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Summary: Holy [Cow]
Review: Jason The Terrible vs. some FMW Mid-Carder
Mid-Carder got some offense but Jason beat ...him and pinned him after a Snowplow variation. 5.5/10 worst match. each match is bloody and more violent as the tape progressed after this match.Mad Dog vs. Shark
Bloody women's match with blades and fire. Mad Dog makes Shark submit. 7/10 FMW Six Man tag team Street Fight titles
Mike"Gladiator"Awesome,Horace"CPA"Boulder(Hogan)and Hiskatsu Ooya vs. Leather Face and the Headhunters.
Oh my ..., what a match this is. Awesome showing his toughness by beating ...them with one bad knee. Leather Face pins Horace after a bloody encounter. 8.5/10 Barbwire and Glass Death Match.
W*ng Kanemura vs. Cactus Jack
Awesome. Both these guys unrelenting and I loved each and every minute of it. Cactus Jack pins Kanemura. 8.5/10 Barbwire ropes Death match
Combat Toyota vs. Megumi Kudo
This was without a shadow of a doubt, the most violent womans match I have ever seen. Combat Toyota's final match and they did not dissapiont. Shows how tough both of them are. 9/10 Tag Team Exploding barbwire match
Terry Funk and Mr. POGO vs. Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka
The most brutal match I have ever seen. POGO and Funk win after a Double Piledriver on Hayabusa. After they use POGO's sickle to literary rip Hayabusa's match off. This makes HIAC'98 (KOTR)and ECW look like a walk in the park. 9.5/10 This is not for anybody who thinks ECW is too brutal for tv. This takes extreme to the extreme. I liked it a lot.
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Summary: This is The REAL HARDCORE Wrestling !!!
Review: Man, the main event is AWESOME and Brutal. This is the real BLOODSHED Hardcore Wrestling should always be like. Wrestlers are risking them selves for HONOR and FAME and Who's the man, that's the question you'll find in this DVD. IT'S GONNA TAKE BLOOD. SWEAT. AND MORE BLOOD TO BE THE KING OF THE DEATH MATCH. Here are the matches and ratings of each match: Match 1: Nanjyo vs. Jason the Terrible (Poor)
It's the introduction match which mostly be average or below average. (*) Match 2: Mad Dog Nagayo vs. Shark Tsuchiya (Good)
Well, it's a tough girls match that hell breaks loose. Knives, Kerosine, and chains are all fair game so stand clear... Match 3: Horrace "CPA" Boulder, Mike "GLADIATOR" Awesome, and Ooya vs Super Leather and the Head Hunter Twins (Good)
NO COMMENTS... Match 4: Cactus Jack vs. Kanemura (Excellent)
BARBED WIRE, BROKEN GLASS, NO RULES APPLY DEATH MATCH. BANG! BANG! As everyone know Cactus in ECW, He's a 100% HARDCORE SON OF a GUN that loves pain and BLOOD... Match 5: Combat "Mother in Law" Toyoda vs. Megumi Kudo (Excellent Ending)
It's Combat "Mother in Law" Toyoda's final match in the FMW and she is pitted against onetime partner Megumi Kudo. Watch out! The ring is surrounded with electric barbed wire--so, ground yourself because the sparks are gonna fly. It's very SAD ending, sometimes you have to cry...
Electric barbed wire in the ring and on the floor, knives, Fire, Gasoline,and what ever it should take to win this match... HIGHLY RECOMENDED for All HARDCORE Fans of FMW and ECW... THIS IS WRESTLING AT ITS HARDEST!
FMW DVD is beyond WWF(Entertainment wrestling) and WCW(Entertainment). This is HARCORE, VIOLENCE, AND CHAOS.
I think it's more harsh than ECW DVD's but at least ECW and FMW are MUCH better than WWF and WCW. It's Worth your $money$, beleive me, especially the Main Event. GO FOR IT.
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Summary: Good taste of hardcore Japanese matches...
Review: One of the easiest ways in the US to get a taste of hardcore "garbage" Japanese wrestling. Not for the faint hearted - the best matches are the bloodiest. Painful matches include: a "Double Hell Barbed Wire Glass Crush Spider Net" deathmatchwith Cactus Jack vs. Kanemura, a "No Rope Exploding Double Hell Timebomb" deathmatch with Mr. Pogo, Terry Funk, Tanaka, and Hayabusa, and even a no-rope exploding barbed wire female wrestling match! As with the other FMW tapes, the announcers try to imitate Insane Clown Posse's funny wrestling tapes, and fail pretty miserably at it. The DVD is recommended since you can turn the announcers off, and you get one pretty good bonus match to boot. Note this is NOT the IWA "King of the Deathmatch" tournament that made Cactus Jack and Terry Funk famous.
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Summary: Good taste of hardcore Japanese matches...
Review: One of the easiest ways in the US to get a taste of hardcore "garbage" Japanese wrestling. Not for the faint hearted - the best matches are the bloodiest. Painful matches include: a "Double Hell Barbed Wire Glass Crush Spider Net" deathmatchwith Cactus Jack vs. Kanemura, a "No Rope Exploding Double Hell Timebomb" deathmatch with Mr. Pogo, Terry Funk, Tanaka, and Hayabusa, and even a no-rope exploding barbed wire female wrestling match! As with the other FMW tapes, the announcers try to imitate Insane Clown Posse's funny wrestling tapes, and fail pretty miserably at it. The DVD is recommended since you can turn the announcers off, and you get one pretty good bonus match to boot. Note this is NOT the IWA "King of the Deathmatch" tournament that made Cactus Jack and Terry Funk famous.
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Summary: Get it for Kudo vs. Toyota
Review: Out of the first four US commercial releases FMW has made, this tape is by far the best. The last two matches (i'm not counting the bonus matches here) are highly dramatic, especially Kudo vs. Toyota, which is easily the best match of the tape. The story, selling, and build to the spots in Kudo vs. Toyota are all excellent. Cactus vs. Kanemura, and the tag main event are both very good too (although there are some serious flaws in the tag match). The first three matches on the tape aren't good, and as always for these FMW tapes, neither is the English commentary. I recommend that anyone who interested in picking up one of the FMW US commercial releases should pick this one up first.
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Summary: FMW - it's the same, almost all the time
Review: The now-extinct Japanese wrestling company FMW tried desperately to make it's mark in the wrestling world by showcasing brutal, over-the-top violence and bloodbaths. Given, the violence and bloodbaths are delivered, bút done so with poor deliverance, and a value that's immediately dwarfed by the spread of World Wrestling Entertainment. If you're a WWE fan watching this tape, you'll probably gain the first impression that this is a much lower quality of entertainment (and it probably is), but appreciation is gathered for this DVD by watching it more than once, and admiring the cool aspects (while trying to ignore the bad ones).
The feature starts out by introducing the two announcers, John Watanabi and Eric Geller. Quite plainly said, these two are among the main reasons of why this film may seem bad. Their announcing is low-class, and consists mainly of the two of them flinging homosexual-related insults at eachother. Very little detail or background is supplied by them about the matches, sans the constant repititions that Super Leather's mask is supposedly comprised of the skin of murdered FBI agents. Their entertainment-appeal is minimal, and they hurt the quality of FMW production more than helping it. I suggest turning down the volume and making your own commentary.
The wrestling itself is a thing of either like or dislike. The bloody hardcore style is hardly ever very choreographical or skillfully executed (with the exception of the 3-minute opening match, between Nanjo and Jason the Terrible). Fans of American wrestling will be displeased at first (probably), but may find excitement in the stipulations, weapons, and hard-hitting impact. From the bloody, knife-bared feud of the Mad Dog and Shark Tsuchiya, to the closing tag-team match (featuring Hayabusa and Terry Funk) that takes place inside an explosive ring, nothing is ever pretty or gentle.
Perhaps the only flaw here would lie in the length of the matches and their disbelievability, which borders on the superhuman: if you're watching an FMW match for the first time, it will most likely seem too drawn-out, especially when Megumi Kudo kicks out for the umpteenth time after being bashed, smashed, powerbombed, and electricuted by Toyoda Mother-In-Law (even though it is a very good, emotional match).
Delivery on the weapons in minimal; the barbed wire, glass, and the blood look real enough (especially when presented by the legendary Cactus Jack), but in several circumstances, you can plainly see that the butcher knife and the chained scythe are not being used as convincingly as the wrestlers are screaming. The tables used are of poor quality for pro wrestling, as they're very narrow and don't break as easilly as they should. Blood seems to eventually smear off of Tanaka's back after he was supposedly cut open by Mr. Pogo, and one really begins to wonder how Ooya can kick out after being splashed by one of the 400-lb Headhunters.
When compared to American promotions, FMW comes up short more often than not, but fans of Japanese death matches, both old and aspiring, will find like for this DVD, despite the sorry commentating, the forgettable interviews (besides Cactus Jack's), and the messiness of the violence - give it a try, if you're willing.
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Summary: Bloody and Very Violent
Review: This is a great movie for hard-core Mick Foley fans and also Terry Funk fans. It is very bloody and is not recomended for young people or people with a weak stomach. There is everything in this tape from barb-wire baseball bats to C4. It is crazy.
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Summary: Not the best Nring psychology but down right great brutality
Review: This wasnt the best FMW DVD that they have to offer.
When it comes to death matches this pretty much serves its purpose, on exception of the very first match. The rest were bloody and brutal in true death match fashion.
I have to say that the Combat "Mother in Law" Toyoda vs. Megumi Kudo match is on my personal top 10. You dont look at them as just some female competitors tryin to wrestle like the big dogs. All you see are two intense wrestlers giving their all and producing a quality death match.
Overall a good piece to add to a wrestling fans collection.
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Summary: Great wrestling, no tournament.
Review: When I first purchased this DVD, I was under the impression that it was an uncut video of the King of the Death Match 2000 tournament, but instead, it was a montage of some of the most memorable FMW matches to date. Included in its allstar cast of wrestlers including Hayabusa, Mr. Pogo, The Gladiator Mike Awesome, Mick Foley, Horace Hogan, The Headhunters, and the one and only "Drunk" Terry Funk, is an incredible match that some of you hardcore wrestling fans may remember from ICP's Stranglemania 2 between "Mother-in-Law" Toyota and Ho Kudo. This match alone is reason enough to buy this DVD. (You have to see it to believe it.) The only problems I have with this DVD is, for one, the American announcer hired by Tokyopop to do the color commentary absolutely reek of mediocrity, and the second reason being that This is not a complete coherant tournament. There's no shortage of barbed wire or the red stuff in this one though, but if you were strictly looking for the King of Death Match 2000 Tournament, no luck this time, but for this price I certainly don't regret the purchase.
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Summary: The true originators of hardcore
Review: When I got this home I was a little disappointed to find that the disc is made up of 8 matches from the 5-5-96 show and tokyopop made no indication that it wasnt actually a tourney. Strange title considering IWA had the deathmatch tourney! Aside from that the matches are excellent and if you can withstand the dull and useless commentators you will find some highly entartaining and hardcore matches. Highlights include Mick Foley as you've never seen him before in a brutal double hell barbed wire glass crush spider net death match and another highlight is two women having one helluva wrestling contest in a ring surrounded by electricifed barbed-wire! A must for anyone who hasnt seen anything like this before and who wants to see how seriously the Japanese treat it as a sport instead of entertainment. Oh yeah, its region free as well so it will work on ALL dvd players!
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