Qualifying Match: Akecheta vs. Mr. Grim

One of the most dominant competitors in the history of BWN is the former Submission Champion Akecheta. For those fans that have followed BWN from the beginning, they will remember an 18 year old thick experienced mixed martial arts fighter that arrived at the company looking for stiff competition; and anyone that fought him will remember the stiff kicks and the body blows that spared no one. Arguably Akecheta’s most impressive accomplishment was in a championship match against the Undisputed Champion at the time Sword, a mountain of undefeated muscle that took even Assassin to the limit. In that match, one can see the look of shock and disorientation on Sword’s face as he experienced the ruthless hands of his highly motivated challenger unloading on him, placing him in scissors, locks and twisting his muscled physique into every way contortion imaginable.

One particularly incredible shot that is burned into my mind is when Akecheta was on Sword’s back and suddenly slips his ankles under Sword’s meaty, thick, hairy, deeply muscled thighs and locks those massive legs up in the air! Sword, who a moment ago seemed entirely impenetrable and impossible to damage, suddenly finds himself literally locked into position with his powerful ass tooted in the air by Akecheta whose entire weight bears down on him, now unable to move but also increasingly unable to breathe as Akecheta locks in a rear naked choke! Sword is forced to tap out. Akecheta tapped out the Undisputed Champion within minutes!

Alas, it was a last man standing match so the it continued and in the end Sword was victorious after smashing Akecheta through the mats with a brutal sidewalk slam, and retained his Championship but not before going through a war that he couldn’t have imagined, dripping in sweat. Victorious but exhausted, Sword placed a thick sole on Akecheta’s face thereby humiliating the young man who just minutes earlier had him beaten.

Fast forward to the present when Akecheta, as part of The Freak Show, faced another man in a last man standing match: Drew, who was made to fight a a gauntlet of freak show fighters in order to earn a shot at the Lightweight Championship. Shockingly, Drew survived. Nobody would describe that match as one in which Drew dominated or defeated Akecheta though; “survive” is much more appropriate or perhaps even “swerve” because in the end, Drew offered Akecheta his ass if Akecheta would just please stop beating on him and torturing him the way he had been throughout most of the match, putting Drew into every position imaginable and naked to boot. Of course that turned out to be a trick by Drew to turn Akecheta on and put him in, ironically, a “rear end naked choke” to survive and more forward.

At Christmas Crossfire 3, a #1 Contender for Royal Rhino’s Undisputed Championship was needed and the fans voted Akecheta the number one contender.

But one man that arrived recently at BWN took exception to that: Mr. Grim! Given that it Akecheta was part and parcel of The Freak Show before it was disbanded at Legacy by Tiger and given that Mister Grim made it his entire aim at BWN to rid the company of The Freak Show by forming his own crew called the Grim Reapers, it stands to reason that Mr Grim would take exception to someone so recently part of the insurrection being given a shot at the Undisputed Championship.

Therefore, Mr. Grim steps to Akecheta for a qualifying match to see who really deserves the shot.  Mr. Grim and Akecheta, now both good guys on the side of the company, shake hands and go at it to see who is most worthy to face Royal Rhino for the Undisputed Championship in the main event of the PPV.

As expected, the two go to war with Akecheta employing his tactics heavy on attempted submissions while Grim, able to keep up with that, adds incredibly intense powerful and explosive punches to Akecheta’s somewhat softer midsection. The battle rages on back and forth until Grim ironically catches Akecheta in a submission to hold and forces the proud fighter to tap out.

But Akeheta’s humiliation has only just begun. Grim unzips his top which always indicates a next level beatdown and punishment is forthcoming and in this case the punishment that Mr Grim unleashed was a punishment for Akecheta being given his own Black Box series even though he was part of the insurrection while Mr. Grim who was part of the solution that helped take The Freak Show apart.

Mr. Grim wants Akecheta to admit that he’s been punished by Mr. Grim and he continues to punish him until he forces those words from his mouth after placing his defeated opponent in the same daddy clutch that he used to school his protege Renegade. Akecheta is forced to say it, thereby firmly establishing Grim’s superiority in earning the shot at Royal Rhino for the Undisputed Championship later in the PPV. Mr. Grim, covered in sweat with a laid out Akecheta beneath him, looks into the camera and tells the Undisputed Champion Rhino: “Your future looks…Grim!”