OHNITA AND DEATH MATCH

Atsushi Ohnita

In the 70's and 80's, there were two big organizations in the wrestling world of Japan, Giant Baba's ALL JAPAN and Antonio Inoki's NEW JAPAN. In other words, a wrestler who was fired by Baba or Inoki could not fight in Japan as a rule.

Atsushi Ohnita was a young wrestler of ALL JAPAN, and he was popular with wrestling fans as a vivid new star. He was often compared with Tiger Mask of NEW JAPAN, but Ohnita didn't use flying attacks, and he was comparatively rough and awkward. Ohnita got NWA International Jr. Championship from Chavo Guerrero, but when he fought with Hector Guerrero, he was injured his knee, and Baba advised him to retire.

Though Ohnita had not a penny (not an yen ?), he established his own organization FMW. There was Megumi Kudou, a popular woman wrestler, but most of the wrestlers were persons out of employment, to tell the truth FMW was a third-class party.

the barbed wire and electric bomb death match

After a while Ohnita found a way out of the difficulty, that was a death match. And then he thought of a new epoch-making style, the barbed wire and electric bomb death match !! (You don't think about it deeply.) Because of it, FMW suddenly became a popular party. As a result of the success of FMW, there were so many independent organizations in the 90's. That was a very strange scene.

And Ohnita repeated retiring and returning like Terry Funk (ha-ha), he was active as a wrestler and a TV personality, at last somehow he became a member of the Diet. I couldn't understand what had happened !!