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Zbyszko gets AWA belt back
Topic Started: Feb 15 2008, 05:29 AM (101 Views)
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Minneapolis, MN - February, 5, 2008 - While the nation is turning out in record numbers for what's been called "Super Tuesday", the management team of the AWA has announced that the AWA World Heavyweight Championship, stripped from Zero-1's Masato Tanaka in late 2007 due to irresponsible leadership by the fledging Zero-1 MAX's Yoshi Nakamura, has been rightfully returned to "The Living Legend" Larry Zbyszko.

Zbyszko started rallying for what he claimed was rightfully his since mid-2007. The situation heated up immediately after the then AWA Board of Directors stripped Masato Tanaka of the World's title. Zbyszko, through his newly named "representative" Mister Saint Laurent and legal representation, started filing documentation, to the new AWA Management Team, proving he had never lost the title in 1991 when Verne Gagne's AWA entered into bankruptcy. After considerable deliberation and review of the bankruptcy file from the early 90's, the AWA agreed with Zbyszko that he did indeed never actually lose the title. Accordingly, Larry Zbyszko is once again the recognized and current AWA World Heavyweight Champion.

As the celebration started with Zbyszko and "Team Vision" (Zbyszko's running pals' "Not Cocky" Chasyn Rance and Mister Saint Laurent), the AWA also announced that Zbyszko's first title defense would be April 18th in Fayetteville, West Virginia against two of the top 10 contenders in a 3-way dance.

Log-on to AWASTARS.COM for this history making announcement as it further develops.


To bad the AWA isn't as strong as it use to be.
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Larry is the AWA champ? So all the guys that held the title from the time they filed bankruptcy and now didn't happen? I know they are trying to link this new belt with the history of the old title, but making Larry your champion is dumb. He has been retired for decades. Having someone beat him for the belt isn't going to help make a new AWA star.
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I know what you mean. According to their site, Larry was on a mission to ever since he heard the AWA belt was being recognized by wrestlers that wore it like Corino, claiming he never loss the belt and so they awarded it to him when they pulled Zero 1 out.

I've been trying to keep up with what's going on with them and the belt and they are still legal battle with WWE over the prestige of the AWA name and history.

This is something that more so caught my eye because WWE has the library, tapes, trademarks and logos. AWA decided to name it the American Wrestling Alliance.

It's actually becoming a big dispute since there isn't a way to connect the original people and organizations that were involved involved therein, the title reigns had no continuity within title and it's reigns. Something also about the AWA name itself.
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