[10.0] "My 2nd favorite promotion...actually as I'm writing this it's my number 1 promotion (sorry Ecw). Founded by my GOAT and favorite wrestler atsushi onita. Your gonna get violent ridiculous fun bloody shit from fmw"
[9.0] "The greatest hardcore promotion of all time. A roster full of legends like Hayabusa, Tanaka, Onita, Megumi Kudo, Funk and Foley. A archive of unbelievable matches. The spectacle, emotion and excitement that FMW could offer, typically in matches with barbed wire and explosions, is unmatched in the history of pro-wrestling. It's also a rare Japanese promotion that had a women's division and a men's division, which adds to the variety on offer. I typically don't like deathmatches but I love what FMW did, good wrestling and storytelling in the confines of a deathmatch, something some modern wrestlers could learn from, and FMW very rarely took things too far for my taste. Being fair, FMW was inconsistent, the smaller shows weren't always great and some of the matches were very standard, never bad but just nothing exciting, Hayabusa as a wrestler encapsulates FMW, sometimes exceptional, other times he'd deliver standard Japanese style matches. Ultimately, FMW was a very special promotion that influenced the entire world of pro wrestling, ECW and by extension WWF and WCW took major inspiration from FMW and IWA-Japan."
[4.0] "While starting as a shoot Wrestling promotion, it found it's footing in deathmatch wrestling and it went really. It's actually impressive that despite not having a tv station to air their program due to their violent nature of the matches, FMW was somehow selling out baseball stadiums and having great inter promotional feuds. But there are huge negatives that bought down the score here. Yes the baseball stadiums were selling out but it was due to onita dealing business with the yakuza and taking bribes from them, then you have onita under paying his Japanese Wrestling while living a lavish life, and doesn't even provide some decent stuff like a changing room for wrestlers who has to change their gear in the the bus. And you have onita's ego, not putting over talents including the future ace Hayabusa, taking the attention from certain moments and making it about himself, and booking his "retirement" matches just to sell the occasion, and he just wasn't booking his own, he was booking someone else retirement match without informing them just to satisfy his return to the ring and taking the spotlight to a point rest of the FMW crew had to throw him out of the company(which that did only because onita was selected in the national diet). And the major problem that i have with this promotion is onita lying in financial report which would be a huge problem for his successor ( which onita didn't want to handover to him) shoichi arai and this led to tons of yakuza debt that arai had to handle which onita's bankroll would have easily payed off. This lead to arai ending himself just to pay off the debt using his life insurance. And then the companies product is also at the question in its final days, they were more "sports entrainment" with stupid outlandish gimmick and cheesy storyline that was taken from WWF(and they had a partnership with WWF)which pissed off its core audience and the company relied too much on Hayabusa which would led to his paralysis. A company ahead of its time, yet the one that screwed themselves off"
[9.0] "While I haven't seen a whole lot, watching FMW shows is pure magic. The lighting, Onita's theme song, jam packed stadiums, people screaming "ONITAAA" in the crowd... The wrestling itself (in the main event, the undercard sometimes had great matches) was lacking but that's not what FMW was all about. FMW was about the spectacle, what crazy shit can they come up with next. And I don't know how but they struck the landing so many times. It's a shame Onita had his own head up his ass and thought he could be this huge movie star and left. He came crawling back in but things just weren't the same anymore. Even if you don't like deathmatches please check out some of the stuff on youtube. It's not even that violent compared to today's standards."
[10.0] "A true icon company for me. All my love for hardcore wrestling is for this one. A masterpiece for hardcore wrestling fans. I miss fmw a lot cause I loved It's unique matches which onita gave us."
[10.0] "This is the birth place of the modern deathmatch/gimmick match. FMW was a worker promotion willing to do anything to get popularity, no matter how illegal, corrupt or immoral. Despite that, FMW brought us some beautiful moments and gave a lot of guys their first big shot."
[7.0] "Just like ECW, FMW also influenced the modern-day Japanese deathmatch scene with W*ING, IWA Japan, and BJW adopting the deathmatch style of wrestling. The company was great when Onita was in control from '89 to '95, but after he gave all powers to Shoichi Arai, the company began to fall and Fuyuki wanted a sports entertainment style. FMW was great, although this is hard to rate higher than a 7."
[10.0] "I am discovering FMW now and this company amazes me. I have always hated deathmatch until I saw Onita vs Funk and most of all my 3rd favorite match of all time, Megumi Kudo vs Combat Toyoda in Toyoda's retirement. These two matches introduced me to FMW, and they completely changed my mind about DM. FMW was and still is to this day the best mix between good wrestling and deathmatch, and I don't think any current deathmatch promotion will one day reach the quality of this company between 1991 and 1998 (Onita and Neo eras). Sadly, the last years of the company weren't good and even Hayabusa couldn't do anything to make up for the losses of Onita and Kudo who were clearly the two big stars of the company, but in their prime years they made deathmatch wrestling mainstream in Japan."
[9.0] "Easily my tied favourite promotion of all time. Early days were a strange mixture of different style mma-types matches - which while interesting in theory, weren't always the most exciting contests to watch, until later focussing on Deathmatch type matches. The Deathmatches while a little whacky at times, usually meant something in storyline terms to warrant them, and were always quite dramatic, quite the contrast to AEW's attempt at it. FMW also had awesome talent - both Male & Female, however I think Onita got top draw a little too often for my liking. FMW lost a lot of it's steam later on due to injuries to major talent and money difficulties. But when it was good, FMW was excellent."
[10.0] "FMW martial arts era 89~91(7. 5), FMW Onita Deathmatch era 91~95(10), FMW Neo era 95~98(9), FMW Sports Entertainment era 98~01(4. 5), Final FMW years late 2001~ early 2002(6. 5) overall though it? s a 10"
[7.0] "As with ECW, it's hard to put FMW much higher because of their relatively short lifespan. They suffered greatly from the loss of Atsushi Onita, and never really recovered. Things were not helped when Hiromichi Fuyuki gained power and slowly turned it into a terrible WWE clone."
[9.0] "Maybe they held a deathmatch gone too far but they know how to entertain people, Atsushi Onita, the man who started it all to make sure that wrestling it's not a joke and I like it every match that include him and his longtime friend Tarzan Goto makes me think that their actions are worth to be watched"
[10.0] "Put deathmatch wrestling on the map in Japan in the early 90's, i enjoyed all era's of FMW from Onita era, neo FMW era. Such a shame they went out with a whimper though."
[7.0] "Haut mich heute (natürlich) nicht mehr vom Hocker, empfand ich in den Neunzigern aber schon als eine sehr willkommene Abwechslung zum "normalen Wrestling", habe mich immer auf neue Tapes gefreut und FMW startete in Japan eine ähnliche "kleine Revolution" wie die ECW in Nordamerika, bis sogar Muta in einem FMW-Style-Deathmatch bei New Japan gegen Onita antrat. Eine wichtige Promotion die sichtlich ihre Spuren hinterlassen und die Wrestling-Landschaft nachhaltig geprägt hat."
[10.0] "Ich kann nicht anders als dieser Show 10 Punkte zu geben, diese Show hatte mich immer begeistert, es war die perfekte ausgleichung der vielen stille und der vielen Wrestler und ganz klar neben der ECW die beste Hardcore Liga die es gab."
[9.0] "Die FMW hat mir um 2003 die Freude am Pro-Wrestling zurück gegeben. Qualitativ natürlich nicht das Maß der Dinge, aber ähnlich kultig wie die ECW und ein absolutes Muss für jeden Garbage-Wrestling Fan. Über die späten FMW Tage sehe ich lieber einfach hinweg."
[10.0] "Beste Liga Ever! Ohne FMW hätte es die ECW die man ja heute so abfeiert garnicht gegeben, haben das Deathmatch Wrestling auf die größe Bühne gebracht und sind wohl der Grund für die Existenz einiger geiler Indy Promotions, die zum Teil heute noch bestehen. Thank You FMW!"
