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In doing research of the match, one of the edits is because Ozaki legit fainted while Kudo put her in a swinging sleeper and Kudo covers her and referee Go Ito counts 1....2...and he had to stop the count because it wasn't the finish but Ozaki was not about to kick out, so he stopped the count and took a few moment to try and revive her and she regained consciousness they continued the match.

FMW Stories Episode 6 going over Mitsuhiro Matsunaga's career with many never before told stories in English. I go over him getting into wrestling as a child, his college days, trying to get into wrestling before starting with FMW, his W*ING days, and his later career in Big Japan into retirement. Also, covering his issues with Onita, Hayabusa, Kanemura, Mr. Pogo and more.

FMW Stories Episode 5 going over FMW's top rival promotion W*ING. I go over the history of W*ING and tell many untold stories of the promotion that is still remembered fondly 30 years later for its chaos.

FMW Stories Episode 4 going over the first two years of FMW up until their first Kawasaki Stadium in 1991. I talk about about many never before heard in English stories of the old FMW, the many issues that came up with the young promotion, what caused several people including Mr. Pogo to leave FMW to start up the rival W*ING promotion and much more.

FMW Stories Episode 3: Megumi Kudo going over Megumi Kudo's life and career. From her beginning in All Japan Women's to her going from job to job before settling in as a teacher, before getting an opportunity to join FMW and all the goods and bads that came with it, before her 1997 retirement followe by her post active wrestling life. This episode contains many never before told stories in English about her.

FMW Stories Episode 2: Tarzan Goto - Going over the life and times of Tarzan Goto. Going over his career in Sumo, All Japan, Memphis, FMW, and why he decided to leave FMW right before wrestling in the biggest FMW match ever.

FMW Stories Episode 1: The Creation of FMW - a new show I started going over specific FMW topics with stories attached to them with pictures and clips to go along with it. This episode covers the Creation of FMW with Atsushi Onita and how everything lead to the start of the first big time independent promotion in Japan.

Takeuchi is also the person to name it "Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling"

Arai actually had not been ring announcer (December 1993) for well over a year by the time Onita retired (May 1995). He was apart of the office and FMW videos have even credited him as Vice President before. Onita said he was going to retire and shut FMW down, but his step dad who owned a good portion of the company said it would be a bad look if he shut FMW down and everyone lost their jobs because of him. So he said okay, he would sell it to Hideki Takahashi who would go onto to become Super Battle FMW's president in 2015. Takahashi said no. Onita goes up to Arai and says "Arai, if you don't take it, FMW will shut down." with Arai agreeing not wanting to lose his job and everyone else's job. Where Onita did Arai dirty was "I will lend you money to buy all the stuff that comes with FMW so that you could buy it from me, then have to pay me back everything you borrowed from me as well." Possibly with interest, I don't remember that part. Onita wanted Arai to buy his FMW from him as well, but it was such in debt that Arai decided to just start up a new company for FMW even as Onita saw every chance he could get to try and make as much money from Arai when Onita like he had said had made millions, was taking all the money from the May 5, 1995 Kawasaki Stadium show, so that this new FMW would start in debt right away with money owed to Onita. Then when Onita came back in December 1996, even though he had made all that money off Arai for Arai to own FMW and make the decisions, Onita was acting like he was the owner again making all the decisions, but also not wanting to work a full schedule, not as over, taking a huge percentage of the gate when he wasn't helping the gate as much as the percentage he was taking and Arai allowed it to happen for two years to where the entire locker room wanted Onita out.

Yeah, the interview was originally suppose to air, but they let me know that they were going to cut me out of the episode prior to airing. They pretty much had Jericho be a celebrity fill in for me, which I get. Vice didn't really want to do the episode to begin with, not feeling it was mainstream enough, so they wanted to get it as much mainstream as possible, and me in the Meltzer role of the show is not mainstream at all. They said they wanted to show my stuff next year when they do a look back with Conrad, but we will see.

I was the creative consult for the episode. They came over and interviewed me for three hours. Evan wrote the questions, and I answered everything in great detail. 75% of the questions were about Onita with it FFing through Hayabusa and Arai and that's how the episode went. So in Evan's words "this was my story of FMW" it was just condensed to 45 minutes. I also got them Arai's daughter, Hayabusa's daughter, and Ricky for the interviews which I think helped the show. They had already interviewed Terry and Mick before me and my stuff was a year ago, so that's how I know the time frames. Good shows overall and I am glad it's getting mostly praise. Terry was great. Onita was Onita. He was saying stuff that wasn't true (he wanting to be a heel is bullshit), and the Arai stuff is tricky for him because that's like asking someone about your dead ex spouse that you were an asshole to, and as a result they were talking shit about you and exposing you for being that asshole to them to everyone before they died.

Terry was filmed in late summer 2020.

History of FMW Volume 50 going over the year 2020 with clips and pictures for the final timeline episode. Atsushi Onita works various outside death matches including returning to Kawasaki Stadium. Megumi Kudo works against Shark Tsuchiya one final time. Toru Sugiura continues his hot streak of main event matches in FREEDOMS and much more!

History of FMW Volume 49 going over the year 2019 with clips and pictures. Atsushi Onita ends up needing double knee reconstructive surgery and is back within 5 months including taking part in a new sub-promotion based around him. FREEDOMS gives Jun Kasai another run as King of Freedom World Champion as he has several great matches including with Toru Sugiura who looks to be the new ace of the promotion. Jun Kasai also visits GCW for the first time and GCW comes to Japan for the first time as well and much more.

History of FMW Volume 48 is up going over the year 2018 with clips. We go over Atsushi Onita coming out of retirement after a year and the storyline reason why as well as his return to CZW. Mr. Gannosuke retires again for good as he has a series of farewell matches against storied opponents. Masashi Takeda has a series of incredible matches while being both Big Japan and FREEDOMS champion culminating in two incredible matches with Jun Kasai and much more.