Border City Wrestling

Acronym	BCW
Founded	1993 (Original), 2012 (Revival)
Headquarters	2501 Ouellette Avenue Windsor,Ontario N8X 4Y6
Founder(s)	Doug Chevalier Scott D'Amore Chuck Fader
Website	bordercitywrestling.com

Border City Wrestling (BCW) is anindependentprofessional wrestling promotion owned andbooked byScott D'Amore, and based inWindsor, Ontario, Canada.

Many of the promotion's employees were trained at theCan-Amwrestling school. After the promotion briefly merged withBSE Pro to createMaximum Pro Wrestling in 2010, an offshoot promotion named after the school would be launched in 2012. BCW would resume holding shows later that year.

Border City Wrestling was founded in late 1992 byScott D'Amore, Chuck Fader, and "The Canadian Destroyer" Doug Chevalier. The promotion's home base wasLaSalle's Centennial Arena, with most their shows being held at this venue.^[1] The promotion was known for featuring a mix of local talent and stars from major promotions, such asWWE (then known as the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)) andExtreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) in theUnited States.^[1]

From 2002 to 2003, BCW had a weekly television series that was produced forCogeco Cable and aired in severalOntario markets.^[1][2] In 2004, BCW would merge with Ontario Championship Wrestling (OCW).^[1] At BCW'sInternational Incident event on September 15, 2005,Total Nonstop Action Wrestling founderJeff Jarrett defeatedRaven to win theNWA World Heavyweight Championship with help from D'Amore.^[3][4][5]

On February 3, 2010, it was announced that D'Amore had leftTNA Wrestling and that BCW would be merging with Toronto'sBSE Pro, run by Jason A. Brown, to becomeMaximum Pro Wrestling.^[6] This merger would ultimately last for two years.^[1]

In August 2012, an offshoot of BCW known asCAN-AM Rising debuted featuring up-and-coming talent as well as past graduates from BCW's Can-Am Wrestling School. On the debut show.Phil Atlas defeatedTyson Dux to become the newBCW Champion.^[1] In October of that year, BCW returned with its first show since breaking off from the BSE merger.^[1][7] One year later, on October 19, 2013, BCW held their 20th anniversary show at St. Clair College.^[8]

On May 9, 2014, BCW presented a special event titledEast Meets West, featuring talent fromNew Japan Pro-Wrestling.^[9] The event featured appearances byShinsuke Nakamura,Kazuchika Okada,Karl Anderson, andHiroshi Tanahashi.^[10]

BCW's "Excellence" event, held in October 2014 and headlined byBret Hart^[11] drew the promotion's largest crowd to date.^[12] As a result, it would become a reoccurring, annual event.^[13] The second Excellence event would be held atSt. Clair College the following October in 2015.^[14]

In the Spring of 2016, BCW revived their BCW Can-Am Tag Team Championship through a tournament, which was won by Phil Atlas & Brent Banks after defeating The Fraternity at Spring Loaded 2016 on May 28, 2016.^[15]

In March 2017, BCW formed a partnership with Japanese promotionPro Wrestling Noah to exchange talent between Japan and Canada.^[16]

On December 5, 2017, D'Amore andDon Callis were announced asImpact Wrestling's (known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) from 2004–2016, and 2024–present) new executive vice presidents.^[17] As a result, the two promotions began to work together, with content from BCW becoming available on Impact's streaming service,^[18] and most BCW events serving as television tapings for both Impact'seponymous weekly program andXplosion.^[19][20]

Border City Wrestling announced their25th Anniversary show in July 2018, on October 6 atSt. Clair College.^[21] The event was filmed as part of Impact'sOne Night Only series for theGlobal Wrestling Network.

On February 7,Anthem Sports & Entertainment, TNA's parent company,terminated their contract with Scott D'Amore.^[22][23] Despite this, TNA talent would continue to be featured at BCW events.^[24][25]

After D’Amore acquired the trademarks toMaple Leaf Wrestling, and announced a revival of the brand calledMaple Leaf Pro Wrestling (MLP),^[26][27] MLP's newYouTube and social media platforms would begin uploading classic content from BCW.

Current Champions:

Retired Championships:

The BCW Hall of Fame is a professional wrestling hall of fame maintained by Border City Wrestling. It was established in 2009 to honor select wrestling personalities, mostly alumni of the Ontario-based promotion. The induction ceremony for the Class of 2009, the inaugural inductees into the Hall of Fame, took place at BCW's "War Without Honour" held at the Windsor Armories on November 13, 2009. Doug Chevalier and Chuck Fader, the original co-founders of BCW along with Scott D'Amore in 1992, led the class, along with other former BCW "originals".^[28]

• ^a – Entries without a birth name indicates that the inductee did not perform under aring name.
• ^b – This section mainly lists the major accomplishments of each inductee in the promotion.

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