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Eiji Ezaki was born on November 29, 1968 in Kumamoto, Yatsushiro Japan.
Eiji Ezaki started watching wrestling in 1976 and with Mil Mascaras being his first favorite wrestler to watch. As the years went by in the early 80's his favorite wrestler became Tiger Mask. Ezaki continued to follow and love wrestling throughout his teenage years in high school. Although Ezaki never thought he would ever become a wrestler he did train in Judo in high school as almost every male participated in a sport while in high school.
In 1987, Eiji Ezaki at the age of 18 would attend Kumamoto University and begin weight training at the local college gym, he would meet a student by the name of Masashi Honda and the two would begin to bond right away due to their love of wrestling. Honda would eventually convince Ezaki to begin training for the sport despite Ezaki's doubt it would turn into anything as he felt at 160 pounds he was much too small wrestling..
Both Ezaki and Honda would begin participating in the regional Kumamoto training promotion Syodai Wrestling Association. It would to allow young men who were interested in wrestling to wrestle in front of people and learn about how to work matches.
After graduating from college in 1991, Honda would call Ezaki that he would be having a tryout for the FMW Dojo and hoped that Ezaki would join him. Ezaki only at 22 would originally say no to Honda's offer causing Honda to hang up on him right afterwards. Ezaki would think about it all night and would eventually feel that he did not want to live a life of regret and decided that he would join Honda and go to Tokyo to train for the only Dojo holding tryouts at the time in the FMW Dojo. Ezaki would pack his bags for one week figuring he would not stay long before getting cut and going back home due to his lack of weight. Ezaki's decision would also not be condoned by his parents who were the owners of a very rich hotel line in Japan. When Ezaki would make the decision to enter the wrestling business despite their negative reaction to it, he would be cut off from his parents wealthy inheritance of the hotel chain that they had planned for him to work for after college. Ezaki feeling was that he did not want a boring office job, and wanted to try something that he loved to do it and was willing to make that sacrifice. It would take many years for his years for his parents to finally fully accept his decision on his profession in life.
The two would enter the FMW Dojo with 40 other people with Tarzan Goto assigned as their trainer, and before they even got started, Eiji and Honda were force to do 500 squats, 100 sit ups and many other physical obstacles to prove themselves worthy to enter into the FMW Dojo. Only two people would pass of the 40 people trying out and they would be Masashi Honda and Eiji Ezaki as they were officially accepted in the FMW Dojo. To celebrate the occasion, Atsushi Onita would come up with the idea of putting bottle rockets on their ass and would light it. This would cause much publicity for the two by the Japanese magazines for such an extreme act.
Ezaki and Honda would become the newest members of the FMW Dojo as Yukihide Ueno and Katsutoshi Niiyama known as The Shooter would also be living in the Dojo although they had both already made their debuts in FMW. Life in the Dojo would be extremely hard as they would be woken up at 6 AM to workout and then eat breakfast before having to work a day job at a small office until 5 PM to earn money. Then they would have to go to the grocery store and get food for dinner. Then they would start working out again until 6 PM until 11 PM. Then they would eat dinner and have to scrub and clean the Dojo before finally getting to bed around 2 AM. It would be like 6 days a week with only Sunday being the day to catch up on their sleep. Also, with Tarzan Goto as the main instructor he would randomly come in at 2 AM after everyone had just gone to bed and make them work out again for a couple more hours. The only thing Ezaki always had going for him was that he was a fast learner and picked up on everything rather quickly which did not go unnoticed by Tarzan Goto or the other students.
Eiji Ezaki would wrestle his first ever career match by accident as an injury to Amigo Ultra's partner would cause a spot open on the card. FMW would decide to call for Ezaki their top student to fill in as replacement and to make his debut for FMW. Ezaki would make his FMW debut on May 5, 1991 at the Nagoya International Center with Amigo Ultra who would later be known as Damian as they lost to the team of Yukihide Ueno & El Pandita after Ezaki would take the pin.. His second match would be a handicap match as Ezaki teamed with Akihito Ichihara against The Gladiator. It was a quick squash for The Gladiator who was told to just go out there and beat Eiji up badly and make him pay his dues. In Ezaki's mind his first couple of matches were not felt like real debut matches because they were not originally booked for him, but booked for somebody else. On June 22, 1991, Eiji Ezaki wrestled his first singles professional match against Yukihide Ueno, the same day Masashi Honda would made his debut against Akihito Ichihara. Both were very happy with the outcome although Ueno would be rather rough with his own Dojo classmate due to what Ezaki felt as jealousy of being the top student in the Dojo, and Ezaki would consider the match to be his real debut due to it being a singles match booked specifically for him. Ezaki would face off against Honda for the first time on on June 26, 1991 at the Hokkaido Ashikawa Prefectural Gym with Honda getting the victory over Ezaki. Ezaki would follow by getting his first victory over Honda on June 29, 1991.
Eiji Ezaki & Masashi Honda wrestled in the biggest match of their career at the time in the opening match at the biggest FMW show at the time against each other on September 23, 1991 at Kawasaki Stadium. Ezaki would end up getting the win in the first ever FMW match at Kawasaki Stadium after pinning his best friend in what would eventually be the same result in the last ever match for FMW in Kawasaki ten years later.
Eiji Ezaki & Masashi Honda would go back to training in the Dojo and opening FMW shows when FMW Booker and Referee Go Ito felt it was time to take Masashi Honda to the next level and give him a new name. Mr. Gannosuke. Mr. Gannosuke would be one of Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto's teammate in main events of FMW shows while Ezaki would stay in preliminary matches. It was still be considered that Ezaki was the best wrestler out of all the young wrestlers, but that he would need more ring time to be polished to actually be able to reach his potential.
Ezaki was used as a preliminary worker for wrestlers like The Gladiator, Katsuji Ueda, Lance Storm, and Chris Jericho to be put over on house shows., while Gannosuke began to team with Atsushi Onita and Tarzan Goto in the main event on those same house shows. The likes of The Gladiator and Katsuji Ueda, were told to simply beat Ezaki up, make him prove to everyone he was tough enough to be a professional wrestler in FMW. Ezaki would pretty much be nothing but a preliminary punching bag, but he still had his goals to be reached. He wanted to go from first match wrestler to second match wrestler and all the way up the card.
Gannosuke would eventually be taken out of the Dojo as he was now seen as an upper card wrestler while Ezaki remained in the Dojo with newer FMW Dojo students like Koji Nakagawa that he would continue to train with in the Dojo.
July 29, 1992 at Matsuyama Community Center Gym, Eiji Ezaki would wrestle Sabu in their first ever singles match with Sabu getting the easy victory over the young Ezaki. Ezaki who was still a young boy would idolize The Sheik and Sabu although fear them at the same time. Ezaki would earn the respect of both after time and would eventually be considered The Sheik's favorite to where Ezaki could call him "Papa Sheik".
September 19, 1992 at the Yokohama Stadium, Eiji Ezaki and Koji Nakagawa would team up to take on Kevin Faule and Chris Jericho which would be the first ever stadium show for Ezaki as he would end up taking the loss after Jericho would get the pinfall victory over Ezaki. Eiji Ezaki and Koji Nakagawa would be given a shot as they would have the opening match up on May 5, 1993 at Kawasaki Stadium. Ezaki on this show impressed many people with his highflying ability that he had, and many people after the match felt that Eiji Ezaki with a lot work on him could be the next big thing for FMW.
Eiji Ezaki & Koji Nakagawa remained training in the FMW Dojo for most of 1993, and on July 22, 1993 after Atsushi Onita would be attacked by Mr. Pogo, Ezaki would run out to the ring to try and help Onita after Mr. Pogo had blown fire allover Onita's back to protect Onita from any further harm.
In September 1993, FMW would decide for Eiji to be sent to Mexico to the Rey Mysterio Sr.'s WWA promotion which had been partners with FMW for a couple years to polish Ezaki's ring work for him to be able to reach his potential and learn a completley different style of wrestling. Ezaki would have to virtually start all over as nobody knew who he was and he would have to train in the Tijuana Dojo like he had never wrestled before. The Tijuana Dojo would also be completley different than the FMW Dojo as the FMW Dojo focused on squats, push ups, and pulls up in the Tijuana Dojo had you throwing your body all over the place and flying in and out of the ring. Ezaki would meet a young 18 year old Oscar Gutierrez who would become known as Rey Mysterio, Jr. while training for his uncles Dojo. Ezaki growing up as a fan of Mil Mascaras realized that since he was in Mexico that he needed to fit in and came up with his own masked wrestler gimmick. Eiji Ezaki would design his own mask and costume and would name himself "Hayabusa" as "The bird that never dies" before making his first match in Tijuana.
Before leaving for Mexico, Ezaki who was always worried about being too skinny for professional wrestling had managed to get up to 200 pounds after two years of training to gain weight. After his first six months in Mexico he managed to drop back to 180 due to the food not agreeing with his body at all. Ezaki then got the call from FMW that he had been picked to return to Japan to participate in a New Japan event called the Super J Cup as one of Jushin Thunder Liger's choices for the event. Liger who saw much talent in Ezaki wanted him as his first round opponent. Ezaki felt it was much too early to return to Japan as he only been training six months under the highflying style. Ezaki would ask FMW whether he should return to Japan as Eiji Ezaki since that is what Japan knew him as or as Hayabusa which he had only planned on going by in Mexico. They told him it didn't matter and Ezaki chose to debut his Hayabusa gimmick for the first time extremely nervous of the spotlight that was about to fall on him. Yukihide Ueno then known as Battle Ranger was also originally slated in Hayabusa's spot as the masked FMW wrestler for the tournament before the decision was made by FMW to send the more talented Hayabusa to the tournament instead.

April 16, 1994 at the Tokyo Sumo Hall, Eiji Ezaki would debut as Hayabusa for the first time in Japan for New Japan's Super J Cup Tournament in the first round against Jushin Thunder Liger and would quickly jump the legendary Liger and kick him out of the ring before diving out of the ring to floor at him. Hayabusa would show his completely new offense to Japan for the first time to many fans that had never even seen him as a young boy in FMW for years. He was still not polished on many of the highflying moves and although were able to perform the moves, was not able to execute them perfectly. Hayabusa would deliver his first ever Shooting Star Press in Japan but also miss Liger completely and Liger would take advantage and eventually go on to defeat Hayabusa in a well received first match for Eiji Ezaki under his new gimmick as Liger would shake Hayabusa's hand and show him much respect for his skills as the two would eventually become close friends afterwards.
After the potential shown in the J Cup Tournament, Victor Quinones of the IWA Japan promotion, which had yet to start running shows would offer Hayabusa a contract to the IWA Promotion for $3,000 dollar a month, and $10,000 dollar signing bonus to become the top Japanese star of the promotion. Hayabusa would turn down the offer to remain loyal with FMW, and although he would stopped being booked by AAA, he would be earning $500 a week guaranteed by FMW before FMW would make a deal with EMLL to start booking Hayabusa for their shows.

Hayabusa would be sent back to Mexico on April 19, 1994 just three days after his Super J Cup appearance along with Akihito Ichihara also known as Onita Jr., and Ezalo would be brought back to Mexico as Hayabusa in EMLL taking Brazo de Oro's spot as the young flying sensation. Eiji Ezaki would make his debut in Mexico as Hayabusa on May 27, 1994 in Arena Coliseo in Mexico City, teaming with Ciclon Ramirez & Pantera II in a losing effort to Mogur, Javier Cruz, and Cachorro Mendoza. The reports on Hayabusa after the match, were that he lacked experience in Lucha Libre style wrestling, but was obviously an incredible athlete from the moves he would deliver. Hayabusa would wrestle his second match in Mexico and his Arena Mexico debut teaming with Ciclon Ramirez & El Hijo del Solitario to defeat the team of Javier Cruz, Mogur, and Espectro Jr. Hayabusa would also learn how to deliver the 450 Splash after seeing Too Cold Scorpio perform the move while in the rival AAA promotion.
Hayabusa would get to team up with Ultimo Dragon for the first time in his career on June 21, 1994 in Cuernavaca while also teaming up with La Fiera to defeat the defeat the team of Angel Blanco Jr., Los Hijos de Angel Blanco I & II after Dragon would get the pin for the victory. Hayabusa would team up with Ringo Mendoza, and El Hijo del Solitario to defeat Mogur, Jacque Mate, and Tornado Negro on July 5, 1994 at the Arena Coliseo as Hayabusa would slowly begin picking up and improving on the Lucha Libre style. Hayabusa would make his return to Arena Mexico on July 15, 1994 to team with El Hijo del Solitario & Blue Demon Demon, Jr. to defeat the team of Jacque Mate, Mocho Cota, and Cachorro Mendoza.
Hayabusa would then team with Super Astro to enter into a tag team tournament to crown new CMLL Tag Team Champions after the titles were vacated and their first round opponents would be El Dandy & Negro Casas on July 22, 1994 in the main event of Arena Mexico in front of 8000 fans, in Hayabusa's first ever main event match of his career. But Hayabusa & Astro would fail to pass the first round after El Dandy & Negro Casas would come away with the victory to move on. Also entered in the tournament would be the Wild Pegasus Chris Benoit, Vampiro, Miguel Perez, The Headhunters, Takashi Okano, and Silver King. The Headhunters would go on to win the tournament and the titles after defeating Negro Casas and El Dandy in the finals a week later.
Hayabusa would return to Arena Mexico on August 12, 1994 to team up with El Brazo & Brazo dr Oro, who was known to the EMLL fans as the young flying sensation before Hayabusa had came in to lose to Meno Negra, Archangel de la Murete, and El Hijo del Gladiator with Hayabusa again showing growth in the Lucha Libre style of match, and adding his own incredible moves like the 450 Fire Bird Splash, and the Phoenix Splash. Hayabusa would lose his last match before returning home to Japan on August 16, 1994 at Arena Mexico after teaming with El Brazo and Pantera II to lose to the team of Javier Cruz, El Hido del Gladiator, and and Gran Markus, Jr. Hayabusa would then leave Mexico to return to Japan, and make his FMW debut.

August 28, 1994 at the Osaka Castle Hall, Hayabusa was put in a match against Sabu who would be working his last day in FMW before becoming a full time ECW wrestler. Hayabusa who would eventually be compared to Sabu more than any other wrestler would work a hardcore highflying match. Sabu would try a dangerous spot of hitting a 450 Splash off the top rope to the outside onto a table that Hayabusa had moved out of the way of. Sabu would injure his back during the spot and Hayabusa would manage to get his first ever Japanese victory under the Hayabusa gimmick by beating Sabu. Sabu would show respect to Hayabusa afterwards by shaking his hand.
Hayabusa would make his return to EMLL on September 23, 1994 at Arena Mexico teaming with Ultimo Dragon & Masao Orihara to lose to El Satanico, Emilio Charles Jr., and Bestia Salvaje. Hayabusa would make only his second ever appearance in the United States on October 2, 1994 in Houston, Texas teaming with Atlantis and Ringo Mendoza to defeat Felino, Mano Negra, and Pirata Morgan in the main event. After the match, the heels of the losing team would attack Hayabusa and his partners leaving them laying out when Moadib, who would later become Ahmed Johnson would make the save for Hayabusa, Atlantis, and Mendoza.
Hayabusa would team up with Ultimo Dragon and enter into another tournament for the vacant CMLL Tag Team Titles on November 11, 1994 in Arena Mexico to defeat the team of Felino and Mano Negra to get past the first round. While teaming with Dragon, Hayabusa would begin to learn how to use the Asai Moonsault, and would begin incorporating the move in his matches. Hayabusa & Ultimo Dragon would be eliminated from the tournament in the quarter finals on November 18, 1994 in Arena Mexico by the team of Emilio Charles, Jr. and El Santanico, who would go on to win the tournament.
Hayabusa would team up with El Dandy and La Fiera to lose to Black Magic Norman Smiley, Mano Negra, and Mocho Cota at Arena Mexico on December 2, 1994, but Hayabusa would end up suffering his biggest injury at the time after attempting an Asai Moonsault to the floor, but still new to the move, would end slipping off top rope, and end up crashing down to the floor, and smacking his head hard against the concrete. It would be a scary spot, but Hayabusa would go on to recover from it, with only a severe headache for several days as a result. Hayabusa would be considered lucky after the spot gone wrong, and sadly would not be so lucky the next time he would slip attempting an Asai Moonsault years later.
Hayabusa would shortly stop working in Mexico after the scary spot, and would begin wrestling in the Florida Independents from January to April 1995 where he would wrestle in the Florida Wrestling Federation. At the beginning, the fans would laugh at Hayabusa's ring attire by many of the Florida fans screaming to him that he looked like one of the Power Rangers. Hayabusa would end up earning those fans respect by showing off his maneuvers while some were not so crisp, many of the fans were stunned by the maneuvers as how impressive they actually were and a babyface turn would soon come for Hayabusa would defeat The Navy Seal for the PCWF Heavyweight Championship on April 6, 1995. He would wrestle the likes of Green Beret, Vern Henderson, Bill Garrett and would eventually lose the title two weeks after winning it to Randy Fuller on April 20, 1995 in what would be Eiji Ezaki's only match where he would work as a heel. Hayabusa while staying in Florida would train with The Gladiator every day and work over their matches as they both knew without Onita that their matches were going to be a top focus for the promotion. They would originally be scheduled to work a midcard match against each other at Kawasaki Stadium on May 5, 1995 but that would all change.
Hayabusa's trainer Tarzan Goto and best friend Mr. Gannosuke would announce that they would be leaving FMW for IWA. Goto was extremely upset with Onita and would refuse to job to Onita at Onita's Retirement Show on May 5, 1995 because Onita was the one retiring, not Goto setting up Goto to fail as the ace. FMW which would include everyone associated with the promotion from Arai to Go Ito to all the wrestlers would decide that it was time to form a new FMW due to Onita's retirement and knowing that they would not be able to have the success with Onita's style without Onita himself in the promotion would call for Hayabusa to take the spot of Tarzan Goto to main event Kawasaki Stadium and become the new ace of FMW. Hayabusa had always been planned as a top guy for the promotion due to his potential, but everything was about to be thrown at him as he was about to wrestle in the biggest match of his career and then lead a completely new FMW without Onita.April 30, 1995 at a FMW Press Conference in Tokyo, FMW would hold a press conference with Atsushi Onita about to announce Takashi Ishikawa as his Main Event opponent on May 5, 1995 when Hayabusa would interrupt the press conference before Onita can make the announcement and make the challenge to Onita. Onita would become very upset over interrupting his Press Conference but would accept Hayabusa's challenge for his May 5, 1995 Retirement Match.

May 5, 1995 at Kawasaki Stadium, Hayabusa would wrestle in the biggest match of his career by facing the retiring Atsushi Onita in front of over 58,250 fans in a Exploding Ring Barbwire Cage Death Match, the biggest Death Match to ever take place at the time, and the biggest match in the history of FMW. Both wrestlers would shake hands before starting the match. Onita would start off by slapping Hayabusa in the chest, and then attempting to grab Hayabusa in a head lock and sending Hayabusa into the Exploding Cage, but each time, Hayabusa would manage to stop short of hitting the cage. Hayabusa would manage to grab a head lock on Onita, but Onita seeing his opportunity, would attempt to fling Hayabusa into the Exploding Barbwire Cage, but Hayabusa would manage to hold on to the head lock, bringing Onita with him as both would hit the cage for a huge explosion. Hayabusa would take a majority of the explosion, as Onita would easily get up first, and begin working on Hayabusa's leg, from putting him in a Sharpshooter, to getting Hayabusa in a single leg crab. The sirens would begin going off, noting five more minutes until the ring would explode. Onita would finally let go, and put Hayabusa in another headlock, but Hayabusa would shove Onita, breaking the head lock, and sending Onita into the Exploding Barbwire for another explosion. Hayabusa would take advantage of Onita's fall, and would deliver a supplex, and then a standing Moonsault for the cover, with Onita kicking out. Hayabusa would then put Onita, in a Figure Four Leg lock, attempting to make Onita to submit. Onita would begin screaming in pain, due to Hayabusa working on Onita's severe leg injuries that had force him to retire from wrestling ten years earlier, but while in the figure four, Onita would begin slapping Hayabusa in the face and screaming at him, until Hayabusa would fight back with slaps of his own to Onita. Hayabusa would lose concentration of the figure four, and Onita would manage to break out and deliver a Fire Thunder Powerbomb to Hayabusa, with Hayabusa kicking out as the sirens would continue to get louder. Onita would then deliver a DDT, with Hayabusa kicking out. Less than ten seconds would remain until the ring would explode when Hayabusa would get up and deliver a spinning heel kick to Onita, and then charge at Onita, but Onita would move out of the way and send Hayabusa flying into the cage for a huge explosion at the exact time the ring would explode. The safest way to protect your body in a Exploding Cage match is to lay down in the middle of the ring, but Hayabusa would end up being put in the most dangerous position by already hitting the Exploding Barbwire at the same time the ring explosions would set off right next to him. The explosions would end up leaving scars all over Hayabusa's body, but as the smoke of the explosions would clear, Onita would get up and deliver a Fire Thunder Powerbomb to Hayabusa, and Hayabusa would still manage to kick out. Onita would attempt another Thunder Fire Powerbomb, but Hayabusa would manage to reverse it, and turn it into a hurricanrana for the pinfall, but Onita would manage to kick out. Hayabusa would deliver his own Thunder Fire Powerbomb to Onita, and then would begin climbing the barbwire cage that had been deactivated after the explosion. Hayabusa would climb to the top rope, and do one of the most dangerous spots seen in wrestling by moonsaulting off the top of the cage. Onita would manage to move out of the way, and Hayabusa would hit the mat hard and in pain. Onita would get up, with blood running down his arms and would deliver a Thunder Fire Powerbomb to Hayabusa, but Hayabusa would still manage to kick out to an incredibly loud reaction from the thousands of fans. Onita not believing that Hayabusa was able to kick out of the move, would deliver another Thunder Fire Powerbomb, and then follow it up with a third straight Thunder Fire Powerbomb and would finally manage to get the pinfall victory over Hayabusa. Onita would begin pouring water on Hayabusa as a show of a respect for the fight he put on, and to water down the burns that he had suffered. Both Onita would Hayabusa would hold hands as Onita would symbolically be passing the torch of ace of FMW to Hayabusa. Onita would grab Hayabusa up and attempt helping him to walk before Hayabusa would fall down from just the punishment his body would take. Onita would pick up Hayabusa and walk around the ring while pouring water over Hayabusa's body as Onita's Wild Thing would being played, and name would be chanted by the fans. A stretcher would be brought to the ring for Hayabusa, and Hayabusa would be placed on the stretcher, the loud chants of Onita, would begin to become "Ezaki" chants, as Hayabusa would be stretcher to the back. Backstage, an incredibly hurt and mask less Eiji Ezaki would begin to break down in tears from the incredible amount and pain and emotion that he had gone through the match, and would be taken to a near by hospital on the burns and injuries he had received for the match. Hayabusa had attempted everything he could do in one match to show the FMW fans, that he was willing to risk his body on the line, just like Onita did, to become the new ace of FMW.
May 17, 1995 at Saitama Fukaya City Gym, although Onita had sold incredibly well for Hayabusa in his retirement match, the loss Hayabusa suffered would hurt his credibility in the eyes of the fans that had followed Onita and FMW. Although the crowds were going to be down no matter what due to Onita's retirement and the whole promotion being built around Onita since the beginning, it was hard for many of the hardcore fan base of FMW to believe in Hayabusa and the new FMW. Many of the house shows at the beginning would only draw a 1000 fans for the show just twelve days after drawing 58,250 fans for the show with Megumi Kudo as the top draw for FMW. Hayabusa would team up with Katsutoshi Niiyama to face The Gladiator & Horace Boulder, and would be able to show the FMW fans for the first time his highflying skills inside and outside of the ring, and would debut to the fans, a running Moonsault off the top rope to the outside, but when climbing the top rope for a Phoenix Splash, would be caught by The Gladiator, and be hit with a Running Awesome Bomb with The Gladiator scoring the victory for the win. After the match, Ricky Fuji would call out Hayabusa, and question his ability to become the ace of FMW, and that FMW was at its weakest, and his new group consisting of Mr. Pogo, The Gladiator, Hisakatsu Oya, himself, and Horace Boulder called Lethal Weapon would take over the new FMW.
May 28, 1995 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would return to Korakuen Hall for the first time since 1993 as Eiji Ezaki, to team with Katsutoshi Niiyama & Masato Tanaka to face The Gladiator, Hisakatsu Oya, and Ricky Fuji, but again Hayabusa would be pinned by Oya after being nailed with a back supplex on the head and covered by Oya for the Lethal Weapon victory over the New Generation of FMW.
June 27, 1995 at Korakuen Hall, with Onita retired, the FMW Brass Knuckles Championship would become vacated. FMW announced that Hayabusa would wrestle Hisakatsu Oya for this vacated Title. Hayabusa would show the fans a much more slower mat based style match lead by Oya, with Hayabusa getting the victory on Oya after debuting "The Falcon Arrow" to win the FMW Brass Knuckles Championship. After the match, Hayabusa would be presented the belt in the locker room but suffered a injury during the match to his neck and was forced to vacate the Brass Knuckles Title once again.

July 18, 1995 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would team up with Katsutoshi Niiyama against The Gladiator and Hisakatsu Oya with The Gladiator being in control of the match delivering his power moves and Awesome Bombs to Hayabusa. Hayabusa would counter with his moves that many of the FMW fans had never seen before Hayabusa returned to FMW including a moonsault off the top turnbuckle to the outside. Hayabusa would end up getting the pinfall victory after a hurricanrana rollup counter would get the pinfall victory for the win to setup for their upcoming singles match later in the month.

July 30, 1995 at the Tokyo South Owasa Multipurpose Plaza, Hayabusa would face off against The Gladiator in their first singles match. Hayabusa would end up fighting off all of The Gladiator's offense, and multiple Awesome Bombs before turning the match into his style, with Hayabusa using his highflying arsenal on The Gladiator. The Gladiator would attempt a Kamikaze Awesome Bomb on Hayabusa, but Hayabusa would manage to reverse it and deliver a hurricanrana to The Gladiator instead. With The Gladiator down, Hayabusa would begin climbing the top turnbuckle when near tragedy would take place as Hayabusa would attempt a Shooting Star Press, and not turn his body completely over causing only just his face to nail The Gladiator's body. Hayabusa's neck would be injured as a result as well as cut open his lip with blood beginning to soak on Hayabusa's face under the face, but Hayabusa would still keep fighting and even go to the top rope once again looking to deliver the Phoenix Splash, but The Gladiator would end up catching Hayabusa still on the turnbuckle, and would deliver a Running Awesome Bomb with Hayabusa still managing to kick out,, but eventually The Gladiator would finish off Hayabusa with the Kamikaze Awesome Bomb for the pinfall victory. Hayabusa would call out The Gladiator on the mic saying that next time they face in a singles match, that Hayabusa was going to get him. Hayabusa would then be taken to an ambulance for the hospital for x-rays on his neck, and find out that he cracked a vertebra, but would be able to continue wrestle. The fact that Hayabusa's body hit against The Gladiator's body during the fall instead of the mat, as The Gladiator's body had broken the fall, and saved Hayabusa from a very serious injury.
FMW would announce in August 1995 that an 8 man Round Robin Tournament for the vacant FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Title which would culminate on September 26, 1995 at Korakuen Hall. The eight men announced for the tournament would be Hayabusa, The Gladiator, Hisakatsu Oya, Katsutoshi Niiyama, Super Leather, Masato Tanaka, Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, and W*ING Kanemura. Hayabusa would score his first victory in the tournament on August 22, 1995 after defeating Masato Tanaka, and then getting another victory over W*ING Kanemura on August 25, 1995 at Korakuen Hall.
August 31, 1995 at the Osaka Prefectural Gym # 2, Hayabusa had won the three matches of the tournament with only one lost to Super Leather. He was scheduled to have a match with Hisakatsu Oya, a wrestler who Hayabusa had worked very well against. The two would end up having one of the best matches in FMW history as the match would turn out to be a thirty minute limit draw. Oya would spend a majority of the match supplexing Hayabusa on his head.
September 5, 1995 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center, Hayabusa would face The Gladiator after taking severe punishment by The Gladiator, including a Kamikaze Awesome Bomb, and sit out Awesome Bomb, before rolling up The Gladiator with a hurricanrana to score the pinfall victory, and first singles victory over The Gladiator and get revenge on The Gladiator, just like Hayabusa had told The Gladiator in July after his lost to him. It would give Hayabusa seven points in the tournament. Hayabusa would follow up by defeating Katsutoshi Niiyama on September 14, 1995. But Hayabusa would lose his first match on the tournament after being defeated by Super Leather on September 18, 1995 forcing his last match against Mitsuhiro Matsunaga to be a must win, to reach the finals.
September 24, 1995 at Hachioji Civic Hall in Tokyo , The Gladiator would defeat Super Leather earlier to earn a spot in the finals of the Tournament, with Hayabusa facing Mitsuhiro Matsunaga in a winner facing Matsunaga two days later at Korakuen Hall. Hayabusa would take all of Matsunaga's kicks and maneuvers, but would be able to kick out at every pinfall attempt, but Hayabusa would manage to fight back and deliver a Shooting Star Press to Matsunaga to score the victory, and earn the right to fight The Gladiator for the vacant FMW Brass Knuckles Title.

September 26, 1995 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa faces The Gladiator in the finals of the Grand Slam Tournament for the FMW Brass Knuckles Championship. Hayabusa would mostly go after The Gladiator's leg, as well as delivering some of his trademark moves including a moonsault over the top rope to the outside on The Gladiator. Hayabusa would eventually climb the top rope but The Gladiator would climb it as well and win the fight for control over it and The Gladiator would nail a Kamikaze Awesome Bomb off the top rope to get the pinfall victory over Hayabusa to win the tournament for the FMW Brass Knuckles Championship. Both Hayabusa and The Gladiator would embrace after and hug for such a hard fought tournament and finals for the title. Hayabusa would not see another chance at the FMW Brass Knuckles Titles for over two and a half years.

October 28, 1995 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga would team up to take on Masato Tanaka and W*ING Kanemura a bloody fight where Masato Tanaka would pull of Hayabusa's mask in the middle of the match causing which would be the first time Hayabusa's mask would be taken off in a match.. Hayabusa and Matsunaga would still manage to put away Kanemura and Tanaka as Hayabusa would deliver the Falcon Arrow on Tanaka for the pinfall victory. After the match, Hayabusa, Matsunaga, Kanemura, and Tanaka would all show each other respect by raising their hands. But suddenly they would all be attacked by Ricky Fuji, Hisakatsu Oya, The Gladiator, Horace Boulder, and Super Leather. After the attack, Hayabusa & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Masato Tanaka & W*ING Kanemura would all form an alliance together to take out Lethal Weapon and Super Leather.

November 11, 1995 at Korakuen Hall, Kanemura would offer his W*ING friends Hideki Hosaka and Hido to join himself, Hayabusa & Tanaka & Matsunaga to help take out Lethal Weapon. Hosaka would accept, but Hido would reject the offer and side with Lethal Weapon and Super Leather. In the main event of the show, Hayabusa & Kanemura & Tanaka defeat The Gladiator & Hisakatsu Oya & Super Leather after Tanaka would rollup Oya for the victory. Hido would run in and attack Hayabusa & Tanaka, but would be ran off by Kanemura.
November 20, 1995 at the Fukuoka Hakata Star Lanes, Mr. Pogo would return after a short leave from FMW and would side with Lethal Weapon & W*ING and would attack Hayabusa right after a match, unmask him and leave mask less Hayabusa out . Hayabusa questions why Kanemura did not help him out and questions whether he is back with W*ING and Lethal Weapon. Kanemura becomes very upset that Hayabusa would assume such a thing, and leaves.
November 26, 1995 in Gifu, W*ING Kanemura and Mitsuhiro Matsunaga would turn on Hayabusa and Tanaka while Hido and Super Leather turn on Horace Boulder during a match up, as Jason the Terrible & W*ING Kanemura & Mitsuhiro Matsunaga & Super Leather & Hideki Hosaka & Hido reform the W*ING group.
December 10, 1995 at Korakuen Hall, in a 10 Man Street Fight W*ING members Jason the Terrible, Super Leather, Mitsuhiro Matsunaga, W*ING Kanemura and Hido would defeat the FMW team of Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka, Koji Nakagawa, Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Lethal Weapons Horace Boulder after Kanemura would pin Kuroda with a Thunder Fire Powerbomb for the W*ING victory over FMW..
December 21, 1995 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym, Hayabusa teams up with The Great Sasuke and Koji Nakagawa against Super Delfin, TAKA Michinoku, and Lethal Weapons Ricky Fuji which would see Hayabusa work with the Michinoku Pro wrestlers for the first time. Hayabusa would end up pinning Ricky with the Phoenix Splash in which Hayabusa's boot would catch Ricky in the face hard for the victory.

January 10, 1996 in Chiba, in a Spider Net Barbed wire Caribbean Glass Death Match between Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka and Koji Nakagawa against the W*ING team of Matsunaga, Kanemura, and Hido. Hayabusa would be dumped into the barbed wire net with glass in it and is severely injured as he is pinned by Matsunaga eventually. Hayabusa would then hospitalized and treated for his scarred and bloodied back and stomach. Hayabusa would remain out of action for almost four months, but is cleared to return to the ring for the big May 5, 1996 Kawasaki Stadium show to team with Masato Tanaka to do battle with the returning Victor Quinones' group of Mr. Pogo and a Mystery Partner in a Exploding Ring Barbed wire, Landmine Death Match.

May 5, 1996 at Kawasaki Stadium, Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka would team up to face Victor Quinones' team of Mr. Pogo and their Mystery Partner Terry Funk with the winner receiving 1 Million Yen in the Death Match. Hayabusa would again be severely injured as his back is cut open after being tossed onto Exploding Barbed wire and being dropped into a Exploding Land Mind, and then tossed onto a burning chair, and finally pinned after a Powerbomb from Funk for the lost. Funk and Pogo would then begin to tear off Hayabusa's mask. Hayabusa would be stretcher off as Terry Funk would grabthe mic and begin calling out the retired Atsushi Onita in the stands watching the match. In the locker room, a bloodied mask less Hayabusa would begin crying because of how much money he had just cost the promotion and says he was full of shit to think he could lead this promotion. Atsushi Onita would go over to the locker room, and begin screaming at Hayabusa for sobbing and would tell Hayabusa that if he wants to lead this promotion to greatness like he did, he'll need to grow up and take these kind of incidents like a man would. The scarred up and bloodied Hayabusa would get and go back to his locker room before taking another trip to the hospital to receive over 110 stitches for his cut up back. Just one stitch away from Atsushi Onita's record of most stitches ever in a wrestling match of 111.

Eiji Ezaki remained out of action for a couple months as he healed and would not be booked for any FMW tours as a result with stitches all over his stomach. Ezaki would take a vacation to Florida in the United States and while there would be asked by his friend Jushin Liger to come by the WCW Pro tapings with him. Liger would ask Ezaki to join with New Japan Pro Wrestling, and would promise Ezaki would be pushed as one of the top Jr. Heavyweights for the promotion for much more money than he was receiving with FMW. Ezaki would sit back and waited awhile to make the decision that would probably affect the rest of his wrestling career although in the back of his mind knowing he was never going to leave FMW ever. He would stay loyal with FMW and remain with the promotion that he started. Liger was furious at Ezaki's for his decision. Liger would reply by ending his friendship with Hayabusa as the two would go several years without talking as a result of Hayabusa's decision.

June 26, 1996 at Korakuen Hall, Masato Tanaka, Koji Nakagawa, Tetsuhiro Kuroda would defeat Super Leather and The Headhunters for the FMW 6 Man Street Fight Tag Team titles. Eiji Ezaki would come out in normal street clothes to see the celebration, but would be spotted by Koji Nakagawa who was extremely upset at Ezaki and would attack him in the back of Korakuen Hall having to be separated by Tanaka and Kuroda as Ezaki would just walk off. Nakagawa claims that is he is upset at Ezaki for running out of FMW after the Kawasaki Stadium show when FMW needed him the most with Victor Quinones' group trying to take over.

August 1, 1996 at Shiodome, Hayabusa would return to FMW to challenge Koji Nakagawa for the first time since their May 5, 1993 Kawasaki Stadium match when they were both still Dojo friends. This time Nakagawa would go at Hayabusa with a vengeance, but with Hayabusa still recuperating from injuries, and with ring rust, the match would turn out to be an absolute mess that would go on forever before both wrestlers would knock each other down. Both would stay down as the referee would make a ten count with Hayabusa barely making it up for the 10 count to get the victory over Nakagawa.
August 23, 1996 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa frustrated over the poor performance against Nakagawa, Hayabusa would request a rematch, and although the match would turn out much better than earlier in the month, Nakagawa would manage to sneak away with a pinfall victory over Hayabusa. Hayabusa and Nakagawa would put asides their differences afterwards as Hayabusa would prove to keep his loyalty to FMW.
September 15, 1996 in Saitama, Hayabusa would team up with Masato Tanaka, Koji Nakagawa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to attempt win back some of the money that was lost at Kawasaki Stadium as they wrestle Hisakatsu Oya, Super Leather, and The Headhunters in a Yen on a Pole match, which turns out to be a wild brawl but results in Hayabusa climbing the ladder to win back some of the promotions lost Yen.
September 20, 1996 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center, Hayabusa would take on rival Hisakatsu Oya once again a year after their incredible matches and although this match would not be at the level of their ones from a year before, it would still be considered a good match and Hayabusa's best since returning from his injuries. Oya would finally manage to put away Hayabusa for the first time in a singles match with his supplexs to show that Hayabusa was officially in a slump. After the match, Michinoku Pro's Jinsei Shinzaki would walk into the ring and pray to Hayabusa without saying anything. A match between the two faces for FMW and Michinoku Pro would be made for Michinoku Pro's biggest show ever for the company on October 10, 1996 at the Tokyo Sumo Hall as the main event.
September 24, 1996 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka would team up to battle Terry Funk & The Gladiator in a big street fight that goes all over the arena including the crowd, Hayabusa suffers a huge beating from the two before being pinned once again by rival The Gladiator with an Awesome Bomb. After the match, Hisakatsu Oya & Super Leather & The Headhunters come out and put the American flag over Hayabusa's body as Terry Funk announces his group is the REAL FMW in Funk Masters of Wrestling, because of Onita's FMW failing to have the heart that his F-M-W has.
October 10, 1996 at Tokyo Sumo Hall, Hayabusa would participate in Michinoku Pro's "These Days" show in the main event to take on Jinsei Shinzaki. The match would turn out to be a disaster as the two would not be able to click at all. Shinzaki would eventually away Hayabusa with the Praying Powerbomb for the win to continue Hayabusa's slump. Shinzaki would show respect to Hayabusa afterwards as The Great Sasuke would come into the ring and challenge Hayabusa to a match for an upcoming FMW show in which Hayabusa would accept.

December 11, 1996 at the Komazawa Olympic Gym, Hayabusa would wrestle good friend Michinoku Pro's The Great Sasuke. Hayabusa would get one of the bigger wins of his career by defeating Sasuke in a very mat based match by pinning Sasuke with a Falcon Arrow off the top rope for the victory. Hayabusa afterwards would state the match was a dissapointment due to both Hayabusa and Sasuke's injuries as well as Hayabusa is more fit to work against bigger wrestlers unlike the smaller Sasuke who is fit to wrestle small guys his size. The match would pretty much end the down year of 1996 for Hayabusa in a positive way finally getting out of his slump although 1997 would bring a much different scenario to Hayabusa. Atsushi Onita would also make his return to FMW in the main event of the show as it would look like Onita was back to reclaim his spot as the ace of FMW from Hayabusa. January 5, 1997 at Korakuen Hall, after losing in a match against The Headhunters with Katsutoshi Niiyama when Headhunter A would pin Niiyama a group of fans would start to gather around two men entering the ring. The two men would be Hayabusa's child hood friend Mr. Gannosuke as well as Flying Kid Ichihara returning to FMW for the first time since leaving the promotion with Tarzan Goto since April 1995 to go to IWA Japan. Gannosuke would grab the microphone and begin calling Hayabusa a hypocrite and a dumbass. Katsutoshi Niiyama would run after Gannosuke and attack him as Hayabusa would just sit there in the ring confused not knowing what to make out of his best friends tone towards him.
January 9, 1997 at Kawasaki Club Citta, Gannosuke and Ichihara would attack Gosaku Goshogawara backstage and leave him a bloody mess. Hayabusa and Tanaka would attend to the injured Goshogawara but Tanaka would begin screaming at Hayabusa. Tanaka would show much frustration that Hayabusa isn't declaring Gannosuke an enemy as Gannosuke walked out of FMW when the New Generation of FMW with the likes of Hayabusa and Tanaka couldn't afford to lose anymore of their own to a rival promotion and Hayabusa was just being passive about it. Hayabusa would be put in a big emotional battle due to the friend that he had grown up with that got him into the wrestling actions towards himself and his FMW friends. February 18, 1997 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa and Ricky Fuji would take on Mr. Gannosuke and Hisakatsu Oya at, in Hayabusa's first match against Gannosuke since his return. Gannosuke would throw a chair at Hayabusa as he was diving off the top rope, causing his foot to get stuck. Gannosuke would end up putting away Ricky Fuji with a Supplex. Gannosuke would consider the victory a victory over Hayabusa and that proves that he was the right one to leave and that he and the Funk Masters of Wrestling are the "Real FMW."
March 28, 1997 at Korakuen Hall, Gannosuke would get the pinfall victory over Hayabusa with Fire Thunder in a Tag Team match to setup their Yokohama Arena match. This would be the first pinfall Gannosuke scored on Eiji Ezaki since June 18, 1993. After the match, word spreads quick that Onita is being attacked by The Funk Masters of Wrestling, quickly Hayabusa, Tanaka, and Nakagawa just fresh off their match run to Onita's locker room where they see Gladiator, Gannosuke, and The Headhunters beating down on a badly bruised Onita.
April 2, 1997, Hayabusa would make his All Japan debut and also becomes the first non All Japan to wrestle for All Japan in many years. Hayabusa would team up with the Masked Tornado to take on Kentaro Shiga and Manukea Mossman with Hayabusa getting his first win in a All Japan ring pinning Shiga with the 450 Fire Bird Splash.

April 29, 1997 at the Yokohama Arena, the stipulation of the match would be that if Hayabusa would win, then Gannosuke must shave his head, but if Gannosuke would win, then Hayabusa must take off the mask forever. Mr. Gannosuke would surprise many people by having such a good match with Hayabusa. Hayabusa would manage to defeat Gannosuke after a Falcon Arrow and would then grab the mic and state that Gannosuke will not have to cut his hair, if he leaves The Funk Masters of Wrestling group and sides with Hayabusa and apologizes to the fans for leaving FMW. As Gannosuke looks at Hayabusa and puts out his hand, Hayabusa is about to shake it, but Gannosuke instead would kick Hayabusa in the stomach and becomes to smash a chair over Hayabusa, and then pull off Hayabusa's mask. As Gannosuke would begin to get ready to spit fire at Hayabusa, Jinsei Shinzaki would run to the ring to make the save. Gannosuke backstage would call Hayabusa naive and will never apologize to the fans for leaving. Hayabusa backstage would begin crying after being betrayed and embarrassed by his former best friend. Atsushi Onita who had returned on December 11, 1996 to the ring would over hear Hayabusa's crying and begins screaming at him and tells him to quit crying and just accept it.
June 12, 1997 at a Michinoku Pro show, Jinsei Shinzaki would announce that he will be wrestling for FMW fulltime as a Michinoku Wrestler, as he is leaving to the locker room Mr. Gannosuke attacks him from behind with a Hayabusa mask on, and begins to beat the crap out of Shinzaki with a stick which bust Shinzaki's head open badly, as Gannosuke rips off the Hayabusa mask and sets it on fire, as Gannosuke proclaims his revenge on Shinzaki for what he did at the Yokohama Arena.
July 27, 1997 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would team up with Jinsei Shinzaki, Ricky Fuji, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to take on the team of Hisakatsu Oya, Mr. Gannosuke, and The Headhunters, but this match would be different. A new design created by a Japanese Magazine was made for Hayabusa for the one time show. The magazine had made a new costume and mask for Hayabusa with Hayabusa taking pictures in return for the magazine. Hayabusa would also come out to different music for the match, but the new look would not be enough to defeat the Funk Masters of Wrestling after Gannosuke would manage to put away Kuroda for the win.

August 31, 1997 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would team up with Masato Tanaka and Koji Nakagawa and win the FMW 6 Man Street Fight Titles against The Funk Masters of Wrestling team of The Gladiator, Hisakatsu Oya, and Mr. Gannosuke, as Hayabusa manages to survive a Kamikaze Awesome Bomb through a table from The Gladiator and eventually manage to roll up Oya for the victory for the FMW 6 Man Street Fight Tag Team Titles.
Hayabusa would make his return in the United States on September 13, 1997 in Amarillo, Texas as he would team up with Jinsei Shinzaki and Masato Tanaka to take on Jake Roberts and The Headhunters for Terry Funk's Amarillo show. The match would be rather bad, but Hayabusa would manage to get the pinfall victory defeating Headhunter B with a Firebird Splash in Hayabusa's first American match in over two years.
September 28, 1997 at Kawasaki Stadium, Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki would team up to take on All Japan's Kenta Kobashi and Manukea Mossman in one of the best matches of their career's as well as one of the best matches ever in FMW. The crowd would go crazy for Hayabusa and Shinzaki to get the upset victory over the All Japan team. Hayabusa and Shinzaki would do everything they could including double teaming Kobashi and Mossman and hitting their signature spots including a Praying Powerbomb by Shinzaki and then a 450 Fire Bird Splash by Hayabusa and Hayabusa would also pull out a perfect Phoenix Splash for the first time in front of the Kawasaki Stadium audience, but it would not be enough as Kobashi would end up delivering a vicious lariat to Hayabusa to score the pinfall victory over Hayabusa which would greatly upset the FMW fans that had cheered so hard to see their own to defeat the All Japan wrestlers.
October 14, 1997 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center, Onita's newly formed team of Yukihiro Kanemura and Tetsuhiro Kuroda which would be called ZEN. The new ZEN team would defeat the team of Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka and Koji Nakagawa to win the FMW 6 Man Street Fight Titles after Onita would Thunder Fire Powerbomb Nakagawa for the win. Mr. Gannosuke & The Gladiator & Hisakatsu Oya would later leave the dying Funk Masters of Wrestling group to join Onita's ZEN group.
November 15, 1997 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki would participate in the All Japan Real World Tag Tournament League 97. They would end up winning their first match beating the team of Giant Kimala and Jun Izumida when Shinzaki would pin Izumida earning themselves their first two points for the tournament.
November 16, 1997 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki would end up losing their first match of the tournament as they end up losing to the team of Tamon Honda and Takao Omori in a brutal battle when Honda would pin Shinzaki with a Powerbomb.
November 19, 1997 in Kochi, Hayabusa would end up suffering his first All Japan pinfall lost as the WWE's team of The New Blackjacks, Barry Windham and Justin Bradshaw defeat Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki when Bradshaw would pin Hayabusa and cause Hayabusa and Shinzaki to be fighting to avoid last place in the tournament.
November 20, 1997 at the Kobe World Memorial Hall, Hayabusa would miss his first FMW show in over a year to take on the team of Stan Hansen and Bobby Duncum, Jr. Hayabusa and Jinsei end up suffering another lost in the tournament which ends up causing them to have no chance to reach the finals anymore as the legendary Hansen would pin Hayabusa for his second straight pinfall lost in a All Japan ring.
November 23, 1997 in Sendai, Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki would meet another tough task ahead, two former All Japan Triple Crown winners, Toshiaki Kawada and Akira Taue where Hayabusa and Shinzaki give it all to pull the upset on the team that would eventually win the tournament, but Kawada would end up pinning Shinzaki with a Powerbomb as it would look that Hayabusa & Shinzaki would now be ranked as one the last teams in the tournament.
November 27, 1997 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center, although eliminated Hayabusa and Shinzaki would take on their biggest task yet, taking on then All Japan Triple Crown Champion Mitsuharu Misawa and Jun Akiyama in a match where the four would pull everything they had, with Hayabusa managing to deliver a perfect Phoenix Splash on Jun Akiyama with Misawa having to break up the count before Hayabusa was able to score the big upset over Akiyama. Akiyama would manage to recover and after an extremely hard fought match, Akiyama would manage to put away Hayabusa with a supplex for the win.
November 28, 1997 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka would taken on ZEN's Mr. Gannosuke and Yukihiro Kanemura for the vacant FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championships after the team of Onita and Kanemura had vacated them earlier in the month. Hayabusa would suffer another lost, which would be the third in a one week span after Gannosuke would nail a Fire Thunder on Hayabusa for the pinfall to win the vacant FMW Tag Team Titles.
December 1, 1997 in Iwate, Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki would team up and fail again to gain anymore points, this time it would be to Steve Williams & Gary Albright after Albright would pin Shinzaki with a Powerbomb in which would be the teams sixth lost in seven Tournament matches.
December 2, 1997 in Fukushima, Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki would finally manage to get their second win of the Real World Tag Team Tournament against Wolf Hawkfield and Johnny Smith as Hayabusa would get the first pinfall win in the tournament for himself after pinning Smith to earn the team of Hayabusa & Shinzaki four points in the Real World Tag Team Tournament on the second to last match.
December 3, 1997 in Niigata, Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki wrestle in their last All Japan Real World Tag Team Tournament by facing Kenta Kobashi and Johnny Ace in a match that goes over twenty minutes before Hayabusa & Shinzaki suffer their last lost in the tournament when Kobashi would once again pin Hayabusa with a brutal lariat. It would be the end of the Real World Tag Team Tournament with Hayabusa & Shinzaki finishing up with four points, and although not much of a successful one, Hayabusa would come out of the Tournament a much better wrestler overall, and although losing a majority of the matches, still was able to compete highly with the top All Japan wrestlers.
December 13, 1997 at the Kawasaki Club Citta, Hayabusa would team up with Masato Tanaka & Hisakatsu Oya to defeat the team of The Gladiator, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and Hideki Hosaka after Hayabusa would finish off Hosaka. Afterwards, Hayabusa would get on the mic and talk to the fans about his All Japan experience and that FMW and FMW's fans were the number 1 fans in Japan. Koji Nakagawa would then hit the ring visually very upset over Hayabusa talking high about FMW after FMW had demoted him to just an opening wrestler after 5 years with the promotion. Nakagawa would knee Hayabusa in the ribs and storm off very upset as he would later officially quit Team FMW.
December 19, 1997 at the Komazawa Olympic Gym, Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki would challenge for the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship against the champions Mr. Gannosuke & Yukihiro Kanemura. Hayabusa would come into the match with his ribs badly taped, but would still manage to use his highflying arsenal against the ZEN members in a very good match. Gannosuke & Kanemura would manage to successfully defend their tag titles as Hayabusa would be coming off the top and ended up being kneed in the ribs by Kanemura who would quickly roll up Hayabusa for the Hayabusa loss.
December 21, 1997 in Nagoya, due to the tension Mr. Gannosuke, Yukihiro Kanemura, and Hido were causing towards the rest of ZEN due to the fact that Onita was putting himself in the main event instead of them, Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka & Hisakatsu Oya are able to defeat the team of Atsushi Onita, Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hido after a miscommunication helps Oya supplex Hido for the pin to win the FMW 6 Man Street Fight Tag Team Titles.
December 22, 1997 at Korakuen Hall, Gannosuke & Kanemura who would go into the match extremely upset with ZEN leader Atsushi Onita after Onita had made his match against Masato Tanaka the main event of the Komazawa show instead of Gannosuke & Kanemura against Hayabusa & Shinzaki. Hayabusa would team up with Jinsei Shinzaki & Masato Tanaka in a 6 man War Games cage match with a barbed wire baseball bat hanging above the cage. Gannosuke & Kanemura would mainly ignore Onita throughout the whole match, and only attempt to help him when he is being covered. Gannosuke & Kanemura eventually handcuff Shinzaki to the cage but Tanaka would eventually hit Gannosuke with a Roaring Elbow causing him to fly back and right into arms of the cuffed Shinzaki who manages to choke Gannosuke out while Tanaka lays out Kanemura, and then holds down Onita as Hayabusa climbs the top of the cage and attempts the Moonsault off the cage on Onita he attempted to do back on May 5, 1995 at Kawasaki Stadium against Onita in his retirement match, this time though, Hayabusa hits it on Onita and covers him for the pin and the victory for one of Hayabusa's greatest victories against Atsushi Onita. Little celebration is done though, as Gannosuke & Kanemura quickly attacks Hayabusa & Tanaka and toss them out of the cage as well Shinzaki who had just been unlocked from the handcuffs. Gannosuke & Kanemura would go over to the fallen Onita and begin to kick the crap out of him, and even lock him to the cage with the handcuffs and begin to slap him in the face and hit him with a chair as ZEN members Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hideki Hosaka attempt to make the save, but are eventually tossed out of the cage as well. Koji Nakagawa who had attacked Hayabusa and quit FMW earlier in the month would come out in ZEN's colors of all black, and lay Gannosuke and Kanemura out with a chair to help save Onita. Gannosuke & Kanemura & Hido would walk out and form their own little freelancers group as Nakagawa and the rest of ZEN help Onita to the back, where Onita would proclaim revenge on Gannosuke's group.
January 6, 1998 at Korakuen Hall, Mr. Gannosuke would defeat Masato Tanaka for the FMW Double Titles meaning that just in one year span from returning to FMW. Gannosuke would now be the top wrestler in the promotion. Something Hayabusa hadn't even been given the chance for in almost three years.
January 7, 1998 at Korakuen Hall on ZEN's first promoted show, Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki would team up to defeat Fuyuki Army members Kodo Fuyuki & Jado in tag match after Hayabusa pins Jado. In the main event though, Atsushi Onita & Koji Nakagawa & Tetsuhiro Kuroda would defeat Mr. Gannosuke & Yukihiro Kanemura & Hido in a street fight, and after the match Fuyuki & Jado run out to help Gannosuke's group beat down Atsushi Onita and the rest of ZEN. They all leave the ring at the same time and in the locker room announced that Gannosuke's and Fuyuki-gun have formed together to create a new group called "Team No Respect"
January 16, 1998 in Yokkaichi, Team No Respect would debut the Brief Brothers, as the whole group would be in their white underwear and show absolutely no respect to anyone else in the promotion. They would harass FMW President Shoichi Arai before their match in which Mr. Gannosuke, Yukihiro Kanemura, and Jado would team up to challenge for Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka, and Hisakatsu Oya's FMW 6 Man Street Fight Tag Team Titles. The match would turn into a huge brawl with all the wrestlers fighting around the arena until Jado and Oya would find themselves in the ring, and Jado surprisingly rolling up Oya with the Gedo Clutch for the victory and the FMW 6 Man Street Fight Team Titles. Mr. Gannosuke would now hold the FMW Double Titles, FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles, and FMW 6 Man Street Fight Tag Team Titles with the rest of Team No Respect.
Hayabusa would then be placed in a 8 man Tournament to decide upon the number 1 contender for Mr. Gannosuke's FMW Brass Knuckles & Independent Heavyweight Titles for the April 30, 1998 Yokohama Bunka Gym show. Hayabusa's first round opponent would be against Masato Tanaka on March 13th the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center.
February 16, 1998 at Korakuen Hall, at Kodo Fuyuki's Fuyuki Army promoted show, Hayabusa would face off against Kodo Fuyuki for the first time. Fuyuki would end up unmasking Hayabusa during the match and bloodying him up as Fuyuki's fellow TNR members watched on. Fuyuki would manage to get the huge victory over Hayabusa after several repeated charging lariats for the victory.
March 13, 1998 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center show, Hayabusa would face Masato Tanaka in the first round match, as the two would pull out everything they had to defeat one another. Hayabusa would deliver several German Supplexs, and having to survive after being nailed with Masato Tanaka's running Death Valley Driver, before Hayabusa would manage to score the victory over Tanaka with a Falcon Arrow in a incredible match between the two. The two would shake hands after such a hard fought and embrace afterwards as Hayabusa would move on to face Jado in the semi-finals of the tournament.
March 16, 1998 in Iwate, Hayabusa's Semi Final opponent in the Tournament is Jado, who would have Mr. Gannosuke in his corner for the match. Gannosuke would help out Jado every chance he could get by attacking Hayabusa behind the referees back, and tripping him before being able to attempt a move like the Asai Moonsault. But eventually Gannosuke's help would backfire and cost Jado the match after accidentally hitting Jado instead of Hayabusa which would lead to Hayabusa finishing off Jado with the Falcon Arrow and moving on to the finals to face The Gladiator with the winner meeting Gannosuke for the FMW Double Titles on April 30th.

March 17, 1998 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa wrestles long time rival The Gladiator in the Finals of the Tournament for the right to wrestle Mr. Gannosuke for the FMW Double Titles at the Yokohama Bunka Gym on April 30, 1998. Hayabusa goes all out to finally get revenge on The Gladiator after Gladiator defeated Hayabusa for the FMW Brass Knuckles Title back in the Finals of the Round Robin Tournament on September 26, 1995. Hayabusa sends Gladiator through a table and then flies off the top rope onto the fallen Gladiator, and then as Gladiator has Hayabusa set for the Awesome Bomb off the top rope, Hayabusa turns it into a Hurricanrana and finally puts away Gladiator for the three count to become the Number one contender for Mr. Gannosuke's FMW Double Titles as they finally have their rematch from April 29, 1997 at the Yokohama Arena.
April 21, 1998 at Korakuen Hall, Jinsei Shinzaki would finally get revenge on long time rival Mr. Gannosuke in a street fight as he would pin Gannosuke with a Praying Running Powerbomb a week before leaving FMW to go back to Michinoku Pro.
April 26, 1998 in Kyoto, Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki would lose to Yukihiro Kanemura and Jado after Gannosuke would interfere by blowing fire at Hayabusa causing Jado to get the Brainbuster pinfall victory on Hayabusa. This would set up for Hayabusa taking on Mr. Gannosuke in four for the first time in a singles match in a year for the FMW Double Titles at the Yokohama Bunka Gym.

April 30, 1998 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym, Hayabusa would take on Mr. Gannosuke for the FMW Double Titles where early on Hayabusa would deliver a dropkick to Gannosuke's knee and cause a severe injury to Gannosuke's knee. Gannosuke would still continue the match and put on one hell of a performance as a result in pain with the two put on a great showing and both have one of their greatest matches in their career as Hayabusa would work on Gannosuke's injured knee, and try to take out Gannosuke with his highflying arsenal of the Asai Moonsault and 450 Fire Bird Splash, while Gannosuke would try grounding Hayabusa and deliver Hayabusa with his finishers like the Fire Thunder and roll him up for the Gannosuke Clutch in front of most of the FMW roster at ringside including Masato Tanaka and Jinsei Shinzaki watching at ringside. The two wrestle for over twenty minutes before Hayabusa would deliver a picture perfect Phoenix Splash on Gannosuke for the cover and the victory to win the FMW Double Titles. Hayabusa would hold up his newly won titles in glory with his friends except Shinzaki who would walk out without congratulating Hayabusa. Gannosuke would be helped out by his Team No Respect and taken to a hospital where he would later find out due to his knee injury he would miss the next 6 months. Hayabusa would finally gets his shot as the major player in FMW for the first time since he won the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Title back on June 26, 1995.
May 1, 1998 at the Tokyo Dome, at All Japan's first ever Tokyo Dome show Hayabusa would team up with Kentaro Shiga and the legendary Giant Baba to take on Jun Izumida, Kimala II and his tag team partner Jinsei Shinzaki in a 6 man tag. Hayabusa faces Shinzaki who had walked off right after watching Hayabusa win the FMW Double Titles the day before without congratulating him square off several times, trying to get the upper hand on each other, but it is Hayabusa who gets the pinfall victory after pinning Izumida with the 450 Firebird Splash. After everyone would walk away from the ring, Hayabusa and Shinzaki would stay in the ring and stare at each other. Shinzaki would eventually shake Hayabusa's hand to a good ovation from the crowd as the two would walk off together still remaining friends after Shinzaki's full time FMW departure.

May 19, 1998 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa's first Double Titles defense would be against long time friend Masato Tanaka. The two put on one of the best matches of their careers as Tanaka would debut his new reverse DDT off the top rope which he would continue to use on Ezaki in everyone of their matches for the next several years. Hayabusa would eventually finish off Tanaka with repeated Falcon Arrows to get the victory in a awesome, if not the best FMW match ever for his first Double Titles defense.
May 27, 1998 at the Fukouka Hakata Star Lanes, Kodo Fuyuki & Yukihiro Kanemura would defeat Hayabusa & Masato Tanaka for the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship after Kanemura would roll up Masato Tanaka to win the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles.June 19, 1998 at Korakuen Hall, Masato Tanaka would wrestle his last match before going to ECW for the rest of year. Hayabusa announces a mystery partner for the main event who turns out to be Battlarts' wrestler and former FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champion Daisuke Ikeda. Hayabusa & Daisuke Ikeda & Hisakatsu Oya & Ricky Fuji defeat Kodo Fuyuki & New Team No Respect member Koji Nakagawa & Yukihiro Kanemura & Gedo. Ricky Fuji pins Gedo with a Rolling Brainbuster as it begins The New Team No Respect against Hayabusa's new Phoenix group feud.
June 26, 1998 at the Sendai Miyagi Sports Gym # 2, Hayabusa would successfully defend the FMW Double Titles against Yukihiro Kanemura after several occasions being able to avoid Kanemura's barbed wire baseball baseball bat and would manage to put Kanemura away with the Falcon Arrow to successfully defend the FMW Double Titles for the second time.
July 10, 1998 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa and partners Daisuke Ikeda, Hisakatsu Oya, and Ricky Fuji against Team No Respect members Kodo Fuyuki, Koji Nakagawa, Jado, and Gedo in a single elimination match. Hayabusa would be the last man left on his team to take on Fuyuki and Nakagawa. Fuyuki would quickly hold Hayabusa down and then unmask him as Nakagawa would bloody up Hayabusa's forehead with several shots from Nakagawa's fork. Just as Hayabusa would manage to grab the fork away from Nakagawa to use it as a weapon of his own, but before Hayabusa could even use it, he would get spit with green mist in the face by Nakagawa who would quickly roll up Hayabusa for the last elimination and the Team No Respect victory. In the locker room a frustrated and bloody Hayabusa would begin trashing the locker room and begin screaming how is he sick of Team No Respect's crap and no longer going to put up with it.
August 2, 1997 at Dayton, Ohio, Hayabusa would make his one and only ECW appearance at the Heatwave 98 Pay-Per-View by teaming with Jinsei Shinzaki for the first time since January 7th to take on ECW's Sabu & Rob Van Dam for the ECW Tag Team Championship. Hayabusa would manage to hit a 450 Firebird but not really get to show off his real arsenal in the match as Hayabusa and Shinzaki would be sent through a table at the same time by Sabu & Rob Van Dam causing Sabu to get the pinfall over Shinzaki.
August 22, 1998 at a Tokyo TV Studio, Ezaki would let out the Darkside of him as he comes out as The Darkside of Hayabusa who refuses to play by the rules in his match against Koji Nakagawa. The Darkside of Hayabusa beats Nakagawa senseless most of the match, and would hit a Tombstone Piledriver on Go Ito, but as the Darkside of Hayabusa went to the top rope for a Phoenix Splash, the lights would then go out and Mr. Gannosuke would come to the ring in a Jinsei Shinzaki outfit on and hit Hayabusa with a Powerbomb and lay Nakagawa on top of Hayabusa and make his exit right as the lights would come on. The referee would make the count and Nakagawa would get his second pinfall victory over Hayabusa in his career. An upset Darkside of Hayabusa would not allow that to be it as he would continue to punish Nakagawa before he could make his escape as well as deliver a Tombstone Piledriver on Go Ito.

September 1, 1998 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center, Hayabusa defends his FMW Double Titles against Hisakatsu Oya who had wrestled with him to a thirty minute time limit draw a month ago in the building in which Oya had taken Hayabusa to the limit. Hayabusa this time would manage to finally put away Oya as he would successfully defend the FMW Double Titles with the Falcon Arrow as it would be the first time Hayabusa was able to defeat Oya in a singles match for the first time since winning the FMW Brass Knuckles Title on June 26, 1995 against him.
September 8, 1998 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa & Daisuke Ikeda would defeat Kodo Fuyuki & Yukihiro Kanemura to earn their selves a shot at the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. After the match, Fuyuki would attack Hayabusa and demand that he give him a shot at the FMW Double Titles at the Yokohama Bunka Gym on November 20th.

September 20, 1998 at the Tokyo Ariake Rainbow Stage, in a Fuyuki Army Promotion show which would be promoted by Kodo Fuyuki, Hayabusa would successfully defend the FMW Double Titles against Team No Respect member Jado after Jado earned the shot by pinned Hayabusa in a tag match back in April, and then defeating Hisakatsu Oya at Korakuen Hall earlier in the month. After Hayabusa would successfully defend the FMW Double Titles against Jado, Kodo Fuyuki would make a on the fly booking decision and make a handicap match between himself, Koji Nakagawa and Gedo to face Hayabusa. Ricky Fuji would run in and help Hayabusa, and would officially become a part of the match. Fuyuki would manage to unmask Hayabusa as Nakagawa would focus on carving Hayabusa's forehead with his fork. A bleeding Hayabusa would then be body slammed through a table on the outside, and be carried out. Hayabusa would be carried out, with Ricky Fuji now being in a 1 on 3 match, and the result would not end up well with Ricky being Super Powerbombed by Fuyuki, Nakagawa, and Gedo before Hayabusa would finally come back with a different mask. Kodo Fuyuki would still manage to put away Hayabusa eventually with a Charging Lariat for the victory. It would then be announced that both Fuyuki & Nakagawa have earned FMW Double Titles shots for the victory. Fuyuki would announce that he will let Nakagawa get the first shot on October 6th at Korakuen Hall, and if he doesn't win then Fuyuki will get the next shot on November 20th at the Yokohama Bunka Gym.

October 6, 1998 at Korakuen Hall, Koji Nakagawa is granted his shot at the FMW Double Titles against Hayabusa but after a twenty five minute match and a bloody mouth to Hayabusa which would cause his mask to be stained with blood, Hayabusa finally pins Koji Nakagawa in a singles match after two years with a Falcon Arrow to successfully defend the FMW Double Titles. Kodo Fuyuki would come out with a champagne bottle which was suppose to be for Nakagawa's Championship victory, and instead Fuyuki opens it as it splatters all over Hayabusa's face. Fuyuki announces that he will be the one that will finally take the Titles from Hayabusa on November 20th at the Yokohama Bunka Gym. October 24, 1998 at the Saitama Kawagoe Gym, a new a style of match would debut in FMW called "Come out and Play" where two teams of seven would start off in a regular tag team match, once a wrestler is pinned he must go back to the locker room while another wrestler on his team comes out in the match, and it goes like that until all seven members of one team have been eliminated. This match which happens to hold the record for the longest FMW match of all time sees Hayabusa's Team Phoenix wrestle Kodo Fuyuki's Team No Respect with Hayabusa coming out at the near end of the match, and manage to last eliminate Kodo Fuyuki with the 450 Fire Bird Splash for the victory for Team Phoenix.
October 26, 1998 at the Chiba Koen Park Gym, Hayabusa and Daisuke Ikeda would defeat the team of Kodo Fuyuki and Yukihiro Kanemura for the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles after Daisuke Ikeda would knock out Kanemura after several kicks to the head. It would Hayabusa's second time as FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champion but the team of Hayabusa & Daisuke Ikeda would not make one defense as champions before vacating the Tag Titles in January 1999.

November 20, 1998 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym, Hayabusa would defend the FMW Double Titles for a record setting 6th time against Kodo Fuyuki. The two would put on a great match against each other. Fuyuki would work the hardest he had in years to put on the great match with Hayabusa by debuting the likes of a Reverse DDT off the top rope on Hayabusa as well as putting Hayabusa on his shoulders and hitting him with a devastating Muscle Buster. Hayabusa would manage to get his fair share of offense in nailing Fuyuki with many of his high flying moves like the 450 Fire Splash and the Asai Moonsault. Hayabusa's mistake would be going for the Phoenix Splash as he would end up missing it, giving Fuyuki an opportunity to take advantage of the situation and finish off Hayabusa with multiple lariats for the victory. It would end Hayabusa's six month plus reign with Fuyuki walking away as the FMW Double Titles Champion.
November 22, 1998, FMW would announce a 16 man tournament called "Over The Top" to determine the number one contender for the FMW Double Titles, Hayabusa is put in the first round of the tournament against Gedo as the winner would end up taking on Fuyuki who had put himself in the tournament and Hisakatsu Oya. At this press conference, Hayabusa begins arrogantly speaking how he is glad he will be getting another shot at Fuyuki in the second round on December 13th, and that he will get his revenge by winning the Double Titles against Fuyuki on March 19th in Sapporo which gets Oya very upset with the attitude of that this will just be task for him.
December 5, 1998 in Osaka, In the first round of the "Over the Top" tournament, Hayabusa is almost upsetted many times by Gedo, but would eventually get the pinfall victory over the Team No Respect member and would take on Hisakatsu Oya, who had scored a major upset on Fuyuki earlier in the show at the December 13th Korakuen Hall show.

December 12, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would team up with ECW's Tommy Dreamer to face Sabu & Rob Van Dam, although Hayabusa would let Dreamer wrestle for a majority of the match, Hayabusa would still face off against Sabu for what would turn out to be the final time of their careers, as well as deliver an Asai Moonsault to Rob Van Dam, before Van Dam would eventually pin Tommy Dreamer with a Five Star Frog Splash for the win.
December 13, 1998 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa goes into the second round match of the tournament again very arrogantly against friend Hisakatsu Oya, the two who had put on several classics back in 1995 go back to their style of match with Oya attempting to avoid Hayabusa's high flyer maneuvers, and Hayabusa attempting to avoid Oya's back supplex, as Hayabusa had the offense and was attempting to soften Oya up to get the victory and move on in the tournament, out of nowhere Oya ends up rolling Hayabusa up and getting the pinfall victory. Hayabusa is completely shocked over what had just happened as Oya begins pointing at Hayabusa as the shocked Hayabusa goes over to the corner and still can't believe that he is now out of the Tournament and will not be getting the Double Titles shot in Sapporo.
January 5, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa takes on Tetsuhiro Kuroda who had gone very far in the Over the Top Tournament before being defeated by Oya. The two put on a great showing that includes the two brawling in the crowd and Hayabusa hitting a Hurricanrana on Kuroda causing him to fly down the steps, and as the two fight back to ringside, Hayabusa places chairs on Kuroda, and hits a Moonsault off the guard rail right onto Kuroda. Hayabusa eventually puts away Kuroda with a Falcon Arrow for the victory in a great match.
January 16, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki would team together for the first time in a All Japan ring since December 3, 1997 when they would challenge Tamon Honda & Jun Izumida for the All Japan All Asian Tag Team Titles. Hayabusa & Shinzaki would fail to win the Tag Titles when a very bloody Shinzaki is pinned by Honda with a Powerbomb.

February 13, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa and Shinzaki are granted another shot at the All Japan All Asian Tag Titles, and this time in a match that goes over twenty minutes, Hayabusa & Shinzaki finally manage to come away with the All Asian Tag Titles when Shinzaki pins Honda to become the 65th team to win the Tag Titles, and to be the first non All Japan team to win an All Japan title.February 16, 1999 at the Osaka Prefectural Gym # 2, Hayabusa and Masato Tanaka would defeat the newly formed alliance of Mr. Gannosuke & Hideki Hosaka when Tanaka pins Hosaka with a Roaring Elbow. After the match though, Tanaka gets on the mic and proclaims that he does not want to be aligned with Hayabusa anymore and he will go at it by himself.
February 18, 1999 at the Hiroshima Habukaichi Gym, Kodo Fuyuki would defend his FMW Double Titles against Daisuke Ikeda, after the match, Hayabusa comes out and checks on his friend Ikeda, but as he goes in the ring, he is quickly shoved out of the way by Muhammed Yone and other Battlarts members. In a post match interview, Ikeda proclaims that he also know longer wants anything to do with Hayabusa, and that he will now no longer himself with FMW, but instead the promotion he works for in Battlarts.
February 21, 1999 at the Fukuoka Hakata Star Lanes, Hayabusa would challenge rival Mr. Gannosuke in the main event for the third time in a singles match, but this time, Mr. Gannosuke finally gets revenge from the two past defeats as he scores his first pinfall victory on Ezaki since 1993, after the match, Hideki Hosaka and Super Leather congratulate their team mate Gannosuke, and look to do even more damage to the beaten Hayabusa before Kodo Fuyuki who would have to wrestle Gannosuke next month in Sapporo comes out and chases them off, as he just looks as Hayabusa who begins to crawl over to Fuyuki.February 27, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa and Hisakatsu Oya would team up against Mr. Gannosuke and Hideki Hosaka at Korakuen Hall. Oya convinces that he even though they had bad blood from December, that he will still team with him but as it would turn out, it would be all a set up as Oya ends up turning his back on Hayabusa and hitting a back supplex on Hayabusa to setup an easy pinfall victory for Gannosuke on him. As Gannosuke, Oya, Hosaka, and Leather begin beating down on Hayabusa, Fuyuki who had been attacked earlier by Gannosuke's group comes out and saves Hayabusa from the beat down. Fuyuki grabs the mic and proclaims they should group up to take out Gannosuke's Outlaws, Hayabusa seeing that all his other friends have left him decides it would be for the better and hugs Fuyuki as a new team is formed and would enter in the FMW Tag Team Tournament to decide the new FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champions after Hayabusa & Daisuke Ikeda had vacated it earlier in the year. In the main event, Masato Tanaka would defeat Tetsuhiro Kuroda on the show, and after the match, the two agree to form a team and announce that they want a shot at Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki's AJPW All Asian Tag Team Titles at the March 19, 1999 Sapporo show, as well as that they would be entering the Tag Team Tournament. March 19, 1999 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki would defend the All Japan All Asian Tag Titles for the first time as they beat Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda in a great match that would go over thirty minutes before Hayabusa would put away Kuroda with a Falcon Arrow for the pinfall victory.
March 29, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa & Kodo Fuyuki suffer their only non win in a the FMW Tag Tournament as they end up going to a thirty minute time limit draw with Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda. Hayabusa would go on to defeat Koji Nakagawa & Gedo, Mr. Gannosuke & Hisakatsu Oya, Armageddon, Super Leather & Hideki Hosaka, Yukihiro Kanemura & Hido, and Daisuke Ikeda & Muhammed Yone who they defeated at the April 20th Korakuen Hall show to go into the finals of the Tag Tournament for the vacated FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles on May 3rd.
May 2, 1999 at the Tokyo Dome for All Japan Retirement show for the Late Giant Baba, Hayabusa would team Michinoku Pro's The Great Sasuke & Tiger Mask IV and go to a thirty minute time limit draw against All Japan's Manukea Mossman & Yoshinari Ogawa & Masahito Kakihara and have one of the best matches of the night in front of over 30,000 fans.
May 3, 1999 in Nagoya, Hayabusa and Team No Respect leader Kodo Fuyuki who had defeated every team in the FMW Tag Team Round Robin Tournament except a time limit draw with Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda would end up meeting that same team in the finals for the vacant FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship. Tanaka would end up knocking out Fuyuki during the match and pinning Fuyuki for the win and the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Titles. Fuyuki laid motionless as Hayabusa grabbed a bucket of water and pored it over Fuyuki to revive him. Fuyuki woke up extremely upset and went after Hayabusa as Team No Respect and Team FMW would have to hold them both back from going at it. The partnership of Team FMW and Team No Respect had officially ended, as well as well the Hayabusa & Kodo Fuyuki team, as the two would never team again.

May 5, 1999 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym, Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki would team for the last time in FMW in a match against Masato Tanaka and Tetsuhiro Kuroda, with the winner of the pinfall getting a shot at Kodo Fuyuki for the Double Titles later on in the show. The four have a fantastic match as Kuroda ends up hitting Hayabusa with a Lariat out of nowhere to get the pin on Hayabusa which he had been trying for over 6 months to accomplish which allows him a shot at Kodo Fuyuki's Double Titles later in the show.In the Main event, Kodo Fuyuki would come out with Mr. Gannosuke & Koji Nakagawa & Yukihiro Kanemura & Jado & Gedo & Hido all have reformed Team No Respect which is just too much for Kuroda as Fuyuki beats Kuroda with help from Team No Respect. Right as Fuyuki pins Kuroda, Hayabusa is out and attacks Fuyuki, but Team No Respect lays Hayabusa out and lays him out until Masato Tanaka comes out and chases Fuyuki away as the rest of Team No Respect follows. Hisakatsu Oya and Hideki Hosaka who had been dumped by Gannosuke so that he could rejoin TNR, come out to calm Hayabusa down who begins screaming at the mic as people begin throwing trash allover the ring after the finish they had just seen. Hayabusa, Tanaka, Kuroda, Ricky Fuji, Hideki Hosaka, Hisakatsu Oya and Flying Kid Ichihara all agree to team together to rage war on Team No Respect.

May 31, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, FMW President Shoichi Arai would come out with Kodo Fuyuki and announces that he hired Fuyuki as the new FMW Commissioner. The FMW team start strong on their war with Team No Respect in a 5 on 5 Elimination Match as Kuroda gets a slight revenge by eliminating Fuyuki, Tanaka eliminates Koji Nakagawa, Hideki Hosaka knocks out Yukihiro Kanemura sending him through a table, Mr. Gannosuke is disqualified after a lowblow on Hayabusa, and Hayabusa hits a 450 on Hido for the victory for Team FMW.
June 4, 1999 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center, Kodo Fuyuki would announce that FMW will no longer be associated with any other Japanese promotion for the time being, forcing All Japan to have a match where Takao Omori and Yoshihiro Takayama defeat Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki after Omori would pin Shinzaki for the All Japan All Asian Tag Team Championship.

June 15, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Commissioner Kodo Fuyuki would show his abuse of power right at the start, and announce for Hayabusa to come out. Fuyuki would tell Hayabusa that there is no need for Superhero types in his FMW, and would force Hayabusa to mask off his mask, and once again begin wrestling as Eiji Ezaki. An extremely upset Hayabusa would charge at the ring, chasing Fuyuki off, but there was nothing Hayabusa could do to change the fact, that on August 25, 1999, the Hayabusa gimmick would be force to retire. In the main event of the show, Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda beat Mr. Gannosuke, Yukihiro Kanemura, and Hido in a Ladder Match after Kuroda pins Hido, and due to the pre stipulation before the match, Kodo Fuyuki must eat dog food. As everyone around ringside looks to see if Fuyuki will actually do it, Fuyuki puts the dog food in his mouth, chews it and then spits it all over Hayabusa's face causing Team No Respect and Team FMW to rush the ring and begin attacking each other and throwing bags and bags of dog food all over the ring until TNR bails out. June 23, 1999 in Tokyo, Hayabusa would have a meeting with Shoichi Arai to try and overrule Fuyuki's decision, but a brainwashed Shoichi Arai would stand by Fuyuki's decision to force Hayabusa to have to remove the mask.
July 2, 1999 at a Tokyo Press Conference, Kodo Fuyuki would announce that he will be replacing the FMW Titles with WEW Titles and the first WEW Title will be the WEW 6 Man Tag Titles and there will be a Four Team Round Robin Tournament to decide the seating for the Tournament on July 31, 1999 at Korakuen Hall. Hayabusa will team Masato Tanaka & Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Mr. Gannosuke will team with Yukihiro Kanemura & Jado, Super Leather will team with Armageddon, and Kodo Fuyuki will team with the Tag Team Champions Koji Nakagawa & Gedo.

July 31, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, after having two thirty minute time limit draws with Kodo Fuyuki, Koji Nakagawa, and Gedo on July 18, 1999 and then again with Mr. Gannosuke, Yukihiro Kanemura, and Jado on July 29, 1999, as well as losing in a upset to Super Leather & Armageddon, the team of Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda would have to wrestle in three matches to win the newly created WEW 6 Man Tag Team Titles. Hayabusa would make quick work of Super Leather's team after delivering a Fire Bird Splash to Super Leather to score the victory, quickly after, Gannosuke, Kanemura, and Jado would hit the ring and attack Hayabusa's team. Hayabusa's team would have a hard trouble getting rid of Gannosuke's team, as the bout between the teams would go over twenty minutes before Hayabusa would deliver a shotei to Jado, and manage to score the victory over him. The team of Kodo Fuyuki, Koji Nakagawa, and Gedo would be next, and would attack the extremely tired team of Hayabusa, Tanaka, and Kuroda. With help from Gannosuke, Kanemura, and Jado sticking around after their lost, and the triple teaming and repeated Charging Lariats would let Kodo Fuyuki score the pinfall victory over Hayabusa to win the WEW 6 Man Tag Team Titles. Afterwards, Kodo Fuyuki would announce the big matches set for the next Korakuen Hall shows, with Hayabusa teaming with Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hisakatsu Oya to face Koji Nakagawa, Yukihiro Kanemura, and Hido on August 20th, then challenging Yukihiro Kanemura for the FMW Brass Knuckles Title on August 23rd, and then the last match under the Hayabusa gimmick would take place on August 25th, at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center with Hayabusa facing off against Mr. Gannosuke.
August 20, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would revive the Darkside of Hayabusa persona one last time, and would dye his hair orange for the match. Hayabusa would team up with Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hisakatsu Oya to face Koji Nakagawa, Yukihiro Kanemura, and Hido in a match that would allow Japanese Bamboo sticks to be allowed during the match, as Hayabusa would show his Darkside once again for the match, smashing it over Hido & Kanemura. Hayabusa would debut the Uranage to his move set in the match, and when climbing the top rope would be charged at by Hido, but Hayabusa would spit green mist in Hido's face, and then deliver a 450 Fire Bird Splash on Hido to score the victory over Team No Respect in his last match under the Darkside Hayabusa persona.

August 23, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would win the FMW Brass Knuckles Title for the 3rd time as he would defeat Yukihiro Kanemura in Eiji Ezaki's last match as Hayabusa at Korakuen Hall. Hayabusa is given a ceremony in which people are allowed to say goodbye to the Hayabusa gimmick as many people give flowers to Hayabusa, including Fuyuki who shakes Hayabusa's hand while presenting him the flowers. Everyone in attendance is allowed to go to the ring and say goodbye to Hayabusa. Hayabusa's friends of Masato Tanaka, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Hisakatsu Oya, Ricky Fuji, and Flying Kid Ichihara all pick up Hayabusa in the air and begin to lift him up to say goodbye to the Hayabusa gimmick.

August 25, 1999 at the Sapporo Nakajima Sports Center, Hayabusa would wrestle his last match against Mr. Gannosuke for the FMW Brass Knuckles Championship which sees Hayabusa and Gannosuke go all out on each other including Gannosuke almost breaking Hayabusa's neck with a Reverse Tombstone off the top rope. In the end, Hayabusa defeats Mr. Gannosuke in his last match with a Falcon Arrow in his last match. Commissioner Kodo Fuyuki comes out to present Hayabusa with flowers again, but this time Fuyuki hits Hayabusa with the flowers and then begins attacking him as Team No Respect jumps in the ring to help as Team FMW comes out to try and make the save but are quickly thrown out of the ring as Gannosuke and Fuyuki beat the crap out of Hayabusa and tie a dog collar around his neck and then take out a pair of scissors and cuts off Hayabusa's mask and then begin to cut off his pants until Ezaki is completely naked in the ring until Sena Wakana runs in and puts a towel over him as Shoichi Arai begs Fuyuki to stop which Fuyuki ignores until Arai covers Ezaki with his own body getting Fuyuki raving mad as Masato Tanaka gets in the ring and goes after both Fuyuki and Gannosuke before they do anymore damage.
Eiji Ezaki even though forced to take off the mask by Kodo Fuyuki's ruling would decide that he would not go by his real name anymore, but by the name H.

August 27, 1999 in Ashikawa, Eiji Ezaki would debut as "H" in a 10 Man Elimination Match, in which H would pin Hido, Jado, Yukihiro Kanemura, and Kodo Fuyuki with the H Edge for the victory. H would also come off the top rope with a dropkick on Gannosuke that would apparently dislocate his knee as Gannosuke would be taken to a hospital.
September 3, 1999 in Hokkaido, H, Masato Tanaka, and Tetsuhiro Kuroda would wrestle Kodo Fuyuki, Yukihiro Kanemura, and Hido which would result in Mr. Gannosuke coming out in Hayabusa's mask. Gannosuke in the Hayabusa costume would jump on the turnbuckle take off the legitimate Hayabusa mask and reveal another mask to fit his look better. Gannosuke would come off the top rope and nail H with a flying dropkick and would begin to to brawl with H around the ringside area. While all the chaos would be taking place, Kuroda would manage to nail Hido with lariat for the victory. Fuyuki and the rest of TNR would take off to the back where Gannosuke would himself Hayabusa. Gannosuke as Hayabusa would also announce that he would be doing a porno as Hayabusa along with Japanese porn star Chocoball Mukai.
September 24, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, H & Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Flying Kid Ichihara, and Yoshinori Sasaki would beat the team of Hayabusa, Koji Nakagawa, Gedo, and their mystery tag partner who would be revealed as turns out to be the Japanese porn star Chocoball Mukai. During the match, Hayabusa would tie Flying Kid Ichihara's valet Sena Wakana to a Dog collar, and when Chocoball would see what Hayabusa was about to do to her, he quickly would push Hayabusa out of the way, but would be attacked for his efforts Hayabusa, and would and get nailed with the Super Powerbomb by his partners and left laying. H would end up pinning Gedo with the H Edge for the victory for his team. H would then grab the mic and challenge Hayabusa to a match where the stipulation wouldn't be something new to Masashi Honda. H would challenge Hayabusa to an Anus Explosion match at the next Korakuen Hall show where the winner would get to set the other wrestlers ass on fire just like in 1991 when Onita set firecrackers off from the the back for graduating from the FMW Dojo.

October 29, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, H and Hayabusa would wrestle in an Anus Exploding Match, the two brawl around the building the whole match until Hayabusa locks H to the turnbuckle with handcuffs and then pulls down his pants and lights and explodes H's ass with a bottle rocket, until Naohiko Yamazaki finally manages to get the key and unlock H as Hayabusa runs off laughing at the experience Ezaki just went through. Later in the show, Hayabusa comes out with a baseball bat and calls out Kodo Fuyuki for costing him several matches earlier in the month, but instead H shows up and goes right after Hayabusa as the begin to brawl all over the arena into the crowd and even onto the announcing table until they are finally separated.

November 23, 1999 at the Yokohama Arena, H finally would wrestle Hayabusa in the Main Event of the show with former WWE World Champion Shawn Michaels as the Special Referee. The two put on a very good, solid match which has Hayabusa early in the match many times attempt cheap shot referee Shawn Michaels before being Super kicked to a very loud pop from the fans in the arena. As Hayabusa is down, Shawn goes over to Hayabusa and begins to pull off his mask, but H quickly goes over and stops Michaels from doing so. As H is holding Shawn Michaels back, Hayabusa gets up and looks over both of them and then takes off his mask to finally reveal Mr. Gannosuke under the mask. H and Gannosuke go at it for the rest of the match, with Gannosuke actually hitting a reverse piledriver off the apron onto the outside. Gannosuke then hits many supplexs on H and even brings back the Fire Thunder but still only gets a two count. H then takes the offense and hits an H Edge on Gannosuke, and brings back many of his old Hayabusa moves including the 450 Firebird Splash and the Falcon Arrow, before he finally puts Gannosuke away with a Phoenix Splash for the three count by Shawn Michaels. Shawn Michaels then grabs the mic and congratulates them on a great match, and then tells Gannosuke to be a man and shake Ezaki's hand for great sportsmanship. H puts his hand out, as everyone in the crowd looks at Gannosuke to see if he will do what he did on April 29, 1997at the Yokohama Arena and attack Ezaki after putting his hand out in friendship. But Gannosuke this time does shake Ezaki's hand. Gannosuke then grabs the mic and proclaims that he will not apologize for what he has done. H replies with telling Honda that it doesn't matter right now, all that matters right now is that, is that the moment has come that the past is behind them now they're together once again.

December 1, 1999 in Osaka, Eiji Ezaki would team up with Masashi Honda for the first time since their early preliminary days years ago as they defeat the WEW Tag Team Champions Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hisakatsu Oya for the WEW World Tag Team Championship after H hits the H Thunder on Kuroda for the pinfall victory, as H and Gannosuke celebrate the mark of their new Tag Team with the Tag Team Titles. Before the match Masato Tanaka makes it clear backstage to reporters that he is disgusted that H is friends with Gannosuke after all Gannosuke had done to him in years past, he forgives him just like that and goes back to being his friend.
December 3, 1999 in Nagoya, H & Mr. Gannosuke would team with Masato Tanaka in a 6 man match against Kintaro Kanemura, Koji Nakagawa and Gedo. H ends up defeating Gedo with an H Edge but not before Masato Tanaka was very clear that he did not want to team with either of them and walks out of the match instead of celebrating with H and Gannosuke.
December 11, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hisakatsu Oya are granted a rematch for the WEW Tag Team Titles against H & Mr. Gannosuke, but the Tag Team Champions are again too much for Kuroda and Oya as Gannosuke would finish Oya with the Fire Thunder for the victory to retain the Tag Titles. The four would congratulate each other on a great performance, as Tetsuhiro Kuroda would announce that he will get a victory over H & Gannosuke with Masato Tanaka as his partner the next day.

December 12, 1999 at Korakuen Hall, Tetsuhiro Kuroda would team up with WEW World Champion Masato Tanaka to take on H & Mr. Gannosuke in a non title match, and again the team of H & Mr. Gannosuke would be too much for a set of former FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champions as they would defeat Tanaka & Kuroda after H would debut his new finisher the "H Thunder" on Kuroda for the victory in a great match. As the four look to shake hands, Tanaka grabs the mic and trashes H for forgiving Gannosuke so easily after all the two had been through in years past, and that H & Gannosuke were idiots and FMW is turning into a promotion for pussies with guys like them as Tag Team Champions. Tanaka would go and side with ECW's Balls Mahoney and Axl Rotten as they leave together while Kuroda shakes hands with H and Gannosuke and shows that he sides with them.

January 5, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Kodo Fuyuki returns to FMW as the leader of ECW Japan with Kyoko Inoue, Pitbull # 1, and Balls Mahoney who defeat H, Mr. Gannosuke, Hisakatsu Oya, and Ricky Fuji in a bloody battle after Fuyuki would pin Ricky with a lariat. Fuyuki would claim that Kyoko Inoue is the person he scouted in the group, and if anyone has a problem with that then bring it on. H would grab the mic and say that he'll run Fuyuki out of FMW again.
January 8, 2000 in Sendai, 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.

February 18, 2000 in the Kawasaki Club Citta, H gets even with Balls Mahoney in a bloody Street Fight where H loses more blood than he possibly ever has lost in his career and still manages to beat Mahoney after Gannosuke causes Fuyuki and Inoue not to interfere to let H get the win.

February 25, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Kodo Fuyuki & Kyoko Inoue would defeat H & Mr. Gannosuke for the WEW Tag Team Titles after Chocoball Mukai who had told everyone he would pay his dues and train in the FMW Dojo before returning the ring would help turn on FMW and joins with Fuyuki's ECW Japan, with all the confusion Fuyuki would end up rolling Gannosuke up for the three count and the victory to win the WEW Tag Titles from H & Mr. Gannosuke.

March 27, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Mr. Gannosuke would be force to cancel for the tour and H would have to take over Gannosuke's spot in a WEW 6 Man Tag match where Team No Respect's Koji Nakagawa, Jado, and Gedo defeat H, Yoshinori Sasaki, and Naohiko Yamazaki when Jado pins Yamazaki. H would then take on Kyoko Inoue, and control almost the entire match. Kyoko still manages to kick out of many Earlier in the show, Mr. Gannosuke is hospitalized and H took over his spot in a WEW 6 Man Tag match where Team No Respect's Koji Nakagawa, Jado, and Gedo defeat H, Yoshinori Sasaki, and Naohiko Yamazaki when Jado pins Yamazaki. In the main event, Masato Tanaka who had left FMW for ECW a few months earlier returns and runs in and would attack Tetsuhiro Kuroda. H would run in and Tanaka attacks him as well. Fuyuki takes it as if Tanaka had joined his ECW Japan, but Fuyuki gets knocked out as well and claims that ECW Japan is dead, and he is starting his group that will represent the real ECW along with Balls Mahoney and Crazy Boy to takeover FMW.
April 3, 2000 at Zepp Sapporo, Fuyuki would state that if he does not win the next two days, he will retire for good from Pro Wrestling. On the first show, H wrestles Kodo Fuyuki in a singles match for the first time since their Yokohama Bunka Gym November 20, 1998 match, and this match sees the same result as a fan of Chocoball Mukai's fan interferes and helps Fuyuki get the pin on H.
April 4, 2000 at the Zepp Sapporo, in a Come out and Play match up, H would come in for the FMW's Team as their last hope for Fuyuki to finally retire, and easily puts away Chocoball Mukai in sixteen seconds, and then goes on to defeat Kyoko Inoue right after, and then shocks everyone as he defeats Kodo Fuyuki, causing the FMW team to win the match, and Kodo Fuyuki who along with Kyoko Inoue and Chocoball Mukai are kicked out ECW Japan as Fuyuki is forced to retire once and for all but would eventually announce that it was all an April Fools Joke.
April 11, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, H teams up with the returning Mr. Gannosuke to wrestle Masato Tanaka and Balls Mahoney. As H is posing at the top rope, Balls Mahoney sneaks attacks him and hits a Nutcracker off the top rope which seems to seriously injure H. Yoshinori Sasaki carries Hayabusa off to the locker room as Mr. Gannosuke is to be double teamed by Mahoney and Tanaka before Kodo Fuyuki comes out to help Gannosuke through the match, but as the match goes on Fuyuki is laid out as well and as it seems like Gannosuke is back to defending against himself out of nowhere to a loud pop out comes Hayabusa with mask and all to help Gannosuke out. As the crowd goes nuts, but the return of Hayabusa doesn't seem to help as Tanaka hits a Diamond Dust on Hayabusa and covers for the win which was Tanaka's first pinfall win over Ezaki going back to their early days of their career when they wrestled in opening preliminary matches back in 1993.
H would offer an invitation on April 28, 2000 to Jinsei Shinzaki to appear at the upcoming May 5th Komazawa show, in hopes to bring Shinzaki back to his side and the two could reform their tag team.

May 5, 2000 at the Komazawa Olympic Gym, Eiji Ezaki returns as Hayabusa in his main event match against Masato Tanaka. Jinsei Shinzaki appears before the match to take a seat and watch the match. Ezaki goes all out against his former friend by delivering all the Hayabusa signature moves such as the Falcon Arrow, Firebird Splash, and Phoenix Splash while taking a beating from a Powerbomb into a table and a Powerbomb to the outside onto a table, and even kicking out of an Awesome Bomb done by Masato Tanaka as well as the Roaring Elbow and the Diamond Dust before Hayabusa hits Tanaka with a H Thunder for the win. After the match Ezaki takes off the mask as Jinsei Shinzaki would walk off and Hayabusa would issue a challenge to Kodo Fuyuki for his WEW World Title, but he would have no idea how hard it would be to get the WEW World Title.

May 28, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, the new WEW World Champion Kodo Fuyuki would referee a three way dance between H and his friends Mr. Gannosuke and Tetsuhiro Kuroda to see who will become the number 1 contender for the WEW World Title. Gannosuke who had suffered a leg injury earlier in the month, walks to the ring on crutches. H and Kuroda do battle the majority of the time, as they fight outside in the ring, and into the crowd where H hits a Hurricanrana on Kuroda on the concrete. Gannosuke spends majority of the time watching the match and sometimes helping either H or Kuroda double team the other. Kuroda begins getting frustrated at Gannosuke and begins kicking and attacking the cast on his injured leg. H takes this as an opportunity to try and rollup Kuroda for the win as Kodo Fuyuki does a extreme fast count but only gets a two. H and Kuroda then begin trading off pinfall attempts as Kodo Fuyuki begins giving some of the fastest two counts ever until H hits a Hurricanrana on Kuroda for the very fast 3 count for the elimination. But as H would get up from pinning Kuroda, Gannosuke would go over to the corner, and grab his crutches and smash it over H's back as Gannosuke would pin H, and Fuyuki would jump on Gannosuke's back to make sure to get the 3 count for the Gannosuke victory. H would grab the mic as Fuyuki and Gannosuke would become all smiles, as H would begin screaming that this decision better not stand with such a biased referee. FMW President Shoichi Arai would come out with Kyoko Inoue, Koji Nakagawa, and Chocoball Mukai and grabs the mic and says that the referee decision is final and says maybe H should concentrate less on being such an egotistical bastard and learn how to win a match every once in awhile which causes H to go right after Arai, but is attacked by friends Hideki Hosaka & Yoshinori Sasaki as Mr. Gannosuke and others begin beating on H and Tetsuhiro Kuroda. Hosaka & Sasaki would hold H up as Fuyuki claims this new group of wrestlers have formed the new Fuyuki Army and would goover and slaps H in the face, followed by a slap from Shoichi Arai. That slap from Arai would upset H enough to manage to pull away from Hosaka and Sasaki and go right after Arai. Hisakatsu Oya, Naohiko Yamazaki, Flying Kid Ichihara and Ricky Fuji would run into the ring to help out H and Kuroda. Ricky would quickly over after Arai after not trusting Arai in the first place because of what had happened last August and would throw Arai down and along with Oya begin choking Arai out as all of New Fuyuki Army grab him and manage to retreat. Arai backstage would explains how Ricky Fuji had just made the worst mistake of his life.
May 30, 2000 in Kanawa, Koji Nakagawa who had turned on Team No Respect on May 28th at Korakuen Hall and joined the New Fuyuki Army would debut his new gimmick after the name of a legendary thief in Japan named GOEMON. During the match, H would hurt his knee causing him to miss a couple of house shows, which would be the first set of shows Ezaki had missed since November 20, 1997 while touring for All Japan.
June 6, 2000 in Fukushima, Ricky Fuji who would be signing autographs at the souvenir stand would end up being attacked and kidnapped. The new Fuyuki Army would come over and attack Ricky and quickly tie him up and throw him into their fan and take off with him. The new Fuyuki Army would throw Ricky into a basement where they throw him some grub and begin taking pictures of Ricky all tied up as Fuyuki would announce that they will blow up Ricky Fuji if Hand his partner are not successful against himself and GOEMON at the June 16th Korakuen Hall show. H would announce several days afterwards that his upcoming partner for June 16th at Korakuen Hall will be "Hayabusa."
June 16, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, through out the entire show, Mr. Gannosuke would be shown with a tied up Ricky Fuji as he begins mocking the tied up Ricky, and begins to get ready to explode Ricky once Fuyuki and GOEMON win the match. H comes out as the Darkside of H to do battle with Kodo Fuyuki and GOEMON without Hayabusa as his partner, and as a result the is double teamed throughout the entire match and a bloodied mess until Genichiro Tenryu comes out in the Hayabusa mask and costume to answer Fuyuki's challenge to him at the May 5th show. Tenryu quickly knocks GOEMON out with a chair and begins beating on Fuyuki and hits Fuyuki with a Powerbomb as H goes to the top and hits a Firebird 450 Splash on Fuyuki for the victory. As H is celebrating and Hayabusa walks off, the big screen shows a huge explosion as the shocked crowd and H figure out what just happen to Ricky. The crowd begins chanting "Sexy Storm" as H runs out of the arena looking to find his friend.

June 21, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Mr. Gannosuke would come out and announce that he didn't have the guts to actually explode Ricky, as he took off with Ricky before the explosion took place. GOEMON would come out and begin arguing at Gannosuke that he didn't get the job done and that Ricky Fuji is still alive as a result.. H would be scheduled to team up with Hayabusa, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and a mystery partner against Shin Fuyuki Army's Kodo Fuyuki, Mr. Gannosuke, GOEMON, and Kyoko Inoue. The mystery partner turns out to be Ricky Fuji who goes right after GOEMON and Mr. Gannosuke while Hayabusa and Fuyuki go at it, as Hayabusa pulls off his mask to finally reveal Genichiro Tenryu who again lays out Fuyuki for the Firebird Splash by H on Fuyuki for the win.

July 13, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Eiji Ezaki would face off against his recent partner in Genichiro Tenryu in the main event of Tenryu's WAR promotion. This time though, it would Ezaki in the Hayabusa costume instead of Tenryu. Hayabusa would return using all his Hayabusa signature moves, but would end being defeated in a singles match as Hayabusa for the first time since February 21, 1999 against Mr. Gannosuke when Tenryu would deliver a Powerbomb on Hayabusa for the win. The reaction towards Hayabusa over H would become way too noticeable as this match showed the H gimmick was on its last legs.

July 22, 2000 at the Messe Wing, H & Tetsuhiro Kuroda would defeat The Samoans after H would nail Fatu with the H Edge for the win. After the match, H would get on the mic and announce that this would be his last match as H and starting tomorrow he would be going back as Hayabusa officially.
July 23, 2000 at the Differ Ariake, Eiji Ezaki would become Hayabusa permanently and is given his WEW World Title shot after pinning Fuyuki at the June 16th Korakuen Hall tag match. But he must defeat all 10 members of Shin Fuyuki-gun to win the WEW title. H would quickly put away Chocoball Mukai in seconds, and then put away new Shin Fuyuki-gun member Flying Kid Ichihara who would be on crutches in seconds as well, and then quickly defeats Shin Fuyuki-gun members Kintaro Kanemura & Yoshinori Sasaki & Hideki Hosaka & Kyoko Inoue & GOEMON in minutes, as well as knocking out Mr. Gannosuke and causing him to not even be able to compete before the bell rings for the match to start. Kodo Fuyuki then would come out and is quickly attacked by Hayabusa. Fuyuki would have all members of his group throw Hayabusa into the crowd and begin to beating him down with chairs to make it an easy win for Fuyuki, but as Fuyuki would begin to attempt a Charging Lariat on Hayabusa, Masato Tanaka would come back from his near three month absence and lay out Fuyuki with a Roaring Elbow as Tanaka would return to Team FMW. Hayabusa would then try to put away Fuyuki, but he would go up to the top rope for a 450 Fire Bird Splash, Jinsei Shinzaki would come out and attack Hayabusa. Shinzaki would deliver a Praying Powerbomb before leaving. Fuyuki would then finish the job by delivering the Charging Lariat and nailing Hayabusa with it to score the victory and retain his WEW World Title.

July 28, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would team up with the returning Masato Tanaka as well as Hisakatsu Oya against Kodo Fuyuki & Jinsei Shinzaki & Mr. Gannosuke. Shinzaki & Gannosuke would beat on Hayabusa throughout the whole match and mock him as they do every key Hayabusa and Shinzaki tag team spot on Hayabusa, as well as both of them hitting a Praying Powerbombs on Hayabusa. But as Gannosuke grew more and more confidence with teaming with his former hated rival, the more he was surprised when he attempted to throw Shinzaki into the corner to hit Hayabusa, but was instead swung the other side of the ring and then hit with a flying backwards kick to the head and then hit again with flying kick to the head, this time by both Hayabusa & Shinzaki as the crowd began to go nuts that Hayabusa & Shinzaki were back together as friends. Shinzaki then would hit Gannosuke with a Praying Powerbomb and was followed by with a 450 Firebird Splash from Hayabusa for the pinfall and victory over Mr. Gannosuke.

August 20, 2000 at the Tokyo Differ Ariake, Hayabusa would team up with Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hisakatsu Oya to face Mr. Gannosuke, Kintaro Kanemura, and GOEMON in a match where the losing team would have to take pies to the face by the winning team. GOEMON would end up getting the pinfall over Kuroda with the Gannosuke Clutch. Hayabusa, Kuroda, and Oya would all end up being force to take pie shots to the face, and then the fans would be allowed to come to the ring, and throw pies in the face of Hayabusa, Kuroda, and Oya.
August 28, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Jinsei Shinzaki would get stuck in traffic and would be unable to participate in his match with Masato Tanaka against Kintaro Kanemura and GOEMON, so Japanese Independent Wrestler Onryo replaces him in his FMW debut but falls victim to a Kanemura Thunder Fire Power Bomb for the lost, seconds after the match ends, Shinzaki finally makes it to the arena and quickly runs to the ring as quick as he can, but is ambushed by Gannosuke, Kanemura, and GOEMON and is triple teamed and receives a bloody beat down before Hayabusa runs out to make the save for his friend. Hayabusa quickly knocks out Kanemura and GOEMON. Hayabusa then goes at Mr. Gannosuke as their scheduled main event for the right to have Hayabusa get another shot at Kodo Fuyuki's WEW World Championship Title starts. Gannosuke has the early advantage through the match as Kanemura and GOEMON interfere throughout the match, just when Hayabusa seems like he's going to get an offensive started, Kodo Fuyuki comes out and helps on the outside interference, including a Triple Team Powerbomb off the top rope which sets Gannosuke to hit a picture perfect Thunder Fire, but still only gets a two as Gannosuke picks Hayabusa up, and Kanemura grabs a chair and climbs the top rope, Jinsei Shinzaki runs back out and sends Kanemura flying off the top rope, this distracts Gannosuke and allows Hayabusa to hit him with a reverse flying kick to the head. Hayabusa quickly picks Gannosuke up and holds him as Shinzaki hits a Praying shoulder block off the top rope. Shinzaki quickly knocks down GOEMON, and then hits a super kick to the head on Fuyuki sending him out of the ring, as Hayabusa and Shinzaki hit some of their signature tag team moves before Hayabusa picks Gannosuke up and hits him with a H Thunder for the three count on his former best friend.
September 21, 2000 at the Sapporo Green Dome, the 15,000 Volt Thunderbolt Cage Death Match would start as Kodo Fuyuki would throw his jacket at the cage to set off a huge explosion as the bell would ring to stun Hayabusa, and set up Fuyuki to hit a Charging Lariat on Hayabusa right away to try and steal the win from Hayabusa in a matter of seconds. But Hayabusa would manage to quickly kick out. Both Hayabusa and Fuyuki would manage to throw one other into the cage setting off huge explosions until they both end up sending each other to the cage setting off another huge explosion which would knock out Fuyuki. Hayabusa smelling the end was near would go for the H Edge, but Fuyuki would kick out of, causing Hayabusa to deliver a 450 Fire Bird Splash on Fuyuki for the win in the Thunderbolt Cage to become the number one contender for the WEW World Championship once again while Fuyuki would be rushed into an ambulance and taken to a Sapporo hospital from the all the pain the explosions that he had suffered.

September 26, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa prepares to do battle against Kodo Fuyuki in the first ever Japanese sixty minute Iron Man match. The two go to the mat to start things off slowly in the first few minutes, but then at the twenty minute mark begin trying to finish each other one off with signature moves before Fuyuki would get the first win with a Charging Lariat. Fuyuki smelling blood and sees how worn out and tired Hayabusa already is, goes for another Charging Lariat and gets another pinfall over Hayabusa minutes later. Just a few minutes later after that, Fuyuki would begin to get tired and begin to make a few mistakes causing Hayabusa to get the offense and allowing Hayabusa to get his first pinfall as he would hit the H Thunder on Fuyuki to make 2-1 Fuyuki. Fuyuki would back minutes later and unmask Hayabusa and then cut up Hayabusa's forehead with a piece of a table outside the ring. Fuyuki would come back in the ring to make it as the referee begins to count them both out. Fuyuki waits for the tired Hayabusa to attempt to come back in the ring, and then as Hayabusa would slowly climb up to the apron, Fuyuki would a Charging Lariat sending Hayabusa back to the floor and allow the referee to count Hayabusa out and give Fuyuki a 3-1 advantage. Fuyuki would bring Hayabusa back in the ring, and hit a supplex on Hayabusa who lands on his feet and attempts to hit a palm strike on Fuyuki, but Fuyuki would grab Hayabusa by the arms and attempts another supplex but Hayabusa would manage to counter and roll Fuyuki up with Fuyuki's own Samson Clutch for the three count and the cut down on Fuyuki's lead to 3-2. Fuyuki would quickly take Hayabusa down after that and then put Hayabusa in a Fuyuki Special submission maneuver with Hayabusa grabbing the ropes to break the submission hold. Just as Fuyuki would let go, and begin to pick up Hayabusa, out of nowhere Hayabusa would spit red mist into Fuyuki's face blinding him, as Hayabusa would hit a spinning heel kick and then set Fuyuki up next to the turnbuckle for a 450 Firebird Splash for the pinfall to tie everything up with about 15 minutes to go in the hour. The tired two would begin trading signature finishing moves before Fuyuki would bring Hayabusa to outside where they begin to brawl into the crowd as Fuyuki powerbombs Hayabusa through the FMW announcing table. Fuyuki then would quickly throw Hayabusa back in the ring, but still can only manage to get a two count. Both men out of breath would try everything they had left for the last 10 minutes, as Hayabusa would even attempts a Charging Lariat of his own, but Fuyuki would manage to block it. With a few minutes left, Fuyuki would begin several Charging Lariats out of desperation, but Hayabusa manages to kick out of everyone. With thirty seconds left, Fuyuki would attempt a powerbomb but Hayabusa would manage to block it, but Fuyuki would then turn it into a sunset flip for one last chance at a victory. Hayabusa would manage to kick out and turns over for a pinfall attempt at his own, but still only gets a two. With only 10 seconds left, Hayabusa would get up and hit an H Edge on Fuyuki and with only seconds left at one last chance at the pinfall, but Fuyuki would kick out at two. The 60 minute time would expire, as both wrestlers wrestled to a draw. After the match, as they both try to catch their breath. They both would get up, shake each others hand and hug. Hayabusa would grab the mic and ask for one more chance, which Fuyuki would agree to at the November 12, 2000 Yokohama Bunka Gym show. Hayabusa would later that match was the hardest match of his career.
October 10, 2000 at the Hakata Star Lanes, in a rematch from the May 27, 1998 Hakata Star Lanes match, Hayabusa would team up with Masato Tanaka against Kodo Fuyuki and Kintaro Kanemura. Hayabusa and Tanaka would get their long awaited revenge against the former New Footloose as Hayabusa would pin Kanemura with the 450 Firebird Splash. After the match, Hayabusa would the mic and announce because of both injuries that he has received to his arms throughout the past five and half years with all the highflying, he will need surgery on both arms which will cause him to be out of action for 6 months after the November 12th Yokohama Bunka Gym show against Fuyuki, he announced he would return at the FMW May 5th show.

October 29, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would team up with Onryo to do battle against Kodo Fuyuki & GOEMON, Fuyuki & GOEMON would attack Hayabusa's right arm throughout the whole match after cutting it open with GOEMON's fork the entire match. GOEMON even spit would red mist into Hayabusa's face blinding him before going back after Hayabusa's arm. In the end, Hayabusa would get revenge as Onryo knocked out GOEMON, and Hayabusa hit a Firebird 450 Splash on Fuyuki for the cover and the win. After the match, Fuyuki would attack Hayabusa's injured arms once again trying to softened them up for their Yokohama Bunka Gym match on November 12th.

November 12, 2000 at the Yokohama Bunka Gym, Hayabusa would wrestle his last match for the next 6 months against Kodo Fuyuki for the WEW World Championship. Fuyuki would spend a majority of the match taking it to Hayabusa on the mat going after Hayabusa's injured arms. Hayabusa would counter by hitting Fuyuki with all his key highflying moves including the Asai Moonsault, but a missed Phoenix Splash once again signals the end for Hayabusa as Fuyuki come back with several Charging Lariats before putting away Hayabusa to end their feud. Fuyuki would shake hands with Hayabusa and take off with his belts as Hayabusa says goodbye to the fans until 2001. But as Hayabusa is shaking hands with all the fans, Tetsuhiro Kuroda who had been in the ring since Fuyuki won the match goes over to Hayabusa in the middle of the ring to shake his hand, and as Hayabusa shakes Kuroda's hand, out of nowhere Kuroda would kick Hayabusa in the gut and hit Hayabusa with a Technan Buster DDT. Kuroda would grab the mic and claim that he doesn't care how long Hayabusa will be out, and that he will be the new ace of the promotion of FMW. Kuroda would leave to a loud chant of booing by the fans as Hayabusa lays in the middle of the ring completely knocked out, before the new FMW Dojo students run in to the ring and pick up Hayabusa and help him to the back.
November 22, 2000, Eiji Ezaki would have a successful double elbow surgery to heal both his injured arms after the pain they had started to cause him after years of doing highflying maneuvers.
December 20, 2000 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa returns to an event for the first time since the double arm reconstructive surgery where he watches Kodo Fuyuki, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and Kintaro Kanemura battle Masato Tanaka, Jado, and Gedo in a Barbwire Street Fight, also doing color commentating is Masashi Honda as Mr. Gannosuke had been retired from wrestling after a lost to Tetsuhiro Kuroda on November 12th at the Yokohama Bunka Gym. After Kuroda got the pinfall victory over Jado with the Technan Buster DDT, he calls Hayabusa to the ring who had been sitting at ringside watching the match, Kuroda begins to mock Hayabusa and make fun of him, as well as screaming "CHICKEN! CHICKEN!" as Hayabusa rips the mask off and goes to the ring, before Honda comes up to Ezaki and holds him back as Kuroda continues to call him to the ring, as Ezaki and Honda leave together.
February 6, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa makes his second appearance since the surgery. Along with The Masked Sumo who was FMW's ring announcer Nakamura in a mask and attempting to wrestle would make his FMW debut earlier in the show would come out to confront Kuroda after the whole December 20th Korakuen incident. The Masked Sumo would turn on Hayabusa and the two would attack Hayabusa that would result in Kuroda grabbing a folding chair and pillmanizing one of Hayabusa's injured arms. As Team Kuroda would walk off celebrating their accomplishments and left the injured Hayabusa laying in the ring, all of a sudden the Michinoku Pro theme played and out came The Great Sasuke who went to the ring and helped Hayabusa up. There was a few tense seconds where they stared at each other, but they would end up leaving together.

February 23, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Mammoth Sasaki would take on Kodo Fuyuki & Great Sasuke. As the match is going on, Kuroda has the advantage on Sasuke, when all of a sudden Hayabusa runs out all decked out in the Hayabusa uniform to the ring and begins to attack Kuroda and all the members of Team Kuroda sitting at ringside, which distracts Kuroda and allows Sasuke to get the rollup pinfall victory on Kuroda. Thus setting up The Great Sasuke vs. Tetsuhiro Kuroda at the next Korakuen Hall show. Hayabusa will be returning at the FMW May 5, 2001 Kawasaki Stadium show from his double elbow re-constructive surgery, and will most likely be facing Tetsuhiro Kuroda in his return match.
April 1, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, Shoichi Arai would agree to reinstate Mr. Gannosuke back into FMW earlier in the show. In the Main Event, Hayabusa would come out to sit down to watch Kodo Fuyuki put up his WEW World Title on the line against Tetsuhiro Kuroda, during the match Fuyuki sets Kuroda for Fuyuki with the Muscle Buster when all of a sudden Gannosuke's music plays and out comes Gannosuke with a chair who charges the ring and begins swinging it at Fuyuki. Kuroda would get up and notice what Gannosuke was doing and charges right at him eye to eye before both of them notice Fuyuki getting up and both hitting him with a Double Drop kick. Hayabusa would get up and attack Gannosuke as Fuyuki would get back up and charge right after Kuroda, but Kuroda would block the clothesline and turn it into the Gannosuke Clutch for the victory to win the WEW World Title. Kuroda and Gannosuke then would begin a double team beat down on Hayabusa as The Great Sasuke would run out to help out Hayabusa. Sasuke would clear the ring of Kuroda, Gannosuke, and the rest of Team Kuroda and help get Hayabusa out of the ring. Hayabusa would grab the mic and issue a challenge for their upcoming Kawasaki Stadium match in a tag team match between Hayabusa and Great Sasuke against Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Mr. Gannosuke.
April 15, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, Kodo Fuyuki announces the Tag Team match for Kawasaki Stadium as a Exploding Octagon Cage Death Match between Hayabusa and Sasuke against Kuroda & Gannosuke. As Hayabusa is going to the building talking to the camera man, out of nowhere a motorcycle comes from behind running over his foot knocking him and the camera man down. Later in the show, Team Kuroda scores a victory over Sasuke, GOEMON, and Onryo when Kuroda pins Onryo with the Technan Buster. Team Kuroda begins to beat down on Sasuke as Hayabusa begins to play, but instead of Hayabusa comes out to make a save, Shinjuku Shark and Azusa Kudo have the injured Hayabusa and throw him in the ring to have Kuroda and Gannosuke beat down on the both of them including Gannosuke tearing off Sasuke's mask and putting it on as the two mock the injured and beaten down Hayabusa and The Great Sasuke.

May 5, 2001 at Kawasaki Stadium, Hayabusa would from his reconstructive double arm surgery to team up with The Great Sasuke to wrestle WEW World Champion Tetsuhiro Kuroda and fellow Team Kuroda member Mr. Gannosuke in a Exploding Octagon Cage Death Match on the 10 Year Anniversary of Eiji Ezaki's debut match. The four battle around the ring with Hayabusa going at it with Gannosuke as Kuroda and Sasuke would take on each other. Hayabusa would be the first to be thrown into the explosions after being shoved into it by Gannosuke. Hayabusa and Gannosuke would begin battling on the outside before both hitting the side of the cage for another explosion as the entire ring blows up at the same time. Both Hayabusa and Gannosuke are knocked out for along time as Sasuke and Kuroda begin battling as the ring is filled with dust going everywhere as Hayabusa climbs in the ring and throws the knocked out Gannosuke in the ring as well. Hayabusa begins to go for the pin on Gannosuke and tries for an H Bottom when Gannosuke comes out of nowhere and gets a Gannosuke Clutch on Hayabusa but only gets a two count. Hayabusa then sets up Gannosuke for a 450 Fire Bird Splash which Gannosuke kicks out. Hayabusa finally finishes Gannosuke off with an H Thunder for the pinfall victory in his return match and his 10th year anniversary of his pro debut in FMW match. Gannosuke and Kuroda barely are able to walk out of the ring to the back as Hayabusa pulls off his mask and announces that he is now back.
May 11, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would make his return to Korakuen Hall by teaming with friends Hisakatsu Oya and Ricky Fuji to take on Team Kuroda's Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Mr. Gannosuke, and Mammoth Sasaki. During the match Gannosuke and Kuroda have a miscommunication as Gannosuke accidentally clotheslines Kuroda allowing Hayabusa to be able to setup Kuroda for the h 450 Fire Bird Splash for the pinfall victory over the WEW World Champion Tetsuhiro Kuroda. The pinfall would make Hayabusa the Number 1 contender for the WEW World Title going into the May 22nd Sapporo Green Dome show. Gannosuke and Kuroda would argue after the match blaming the other for the lost eventually causing the end to Kuroda and Gannosuke's friendship..

May 22, 2001 at the Sapporo Green Dome, Hayabusa challenges his rival Tetsuhiro Kuroda for the WEW World Championship in a Barbed wire Landmine Death Match with Kodo Fuyuki as the Special Referee. Hayabusa would be the first one to be thrown into the Explosions. Hayabusa would manage to get Kuroda knocked out of the ring onto the explosions outside. Hayabusa would follow by Diving over the Top Turnbuckle on to Kuroda outside. The two manage to make their way back in as both showing obvious pains from the huge explosions until Mr. Gannosuke would come out and hit the ring to attempt to attack his former Team Kuroda partner. Fuyuki would attempt to get Gannosuke out of the way, but Hayabusa and Kuroda would both dropkick Gannosuke who would cause Fuyuki to be knocked into the third set of explosions. Kanemura would quickly rush into the ring and get Gannosuke out of the ring as the two would brawl to the back. Kuroda would nail his finishing Technan Buster DDT on Hayabusa but Fuyuki is still laying in the barbwire landmines. Kuroda would attempt to throw Hayabusa over the ropes, but Hayabusa would bring Kuroda over with him. The two would begin fighting on the apron trying to throw the other in the landmines. Kuroda would finally clothesline Hayabusa sending them both into the final explosion. Hayabusa and Kuroda would make it back in the ring, and Kuroda would begin going for the kill by hitting several lariats but would not manage to put Hayabusa away. Hayabusa would duck the clothesline and nail a Dragon Supplex on Kuroda, but Kuroda would immediately get up and nail Hayabusa with another lariat. Hayabusa would duck a Kuroda lariat and land a kick to the head and then would deliver an H Thunder with Kuroda becoming the first wrestler to ever kick out of. Hayabusa would finish Kuroda with a 450 Fire Bird Splash and then another H Thunder for the victory for the WEW World Title and Hayabusa's first major title victory since August 23, 1999 for the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Title.
June 8, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, FMW's Commissioner Kodo Fuyuki would come out to the ring with business associate Stuart Levy from Tokyo Pop. Fuyuki would announce that he has a major announcement and wants the entire FMW locker room to come out. Hayabusa would be the first one out to see what is going on. Kodo Fuyuki announces that with permission from FMW Vice President Yoshida, he is going to buy FMW from under Shoichi Arai and has the money from Tokyo Pop to do so, and wants the entire FMW roster to join with him. Everyone thinking they have no choice but to do sides with Fuyuki besides Hayabusa who sticks with Shoichi Arai while Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Ricky Fuji don't side with individual. Shoichi Arai would announce that he still owns 48% of FMW, where as Kodo Fuyuki has only bought 47% of the stock with the backing of Stuart Levy. Hayabusa had bought 5% of the stock so Fuyuki does not have enough control to give the promotion to Tokyo Pop and then asks all the wrestlers to come back if they want to side with FMW instead of Fuyuki. Ricky Fuji, Hisakatsu Oya, GOEMON, Azusa Kudo, Naohiko Yamazaki and eventually Onryo side with Arai and Hayabusa. Tetsuhiro Kuroda comes from his corner and grabs the mic and says that he will never side with Fuyuki no matter what, so if that means that he has to side with Arai and Hayabusa then so be it and then throws the microphone down and leaves the ring. Hayabusa and Arai's side leave. Fuyuki announces that in the main event, Hayabusa will have to team up with Kuroda to take on Mr. Gannosuke and Kintaro Kanemura in the main event. In the match, Gannosuke would end up getting the victory over Hayabusa with the Gannosuke Clutch to Fuyuki's happiness. Fuyuki would get in the ring and begin making his new employee Arai kiss his feet and wants Arai to slap Hayabusa. As Arai begins crying he delivers some very light slaps until Fuyuki forces Arai to punch Hayabusa. Arai then begins punching Hayabusa into the corner which doesn't even phase Hayabusa until Arai begins crying right on Hayabusa as Hayabusa holds Arai in disgust of what Fuyuki has just forced Arai to do.
July 2, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, Fuyuki would make a match where Arai will be forced to team up with Mr. Gannosuke and Kintaro Kanemura to take on Hayabusa teaming with GOEMON and Onryo and if Arai were to get pinned then he will be fired as an active performer with FMW. Hayabusa would score the pinfall on Mr. Gannosuke after Fuyuki makes a 2 count but freezes before making a three count, until referee Marty Asano would run to the ring and knock Fuyuki's hand down for the three count and the victory for Hayabusa's team.
July 30, 2001 at the Hakata Star Lanes, Hayabusa would successfully defend the WEW World Championship for the first time in a grueling battle against Mammoth Sasaki where Mammoth would setup a table on top of the turnbuckle and attempt to Super Chokeslam Hayabusa off the table placed on the turnbuckle. Hayabusa would manage to counter it and flip Sasaki off the table instead and hit Sasaki with several of his finishers before climbing up the turnbuckle with the table and hitting Sasaki with a 450 Fire Bird Splash for the victory and Hayabusa's first WEW World Title defense.
August 3, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would agree that if he teams with GOEMON and Onryo and loses to Mr. Gannosuke, Kintaro Kanemura, and Mammoth Sasaki then he will put up 5% of his stock at the August 11th Komazawa Olympic Gym show. Hayabusa falls victim to Gannosuke's Thunder Fire and then right away is picked up by Kanemura and given a Thunder Fire Power Bomb as Kintaro Kanemura scores only his second pinfall over Hayabusa to win the match and forces Hayabusa to put up 5% of the stock he owns in FMW on August 11th. It is agreed, that the stock Hayabusa owns will be put in a Best 2 out of 3matches. Hayabusa, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, and Azusa Kudo will represent for FMW against Kodo Fuyuki, Mr. Gannosuke, and Kintaro Kanemura who will represent for Fuyuki's side. Azusa Kudo's new identity Biomonster DNA will take on Kodo Fuyuki, Tetsuhiro Kuroda will take on Mr. Gannosuke, and Hayabusa will put up his WEW World Title against Kintaro Kanemura in the third match.
August 11, 2001 at the Komazawa Olympic Gym, Biomonster DNA would defeat Kodo Fuyuki in just a couple minutes to give the FMW team their first win. Tetsuhiro Kuroda though would lose to Mr. Gannosuke after submitting to a painful arm lock submission thus tying it up it 1 to 1 for each side going into the last match with Hayabusa taking on Kintaro Kanemura for the WEW World Championship. Hayabusa and Kanemura put on a very good match, as Hayabusa tries everything to defeat Kanemura, even trying the Phoenix Splash for the first time since his double reconstructive surgery on his arms the year before but fails to connect with it, and ends up being hit with three straight of Kanemura's Thunder Fire Powerbombs for the Kanemura victory over Hayabusa for the WEW World Title and the right of Fuyuki to take claim of Hayabusa's stock in the promotion. Kodo Fuyuki with the stock who had announced earlier that it would be given over to Mixx Entertainment's Stuart Levy who would announce that Shoichi Arai is fired as FMW President and is replaced by FMW Vice President Senmu Yoshida. This also marked Hayabusa's first singles pinfall lost since last November 12, 2000 against Kodo Fuyuki.

September 5, 2001 at the Sapporo Green Dome, Hayabusa would wear his first non white uniform as Hayabusa since he wrestled in the Hayabusa farewell match back on August 25, 1999 as he would wear red for the match. Hayabusa would be given another shot at the WEW World Title and Kanemura and would manage to kick out of everything. Kanemura would deliver a lot of his powerful offense which would include a Powerbomb off the apron onto a table and one of the fastest supplexs possibly delivered. Kanemura would begin to get desperate in the match and lowblow Hayabusa to get every advantage until Hayabusa would counter and deliver his own lowblow to Kanemura and then hit a 450 Fire Bird Splash on Kanemura for the victory and his second WEW World Title victory.

September 9, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, President Yoshida would show footage showing that Hayabusa had in fact lowblow Kanemura in their WEW World Title match at Sapporo, and would strip Hayabusa of the WEW World Title and give it back to Kintaro Kanemura. Later in the show, Hayabusa teams up with Tetsuhiro Kuroda and GOEMON to challenge for the WEW 6 Man Tag Team Championship against Kintaro Kanemura, Kodo Fuyuki, and Mr. Gannosuke. Hayabusa would end up getting another pinfall victory over Kanemura, again pinning Kanemura with the Fire Bird Splash for the victory to win the WEW 6 Man Tag Team Titles with Tetsuhiro Kuroda and GOEMON.
October 9, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda team up to face WEW Tag Team Champions Mr. Gannosuke and Mammoth Sasaki. Hayabusa and Kuroda would walk away as the Tag Team Champions as Hayabusa would pin Sasaki with the 450 Fire Bird Splash. After the match, Mammoth Sasaki would challenge Hayabusa to a singles match on October 22, 2001 at the next Korakuen Hall.

October 19, 2001 in Tokyo, Hayabusa would meet up and challenge Genichiro Tenryu for a singles match at All Japan's October 28, 2001 Budokan Hall show, where Hayabusa would represent the All Japan team taking on Tenryu's WAR team in a best of 5 singles matches. The match would never take place.

October 22, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would suffer one of the worse injuries in professional wrestling history against Mammoth Sasaki in a one on one battle in attempt to win Shoichi Arai his spot back in FMW. Almost ten minutes into the match, Hayabusa would go to do an Asai Moonsault from the inside of the ring on Sasaki when his foot would suddenly slip on the rope and Eiji Ezaki would fall directly on his head causing him to become paralyzed instantly from the neck down. Hayabusa would feel his spirit leave his body like he had just died after the incident and would see himself looking above the ring at himself laying in the ring helpless before going back down to his body. Hayabusa initial reaction would be to keep the match going and would tell referee FMW referee Marty Asano to continue with the match. Hayabusa despite knowing exactly what had just happened hoped he somehow could find a possible way to finish the match as the wrestlers are taught while learning how to wrestle that no matter to be able to finish the match. Mammoth who would begin to freak out not knowing what exactly had happened since he was on his back looking up when the accident had taken place would begin to just kick Hayabusa and wait for him to get up, and would then would put Hayabusa in a rear chin lock to try and allow Hayabusa some time to recover from whatever had just happened to him. Moving his neck around would cause the injury to become far worse until Hayabusa was force to call for the match to be stopped to the referee. Marty Asano would call for the match to be stopped as Shoichi Arai, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Hisakatsu Oya, GOEMON, Onryo, Ricky Fuji, and the young FMW wrestlers would come in to the ring due to the tragic accident. Kintaro Kanemura would come to the ring to get Mammoth out of the ring as Mammoth would finally be wised up to what had happened. A stretcher would be rushed to the ring as Hayabusa would realize that this was the main event and did not want to have the fans go home disappointed and would ask for the mic to address the fans. Hayabusa would state to please continue to support FMW for he may have just died for the promotion. Television cameras would then stop filming as paramedics would rush to Korakuen Hall and take off the Hayabusa mask to make it easier for Ezaki to breathe as they would place him on the stretcher and would take him to a nearby college hospital in Tokyo. Ezaki would stay conscious the whole time but would enter the hospital feeling he was not going to make it out alive. Shoichi Arai and Ezaki's wife would be the only ones allowed to visit him while in the hospital the day of the accident. Days later, while in the hospital, germs would get inside of Ezaki's body due to having to stay in the hospital and not being to move and the germs would end up getting into his heart. Eiji Ezaki would begin to suffer an incredibly high fever which would force the doctors to concentrate on the deathly high fever over his paralysis from the neck down. Many drugs would be given to Eiji Ezaki to help his fever, all of which would take away his memory from late October to December 29th.
November 5, 2001at Korakuen Hall, the teams of Hayabusa and Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hayabusa, Kuroda, and GOEMON would be stripped of the WEW Tag Team Titles and WEW 6 Man Tag Team Titles. Tomokazu Morita would brought in under the new name of Garuda to replace Hayabusa while Hayabusa remains in critical condition fighting for his life. Mr. Gannosuke would address the fans at the show stating that Hayabusa loved FMW, and that Hayabusa would want you to continue to support FMW, and that he believes in his heart that Hayabusa will return one day and fly again which would garner loud Gannosuke chants from the FMW loyalists..
December 29, 2001 in Tokyo, Eiji Ezaki would have heart surgery to get rid of the germs that had gone into his heart, as there was no other way to get rid of them and get rid of his high fever. The surgery would be a success and very soon after, Ezaki's fever would drop down. The fever would finally be gone as Ezaki would be transported to a Tokyo Rehabilitation Center where over two months past the accident, Ezaki would finally be able to work on being able to walk once again.
February 15, 2002, with fans interest very low, no sign of Hayabusa coming back anytime in the near future, and 2 million dollars in debt, Shoichi Arai would officially declare FMW for bankruptcy. The promotion that Hayabusa had given his body and soul for over 10 years and officially ended. Shoichi Arai would go into hiding as Kodo Fuyuki would visit Ezaki at the rehabilitation center and give him the horrible news but that he would be starting his own promotion with his own money with the FMW roster. Days later, Ezaki would receive a phone call from Shoichi Arai stating how sorry he was about everything as he was not going to be able to afford to pay Ezaki's hospital bills anymore. Arai would also talk about suicide as it was a way to get his family out of depth in the conversation.
March 10, 2002 at Korakuen Hall, Fuyuki would begin to run the shows that were scheduled for FMW before bankruptcy with the FMW roster with Atsushi Onita appearing at the show. The two would work an angle about Onita stating that Fuyuki and friend former FMW ring announcer Kichisuke Nakamura had taken money from FMW and kept it for themselves. Soon after, Mammoth Sasaki, Flying Kid Ichihara, and GOEMON would stop appearing for Fuyuki's shows. Kodo Fuyuki later in the month would also find out that he had intestine cancer and would have to go in for surgery to remove the cancer and would be force to retire from wrestling.
May 16, 2002 at a Tokyo Park, Hayabusa's friend and boss off 11 years, Shoichi Arai's body would be found dead after a early morning jogger found Arai's body hung by his own neck tie. Two days before, Eiji had gotten a phone call from Arai stating that he was going to kill himself to help his family out money wise as well as feeling guilty about Ezaki's injury. Eiji would end the conversation with Arai believing that he had convinced Arai otherwise and to not kill himself. Eiji would get a tape the day of Arai's death stating that by the time anyone be hearing this, he would already be dead. Arai would also state that he would hope that the rest of FMW would help continue to support Hayabusa and that he was sorry for disappointing everyone. Eiji Ezaki would soon become very depressed over the lost of his friend Shoichi Arai as Ezaki was actually one of the few FMW wrestlers that would consider Arai a friend.
Just a few days later after the tragic death of former FMW owner Shoichi Arai, an idea would presented to Hayabusa about a new promotion being started by Mr. Gannosuke with Hayabusa being used as the face of the promotion. The promotion with former FMW wrestlers Mr. Gannosuke, Mammoth Sasaki, GOEMON, Onryo, Garuda, Flying Kid Ichihara, Satoru Makita, and Happy Ikeda all being apart of the promotion called WMF. A Japanese computer company called Laing, Inc. would become the financial backer for the promotion and the WMF would be soon born, but until then it would be kept a secret from everyone until July 1, 2002 when the announcement of the promotion would be announced for July 3rd.

July 3, 2002 at a Tokyo Press Conference, Hayabusa would make his first public appearance in 254 days since being paralyzed on October 22, 2001. Confined to a wheel chair with friends Mr. Gannosuke and Jinsei Shinzaki, Hayabusa, Gannosuke, and Shinzaki would announce the official start of the promotion the WMF "Wrestling Marvelous Future" and would have an alliance with Hayabusa's friend The Great Sasuke's Michinoku Pro as well Ultimo Dragon's Toryumon as the promotion would run a practice show on August 18th in Saitama and would run its first show on August 28th at the Tokyo Differ Ariake.
August 18, 2002 at the Saitama Pepe Hall Atlas, WMF would run its practice show. Hayabusa would be at the rehabilitation center so would be unable to appear at the show. But Gannosuke would hold a cell phone up the ring with Hayabusa on it as Hayabusa would announce to the crowd that he would appear at the August 28th Differ Ariake show. Mitsuhiro Matsunaga also would appear at the show very upset at Mr. Gannosuke and Mammoth Sasaki over the both of them forcing WMF's new rule of no death matches in the promotion. Matsunaga would appear at the end of the show from the crowd and goes into the ring and bash how WMF does not want him or death matches in the promotion. Mr. Gannosuke heads to the ring and brawls with Matsunaga until Matsunaga heads out but before leaving states that this is not the last you have seen of him.

August 28, 2002 at the Differ Ariake, Hayabusa would be introduced to the crowd and gives a very emotional speech talking about his is accident and everything he has had to go through including the death of Shoichi Arai. Hayabusa would then asks that everybody stand for a 10 bell salute in the memory of Shoichi Arai. Afterwards, a very tearful Hayabusa would begin to stand up with the help from braces attached to his legs and a cane to show how far he has came since such a horrible accident. Hayabusa would stay and watch the match between friends Mr. Gannosuke and Jinsei Shinzaki against Tetsuhiro Kuroda and GOEMON, but during the match a very upset Mitsuhiro Matsunaga would appear and attack both Gannosuke and Shinzaki with his barbwire baseball bat causing Gannosuke to bleed. Matsunaga would then leave but not before staring at an upset Hayabusa watching in his wheelchair when GOEMON would soon appear and high five Matsunaga and make his way to the ring to cheer on Kuroda. Kuroda would soon get the pinfall on Gannosuke and GOEMON would then begin to pound on both the beaten Gannosuke and Shinzaki with help from Kuroda and Oya. The three would then walk over to a very upset Hayabusa as GOEMON would take Hayabusa's water bottle and then take a sip and then poor the bottle over Hayabusa's head and then spit the water in his face. Gannosuke would soon get up and rush at the three, but would be too late. GOEMON would later announce along with Kuroda, Oya, and Soldier that he was forming a group called Brand Double Cross.

Hayabusa would only be able to attend certain WMF shows, as he would spend the rest of his days resting in his own hospital room, and relearning how to walk. Hayabusa would also begin working on his own personal autobiography covering his entire career that would be released on October 26, 2002.

December 11, 2002 at the Tokyo Rehabilitation Center where Hayabusa would go three hours a day to relearn how to walk would give interview to Nikkan Sports which would be his first interview since the accident to plug the WMF debut for Korakuen Hall the next day as well as his just released autobiography. Hayabusa would talk about his return to Korakuen Hall for the first time since the injury, why WMF was created instead of just all the wrestlers going to WEW like originally planned, and his difference of opinion when it came to Kodo Fuyuki's booking and announced that he would take his first public steps in the building of Korakuen Hall, the sight of the injury the next day.

December 12, 2002 at Korakuen Hall. Hayabusa would return to Korakuen Hall for the first time in 461 days since being paralyzed on October 22, 2001. Hayabusa would come out with walking crutches connected to his arms and take his first steps to the public injury since the accident. Hayabusa would then give an interview and talk about how he wanted to return to the "holy ground" of Korakuen Hall and be to walk. Hayabusa then talked about how one year ago he was fighting for his life in the hospital and how much he has progressed through the past year and hopes that he would be able to return to wrestle which has been openly his goal since coming out of his open heart surgery that took place on December 29, 2001. Hayabusa would later return for color commentating and shake the hands of Garuda, Satoshi Kojima, and Mr. Gannosuke after their matches. After the main event of Mammoth Sasaki vs. Tetsuhiro Kuroda which would result in a Double KO finish, Mammoth Sasaki grabbed the mic and announced to the crowd that when Hayabusa was able to wrestle again he wanted to be his first opponent when he returned.December 21, 2002 at Sapporo Teisan Hall, Mr. Gannosuke would turn on partner Jinsei Shinzaki and join GOEMON's Double Cross Army and setup a feud with Mammoth Sasaki as well as renew the Hayabusa/Shinzaki vs. Gannosuke feud. Eventually Gannosuke would leave the Double Cross Army and form the GUN's with two Gannosuke look-alikes in Mr. Rocknosuke and Mr. Iwaonosuke.

March 15, 2003 after leaving the Tokyo Rehabilitation Center with Jinsei Shinzaki strolling him back to the hospital, Mr. Gannosuke along with the GUN's would drive up and and attack both Hayabusa and Shinzaki from behind. Mr. Iwaonosuke would attack Shinzaki while Mr. Gannosuke would knock Hayabusa out of the wheelchair which would be Hayabusa's first bump since the injury since the injury. This would setup Mr. Gannosuke vs. Jinsei Shinzaki for April 11, 2003 for WMF's return to Korakuen Hall.

March 19, 2003 in a Yokohama Hospital, Kodo Fuyuki who had wrestled Hayabusa in some of their most infamous matches including their November 20, 1998 FMW Double Titles match at the Yokohama Bunka Gym and their 60 minute Iron Man match on September 26, 2000 at Korakuen Hall would die of cancer at age 42. The WEW President and Owner who had been booker for FMW and lead heel from 1998 to FMW's end would die right beside his wife as well as former FMW wrestlers Kintaro Kanemura, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Chocoball Mukai, and Shinjuku Shark. Hayabusa would attend the vigil on March 22nd in Yokohama and say goodbye to Fuyuki. Former FMW wrestlers of Kintaro Kanemura, Mammoth Sasaki, Mr. Gannosuke, Masato Tanaka, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, Koji Nakagawa, Ricky Fuji, Hido, Yoshihito Sasaki, Flying Kid Ichihara, Shinjuku Shark, Gosaku Goshogawara, and Chocoball Mukai would also attend the vigil.

March 31, 2003, Hayabusa would finally be able to leave the Tokyo Hospital and be able to return to his home after 525 days and just return to the Rehabilitation Center for his 3 hours a day of relearning how to walk. Hayabusa would also show he was be able to learn how to walk down steps for the very first time.

April 11, 2003 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would give a speech about WMF before the show about its future and that WMF is very interested in fans feedback about the show. Mr. Gannosuke and Jinsei Shinzaki would take on each other in a 5 year rematch from their April 21, 1998 FMW match. Before the match, Mr. Gannosuke would get on the mic and call out Hayabusa who was color commentating. Mr. Gannosuke would insult Hayabusa which would lead to Hayabusa giving Gannosuke the middle finger. That would cause Mr. Rocknosuke and Mr. Iwaonosuke to grab Hayabusa to the wheel chair and wheel him to the ring before Shinzaki would make the save for his friend which would start the match. Shinzaki would have to take on Gannosuke, Rocknosuke, and Iwaonosuke for most of the match with them triple teaming him most of the match until referee Ted Tanabe would finally send Rocknosuke and Iwaonosuke to the back. Shinzaki would be in control afterwards but a bloody Gannosuke would end up hitting a Shining Wizard for the win over Shinzaki. Shinzaki afterwards crawl to Hayabusa sitting down ashamed of his loss to Gannosuke and for not getting revenge for what he did to Hayabusa. Masato Tanaka would also make his WMF debut to a favor for his friend Hayabusa and defeat WMF's ace Mammoth Sasaki in the main event and the best match of the show.

July 7, 2003 at Korakuen Hall for the Fuyuki Army Promotion, WMF and WEW would agree to get together and hold a FMW reunion show. Hayabusa would state that this would be the official end to FMW as FMW was never really given a farewell show when it went under in February 2003, so this would be it. WMF's Double Cross Brand would officially end on this show as GOEMON would return as a team with Onryo. Mammoth Sasaki would team up with Mr. Gannosuke and TAKA Michinoku against Genichiro Tenryu, Kintaro Kanemura, and Masao Orihara. Gannosuke would turn on Mammoth during the match and Kanemura would end up pinning Mammoth to win the match as Hayabusa would watch the match from the entrance in his eyes would officially be the end for FMW.
The rest of 2003 would be a rough time for WMF as the Fuyuki Army Promotion would be using the same wrestlers more effectively with the exception of Mammoth Sasaki. The Apache Army of Kintaro Kanemura, Mr. Gannosuke, Hido, GOEMON, Onryo, and GENTARO would start up and challenge Zero-One. Hayabusa would remain fairly inactive the rest of the year, just color commentating during the top matches for WMF shows. Word would then spread that due to the money losses that WMF had suffered, they would be shutting down after their February 11, 2004 Korakuen Hall show.
February 11, 2004 at Korakuen Hall, fans would attend believing that the show would be the last WMF show. Kensuke Sasaki would defeat Mr. Gannosuke in the main event of the show and afterwards, Gannosuke would inform the crowd that this would become the end of Chapter 1 of WMF, but that Chapter 2 of WMF will hopefully start in 6 months. Afterwards, Gannosuke would begin crying backstage due to the recent problems with WMF's finances. Hayabusa would announce that he would be stepping down as WMF Commissioner and both he and GOEMON would no longer be officially part of the WMF roster due to WMF not being able to pay for Hayabusa in a non wrestling role because of the lack of money. Hayabusa would instead would focus on becoming a singer.

Hayabusa would group himself with Japanese Guitarist Masahiko, and focus a majority on becoming a singer. Hayabusa's CD would be released on May 4th and announce that his first concert entitled "Triple Fight" on June 11, 2004 with Hayabusa singing, Masahiko playing the guitar, and GOEMON participating in the show while videos of Hayabusa's career being played in the background.
May 5, 2004 at Kawasaki Stadium, Hayabusa would attend backstage the last show of the Fuyuki Army Promotion promoted by Kodo Fuyuki's widow Kaoru Fuyuki. Backstage a FMW reunion would be formed with Hayabusa, Mr. Gannosuke, Masato Tanaka, Kintaro Kanemura, Mammoth Sasaki, Tetsuhiro Kuroda, GOEMON, Onryo, Jado, Gedo, Hido, Garuda, Yoshihito Sasaki, Shinjuku Shark and Chocoball Mukai all backstage talking with one another. Although the show would not be the success due to repeated changing of the card, and poor weather with it being cold and windy, it would still mean something to Hayabusa as it was possibly the last time a May 5th show would be held at Kawasaki Stadium, the building that saw some of Hayabusa's biggest matches of his career.
June 11, 2004 in Sapporo, Hayabusa would hold his first concert entitled "Triple Fight" with Masahiko & GOEMON participating in the concert while Hayabusa would sing his songs. The show would overall be a success, and another show would soon booked for "Triple Threat II". It would be a tough month for Hayabusa personally though as he would go through a divorce with his wife and the mother of his two children. Hayabusa's injury of always needing help and being home would become too much of a burden on his wife with her already working as a nurse and raising two children. The divorce would be official, although Hayabusa's love for his wife would never go away, and he would still be in constant touch with his wife and children. The stress of everything in his life, he finds himself crying alone by himself once a week.
July 29, 2004 at a Tokyo Press Conference, Hayabusa would accompany Jinsei Shinzaki with Motoko Baba on July 29th to announce that Jinsei Shinzaki would be taking part for the 6th year anniversary of the death of Giant Baba show on February 5, 2005 at Budokan Hall. Hayabusa would also be participating in the show out of the respect he had for his late friend Giant Baba.

August 31, 2004 in Kumamoto, Hayabusa would hold his second concert "Triple Fight II" in front of his friends and family in his hometown. Again, with clips with Hayabusa's matches from FMW playing on the screen in the background, with Hayabusa singing, Masahiko playing the guitar, and GOEMON intervening in between the shows, it would be another successful show for a small building in front of his friends and family.

November 10, 2004 in Sendai, "Triple Fight III" would take place in Northern Japan to allow Hayabusa to participate singing with Michinoku Pro friends The Great Sasuke & Jinsei Shinzaki. Both Hayabusa and Jinsei Shinzaki who had teamed together in FMW, Michinoku Pro, All Japan, and ECW would be now be singing together to Masahiko's guitar play while The Great Sasuke & GOEMON watched on.
A Christmas "Triple Fight" show would then be planned at the Sapporo Sports Cafe for December 22, 2004 which would be entitled "Hayabusa's Christmas Special" and also planned to air on Sapporo Radio. Auctioning for Hayabusa pictures and cigarette liters would also be planned until days before the show, the show would have to be postponed for another month, causing the "Christmas Special" theme to be scrapped.

February 5, 2005 at Budokan Hall, Hayabusa & Masahiko would sing a song dedicated to Hayabusa's late friend Giant Baba at the 6th year anniversary show of Giant Baba's death. During a break between the matches, Hayabusa would sing in front of his largest audience ever of around 6,000 to 8,000 fans at Budokan Hall. Jinsei Shinzaki and GOEMON would also participate in matches during the show.
February 15, 2005 at KRAPS Hall, the postponed Triple Fight show in December would be made up at KRAPS Hall instead on the 3rd year anniversary of the death of FMW. GOEMON would handle the auctioning off of the pictures of Hayabusa and the Hayabusa cigarette lighters in between songs.
April 17, 2005 at the Tokyo Differ Ariake, two shows are held to benefit Sabu from an illness. Out of the respect and friendship for Sabu from the old FMW wrestlers, almost all of them perform for the show in one way or another. Hayabusa would sing a song dedicated to Sabu who he patterned his style early in his career off of. Hayabusa also in English states that he wishes to have a match with Sabu once again. The show would also allow Hayabusa to not only meet with Sabu afterwards face to face for the first time in almost a year, but many of the former FMW wrestlers as well including Megumi Kudo, Shark Tsuchiya, Kaori Nakayama, and Hisakatsu Oya backstage for the first time in months. Hayabusa would also meets with Sanshiro Takagi of DDT and agrees to attend a DDT show on July 3, 2005 for a benefit show for the victims of the Earthquake in South Japan earlier in the year.
April 22, 2005 in Tokyo, Hayabusa would meet face to face Jushin Liger for the first time in almost nine years since Hayabusa turned down Jushin Liger's offer to go to New Japan. Jushin Liger who had let his hard feelings for Ezaki go after the tragic accident took place in 2001 would agree to meet for the first time in years and do an interview about the situation that took place between the two for Weekly Gong Magazine. Hayabusa just happy to be on the good side for the first time in so many years would talk about how good it felt for their friendship too no longer be strained after all these years.
July 3, 2005 in Niigata, Hayabusa would attend the DDT promotion's Earthquake Relief Benefit show for the victims of the earthquake that hit Niigata back in March. Hayabusa who is from Kumamoto, which is near Niigata agreed to do the show to help out the victims as much as he possibly could. GOEMON would also wrestle on the show in a tag team match. It would be only the third wrestling show that Hayabusa has gone to in the last year. Hayabusa would perform a song in front of the crowd about the tragedy of the earthquake, which the crowd sat quietly but obviously emotional throughout the whole song. Hayabusa would also get to meet several wrestlers for the first time, and many wrestlers for the first time in years. Mitsunobu Kikuzawa as Kikutaro, AKINO, Mariko Yoshida, and MIKAMI would all take pictures with Hayabusa backstage. Both Kikuzawa and MIKAMI would bring a big smile to Hayabusa's face interacting and talking with each other.
July 30, 2005 in Tokyo, Hayabusa would attend the 5 Year Anniversary Commemoration Party for the Pro Wrestling NOAH promotion. Hayabusa would be invited by NOAH President Mitsuharu Misawa and got the chance to meet with wrestlers that he had not gotten to talk to in years. He was greeted by Mitsuharu Misawa and took pictures with Jun Akiyama, his good friend Masato Tanaka, and Yoshihiro Takayama as well others. Hayabusa would be very grateful towards Misawa who earlier in the month had given Hayabusa free sky box tickets to the NOAH Tokyo Dome show as well.
November 29, 2005 at the Osaka Tsukamoto Live house, Hayabusa's Triple Fight concert would be a way for many of Hayabusa's biggest fans to support Hayabusa for his 37th birthday. The fans would sing to Hayabusa themselves as they would sing Happy Birthday to their hero.

April 2, 2006 in Tokyo, a small FMW reunion would be held by the man that trained Hayabusa in Tarzan Goto. Hayabusa would sing a song and host a talk show to the fans as GOEMON, Gosaku Goshogawara, and Ricky Fuji would also participate in the show as Ricky and Goshogawara would have a match against each other.
June 23, 2006 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would return to Korakuen Hall for the first time since WMF's last Korakuen Hall show on February 11, 2004 as Hayabusa would sing to the crowd for Ultimo Dragon Fiesta promotion. Hayabusa would then hold another concert on June 24, 2006 at the Suidobashi Fighting Cafe Corosseo which would be restaurant that is also a wrestling and mixed martial arts memorabilia store. GOEMON would not there, but it was still considered a success.
July 3, 2006 at the Tokyo Ota Ward Gym, Hayabusa would make his first appearance at an All Japan event since losing the All Asian Tag Team Titles with Jinsei Shinzaki to Yoshihiro Takayama and Takao Omori on June 4, 1999. Hayabusa and his protégé Hayabusa-cito would come out to Hayabusa's "Fight with Dream II" theme to team with Kikutaro to take on CMLL's Virus and MAZADA. Hayabusa-cito would deliver some of Hayabusa's old moves like the Moonsault Press, the Asai Moonsault, and the Phoenix Splash while Hayabusa watched in his corner. Hayabusa-cito would also took a good beating like Hayabusa was known for, but Kikutaro would end up being the one taking the fall after Virus would put him the in Virus Lock II for the submission victory.
August 19, 2006 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Hayabusa would travel to the United States for the first time since 2000. Hayabusa would travel with Fumi Saito to Philadelphia for the first time to attend PWU promotionshow at the former ECW Arena. Earlier in the day, Hayabusa would conduct a shoot interview with Fumi Saito translating back and forth for him. Hayabusa would talk about getting into the wrestling business, and admit that he had hard feelings towards Atsushi Onita coming back to FMW back in 1996 to retake Hayabusa's position as ace of FMW like Hayabusa had failed at his position. Hayabusa would sign autographs for many fans at the show, and recieve a standing ovation from the crowd as Hayabusa would sing a song to the fans and recieve another respectful found of applause from the fans.
Hayabusa's second CD would come out on September 6, 2006 and it would be his first CD that would be able to be bought by American fans on websites such as amazon.com. His next concert will be on September 10th.
Hayabusa continues to work three hours a day rehabbing to be able to live a normal life. He is also busy keeping up with his own personal Blog, as well as his concerts with friends GOEMON & Masahiko. Hayabusa spends much of his free time reading about paralysis and the struggles that people go through life with it. He also wants to work on nursing medical treatment for handicapped people. Although so much has happened to his life since October 22, 2001 when the tragic accident took place, he still tries to stay as strong as possible, and still states that he will be able to get into the Hayabusa costume one more time in the ring because that is what he promised the fans. Hayabusa will always stay positive no matter what, and even states himself that he has no regrets about anything.

Eiji Ezaki's Title HistoryPCWF Florida Heavyweight ChampionshipDefeated: Navy Seal 4/6/95Lost to: Randy Fuller 4/20/95FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight ChampionshipDefeated Hisakatsu Oya 6/27/95Lost to: Vacated on 6/27/95FMW 6 Man Street Fight Titles w/ Masato Tanaka & Koji NakagawaDefeated: The Gladiator & Hisakatsu Oya & Mr. Gannosuke 8/31/97Lost to: Atsushi Onita & Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hido 10/14/97FMW 6 Man Street Fight Titles w/ Masato Tanaka & Hisakatsu OyaDefeated: Atsushi Onita & Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hido 12/20/97Lost to: Mr. Gannosuke & Yukihiro Kanemura & Jado 1/16/98 FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship w/ Masato TanakaDefeated: Kodo Fuyuki & Hido 4/17/98Lost to: Kodo Fuyuki & Yukihiro Kanemura 5/27/98FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight ChampionshipDefeated: Mr. Gannosuke 4/30/98Lost to: Kodo Fuyuki 11/20/98 FMW Independent Heavyweight ChampionshipDefeated: Mr. Gannosuke 4/30/98Lost to: Kodo Fuyuki 11/20/98FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship w/ Daisuke IkedaDefeated: Kodo Fuyuki & Yukihiro Kanemura 10/26/98Lost to: Vacated in 1/99All Japan All Asian Tag Team Championship w/ Jinsei ShinzakiDefeated: Tamon Honda & Jun Izumida 2/13/99Lost to: Takao Omori & Yoshihiro Takayama 6/4/99 FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight ChampionshipDefeated: Yukihiro Kanemura 8/23/99Lost to: Vacated on 8/25/99WEW Tag Team Championship w/ Mr. GannosukeDefeated: Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hisakatsu Oya 12/1/99Lost to: Kodo Fuyuki & Kyoko Inoue 2/25/00WEW 6 Man Tag Team Championship w/ Tetsuhiro Kuroda & Hisakatsu OyaDefeated: Kodo Fuyuki & Kyoko Inoue & Chocoball Mukai 6/26/00Lost to: Kodo Fuyuki & Mr. Gannosuke & Shinjuku Shark 9/15/00 WEW World Heavyweight ChampionshipDefeated: Tetsuhiro Kuroda 5/22/01Lost to: Kintaro Kanemura 8/11/01WEW World Heavyweight Championship Defeated: Kintaro Kanemura 9/5/01Lost to: Kintaro Kanemura 9/9/01 WEW 6 Man Tag Team Championship w/ Tetsuhiro Kuroda & GOEMONDefeated: Kintaro Kanemura & Kodo Fuyuki & Mr. Gannosuke 9/9/01Lost to: Vacated on 11/5/01WEW Tag Team Championship w/ Tetsuhiro Kuroda Defeated: Mr. Gannosuke & Mammoth Sasaki 10/9/01Lost to: Vacated on 11/5/01
Hayabusa/H's Record from 4/16/94 to 10/22/01.Single Matches: 76-19-6Tag Team Matches: 261-274-6Getting the pinfall and being pinned in tag match record: 194-33Overall: 337-293-12

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