List of Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling tournaments
professional Wrestling Tournaments (1989-2001)
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling held a variety of professional wrestling tournaments competed for by wrestlers that were part of their roster during its existence between 1989 and 2001.
Sporadic tournaments
Battle Resistance Open Tournament
FMW's first tournament, a single-elimination tournament took place at the Battle Resistance - 1st Open Tournament event on January 7, 1990. Aside from the tournament, the event also featured a women's wrestling match between Miwa Sato and Kumiko Matsuda.
Non-tournament match
AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship Tournament
A six-man tournament was set up for the vacant AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship on September 25, 1990 after previous champion Lee Gak-soo left FMW earlier that month. Katsuji Ueda defeated Jimmy Backlund in the tournament final to win the vacant title.
FMW Tag Team Tournament
The FMW Tag Team Tournament was a six-team tournament held by FMW from January 6 to January 15, 1991. The opening round was a round-robin tournament in which five teams scored 3 points to qualify for the knockout format to determine the winner, while the team of Lee Gak-soo and Nam Sung Gun was the only team which failed to qualify as they lost all of their matches and scored 0 points. The knockout format took place on January 15, 1991.
Round-robin stage
Knockout stage
Barbed Wire Deathmatch Tournament
The Barbed Wire Deathmatch Tournament was a single-elimination tournament in which all matches were no rope barbed wire deathmatches. The tournament took place on August 17, 1991.
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