As Dave Meltzer from the Wrestling Observer said, the sports-style announcing on these two new FMW tapes from Tokyopop, "The Flying Assassin" and "Yokohama Deathmatch" is 100% improved-- compared to the old style ICP-like announcing on the old FMW tapes (on the "old" FMW tapes, Tokyopop hired three Hollywood scriptwriters to write jokes & bad storylines that the announcers had to read off of).

There's always room for improvement, but John Watanabe and Dan Lovranski do a good job on "The Flying Assassin" and the other new tape, doing straight calling of the action, and getting over some of the history of the original FMW angles that newer fans may not be familiar with.

I also agree with a DVD review on the 1wrestling site on these new style FMW tapes, that if you're a new fan or American wrestling fan who is not familiar with FMW, these new Tokyopop tapes are a good introduction to the new fan (if you're an old fan who has already seen these matches via bad quality underground tapes, these matches will seem old). These days, every wrestling fan knows that there should be more alternatives out there besides just WWF wrestling, and with Hayabusa's spectacular moves and great matches on "Flying Assassin" (Hayabusa vs. Mike Awesome is my favorite on this tape), I think this FMW tape is a good alternative, as well as an FMW initiation for the newer fan. --A Reviewer from Amazon.com

Starring: The wrestlers of Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling

Rating: NR  

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