Year End Spectacular (1995) was the second Year End Spectacular

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event produced by

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(FMW). The event took place on December 21, 1995, at the Bunka Gym in

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. The event aired as a television special on on January 26, 1996. The

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was a mixed match between FMW and

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as the team of

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and

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defeated

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and

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. The other major match on the card was a Caribbean Barbed Wire Double Hell Glass Death Match between members of the W*ING Alliance as

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, Jason the Terrible and

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defeated Super Leather,

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and Hido.

Event

Preliminary matches

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defeated Gosaku Goshogawara in the opening match of the event by performing a

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. Kaori Nakayama and Miwa Sato competed in the first joshi match of the event, which Nakayama won by pinning Sato with a

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defeated Yukari Ishikawa with a STF. Katsutoshi Niiyama took on

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in a match, which Niiyama won by performing a Uranage. The

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team of

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and

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defended the

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against Lethal Weapon members

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and Horace Boulder. Near the end of the match, Oya performed a

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on Ikeda to win the title.

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of the FMW team took on Lethal Weapon's Mr. Pogo. Pogo knocked out Tanaka by hanging him with a chain.

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and

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took on

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and Bison Kimura in a match, which Kudo and Kong won after Kudo performed a sunset flip powerbomb on Toyoda to win the match. The W*ING Alliance members competed against each other in a Caribbean Barbed Wire Double Hell Glass Death Match as

, Jason the Terrible and

took on Super Leather,

and Hido. Near the end of the match, Kanemura would be thrown into the barbed wire glass outside of the ring, and tortured by forcing to lay in it while Hosaka and Jason continued to kick his body around in the glass. Jason performed a '' Northern Lights Bomb'' on Hido to win the match.

Main event match

The main event match was a

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involving wrestlers from FMW and

(MPW), in which the team of

and

took on

and

. Hayabusa performed a '' Phoenix Splash'' on Fuji to win the match.

Results

References

{{FMWPPV, Year End Spectacular 1995 in professional wrestling FMW Year End Sensation 1995 in Japan December 1995 in Japan Organized events in Yokohama Professional wrestling shows in Yokohama