Awesome Championship Wrestling to feature cage match for tag titles as champs hope to end feud with rivals

Awesome Championship Wrestling (ACW) volition instrumentality to the MJN Center successful Poughkeepsie, New York, for its Reckoning lawsuit connected Saturday nighttime successful what’s expected to beryllium a star-studded affair.

Recognizable names successful pro wrestling similar IWGP planetary heavyweight champion Andrade, NWA satellite historical middleweight champion Flip Gordon, ACW women’s champion Steph De Lander, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) prima Indi Hartwell, Major League Wrestling (MLW) Lady Frost arsenic good arsenic apical names connected the autarkic country similar Richard Holliday and Ben Bishop volition each beryllium featured connected the card.

The ACW tag squad champions volition besides beryllium among those competing astatine the event. Vik Dalishus and Hale Collins, the duo known arsenic The Now, volition support the titles successful a alloy cage lucifer against Sent 2 Slaughter – the squad made up of Danny Maff and Shawn Donovan.

Vik Dalishus and Hale Collins marque their mode down the ramp for an Awesome Championship Wrestling match. (Jay Adam Photography)

Dalishus and Collins anticipation to extremity their feud with Sent 2 Slaughter.

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"Guys we’ve had to woody with successful the past twelvemonth and a fractional and our feud has really extended extracurricular of ACW," Dalishus said. "We’ve feuded successful respective antithetic promotions each passim the Northeast."

Dalishus added that Maff and Donovan crashed his wedding, turning up the somesthesia connected the feud.

"And they’re each bitter due to the fact that we stole, well, we won their tag titles astatine WrestlePro," Collins said, adding that their tag squad opponents adjacent crashed his Hall of Fame ceremonial astatine Johnny Rodz’s wrestling school.

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"It’s a precise idiosyncratic rivalry. They really crashed my wedding," Dalishus continued. "They showed up unannounced. They’ve made it precise idiosyncratic and we’ve responded accordingly. The precise archetypal clip we were successful a alloy cage with them, they had our manager (Josh Shernoff) successful their backmost pocket.

"He really turned connected america … What this alloy cage is truly each astir is redemption to close the incorrect that happened to america past clip we were successful a cage. We’ve said this was going to beryllium the last section – whoever wins, wins, and whoever loses, that’s it."

Hale Collins, left, and Vik Dalishus locomotion with the Awesome Championship Wrestling Tag Team Championship. (Smoothlenz photography)

Dalishus and Collins are the promoters down ACW, which has drawn precocious praise from wrestlers who competed successful their events. They stressed wherefore having a spot similar the MJN Center is simply a captious constituent of the promotion’s success.

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Dalishus recalled going to tapings of WWE's "Monday Night Raw" successful the 1990s and watching a Sensational Sherry and Luna Vachon spell astatine each different arsenic good arsenic Tommy Dreamer’s House of Hardcore getting started successful the building.

"That gathering and our careers and our lives person truly intertwined successful the craziest mode and we’re precise fortunate that Awesome Championship Wrestling has been this happening that has kinda caught connected successful this country and truly been the adjacent question of nonrecreational wrestling. The WWF and the WWE coming present successful the 70s, 80s and 90s and past ECW and past determination was immoderate section autarkic wrestling that was moving the gathering trying to bash a bully occupation with providing large stars successful the country but determination was a existent large spread successful the past fewer years with pro wrestling and bringing TV stars into this area.

Hale Collins, left, and Vik Dalishus airs for a photo. (Lifelumens - Edward-Daniel Simons Jr.)

"NXT had tally the building, TNA had tally the gathering a fewer times and the crowds were a small spot underwhelming and we knew erstwhile we were going to commencement Awesome Championship Wrestling that we wanted to bash thing a small spot antithetic but besides cater to each of the wrestling fans – supply thing for everyone."

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As ACW has been credited with being conscionable supra a regular autarkic promotion with its lighting, camera enactment and professionalism backstage, Collins and Dalishus highlighted the awesome maturation they’ve made since their archetypal amusement successful January 2025.

"The archetypal show, we astir mislaid our butts, and past we had a large locomotion up," Collins told Fox News Digital. "It was astir similar the movie ‘Field of Dreams’ – ‘if you physique it, it volition come.’ All of a sudden, 2, 3, 400 radical walked up and it was awesome. Ever since then, we’re going day-by-day, but we person goals successful mind."

Dalishus said they’ve been "really smart" with however they’ve taken the indispensable steps to get much eyes connected their shows, including with a YouTube amusement that showcases its past matches and highlights upcoming events.

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The Now bring the symptom successful Awesome Championship Wrestling. (Smoothlenz photography)

"Who knows wherever it tin truly go? The thought for america is to thrust this roller coaster for arsenic agelong arsenic we tin and spot what happens," Dalishus said. "Does it go a marque that starts to circuit astir the country? We anticipation so. We anticipation that it’s thing that we’re capable to bash and we’re capable to instrumentality ACW to antithetic markets. Right now, the happening we’ve been capable to leverage is that the gathering here, the MJN Center, is successful concern with america and that we’ve been capable to truly turn with a spouse that’s wanting to spot america win conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic they privation to spot success. So, it becomes a large hazard to commencement traveling extracurricular of this location country due to the fact that of the things we’ve been capable to leverage with our friends and our concern connections and our partnerships that we have.

"We spent a batch of clip successful the past twelvemonth surrounding ourselves with immoderate of the radical that we’ve known passim our clip successful wrestling that we trust, that are truly large minds for pro wrestling and that they’re guys who bring thing to the array that volition assistance america turn astatine a large rate. Being capable to instrumentality this happening connected the roadworthy would beryllium thing that I’d truly similar to spot america do."

Collins added that going connected the roadworthy was "definitely a goal."

"Everything we do, adjacent if it’s thing elemental similar getting the apron branded, that’s the goal. The branding is beauteous bully close present truthful let’s spell to the adjacent goal. Now, we tin instrumentality the show, enactment it successful different building, but it’ll inactive look similar ACW. We’re reasoning of each facet and being cautious arsenic we do. As of close now, I deliberation we’re connected to thing truly chill and immoderate we take, we enactment it backmost into the company."

Reckoning volition instrumentality spot Saturday nighttime and volition see "Macho Man" Randy Savage and Mike Bell’s inductions into the MJN Center’s Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame.

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The last paper looks similar this:

Brian Cage vs. Hammerstone vs. Flip Gordon vs. Mance Warner vs. a enigma hostile erstwhile satellite champion successful a five-way endurance lucifer to go the No. 1 contender for the ACW National Championship.

Zack Clayton (c) vs. Dante "El Jaguar" Casanova for the AEW National Championship.

"Big Trouble" Ben Bishop vs. "Firework" Foxx Vinyer.

Leo Sparrow (c) vs. The Phoenix GKM vs. Liamo successful a triple-threat lucifer for the AEW Cruiserweight Championship.

Steph De Lander and Indi Hartwell vs. Vicious Vicki and Lady Frost.

Vincent and Dutch (The Righteous) vs. Yoscifer (w/Shir’rak) and Wrecking Ball Legursky.

Andrade vs. Richard Holliday.