Tag Team Promos

As per AWL custom, I turn this final blog entry before AWL 232 over to the champions and challengers in this weekend’s title match.  First, the challengers:

Spring Tiger (Translated from the original Japanese):

                For as long as anyone can remember, there have been two schools of the Tiger Style, the Tiger’s Den and the Tiger’s Cave.  Think of them as the Golden Tiger Style and the Black Tiger Style.  The Golden Style is the one practiced by the Tiger Mask dynasty and the Black Tiger Style is practiced by…well, duh!

                Tiger Mask W is the first attempt in recorded history to unify the two schools.  Tiger the Dark has more than proven himself as a hero despite his history and the skill and character of Tiger Mask II are beyond question.  There are no better candidates to bring the schools together.  Forming the team was the first step.  The second will be to win and hold the AWL World’s Tag Team Titles.  If a Tiger Mask and a Black Tiger can be tag team champions, anything is possible.

                I’ve been asked about 500 times since last weekend why we don’t want to wait until Golden War to challenge for the titles.  Well, like T49P, we’re eager for the challenge.  But beyond that, we want to go INTO Golden War as champions and retain against whomever the 3-point system can put before us.  We don’t want Golden War to be about the Tiger Style coming together.  We want it to be about the Tiger Style dominating the AWL Tag Team Division.

T49P:

Hassan:

FINALLY!  A chance to defend the titles!  I’ve been AWL Tag Team Champion before (with a bug who shall remain nameless) and I can tell you from experience that this is the hardest part.  Waiting for someone to earn 3 points.  Not that I want the AWL to switch to something stupid like “You get a title shot because the boss said so.”  But there has to be a way to avoid literally months without a chance to get in the ring and prove to the world what we can do.  HAKAISHA! has the V6 project, maybe we need a V7 project.

But this weekend’s all about the tigers.  Tiger Mask II, you’ve been in the AWL almost as long as I have.  I’ve seen you grow from a green as grass kid under Tiger Mask I’s shadow into being your own man.  You’ve earned everything you’ve gotten in this sport and I know you’re going to be AWL Grand Champion one day.  Tiger the Dark, you I don’t know that well.  All I know about you was you trying to take over the AWL, succeeding, and forcing our titles to be vacated less than an hour after we won them.  So, thanks for that.

            However, you’re not going to cement your legacy by stepping over Kid Canada and myself.  We’ve waited too long to defend these titles to be taken down by anyone.  So, bring your Tiger Styles, and we’ll show you just how hard it is to make a Border Crossing!