Atsushi Onita celebrated his 69th birthday by detonating ten times the usual gunpowder and not even a torrential downpour could stop it. At the FMWE event over the weekend, Onita beat The Great Sasuke by blast pinfall. It was their first Current Blast meeting since the No-Rope Barbed-Wire Death Match in September 2003. For the birthday, the rules were stripped back: roughly ten times the normal gunpowder, no countouts outside the ring and fouls permitted. Onita wasted no time. He dragged Sasuke into the crowd, smashed him around the seats and doused him with a bucket of water. Back in the ring, Sasuke hit the switch and struck him with a Current Blast bat, then worked him over with a sleeper hold and a barrage of kicks. Onita answered with a mist spray, set up the barbed-wire board and went for a Thunder Fire Powerbomb, only for Sasuke to reverse it and leave him blasting himself. Sasuke’s Senton Atomico missed and he crashed and burned. Onita then smashed a Current Blast steel chair onto his head to trigger a massive explosion and finished with a bodyslam onto the barbed-wire board. Afterwards, Onita praised his opponent. “You’re tough as nails. Thank you.” Sasuke was just as vivid. “Today, I thought I was going to die. But I’m alive!” The fans watched in rain ponchos, and Onita summed it up. “You’re crazy. But come to think of it, we’re crazy too!” The night ended with the crowd shouting “1, 2, 3, FIRE!” @onitafire123 @the_greatsasuke