Eiji Ezaki

Acting

Eiji Ezaki

Born 1968-11-29 · Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, Japan

Eiji Ezaki (江崎 英治, Ezaki Eiji) was a Japanese professional wrestler, stage actor, musician and professional wrestling promoter, better known under the ring name Hayabusa (ハヤブサ, Hayabusa, "Falcon"). He was best known for his time with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), where he primarily wrestled throughout his career and was the franchise player of the company between 1995 and 2001. Ezaki initially competed for FMW as a low-carder between 1991 and 1993 before travelling to Mexico where he developed the "Hayabusa" character and his signature wrestling style during his time with lucha libre organizations. He returned to FMW in 1995 and received a significant push as the face of the company, winning his first Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship later that year. He spent much of 1996 on the sidelines due to injury and lost the majority of his high-profile matches upon his return. He started gaining popularity and championship success in 1997 and won the Double Championship in 1998 and held the title for most of the year. He developed alter egos such as "The Dark Side of Hayabusa" in 1996 and the unmasked "H" in 1999. His career ended in late 2001 after a botched moonsault left him paralyzed during a match with Mammoth Sasaki. He was a five-time world champion in FMW as he won the Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship three times,[5] Independent Heavyweight Championship one time and the WEW Heavyweight Championship one time. He also became a two time Brass Knuckles Tag Team Champion, a two time WEW World Tag Team Champion,[8] a two time World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Champion and a two time WEW 6-Man Tag Team Champion.[9] He also won All Japan Pro Wrestling's All Asia Tag Team Championship once. In his post-retirement years, Ezaki promoted the Wrestling Marvelous Future (WMF) promotion, which spun off from FMW, but the promotion was a failure and ended in 2008. He headlined many pay-per-view events for FMW including the company's premier show Anniversary Show a record six times, consecutively for four years between 9th and 12th editions of the event.

Acting credits

FMW 7th Anniversary Show poster
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FMW Kawasaki Stadium 7th Anniversary

FMW 7th Anniversary Show

1996

ECW - Unreleased Vol. 1 poster
10.0

ECW started as a small, Philadelphia-based local wrestling company, but rapidly became a sensation that built a passionate fan base and influenced both WCW and WWE permanently. Extreme Championship Wrestling was known for its intense matches, fan interaction, and introducing a number of future superstars to the general public, including Tommy Dreamer, Raven, Sandman, Taz, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Jericho, the Dudley Boyz, Rob Van Dam, Shane Douglas, and more. Now for the first time in years, ECW returns to home entertainment with The Biggest Matches in ECW History. Hosted by the longtime unmistakable voice of ECW, Joey Styles, this home video release collects some of the most amazing and over-the-top matches in ECW history, some of which have never before been released on DVD.

ECW - Unreleased Vol. 1

2012

FMW Year End Spectacular '95 - Day 10 poster
NR

Year End Spectacular (1995) was the second Year End Spectacular professional wrestling event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event took place on December 21, 1995, at the Bunka Gym in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. The event aired as a television special on Gaora TV on January 26, 1996.

FMW Year End Spectacular '95 - Day 10

1995

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NR

Four wrestlers compete for in the B Cup Tournament, along with other exciting action from stars from across the globe.

Battlarts Battle Fiction

1998

FMW Power Splash 1997 - Day 6 poster
NR

Singles Match Toyonari Fujita vs. Mr. Pogo Tag Team Match Kaori Nakayama & Miwa Sato vs. Mad Dog Military (Crusher Maedomari & Shark Tsuchiya) Tag Team Match Koji Nakagawa & Ricky Fuji vs. ZEN (Hido & Tetsuhiro Kuroda) Tag Team Match Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki vs. Super Leather & The Gladiator FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Title / FMW Independent Heavyweight Title Match Masato Tanaka (c) vs. Hideki Hosaka FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Title Match Hisakatsu Oya & Mr. Gannosuke (c) vs. ZEN (Atsushi Onita & Yukihiro Kanemura)

FMW Power Splash 1997 - Day 6

1997

FMW 9th Anniversary Show: Entertainment Wrestling Live poster
NR

FMW 9th Anniversary Show: Entertainment Wrestling Live was the first professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event took place on April 30, 1998, at the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium in Yokohama, Japan. This was the first FMW event to be broadcast on pay-per-view via DirecTV. The event commemorated the ninth anniversary of FMW and was the first to be broadcast on pay-per-view.

FMW 9th Anniversary Show: Entertainment Wrestling Live

1998

FMW Goodbye Hayabusa II: Hayabusa Graduation Ceremony poster
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Goodbye Hayabusa II: Hayabusa Graduation Ceremony was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event was taped on August 23, 1999 and aired on pay-per-view via broadcast delay on DirecTV on August 25.This event was a part of the Goodbye Hayabusa tour used as build-up to the retirement of Eiji Ezaki's "Hayabusa" character and switch to a new character.

FMW Goodbye Hayabusa II: Hayabusa Graduation Ceremony

1999

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7.0

Tadao Kuramochi, an ordinary salaryman, decides one day to reach for his dreams and start his own wrestling federation. Tadao must succeed to save his family on the verge of collapsing.

Mask de 41

2004

FMW 10th Anniversary Show: Entertainment Wrestling Special Live poster
NR

FMW 10th Anniversary Show: Entertainment Wrestling Special Live was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event took place on November 23, 1999, at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan. This was the tenth edition of the company's premier event Anniversary Show, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the company.

FMW 10th Anniversary Show: Entertainment Wrestling Special Live

ECW WrestleFest: 50 Years of Funk poster
NR

Terry Funk's Wrestlefest 1997 was an event from Extreme Championship Wrestling. It took place on September 11, 1997 at the Tri-State Fairgrounds Maxor Pharmacies Coliseum in Amarillo, Texas.

ECW WrestleFest: 50 Years of Funk

1997

FMW Goodbye Hayabusa II: Haunted House poster
NR

Goodbye Hayabusa II: Haunted House was a professional wrestling live event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) as part of the Goodbye Hayabusa tour on August 20, 1999 at the Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan. The tour would feature the end of the Hayabusa character in FMW. The event was notable as Hayabusa unleashed his "darkside" for the last time before the retirement of the character as he teamed with Tetsuhiro Kuroda and Hisakatsu Oya against Koji Nakagawa, Yukihiro Kanemura and Hido.

FMW Goodbye Hayabusa II: Haunted House

1999

FMW 11th Anniversary Show: Backdraft poster
NR

FMW 11th Anniversary Show: Backdraft was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event took place on May 5, 2000 at Komazawa Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. The event commemorated the eleventh anniversary of FMW.

FMW 11th Anniversary Show: Backdraft

2000

Overtone poster
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Suzuka, a member of a theatrical troupe, lives day by day with her boyfriend who is not on the same wavelength as her. On the other hand, Kai, the vocalist of the band "Burst," is frustrated by the differences between him and his bandmates. These two people, who live completely separate lives, meet by chance and feel a strange resonance. A unique love story with an emphasis on sound and music.

Overtone

2004

FMW Making Of A New Legend VI - Day 4 poster
NR

Tag Team Match American Dragon & Lance Cade vs. Naohiko Yamazaki & Yoshinori Sasaki Singles Match Emi Motokawa vs. Kaori Nakayama WEW Six Man Tag Team Title Match Chocoball Mukai, Flying Kid Ichihara & Ricky Fuji (c) vs. Gedo, Jado & Koji Nakagawa Singles Match Yoshihiro Tajiri vs. Super Crazy WEW Hardcore Title Match Kintaro Kanemura (c) vs. Axl Rotten Singles Match Balls Mahoney vs. Masato Tanaka WEW Tag Team Title Match H & Mr. Gannosuke (c) vs. Hisakatsu Oya & Tetsuhiro Kuroda

FMW Making Of A New Legend VI - Day 4

1999

Backyard Dogs poster
3.4

Two teenage boys aspire to win a backyard wrestling championship and a chance to appear on a national TV show.

Backyard Dogs

2000

FMW 6th Anniversary Show poster
NR

FMW 6th Anniversary Show was a professional wrestling event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), taking place on May 5, 1995 at the Kawasaki Stadium in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan. This was the sixth edition of the company's flagship event Anniversary Show, commemorating the sixth anniversary of the company and the third consecutive and fourth overall edition of Anniversary Show at Kawasaki Stadium.

FMW 6th Anniversary Show

1995

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NR

FMW Total Carnage

FMW Total Carnage

2006

FMW Goodbye Hayabusa II: Last Match poster
NR

Goodbye Hayabusa II: Last Match was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW). The event took place on August 25, 1999, at the Nakajima Sports Center in Sapporo, Japan. The pay-per-view was the last event in the Goodbye Hayabusa tour used to retire Eiji Ezaki's "Hayabusa" character and to showcase the character's final matches. The tour was used as a build-up to Hayabusa's new character "H", which was tested during Darkside Hayabusa's revival at Haunted House and Ezaki would debut his H character on August 27. The event was notable for featuring the final defenses of the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship and the FMW Independent Heavyweight Championship.

FMW Goodbye Hayabusa II: Last Match

1999

ECW Heat Wave 1998 poster
9.5

Tommy Dreamer, Sandman & Spike Dudley battle The Dudley Boyz in a Dudleyville Street Fight. Taz defends the FTW Championship against Bam Bam Bigelow. Sabu & Rob Van Dam take on Hayabusa & Jinsei Shinzaki. Mike Awesome battles Masato Tanaka. Chris Candido goes one-on-one with Lance Storm. Justin Credible faces Jerry Lynn and more!

ECW Heat Wave 1998

1998

Michinoku Pro 3rd Anniversary: These Days poster
10.0

‘These Days’ was Michinoku Pro Wrestling's 3rd anniversary card from the Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

Michinoku Pro 3rd Anniversary: These Days

1996

NJPW Super J-Cup 1994 poster
10.0

Super J-Cup: 1st Stage was the first Super J-Cup professional wrestling tournament hosted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling. The event took place on April 16, 1994, at Sumo Hall in Tokyo, Japan.

NJPW Super J-Cup 1994

1994

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NR

FMW Final Encounter- Backdraft

FMW Final Encounter- Backdraft

2000

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NR

Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) wraps up their eleven day Year End Sensation tour with the Year End Spectacular. The vent was the third and final annual Year End Spectacular event, and marked the in-ring return of Atsushi Onita.

FMW Year End Spectacular 1996

1996

FMW Hayabusa- Flying Assassin poster
NR

FMW Hayabusa- Flying Assassin

FMW Hayabusa- Flying Assassin

2001