Professional Championship Wrestling (Australia)
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| Acronym | PCW |
| Established | 1999 |
| Location | Melbourne, Australia |
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| Owner(s) | Ken Rock Anne Rock |
Professional Championship Wrestling (PCW) is am Australian professional wrestling promotion established in 1999. It is based in Melbourne and puts on monthly events in Rowville as well as shows in Keysborough and Frankston.
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[edit] Events
PCW holds monthly events at the Polish Club in Rowville and the Karingal Park Secondary College Performing Arts Centre in Frankston. They also held a "Saturday Night SLAM" show most weeks of the month at the Powerhouse in Keysborough until it was shutdown by the council due to various public health and safety violations. Shows in Rowville have been run in Rowville since 1999 with a short hiatus from mid 2003 to June 2004 where they held "Reincarnation" at the Polish Club. Shows in the past have been held in Geelong, Tullamarine, Pakenham, Mildura and Warrnambool. In early 2007 it was announced that PCW will be returning to Tullamarine as well as continuing to have events at Rowville and Frankston.
In January 2007 PCW had their first event in Rosebud at the Memorial Hall. During the Rosebud event there was a Dark Match including Flying Dynamite and Young Angus. The final match was a TLC match which included Psychotic and Trent Brash
[edit] Company's Re-birth
After a controversial show billed as Carnage in September, 2002, the company went through a series of purges and re-orientations.
The prime movers behind the Carnage show left the company as PCW created a new style of professional wrestling for the general public. The style, now widely copied by other federations, focusses on family-friendly entertainment. In combination with its training school, the style has made PCW one of the most successful and resilient of wrestling companies in Australia.
[edit] Carnage Controversy
In September 2002 at Carnage, PCW's annual flagship show, Lobo faced off against Mad Dog McCrea in the first-ever barbed-wire match in Australia. The event was billed as a "Great Family Night Out", however before the bout an announcer warned parents to take their children from the Rowville arena if they were upset by blood.[1]
The match saw real blood, fake glass and one contestant setting fire to a chair. The ring ropes were replaced with barbed wire and a man tipped a bucket of thumb tacks on the ring floor. Much of the controversy surrounded rumors about the event, suggesting that the outpour of blood was so intense that it 'splattered' onto members of the crowd. Much of this can be attributed to people who had heard about the match giving their take of it on the Internet.
Despite the fact that this event was well publicized as having a gory match and the preceding warning, people complained that the match in question was 'too much'. A concerned mother called Melbourne Talkback radio station 3AW, and a wrestler heard this call and also rang in. This resulted in the main media outlets covering the story. For the record, neither of the wrestlers were seriously injured.[2] It also resulted in a police investigation.[3] and a furore within the local Knox City Council.[4]
[edit] Training School
The PCW Powerhouse Training School is located in Keysborough. The 2007 trainers are (for beginners) Pitbull, Joel Bateman and Jeric Craven. The advanced trainers are Carlo Cannon and Pitbull. Students compete on the Saturday Night SLAM cards allowing the students to gain experience and exposure in front of family members and the general public. These events have barely any advertising and therefore don't draw large audiences.
[edit] Champions
| Championship | Current champion(s) |
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| PCW Heavyweight Champion | Chris Knight |
| PCW Commonwealth Champion | Vacant |
| PCW Tag Team Champions | Vacant |
| PCW Softcore Champion | Mr. Big |
| SLAM Champion | Flying Dynamite |
| SLAM Tag Team Champions | BJ Hudson & Alberto Bravo |
[edit] Roster
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Heavyweights
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Cruiserweights
Refs
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Midget Wrestlers
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[edit] References
- ^ From the video of the event - now a collector's item.
- ^ Television coverage by the Nine Network at the time.
- ^ Melbourne Age newspaper September 12, 2002.
- ^ Melbourne Herald Sun newspaper
