More recently, ECW has held events like these, but not very often. Sabu had developed a gimmick of throwing himself through a propped-up table in Japan in order to entertain the crowd and get his character over as a wild and possibly insane man. The only way to win is to break two lightube log cabins over and or on your opponent. The Headhunters went on to face Shoji Nakamaki and Hiroshi Ono on 10/16/94 at Korakuen Hall. Season 1 FMW escalated the violence to legitimately dangerous new levels, with barbed wire ropes, timed C4 explosives, exploding wire ropes, and 'land mines', known as "deathmatch". The World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment capitalized on the success and introduced the WWF Hardcore Championship in the 1990s. In a barbed wire bumps match, at ringside, there are huge boards laden with truckloads of barbed wire. Barbed Wire Spider Net is when the ring ropes have barbed wire vertically wrapped around them. For example, the WWE Hardcore Championship was defended under 24/7 rules, meaning it could be defended and won at any time, provided a referee was present to make the pinfall. ECW influenced wrestling organizations such as Xtreme Pro Wrestling, International Wrestling Syndicate, IWA Mid-South, and Combat Zone Wrestling, which carried on ECW's violent style after it went defunct. He then started to put opponents through tables, a relatively safe spot which looked and sounded devastating. Huge, petrol-soaked rags were wrapped around the barbed wire, then set alight. Air date It was proposed that, on December 8th, 1993, Atsushi Onita would face Mitsuhiro Matsunaga in a ‘Wonder Crush Death’ match, where the ring would be surrounded by a cage made out of glass. However, WWE still features a yearly pay per view event based around hardcore wrestling called WWE Extreme Rules. IWA Japan is the only promotion to have sanctioned barbed wire brick matches. Thus, hardcore wrestling is often separated into distinct "levels" based on the graphic nature of the match: An insane idea, all right, and Onita realised this, as the idea was shelved in favour of a no-rope exploding barbed wire match. Unlike a Piranha Death Match, it has 2 cactus in the ring on two opposing corners. This is a platform at ringside, constructed from barbed wire and wood, with plates of glass lying on top. Shadown Winger got powerbombed onto a bed of nails and cacti from the second rope!! In a barbed wire bumps match, ringside is completely covered in wire, but in a barbed wire boards match, there are individual boards surrounding the ring, which can be easily picked up and used on the opponent. Taking place in usual or unusual environments, hardcore wrestling matches allow the use of numerous items, including ladders, tables, chairs, thumbtacks, barbed wire, light tubes, shovels, baseball bats (sometimes wrapped in barbed wire), golf clubs, hammers, ax handles, chains, crowbars, wrenches, tongs, and other improvised weapons used as foreign objects. Also, Cactus Jack faced Yukihiro Kanemura with the ring ropes covered in Spider Net type of Barbed Wire and on two opposing sides of the ring, there was glass and barbed wire. This was used in the Cactus Jack/W*ing Kanemura confrontation at the 1996 Kawasaki Baseball Stadium Show, and also at the Shiodome match on 1st August, which saw Mr. Pogo fight Terry Funk. (Eliminination Tag match; wrestlers can be eliminited via pinfall, submission or being thrown into the pool). IWA Japan was the first promotion to stage a ‘Thumbtack Match’. Previous Basically, at ringside, there are piles of bricks with barbed wire wrapped around the centre of them. Onita was horribly cut up during the match, Also, in December 1994, at an arena in Tokyo (not Korakuen Hall), FMW held a series of matches with Onita (under the Great Nita gimmick) and Tarzan Goto (under his Ho Chi Ming) gimmick against Mr Pogo and Hisakatsu Ohya, which had landmines at ringside. In 2006, the MTV-affiliated promotion/show Wrestling Society X featured hardcore wrestling, but was cancelled after one season. The most famous version of this match took place at TOD 2, which saw John Zandig give Nick Mondo a Mother F’n Bomb off the top of a building through a few tables with the lightube log cabin at the top. After splitting off from the NWA, the company changed its name to Extreme Championship Wrestling, and became the leading independent hardcore wrestling federation in North America. On the fringe of wrestling is Deathmatch, where wrestlers battling with barbed wire, razor blades and broken glass, challenge the idea that wrestling is fake. The “Deathmatch” was taken to new extremes by these young lions. This one is a bit different as the previous one… Normally all the lights of the arena are turned off and on the barbed wire that replace the ring ropes, there are lightbulbs hanging wich are turned on, that are the only lights that are on in the arena. This happened in the 2003 KOTD, when CZW Star The Messiah faced IWA MS Owner Ian Rotten, and the CZW fans from the East Coast brought a total of 177,000 thumbtacks. A new title, the WWE 24/7 Championship was created by WWE with the same concept as the WWE Hardcore Championship in 2019. International Wrestling Association of Japan, does allow pinfalls and submissions outside of the ring, International Wrestling Association (IWA), Daniel Bryan def. W*ING was the first promotion to stage barbed wire baseball bat matches, and they were only really contested on a few occasions. The matches are generally fought under Streetfight rules. The federation featured many future North American stars, and became very popular worldwide. Cactus Jack and The CryptKeeper fought Leatherface and Shoji Nakamaki in a Barbed Wire Brick Death Match on 7/3/95. Deathmatch, also known as free-for-all, is a widely used gameplay mode integrated into many shooters, including first-person shooter (FPS), and real-time strategy (RTS) video games.Normally the goal of a deathmatch game is to kill (or "frag") as many other players as possible until a certain condition or limit is reached, commonly a frag limit or a time limit. There were four in total, two at two sides of the ring. IWA Japan staged a Nail Hell Match featuring Leatherface I and Leatherface II vs. Shoji Nakamaki and Hiroshi Ono on December 21st, 1994. Matsunaga was stuck inside the tank for a few seconds till a few wrestlers made the save. Basically, there is a tray placed in the middle of the ring, and thousands of thumbtacks are poured into it. Eddie Gilbert was the initial booker, and was replaced a few months later by Paul Heyman. This is basically the standard ladder match, except the ladder is wrapped in barbed wire. It was Matsunga vs Shadow WX in a match where the loser must fight a crocodile!. You must throw your opponent through a table off an elevated surface before you can pin them. However, the ‘glass’ idea was out, and the Japanese fans were craving it. Hardcore contrasts with traditional mat-based wrestling, where solid technical skills are preferred over hardcore's stuntworks, blood, sweat, gore, and severe shock value. New match types were devised that resembled street fighting, such as matches which were held in a cage, Texas Deathmatches which incorporated weapons, and Lights Out matches which were 'unsanctioned' and took place after the rest of the scheduled card, once the house lights had briefly been turned off to signify the end of the event. Some boards with nails were hanged on the ring ropes and on to opposing sides of the ring, there was a board, on one side there was Nails and on the other Barbed Wire. It aired on June 12, 2019. Go behind the scenes as you hear from the men who risk it all to entertain the fans. The two promotions ended about the same time, and National Wrestling Alliance Eastern Championship Wrestling took their place, with many of the same wrestlers and venues. One of the first fire matches was held in 1992, and saw Tarzan Goto and Atsushi Onita clash with Sabu and his 68-year old Uncle, The Sheik. In the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment, ladder matches, which had become more common, were now combined with tables and weapons matches to create Tables, Ladders, and Chairs matches. This form of title is defended under hardcore rules, and title changes are frequent. The standard barbed wire match is to wrap horizontally three strands of the wire between the ropes, stretching around all four ring posts. New elements included fluorescent light tubes, scattered thumb tacks, flaming ropes and live piranhas. On the fringe of wrestling is Deathmatch, where wrestlers battling with barbed wire, razor blades and broken glass, challenge the idea that wrestling is fake. By now the “hardcore” or “deathmatch” style included not only chairs and tables but barbed wire, fire, bricks, nails, and even explosives.