Atsushi Onita
Atsushi Onita | |
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Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Japan | |
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | Atsushi Onita Mr. Onita The Great Nita |
Billed height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) |
Billed weight | 99 kg (218 lb) |
Trained by | Masio Koma Giant Baba Dick Beyer Terry Funk |
Debut | April 14, 1974 |
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Atsushi Onita (大仁田 厚, Ōnita Atsushi, born October 25, 1957)
Onita founded FMW in 1989, defeating
He held the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship a record seven times and headlined the first six editions of FMW's premier Anniversary Show event from 1989 to 1995.
Professional wrestling career
All Japan Pro Wrestling and first retirement (1974–1985)
Onita was the first true graduate of the All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) dojo (Jumbo Tsuruta had debuted first, but he had trained in Amarillo, Texas, with Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk), debuting on April 14, 1974. In his early days he teamed with dojo classmate Masanobu Fuchi, who debuted only a few weeks after him. He was known as a loyal ring attendant to AJPW promoter Giant Baba, who had accepted him into the dojo despite not having graduated from high school. In the late '70s and the early '80s, he and Fuchi toured Memphis, Tennessee, winning the AWA Southern Tag Team titles three times.
When the
Pioneer Senshi (1988)
After over three years recuperating from his injuries, Onita returned to the ring in December 1988 for Pioneer Senshi, an independent promotion, losing a martial arts-inspired bout to Ryuma Go.
Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion (1989–1993)
Following his return to the ring, Onita issued a challenge to the wrestlers of the
The first
Onita's first
Onita lost the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship to
Onita and Goto reunited once again and they participated in the
Onita continued his success by winning the
Second retirement (1994–1995)
On January 6, 1994, Onita lost the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship to Mr. Pogo in a street fight.[33] After losing the title, Onita began his next feud with Genichiro Tenryu after the team of Onita and Tarzan Goto defeated Tenryu and Ashura Hara at Wrestling and Romance's Revolution Rumble when Onita pinned Tenryu.[34] Onita and Tenryu competed in a no ropes exploding barbed wire deathmatch at 5th Anniversary Show on May 5, which stipulated that if Onita lost, he must retire from professional wrestling. Tenryu defeated Onita to even the scores and then Onita debuted his "Mr. Liar" character by saying that he was not going to retire immediately and that the retirement stipulation would take place a year later.[2][35] Onita began his retirement tour which would conclude at the following year's 6th Anniversary Show. Onita reunited with Tenryu as the two teamed with Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow at WAR's 2nd Anniversary Show and the trio won a Six-Man Tag Team Tournament.[36]
On July 31, Onita teamed with Mitsuhiro Matsunaga to defeat Mr. Pogo and
On December 1, Onita debuted his
On March 30, Great Nita lost to Pogo Daiyo in a lumberjack match.[45] Mr. Pogo refused to be Onita's opponent at 6th Anniversary Show and then Takashi Ishikawa was finally selected as the ace until Hayabusa interrupted Onita at a press conference and volunteered to be his opponent at the event as Hayabusa had been convinced by Shoichi Arai, whom Onita had sold the company around this time. Hayabusa was ultimately selected to be Onita's opponent in his retirement match.[2] Just one day shy of his retirement match, Onita defeated Pogo in a barbed wire double hell deathmatch to win his record-setting seventh and final Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship on May 4.[46] The following night at the 6th Anniversary Show, Onita successfully defended the title against Hayabusa in a no ropes exploding barbed wire deathmatch.[47] After the match, Onita vacated the title due to his retirement from wrestling to pursue an acting career.[2] During this time, he starred in the movie Dan Gan (Japanese for "bullet"), which would later be adopted as the nickname for Onita's pupil, Masato Tanaka. Onita's acting career flopped and he ventured a return to wrestling.
Return (1996–1997)
After a sabbatical (getting his high school diploma, as he had dropped out of high school when he was 16), Onita made a surprise return to FMW on March 15, 1996, along with his former rivals
Onita had supposedly returned to the company for only one match until he began working part-time for the company on March 14, 1997, by teaming with
ZEN and Team Zero (1997–1998)
Onita headlined the
On October 19, Onita and Yukihiro Kanemura defeated Mr. Gannosuke and Hisakatsu Oya to win the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship.[54] Funk Masters of Wrestling came to an end as its leader Terry Funk left FMW, while the remaining members Mr. Gannosuke, Hisakatsu Oya and The Gladiator joined ZEN, which had now become the main villainous group in FMW against the FMW team led by Hayabusa.[48] Onita and Kanemura were stripped of the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship in November due to Onita's inactivity and ZEN also lost the World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship to Hayabusa, Hisakatsu Oya and Masato Tanaka during the Super Extreme Wrestling War tour.[55] During this tour, Mr. Gannosuke and Yukihiro Kanemura, along with Hido, grew upset at Onita for booking himself in the main event match on December 19 against Masato Tanaka instead of booking Gannosuke and Kanemura's match.[48] This exploded when the team of Hayabusa, Jinsei Shinzaki and Masato Tanaka defeated Atsushi Onita, Mr. Gannosuke and Yukihiro Kanemura in a WarGames match on December 22.[56] After the match, Gannosuke and Kanemura attacked Onita and quit ZEN, along with Hido and Koji Nakagawa joined Onita as ZEN's newest member. As a result, Onita reverted to being face along with ZEN.[48]
ZEN began feuding with the newly formed
After the breakup of ZEN, Onita took a hiatus as he was unhappy with his position in the company. He made an appearance for FMW's working partner Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) on June 26 by costing The Sandman and Tommy Dreamer, a match against Dudley Boyz to set up a no ropes exploding barbed wire deathmatch against Sandman in ECW but the match never took place as Onita returned to FMW on July 20 to rescue Shoichi Arai from an assault by Team No Respect.[48] At Atsushi Onita Presents Liar, Liar on August 11, Onita released his former ZEN teammates Hideki Hosaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda from Team No Respect's slavery and saved Shoichi Arai's job as FMW President by defeating TNR in a weapons deathmatch.[61] On August 21, Onita formed a group called Team Zero with Kuroda, Hosaka, Yoshinori Sasaki and Mr. Pogo #2 and the group feuded with TNR throughout the fall of 1998.[62] Onita's former rival Mr. Pogo returned to FMW and the two feuded with each other, with Onita defeating Pogo in a match on November 20 to end their rivalry in FMW once and for all.[63] This would be Onita's last match and last appearance in FMW as he left the company after the match as Shoichi Arai refused to restore him as the promotion's ace due to Onita receiving backlash from FMW's roster due to his reputation as an egomaniac and selfish.[62]
Freelancing (1998–present)
He used the promotional names "USO" (
Onita made a few appearances for
In 2001, he returned to AJPW for one night only, at the Tokyo Dome, to team with Terry Funk against Abdullah the Butcher and Giant Kimala. Whereas AJPW fans had already known Funk and Abdullah's willingness to brawl, Onita also played a huge part in the match, and his team emerged victorious.
In 2002, following FMW's closure Onita appeared briefly in WEW, run by Hiromichi Fuyuki. The storyline saw Onita blaming Fuyuki's "Entertainment Pro Wrestling" business strategy and supposed embezzlement of money for causing FMW to close, and appeared to be paving the road to an eventual match between Onita and Fuyuki before Fuyuki abruptly announced his retirement due to cancer that would eventually claim his life in March 2003.
Onita attempted to resurrect the FMW name with another promotion (called Onita FMW since he did not own the rights to the FMW name), but the promotion would fold after only three months. Onita would retire once again on September 23, 2003, losing a death match to
In the late 2000s and early 2010s, Onita kept on bringing Death Matches, (though mostly six-man affairs with Ichiro Yaguchi as one of his frequent partners), to promotions such as
In April 2015, FMW was again resurrected with Onita as its central wrestler.[64]
On July 11, 2016, Onita announced the foundation of a new promotion named Fire Puroresu, which was set to hold its first show on August 26.[65][66] On July 24, Onita fractured his right arm in a match, where he lost the Bakuha-ō Championship to Masakatsu Funaki, putting his participation in Fire Puroresu's inaugural event at risk.[67]
On November 27, 2016, Onita returned to All Japan, where he and fellow first class graduate Masanobu Fuchi defeated
On May 10, 2017, Onita announced his retirement tour, which would conclude with his final match on October 31. Onita's plans for Kawasaki Stadium had fallen through and his final match would instead take place at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. Onita claimed that this, his seventh retirement, would be his "true" retirement.[71] On June 20, Onita and Fuchi lost the All Asia Tag Team Championship back to Aoki and Sato.[72] Onita's retirement tour also took him to the United States, where he worked for Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) on August 5.[73] Prior to his actual retirement, Onita retired the Great Nita character on August 27.[74] On October 31, Onita's retirement took place in a six-man barbed wire match, where he teamed with Kai and Shingo Takagi to defeat Nosawa Rongai, Kazuyuki Fujita and Kendo Kashin by pinning Rongai.[75]
However, Onita came out of retirement, the following year, on October 28, 2018, for Pro Wrestling A-Team. Onita fought Matt Tremont to a no-contest. Later, the latter wanted him to be his tag team partner against Masada and DJ Hyde.
On May 6, 2021, Onita announced the formation of a new promotion that would focus on Explosion Matches. The promotion is called FMWE, and they plan to have events shown online for fans to see all over the world. Onita also hopes to finally bring real Explosion Matches to the United States. At the press conference for FMWE it was also announced that the first show would be held on July 4, 2021, at Tsurumi Fruit and Vegetable Market in Yokohama City.[76]
On October 31, 2021, in Trenton, NJ at the Trenton Thunder Ballpark, Onita stepped into the ring again with Matt Tremont to have an Exploding Barbed Wire Deathmatch. The match was promoted by FMWE and Tremont's H2O Wrestling.[77]
Political career
Though he originally dropped out of high school, Onita returned to finish his education when he was in his late thirties. In 2001, he won the 19th House of Councilors election as a representative of the
Like fellow professional wrestler, Scott Steiner, Onita has also claimed to have broken Wilt Chamberlain's record of sleeping with 20,000 women. Coincidentally, his exit from politics was forced by a sex scandal in which he was alleged to have used government accommodations to host a threesome with a pornographic film actress and a female employee of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation.[78] After retirement from politics, he lent his name and image to a Nintendo DS game, Atsushi Onita's Political Quiz.[79]
Championships and accomplishments
- All Japan Pro Wrestling
- All Asia Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Masanobu Fuchi (1), Yoshitatsu (1) and Toy Kojima (1)
- NWA International Junior Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Continental Wrestling Association
- Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre
- Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
- FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship (7 times)[Note 1]
- W*ING Kanemura(1)
- FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hido (1), Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda (1), Masato Tanaka and Hideki Hosaka (1), and Hideki Hosaka and Sean Guinness (1)
- United States Championship (1 time)[29]
- Barbed Wire Deathmatch Tournament (1991)
- World's Strongest Tag Team Tournament (1992)– with Tarzan Goto
- Street Fight Tag Team Tournament (1992) – with Grigory Verichev
- Six Man Tag Team Tournament (1994)– with Tarzan Goto and Sambo Asako
- Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
- Onita Pro
- Barbed-Wire Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (2 time) – with Mitsunobu Kikuzawa (1), Exciting Yoshida and Mitsunobu Kikuzawa(1)
- Barbed-Wire Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship (2 time) – with
- Pro Wrestling Illustrated
- Pro Wrestling Zero1
- Blast King Championship (3 times)[84][85][86]
- Blast King Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chigusa Nagayo[87]
- Tokyo Sports
- Best Tag Team Award (2015) with Chigusa Nagayo[88]
- Effort Award (1979)[89]
- Fighting Spirit Award (2014)[90]
- Match of the Year (1990) vs. Tarzan Goto on August 4[89]
- Match of the Year (1994) with Tarzan Goto vs. Genichiro Tenryu and Ashura Hara on March 2[89]
- Outstanding Performance Award (1991)[89]
- Special Award (1989)[89]
- Topic Award (1991)
- Wrestler of the Year (1990)[89]
- Wrestle Association "R"
- Crusher Bam Bam Bigelow
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
- Most Disgusting Promotional Tactic (1990) Stabbing of José González storyline
- Best Babyface(1993, 1994)
- Most Charismatic(1994)
- Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)
Video games
- Super Famicom
- Itsu Demo Doko Demo: Onita Atsushi no Seiji Quiz DS, a political quiz game released by Milestone in 2007 for the Nintendo DS
Footnotes
- ^ Onita's first reign was as WWA Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion. His second, third, and fourth reigns were as WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Champion. His final three reigns were as FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Champion.
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External links
- Atsushi Onita at IMDb
- Atsushi Onita on Twitter
- Atsushi Onita's channel on YouTube
- Official Blog (in Japanese)
- puroresu.com: Atsushi Ōnita
- Puroresu Central profile
- Atsushi Onita's profile at Cagematch.net , Wrestlingdata.com , Internet Wrestling Database