FMW 9th Anniversary Show

This led FMW owner Shoichi Arai to broadcast the 9th Anniversary Show on April 30, 1998, on pay-per-view and named it Entertainment Wrestling Live.

[6] Following Gannosuke's title win, an eight-man single elimination tournament was set up in March to determine the #1 contender for the title at Entertainment Wrestling Live which included former champion Tanaka, Hayabusa, The Gladiator, Yukihiro Kanemura, Jado, Hisakatsu Oya, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda.

[7] On March 29, Gannosuke and Kanemura lost the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship to Kodo Fuyuki and Hido.

[9] On April 21, Hayabusa's friend Jinsei Shinzaki announced that he would leave FMW after Entertainment Wrestling Live and he defeated Gannosuke in a non-title match to end their long running feud.

[12] Gannosuke and his allies merged with Fuyuki-Gun to form a new group Team No Respect to feud with ZEN as all of them were jealous of Onita pushing himself as a main eventer at the expense of the entire FMW roster.

The next match was a three-way dance between Hisakatsu Oya, Koji Nakagawa and Chris Chetti from Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW).

Fuji fought Gedo and both men fell out of the ring and Kronus delivered a Chokeslam for another near-fall and then Jado kicked him in the groin and performed a Brainbuster to win the match.

The Gladiator and Tetsuhiro Kuroda represented ZEN against Team No Respect members Horace Boulder and Super Leather.

[1][2][3] The final match on the undercard pitted ZEN leader Atsushi Onita against TNR member Kodo Fuyuki.

He attempted to slam him down to the mat but Hayabusa countered with a dragon suplex and performed a Phoenix Splash to win the titles.

[15] New Footloose won the Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship by defeating Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka on May 27.

Fuyuki continued his role as the top villain and ultimately defeated Hayabusa to capture the Double Championship on November 20.

Masato Tanaka and The Gladiator left FMW and joined ECW where they continued their rivalry and competed there for the rest of the year.

Gladiator would compete there under the ring name "Mike Awesome" and the two exchanged the ECW World Heavyweight Championship with each other in 1999.