Hayabusa storyline

[Guest Black Tiger]

I was reading some FMW tape reviews and found a great storyline involving Hayabusa and Mr. Gannosuke. But since the reviews aren't all chronological it's hard to fit it all together.  Here's what I got so far.

 

Hayabusa and Gannosuke were childhood friends who joined FMW together, Gannosuke left and came back to get Hayabusa. Hayabusa won a mask VS hair match. Gannosuke, Kanemura, Jado, Gedo and Fuyuki formed Team No Respect.  Ganosuke won the FMW title, Hayabusa won it from him at the first PPV, Gannosuke got hurt.

 

Jump to a while later and Hayabusa is now H, he fights "Hayabusa" (Gannosuke) and unmasks him. Suddenly they are friends now.  

 

What the hell happened in between Hayabusa's win and H?

 

Then the are teaming up against Masato Tanaka and Kanemura and H become Hayabusa again. Then on the next PPV they hate each other again.  When and why did they start to feud again?

 

Finlay on an unrelated note, who is Darkside of Hayabusa?

[Guest MRFTW]

I'm probably wrong about alot of this but

 

"What the hell happened in between Hayabusa's win and H?"

 

Some how Fuyuki became the commishoner of FMW, he used his power to force Hayabusa to either unmask and wrestle under his real name or leave FMW. Soon after Hayabusa took on the H gimmick. Fuyuki also made Ganosuke wrestle as fake Hayabusa. Ganosuke didn't particularly like doing it though(wanting to just be himself) and finally he just unmasked himself and turned against Fuyuki and became friends with Busa again.

 

"Then the are teaming up against Masato Tanaka and Kanemura"

 

I think Tanaka became jealous of the attention Busa and Gano were getting or something like that so he turned against them and alinged himself with ECW and that led to the whole  ECW Japan storyline.

 

"and H become Hayabusa again."

 

i'm not sure the storyline reason for this but the fans didn't like H as much as Hayabusa so that's why he returned to the gimmick.

 

"Then on the next PPV they hate each other again.  When and why did they start to feud again?"

 

Gano thought H was getting a little too arogant and big headed (calling himself superstar Hayabusa and stuff) so that led to them fueding again.

 

"Finlay on an unrelated note, who is Darkside of Hayabusa?"

 

I think Darkside Hayabusa is just a name Hayabusa started calling himself for a short period of time, i'm not sure why.

[Guest Carbon Tiger]

>Finlay on an unrelated note, who is Darkside of Hayabusa?

 

Darkside of Hayabusa was the evil side of Hayabusa dressed in darker colors with remixed music and far more heelish. He usally had to be pushed very far to become this character.

[Guest Thomas Moore]

"Then the are teaming up against Masato Tanaka and Kanemura"

 

I think Tanaka became jealous of the attention Busa and Gano were getting or something like that so he turned against them and alinged himself with ECW and that led to the whole  ECW Japan storyline.

Actually, a heel Masato Tanaka (jealous of H & Ganosuke getting a shot at the tag championship while Tanaka felt he was being overlooked) teamed up with Tetsuhiro Kuroda just to spite H & Ganosuke, and then when Kuroda lost the tag match, Tanaka feuded with Kuroda.

 

Tanaka was aligned with ECW in America. After Kodo Fuyuki lost a loser leaves FMW match against Tanaka at FMW's Judgment Day, Fuyuki came back, claiming to be a part of ECW Japan.

[Guest Dace59]

H was a failed brawler gimmick wans't it.

 

And I think Darkside of Hayabusa was for FMW "Welcome To The Darkside" show.

It was the one were Hayabusa messed up the SSP on Awesome and landed neckfirst on him I thinhk.

 

This is only what I remember from what I've read. So any corrections are welcome, it'll fill me in on details.

[Guest MRFTW]

"when Kuroda lost the tag match, Tanaka feuded with Kuroda"

 

Oh yeah, I forgot about that Kuroda part.

 

 

"Fuyuki came back, claiming to be a part of ECW Japan."

 

If i'm not mistaken Fuyuki's ECW japan guys eventually turned on him to allign with Tanaka

 

 

"H was a failed brawler gimmick wans't it"

 

No, I wouldn't call it a brawler gimmick since it wasn't his wrestling that changed as much as it was his attitude.

[Guest Thomas Moore]

Even though Hayabusa as "H" still did some of the old high-flying Hayabusa high spots in doses in his matches, one of the supposed reasons why he took on the "H" persona was to cut down a little bit on the high risk Hayabusa spots (which did cause injury and/or took a toll on him) and to become more of an edgy character who stay more grounded and played more aggressively while staying more sure-footed.

[Guest Thomas Moore]

When Hayabusa was the "H" character, a new move was added to his repetoire, which was often used as his new finisher. It was called "The H Edge" (basically The Rock Bottom or Booker T's Book End), which is obviously not a high risk high flying move, and which would allow "H" to have a new finisher while staying sure-footed, with less injury risk.

[Guest Thomas Moore]

Oh yeah, I also remember that along with the "H Edge", Hayabusa as H also added the "H Thunder" to his new set of moves (which was a form of a side suplex). So I'd say yes, H was kind of a brawler gimmick, and the H Edge and H Thunder were new moves added to take away a little from all the high flying.

[Guest Pegasus Kid]

http://www.wepso.org/Hayabio.html

 

Read... learn... enjoy.

[Guest]

What was ECW Japan?

Justin also on that page you gave I found this-

January 8, 2000, H suffers an humiliating lost in a tag match with Mr. Gannosuke against Kodo Fuyuki and Kyoko Inoue as he pinned FMW newcomer and women's wrestler Kyoko Inoue after Balls Mahoney interferes to setup the upset victory. This makes Kodo Fuyuki and Kyoko Inoue the number 1 contenders for the WEW Tag Team Titles.

Kyoko Inoue is a female right? Was she in FMW to only do mixed matches because I don't think they had a female division. Also can you clarify that statement. It sounds like Gannosuke and H lost after Balls beat up Kyoko for them. That can't be right. ???

[Guest MRFTW]

"What was ECW Japan?"

 

A group that Fuyuki lead made up of a few FMW and ECW wrestlers.

 

"Kyoko Inoue is a female right?"

 

Yep

 

"Was she in FMW to only do mixed matches because I don't think they had a female division."

 

They had one at one time but it was pretty much gone by the time she got thear. She did mixed matches and regular matches against other girls that were brought in from some of the other feds.

 

"Also can you clarify that statement. It sounds like Gannosuke and H lost after Balls beat up Kyoko for them. That can't be right."

 

I think they meant Gano and H lost after Balls helped Kyoko and Fuyuki.

[Guest]

Did she get clean wins over the guys? I never have heard of them doing many mixed matches in Japan. How big is she, in size?

[Guest MRFTW]

"Did she get clean wins over the guys?"

 

Here's the results of all(I think) of her mixed matches

 

http://homepages.which.net/~james.phillips/kyokomix.htm