium show in '96 you just need to know the background between these two before you watch the match so it will seem better.

[Megatron22]

I would say the tag team deathmatch with Terry Funk and Mr. Pogo vs. Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka.

If i remember thats when Hayabusa got his mask ripped off after he lost.

[AbBY]

The worst may be the tiger vs onita island deathmatch. that one sucked. hey I remember reading that the famous Cactus Jack vs Kanemura was going to be Cactus vs Matsunaga and WWF didnt let them do it kuz matsunaga was one time diagnosed with hepatitis B... is that real? also, does anyone have the video where Invader 1, mr pogo and el profe Quiñones attack onita?

[Sliced Bread #2]

Actually they called him Invader 1, but it was really the Invader 3, under the Invader 1 role...

[Black_Flag_Of_Ulster]

there were several brilliant ones with the gladiator against tanaka and hayabusa...

[Tradewynd]

For most important, I'd have to say the first Onita/Funk deathmatch that was from either 89 or 90 and sold 50,000+ tickets at Kawasaki Stadium. It made FMW a major player at the time and, for better or worse, established garbage as a legitimate style.

For an actual match, I was rather fond of the Hayabusa/Ooya 30 minute draw. It's on one of the Tokyopop DVDs. It's not hardcore, it's not nonstop highspots, just good old fashioned ring psychology.

For most "hardcore" I dunno, pick any gimmick match that you can't say in one breath...Kudo's retirement match was not the most "hardcore" garbage match I've ever seen, but with the exeption of some of Onita's early garbage matches it was one of the few that ever told a story, and that makes it all time classic in my book.

[Daishikaze]

I agree about Kudo's retirement match, it had a good story, and I'm not ashamed to say that when I saw the aftermath when Kudo handed the belts to Nakayama I shed some tears. that was a touching moment.

[edgehead1984]

I would say the tag team deathmatch with Terry Funk and Mr. Pogo vs. Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka.

If i remember thats when Hayabusa got his mask ripped off after he lost.

That's a good match, but I don't like Pogo's series of knifes he went through in the match, from the sickle to the long knive to the dagger...and the ring work is really sloppy in this match...

[Tradewynd]

I dare you to find one Pogo match that isn't really sloppy after 92 or 93, or even one where his bump total reaches double digits.

[AbBY]

anything with Tanaka and Gladiator. They could fly, be technical or be hardcore.

[Pheonix_Chi25]

Hayabusa Vs. Gannousuke: FMW Double Titles
Onita/Tanaka/Kanemura Vs. Funk/Cactus/Awesome: FMW Streetfight

My personal favorite would have to be the Hayabusa Vs. Onita, Timebomb Cage Deathmatch when Onita retired the first time. Watching Hayabusa do that moonsault, although he missed, was just awesome.

[AbBY]

FMW´s first matches. In that times it was really hardcore. Goto, Onita, Funk, Sabu, Sheik and Tiger Jeet Singh...

[Rizzob]

I never watched FMW before the Hayabusa era so my favorite match would be anything with Awesome, Tanaka, Gannosuke and Hayabusa

[The Great Gouki]

personally I LOVED the Gannosuke/Hayabusa matches...but to me anything without Pogo was great...I miss FMW