AWL Do Or Die

Do Or Die's promo poster.

**AWL Do Or Die** or simply known as **Do Or Die** is the second PPV hosted by AWL that was released on YouTube on May 12th 2018 hosted in Adelaide, South Australia. 6 matches were contested on show with the main event being Curtis Young VS Pac for the AWL World Championship. In the penultimate matches Tenille Dashwood would challenge Amber McQueen for the AWL Womens Championship. Paul Garcia and Fulton would battle in a steel cage and a four way match would take place between Jake Jackson, Lance Mercer, Steven Slick and Buzzsaw Black to crown the first ever AWL Internet Champion.

This PPV was after Defiance but before Bad Intentions

## Story Lines

After winning the championship at Defiance, Amber McQueen would celebrate her title win on the following episode of Revenge, however. She still had a problem with a women who "ruined her moment" by attacking her and opponent and friend Ashlee Ling, Amy Stewart. McQueen would call out Stewart but to no response. Instead, General Manager Tyler Slater would interrupt McQueen and tell her that both Ling and Stewart will both be having a match together to find out who would be the future number 1 contender for the Womens Championship. For McQueen, Slater would instead introduce her Do Or Die opponent and new AWL signing, Tenille Dashwood. Dashwood would make her way down to the ring and hype up the match between her and McQueen. Only to quickly turn on the crowd by insulting them and McQueen. McQueen questioned Dashwood's livelihood, which resulted in Dashwood hitting McQueen in the head with a microphone and attacking her. The two would trade promo battles with each other leading all the way up to their match.

Following their issues at Defiance, Steven Slick and Jake Jackson had a one on one match at Defiance, with Slick winning and savagely beating Jackson after the match. Causing Jackson to have to take time off. By this time, Tyler Slater had also unveiled his plans to crown the first ever Internet Champion at Do Or Die. He will get various opponents of his choosing. He decided that one participant will be decided in a 6 man battle royal between Alex Saint, Andrew Fletcher, El Miedo, Danny Rush, Lance Mercer and Casey Natoli. Mercer was victorious. During Slater's announcement, Slick interrupted by demanding to be placed in the match, Slater however refused. This led to Slick kicking Slater in the groin out of frustration. Slater would later give Slick an opportunity to qualify as Mercer's opponent only if he could win a match against Buzzsaw Black. Black however won, and Slater added him into the match. However, Slater wanted to make sure Slick was hurt, so added him into the match anyways. However right after the match with Black, Slater announced that Jackson would return and join the match, he'd also face Slick on Revenge too. Making Do or Die's match a four way.

Paul Garcia had been constantly taunted by Olivia Martinez of a great danger coming to him, Garcia however didn't think too much of any of it. After Defiance, Paul would continue is dominance until Martinez finally showed herself alongside the debut of Fulton. Fulton would make his way down to the ring and start beating down Garcia. The two were later scheduled to fight against each other on a later episode of Revenge, however Garcia and Fulton got into a brawl before the match started. Tyler Slater considered both men "far too dangerous" and scheduled them to compete at Do Or Die in a Steel Cage match, purely for the safety of everybody.

After making a shock debut at Defiance, Pac wanted to challenge whoever became the AWL World Champion at the end of the night, that man was Curtis Young. Young would celebrate his title victory before being cut off by Pac, requesting a challenge to him. But Pac was then cut off by Lance Mercer, who demanded that he should be the one that should face Young at Do Or Die. Eventually a match was booked between Mercer and Pac, with Pac defeating Mercer. Young would go on to have a match with CJ Arthur, who he would defeat. After the match, Pac came out and starred down Young. With Pac saying "Hold that title tight, Curtis."

## Event

### Preliminary Matches

The show kicked off with a tag team match between the newly reformed London Riot (Danny Rush and Tommy Marshall) taking on The All Americans (CJ Arthur and Dean Ryan). After a 12 minute match, The London Riot defeated The All Americans.

Up next was the number 1 contendership match for the Womens Title between Ashlee Ling and Amy Stewart, the 2 would fight for over 20 minutes with plenty of near falls, with Ling even managing to kick out of the "Lights Out". However, Stewart would hit the move for a 3rd time during the match, finally defeating Ling. After the match, Stewart would threaten McQueen, using Ling as a way of demonstrating what she would do to McQueen at Bad Intentions.

The next match was the womens championship match, where Tenille Dashwood challenged Amber McQueen. The match would go back and fourth with many thinking Dashwood would end up being victorious. Ultimately, McQueen managed to defeat Dashwood in the match after hitting a "Downfall" on her. This would be Dashwood's last appearance in AWL.

The Fatal Four Way for the Internet Championship would go next and would feature Steven Slick, Lance Mercer, Buzzsaw Black, and Jake Jackson. The match featured a clash of styles as Lance Mercer and Buzzsaw Black used power moves on every opponent. Jackson would often springboard off the ropes to get back into the action whenever a pin attempt was made. The match came to end however after Slick used a Brainbuster on Black, but Jackson rolled in the ring and hit Slick with an Enzuiguiri, causing Slick to collapse. Jackson covered Black to win the Internet Championship.

Paul Garcia and Fulton fought against each other in a steel cage, with Garcia and Fulton getting a lot of powerful offence on against each other, the match would come to a close as Garcia misses a Discuss big boot, and fails to connect with a Moonsault. Fulton takes advantage and hits Garcia with a facebuster, defeating him. Bringing Garcia's undefeated streak to an end.

### Main Event

The main event was a one on one match between Pac and Curtis Young, at the start of the match, it was 50-50. However, Pac would start to showcase ariel like moves, in order to one up him, Curtis starts doing the same with various springboard moves taking Pac down. Both men would kick out of their respective finishers, but Young would soon defeat Pac after hitting him with a "Fall from Greatness" After the match, both Pac and Curtis shake hands and celebrate together to close out Do Or Die.

## Results

defeated the All Americans (CJ Arthur and Dean Ryan)
 Amy Stewart defeated Ashlee Ling
 Amber McQueen (c) defeated Tenille Dashwood
 Jake Jackson (c) defeated Buzzsaw Black, Lance Mercer
& Steven Slick
 Fulton defeated Paul Garcia
 Curtis Young (c) defeated Pac

(c) = Person who was champion after their matches

## Aftermath

After Amber McQueen defeated Tenille Dashwood, Dashwood would leave to go wrestle for other promotions. Amber McQueen now had a new challenger in the form of Amy Stewart, as the two would have their match already prepared for Bad Intentions.

Jake Jackson was celebrating becoming the Internet Champion the following night on Revenge, where he was challenged by Alex Saint, Jackson accepted and defeated Saint. However, after the match Jackson would be attacked by a kendo stick wielded by Steven Slick. Jackson would request a match at Bad Intentions against Slick to Tyler Slater, with Slater accepting the match. Buzzsaw Black and Lance Mercer would both take a hiatus after Do or Die.

After losing to Fulton, Paul Garcia was in a bad mood. During the Revenge Episode after Do Or Die, Casey Natoli was asking for a bodyguard, eventually becoming frustrated. He headed out to the ring and asked for somebody to help him out. Unfortunately, Garcia came out and started attacking Natoli out of anger. The following episode, Natoli would be taunted and harassed by The All Americans. They were about to attack Natoli with a chair but the attack was ruined after Garcia ran out to save Natoli. Both of them would form a tag team afterwards.

Following his defeat to Curtis Young, Pac would enter a series of matches with Andrew Fletcher, with the best out of 3 being decided at Bad Intentions.

Curtis Young was once again out to celebrate retaining the AWL Championship, however. He was interrupted by Fulton and Olivia Martinez, Fulton would attack Young. Making him Young's next challenger.