Injury Reports and Tag Team Promos

                Let’s start with the bad news.  AWL Senior Medical Official Dr. Marcus Feelgood has announced that Tiger Mask II has an undisclosed neck injury and is not cleared to compete or appear at ringside for the foreseeable future.  While the exact details of this injury are unknown for privacy reasons, it’s not hard to infer that the two sit-out tombstone piledrivers Tiger Mask II took from Ganba Hisshi DARK last weekend had something to do with it.  Tiger Mask II is still in the AWL Best 4 and will remain so unless he is unable to make his scheduled title match.  That should give him some time to recover, let’s hope it’s enough.

                In other tiger related news, I’m happy to turn this blog over to representatives of the champions and challengers in this weekend’s tag team title match.

Nippon Yokatta (Translated from the original Japanese by the AWL Translation Team…under protest):

Yamada Jiro:

                Eight years ago, a great tragedy struck our country.  Thousands died and many more lost everything.  But there was one saving grace.  One light in our national darkness.  The gaijin ran like the cowardly dogs that they are!  Hundreds of them scampered back to their countries as if someone had stepped on their tails.  For a brief moment, Japan was whole and pure.  One nation, one people, united by common struggle.  But some of the gaijin remained and more soon joined them.  The infestation spread.

                But this weekend, we start the removal all over again.  Black Tiger Justice, you will run like all filthy cowards run from the true strength and greatness of the Japanese soul.  And we will bring the World’s Tag Team Titles home.  And our lost brother Shin Tiger Jr. along with them.

Tiger Brothers:

Spring Tiger:

                I regret confirming that RyuSensei is correct.  Tiger Mask II is out of action for a while.  But that’s a problem for another day.  Today and this weekend in the AWL Arena we celebrate the rise of a new generation.  A Tiger’s Generation.  And those old fogeys are going to be the first victims of the best tiger team I have ever seen!

Injury Report

                It is my sad duty to inform you that AWL Wrestler Chiba Akagi suffered a neck injury at the hands of Ganba Hisshi Dark last weekend and will be out of action for the rest of the season.  While Chiba Akagi is currently scheduled to take place in the 2019 New Year’s Tournament to defend his crown, it is currently unknown if he will be cleared to return to the ring by that time.  I speak for everyone here at the Animated Wrestling League in wishing the Scion of Submission a speedy recovery.

Fukumen World Tournament Update

We have some unfortunate news that has forced a change in line up at GWM’s Fukumen World Tournament.  During the qualifying match that was shown during last week’s GWM WrestleMAX, GWM Superstar Matt Classic Jr. took a hard fall where the back of his head bounced off the bottom rope.  While he persevered, finishing the match, pulling out a victory and, earning a slot in the tournament, he has been diagnosed with a concussion and is NOT medically cleared to compete.

GWM Management has allowed Matt Classic Jr. to name his own replacement in the Fukumen World Tournament.  Therefore…AZTECKAIZER NEO has been added to the field!

In thankfully less unfortunate news, another hole opened in the field when neither Red Death Mask nor Yellow Devil managed to qualify for the main tournament.  Since one can enter via qualification OR invitation, GWM Management has decided to invite…..AMERICAN BEETLE to join the Fukumen World Tournament!

With those changes in place, the list of Superstars officially announced for the tournament is:

Tiger the Great III (GWM World’s Champion)

Big Tiger II

King Tiger

Tiger the Black

Big Foot

American Beetle (GWM US Champion)

Miracle 2 (GWM Tag Team Champion)

Azteckaizer NEO

Mr. Azerbaijan

Prakash Sabar

Hasaiki

5 more Superstars to be determined.

Updates and such.

Another week, another update. First of all, the Danger Zone:

Wrestler	Win	Loss	Total	as of AWL 135
American Beetle	30	-40	-10
El Rudo Rojo	24	-34	-10	AWL World Light Heavyweight Champion
Jon Shina	0	-10	-10
Joe Obber	0	-8	-8
Tiger Mask II	25	-32	-7

Last week Curry Man won a match to save himself and Tiger Mask II lost a match to send him tumbling into the zone. This weekend, Tiger Mask will try to save himself as he faces American Beetle one on one. However, if the All American Insect loses, he will be mathematically LOCKED in the Danger Zone and will have no choice but to compete in Batsumania. So it's all to play for tomorrow at AWL 136!

One last thing before I wrap up the blog posts for the week, I wanted to give you the official list of injured AWL Wrestlers. This is all according to our medical staff and has been approved for release by AWL Senior Physician Dr. Mark Feelgood as of May 16th, 2015.

Name: Estimated time to recovery:

Ganba. Cleared to compete.

Prince Puma. 1 week (Observation).

Yamada Jiro. 6 to 8 weeks.

Hassan. 4 to 6 weeks.

For those of you keeping score at home, Ganba and Prince Puma were injured by Bullet Club, Jiro was taken out by The Augments, and Hassan was injured in training at the AWL Dojo. We wish them all a speedy recovery.