Very fun wrestling. Good matches. The highlights are: Megumi Kudo in a tag match, Miss Sato has a good match albeit short against Naori Yakayama, and Bad Nurse Nakamura takes on Yukari Ishakura.
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This is the 6th installment of TokyoPop's FMW DVD series. This one is special for a few reasons. One is this is the last volume featuring the hilarious Eric Gellar. No he's not doing any more FMW DVDs. It's also the last time you'll see the Snake Sisters. After this DVD they get all serious. No more jokes, no more witty banter, no more eye candy. To some this is a good thing. To me, not so much. The new guy that takes Eric's place, Dan Lovranski will make you miss Eric. He's not funny, though he tries to be at times, he's "world renowned" yet doesn't know everything he talks about. Just see my review for FMW's "The Flying Assasin" for more on this. This DVD also features the last match of Mr. Pogo. He has since come out of retirement (as 99% of all wrestlers do) but it's still his retirement match. All matches are from FMW's "Year End Sensation" from December 21, 1995. Gekkou vs. Gosaku Gosaku gets his butt kicked bad. Gekkou, as goofy as he looks, really takes it to Gosaku. One kick to the forehead and Gosaku is bleeding... bad! Brutal match!!! Sub Miss Sato vs. Kaori Nakayama Bad Nurse Nakamura vs. Yukari Ishikura Tetsuhiro Kuroda vs. Katsutoshi Niiyama Niiyama gets nowhere near the amount of credit he deserves. In this match he manhandles Kuroda. Kuroda at this time is still fairly green, and is a mid to lower card wrestler. Fans of FMW know that later on, Kuroda becomes a top star and even holds the belt on more than one occasion. Masato Tanaka vs. Mr. Pogo Tanaka was running his mouth, and by the end of this Deathmatch, probably wishes he'd kept it closed. This match is brutal. Pogo takes his famous sickle and just jams the point into Tanaka's skull. That's just one part of this match. Tanaka gets it really... REALLY bad in this match. Combat Toyoda & Bison Kimura vs. Megumi Kudo & Ajya (Women's Wrestling School, Class of 1986 Reunion Match) This is a good match, mostly because of Toyoda and Kudo in my opinion. Super Leather, Hosaka & Kanemura vs Jason the Terrible, Hido & Matsunaga (Caribbean Barbed Wire Spider Web, Double Hell Glass Crush Kenzan Deathmatch) W*ING members decide to show what the Deathmatch style is all about in an attempt to call out Hayabusa for a Deathmatch. W*ING feels that they, not Hayabusa have been chosen by Onita to carry on the name of FMW. As brutal and bloody as this match is, all participants, W*ING teammates, embrace eachother when it's all over. RESPECT!!! Bonus material for this (and pretty much all of this series) are a bonus match, Hayabusa featurette, Wrestler Bios, original Japanese audio and Spanish subtitles. Not much bonus material but you'll be buying the rest of this series for the matches!! More brutal Deathmatches, and fantastic WRESTLIING to come from TokyoPop's FMW: Hardcore Wrestling Made in Japan DVD series. If this review was helpful, insightful or informative, please rate it accordingly to help other eBay members see my review. Check my other reviews. I regularly review Pro Wrestling DVDs, so be sure to check!! Want me to review something? Let me know!!! Thanks everyone!!!Read full review
Early American introduction series of dvds about Japanese Hardcore wrestling. Very bloody!
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Classic matches from the original inventors of hardcore FMW Japan. Most of these matches seem second rate next to all the other vintage ECW and FMW footage, but these out-of-print classics still hold up better than the action we see on WWE and TNA broadcasts. Especially the art of hardcore matches, which are now a rarity to be seen. This tape gets three stars out of five.
IF YOU ENJOY HARDCORE WRESTLING THE OLD SCHOOL WAY,THEN THIS IS ENJOYABLE.BUT THE BEST MATCHS ON THIS DVD START ABOUT THE MIDDLE TO THE END. THE MATCHES ARE DIFFERENT TYPE AND STYLE COMPARED TO THE AMERICAN STYLE. I WOULD BUY IT AGAIN JUST FOR THE HECK OF IT!!.
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