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| Acronym | W*ING |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Founder(s) | Kazuyoshi Osako Mickey Ibaragi |
| Defunct | 2001 |
| Style | Hardcore wrestling |
| Headquarters | Japan |
W*ING Terrorists (acronym for Wrestling's International New Generation) was a Japanese professional wrestling promotion specialized in deathmatches.
History[]
After leaving Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling in the summer of 1991, Kazuyoshi Osako and Kiyoshi "Mickey" Ibaragi founded Wrestling International New Generations (W*ING), with Osako as President and Ibaragi as Vice President. They would also lure away Mr. Pogo and Victor Quinones from FMW, taking away their number one heel and booker/talent exchanger.
Their first show took place on August 7, 1991, at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo. W*ING would also have a talent exchange relationship with Puerto Rico-based World Wrestling Council, as well as sharing WWC's Caribbean Heavyweight and World Junior Heavyweight Championships between the two promotions. On March 21, 1994, W*ING closed its doors due to the massive loss of money. Quinones would later form International Wrestling Association of Japan later that year.
In 1994, former W*ING Terrorist wrestlers like Mr. Pogo, Mr. Violent Danger (Mitsuhiro Matsunaga), Hideki "Grunge Boy" Hosaka, Bad Boy Hideo, and Yukihiro Kanemura joined FMW and formed a W*ING Alliance instead of 'terrorists', which had the motive of ending FMW as they held Atsushi Onita and his FMW responsible for ending W*ING Terrorist promotional organization. The W*ING storyline carried on for three years before the stable was forced to disband on September 28, 1997.
Since 1995, Ibaragi has held several one-off W*ING reunion shows until 2010.
Mr. Pogo formed an offshoot promotion in 2001 called World W*ING Spirit (WWS), which would last until his death on June 23, 2017.
Roster[]
- Boogie Man
- Freddie Krueger
- Fukumen Taro
- Gedo
- Hideki Hosaka
- Hirofumi Miura
- Hiroshi Shimada
- Hiroyoshi Kotsubo
- Ichiro Yaguchi
- Jado
- Jet Jaguar
- Katsumi Hirano
- Kazuhiko Matsuzaki
- Koichiro Kimura
- Leatherface
- Masaru Toi
- Masayoshi Motegi
- Jason "The Terrible X" Voohries
- Mitsuhiro Matsunaga
- Mitsunobu Kikuzawa
- Mongolman
- Mr. Pogo
- Ryo Miyake
- Shoji Nakamaki
- Viking Taniguchi
- W*ING Kanemura
- The W*inger
Championships[]
| Championship: | Last champion(s): | Date won: |
|---|---|---|
| W*ING Heavyweight Championship | Crypt Keeper | June 2, 1995 |
| W*ING World Junior Heavyweight Championship | Canadian Tiger | April 29, 1993 |
| W*ING World Tag Team Championship | The Headhunters (Headhunter A and Headhunter B) | May 9, 1993 |
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