Major League Wrestling (MLW) has held a variety of differentprofessional wrestling tournaments competed for byprofessional wrestlers that are part of their roster.
The tournament to crown the inauguralMLW World Heavyweight Champion took place at Genesis on June 15, 2002.
A four-team tournament to determine the inauguralMLW Global Tag Team Championship took place between 2002 and 2003. The semi-final of the tournament took place at the King of Kings event on December 20, 2002 and the tournament finals took place at Revolutions on May 9, 2003.
Semifinals (King of Kings) | Final (Revolutions) | ||||||||
PJ Friedman andSteve Williams | |||||||||
Jimmy Yang andMike Sanders | |||||||||
PJ Friedman and Steve Williams | |||||||||
The Extreme Horsemen (C.W. Anderson andSimon Diamond) | |||||||||
The Extreme Horsemen (C.W. Anderson andSimon Diamond) | |||||||||
Los Maximos (José Maximo and Joel Maximo) |
J-Cup USA was ajunior heavyweight single elimination tournament to determine the inauguralMLW World Junior Heavyweight Champion atWarGames on September 19, 2003.
GTC Carnival was a six-team tournament to determine the new #1 contenders for theGlobal Crown Tag Team Championship. The tournament that took place at MLW's Reloaded event on Night One and Night Two on January 9 and January 10, 2004. The first round took place on January 9 and the second round took place on January 10.
Qualifiers January 9[1] | Finalists | Final January 10[2] | ||||||||||||
Dark Fuego and Pete Wilson | ||||||||||||||
M-Dogg 20 andRoderick Strong | ||||||||||||||
Dark Fuego and Pete Wilson | ||||||||||||||
The Havana Pitbulls | ||||||||||||||
The Havana Pitbulls (Ricky Reyes andRocky Romero) | ||||||||||||||
Los Maximos (José Maximo and Joel Maximo) | ||||||||||||||
Dark Fuego and Pete Wilson The Havana Pitbulls | ||||||||||||||
Stampede Bulldogs | ||||||||||||||
Stampede Bulldogs (Harry Smith andTJ Wilson) | ||||||||||||||
Bobby Quance andPuma | ||||||||||||||
Stampede Bulldogs | ||||||||||||||
BYE | ||||||||||||||
BYE | ||||||||||||||
BYE |
The tournament to determine the inaugural holder of theMLW National Openweight Championship took place betweenApril 5, 2019 and June 1, 2019 at theFury Road special, where the final took place. The semi-final matches aired onFusion.
TheOpera Cup tournament is aprofessional wrestlingsingle-elimination tournament held byMajor League Wrestling (MLW). First introduced in 2019 at thenamesake event, the tournament is a revival of the Professional Wrestling Opera House Cup, which had been last won byStu Hart in 1948. The tournament was revived by MLW in 2019 and has become an annual recurring tournament.
Year | Winner | Times won | Finals date | Runner-up | Venue | Location |
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2019 | Davey Boy Smith Jr. | 1 | December 5, 2019 | Brian Pillman Jr. | Melrose Ballroom | Queens,New York, New York |
2020 | Tom Lawlor | 1 | December 23, 2020 | Low Ki | GILT Nightclub | Orlando, Florida |
2021 | Davey Richards | 1 | November 6, 2021 | TJP | 2300 Arena | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |