Main Event and one night tournament for AWL Supercard--Obon-nanza 2016!

It's been a crazy and tragic week.  But you know the old saying, the show must go on and this weekend is one of the biggest events in the AWL calendar, Obon-nanza.  As such, the main event is obvious:

MAIN EVENT

RAINMAKER オカダカズチカ (C) vs. "Suplex Master" Sammy Nix (#1)

AWL Grand Championship Match

2nd Title Defense

While it is unusual for the AWL Grand Champion to be asked to defend his championship on two consecutive shows, but that's just how the calendar falls this year.  This match should be interesting.  Okada is still deeply entrenched in the G-1 Climax tournament in New Japan Pro Wrestling, and Sammy Nix has been a tag team wrestler his entire career.  Two men who like to hit very hard, but with opposite philosophies Sammy Nix knows how to hit you with a thousand different suplexes whereas Okada focuses his entire offense around a single technique, the Rainmaker Lariat.  These two ideas will be tested in the crucible of combat at Obon-nanza!

Now this leads to a bit of a problem.  Right now, the AWL Best 4 looks like this:

1. Sammy Nix

2. Ganba

3. TBD

4. TBD

And after Obon-nanza, Sammy Nix will be out of the Best 4 one way or the other.  So we will have three holes in the Best 4.  Obviously, that is unacceptable so the AWL Commissioner has decided to hold a one night trios tournament!

AWL Best 4 Trios Tournament:

AWL All Stars

Shin Jidai

RUZAI

The Augments

These four teams will be randomly paired off for two preliminary bouts, but for the finals, the Commissioner is pulling out a rare but beloved AWL tradition:

AWL VIDEO CYBERNETICO V

The order of elimination of the winning team determines their ranking in the AWL Best 4.

That's 4 matches between the main event and the trios tournament, but I have it on good authority that the AWL Commissioner has one more HUGE announcement to make...but I'll let him make it himself tomorrow.