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American Wrestling Federation (AWF)

Inactive promotion in the North America region

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sbg2022 wrote on 07.07.2022:
[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."
wwetitlefan2 wrote on 29.03.2022:
[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."
WrestlingStats1 wrote on 11.02.2021:
[4.0] "Assets: Shrewdly put together a decent enough roster that had some name value despite being on the outs with the major leagues. Attempted to introduce a round system to distinguish itself from other promotions. Managed to broadcast nationally due to syndication. - - - Flaws: Was too focused on elevating past-their-prime stars to build any new talent, which more or less led to their demise. The round system clashed with the sports entertainment-style gimmicks of the wrestlers. Due to their syndication deal, their programs often aired on lower channels during weekend afternoons and didn't build an audience. - - - Promotion Potential: Defunct minor league promotion."
DanTalksRasslin wrote on 10.09.2017:
[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."
headbanger8398 wrote on 30.08.2017:
[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."
ShooterMcShoot wrote on 08.08.2016:
[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."