AWL 260 will be a
landmark moment in tag team wrestling.
One that podcasters in the distent future will discuss and analyze
endlessly. The night that the first AWL Joshi
Tag Team Championships will be awarded to the winners of the Joshi Tag Title
Tournament. Yes, we’re beating WWE to
the punch by months and NJPW by probably 35 years.
After over a month of
competition, we are down to two tag teams set to fight for their place in
history. The first, the best of the best
in the AWL Joshi Division. Akira Merune,
the undefeated Mistress of 1000 Holds and AWL Joshi Champion has the chance to
be the first wrestler in years to be a double champion in the AWL and the first
wrestler EVER to hold double gold with only AWL titles (past double champions
have held AWL gold and belts from other wrestling organizations such as NJPW
and Chikara).
In her corner is the
wrestler with the next best win loss record in the Joshi Division and genuine
AWL royalty: Dragoness. The Daughter of the
Dragon has brought her father’s signature wrestling style forward to a new
generation. Can she do for the AWL Joshi
Tag Team Titles what her father did for the original AWL Championship?
Across the ring from
the Queens of Wrestling will be two superheroes. Resu Yellow and Resu Pink of the Puro Sentai
Resurangers. That means that there will
be no traditional “bad guys” in this match.
Just two pairs of top-level athletes fighting to lay claim to the title
of Champions.
Over in the men’s division,
it’s far less historical, but no less significant. The New Classics make the second title
defense of their record setting 6th reign as champions. But the interesting part (not to mention the
biggest WTF story of Season 13), is who they’re defending against.
El Rudo Rojo has been
with the AWL since Season 2 when he and his brother El Santo Azul joined Team
Mexico for the World Warrior Exhibition, or WWE for short (yeah, that’s what
passed for clever back then). He became
the first wrestler in AWL history to lose his mask in Lucha de Apuestas. Since then he’s been either the leader or a
member of several teams and factions…to very little success. He’s a grumpy, bitter, angry man with a chip
on his shoulder the size of Mt. Fuji.
Mister Smiles, on the
other hand, is pretty much the EXACT opposite.
Joyful, outgoing, and a pleasure to have in any locker room. How those two have managed to spend ten
minutes in the same room, let alone the three matches it’s taken to earn their
three point.
This is never going
to work, is it?
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