AWL 283: Suplex vs. Submission

Size vs. Skill

One more match has been added to AWL 283 for this weekend.  A match with championship implications:

Lee Masters vs. Big Jerry

Fight for 4

                A skilled scientific wrestler and trained MMA fighter vs. the largest man on the roster and a bone fide powerhouse.  The winner will join ResuRED, Project Tetsu, and the fake Liger in the AWL Best 4 and earn themselves a chance at the AWL Grand Championship.  Join us this weekend for AWL 283 and find out who wins, size or skill.

Points by the Truckload!

                We may be more than two weeks away from the Tag Matsuri, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start handing out points left and right.  First, in the Joshi Division:

The Unholy Alliance (0) vs. Tiger & Bunny (1) vs. Ladies of Lucha (0) vs. Purosentai Resuranger (0)

4-Way Elimination Match

                We’ve done a few of these so most of you probably know the rules by now.  All eight women legal in the ring at the same time.  Seven falls to a finish.  Eliminate the second member of a team, earn a point.  The last team standing goes home with whatever points they’ve earned.  The three losing teams go home with nothing.

                Over on the male side of the equation, one tag team match and one point present themselves.  But this match isn’t so much about progressing towards a title show as it is about fulfilling a dream:

Erupcion Solar & Jushin Thunder Liger (0) vs.  日本よかった (1)

Points in Play

Yes!  After a couple months of seeing the REAL Liger in the corner of Erupcion Solar, we finally get to see them together in tag team action.  And for the record, this will be JUSHIN Liger, NOT KISHIN Liger.

One Down, One/Four to Go.

Last weekend, Lee Masters tried and failed to win the AWL Intercontinental Championship.  This week his tag team partner and fellow student of Matt Classic Sr. “The Suplex Master” Sammy Nix will get his shot at the gold.

AWL 283:

MAIN EVENT

Chiba Akagi (C) vs. Sammy Nix

AWL IC Title Match

2^nd Title Defense

Tag Matsuri Report #1

It’s that time of year again wrestling fans, as the evil oppressive heat finally starts to subside, the Tag Team Division of the Animated Wrestling League starts to heat up as we approach our fall Supercard: The Tag Matsuri!

                For years, the Tag Matsuri has been our annual tribute to the often maligned art of tag team wrestling.  By AWL custom no points can be lost during the Tag Matsuri!  However, points can still be cashed in (and they will be).

                We’re still about three weeks away, but here’s what the AWL Commissioner has announced so far:

AWL SUPER CARD: TAG MATSURI 2019

MAIN EVENT

Queens of Wrestling (C) vs. TBD (3)

AWL Joshi Tag Team Championship Match

4^th Title Defense

Tiger Mask II & Okada Kazuchika (C) vs. TBD

AWL World’s Tag Team Championship Match

3^rd Title Defense

Men’s Tag Team Gauntlet Match

To be contested to 3 points

Joshi Tag Team Gauntlet Match

To be contested to 3 points

                We don’t know who the challengers will be yet, but if nobody has three points by the start of the Tag Matsuri, then the winners of the Tag Gauntlet will challenge immediately.

AWL 282: Queens and Machines

Students on a Mission.

Interesting news in the Intercontinental Division (is that even a thing?) this week as BOTH members of The New Classics have issued challenges to new AWL IC Champion Chiba Akagi.  They both know how important the leverage the IC title represents is to Matt Classic in his quest to finally get his hands on Ganba Hisshi DARK.  Fortunately for the most decorated tag team in AWL History, the IC Title has no qualification requirements and the AWL Commissioner feels these should be entertaining scientific wrestling matches.  So, it’s official!  By virtue of Janken (rock paper scissors to the foreigners out there), this weekend’s second title match is:

Chiba Akagi (C) vs. Lee Masters

AWL Intercontinental Championship Match

1^st Title Defense.

Hassan Addresses a Slow Start.

Hey.  Look, here’s the thing.  When Kid and I started Sekai-Gun we knew it was going to be a rough start.  Training four wrestlers who speak three different languages (four when Kid switches to French) was never going to be easy.  Yes, we are 0-2 right now.  But that’s against one of the most polished tag team units in the world.  F.I.S.T have been perfecting tag team wrestling in various forms for nearly 20 years!  We haven’t even had 20 matches and we’ve been hanging in there with them.  Plus, atomicos and trios matches are kind of Chikara’s bread and butter.

But this weekend, it’s two on two.  Me and Kid against Huckabee and Deppen.  I’ve held the ALW World Tag Team Titles with more partners than anyone else in history.  Kid Canada?  Best partner I’ve ever had and a former Grand Champion.  F.I.S.T may hold the CdP, but we can still wrestle circles around them.  This weekend, Sekai-Gun gets back on track!

--Hassan

Main Event Title Match Announced!

Last weekend, all three of the men’s championships in the AWL were defended and two new champions were crowned.  Next weekend, it’s the women’s turn.

Queens of Wrestling (C) vs. The Augments (4)

AWL Joshi Tag Team Title Match

3^rd Title Defense

Last weekend, the Augment team of KoroshiMachine and the X-Drone won a 2 point match bringing them past the three points necessary to make a challenge for the gold.  The champions of the AWL have done a fantastic job keeping our belts out of Dr. Jikoku’s control.  With Akira Merune and Dragoness be able to keep that streak alive?  Tune in this Sunday and find out!

AWL 281: Season 15 Premier!

Two NEW wrestlers set to debut at AWL 281

This morning AWL HQ received a message form The Empire’s Frederick Victor with some interesting news for the AWL Joshi Division:

Greeting and salutations Animated Wrestling League,

                For the last several seasons, I have been satisfied being the leader of the best tag team in professional wrestling and introducing you Japanese riff raff to proper British wrestling.  However, It’s time to expand into new opportunities.  That means expanding the ranks of The Empire to encompass the AWL Joshi Division.  Which, let’s face it, needs an infusion of talent only the British can provide.

                Therefore, I have searched far and wide for two of the best women wrestlers our island nation has ever produced.  Both second generation wrestlers brought up in the sport and with greatness in their veins!

                First, in a nod to this country, the daughter of the greatest Japanese wrestler to ever make a name for himself in the United Kingdom: Kendo Nagasaki.  The legend has passed down his mask to his daughter and the newest member of The Empire, Emily Nagasaki!

                In Ms. Nagasaki’s corner, the daughter of a man I greatly admire.  One of a very few who have mastered the World of Sport Style to an even greater degree than I have: “Mr. Smooth” Johnny Kidd!  His daughter, Jessica Kidd is every bit the grappler her father was (and still is, truth be told) with a few new tricks all her own.

                With these new members, Season 15 is looking bright for The Empire.

Sincerely,

Frederick Victor

Three title matches announced for AWL 281

In the aftermath of our summer supercard, we have a whopping THREE title matches set for our Season 15 premier!  When will that be?  THIS SUNDAY JAPAN TIME!!!

Azteckaizer NEO (C) vs. H-03 (#1)

AWL Grand Championship Match

1^st Title Defense

                The man who finally ended the reign of Ganba Hisshi Dark makes his first defense of the Grand Championship.  Across the ring, another colossal threat to both the title and the Animated Wrestling League: H-03.  While he may be nothing more than Dr. Jigoku’s mindless slave now, he’s also a former Grand Champion and still holds the record more most title defenses of the old AWL World’s Heavyweight Title, more than double the current record under the Grand Championship.

                The last time the bad doctor gained control of the Grand Championship, it started a reign of terror that literally decimated the AWL Roster.

                Can the Bearer of the Star of Aztec save the AWL from the forces of evil yet again?  Tune in to AWL 281 and find out!  Same wrestle-time, same wrestle-channel.

The Spirit Pack (C) vs. Tiger Mask II & Okada Kazuchika (3)

AWL World’s Tag Team Championship Match

2^nd Title Defense

                Welcome to the grownup’s table Spirit Pack!  After sitting on two points for more than a year, the team of the Golden Tiger and the Rainmaker finally get their shot at the AWL World’s Tag Team Titles.  Okada, who has had the IWGP Heavyweight Title virtually stapled to his waist for the last few years, has held double gold in the AWL before, but this will be his first shot at tag team glory.

                An old adage of professional wrestling will be tested at AWL 281, can two great men beat one great team?

Matt Classic Sr. (C) vs. Chiba Akagi

AWL Intercontinental Championship Match

1^st Title Defense

                After winning an eight way Scramble Match at Obonnanza, Chiba Akagi gets his shot at the living legend Matt Classic and the AWL IC Title.  Classic, on the other hand, is having to reevaluate his game plan.  When he became the Intercontinental Champion, Ganba Hisshi Dark was still Grand Champion.  Ganba had been refusing another match with Classic (who is still seeking revenge for Ganba ending his son’s career) and Matt figured that cashing in the IC Title was the only way to force the issue.  Now, Azteckaizer NEO sits atop the mountain in the AWL.  So, how will Matt Classic Sr. force his way to a match with Ganba Hisshi Dark now?  More importantly, with this conflict of goals distract him during his match with Chiba Akagi?  Looking past the Scion of Submission is a foolish and painful mistake to make.

AWL Supercard: Obon-nanza 2019

OK, my bad.  I posted this show to YouTube so that it would post automatically during Obon.  I then went on vacation and promptly completely forgot to post it here.  I'm sorry.