He was usually utilized in martial arts fights during his FMW career and won the promotion's World Light Heavyweight Championship three times.

[2] Ueda's first professional wrestling match in FMW took place in the Battle Resistance Tournament on January 7, 1990, where he lost to Mitsuhiro Matsunaga in the opening round.

[3] Initially a villain, Ueda headlined the July 16 show against company's top star Atsushi Onita in a martial arts match, which FMW dubbed "different style fight".

[6] On September 25, Ueda defeated The Shooter, Ricky Fuji and Jimmy Backlund to win a tournament for the vacant AWA World Light Heavyweight Championship.

[9] The following month, Ueda lost a mixed style fight to former WWA World Martial Arts Heavyweight Champion Grigory Verichev via knockout at 2nd Anniversary Show.

[13] Ueda regained the title by defeating Luther for his third WWA World Martial Arts Junior Heavyweight Championship on September 7.

[2] At 4th Anniversary Show, Ueda teamed with Tarzan Goto and The Great Punk against Team Canada's Big Titan, Ricky Fuji and The Gladiator in a captain's fall losing captain leaves town no rope barbed wire tornado street fight deathmatch.