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98-778: Professional wrestling tag team championship WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship Details Promotion Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (2000-2002) Big Japan Pro Wrestling (2002-2003) Kaientai Dojo (2005-2016) Date established April 25, 2000 Date retired December 2016 Statistics First champion(s) Hideki Hosaka and Yoshinori Sasaki Most reigns As tag team: Hideki Hosaka and Mammoth Sasaki , and Apple Miyuki and YOSHIYA (3 reigns) As individual: YOSHIYA (6 reigns) Longest reign Kunio Toshima and Yuma ( 3,146+ days) Shortest reign Randy Takuya and Saburo Inematsu (4 days) The WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship

196-652: A fan favorite underdog by teaming with Ryo Miyake against The Headhunters in a losing effort. Although he started in the undercard, he worked his way up the ladder in W*ING and quickly became one of the top stars of the company due to his willingness to take damage in deathmatches . On May 5, 1992, he defeated The Grappler in Osaka to lay claim to a version of the Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship , whose championship belt

294-664: A four-way match to win the vacant titles. 34 Nasu Banderas and Ricky Fuji May 3, 2014 GWSP4 Chiba, Japan 1 344 35 Ryuichi Sekine (3) and Saburo Inematsu (4) April 12, 2015 Evolution 13 Tokyo, Japan 1 203 This was a five-way match , also involving Daigoro Kashiwa and Teppei , Kunio Toshima and Yuma, and Jun Kasai and Kenji Fukimoto. — Vacated November 1, 2015 Club-K Super in Korakuen Hall Tokyo, Japan — — Saburo Inematsu vacated his half of

392-455: A handicap match with Power's Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship on the line. Takagi won the title and then Kanemura used the title's 24/7 rules and immediately defeated Takagi to win the title. The following week, on April 25, Kanemura teamed with Super Uchu Power to defend the title against Takagi and Takashi Sasaki in a match, during which Takagi pinned Kanemura to win the title. On May 16, Kanemura defeated GENTARO and Takashi Sasaki in

490-488: A six-man tag team match to earn a title shot at Hayabusa's WEW World Heavyweight Championship on August 11, where he defeated Hayabusa to win the title with help from Mammoth Sasaki. Kanemura lost the title back to Hayabusa in a rematch on September 5, but the FMW President Senmu Yoshida overturned the decision on September 9 by showing a video in which Hayabusa used a low blow on Kanemura to win

588-695: A three-way match to become the #1 contender for the KO-D Openweight Championship . At Max Bump , Kanemura defeated champion Sanshiro Takagi to win the KO-D Openweight Championship, also winning Takagi's Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship for the second time in the process. Kanemura lost the Ironman Heavymetalweight Championship six days later to Chocoball Mukai. Kanemura would then team with Futoshi Miwa to participate in

686-424: A No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Steel Cage Time Bomb Deathmatch at Fall Spectacular, which stipulated that if Onita lost, he would be forced to retire and if Kanemura lost then W*ING Alliance would be forced to disband. Kanemura lost the match due to his fractured foot, resulting in him being forced to disband W*ING Alliance. Atsushi Onita grew upset at Yukihiro Kanemura, Hideki Hosaka and Hido being worried due to

784-458: A Pro-Wrestling A-Tean (Apache Army's successor promotion) event. After this he would come back as a wrestler having matches with Combat Zone Wrestling , Big Japan Pro-Wrestling , World Wonder Ring Stardom and DDT Pro-Wrestling . In 2021, Onita announced that he would be starting Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling-Explosion , a promotion under the FMW name that specialized in exploding death matches,

882-472: A Western audience as FMW could now be seen officially on VHS and DVD in the United States . They would go on to release 12 programs which were old FMW cards shortened down to feature the best matches or they were compilations of specific talent like Hayabusa. They also featured dubbed commentary from Eric Gellar and John Watanabe. Later releases would feature Dan Lovranski replacing Eric Gellar. As

980-399: A changing of the guard as Onita would retire and Hayabusa would step up and be the face of FMW. Onita would go on and sell the company to FMW ring announcer, Shoichi Arai . The Shoichi Arai era of FMW would end up issuing changes to the promotion and gave the promotion a new look and feel. Arai would slowly phase out the deathmatches that Atsushi Onita would help popularize and what put

1078-635: A comedy feud with Hisakatsu Oya, which culminated in a ladder match between the two on July 23, which Oya won. Kanemura successfully defended the Hardcore Championship against Mike Samples on July 28. He then began a violent feud with Masato Tanaka, which culminated in a match between the two for Kanemura's Hardcore Championship at Deep Throat , which Kanemura won to retain the title. In 2001, Shin Fuyuki-Gun disbanded after Tetsuhiro Kuroda turned on Kodo Fuyuki to form Team Kuroda. After

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1176-653: A great chemistry and they became over with the fans due to their villainous antics and surpassed their leader Atsushi Onita to get heat from the audience. Friction arose between ZEN when Onita booked himself against Masato Tanaka in the main event of the first show of the Super Extreme Wrestling War on December 19, while Gannosuke and Kanemura felt that their defense of the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship against Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki deserved to be

1274-559: A group and became a serious threat to FMW and Lethal Weapon. At Year End Spectacular , the W*ING Alliance squared off against each other as the team of Super Leather, W*ING Kanemura and Hido lost to Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, Jason the Terrible and Hideki Hosaka in a W*ING Caribbean Barbed Wire Double Hell Glass Deathmatch. On February 23, W*ING alliance lost to the FMW team of Koji Nakagawa , Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in

1372-483: A homage to W*ING during his first match against Masato Tanaka , which Kanemura won. The following month, Kanemura took on Mr. Pogo in a Street Fight on June 25 to avenge the betrayal at 6th Anniversary Show, which he lost. In July, Kanemura participated in the Young Spirit Tournament , a tournament featuring the new generation of young wrestlers of FMW after the departure of Atsushi Onita. He made to

1470-434: A match type in which Onita became famous for. The new promotion will have Hidetaka Kajiki serving as president. Onita stated he got the idea for the promotion after All Elite Wrestling 's 2021 Revolution PPV in which the event held an exploding barbed wire death match and seeing that there was still a market for these types of matches internationally in the pro wrestling world and with the popularity of online media streaming

1568-446: A match. On October 28, Kanemura and Tanaka lost to Hayabusa and Matsunaga in a match and all four men formed an alliance to fight Lethal Weapon. Super Leather and Hido took exception to it and joined Lethal Weapon. However, it turned out to be a swerve as Matsunaga turned on Hayabusa during a match against Mr. Pogo and Super Leather of Lethal Weapon and then Super Leather and Hido turned on Lethal Weapon and W*ING Alliance reunited as

1666-766: A name for himself in FMW by rising from a mid-carder to one of FMW's top main eventers as a member of W*ING Alliance and Team No Respect . He was the first title holder of the Independent Heavyweight Championship and the Hardcore Championship . He became a three-time world champion in FMW, winning the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship once , the Independent Heavyweight Championship once and

1764-433: A name given to him by Shark Tsuchiya based on Korean wrestler Kintarō Ōki and was awarded the new Hardcore Championship by Kodo Fuyuki. He successfully defended the title against Extreme Championship Wrestling 's (ECW) Balls Mahoney at 10th Anniversary Show . Later at the event, Kodo Fuyuki lost a loser leaves FMW match to Masato Tanaka and Mr. Gannosuke left TNR to form a tag team with H , which left Kanemura as

1862-552: A nasty gash on his arm. Onita would take it one step further as he would go on to have the first ever exploding barbed wire match in August of 1990, as he challenged his rival, Tarzan Goto . As the years would progress further, we would see an influx of American & Foreign talent begin to appear in FMW with talent ranging from Chris Jericho , Lance Storm , The Original Sheik , Sabu , Damián 666 , Dr. Luther , Leon Spinks , Tiger Jeet Singh and so forth. During these years,

1960-438: A result, Jado and Gedo were awarded the win by forfeit and Kanemura was taken to hospital on a stretcher. Kanemura returned to W*ING on November 20 to show his burns to the crowd and Gedo and Hido tried to confront him until he chased them away with his umbrella. He made his in-ring return to W*ING on February 15 by defeating Hido in a Loser Leaves W*ING Street Fight , forcing Hido to leave W*ING. On March 13, Kanemura headlined

2058-610: A result, Kanemura began feuding with Roadblock and the two wrestled each other to a double disqualification on August 14. After coming up short in a title shot on September 27, Kanemura finally defeated Miguel Perez Jr. on December 18 to win the Caribbean Heavyweight Championship . On March 1, 1993, Kanemura wrestled Kevin Sullivan at a television taping for Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) in

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2156-538: A series of chain matches, until a dispute with bookers caused Kanemura to quit on August 31, 1994. Kanemura signed with FMW for a deal of a monthly salary of $ 10,000. He debuted in FMW on September 7, 1994, as a villain by attacking Atsushi Onita and joining Mr. Pogo 's group. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga would join Kanemura after a falling out with Onita, which was the genesis of the W*ING Alliance . The aim of

2254-413: A severe brain injury in a match against The Wifebeater , which put him out of action and Kanemura continued to compete in singles competition. Kanemura dropped the Hardcore Championship to Mammoth Sasaki on April 1. At 12th Anniversary Show , Kanemura defeated Sasaki to regain the title winning it for a third time. Kanemura successfully defended the title against Jun Kasai on May 22 and then retired

2352-624: A successful title defense against Azusa Kudo on February 11, Kanemura teamed with Ryuji Yamakawa on February 23 to defeat GOEMON and Onryo to win the Hardcore Tag Team Championship . Kanemura and Yamakawa successfully defended the title against Azusa Kudo and Mammoth Sasaki on March 5. On March 13, Kanemura lost to Tetsuhiro Kuroda in a #1 contender's match for the WEW World Heavyweight Championship . On March 18, Yamakawa suffered

2450-494: A successor promotion, Apache Pro-Wrestling Army , which continued the WEW titles until 2016 when Kanemura retired and closed the promotion. Today the WEW titles are administered by Tomohiko Hashimoto 's Pro-Wrestling A-Team promotion. On April 3, 2015, Hideki Takahashi, Hayabusa and Choden Senshi Battle Ranger held a press conference, announcing they were reviving FMW under the new name "Chō Sentō Puroresu FMW". Takahashi would serve as

2548-621: A tournament for the vacant WEW World Tag Team Championship , defeating Balls Mahoney and Horace Boulder in the quarter-final and Super Crazy and Crazy Boy in the semi-final before losing to Mr. Gannosuke and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in the final. On January 6, 2002, Kanemura lost the WEW World Heavyweight Championship to Kodo Fuyuki. The following month, on February 4, the team of Kanemura, GOEMON and Mammoth Sasaki defeated Vic Grimes , Paul LeDuc and Mitsunobu Kikuzawa . This would turn out to be FMW's last show as

2646-549: A tumor in December 2015. She would succumb to the disease in 2018, she was 36 years old. On March 3, 2016, Haybusa would pass away at his home from a brain aneurysm, he was 47 years old. On October 31, 2017, FMW founder Atsushi Onita retired after 43 years in the ring. The promotion held its most recent event as Chō Sentō Puroresu FMW in 2018. Although not officially closing once again the revival seemed to have been forgotten about. In 2018, Onita would come out of retirement at

2744-660: Is Kim Hyeong-ho ( Korean : 김행호 ), but he has used a Japanese name in and outside of the ring. However, his best known pseudonym reflected his background, as the forename was a reference to South Korean professional wrestler Kintarō Ōki . He also had a short-lived marriage to Shiho Tsubaki of All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling (AJW), having first met each other when she was touring with W*ING. Yukihiro Kanemura made his debut in December 1990 for Pioneer Senshi, against Akitoshi Saito , who also debuted. Within months, Pioneer Senshi folded. Kanemura made his debut for Wrestling International New Generations (W*ING) on August 7, 1991, as

2842-537: Is a Zainichi Korean retired professional wrestler . He also wrestled under the ring name Wing Kanemura ( ウイング金村 , Uingu Kanemura ) (stylized as W*ING Kanemura ). He is best known for his death matches in Apache Army , Big Japan Pro Wrestling (BJW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), International Wrestling Association (IWA) and Wrestling International New Generations (W*ING). After beginning his career in

2940-526: The Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship . The impact of ZEN's dominance led Oya, Gannosuke and The Gladiator to end Funk Masters of Wrestling and jump ship to ZEN. The following month, Onita and Kanemura vacated the tag team titles due to Onita's inactivity. On November 28, Kanemura teamed with Mr. Gannosuke to defeat Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka for the vacant Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. Gannosuke and Kanemura had

3038-634: The Harder than Hardcore IV tour. He successfully defended the title against Abdullah Kobayashi in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Deathmatch on June 1, before dropping the title to Ryuji Ito in a steel cage match on August 24. Kanemura continued to compete as WEW's top wrestler until the promotion closed in 2003 due to the death of its owner Kodo Fuyuki and the promotion was changed into Fuyuki Army. Kanemura would then also begin making appearances for Hayabusa 's Wrestlings Marvelous Future (WMF) promotion, where he debuted at Marvelous Days 3rd event on July 25 as

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3136-1202: The Strongest-K Tag Team Championship from Daigoro Kashiwa and Kengo Mashimo on April 2, 2010 at Super Evolution 8 in Tokyo. 26 Kengo Mashimo and Ryuichi Sekine March 20, 2011 Club-K Super It's Gonna Be... Chiba, Japan 1 42 27 Randy Takuya and Saburo Inematsu (3) May 1, 2011 GWSP6 Chiba, Japan 1 4 28 Kengo Mashimo and Ryuichi Sekine May 5, 2011 GWSP6 FINAL CLUB-K SUPER Necessary... Chiba, Japan 2 175 29 Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki (4) October 27, 2011 FREEDOMS Tokyo, Japan 1 74 30 The Brahman Brothers (Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei) January 9, 2012 FREEDOMS Tokyo, Japan 2 33 31 Kamui (2) and Mammoth Sasaki (5) February 11, 2012 FREEDOMS Osaka, Japan 2 138 — Vacated June 28, 2012 FREEDOMS Tokyo, Japan — — Sasaki vacated

3234-535: The United States , which Kanemura won by disqualification after Sullivan bladed Kanemura's arm with a spike; the incident was censored on national television in America. The injury required Kanemura to get fifty-eight stitches. On April 3, he teamed up with Mitsuhiro Matsunaga to win the World Tag Team Championship , defeating Freddy Krueger and Leatherface . However, Matsunaga vacated

3332-510: The WEW World Heavyweight Championship once . After FMW folded down, Kanemura became a freelancer in the independent circuit and founded his own promotion, Apache Army, an offshoot of FMW, which ended with Kanemura's retirement in 2016. Other major titles won by Kanemura were the BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship and the KO-D Openweight Championship . Kanemura is of Korean descent. His Korean name

3430-587: The World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship after Nakagawa apparently suffered a shoulder injury, forcing ZEN to disband as a result of the pre-match stipulation. Later that month, Fuyuki and Kanemura formed a tag team called The New Footloose , a spin-off of Fuyuki's old tag team with Toshiaki Kawada called Footloose in All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW). On May 27, New Footloose defeated Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka to win

3528-413: The booker , he would put forth his vision on how FMW should be run as Arai would sign the checks and book the arenas for the promotion. During this time, Onita would return to professional wrestling and start a faction that would rival FMW and they were known simply as ZEN . This group was loosely based on World Championship Wrestling 's group known as The New World Order . Onita would run shows under

3626-579: The 2002 KO-D Tag League, in which the two managed to score eight points. Kanemura lost the KO-D Openweight Championship back to Sanshiro Takagi on September 7. Kanemura would frequently make appearances in Pro Wrestling Zero-One as part of a working partnership between WEW and Zero-One, participating in Zero-One's Fire Festival , where he won only one match in his block against Taka Michinoku . Kanemura defeated Tetsuhiro Kuroda to win

3724-596: The Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship to Hayabusa at the Hayabusa Graduation Ceremony pay-per-view on August 23. Two days later, Kanemura unsuccessfully challenged Masato Tanaka for the Independent Heavyweight Championship at Last Match , which would turn out to be the last match of the title as it would be retired after the event. On September 20, Kanemura changed his ring name to Kintaro Kanemura ,

3822-548: The Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. At 8th Anniversary Show , the team of Onita, Masato Tanaka and W*ING Kanemura defeated the team of Cactus Jack, The Gladiator and Terry Funk in a Texas Tornado Street Fight Deathmatch when Kanemura pinned Gladiator. On May 25, Kanemura earned the right to face Onita in the main event of Fall Spectacular , after Onita, Kanemura and Hido defeated Koji Nakagawa, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda when Onita pinned Tanaka. However, Tanaka begged Onita and Kanemura to give him one more chance and

3920-599: The Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. In June, TNR vacated the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship, only to regain it as Fuyuki, Kanemura and new member Koji Nakagawa defeated Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka and Hisakatsu Oya to win the title. On June 26, Kanemura unsuccessfully challenged Hayabusa for the Double Championship. TNR grew in power and began influencing FMW and feuded with Atsushi Onita's ZEN and Hayabusa's Team Phoenix throughout

4018-517: The Caribbean Heavyweight Championship to Jado . On October 19, Kanemura and Shoji Nakamaki lost to Jado and Gedo in a falls count anywhere match . At Odawara Brazing Night , Kanemura and Nakamaki lost to Jado and Gedo in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Scramble Fire Deathmatch, when Jado executed a Powerbomb on Kanemura into the fire with Hido 's help, burning 75 percent of his skin tissue off his back and shoulder. As

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4116-439: The Double Championship into Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship and the Independent Heavyweight Championship and awarded the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship to Kanemura. Kanemura would then team with Mr. Gannosuke and Jado to participate in a tournament for the newly created WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship , where they lost to Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in the semi-final on July 31 . Kanemura lost

4214-579: The Hardcore Championship to Yamakawa at a BJW event. Kanemura then wrestled for ECW, where he lost to Balls Mahoney at Living Dangerously . At FMW 11th Anniversary Show , Kanemura defeated Ryuji Yamakawa to win his second Hardcore Championship. On June 16, Kanemura disbanded Team No Respect to join Kodo Fuyuki's Shin Fuyuki-Gun , thus turning into a villain and teamed with Hideki Hosaka and Yoshinori Sasaki to defeat Tetsuhiro Kuroda , Hisakatsu Oya and Flying Kid Ichihara. He would be involved in

4312-607: The Japanese independent circuit in 1990, Kanemura joined W*ING in 1991 where he got his first mainstream exposure in professional wrestling and became skilled in deathmatch wrestling style as he participated in many notable deathmatches in the promotion, becoming one of the top stars of W*ING and became a one-time Caribbean Heavyweight Champion , one-time Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Champion and one-time World Tag Team Champion . He then worked briefly for IWA Japan after W*ING folded in 1994 before ultimately joining FMW. He made

4410-427: The Terrible to defeat Hisakatsu Oya and The Gladiator . After the match, Kanemura was attacked by Gladiator, setting up a title unification match between the two at Year End Spectacular , where Gladiator's Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship would also be on the line. After successfully defending the Independent Heavyweight Championship against Hisakatsu Oya in his first title defense on October 26, Kanemura lost

4508-498: The Top Tournament to determine the #1 contender for the Double Championship. He defeated Hideki Hosaka in the opening round before losing to eventual winner Mr. Gannosuke in the quarter-final round. In early 1999, Kanemura teamed with Hido to participate in a tournament for the vacant Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship and they were eliminated from the tournament losing all of the matches. On May 18, Kodo Fuyuki separated

4606-519: The ZEN label and these shows would feature FMW talent. Hayabusa would continue to be featured as the ace of FMW and would go on to feud with the likes of Mr. Gannosuke , Kintaro Kanemura , and, Tetsuhiro Kuroda . As the booker of FMW, Kodo Fuyuki also continued to wrestle and he would go on to help form the top heel faction known as Team No Respect . In 2000, FMW would sign a distribution deal with Tokyopop which would help get their product out to

4704-639: The company on the map and would bring in a more "sports entertainment" look and feel for the promotion that would be almost similar to that of the WWE . In a nod to the WWE, the old Brass Knuckles and Independent championships were abandoned and replaced with new titles, the World Entertainment Wrestling (WEW) championships. Arai would enlist the help of professional wrestler , Kodo Fuyuki as both men would usher in this new era. Having Fuyuki as

4802-511: The crowds continued to decrease, the amount of debt became too much for Arai, as he finally decided to announce that he has filed for bankruptcy and FMW would go on to have their final show on February 4, 2002. As 2001 came to a close, it was stated that Arai owed the sum of what would be the equivalent of one million US dollars to yakuza due to the money he would constantly borrow but never pay back. Running out of options, on May 16, 2002, Shoichi Arai would commit suicide so his family could collect

4900-8089: The current champion Rank Wrestler No. of reigns Combined days 1 YOSHIYA 6 744 2 Saburo Inematsu 4 638 3 Shiori Asahi 2 487 Makoto Oishi 2 487 5 Apple Miyuki 3 412 6 Ryuichi Sekine 4 385 7 Mammoth/Yoshinori Sasaki 5 380 8 Yuji Hino 1 368 9 Brahman Kei 2 345 Brahman Shu 2 345 11 Ricky Fuji 1 344 Nasu Banderas 1 344 13 Kintaro Kanemura 1 282 Ryuji Yamakawa 1 282 15 Kengo Mashimo 3 242 16 Kunio Toshima 1 228-258 Yuma 1 228-258 18 Kamui 2 212 19 Hideki Hosaka 3 168 Kotaro Nasu 1 168 21 Hido 1 156 22 Hardcore Kid Kojiro 1 151 23 Bambi 1 118 Makoto 1 118 25 Daisuke Sekimoto 1 75 Men's Teioh 1 75 27 Jun Kasai 1 72 The W*INGer 1 72 29 PSYCHO 1 63 30 GOEMON 1 47 Onryo 1 47 32 Eddie Fatu 1 37 Matty Samu 1 37 34 Taka Michinoku 1 34 TOMO Michinoku 1 34 36 Homeless Jimmy 1 33 Supreme 1 33 38 Ryuji Ito 1 30 Daisaku Shimoda 1 30 40 Mike Lee, Jr. 1 28 Mr. X 1 28 42 Boso Boy Raito 1 20 Boso Boy Left 1 20 44 Gedo 1 19 Jado 1 19 46 Abdullah Kobayashi 1 7 Daikokubo Benkei 1 7 48 Randy Takuya 1 4 See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Japan portal Strongest-K Tag Team Championship References [ edit ] ^ Tanabe, Hisaharu. "W.E.W. Hardcore Tag Team Title" . Wrestling-Titles.com . Retrieved September 10, 2007 . ^ "WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship" (in German). Cagematch . Retrieved April 2, 2010 . ^ "FMW Night in Shibuya Backdraft Eve" (in German). Cagematch . Retrieved April 2, 2010 . ^ "FMW King of Fight 2000: Day 1" (in German). Cagematch . Retrieved April 2, 2010 . ^ "FMW King of Fight 2000 II: Day 9" (in German). Cagematch . Retrieved April 2, 2010 . ^ "FMW Flashover 2000: Day 6" (in German). Cagematch . Retrieved April 2, 2010 . ^ "FMW Power Splash 2000: Day 4" (in German). Cagematch . Retrieved April 2, 2010 . ^ "FMW Deep Throat" (in German). Cagematch . Retrieved April 2, 2010 . ^ "FMW New Year Generation 2001: Day 1" (in German). Cagematch . Retrieved April 2, 2010 . ^ "FMW Cluster Battle 2001: Day 10" (in German). Cagematch . Retrieved April 2, 2010 . ^ "WEW April 29, 2003" (in German). Cagematch . Retrieved April 2, 2010 . ^ "K-Dojo Club-K Super Another in Osaka" (in German). Cagematch . 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4998-637: The end of W*ING Alliance and no group would accept them in FMW. This led Onita to denounce himself as a FMW wrestler and take the former W*ING Alliance members and FMW's young rising star Tetsuhiro Kuroda under his wing to form a new nWo -themed group named ZEN at a press conference on September 30, 1997. The group emerged as the top villainous faction in FMW. On October 14, Kanemura reverted to using his previous ring name Yukihiro Kanemura as he and Hideki Hosaka defeated Super Leather and The Gladiator . On October 19, Onita and Kanemura defeated Funk Masters of Wrestling's Hisakatsu Oya and Mr. Gannosuke to win

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5096-434: The event and Kanemura became the main focus of the group and began rising in popularity in FMW. Kanemura participated in a tournament for the new Independent Heavyweight Championship , defeating Koji Nakagawa in the quarter-final and Super Leather in the semi-final, a Caribbean Barbed Wire Deathmatch to advance to the final round to determine the first champion at Summer Spectacular , where he defeated Masato Tanaka to win

5194-580: The finals of the tournament, where he lost to Masato Tanaka on July 30, but reaching in the finals earned both men place in the Grand Slam Tournament for the vacant Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship . Kanemura was eliminated from the tournament and scored only two points as his only win in the tournament came against Masato Tanaka on September 5. W*ING briefly turned fan favorites by siding with FMW after Mitsuhiro Matsunaga showed respect to Hayabusa after Hayabusa defeated Matsunaga in

5292-724: The first-ever WarGames match in FMW, which ended FMW's feud with W*ING as Víctor Quiñones returned to FMW and introduced Puerto Rican Army to attack FMW and W*ING. As a result, W*ING reverted to fan favorites. At 7th Anniversary Show , Kanemura replaced Mitsuhiro Matsunaga and challenged Cactus Jack for the IWA King of the Deathmatch Championship in a Caribbean Barbed Wire Barricade Spider Net Glass Deathmatch, which Kanemura ended up losing. The match raised Kanemura's stock and enabled him to shine as W*ING's standout performer as Mitsuhiro Matsunaga would leave FMW after

5390-464: The group was to end FMW as they held Onita and FMW responsible for ending W*ING. On September 25, Kanemura made his in-ring debut for FMW by teaming with Matsunaga against Hisakatsu Oya and Tarzan Goto in an exploding barbed wire dynamite pool elimination match , which ended in a no contest after Oya turned on Goto to join W*ING Alliance. W*ING and FMW battled each other in many matches between late 1994 and early 1995 and W*ING established itself as

5488-453: The inaugural champions. 2 The Samoans ( Eddie Fatu and Matty Samu ) June 21, 2000 King of Fight 2000 tour Tokyo, Japan 1 37 3 Hideki Hosaka (2) and Yoshinori Sasaki (2) July 28, 2000 King of Fight 2000 II tour Tokyo, Japan 2 55 4 Gedo and Jado September 21, 2000 Flashover tour Sapporo, Japan 1 19 This

5586-477: The leader of Team No Respect and the group turned fan favorites. On December 11, Kanemura successfully defended the Hardcore Championship against Mahoney's tag team partner Axl Rotten . The following night, TNR defeated ECW's Balls Mahoney, Axl Rotten, Super Crazy and Yoshihiro Tajiri . In 2000, Kanemura began an angle with Big Japan Pro Wrestling 's (BJW) Ryuji Yamakawa , resulting in an interpromotional feud between BJW and FMW. On February 23, Kanemura lost

5684-421: The leader. On January 16, Gannosuke, Kanemura and Jado defeated Hayabusa, Hisakatsu Oya and Masato Tanaka to win the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship . They lost the title to Atsushi Onita, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda on February 13. The following month, Kanemura participated in a tournament to determine the #1 contender for Mr. Gannosuke's Double Championship, defeating Koji Nakagawa in

5782-418: The life insurance to pay back the money owed to the yakuza. The talent divided into two promotions: Kodo Fuyuki's World Entertainment Wrestling (WEW), the name of FMW's title governing body since 1999, and Mr. Gannosuke 's Wrestlings Marvelous Future (WMF). Some of the talent also made appearances on Onita's special shows. Following Fuyuki's death in 2003, most of the WEW talent under Kintaro Kanemura formed

5880-399: The main event match. Gannosuke and Kanemura retained the titles against Hayabusa and Shinzaki and confronted Onita on his ego and selfishness. On December 22, Gannosuke, Kanemura and Onita lost to Hayabusa, Jinsei Shinzaki and Masato Tanaka in a Barbed Wire Baseball Bat Ladder WarGames match and Gannosuke and Kanemura turned on Onita by attacking him after the match until Koji Nakagawa made

5978-2235: The new champions. 37 Magatsuki (Kunio Toshima and Yuma) April 17, 2016 Club-K Super Evolution Tokyo, Japan 1 228 — Vacated December 2016 — — — — Toshima and Yuma split and Yuma leaves Magatsuki. Combined reigns [ edit ] † Indicates the current champion Rank Team No. of reigns Combined days 1 Shiori Asahi and Makoto Oishi 2 487 2 Apple Miyuki and YOSHIYA 3 412 3 Yuji Hino and Saburo Inematsu 1 368 4 The Brahman Brothers (Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei) 2 345 5 Nasu Banderas and Ricky Fuji 1 344 6 Kintaro Kanemura and Ryuji Yamakawa 1 282 7 Magatsuki † (Kunio Toshima and Yuma) 1 228-258 8 Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki 2 212 9 Kengo Mashimo and Ryuichi Sekine 2 211 10 Ryuichi Sekine and Saburo Inematsu 1 203 11 Hideki Hosaka (3) and Mammoth Sasaki 3 168 Kotaro Nasu and Ryuichi Sekine 1 168 13 Hido and YOSHIYA 1 156 14 Hardcore Kid Kojiro and YOSHIYA 1 151 15 Bambi and Makoto 1 118 16 Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh 1 75 17 Kamui and Mammoth Sasaki 1 74 18 Jun Kasai and The W*INGer 1 72 19 Saburo Inematsu and PSYCHO 1 63 20 GOEMON and Onryo 1 47 21 The Samoans ( Eddie Fatu and Matty Samu ) 1 37 22 Taka Michinoku and TOMO Michinoku 1 34 23 Homeless Jimmy and Supreme 1 33 24 Ryuji Ito and Daisaku Shimoda 1 30 25 Mike Lee, Jr. and Mr. X 1 28 26 Kengo Mashimo and YOSHIYA 1 25 27 Boso Boy Raito and Boso Boy Left 1 20 28 Gedo and Jado 1 19 29 Daikokubo Benkei and Abdullah Kobayashi 1 7 30 Randy Takuya and Saburo Inematsu 1 4 By wrestler [ edit ] † Indicates

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6076-456: The new promotion was formed. The promotion, however, held its last card to date on December 19, 2021, after which Onita went freelance yet again. In October 2022, FMW-E started back up promoting cards. Deceased individuals are indicated with a dagger (†). Kintaro Kanemura Yukihiro Kanemura ( 金村 珩皓 , Kanemura Yukihiro , born August 9, 1970) , better known by his ring name Kintaro Kanemura ( 金村 キンタロー , Kanemura Kintarō ) ,

6174-596: The president and Hayabusa as the executive producer of the promotion, which would also feature participation from Atsushi Onita. The promotion held its first event on April 21. On October 30, 2015, they announced that they were reviving the FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship , as they set a match to determine new champions on December 22. In 2016, two tragedies had befallen FMW. On February 17, 2016, Ray would announce that she had inoperable stage three brain cancer after being diagnosed with

6272-736: The promotion closed on February 15 due to bankruptcy. After FMW's demise, Kanemura joined Kodo Fuyuki's World Entertainment Wrestling (WEW), which lasted until 2004. Kanemura's home promotion was WEW but he became a freelancer and wrestled on many independent promotions in Japan. Kanemura had begun wrestling for several promotions in 2000 to make more money while also competing for FMW. Kanemura had begun making appearances for Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) in 2001 and began feuding with DDT's top star Sanshiro Takagi in 2002. On April 18, Kanemura teamed with Super Uchu Power , Chocoball Mukai and Futoshi Miwa to take on Takagi, Takashi Sasaki and Tanomusako Toba in

6370-401: The promotion for his high flying style and it was known that Hayabusa was the "ace" of FMW. Onita was fixing to retire once again from professional wrestling and his retirement match was held at the annual May 5th, Kawasaki Stadium show. This was FMW's biggest show of the year and Onita would take on Hayabusa in an exploding barbed wire cage, timebomb deathmatch. This match now signified

6468-535: The promotion's closure). On June 4, Kanemura teamed with Mitsuteru Tukoda against The Headhunters in a steel cage match , which Kanemura lost after suffering an injury which put him out of action for two months. Kanemura returned to W*ING at One Night One Soul on August 2, where he teamed with Tokuda to defeat Super Invader and The Masked Inferno in a hair vs. mask barbed wire barricade match when Kanemura pinned Masked Inferno, forcing Inferno to take off his mask and begin competing as Rochester Roadblock. As

6566-511: The quarter-final before losing to The Gladiator in the semi-final. Kanemura would wrestle the departing Jinsei Shinzaki in Shinzaki's last FMW match at the company's first pay-per-view event 9th Anniversary Show , which Kanemura lost. After the event, Kodo Fuyuki took over as the leader of Team No Respect due to Mr. Gannosuke being injured. On May 5, Fuyuki, Kanemura and Hido defeated Atsushi Onita, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to win

6664-490: The reinstated WEW World Heavyweight Championship on a WEW television show which aired on September 3. On March 3, 2003, the team of Kanemura and Kuroda defeated Gentaro and Takashi Sasaki to win the WEW World Tag Team Championship . Later that month, Kanemura defeated Shadow WX in a Lighttubes and Glass Deathmatch to win the vacant BJW Deathmatch Heavyweight Championship on March 30 during

6762-424: The request was accepted with Kanemura defeating Tanaka in a No Rope Barbed Wire Deathmatch at Shiodome Legend to earn the right to face Onita in the main event of Fall Spectacular. On August 21, Kanemura and Hido lost the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship to Mr. Gannosuke and Hisakatsu Oya. Shortly after the title loss, Kanemura fractured his foot but still competed in his scheduled match against Atsushi Onita in

6860-590: The returning Ryuji Yamakawa to defend the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship at a BJW event against Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh in a title vs. title match with Sekimoto and Teioh's BJW Tag Team Championship also being defended. Kanemura and Yamakawa lost the match and the titles. On December 9, FMW's team of Kuroda, Gannosuke, Kanemura and Sasaki defeated WAR's team of Fuyuki, Tenryu, Arashi and Koki Kitahara . On December 23, Kanemura teamed with Sasaki and participated in

6958-414: The save for Onita. The duo, along with Hido left ZEN. On January 7, 1998, the trio took on Atsushi Onita, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda in the main event of the first ZEN-promoted show. Kanemura's team lost but attacked their opponents after the match and were joined by Fuyuki-Gun in the assault, leading to the two groups merging to form a new alliance called Team No Respect , with Mr. Gannosuke as

7056-542: The show by teaming with Shoji Nakamaki against Kendo Nagasaki and Nobutaka Araya in a Ring Filled with Cream tornado tag team match , which Kanemura's team lost. This would turn out to be W*ING's last show as the promotion closed due to financial loss on March 21. After W*ING folded, Kanemura joined the upstart International Wrestling Association of Japan (IWA), defeating The Winger in IWA Japan's debut show on May 21, 1994. While there, he feuded with Shoji Nakamaki in

7154-697: The specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different Days Number of days held <1 Reign lasted less than a day + Current reign is changing daily No. Champion Championship change Reign statistics Notes Ref. Date Event Location Reign Days Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling 1 Hideki Hosaka and Yoshinori Sasaki April 25, 2000 Night in Shibuya Backdraft Eve Tokyo, Japan 1 57 Defeated Kintaro Kanemura and Willie Takayama to become

7252-448: The tag team partner of Mammoth Sasaki and Tetsuhiro Kuroda against Mr. Gannosuke, Mr. Iwaonosuke and Mr. Rocknosuke, which Kanemura's team won. On August 25, Kanemura defeated Mr. Gannosuke in a match and after the match, Kanemura formed a stable with several former FMW wrestlers called Apache Army. The stable would include Gannosuke, Taka Michinoku, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, GOEMON , GENTARO , Hido , Go Ito and Takashi Sasaki. On October 2,

7350-585: The team of 2 Tuff Tony , Kintaro Kanemura and Mad Man Pondo defeated Gosaku Goshogawara, Taka Michinoku and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to win the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship . A week later, Kanemura and Kuroda won the All Asia Tag Team Championship by defeating Hirotaka Yokoi and Kohei Sato . On December 5, Kanemura was scheduled to team with Mr. Gannosuke and Tetsuhiro Kuroda against Shinjiro Otani , Masato Tanaka and Tatsuhito Takaiwa but

7448-609: The team of Daisuke Sekimoto and Ryuji Ito in a hardcore rules match . On August 19, Kanemura and Hido defeated Tomohiro Ishii and Kendo Kashin to win the WMG Tag Team Championship at a Riki Pro show. On August 28, Kanemura started a promotion Apache Pro-Wrestling Army , which grew out of their stable. Things were going well for Kanemura until February 2008, when a sexual harassment scandal cost him several bookings from other promotions. On November 15, 2015, Kanemura announced that he plans on retiring from

7546-443: The title afterwards. On June 8, Kanemura affiliated with Kodo Fuyuki, who owned 48% of the company's shares and wanted to sale it to Stuart Levy's Tokyopop . Kanemura would then feud with Hayabusa and Shoichi Arai's FMW team. On July 30, Kanemura, Mr. Gannosuke and Kodo Fuyuki defeated the team of Flying Kid Ichihara, Hisakatsu Oya and Ricky Fuji to win the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship . On August 3, Kanemura pinned Hayabusa in

7644-575: The title and returned the title to Kanemura. Later at the event, the team of Kintaro Kanemura, Kodo Fuyuki and Mr. Gannosuke lost the WEW 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Hayabusa, GOEMON and Tetsuhiro Kuroda. On November 23, Kanemura successfully defended the WEW World Heavyweight Championship against The Great Sasuke . Later that night, Kanemura turned fan favorite by siding with Mr. Gannosuke, Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Mammoth Sasaki to feud with Kodo Fuyuki, who had turned on FMW to ally with Genichiro Tenryu 's WAR alliance. On December 2, Kanemura teamed with

7742-659: The title due to a neck injury. 32 Kengo Mashimo (3) and YOSHIYA (6) September 19, 2012 Club-K Super in Shinjuku Face Tokyo, Japan 1 25 — Vacated October 14, 2012 — — — — The titles were vacated due to YOSHIYA retiring from professional wrestling . 33 Bambi and Makoto January 5, 2014 Shinshun Tatakai Hajime 2014 Chiba, Japan 1 118 Defeated Kaji Tomato and Yuki Sato , Kengo Mashimo and Saburo Inematsu, and Daigoro Kashiwa and Ricky Fuji in

7840-585: The title for not defending the title for nearly a year. 20 Apple Miyuki (3) and YOSHIYA (4) April 13, 2008 Club-K Super Evolution 7 Tokyo, Japan 3 154 Lastly eliminated Shiori Asahi and Makoto Oishi in a seven-team battle royal to win the vacant titles. 21 Boso Boy Raito and Boso Boy Left September 14, 2008 Club-K Super Downtown Tokyo, Japan 1 20 22 Saburo Inematsu and PSYCHO October 4, 2008 Club-K Super Outbreak Chiba, Japan 1 63 This

7938-641: The title only six days later to wrestle Leatherface. Kanemura continued his feud with Sullivan to avenge the attack in SMW and the two battled each other to no contest at Dog in the Box on May 27. The two had another rematch at Hollywood Nightmare , which again ended in a no contest. Kanemura became W*ING's top fan favorite after Mitsuhiro Matsunaga left the company to join Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). On September 26, Kanemura lost

8036-551: The title to Gladiator in the title unification match at Year End Spectacular. This led to the unification of the Independent Heavyweight Championship and the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship which would be collectively defended as the FMW Double Championship. In 1997, W*ING Alliance joined forces with the returning Atsushi Onita to feud with Funk Masters of Wrestling. On April 25, Kanemura and Hido defeated The Headhunters to end their year-long reign to win

8134-460: The title under unknown circumstances. 36 Kotaro Nasu and Ryuichi Sekine (4) November 1, 2015 Club-K Super in Korakuen Hall Tokyo, Japan 1 168 This was a seven-team hardcore rumble , where Nasu and Sekine defeated Saburo Inematsu and Alexander Otsuka , Ayumu Honda and Tiran Shi Sha, Yuma and Douki , Yoshiaki Yasato and Yoshihiro Douguchi, Ricky Fuji and Men's Teioh , Hi69 and Toru Sugiura to become

8232-577: The top villainous group . On March 7, 1995, Kanemura won his first title in FMW as he and Mr. Pogo defeated Atsushi Onita and Mr. Gannosuke to win the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship . They lost the title to Hisakatsu Oya and Ricky Fuji at the 6th Anniversary Show after a miscommunication took place between Kanemura and Pogo. This led Pogo to blow fire on Kanemura after the match to turn on W*ING and join Lethal Weapon. On May 17, Kanemura changed his ring name to W*ING Kanemura as

8330-403: The tournament and become the inaugural Independent Heavyweight Champion. On September 1, the FMW team of Koji Nakagawa, Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda took on Kanemura, Hido and Hideki Hosaka in a no rope barbed wire double hell deathmatch, during which Kanemura injured his ear after Nakagawa threw him into the exploding barbed wire. Kanemura returned to FMW on October 12 by teaming with Jason

8428-722: The vacant titles. — Vacated June 1, 2002 — — — — The titles were vacated after Kasai left Big Japan Pro Wrestling . 11 Daikokubo Benkei and Abdullah Kobayashi March 23, 2003 Live event Osaka, Japan 1 7 Defeated Mad Man Pondo and Shadow WX to win the vacant titles. 12 Ryuji Ito and Daisaku Shimoda March 30, 2003 Live event Kanagawa, Japan 1 30 13 Hido and YOSHIYA April 29, 2003 Live event Tokyo, Japan 1 156 — Vacated October 2, 2003 Fuyuki Army live event Takaoka, Japan — — The title

8526-399: The year. On October 26, New Footloose lost the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship to Hayabusa and Daisuke Ikeda . On November 20, FMW President Shoichi Arai stripped TNR of the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship and awarded the titles to the departing Atsushi Onita as a reward for founding FMW and making it a successful promotion. In December, Kanemura participated in an Over

8624-430: The years progressed with FMW, Onita decided to phase out the martial arts aspect of the company and focus strictly on professional wrestling . Onita would go on to have violent and bloody matches like the first ever barbed wire match in the company where he would team with Tarzan Goto as they took on the team of Mitsuhiro Matsunaga and Jerry Flynn . Onita would use real barbed wire which resulted in him receiving

8722-423: The years progressed, the audiences for the live shows began to decrease and Arai would slowly sink further and further into debt. Tragedy struck the promotion on October 22, 2001, during a match with Hayabusa and Mammoth Sasaki. Hayabusa attempted a springboard moonsault —one of his signature moves—but he accidentally slipped on the ropes and fell directly on his neck, breaking it and paralyzing him. As

8820-459: The young Eiji Ezaki started to slowly work his way through the ranks. He was known as a prodigy in the world of wrestling and like a-lot of promotions in Japan do, send him on excursion away from the company as they will learn and develop. Ezaki would go on excursion to Mexico and wrestle for a couple of different promotions and developed the character of Hayabusa . Hayabusa became a fan favorite in

8918-621: Was a tag team hardcore wrestling championship contested in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling from April 2000 until FMW closed in February 2002. The title was picked up by Big Japan Pro Wrestling that same month, and remained in that promotion until late 2005, when it moved to Kaientai Dojo until 2016. There have been a total of 37 reigns and seven vacancies shared between 30 different teams consisting of 48 distinctive champions. Title history [ edit ] Key No. Overall reign number Reign Reign number for

9016-817: Was a three-way ladder match , also involving Kintaro Kanemura and Ryuji Yamakawa . 5 Homeless Jimmy and Supreme October 10, 2000 Power Splash tour Fukuoka, Japan 1 33 6 Hideki Hosaka (3) and Mammoth Sasaki (3) November 12, 2000 Deep Throat Yokohama, Japan 3 56 Sasaki formerly held the title as Yoshinori Sasaki. 7 GOEMON and Onryo January 7, 2001 New Year Generation tour Tokyo, Japan 1 47 8 Kintaro Kanemura and Ryuji Yamakawa February 23, 2001 Cluster Battle tour Tokyo, Japan 1 282 9 Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh December 2, 2001 Ante Up Yokohama, Japan 1 75 This

9114-501: Was a three-way match also involving KAZMA and MIYAWAKI . 23 Hardcore Kid Kojiro and YOSHIYA (5) December 6, 2008 Club-K Overthrow Chiba, Japan 1 151 24 The Brahman Brothers (Brahman Shu and Brahman Kei) May 6, 2009 Club-K Super Necessary... Chiba, Japan 1 315 25 Yuji Hino and Saburo Inematsu (2) March 17, 2010 Club-K Shinkiba Tokyo, Japan 1 368 Also won

9212-569: Was a title vs. title match with Sekimoto and Teioh 's BJW Tag Team Championship also on the line. — Vacated February 15, 2002 — — — — Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling officially closed on February 15, 2002 after holding its final event eleven days earlier. The title then moved to Big Japan Pro Wrestling . Big Japan Pro Wrestling 10 Jun Kasai and The W*INGer March 21, 2002 Live event Nagoya, Japan 1 72 Defeated Daisuke Sekimoto and Men's Teioh to win

9310-664: Was highlighted in the third season of the Vice TV 's pro wrestling docuseries Dark Side of the Ring in September 2021. The Atsushi Onita era of FMW originally consisted of a promotion that featured not only professional wrestling but the best martial arts fighters in the world. Onita would bring in American talent that were known in Japan like Jos LeDuc and Dick Murdoch , as well female talent and midget wrestlers. As

9408-559: Was owned by Grappler (that title win, however, is not recognized as part of the official title history for the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship , which was held at that point by C.W. Bergstrom and would be until Pacific Northwest Wrestling folded in July 1992 after Don Owen 's retirement; however, W*ING recognized Kanemura as their Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Champion until

9506-541: Was pulled out of the show due to a lymph infection and was replaced by Mammoth Sasaki. The injury forced Kanemura to vacate the All Asia Tag Team Championship on December 10. Kanemura returned to the ring in early 2004 and WEW's successor Fuyuki Army ended on May 5. The Apache Army stable competed as freelancers in the Japanese independent circuit . On July 4, Kanemura promoted his own show Kintaro Kanemura Festival , where he and Hido defeated

9604-1119: Was vacated after this title defense and revived by Kaientai Dojo in 2005. Kaientai Dojo 14 Apple Miyuki and YOSHIYA (2) December 23, 2005 Live event Chiba, Japan 1 103 Defeated Shiori Asahi and Makoto Oishi to win the vacant titles. 15 Mike Lee, Jr. and Mr. X April 5, 2006 Live event Tokyo, Japan 1 28 16 Shiori Asahi and Makoto Oishi May 3, 2006 Live event Chiba, Japan 1 32 17 Taka Michinoku and TOMO Michinoku June 4, 2006 Live event Tokyo, Japan 1 34 18 Apple Miyuki (2) and YOSHIYA (3) July 8, 2006 Club-K Super Another in Osaka Osaka, Japan 2 155 19 Shiori Asahi (2) and Makoto Oishi (2) December 10, 2006 Live event Tokyo, Japan 2 455 — Vacated March 9, 2008 — — — — Asahi and Oishi were stripped of

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