Fall Spectacular (1997)

Fall Spectacular: Kawasaki Legend
PromotionFrontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
DateSeptember 28, 1997
CityKawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
VenueKawasaki Stadium
Attendance50,012
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Fall Spectacular: Kawasaki Legend was a Fall Spectacular professional wrestling event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event took place on September 28, 1997 at the Kawasaki Stadium in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan.[1] The show aired via tape delay on Samurai TV! on October 12.[2]

The main event was a No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Steel Cage Time Bomb Death Match between Atsushi Onita and W*ING Kanemura, which stipulated that if Onita lost, he must retire from professional wrestling and if Kanemura lost, then W*ING Alliance would have to disband. Onita won, forcing W*ING to disband. After the event, Onita formed a bonding with W*ING members and quit FMW team in sympathy and formed ZEN with W*ING members to feud with FMW.

In other major matches on the event, Masato Tanaka defeated The Gladiator to win the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship and the FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship, the All Japan team of Kenta Kobashi and Maunakea Mossman defeated Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki, Funk Masters of Wrestling leader Terry Funk defeated Fuyuki-Gun leader Kodo Fuyuki in a loser leaves FMW match to retain the NWA Texas Heavyweight Championship, Vader defeated Ken Shamrock in an ultimate rules steel cage match and Shark Tsuchiya defeated Aja Kong to win the FMW Independent and WWA World Women's Championship.

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  2. ^ "FMW Kawasaki Legend 1997". Cagematch. Retrieved 2017-12-09.