FMW 5th Anniversary Show

On January 6, 1994, Mr. Pogo defeated Atsushi Onita in a street fight to win the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. Despite Pogo being Onita's top rival in FMW, a new opponent was required for Onita at 5th Anniversary Show, so Onita began a rivalry with Genichiro Tenryu because Onita and Tenryu thought that a rivalry between both men could become a huge success for FMW and Tenryu's WAR and they planned to work interpromotional matches for each other. Onita and Tarzan Goto represented FMW against WAR's Tenryu and Ashura Hara in an interpromotional tag team match at WAR's Revolution Rumble event on March 2, 1994. Onita pinned Tenryu to set up a no rope exploding barbed wire deathmatch between Onita and Tenryu at 5th Anniversary Show. Onita announced that he would retire if he lost the match. ==Event==

Preliminary matches Tetsuhiro Kuroda faced Gosaku Goshogawara in the opening match of the event. Kuroda applied a one-legged Boston crab to win the match. Battle Ranger Z, Koji Nakagawa and Masato Tanaka represented FMW against MPW's The Great Sasuke, Hanzo Nakajima and Shiryu in an interpromotional match. Ranger performed a hyper tornado on Nakajima to win the match. Mad Dog Military represented FMW against LLPW's Eagle Sawai, Noriyo Tateno and Mitsuko Endo. Maedomari hit a crooked arm lariat to Endo for the win. Terry Funk took on The Sheik with Funk gaining the win by knocking him out with a torch. Mr. Pogo and Hisakatsu Oya defended the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship against Tarzan Goto and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga in a street fight. Oya performed a backdrop to Matsunaga to retain the title. Main event match Atsushi Onita participated in his fifth straight Anniversary Show main event against WAR's Genichiro Tenryu in a No Rope Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch with the stipulation that if Onita lost, he would retire from wrestling. Tenryu performed a Powerbomb to Onita to hand him his first defeat at the Anniversary Show. As per pre-match stipulation, Onita was forced to retire. ==Reception==

The 5th Anniversary Show was the most successful event in FMW's history till 1994 as it surpassed the previous year's event in terms of revenue and audience. The epic main event encounter between Atsushi Onita and Genichiro Tenryu and the retirement stipulation of Onita sparked crowd interest into the event and the show drew a crowd of 52,000 and the company earned a revenue of $2,100,000. ==Aftermath==

After his loss to Genichiro Tenryu, Atsushi Onita announced that the retirement stipulation was for the next year at the 6th Anniversary Show. He appeared with Tenryu in Tenryu's WAR promotion and they won the WAR 6-Man Tag Team Tournament with Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow at WAR's 2nd Anniversary of Revolution. Onita and Tenryu's friendship ended after that because Onita did not pay Tenryu his fair dues for his participation at 5th Anniversary Show. Onita then reverted his focus to regaining the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship from Mr. Pogo. He regained the title on September 7 and then Yukihiro Kanemura made his FMW debut and attacked Onita after the match and formed W*ING Alliance with Pogo and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga. W*ING Alliance replaced Team Canada as the lead villainous group after Team Canada crippled due to dissension within teammates. He returned to the company at 6th Anniversary Show as Atsushi Onita's opponent in Onita's retirement match which Hayabusa lost but succeeded him as the company's ace. Tarzan Goto once again turned on Atsushi Onita in 1995 and formed Lethal Weapon with W*ING Alliance member Hisakatsu Oya and former Team Canada member Ricky Fuji. He was chosen to succeed Onita as FMW's ace after Onita's retirement at 6th Anniversary Show but withdrew from the match and left FMW because he was booked to lose to Onita and did not want to lose to Onita again after putting him over every time they wrestled each other. Mr. Pogo did not agree due to not being approached first and Takashi Ishikawa was chosen for the position but Hayabusa was finalized since Ishikawa could not become a major draw for FMW. Funk formed a dominant villainous stable called Funk Masters of Wrestling which dominated FMW for the next one year. ==Results==