{"id":97456,"date":"2021-08-02T10:34:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=97456"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:34:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:34:27","slug":"hideki-hosaka-passes-away-aged-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/08\/02\/hideki-hosaka-passes-away-aged-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Hideki Hosaka Passes Away Aged 49"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sad news out of Japan as Hideki Hosaka, known for his run in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling<\/strong><\/a> (FMW), passed away on August 2 after battling cancer since 2019.\u00a0 Hosaka was an amateur wrestler in high school before training with\u00a0 Submission Arts Wrestling and competing for\u00a0W*ING<\/strong>.\u00a0 Like many from his era, Hosaka mixed some MMA with professional wrestling.<\/p>\n

Hosaka didn’t settle down until 1994, he went from W*ING to\u00a0Pro Wrestling Crusaders<\/strong>, to\u00a0Rings,\u00a0<\/strong>and finally landed in FMW in 1994.\u00a0 FMW is where he would have the most success of his career as he was the third person to hold the Independent World Junior Heavyweight Championship, and later was part of the first team to ever hold the WEW Hardcore Tag Team Championship alongside Mammoth Sasaki.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>He and Sasaki would hold the titles three times before FMW’s closure in 2002<\/p>\n

Following the closure of FMW Hosaka began competing regularly for\u00a0All Japan Pro Wrestling\u00a0<\/strong>and had a run with ZERO1\u00a0<\/strong>but a knee injury in 2004 cut off his momentum and he spent the rest of the 00s without a clear home and was essentially semi-retired.<\/p>\n

In the 2010s he had a revival as he began to work for\u00a0FREEDOMS <\/strong>regularly and returned to ZERO1, an attempted FMW revival (not to be confused with FMW-E<\/a>) in the mid-10s saw him win the FMW World Street Fight Six Man Tag Team Championship, first with Atsushi Onita\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Masato Tanaka<\/strong>, and then with Onita and\u00a0Sean Guinness<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hideki Hosaka had his last match in 2019 for\u00a0Big Japan Pro-Wrestling<\/strong>, it was an 8-man street fight tornado anywhere scramble bunkhouse deathmatch, which seems like a fairly fitting match to go out on for a former FMW roster member.\u00a0 It was the day after this BJW match that Hosaka first fell ill and in September of 2019 he was hospitalized, it was found that his stage 4\u00a0 colorectal cancer had spread to his liver.\u00a0 It was this disease that took his life in August 2021.<\/p>\n

We at Last Word on Pro Wrestling would like to send our condolences to the friends, family, and fans of Hideki Hosaka.<\/p>\n

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