Valor

Valor is a wrestling faction from All Meta-Human Impact Pro Wrestling. The main focus of the faction was to be a small group of heroic wrestlers who would defy AMIP's perennial heel group Drowning. Whereas Drowning would recruit members into the double digits, Valor was intended to be small to appear perseverant and courageous.

Debut and Hiroshi Kawato's Leadership (2016-2019)
On November 12, 2016, Hiroshi Kawato confronted Tatsuhiko Kobayashi(leader of Drowning), whom he was set to face in a special singles match at that year's January mega show. When Kobayashi realized he was fighting a losing battle of words, he sent his attack dogs to beat up Kawato. It was in that moment when green boy Taiji Inaba, outsider Satoru Hayashi, and Jr. Heavyweight star Atsuki Watanaka came out to save Kawato. Once the ring was cleared, Kawato admitted he had the three waiting on standby for that very moment. Kawato announced their unity and the birth of Valor.

At that year's Global Tag League, Valor split off into two tag teams, Inaba and Hayashi would pair up, and Kawato would pair with Watanaka, excluding Watanaka from the Super Junior Tag Tournament that year. Both pairs faired extremely well, with Inaba and Hayashi actually winning the tournament. During the tournament, Kawato and Watanaka would have a match with Kobayashi and Brutus Brunswell. Kobayashi would get himself disqualified in that match trying to destroy Kawato outside the ring.

At the January Mega show, Kobayashi would be victorious against Kawato, but Inaba and Hayashi(now known collectively as Burning Valor) would win the AMIP Heavyweight Tag Team Championships, bringing over Valor's first championships.

In July of 2017, after Watanaka came second in the King of Juniors Global League that year, Watanaka would take it upon himself to recruit a Jr. Heavyweight tag team partner for himself. His choice would be Shimo Ryu, who was fresh from his excursion from Mexico. The two would successfully win that year's Super Junior Tag Tournament, but would come up short January 10, 2018 against Drowning's own Toru Sakai and Yohei Nosawa. Afterwards, Watanaka and Ryu would slowly tear away from each other, and within months, Shimo Ryu was competing as a main unit player once more.

Watanaka would find renewed success in the singles division, defeating Damien Reigns to capture the AMIP Jr. Heavyweight Championship and setting the record as the first 3-time champion on April 11, 2018.

On the heavyweight side of things, while Burning Valor continued to be an exceptional tag team, Kawato was forced to find himself a tag team partner for the 2017 Global Tag League. He recruited freelancer Yoshimori Nomura, and the two had a back and forth argument as to whether or not Nomura was worthy enough to join Valor or even if Valor was good enough for Nomura. By the tournament's end of the tournament, the pair ended with a lacklustre 3-4 record, but it was the final match victory that lead to Kawato offering Nomura membership, and Nomura agreed.

Kawato had won the Heaven's Gate of 2017 however, which allowed him to challenge for the AMIP Heavyweight Championship at the January 10 show. He would successfully defeat PULSE to begin his second title reign. His title reign would last an incredible thirteen months before dropping it to the unassuming Yonosuke Ueno on February 13, 2019. Ueno would accidentally drop the ball and lose the title to outsider Genichiro Hosaku, who was a major player for a rival promotion. Wataru Nakamura forbad AMIP wrestlers to go wrestle Hosaku on his turf, so Kawato responded by wanting out of his full-time contract and becoming a freelancer so he could wrestle Hosaku elsewhere. It was absolute irony when Kawato would sign elsewhere when he turned freelancer to regain a piece of AMIP's property.

Yoshimori Nomura's Leadership (2019 - Present)
When Kawato insisted on going freelance, President Matanori felt it was a poor decision to allow Kawato to even remain in AMIP's staple hero team. With no Heavyweight Champion, the Drowning vs. Valor storyline became the centre point of the AMIP booking. Nomura became the mouthpiece of the faction and therefore declared the de facto leader of Valor. The ratings and attendance for AMIP were at an all time low however, and instead of renewing his contract, Atsuki Watanaka respectfully parted ways with AMIP after seven years with the company. Fresh from excursion, Matanori had big plans for Sota Mochizuki now known as Sugiwa. He was to enter the King of Juniors Global League tournament that year with both Valor and Drowning supposedly vying to recruit him. His first match was against Jr. Heavyweight Champion Takato Matsuura, which he lost. Drowning then tried to intimidate the green wrestler to joining, remembering how it worked on Matsuura, but instead walked away. It was announced later that Sugiwa had made up his mind and joined Valor, becoming their new, primary Junior.

In August of 2019, many of the longtime roster members were annoyed by the drastically reduced pay-outs. This caused Yonosuke Okita of the Unforeseen Futures to get fired from AMIP for taking bookings elsewhere, breaching the exclusivity clause in his full-time contract. His partner, Yota Kanzuki, was left in purgatory. President Matanori's decided to place him suddenly in Valor, wanting to make it up to his loyal employee. Sugiwa and Yota Kanzuki would team up and form a fairly popular tag team at the Super Jr. Tag Tournament. The duo would win the tournament and later win the AMIP Jr. Heavyweight Tag Team titles at the January 11th show.

In dire straights, President Matanori convinced Hosaku to wrestle at the January 11 show. The president's second task was finding the perfect challenger for him. At Heaven's Gate 2019, Satoru Hayashi would put on a herculean effort to win the tournament. The superstar had been extremely popular in the tag team division and proved to be one of the best performers AMIP had to offer.

Satoru Hayashi would win the main event of January 11 against Genichiro Hosaku to win the AMIP Heavyweight Championship, finally bringing the title back home. There were rumours after the match that Hosaku got the biggest pay-out that evening, rumours which President Matanori could not disprove. Many believe it is what precipitated to the mass exodus of February 24.

Yota would continue his rise to glory and defeat Takato Matsuura for the AMIP Jr. Heavyweight Championship. Shortly after, Satoru Hayashi would leave Valor, stating that he didn't enjoy the in-team jealousy that he was Heavyweight Champion. On March 5, 2020, Nomura welcomed new hire Hiroto Otani to Valor.