AWL 80!

AWL 80 pt1 投稿者 AWLBoss
AWL 80 pt2 投稿者 AWLBoss

Well, it took most of the day, but we managed to get a judge to overturn Yarina's frivolous lawsuit.  Therefore, we are proud to present AWL 80!  Enjoy the show and see if you can figure out why Yarina was so desperate to keep this show off the air :-)

ATTENTION!!

At the advice of counsel, I must inform all of you that Yarina (acting on behalf of Yarina Talent Management Inc.) has SUED the Animated Wrestling League to stop the broadcast of AWL 80.

The AWL Commissioner has not made a formal statement on this matter, but rest assured that we are pursuing every legal avenue to get this lawsuit overturned, blocked, or decided in our favor.

Sadly, this will result in a hopefully temporary delay in posting AWL 80.  Please stay tuned, we will bring you more information as it becomes available.

Aww screw it!

OK, you know what's happening.  You're AWL fans, you pay attention.

Tomorrow morning.

For the AWL World's Heavyweight Championship:

Wonder Kid:
Defending champion less than 24 hours away from his dream of being a 1 year champion.  His belt has been confiscated, his manager will not be at ringside, he faces 5 challengers including a former champion or two and the Bearer of the Prophecy.  His greatest challenge yet, will he survive?

Ultramantis Black:
It's all his fault.  The first man to ever win a 10-Minute Challenge.  He chose not to give an advantage to himself, but to stack the deck against the champion.  But remember, Ultramantis Black is known as The Most Devious Creature in CHIKARA for a reason.  Wheels within wheels, UMB is always planning 10 or even 20 steps ahead.  Part of me can't help but ask if everything since last January (When UMB snuck into the AWL as Black Tiger King and won the New Year's Tournament) has been part of a master plan.

Captain AWL:
The mysterious masked new newcomer from Parts Unknown.  Hand chosen by Ultramantis Black to participate in this match.  He is undefeated since debuting in the AWL just a few weeks ago.  The ultimate unknown quantity, thrown into a volatile formula like the Chamber, anything could happen.

Matt Classic:
Former 2 time AWL World Champion and the oldest of the old school.  He invented more wrestling moves and holds than the other participants in this match have ever learned.  Despite his advanced age, he is in the peak of health, but how long will that last?  The Elimination Chamber is 1000 miles outside of the throwback's comfort zone.  However, this is the man who beat Death himself in a steel cage match so you never know . . .

American Beetle:
Former Kaiju Grand Champion.  He's been pigeonholed as a tag team wrestler in the AWL for years.  UMB has given him this chance to break that mold once and forever.  Along with Matt Classic, he has drawn the short straw and must take the longest path to victory, but to the personification of the American Spirit, NOTHING is impossible.

Ma-Ji-Ku:
The longest reigning champion in AWL history!  Triple Crown Champion.  The final AWL Anarchy Champion.  The master of Lucha Libre.  The Warrior of Light.  The names and accomplishments go on and on.  But can Ma-Ji-Ku achieve the only honor and title that has escaped him in his storied career?  The AWL World Heavyweight Championship?  Only time (and not much of it) will tell.

Lastly, if you need a reminder of exactly what these men are in for:

More Previews!

Tiger Mask vs. Shin Tora:

The next chapter in the long running story of the master and the apprentice. Over the years, Tiger Mask and the man currently known as Shin Tora have been friends and enemies, opponents and tag team partners, but this Sunday at AWL 80 they will fight once again and this time it will be for one of the biggest prizes in the AWL: The AWL Light Heavyweight Championship.

The number of champions since Season 1 can be counted on the finger of one hand with one finger left over to flip someone off in traffic. Tiger Mask defeated El Rudo Rojo at AWL 74 to win the title and Shin Tora won a 10 man battle royal just a couple of weeks ago to become #1 Contender to the title.

I caught up with both wrestlers earlier this week to get their thoughts on this match. Please note that a member of the AWL Translation Staff was on hand as Tiger Mask doesn't speak any English and Shin Tora isn't a whole lot better.

RyuSensei: Tiger Mask, thank you for your time. On Dec. 7 you will defend your title against your student and partner Shin Tora. What are your thoughts on this match and are you going to be able to go full out against Shin Tora?

Tiger Mask: Of course I am! I would not insult Shin Tora by giving him anything less than my best. He has earned that and much more. He is no longer my student. He is a great wrestler in his own right. Better than me in some ways. He will make a great AWL Light Heavyweight Champion . . . . . someday. But I have no intention of letting that day be this Sunday. I trust Shin Tora to bring his best and to give me the fight of my life. But I've worked for nearly 4 Seasons to become the AWL Light Heavyweight Champion and nobody is taking this title away from me any time soon.

I then spoke to Shin Tora and he echoed the same sentiment but added this little twist that I feel you need to read:

Shin Tora: If you'd asked me about this a year or even 6 months ago, I probably would have been going crazy about how it was "Finally my time" or something like htat. But all my experiences as Black Tiger and with The Dark Alliance taught me that being angry and taking shortcuts don't accomplish anything. I'm a dozen times the wrestler I was when I started working in the AWL and this Sunday I have an excellent opportunity to show everybody how hard I've worked as Shin Tora. I'm not as obsessed with beating Tiger Mask as I once was, but I am confident that come Season 5, the AWL will have a New Tiger . . . as champion.

But that's not all we have for you today Wrestling Fans. As a special bonus (That has exactly nothing to do with the fact that I'm a day behind on posting these damn things, I assure you) tonight we are also taking a look at what will be the semifinal match of AWL 80. The AWL World Tag Team Title Match between defending champions Crisis Gundan and challengers Big & Spicy.

It's taken most of the season for Big & Spicy to earn the 3 Points they've needed to challenge again for the belts. This Sunday will be a chance at long overdue revenge for Tiny and Curry Man. The last time they challenged Crisis Gundan for the AWL World Tag Team Titles, it was Yarina's blatant interference that got her team disqualified. Unfortunately the Champions' Advantage kicked in and Crisis Gundan retained the titles despite being DQ'd.

Again, I tried to talk to both teams . . . but with less success than I had with the Tigers. Yarina Talent Management Inc. (Normally quick to drop one of their press releases) refused to comment on the record. This has led to speculation (mostly by me) that Yarina is still worried about Big & Spicy, specifically Tiny, the largest athlete in the AWL and the only man Crisis Gundan have ever had a problem manhandling.

I was able to get a statement from Curry Man. Unfortunately, it was in such garbled Japanese that the AWL Translation Staff were unable to make heads or tails of it. All they were able to confirm was that it concludes with the statement "Curry Man ICHIBAN, Tiny ICHIBAN, Bigu ando Supaishi, ICHIBAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!"

Tune in later today for the final Season 4 finale countdown, where we will take a look at the history making main event: The Elimination Chamber Match for the AWL World Heavyweight Championship.

AWL vs. CHIKARA

Wow, this is a long story, even for a rambling weirdo like myself.  This will only be a brief summary.  The current plan is to go more indepth on the strange happenings in the Chikara-verse during the off season.

Speaking of off seasons, that's really where this all started.  During the off season between seasons 3 and 4, the AWL Commissioner traveled to the United States and negotiated a deal with Titor Conglomerate to allow Chikara talent and certain Chikara intellectual properties to appear on AWL programs. 

It was at AWL 63 during the 2013 Tag Matsuri that we saw the debut of The Colony as a tag team.   Eddie Kingston also appeared as the mystery tag team partner of Curry Man (Tiny was on suspension at the time).  While the inevitable personality clashes between Kingston and Curry Man stopped them from going anywhere in the tournament, Kingston soon set his sights on another target: "Big" Ben Nelson.

Known as the best pound for pound brawler in the AWL, the AWL Commissioner thought Nelson would be an excellent match up for Kingston and at AWL 65 we found out how right the Commissioner was.  In a back and forth match that couldn't even hope to be contained by a wrestling ring, "Big" Ben Nelson did the seemingly impossible: HE BEAT EDDIE KINGSTON!  Something at hadn't happened in the nearly 2 years since Kingston had become the Grand Champion of Chikara!!

Furthermore, he did it again and again and again.  Nelson holds no less than 4 victories over "The War King."  Already known for his short fuse, this caused Kingston to completely lose whatever cool he may have once had.  At AWL 75, Kingston savagely attacked Ben Nelson after a match.  Fortunately, AWL and Kaiju Big Battel Hero Silver Potato returned from several months away to even the odds.

This gave the AWL Commissioner the idea to set up the Interpromotional match that we will see at AWL 80.  Kingston will team with fellow Chikara refugees The Colony against Nelson, Potato, and a partner hand picked by the Commissioner: Dragon!

The teams have had a couple of weeks of practice working as a trio, but it all comes down to December 8th, when pride will be on the line: AWL vs. CHIKARA!

Batsumania II

Hello wrestling fans (or is the "Sports Entertainment Universe?"),

RyuSensei here again with another AWL 80 Preview. Today we are taking a look at the match that will be the beginning of AWL 80 and the end of one man's career: Batsumania II.

Batsumania was born from the AWL Commissioner's belief that the AWL should be the home of only the best and brightest professional wrestlers in the world and that the status of "best and brightest" should be determined by wins and losses. I know, wins and losses, what a novel concept for a wrestling promoter!

Batsumania is the ultimate proving ground for the fallen fighter. Every season, the 4 AWL Wrestlers with the worst win loss records (Defined as number of wins minus number of losses so a record of 5-9 yields a result of -4) are forced into a grueling endurance match where the winners keep their jobs and the loser is fired. The rules of Batsumania are as follows:

1. 4 wrestlers begin in the ring.

2. 3 falls to a finish.

3. The WINNER of each fall leaves the match. They return to the locker room with their jobs intact.

4. The LOSER of the final fall is fired immediately.

And a new rule just announced for this season and all future seasons:

5. There are no count outs in the first two falls. However, the final fall CAN end by count out.

As a corollary:

6. In the event of a double count out in the final fall, BOTH men will be fired!

Last year, Maglubiyet Jr. lost the final fall of Batsumania and hasn't been seen since. Who will be the next victim of this beast? This season, the following men must face the challenge:

“Boxing Bastard" Bruce Hoyt, El Rudo Rojo, and THUGLIFE Tanaka Kenichi:

All three members of the N.R.E. are here for one and only one reason: They cheat! I ran the math last night, and if you discount all the times the N.R.E. have been disqualified due to deliberate cheating, NONE of them would be in Batsumania in the first place. Their own fault and no one else's.

El Santo Azul: The younger brother of El Rudo Rojo and youngest son of the original El Santo has a much simpler story. Not many matches this season, and he's lost most of them. Nothing illegal, nothing unprofessional, and (as far as the AWL Commissioner's concerned) nothing personal. But if you lose too often in the Animated Wrestling League, Batsumania is where you end up. The good news is that El Santo Azul is just barely in the Danger Zone. So, if he survives this next week, it's quite unlikely that he will ever be in this situation again.

Tomorrow, we take a look at the Inter-promotional Trios Match between Team AWL and Team CHIKARA.

                                                                                                --Ryu Sensei

Full Card for AWL 80.

Greetings wrestling fans! This is RyuSensei with the first in a week of daily posts leading up to AWL 80 on December 8th. First, after last weekend's AWL 79 we know the fight card for the Season 4 Finale. Here it is in it's entirity:

Main Event: Elimination Chamber Match for the AWL World Heavyweight Championship

Competing in order: American Beetle, Matt Classic, Captain AWL, Ultramantis Black, Ma-Ji-Ku, and Wonder Kid (C).

AWL World Tag Team Championship Match:

Crisis Gundan (C) vs. Big & Spicy

AWL Light Heavyweight Championship Match:

Tiger Mask (C) vs. Shin Tora

Inter-promotional Trios Match: AWL vs. CHIKARA

Dragon, Ben Nelson, and Silver Potato vs. Eddie Kingston, Fire Ant, and Green Ant.

Batsumania II:

El Rudo Rojo vs. Bruce Hoyt vs. Tanaka Kenichi vs. El Santo Azul.

Over the next few days, we will have interviews with participating wrestlers, retrospectives showing how we got here, and more. So stay tuned to AWLwrestling.blogspot.com for all your Season Finale news.

One final note before I go. There will be no new episode of AWL Mid-Week Wrestling because the Season Finale is probably going to be at least two videos in length and will take all my free time to edit over the next few days.

Tune in tomorrow for the beginning of our match by match analysis.

--Ryu Sensei

AWL 79: Destiny Battle Royal

AWL 79 投稿者 AWLBoss