Border City Wrestling
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| Acronym | BCW |
| Established | 1993 |
| Location | Windsor, Ontario |
| Founder(s) | Doug Chevalier Scott D'Amore Chuck Fader |
| Owner(s) | Scott D'Amore Jeffrey Scott |
Border City Wrestling (BCW) is an independent professional wrestling promotion based in Windsor, Ontario. It is the base promotion for several Total Nonstop Action Wrestling superstars, including all of Team Canada, Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley. Many BCW employees were trained by Scott D'Amore, the owner and booker of BCW, at the Can-Am Wrestling School.
BCW was founded in 1993 by D'Amore, Chuck Fader and Doug Chevalier. After Chevalier left Ontario in 1994 and Fader left the company after being diagnosed with throat cancer in 2000, D'Amore became the sole owner. D'Amore closed BCW for several months in late-2000, but re-opened the company later that year.
In 2001, several Extreme Championship Wrestling employees who had been made redundant when ECW declared bankruptcy in April 2001 joined the company. On August 29, 2001, BCW held the "Mikey Whipwreck Retirement Bash" to honour the retirement of Mikey Whipwreck. Fader returned to BCW in late-2001 as a publicist when his cancer went into remission.
In 2004, BCW owner Scott D'Amore and partner, Jeffrey Scott, took over Ontario Championship Wrestling.
On September 15, 2005, several American wrestlers, most with TNA Wrestling, wrestled for BCW in an event called BCW International Incident. During the event, TNA employee Abyss won the BCW Canadian-American (Can-Am) Heavyweight Championship from Bobby Roode, and Rhino defeated A-1 to become number-one contender. In addition, TNA wrestler Jeff Jarrett challenged fellow TNA wrestler Raven for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. With the unexpected help of America's Most Wanted (who turned heel in the process), Jarrett won the title.
BCW used to hold most of its events at the Ciociaro Club in Oldcastle, a suburb of Windsor. They also partner with Prime Time Wrestling in Detroit, Michigan, which uses several of the same wrestlers. BCW went on hiatus, not having run a show since the summer of 2006.
It was announced in March 2008 that BCW would be holding their first show in almost 2 years, on May 3, 2008. The event took place at Assumption High School in Windsor, Ontario and featured former WWE & ECW Superstar Al Snow. During the event, BCW Ring Announcer Jeffrey Scott announced that "BCW is back, and better than ever".
Border City Wrestling recently announced that they have THREE live events coming up: June 30th at SummerFest in Downtown Windsor(WrestleFest 2008) featuring TNA Superstar Rhino,Tyson Dux and Jamie D, July 18th at the CAW Hall in Chatham(Double Jeopardy 2008 Night 1) featuring the return of former TNA star A1,Zach Gowen,Johnny Devine,Tyson Dux and Phil Atlas and July 19th at the Royal Canadian Legion in Tecumseh(Double Jeopardy Night 2)featuring Jamie D,A1,Zach Gowen,Johnny Devine,Phil Atlas and Tyson Dux. For more info visit [1]
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| Championship: | Current champion(s): | Held since: |
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| BCW Can-Am Heavyweight Champion | Abyss | September 15, 2005 |
| BCW Can-Am Tag Team Champions | Jimmy Jacobs and Phil Atlas | July 22, 2005 |
| BCW Can-Am Television Champion | N8 Mattson | July 15, 2006 |
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