1996 Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling event
FMW 7th Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), taking place on May 5, 1996 at the Kawasaki Stadium in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. This was the seventh edition of the company's flagship event Anniversary Show, commemorating the seventh anniversary of the company and the fourth consecutive and fifth overall edition of Anniversary Show at Kawasaki Stadium.
The main event was a one million yen no rope explosive barbed wire time bomb land mine double hell death match between FMW's Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka and the Puerto Rican Army's Terry Funk and Mr. Pogo. Funk and Pogo claimed the win for the Puerto Rican Army.[1] This was the first Anniversary Show, which took place without the company's founder and former owner Atsushi Onita. The event also featured the last match of Combat Toyoda, as she defended the FMW Independent and WWA World Women's Championship against Megumi Kudo in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch. Toyoda lost the title to Kudo and retired from wrestling after the event. Cactus Jack retained his IWA King of the Death Match Championship against W*ING Kanemura in a Caribbean Barbed Wire Barricade Spider Net Glass Deathmatch.
- ^ George Napolitano (2011). "Mat Classics". Hot Spots and High Spots. pp. 282–294. ISBN 1770900640.