FMW 8th Anniversary Show

FMW 8th Anniversary Show
PromotionFrontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
DateApril 29, 1997
CityYokohama, Japan
VenueYokohama Arena
Attendance16,000
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FMW 8th Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event took place on April 29, 1997 at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan. This was the eighth edition of the company's flagship event Anniversary Show, commemorating the seventh anniversary of the company. It was the second edition of the event at the Yokohama Arena after 3rd Anniversary Show in 1992 and the first time in four years that the event was not held at Kawasaki Stadium.

The main event was a no rope 200 volt double hell double barbed wire barricade double landmine crushed glass electrical barbed wire deathmatch between Shark Tsuchiya and Megumi Kudo for Tsuchiya's FMW Independent and WWA World Women's Championship. Kudo defeated Tsuchiya to win the title. The match was billed as Kudo's farewell match as she retired from wrestling after the event. In other major matches on the card, FMW's Atsushi Onita and Masato Tanaka and W*ING Alliance's W*ING Kanemura defeated Funk Masters of Wrestling's Terry Funk, Cactus Jack and The Gladiator in a Texas Tornado Street Fight Deathmatch and Hayabusa defeated Mr. Gannosuke in a highly acclaimed mask vs. hair match, the first of the historic matches of their epic rivalry.