Anime Championship Wrestling

In August of 2006, Hakeem Johnson created a promotion called Anime Championship Wrestling. It is a promotion where anime characters of old and new compete in a wrestling format. As of today, Anime Championship Wrestling is the number one anime wrestling promotion in the CAW League.

History
Hakeem Johnson has been an anime fan since the days of Dragonball Z and Pokemon. When he grew up, however, he got very distant from Anime. However, one summer day, as his brother were watching an anime music video on Vegeta, Hakeem Johnson thought about wrestling as well and figured if he would be able to make a promotion with anime AND wrestling. He told his brothers to write down twenty anime characters he can use for a promotion called Anime Wrestling Federation (at the time).

The initial plan was to do a weekly typed show. This would mean Hakeem would type the action and post it on his website. The plan :was set for so but then, one day, Hakeem Johnson stumbled across a promotion called NoDQ CAW on YouTube. He had never seen it before and watched and then became an avid viewer. Hakeem has a Day of Reckoning 2 game for Gamecube and thought that he could be able to do that. So now, plans had changed and AWF was going to be a video promotion show like NoDQ.

On July 1, 2006, Hakeem started to hype AWF by posting titantrons for Gaara, DX (Naruto & Gohan), and Sasuke Uchiha. Hakeem, a week later, changed the name Anime Wrestling Federation to Anime Championship Wrestling, known as ACW. This was due to another anime promotion with the name already.

ACW Shows
ACW has three shows: ACW Excel, ACW Impulse, and ACW Turbo make up the shows while just recently ACW On Demand was launched as an online show.

ACW Excel
On July 29, 2006, Hakeem Johnson posted a show called ACW Excel. On this article posted, it has over 5,000 views on YouTube.

From July 29, 2006 to May 6, 2007, Excel used the WWE RAW arena on Day of Reckoning 2. From June 15, 200 to present, ACW Excel now uses the WWE Velocity arena to add it's "green" and "adredaline" feel towards everything.

The current theme song for ACW Excel is Across the Nation by Union Underground. The game used for Excel is Day of Reckoning 2 for the Nintendo Gamecube console.

Roster

 * "The Avatar" Aang (Avatar: The Las Airbender) - Airbender (Dragon Sleeper to Neckbreaker), Dragon DDT (Jumping Reverse DDT)
 * Akuma (Street Fighter series) - Brimstone (Tombstone Piledriver), Darkness Pin, Turnbuckle Chokeslam
 * Android 17 (Dragon Ball Z) - 17.0 (FU Position to Double Kneeling Piledriver)
 * Aqualad (Teen Titans) - Deep Sea Driver (Exploder)
 * Davis (Little Fighter 2) - Knockout Punches
 * "The Sand Shinobi" Gaara (Naruto) - Sand Claw (Iron Claw), Dark Hole (Muscle Buster)
 * "The Assasin" Goh Hinogami (Virtua Figher series) - N/A
 * "Rave Master" Haru Glory (Rave Master) - Rave Driver (Celtic Cross), Five Knuckle Shuffle
 * Hotspot (Teen Titans) - Hotspot (Diamond Cutter)
 * Ikki (Saint Seiya/Knights of the Zodiac) - Pegasus Plunge (One :Leg-Holded Spinebuster)
 * Jin (Samurai Champloo) - Brainbuster
 * "The Monk" Miroku (Inuyasha) - Monk Bottom (Rock Bottom), Peasant's Elbow (People's Elbow)
 * Mugen (Samurai Champloo) - Jaded Just (Stunner), Field Goal (Shattered Dreams), Six Stomps (Six Stomps to the Groin)
 * Neji Hyuuga (Naruto) - 64-Fold (Tajiri Combo)
 * Rock Lee (Naruto) - Cloverleaf
 * Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) - Chakra Knock Out [CKO] (RKO), Sharingan Slam (Backdrop to Rock Bottom)
 * "Water Nation Warrior" Sokka - Water Whiplash (Full Nelson Slam Pin)
 * Seiya (Saint Seiya/Knight of the Zodiac) - Pegasus Plunge
 * Woody (Little Fighter 2) - Crossface (Crippler Crossface)
 * "Blue Spirit" Zuko - Red Eye (Pedigree), Anaconda Vice, Raging Flame (Backhand Blow)

Champions

 * ACW Excel Champion - Miroku the Monk
 * ACW Intercontinental Champion - Mugen
 * ACW Tag Team Champions - N/A

Hiatus
The Day of Reckoning 2 disc is not responding to the Gamecube so as of a result, ACW Excel has been put on Hiatus untill further notice.

ACW Impulse
On August 4th, 2006, Hakeem launched another show for the ACW promotion called Impulse. This was to give ACW a "Raw vs. Smackdown" feel and to see if he could grab more audiences with two shows.

From August 4th, 2006 to present, Impulse has used the WWE Smackdown arena to give it a "blue" and "cool" feel.

The current theme song for ACW Impulse is To Be Loved by Papa Roach. From August 4th, 2006 to May 10th, 2007, Impulse was operated on Day of Reckoning 2 as well. However, to expand the promotion and to bring in new people to ACW, Impulse had to move to Smackdown vs. RAW 2007 for the PS2 console, starting on June 29th, 2007 to present.

Roster

 * "The Beast" Beast Boy (Teen Titans) - Green Cutter (Diamond Cutter)
 * Chiatzou (Dragon Ball Z) - Hurricarana Pin
 * Cyborg (Teen Titans) - Protobomb (Spinning Powerbomb)
 * Dennis (Little Fighter 2) - Whirlwind Kick (Spinning Kick)
 * "Full Metal Alchemist" Edward Elric (Full Metal Alchemist) - Alchemist DDT (Double Arm DDT)
 * Firen (Little Fighter 2) - Flamethrower (Spinning Flapjack)
 * Freeze (Little Fighter 2) - Icebreaker (Gutcrusher)
 * Gohan (Dragon Ball Z) - Degenerate Driver (Exploder)
 * Kiba Inuzuka (Naruto) - N/A
 * Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) - Gum Gum Blast, Gum Gum Foot
 * Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) - Shonen Jump (Double Arm Facebuster)
 * Nightwing (Teen Titans) - Night Out (Brainbuster)
 * Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) - Double Jeopardy (Leg Lock), Double Swords (Locks Legs Around Head and Chokes Out near turnbuckle)
 * "The Prince of Tennis" Ryoma Echizen (The Prince of Tennis) - N/A
 * Speedy (Teen Titans) - Golden Arrow (Sweet Chin Music/Super Kick), Bow & Arrow
 * Terra (Teen Titans) - N/A
 * Trunks (Dragon Ball Z) - T-Driver (Rikishi Driver/Fire Thunder)
 * Ultraman Tiga (Ultramna Tiga) - N/A
 * Zatch (Zatch Bell) - N/A

Champions

 * ACW Impulse Champion - Beast Boy
 * ACW Television Champion - Gohan
 * ACW Impulse Tag Team Champions - N/A
 * ACW Crusierweight Champion - N/A
 * ACW Road to Destiny Champion - Edward Elric

ACW Turbo
On the ACW website during August 2007, a new section was opened titled ACW Turbo. Folks were starstrucked as to whether it was another show, another CPV, another feature. This mystery would last for days until ACW announced three weeks later that ACW Turbo would be another brand for the ACW promotion. This new brand would have an "ECW" and "extreme" feel to it.

On September 16, 2007, ACW Turbo had made it's debut on YouTube. The arena it currently uses is the WWE RAW arena. Turbo is operated on Smackdown: Here Comes the Pain for the PS2 console.

It's current theme song is Beautiful People by Marilyn Mansion.

Roster
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 * Choji Akimichi (Naruto)
 * Cloud Strife (Final Fantasy series)
 * Hibiki Tokai (Vandread)
 * Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho)
 * Ike (Fire Emblem series)
 * Inuyasha (Inuyasha)
 * Jaden Yuki (Yu Yu Hakusho)
 * Kankuro (Naruto)
 * Kazuki (Busou Renkin)
 * KYO (Samurai Deeper KYO)
 * Marth (Fire Emblem series)
 * Momochi Zabuza (Naruto)
 * Raimundo Pedrosa (Xiaolin Showdown)
 * Roy (Fire Emblem series)
 * Roy Mustang (Full Metal Alchemist)
 * Seto Kaiba (Yu-Gi-Oh)
 * Takeshi Jin (I.G.P.X.)
 * Takuya (Digimon)
 * Tapion (Dragon Ball Z)
 * Yusuke Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho)
 * Zane Truesdale (Yu-Gi-Oh GX)

Champions

 * ACW Turbo Champion - Momochi Zabuza

ACW Click-Per-Views
ACW has click per views as well. In September 2006, ACW produced and showed their first click per view, Fusion. It was a double brand show (Excel & Impulse).

Due to personal lives, computer malfunctions, and delays, ACW sometimes does not follow and guarantee to follow the PPV order in a year but cycle through it nonetheless.

Every year, after ACW presents Anime Revolution, ACW will take a month and a half hiatus starting in July through mid-August. This is to think of new storylines, new characters, to refresh the creative direction as well. Also, to check on ACW as a business as well.

CPV Schedule

 * January - Royale Rumble
 * February - No Boundaries
 * March - Animania
 * April - Ground Zero
 * May - High Voltage
 * June - Anime Revolution
 * July - August - HIATUS
 * September - Genesis
 * October - Fusion
 * November - One Way
 * December - Apocalypse