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Atsushi Onita's FMW-Explosion promotion held a Terry Funk Memorial Event which doubled as celebrating Onita's 50th anniversary as a pro wrestler today at Fujitsu Kawasaki Stadium in Japan before 5,000 fans.
The main event of the show, billed as a Double Hell Current Explosion Death Match with Dory Funk Jr. & Osamu Nishimura defeating Atsushi Onita & Raijin Yaguchi. Funk was nailed with an exploding barbed wire bat as part of the match. Funk scored the win, forcing Yaguchi to submit to the spinning toe hold. Nishimura competed in the match while battling stage four cancer. Dory is 83 years old, by the way.
Dory Funk, Jr. ended up taking a exploding bat shot from Onita during the match but was able to get the win with a spinning toe hold over Yaguchi. Both Dory and Nishimura seemed to be fine after the match. pic.twitter.com/HqmHzWGygi
— Bret (@BAHUFMW) August 24, 2024
Crowd shot of Kawasaki Stadium right before the main event. Many people showed up hours into the show just wanting to see the Onita/Yaguchi vs. Dory/Nishimura match and skipping the entire undercard. Skipping the 85 degree August day humidity probably isn’t the worst idea either. pic.twitter.com/sNJ176Yr0k
— Bret (@BAHUFMW) August 24, 2024
Dory Funk, Jr. brought a picture of Terry and his brothers old jacket to the ring with him. pic.twitter.com/awlGGoiIFj
— Bret (@BAHUFMW) August 24, 2024
Onita pointing up to Terry in Heaven pic.twitter.com/eLFXTCNSYz
— Bret (@BAHUFMW) August 24, 2024
Thanks to Brett aka Bahu at https://fmwwrestling.us.
Other results from the show:
*Monkey D. Nolefi & Z Warrior Trunks defeated Great-CO-Khan & Great Muda.
*Chiitan, DoRaEmon & Pandita defeat FMW-E Shocker, Koji Genba no Oyaji & Tomoryu.
*Ram Kaicho & Ricky Fuji defeated Naoshi Sano & Nene Dai.
*Crusher Maedomari & Miss Mongol defeated Ancham & Gaki Nyan Kamen.
*Chikara & Masahiko Takasugi defeated Tiger Toguchi & Yuichi Taniguchi.
*Brahman Brothers defeat Maku Donaruto & Natsu Sumire.
*In what was billed as a Fire Death Match, Great Koji, Guts Ishijima, HASEGAWA, Hideki Sekine & Skull Reaper A-ji defeated Devil Magician, Monster Leather, Mr. Atomic, Mr. Pogo, Onryo & Takumi Sakurai.
*Yuki Iino & Yukio Naya defeated Dr. Luther & Dylan James.
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