Friday, December 7, 2012

AWL 40 Preview Week: Day 4


Super Giant vs. Ma-ji-ku: Anarchy & Light Heavyweight Championships—Title for Title!

BREAKING NEWS:  SUPER GIANT IS A LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT!!

This just in from the private detective agency of Slander & Sons: After being asked to investigate how Super Giant could possibly be in a position to win the AWL Light Heavyweight Championship, they have reported the following findings:
Our investigations have revealed that Super Giant is, in fact, a very short man who might weigh 150 pounds if he were dripping wet and pregnant.  How the hell anyone was fooled by this guy, we have no idea.  Your bill comes to \34,000 plus expenses for a total of \169,000.  Have a nice day.

Please take a moment to compose yourselves.  I’m sure this is as much of a shock to all of you as it is to me.  It turns out that Super Giant has been lying to us all this time.  I mean, he uses the Chokeslam for goodness sake!  How can a non-tall person use a Chokeslam??  I just don’t understand it.

The good news is that, while he lied to US, Super Giant could not lie to the RWS9000 computer that randomly generated the matches and stipulations for the AWL Anarchy Championship.  However, the apparent paradox of data generated when a Title for Title stipulation popped up between the Super Giant and Ma-ji-ku caused a glitch that resulted in the information for the title match being released early.  Therefore, for the first time in AWL history, we know the details of an Anarchy Title match before the match begins!

So what are we looking at here?  Until a few hours ago, I would have called this the biggest David vs. Goliath style mismatch imaginable.  But now?  I don’t know.  Yes, Super Giant is still a powerful fighter and yes, he has had a long reign with a title that is infamously difficult to hang on to, but this is Ma-Ji-Ku we’re talking about here.  Ma-Ji-Ku has held the AWL Light Heavyweight Championship since before AWL 3!  He has one of the best win-loss records in the AWL today (15-3 as of AWL 39, an 83% win percentage, if you were wondering).

With an incredible list of moves like the Endless Light, the Rolling Thunder, the STF, and the Hikari Spiral, it’s hard to imagine him losing, but it is worth pointing out that those three losses of has have all come from matches outside of his weight division.  Super Giant, as we have recently learned, has been fighting out of his weight class for his entire career and has a respectable 8-5 61.5% winning record including several straight victories as Anarchy Champion.  But as we saw with Super Giant losing to Libre a couple of weeks ago, the lucha libre style must not be underestimated and we know the giant is vulnerable. 

At this point, nothing is certain.  Rather appropriate for something called the “Anarchy Championship” don’t you think?  All we know is, at AWL 40, someone is going home as a double champion!

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