Awesome Championship Wrestling (ACW) will return to the MJN Center in Poughkeepsie, New York, for its Reckoning event on Saturday night in what’s expected to be a star-studded affair.Recognizable names in pro wrestling like IWGP global heavyweight champion Andrade, NWA world historic middleweight champion Flip Gordon, ACW women’s champion Steph De Lander, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) star Indi Hartwell, Major League Wrestling (MLW) Lady Frost as well as top names on the independent scene like Richard Holliday and Ben Bishop will all be featured on the card.The ACW tag team champions will also be among those competing at the event. Vik Dalishus and Hale Collins, the duo known as The Now, will defend the titles in a steel cage match against Sent 2 Slaughter – the team made up of Danny Maff and Shawn Donovan.Dalishus and Collins hope to end their feud with Sent 2 Slaughter.MEET RICHARD HOLLIDAY – THE ‘MOST MARKETABLE’ MAN IN PRO WRESTLING TAKING THE INDIES BY STORM”Guys we’ve had to deal with in the last year and a half and our feud has actually extended outside of ACW,” Dalishus said. “We’ve feuded in several different promotions all throughout the Northeast.”Dalishus added that Maff and Donovan crashed his wedding, turning up the temperature on the feud.”And they’re all bitter because we stole, well, we won their tag titles at WrestlePro,” Collins said, adding that their tag team opponents even crashed his Hall of Fame ceremony at Johnny Rodz’s wrestling school.HOW PRO WRESTLING STAR BEN BISHOP WENT FROM BASKETBALL PLAYER TO ‘BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA’-INSPIRED GIANT”It’s a very personal rivalry. They actually crashed my wedding,” Dalishus continued. “They showed up unannounced. They’ve made it very personal and we’ve responded accordingly. The very first time we were in a steel cage with them, they had our manager (Josh Shernoff) in their back pocket.”He actually turned on us … What this steel cage is really all about is redemption to right the wrong that happened to us last time we were in a cage. We’ve said this was going to be the final chapter – whoever wins, wins, and whoever loses, that’s it.”Dalishus and Collins are the promoters behind ACW, which has drawn high praise from wrestlers who competed in their events. They stressed why having a spot like the MJN Center is a critical component of the promotion’s success.PRO WRESTLING STAR STEPH DE LANDER REVEALS HOW COLLEAGUE’S ADVICE HELPED LEAD HER TO TITLE TRIUMPH AT ACWDalishus recalled going to tapings of WWE’s “Monday Night Raw” in the 1990s and watching a Sensational Sherry and Luna Vachon go at each other as well as Tommy Dreamer’s House of Hardcore getting started in the building.”That building and our careers and our lives have really intertwined in the craziest way and we’re very fortunate that Awesome Championship Wrestling has been this thing that has kinda caught on in this area and really been the next wave of professional wrestl
Awesome Championship Wrestling to feature cage match for tag titles as champs hope to end feud with rivals
