Global Professional Wrestling Alliance
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The Global Professional Wrestling Alliance (GPWA) are a group of professional wrestling promotions and wrestlers from around the world who have come together to cooperate. Formed in 2006, the group is led by chairman Mitsuharu Misawa, a professional wrestler and owner of Pro Wrestling NOAH, and president Yoshiyuki Nakamura, co-owner of Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX.
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[edit] Aims
The group was established as a means to aid the many competing wrestling promotions in Japan. Members will share resources including training facilities and their wrestlers themselves. They will also coordinate the arrangements of their shows in order to avoid clashes. In addition to this "super shows" will be run with wrestlers from the member promotions competing on the same shows. This first of which will occur on 14th November, 2006.
It is also likely that in the future the promotions will donate part of their profits towards a fund which could supply a pension for retired wrestlers. This has been seen as a sign of the GPWA developing towards becoming a union, something which the professional wrestling industry has always lacked.
[edit] Members
[edit] Japanese promotions
The following Japanese companies and their representatives are all founding members of the GPWA:
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- IWA-Japan represented by Tatsukuni Asano
- El Dorado Wrestling represented by Noriaki Kawabata
- Kaientai Dojo represented by TAKA Michinoku
- Kensuke Office represented by Hisako Sasaki
- Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX represented by Shinjiro Ohtani
- Dramatic Dream Team (DDT) represented by Sanshiro Takagi
- Big Mouth Loud represented by Kazunari Murakami
- Pro Wrestling NOAH represented by Mitsuharu Misawa
[edit] Foreign Promotions
Companies from around the world are able to join the GPWA, the following promotions outside of Japan are founding members:
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- Ring of Honor represented by Cary Silkin
- World League Wrestling represented by Harley Race
- World-1 Fighting Arts represented by Steve Corino
- European Wrestling Association represented by Chris Raaber
[edit] Freelance Members
In addition to companies, freelance wrestlers are able to become members of the GPWA, the following are founder members:
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- Kikutaro
- Shiro Koshinaka
- Minoru Suzuki
- Yoshihiro Takayama
- NOSAWA
- Takaku Fuke
- MAZADA
- Tadao Yasuda
[edit] External Links
Announcement of formation at Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX website
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