Fire-Pro Wrestling Card Bout is a Japanese collectible card game released by Spike in March 2001, adapting the long-running Fire Pro Wrestling video game franchise into physical card form. Spike had taken over the Fire Pro series from Human Entertainment in 2000, and the card game appeared during the same period the studio was revitalising the franchise on home consoles.
As a licensed product tied to a wrestling simulation series celebrated for its deep and realistic gameplay systems, Card Bout was positioned at fans already invested in Fire Pro's roster of fictional wrestlers. Documentation of the game's specific rules, card count, and any expansions is sparse in English-language sources, which reflects both its Japan-exclusive release and its short commercial footprint. The title surfaces periodically in discussions of obscure early-2000s Japanese CCGs, but no major fan community or collector database has assembled a comprehensive catalog of its card sets.
