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Alex Zayne suffers ruptured globe in death match, undergoes surgery

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Alex Zayne suffered a significant eye injury during Saturday’s GCW The Coldest Winter show that required surgery. 

Zayne tweeted today that he suffered a ruptured globe during his death match against Jimmy Lloyd at Saturday’s show in Los Angeles, and underwent surgery to remove glass from his eye and to repair the injury. 

The NIH website describes a ruptured globe as “a vision-threatening emergency” and a penetrating injury “when an object penetrates the eye, but the object does not go all the way through the eye.”

During Saturday’s match, Zayne went through panes of glass on four occasions, including hitting a senton through a glass pane that caused a laceration to his arm. It is not clear where exactly during the match the eye injury occurred.

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Zayne tweeted that he is out of surgery, the doctor said that the surgery went well, and that time will tell how his body responds to the operation. 

Zayne also tweeted that he had to receive stiches in his right arm to close the laceration before they could proceed with the eye operation. 

Warning, the images below are graphic: 

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Zayne wrestled as Ari Sterling on WWE’s 205 Live brand in 2021. He signed with the company in December 2020, then was released in August 2021. Since returning to the indie scene, Zayne has regularly appeared on NJPW and GCW events.

Atsushi Onita to launch FMWE exploding death match promotion

Posted on by Ethan Renner

Atsushi Onita is reviving a cult favorite. 

Onita held a press conference on Thursday to announce the launch of Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling Explosion (FMWE), a new wrestling promotion that will borrow some of its name and logo from the legendary FMW company that Onita founded in 1989. Onita will serve as a figurehead for the company, while Hidetaka Kajiki will serve as company president. The new FMWE will hold its first show, titled “Independence Day” on July 4 in Yokohama at the Tsurumi Fruit and Vegetable Market.

“I have revived FMW,” Onita said. “The meaning of E is explosion. It is an explosion… I decided to create an organization specializing in barbed wire explosion with President Kajiki.” 

Onita said that there are plans to broadcast FMWE events live, but offered no specifics as to a potential streaming platform or partner. 

“We are launching this promotion to broadcast our matches live, worldwide, Onita said. “Live streaming has become a major trend since COVID-19.”

He went on to cite AEW’s recent exploding barbed wire death match as the catalyst for this revival. 

“The reason is that the first explosion death match was done at FMW. When I went to America, many people asked me to have my original explosion match in America. Then I dreamed of making it happen not only in the United States, but all over the world.”

“Action, action action. Let’s do everything,” said Onita. 

Tickets for FMWE Independence Day go on sale on Friday. More information on ticket sales can be found on the new promotion’s website.

The full press conference can be streamed below. 

Thanks to YouTube, Google Translate and Yahoo Japan for translation help.