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Atsushi Onita (大仁田 厚, Ōnita Atsushi, born October 25, 1957) [1] is a Japanese actor, politician, and semi-retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) and is credited with introducing the deathmatch style of professional wrestling to Japan .
The Atsushi Onita era of FMW originally consisted of a promotion that featured not only professional wrestling but the best martial arts fighters in the world. Onita would bring in American talent that were known in Japan like Jos LeDuc and Dick Murdoch, as well female talent and midget wrestlers.
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling was a Japanese hardcore wrestling promotion founded by Atsushi Onita in 1989. The event held its first card on October 6, 1989, and the first supercard was titled Battle Creation which took place on December 10, 1989.
Tiger Jeet Singh defended the WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship against Atsushi Onita at the event.. Tiger Jeet Singh made his FMW debut on June 25, 1992 by attacking Atsushi Onita with his sword and made him bleed before Onita's scheduled title defense of the WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship against The Sheik in a no ropes barbed wire steel cage deathmatch.
The 4th Anniversary Show was a huge success for FMW as the key attraction of the event was the main event match between Atsushi Onita and Terry Funk, which drew a crowd of 41,000, the biggest for FMW until then and the event brought a revenue of $1,800,000. [1] 4th Anniversary Show received mixed reviews from Ryan Mencuso of Puroresu Central ...
Atsushi Onita was badly injured in his match with Masashi Aoyagi and required 111 switches in his body and got 1,032 stitches in his overall body. On September 7, Onita defeated Mr. Pogo in a no ropes exploding barbed wire double hell deathmatch to win the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. [16]
The Sheik rewarded the title to Tiger Jeet Singh for helping him in beating Atsushi Onita for the title. [3] 11 Atsushi Onita: September 19, 1992 3rd Anniversary Show: Yokohama, Kanagawa: 4 337 Title replaced by the FMW World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship. [3] 12 Atsushi Onita: August 22, 1993 Summer Spectacular: Osaka: 5 137
Onita Atsushi FMW (大仁田厚 FMW) [3] is a wrestling video game for Super Famicom. It was released on August 6, 1993 to an exclusively Japanese audience with an endorsement by Japanese professional wrestler Atsushi Onita .