Apocalypse Wrestling Federation
| Apocalypse Wrestling Federation Apocalypse Wrestling |
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|---|---|
| shape | promotion |
| Establishment date | August 1998 |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario Canada
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| Territories | Ontario |
| owner | Apocalypse Wrestling Federation Ron Hutchison's Pro Wrestling Gym Sully's Gym |
| management | Ron Hutchison |
| Branch |
Pro Wrestling Hardcore Wrestling |
| Further information | |
| Inactive since | September 2012 |
Apocalypse Wrestling Federation , AWF for short , was the name of a Canadian wrestling promotion based in Toronto , Ontario . The promoter was Ron Hutchison .
Style direction
With its program, the AWF pursued the aim of offering the audience technically high-quality wrestling as well as extremely brutal hardcore matches .
In the early days of the doctorate, the wrestling focus was on the so-called "old school style", the traditional wrestling style, which was hardly practiced for a long time.
history
The AWF emerged from Ron Hutchison's Pro Wrestling Gym , a wrestling school run by wrestler Ron Hutchison in Toronto. However, in the late 1980s, this wrestling school was known as Sully's Gym .
At the beginning of August 1998, some students from this school joined forces and founded Apocalypse Wrestling, a pseudo-promotion that Rod Boudreau had as "President". The aim of the foundation was to gather first match and booking experience under real conditions.
Subsequently, the first legal steps were taken to establish “Apocalypse Wrestling” as a real promotion. Ron Hutchison became the main sponsor and president of the new promotion he registered with the Toronto National Sports Commission under the name Apocalypse Wrestling Federation . The first show took place on August 30, 1998. Hutchison managed to sign Terry Funk , Abdullah the Butcher , Tony Atlas and Jimmy Snuka , among others .
Within just five years, this promotion could develop into one of the most important promotions currently in the independent wrestling scene in Canada. The AWF also regularly had stars from other promotions appear, for which extensive storylines were planned and implemented. Among other things, Jim Neidhart took part in this doctorate several times.
Just one year later, Missy Hyatt made her debut in Canada when she was allowed to win the regional AWF Heavyweight Championship on February 14, 1999 in the mixed tag team with Miss B. Haven . In an extensive storyline she was allowed to defeat her opponent Sherri Martel and the wrestler The Squeegee Kid in the main event of "A Valentine te Remember" and was the first woman in wrestling to hold a purely male title.
At the same time Terry Funk also undertook his Canadian tour on the occasion of his retirement through various Canadian doctorates, where he also competed in the AWF against Sabu on June 6, 1999 . All wrestlers who competed in this promotion are now included in the wrestling roster of the former AWF active.
Just one month later, in July 1999, the "AWF King Of Canadian Hardcore Tournament at Ring 'n' Ears" was organized as part of the promotion. At this tournament, the AWF organized matches for the first time, which were mainly based on the hardcore style and thus resembled the US wrestling scene. This resulted in the "AWF Ironman Challenge Tournament" a year later.
The AWF's last event for the time being took place on April 13, 2003 and in 2004 the promotion was closed after its first pay-per-view on Canadian TV, as the AWF was increasingly focusing on the training of wrestlers and Hutchison devoted himself to other projects.
In September 2008, the AWF held a two-day wrestling show in Hollywood, United States , after holding a show in Milwaukee , Wisconsin for Harley-Davidson's 105th anniversary .
The active wrestlers now urged the AWF President Hutchison to have the promotion held regularly again. With an event on August 9, 2009, the AWF was actually reactivated and reintegrated into the independent Canadian wrestling scene. While the AWF tournaments were held at different locations until 2003, when the AWF was reactivated in 2009, the AWF Action Center was its own promotional venue, where the tournaments were now held.
With their reactivation, AWF wrestlers were also increasingly deployed abroad and the promotion now also sent talent seekers to the various wrestling promotions to look for young wrestlers who could develop there. On 11/12 August 2012 the last double show took place with "AWF Heavy TO Heavyweight Series", since then the league has paused again.
literature
- Rampage - The official Magazine of Wrestling's New Generation , September 2001 issue, pp. 12-15
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rampage , p. 13
- ↑ http://www.awfaction.com/?&mod=roster&pageid=5§ion=alumni
- ↑ www.cagematch.de: Show results AWF Heavy TO Heavyweight Series - Day 2 , accessed on: May 1, 2017