Lethal Weapon (professional wrestling)
| Lethal Weapon | |
|---|---|
 Founder Tarzan Goto in 2009 | |
| Stable | |
| Members |
Tarzan Goto Hisakatsu Oya Ricky Fuji Mr. Pogo The Gladiator Horace Boulder Super Leather |
| Debut | 1995 |
| Disbanded | 1996 |
| Promotions | FMW |
Lethal Weapon was a Japanese professional wrestling group, known as a stable, that worked for Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW) from February 1995 to September 1996.
Career
1995
In February 1995, Tarzan Goto formed Lethal Weapon with Hisakatsu Oya and Ricky Fuji. When Goto quit FMW in April 1995, Oya and Fuji stayed together as a tag team known as The Love Guns, while increasing the numbers in Lethal Weapon. On May 5, 1995 Fuji and Oya defeated the team of Mr. Pogo and Yukihiro Kanemura to win the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship, holding them until September 5, 1995. During that time Lethal Weapon increased the numbers by stealing Mr. Pogo and Super Leather from the W*ING group and then later added The Gladiator and Horace Boulder into the group as well. Shortly after joining the team The Gladiator won the FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship when he defeated Hayabusa to win the title. On December 21, 1995 Oya and Horace Boulder won the FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship, defeating Daisuke Ikeda and Yoshiaki Fujiwara. During this time, Lethal Weapon feuded with FMW and W*ING in a triangle feud that would last over a year and a half. During this time, Super Leather would betray Lethal Weapon to rejoin W*ING. By the end of 1995, FMW and Lethal Weapon became allies against the growing W*ING faction.
1996
Super Leather and W*ING partner Jason the Terrible ended Oya and Boulder's reign as the Brass Knuckles champions on January 5, 1996. Super Leather would go on to win the singles title from the Gladiator, but Gladiator regained it three months later, May 1996. In the middle of 1996, Victor Quinones returned to FMW, forming a new team called the "Funk Masters of Wrestling", with Terry Funk as the focal point. By September, Lethal Weapon disbanded after the remaining members of Lethal Weapon turned their back on Ricky Fuji. With Lethal Weapon gone, Fuji joined forces with FMW.
Reunion
In January 2010, the original three members of Lethal Weapon (Goto, Fuji, and Oya) teamed up for the very first time since the summer of 1995.
Championships and accomplishments
- Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
- FMW Brass Knuckles Heavyweight Championship - The Gladiator (2)
- FMW Brass Knuckles Tag Team Championship - Ricky Fuji and Hisakatsu Oya (1), Hisakatsu Oya and Horace Boulder (1)