MXW
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| MXW | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 2004 |
| Style | Multi-Faceted/Hybrid |
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| Founder(s) | Joel Gertner |
MXW is an independent professional wrestling promotion run and co-owned by former ECW television personality Joel Gertner, who co-hosted ECW on TNN (now called Spike TV), a weekly prime-time cable TV program which ran from 1999 to 2000. The company has offices in New York, NY and Waterbury, CT in the United States, and they have an internet/new media consultant and a media coordinator, both of whom are based in Nashville, TN. They have presented 6 live events in Bristol, CT and Wallingford, CT dating back to November, 2004.
On July 8, 2006, MXW presented their fifth mega-event, InterPromotional Incident, headlined by a {GAIJIN BATTLE X} main event in which Low Ki, representing Pro Wrestling NOAH attained a clean, yet controversial victory over "Fallen Angel" Christopher Daniels, who represented Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX. The match was the latest in the Gaijin Battle series, an original MXW concept which spotlights American combatants who wrestle for different Japanese wrestling organizations in competition against one another. With Low Ki's victory, the series between the two Japanese promotions is now tied at one fall a piece.
Their sixth and most recent live event, GOLDEN QUEST, emanated from Wallingford, CT on Friday, August 25, 2006. The event focused on the Primary Stage of the First Round of the MXW Championship Tournament, in which some of the 32 contenders (every member of the MXW Top Twenty, plus 12 at-large bids) competed with an eye on advancing to the Supreme Sixteen, en route towards attaining the honor of becoming the Inaugural MXW Champion. In the Primary Stage Featured Match main event, Low Ki was scheduled to do battle against fellow TNA X Division combatant Jay Lethal. As the curfew for the evening approached, the semi-main event was still ongoing between "the Future" Frankie Kazarian, Sonjay Dutt and Azrieal. Lethal ran into the ring, followed soon after by Low Ki, turning the three-way match into an impromptu 5-way encounter, and capping off a night of action that also featured Billy Kidman and Japanese women's wrestling idol Kaoru Maeda. The company has yet to resolve how Low Ki and Lethal will be brought back into the tournament picture, aside from promising that a match between the two will happen at the next available opportunity.
In September of 2006, Joel Gertner was hospitalized, leading to the cancellation of two shows that were scheduled to take place in Albany, NY and Springfield, MA.
The company had currently looked ahead to its biggest month ever, November 2006, in which it will celebrate its second anniversary. They plan to have shows take place on November 10 in Albany at the historic Washington Avenue Armory, November 12 in Waterbury and November 18, also in Connecticut. The November 18th show is titled LEVEL NEXT and will feature the beginning of the MXW Championship Tournament's Second Round (the Supreme Sixteen).
Since July 6, 2006, their weekly 30-minute TV program, MXW Momentum, had been available via cable in Greater Waterbury, Connecticut. On July 12, it was announced that starting with the following week's episode, the program would also be available to all cable subscribers in Wallingford, Connecticut and the surrounding area.
MXW provided details on upcoming live events, wrestler profiles, combatant rankings, past results, wrestler-written feature articles, merchandise, and a copious amount of news and company happenings, at their official website, MXWWrestling.com. The website was most recently updated on October 18, 2006 with a partial listing of matchups for the November events, and has since expired.
