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 injury allowed Sheik to win the title and Sheik rewarded the title to Singh for his assistance.[1] Onita challenged Singh to a match to gain his revenge and Singh accepted it under his own rules, the first jungle deathmatch in FMW, which took place at the Ganryū-jima island on June 30, which Singh won.[2] This would lead to a title match between Onita and Singh at the 3rd Anniversary Show.[3]
Megumi Kudo and Combat Toyoda had been feuding with each other for the past year until their rivalry ended when Toyoda's Combat Army teammates Eriko Tsuchiya and Yoshika Maedomari turned on Toyoda after Combat Army defeated Kudo, Miwa Sato and Yukie Nabeno on July 19.[4] On July 30, Kudo teamed with Tsuchiya and Maedomari to take on Toyoda, Sato and Nabeno in a match, which they won but Tsuchiya and Maedomari turned on Kudo after the match by attacking her until Toyoda made the save.[5] On August 10, Toyoda defeated Tsuchiya and then Maedomari defeated Kudo later in the night with the help of Tsuchiya and then they double teamed her until Toyoda once again made the save for Kudo and turned into a fan favorite.[6] Kudo and Toyoda formed a tag team to defeat Maedomari and Tsuchiya on August 11.[7] On September 1, Kudo successfully defended her WWA World Women's Championship against Toyoda.[8] After the match, they challenged Bull Nakano and Akira Hokuto of All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling to an interpromotional match at the 3rd Anniversary Show to prove that they were the best set of women wrestlers.[9]
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Chris Jericho competed in the opening match of the 3rd Anniversary Show.
The WWA World Martial Arts Tag Team Championship was retired after 3rd Anniversary Show and Grigory Verichev reunited with former tag team partner Atsushi Onita to participate in the Street Fight Tag Team Tournament in the fall of the year, which they won by defeating Big Titan and Verichev's former tag team partner Tarzan Goto.[3]
Sabu and The Sheik continued their alliance with Tiger Jeet Singh after 3rd Anniversary Show and became Atsushi Onita's rivals. He successfully defended the WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Championship against Sabu in a no ropes barbed wire deathmatch on January 12, 1993.[12] On the same event, Ricky Fuji turned on FMW during an elimination tag team match and formed Team Canada with Big Titan, The Gladiator, Dr. Luther and Dr. Hannibal, which became the top villainous group of FMW. On January 18, Onita defeated Sheik to win Sheik's United States Championship and then returned the title to Sheik which caused Sheik and Sabu to turn into fan favorites and formed an alliance with Onita.[3]
Megumi Kudo and Combat Toyoda's interpromotional match paved the way for many interpromotional matches between female wrestlers of FMW and AJW. Kudo and Toyoda rebounded with their loss at the 3rd Anniversary Show by defeating AJW's Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada at the 4th Anniversary Show.[13]
