Hartley Jackson Forgoes Tournament – Steps Up to Face Real American Heroes

In a shock to NWA officials, Hartley Jackson has withdrawn from the Australian Championship Tournament set to take place on November 23rd in Perth, Australia.

Jackson requested to be removed from the tournament so that he could represent Australia in taking up the challenge set by the NWA World Tag Team Champions, Karl Anderson and Joey Ryan.

“After ten years as a part of Australian wrestling, I’ll be damned if some loud mouth yanks are gonna come into our backyard and act like they’re runnin’ the place,” Hartley said. “Anderson & Ryan may be the NWA World tag team champions but on November 23rd, they better prepare themselves for a good old fashioned Australian barney.”

Jackson and Anderson are no stranger to each other. The two trained together at the New Japan dojo in Los Angeles in the winter of 2005. But there is certainly no love lost between the two as Jackson described the ‘Machine Gun’ as ‘your typical arrogant American who thinks he’s better than all Australians “who ride around on kangaroos and hunt crocodiles” ’.

While Jackson is ready to take the fight to the self proclaimed ‘Real American Heroes’, he is yet to find a tag team partner to join him.

This means that we are, once again, one person short in the Australian Championship tournament. NWA officials will hold one more qualifying match at the next show held by their Australian affiliate, Explosive Pro Wrestling.

EPW’s Re-Awakening VI (3rd November) will see South Australia’s Damian Slater face off against the ‘New Sensation’ AZ Vegara. The winner of this match will gain the final spot in the tournament.

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