| 1 | 27.08.2024 | Pigeon Scratch | 2.0 | Any promotion that built on the groundwork of "bringing wrestling back to the good ole days" isn't going to succeed, especially when that very same promotion isn't even trying to stick to classic American style wrestling. The round system is a good idea, absolutely, but it was used here horribly. Only a couple of wrestlers in AWF really had any experience with the system because of their work in European promotions, but most didn't. Plus, it wasn't explained well to the audience at all. I'll admit though, this promotion probably could've lasted longer if it wasn't in the 90s. But alas, even then I don't think it would've ended well. Nothing promotion with a bunch of wrestlers past their prime with no real reason of watching. |
| 2 | 01.06.2023 | AidanArcher | 4.0 | |
| 3 | 07.07.2022 | sbg2022 | 4.0 | For a promotion called the "American Wrestling Federation" they implored too much of a European style with the round system. Which is laughably ironic. |
| 4 | 29.03.2022 | wwetitlefan2 | 4.0 | The American Wrestling Federation was a wrestling promotion that tried to be unique while also being old school. The round system was something that could've worked if used right, but most of the time it killed the pacing of the matches. |
| 5 | 10.09.2017 | DanTalksRasslin | 4.0 | The AWF was something of an odd duck in the '90s wrestling world. With the cliched mission statement of "bringing wrestling back to its roots, " the company made the unusual decision of featuring matches with a British-inspired rounds system (12 rounds for title matches; 3 for everything else). Occasionally this could be used to a match's storytelling advantage, or at least give the program a good spot for commercial breaks without interrupting the action; other times it simply broke up the flow of a match. The roster was primarily made up of '80s WWF guys that hadn't gone to WCW and no longer fit in with either the WWF's "new generation" or with ECW; the primary feud over the top title being Tito Santana vs Bob Orton Jr. The programming itself had an overreliance on squash matches, which could be unnecessarily prolonged by the rounds system. Despite all its oddities, though, the actual in-ring quality of the wrestling in AWF was generally pretty decent. The company never made much of an impact, but it at least tried some different things (not all of them successful), and it's an interesting footnote to what would soon become one of wrestling's hottest periods. |
| 6 | 30.08.2017 | headbanger8398 | 6.0 | Yeah, the AWF had an over the hill roster, but the rounds system helped to separate them from other companies. Alot of squash matches with some big time matches thrown in. Not great, but still entertaining. |
| 7 | 08.08.2016 | ShooterMcShoot | 2.0 | Most, if not all, of their shows now exist online and are easy to find. I have seen every show this company produced for TV and I must say the horrible reputation is true. Subsisting on guys well past their primes, they also used a system of rounds (similar to European wrestling, I hear). Such things are just confusing to American fans who never saw such things like that before. No real angles to speak of, just sort of puttered along for a couple of years as a vanity promotion before it folded. |
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