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Windy City Pro Wrestling

Windy City Pro Wrestling
AcronymWCPW
FoundedJanuary 30, 1988 (1988-01-30)
StyleAmerican wrestling
Headquarters
  • Chicago, Illinois (1988–2010)
  • DeKalb, Illinois (2015–present)
Founder(s)Sam DeCero
Owner(s)
  • Sam DeCero
    (1988–2010)
  • James K. Duck (2015–present)
FormerlyWindy City Wrestling
Websiteofficialwcpw.com Edit this at Wikidata

Windy City Pro Wrestling is an American regional professional wrestling promotion originally based in Chicago, Illinois. Established as Windy City Wrestling by retired wrestler Sam DeCero in 1988, the promotion was one of several major regional territories in the Midwest, along with Dick the Bruiser's World Wrestling Association, during the late 1980s and among the oldest independent organizations in the United States until its last promoted show in December 2010.

In November 2015, the expired WCPW trademark was re-registered by former Windy City Pro Wrestling wrestler James K. Duck.[1][2]

History

1980s

After retiring from professional wrestling due to a back injury, Sam DeCero purchased a 95th street garage on Chicago's South Side and began training local wrestlers, advertising as far as Hammond, Indiana. With Mike Gratchner, a former promoter and wrestling photographer, DeCero decided to establish his own promotion. Within a year, he had managed to secure investors including relatives, friends and co-workers and held the promotions first event at a South Side nightspot featuring Steve Regal against Paul Christy in the main event on January 30, 1988. The event, which was attended by 160 people, was successful, and soon the promotion began holding events in similar venues offering to hold cards ranging from $3,500 to $9,500.

DeCero soon began running televised wrestling events with then-22-year-old Paul Heyman,[3] who was also working for Southeastern promotions Southern Championship Wrestling and the Continental Wrestling Federation.[4] Their events were held at DaVinci Manor nightclub (originally Balaban and Katz's Manor Theater) and the International Amphitheater,[5] which later aired on WMBD-TV. During the summer, saw serious losses due to poor attendance, including losing $10,000 at a show in Rockford, Illinois and between $12,000–13,000 at the International Amphitheater. In September, despite drawing a large crowd at a card featuring Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy and Bam Bam Bigalow in the main event, the promotion still lost money.[6]

Within four years, the promotion operated two training facilities and had a weekly half-hour television show airing on SportsChannel. They also participated in several fundraisers for charity organizations including Toys for Tots, Muscular Dystrophy, Maryville City for Youth and the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless.[7][8]

During the late 1980s, the promotion featured many popular wrestlers of the era including Dick Murdoch, Shigeri Akabane, Dennis Condrey,[9] Steve Regal,[10] and George Ringo, who acted as honorary commissioner. Prior to his death in Puerto Rico, Bruiser Brody had been scheduled to face Nord the Barbarian at the International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois on August 12, 1988. Other mainstays included "Mean" Mike Anthony,[11] Trevor Blanchard,[12] Rockin' Randy, Tony Montana,[13] and The Power Twins (Larry & David Sontag).

1990s

The annual Battle of the Belts supercard was aired on SportsChannel on May 22, 1993,[14] and two years later, it presented Sailor Art Thomas a "Lifetime Service to Sport Award" on May 16, 1995.[15] The promotion also began holding events in venues outside the Chicago-area such the Hammond Civic Center in Hammond, Indiana and Hempstead High School in Dubuque, Iowa in February 1996.[16] In September, the promotion initiated in a nine-month legal dispute with Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling regarding trademark infringement over the use of the WCW acronym. The matter was settled out of court and in late 1997, the promotion was renamed Windy City Pro Wrestling (WCPW).[17]

In August 1999, the promotion began broadcasting live events via the internet through the website LiveOnTheNet.com as part of its Sunday afternoon sports lineup featuring Mike Anthony, "Tenacious" Terry Allen, Ripper Manson, Stone Manson, Steve Boz, Willie "Da Bomb" Richardson, Sgt. Storm, The Outfit, Lips Manson and Greg "The Hammer" Valentine.

2000s

The promotion managed to survive during the decade, and due in part to its wrestling school and televised events in the Chicago-area, several light heavyweight wrestlers such as Ace Steel,[18] Sosay,[19] Kevin Quinn,[20] Christopher Daniels,[21] "Tenacious" Terry Allen, Steve Boz, Brandon Bishop, Vic Capri, and Jayson Reign emerged from the promotion during the late 1990s and early 2000s. During the last several years, independent wrestlers such as Colt Cabana, Abyss and Austin Aries among others have made appearances in the promotion as have WWF veterans King Kong Bundy, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine,[22] and Jerry "The King" Lawler.

On May 20, 2000, WCPW promoted the Largest Battle Royal in History at that time. Battle of the Belts 2000, an event held in The Hammond Civic Center in front of 2500 fans, was an event main evented by a 3 ring, 120 person Battle Royal to crown the first-ever WCPW Battle Royal Champion.[23] Bigtime won the Championship that night in what is still the largest championship match in all of pro wrestling history.

The promotion remained popular with Chicago wrestling fans favoring its "old school" wrestling approach unlike "sports entertainment" based promotions such as the World Wrestling Federation,[24] and it began competing with rival promotions such as All American Wrestling, Independent Wrestling Association Midsouth and AWA Slam.[25] Working with its affiliate organization Urban American Professional Wrestling in Chicago's inner-city areas in recent years,[26][27] its South Side wrestling school was featured on Insomniac with Dave Attell in 2002.[28]

In 2001, DeCero hired wrestler James "Bigtime" Duck to create the main event of Battle of the Belts 2001. Duck presented the Stacked Ring Battle Royale, a match dubbed "The Badder, Ladder, Royale". The match was held in front of 1900 fans and featured two rings side by side arranged like a staircase. The first ring was a standard wrestling ring. The second ring stood twice as tall as the first and had a ladder in it. The rules had 40 participants start in the lower ring and try to climb into the taller ring to attempt to set up the ladder to climb it and claim the Battle Royal Championship Belt suspended 50 feet in the air.

In 2004, with over 1,000 in attendance at Morton College in Cicero for their supercard Battle of the Belts 16 grossing over $15,000, the following year Battle of the Belts 17 was held at the Hammond Civic Center on May 17, 2005; shortly before signing with World Wrestling Entertainment, Rob Van Dam had previously headlined a WCPW event against League Champion "Tenacious" Terry Allen at the building on May 26, 2001 attended by 2,000 fans.[29][30] Reduced revenue as a result of losing talent to major promotions led to the closure of WCPW's South Side Production Studio. WCPW attempted to revive business by hiring Hulk Hogan to appear at an autograph signing in 2009 and promoting a supershow at Toyota Park in Bridgeview, Illinois in conjunction.[31] While the event was a moderate success, it was not enough to turn the company around and in December 2010, WCPW ran its last event with DeCero as owner.

2010s

In November 2015, James Duck re-registered the name WCPW as a trademark and began plans for a relaunch. In May 2016, a wrestling company based in the United Kingdom began using the WCPW name for their promotion, delaying the launch. The UK-based promotion changed their name in 2017.[2] In 2018, the first match for this new WCPW was held in Chicago. Later events have since been hosted in DeKalb, Illinois.[32]

Wrestlers

DeCero operated a well-regarded wrestling school and helped train and/or promote new wrestlers,[33] such as

Championships

Retired, defunct, and inactive championships

Championship Notes
WCPW League Championship The major single title of WCPW. It was established in 1993, when the promotion's weight class divisions were created, and continued to be defended until 2010.[38]
WCPW Heavyweight Championship The heavyweight title of WCPW. It was established in 1988 and continued to be defended within the promotion until 2010. The title was served as the promotion's top singles championship before the creation of the League Championship in 1993.[38]
WCPW Middleweight Championship The middleweight title of WCPW. The title was established in 1991 and continued to be defended until 2010.[38]
WCPW Lightweight Championship The cruiserweight title of WCPW. It was established in 1991 and continued to be defended until 2010.[38]
WCPW Ladies Championship The women's title of WCPW. It was established in 1988 and continued to be defended until 2010.[38]
WCPW Tag Team Championship The tag team title of WCPW. It was established in 1988 and continued to be defended until 2010.[38]
WCPW 6-Man Tag Team Championship The 6-Man tag team title of WCPW. It was established in 1997 and continued to be defended until 2010.[38]
WCPW Battle Royal Championship The battle royal title of WCPW. It was established in 2000 and continued to be defended within the promotion until 2010.
WCPW Bare Knuckles Championship The title was established in 1999 and defended until 2008.
WCPW Midget Championship The title was established in 1988 and continued to be defended until 2001.

Lee Sanders Memorial Tournament winners

Between 2001 and 2010, Windy City Pro Wrestling hosted an open-invitational tournament, the "Lee Sanders Memorial Cup", as part of an annual tribute to longtime WCPW mainstay Lee Sanders, who wrestled as Staff Sgt. Storm, in which any independent wrestler throughout the U.S. was eligible to enter.

Year Name Date Location Notes
2001 Terry Allen March 10, 2001 Chicago, Illinois
2002 Germel "GQ" Quinn March 16, 2002 Chicago, Illinois GQ also won the UAPW Heavyweight Championship.
2003 Baltazar March 15, 2003 Chicago, Illinois
2004 Mike Anthony March 13, 2004 Chicago, Illinois
2005 Cassius XL March 12, 2005 Chicago, Illinois Cassius also won the WCPW Middleweight Championship.
2006 Omega March 11, 2006 Chicago, Illinois This would be his last match with the company due to injuries
2007 Mitch Blake March 10, 2007 Chicago, Illinois
2008 Steve Boz March 8, 2008 Chicago, Illinois The tournament final was a four-way match also involving Acid Jaz, Derik Durton, and Sean Mulligan.
2009 Chris Collins March 14, 2009 Chicago, Illinois Collins was awarded the vacant WCPW Middleweight Championship.
2010 V-Factor March 27, 2010 Chicago, Illinois

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