FMW Summer Spectacular

FMW Summer Spectacular
PromotionsFrontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
Other namesSummer Spectacular (1990; 1993–1994; 1996)
Shiodome Legend (1996–1997)
First event1990
Last event1997

Summer Spectacular was a major annual professional wrestling event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling during the month of August. The supercard was first held in 1990 in response to World Wrestling Federation's August event SummerSlam. The event would return and be held for two consecutive years in 1993 and 1994. The 1996 edition was subtitled "Shiodome Legend", which would become the event's name for the 1997 edition. This would be the last edition as FMW began producing pay-per-view events in 1998. The event was considered one of the FMW's four big supercards of the year, along with FMW Anniversary Show, Fall Spectacular and Year End Spectacular.

Dates, venues and main events

Event Date City Venue Main event Notes
Summer Spectacular in Shiodome August 4, 1990 Tokyo, Japan Shiodome Atsushi Onita (c) vs. Tarzan Goto in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch for the WWA World Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship [1]
Summer Spectacular (1993) August 22, 1993 Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan Hankyu Nishinomiya Stadium Atsushi Onita vs. Mr. Pogo in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch for the vacant FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship [2]
Summer Spectacular (1994) August 28, 1994 Osaka, Osaka, Japan Osaka-jō Hall Atsushi Onita vs. Mr. Pogo in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Double Hell Deathmatch [3]
Summer Spectacular: Shiodome Legend August 1, 1996 Tokyo, Japan Shiodome Mr. Pogo vs. Terry Funk in a No Ropes Barbed Wire Landmine match [4]
Shiodome Legend (1997) August 2, 1997 Tokyo, Japan Shiodome Masato Tanaka vs. W*ING Kanemura in a No Ropes Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch [5]
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match

References

  1. ^ "FMW Summer Spectacular In Shiodome". Cagematch.net. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  2. ^ "Summer Spectacular 1993". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  3. ^ "Summer Spectacular 1994". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  4. ^ "Summer Spectacular 1996". Pro Wrestling History. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  5. ^ "FMW Shiodome Legend 1997". Cagematch.net. Retrieved 2017-12-08.