King of Europe Cup

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The King of Europe Cup (KOE cup) is a European professional wrestling tournament in the style of the "King of Indies" and "Super 8" tournaments of the United States.[1]

The inaugural event is to be hosted in Liverpool, England on the last weekend of April 2007 and is the brainchild of two UK wrestling verterans Alex Shane and Doug Williams. In what was considered a historic event in British wrestling history, the first event will feature a tournament to crown the first KOE cupholder and will involve 16 promotions and wrestlers from across the world. Just 5 days later, Germany's westside Xtreme wrestling will be hosting another weekend worth of shows and its own international tournament, known as the 16 Carat Gold Tournament.

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[edit] Promotions and representative

1PW is a largely international promotion based in the North of England who have good links with Italian promotion NWE.
An American independent promotion that specializes in Lucha style multi-man tag matches, colourful characters and training young wrestlers in various styles. Mike Quackenbush and Claudio Castagnoli was determined and Claudio won.
A top rated American independent hardcore promotion from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. CZW mixes high flying juniors matches with hard hitting strong style wrestling with "ultra-violent" death-matches. Their representative, Chris Hero, was hand-picked by owner John Zandig.
A top rated Japanese promotion. Dragon Gate offers a very alternative style to most Japanese promotions, and the promotions consists mainly of colourful characters and high flying Lucharesu style matches.
An American independent promotion, FIP runs shows in Florida and has very strong connections with Ring of Honor, who are also represented in the tournament.
An American independent promotion which runs shows in the Mid-West region, mainly in Illinois and Indiana. Their representative Matt Sydal was chosen by the company.
A top rated Canadian promotion. Their representative was decided at their "Praise the Violence" show on January 20, where El Generico won a three-way dance involving Jagged and Kid Kamikaze, and was named the official IWS representative for both the King of Europe Cup and for wXw's 16 Karat Gold tournament.[2]
Considered the UK’s fastest growing independent company.
Though involved with the pre-show, IPW:UK were not entering a wrestler into the tournament.[3] However, this was changed in February 2007 when it was revealed that IPW:UK would in fact be entering Pac.
small UK promotion.
A top American independent promotion from Southern California. Their representative Davey Richards won the right to represent the company by defeating a veteran of the 2006 16 Carat Gold Tournament, Rocky "Azucar" Romero, in a Double Tournament Qualifying match for entry in both tournaments at their Passive Hostility! event on December 2.[4][5]
A major national Japanese promotion to which organizer Doug Williams is the official European ambassador.
A small American independent promotion. Trent Acid won the right to represent the company by pinning Gary Wolfe in a qualifying match for entry in the tournament on March 14.
UK promotion RQW became the official sponsor of the first ever King of Europe Cup tournament.[6] RQW is known for their state of the art production values with RQW Chairman Len Davies' financial and production abilities to help UK wrestling get a much needed leg up back onto mainstream UK TV.
To further the relationship between RQW and the KOE cup, officials agreed to enter a representative from RQW into the tournament. To increase the public interest, the RQW representative Martin Stone secured his spot by being the winner of the one-night RQW Heavyweight title tournament from London’s York Hall on December 16, 2006.
A top rated American independent promotion to which organizer Alex Shane is the official Head of European Marketing.
The second largest promotion in American wrestling, they run TV tapings and national pay-per-views in Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida, but are based in Nashville, Tennessee.
A top rated German independent promotion who will be hosting their own similar tournament, the 16 Carat Gold Tournament, in association with the event.
To qualify for the wXw spot, every wrestler scoring a direct pinfall over another wrestler during one of their shows will be awarded one point; and whoever scores three points first will represent wXw in both tournaments. As the promotion is based on the pure effect of the sport, points are not given for a DQ, Countount, Draw or even if your tag team partner scores the fall. Wrestlers are unable to lose the points.

[edit] Interactive aspects

  • Prize fighting

For the first time in modern British wrestling, fans will be given the opportunity to make voluntary donations for match of the night. This money will then be added to a £1000 match of the night cash prize which will be donated by event organisers giving £500 a night for the best match on each day. Fans will be given score sheets at the start of the show and will be asked to put their top three matches from that night in order. The votes will be collected and the three matches with the most votes will be decided. The fan donated money will then be added to the $1000 prize fund giving grand cash reward.

The participants who fans selected to have the best 3 matches each night will then receive the prize money at the end of each night with 55% for 1st prize, 35% for second, and 10% for third prize and improving the earnings of the wrestlers who give fans the best matches.[7]

  • Match suggestions

At the end of night one, fans will be asked upon leaving to select two matches using the eliminated 8 wrestlers from round one. Once again these suggestions will be collected and the matches with the most audience votes will be made for the following evening.[8]

[edit] King of Europe 2007

King of Europe Cup
Details
Promotion Inter-promotional
Date April 28, 2007
April 29, 2007
Venue Liverpool Olympia
City Liverpool, England
Attendance up to 1700[9]

[edit] "Taste of IPW:UK" pre-show

Several matches from the UK promotion will take place on the afternoon card before the tournament matches in the evening of both dates. The two hour mini show will contain no interval and give one of the UK’s fastest growing independent companies a chance to be seen in front of their largest audience ever.

[edit] KOE cup tournament

Sixteen wrestlers, chosen or qualified from Sixteen separate promotions around the world, will face off in a single-elimination two-night tournament, to ultimately crown the first King of Europe cupholder.

[edit] References and External links

  1. ^ "TNA, IPW:UK and RQW now added to KOE Cup" Posted by Sarah Barraclough, Staff Writer at 1 Stop Wrestling. 24 November 2006.
  2. ^ "The IWS Joins the King of Europe Cup". Posted by Llakor on the SyndicateWrestling.com messageboard. 10 January 2007
  3. ^ "TNA, IPW:UK and RQW now added to KOE Cup" Posted by Sarah Barraclough, Staff Writer at 1 Stop Wrestling. 24 November 2006.
  4. ^ "PWG Presents Passive Hostility on December 2!" By Silverback, PWG Staff Writer. Found on gerweck.net's indy update
  5. ^ http://www.prowrestlingguerrilla.com/results/ PWG Results from their website
  6. ^ "TNA, IPW:UK and RQW now added to KOE Cup" Posted by Sarah Barraclough, Staff Writer at 1 Stop Wrestling. 24 November 2006.
  7. ^ "King Of Europe (KOE) Tournament" Posted by Sarah Barraclough, Staff Writer at 1 Stop Wrestling. 14 October 2006.
  8. ^ "King Of Europe (KOE) Tournament" Posted by Sarah Barraclough, Staff Writer at 1 Stop Wrestling. 14 October 2006.
  9. ^ "TNA, IPW:UK and RQW now added to KOE Cup" Posted by Sarah Barraclough, Staff Writer at 1 Stop Wrestling. 24 November 2006.
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