Save_Us.Necro Posted May 18, 2009 Share Posted May 18, 2009 <p></p><div style="text-align:right;"><span>http://i356.photobucket.com/albums/oo3/hillbillyjesus/ewrbg.jpg</span></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> </p><div style="text-align:left;"><p><span style="font-family:'Century Gothic';"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The History Of eWr</span></strong></span></p></div><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p> The seeds of elite Wrestling revolution were planted in 2000, when ECWA promoter Jim Kettner gave his top star "Reckless Youth" Tom Carter booking rights for nearly a calender year, which culmunated in the 2001 edition of the iconic Super 8 Tournament which saw the emergence of a new breed of American independant stars including Low Ki, "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson and Brian "Spanky" Kendrick. However, following that card, Carter left ECWA to continue his career.</p><p> </p><p> It would take nearly three years before another new emergence of stars were to take place as Carter, now semi retired, opened Independent Pro Wrestling, running it's firt show at The Knights of Columbus in Long Island, NY. Headlined by Carter wining the IPW World Title over Kevin Steen, Xavier and Jimmy Jacobs, the show also saw names which to this day are very familiar to fans like Larry Sweeney, Eddie Kingston and El Generico.</p><p> </p><p> Ran by Carter along with several business associates, IPW built itself upon utalizing a predominantly young roster of budding independant stars and mixing it with several veterans of the scene like Mike Quackenbush and Ace Darling. IPW, like many promotions at the time, based it's shows off of high flying and technical wrestling, however they also utalized risky and intriguing storylines, which gave the promotion a almost "ECW" like feel, something which many in the wrestling business compared IPW to. Within a year, IPW quickly became one of the top indy promotions in the United States to the point they bought out competor Pro Wrestling Unplugged. However, as this happened, it all nearly came crashing down.</p><p> </p><p> Carter's booker and president of the company Richard Carruzulo, unbeknost to Carter, went into negociations with rival promotion Combat Zone Wrestling where Carruzulo would essentially sell IPW to CZW and select IPW workers would lead an "invasion" into CZW. Carter and several workers found out of these plans and within hours Carruzulo and those workers and agents were gone from IPW and a potential major disaster was averted. This event caused Carter to take control of IPW as owner and head booker, forcing him to retire. However his retirement would open new doors for the promotion.</p><p> </p><p> IPW got the reputation as a "wrestler's promotion" which caused several top flight indy talents like Chris Hero, Colt Cabana, Claudio Castagnoli and Nigel McGuiness to make IPW their new home. This also lead former mainstream stars like Al Snow, Stevie Richards and Lance Storm to become lockeroom leaders of IPW. The buzz surrounding IPW led to the promotion to sign a contract with pay per view provider iNDEMAND for a series of pay per view events. </p><p> </p><p> The success of IPW was apparent and made Carter take the business to the next level. Carter sold 49% of the company to bodog owner and internet millionaire Calvin Ayre, who put his fortune behind the promotion. Ayre's connections also got IPW a spot on the fledgeling MyNetwork TV channel. This new direction of the company forced it to change its name to elite Wrestling revolution. eWr made major waves when TNA star Alex Shelley jumped to eWr on it's second PPV show and ran in on during a Colt Cabana/Stevie Richards eWr World Heavyweight Title match. </p><p> </p><p> Over the next year, eWr continued it's meorotic rise as a major force in American pro wrestling. Many wrestling purists loved eWr for it's wrestling emphasis and it's hybrid style of ECW and classic NWA type storylines, however the public did not see it that way, as it continously battled against Ring Of Honor for the 3rd spot in terms of power in wrestling promotions in the US. eWr's internation influence was second to none as eWr signed working agreements with All Japan Pro Wrestling, AAA, IPW:UK and WXW eWr's "BattleGround" show on MyNetwork TV became the network's highest rated show, led by the very hot Kings Of Wrestling stable, Alex Shelley, the entertaining commentary of Joey Styles and Raven and a very violent Eddie Kingston/Kevin Steen feud. However, as 2007 moved into 2008 it would be both the best of times and worst of times.</p><p> </p><p> eWr made headlines across the wrestling world as they signed ROH's top wrestler in "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson. Danielson instantly became the company's top face and was thrown into a program against eWr's champion and top heel in Chris Hero. A month later, eWr announced they had signed long time TNA standout Chris Sabin to a contract. However, the company suffered a major setback as MyNetwork announced they would no longer be airing "BattleGround", as the network gained the rights to WWE's "Smackdown". eWr was now left with no major television show, as it's syndicated show "Elite TV" became it's flagship show. This lack of coverage hurts the mainstream progress of the promotion, despite in November the company signing an contract with the cable network Versus. During the summer of 2008, the promotion was rocked by a group of lower card talents leaving eWr to move to rival TNA. However, eWr would end 2008 strong by creating easily the biggest news of the year.</p><p> </p><p> Fans around the world were abuzz when eWr formally announced they had purchased it's rival Ring of Honor in December 2008. ROH had be in financial ruins throughout 2008 and after both the firing of head booker Gabe Sapolsky in spring of 08 and replacement booker Adam Pearce's subsequant "sabatouge" of the promotion according to many wrestlers in the promotion, many saw the promotion as on it's last legs. As a part of the deal, eWr gained a select number of ROH talent and the company's assets. The deal rejuvenated eWr in the eyes of many. Over the first few months of 2009, eWr intergrated ROH Titles with eWr titles and quickly enough all was well.</p><p> </p><p> The sale of ROH would also be a major threefold willfall for the promotion. Calvin Ayre worked on a major groundbreaking deal which directly influenced WWE's WrestleMania XXV event as Ayre signed the iconic Ric Flair as the President of eWr, literly making Flair the vice president of the promotion off screen and president on screen. Flair was now only second to the owners in terms of power. The signing of Flair led to eWr "BattleGround" returning to air, starting in April on FX Networks. And in it's greatest coup to date, on the debut episode on FX, eWr debuted it's newest talent, straight from TNA and refusing an all but guarenteed WWE contract, Christian Cage. The additions of Flair and Cage and the new and bigger audience of the FX show has put eWr back into the position it wants to be in as the promotion enters the summer of 2009.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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