While it’s not a championship match,
tomorrow’s main event is certainly big enough to warrant dedicating this week’s
final blog post to comments from the combatants. But first, some background:
American Beetle and Hassan are both AWL
Season Zero Originals with American Beetle having competed on the first match
of our broadcast event. Coming to the
AWL from Kaiju Big Battel, he has been a mainstay of the AWL Roster ever since. While he’s never had the best win-loss record
in the world, having survived more than his fair share of Batsumania matches,
he’s never failed to impress the fans with his fighting and American
Spirits. Plus, he’s usually good for a
laugh. Such as when he invented his own
championship, the United States of Awesome Mega Championship First Belt.
Hassan started his AWL career as part of
an international team of wrestlers called the Axis of Equality who were
determined to end the Foreign/Gaijin/Racial Minority=Heel trope that has
infected professional wrestling since its inception. An American immigrant, his pride in and love
for his adopted home country struck a chord even with the occasionally xenophobic
Japanese fans. The highlights of his
career include defeating Vacant for the WWE Intercontinental Championship,
getting that belt recognized as the AWL Intercontinental Championship, and
being the first man to successfully cash that title in to become AWL Grand
Champion.
American Beetle and Hassan became a tag
team way back in Season 1 and were two thirds of Team USA in the World Warrior
Exhibition along with “Peacemaker” Luke James in Season 2. They’ve held the AWL World Tag Team
Championship 3 times and have wrestled basically every major tag team in AWL
history.
But all that changed in November of 2016. American Beetle has always been the
Anthropomorphic Personification of the United States of America, and any
massive change in America itself was bound to have an effect of American
Beetle. Suddenly, he developed a taste
for tacky gold accessories, lying every other breath, and dirty tactics in the
wrestling ring.
The first target of this new and clearly
not improved American Beetle was his own partner. Proclaiming Hassan to be a “Fake American”
and demanding he “Take off my flag and get out of my country” (yes, they were
both in Japan when this was said). These
statements were accompanied by vicious and unprovoked attacks both in the ring
and back stage. This earned American
Beetle a 30-day suspension. Upon
returning, Beetle hired Cage to form “The Great Americans” and
As things stand, American Beetle is LOCKED
in the Batsumania Danger Zone and Hassan wants to take this possibly last
opportunity to close the book on his history with the Patriotic Pugilist.
With
the backstory out of the way, on to the comments from both men. Hassan this into our office this morning:
I know what happened to the insect
who used to be my friend. I grieve for
the good-hearted person that he was. But
I must deal with the man in front of me.
The man who has made this entire season a living hell for me…and the man
I’ve beaten every chance I’ve gotten.
Beetle, you can jump me from behind, you can attack me after a match,
you can smash me through the Commissioner’s desk, but every time we step into
that 20 by 20 foot ring…I’m just better than you! I always have been and I always will be. Tomorrow, I’m going to beat you for the last
time and then we’re done. I never want
to see that gaudy gold carcass of yours ever again.
--Hassan
And now (sigh) a tweet from American Beetle:
Liarcriminal @AWLHassan has never beaten me at
wrestling. Towel must b on 2 tight. RyuSensei is FAKE NEWS. Worse than Keller. SAD!
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