AWL 94: Wolf vs. Quackenbush

AWL 94: Wolf vs. Quackenbush 投稿者 AWLBoss

Greetings AWL fans and wrestling fans the world over.  If you are reading these words because of my post on chikara101.proboards.com then welcome to the Animated Wrestling League.  For your benefit, here is a brief primer on this silly little wrestling company.

The AWL is a Japan-based independent wrestling promotion with an international flare.  All styles of professional wrestling are proudly represented here.  The AWL consists of 20 episode seasons.  We are currently in the later days of Season 5.  We broadcast every Sunday morning Japan Standard Time.  Please adjust for your own time zone.  The vast majority of our shows emanate from the world famous AWL Arena in Tokyo.  A typical episode consists of 5 matches.  We are admittedly more focused on in-ring wrestling than interviews or silly skits.  We hope you don't mind this.

There are 3 AWL Championships:

AWL World Heavyweight Championship:
Current Champion: Wolf.
Method of Challenging: AWL Best 4.
Rules of Title Matches: One fall match with a 30 minute time limit.
The top title in the AWL, while it's called a heavyweight championship, the AWL allows wrestlers to fight up a weight class if they choose making this a de facto open weight title.  If one wishes to challenge for the AWL World Heavyweight Title, they must become the #1 ranked wrestler in the AWL Best 4.  Wrestlers typically enter the #4 slot in the rankings by winning a "Fight for 4" match, traditionally contested between the two wrestlers with the best win-loss records who are not already champions or in the Best 4.

Current AWL Best 4:
1. "Lightning" Mike Quackenbush
2. HAKAISHA!
3. "Big" Ben Nelson
4. TBD

AWL World Tag Team Championship:
Current Champions: Crisis Gundan (Jack "Breakdown" Butcher & Super Giant)
Method of Challenging: 3-Point System.
Rules of Title Matches: One fall match, 20 minute time limit, no countouts.
The AWL is extremely proud of our tag team division.  After the apocalypse of Anniversario: Never Compromise, the AWL opened it's doors to any Chikara Refugees to come here and ply their craft.  One of the things they brought with them (in addition to extremely good casserole recipes) was the 3-Point system.  While the AWL has made a few tweaks to the system (scroll down a post for more on that), it's still the 3-Point System you know and love.

AWL World Light Heavyweight Championship:
Current Champion: Ma-Ji-Ku.
Method of Challenging: Whatever the AWL Commissioner comes up with at the time.
Rules of Title Matches: One fall match with a 20 minute time limit.
The highflyers division and we are proud of it.  The AWL World Light Heavyweight Championship may as well be known as the Ma-Ji-Ku championship.  For the last 5 seasons, the Warrior of Light has held it for more than 4 and a half of them.  At the moment, we are in the process of determining the participants for what we call a "Video Cybernetico" Match.  The winner of Video Cybernetico will challenge Ma-Ji-Ku for the gold at AWL 100, the Season 5 Finale.

Speaking of AWL 100.  A tradition at all season finales is Batsumania.  Batsumania is an elimination 4-way match where the winner of each fall leaves the ring and the loser of the final fall is immediately fired.  The participants in Batsumania are the 4 wrestlers with the worst win-loss records in the company.

In the AWL, wins and losses matter.

If I haven't scared you away with this information dump, please enjoy the show.