Graduation Match Announced!!

                For the first time since the return of the Animated Wrestling League, AWL Head Trainer (and first AWL Champion) Dragon has informed the AWL Commissioner that he has two students who are ready to face each other in their Graduation Match!

                A Graduation Match is the final step in completing your studies at the AWL Dojo and becoming a full time member of the AWL Roster.  It’s a one on one match contested under standard AWL Rules.  The only unusual thing is that it’s NOT counted in the AWL Win-Loss Records.  That’s so the loser, if and when they win a Graduation Match in the future, doesn’t start their AWL career in negative numbers.

                What makes this Graduation match interesting is who’s in it.  We at the AWL have had a long unofficial association with Chikara.  Their wrestlers are always welcome on our shows, their Grand Champion competed in the Kyukyoku no Summit last year, and now I can finally announce that Chikara has been sending some of their Wrestle Factory prospects to us as a form of excursion similar to what the Young Lions in New Japan go through.  So, if this first name sounds familiar to you that’s why:

Equinox IV

                Long time Chikara fans know the history of that name and that mask so you’ll understand why we here at the AWL consider it an honor to have contributed to his training.

                The next name?  You don’t have to know a single thing about a single wrestler or promotion outside of the AWL to know that this is a big freaking deal:

El Hijo del Ma-Ji-Ku

                You.  Read.  That.  Right!  The son of Ma-Ji-Ku has been training in secret in the AWL Dojo with his father’s blessing for over a year.  That’s one reason Ma-Ji-Ku never signed a full-time deal with GWM, he didn’t want his son exposed to that kind of wrestling.

                In Lucha Libre culture, it’s a big deal for a father to pass his name, and more importantly his mask, on to the next generation.  It’s an honor that has to be earned and the fact that El Hijo del Ma-Ji-Ku has earned his mask before even having a single professional match says a lot about the potential of this young man.

                So, at AWL 232, it will be legacy vs. legacy and we’ll see which legend begins anew.

Equinox IV vs. El Hijo del Ma-Ji-Ku

Graduation Match