Global Backyard Wrestling News
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| Global Backyard Wrestling News | |
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| Details | |
| Acronym | GBYWN |
| Establishment | 2006 |
| Creator | Cam |
| Key People | Cam (Owner) D.Miller (Scout Chief) |
| Type of site | Free hosting forum |
| Formerly | Backyard Wrestling News |
| Advertising | YouTube |
| Federations under banner | 102 |
| Current status | Active |
| External links | GBYWN Website |
Global Backyard Wrestling News (GBYWN) formerly known as Backyard Wrestling News (BYWN) is a globally-individually-known, backyard wrestling social, media-sharing community devised and owned by 16-year-old Cam (also known as Shawn Kozone) in 2006, who ran his own federation Carolina Xtreme Wrestling that folded in October 2008.
The community stemmed after numerous closed pro wrestling-related news websites owned by Cam and the motivational influence from The Frank of Backyard Wrestling Association, who managed his own backyard wrestling site, National New Age Alliance. Cam became fuelled to establish globally renowned (or individually known internationally) GBYWN. Despite odds and critics, Cam socially impacted the backyard wrestling world integrating numerous backyard wrestling promotions varying in style and quality in which align with the community to receive full accessibility to promotional rights in sharing their respective backyard wrestling videos, which at once used to be earned through a money system called the "GBYWN Dollars" or with league qualifications and also before the forums were regularly used, Cam would promote videos on the site.
GBYWN has been a consistently altering project since its initial phases which took algorithmic promotion and development to garner further recognition on a once low-visited site. It now currently acquires a GBYWN Scout Chief, D.Miller, and a team of creative personnel to assist in conceiving concepts in improving the community that once existed with a website before fully hosting on its forums. With over 700 registered members, it is generally seen by a handful to be the preeminent backyard wrestling social online territory today against even rival community, Breakfall.net.
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History
Origin
 Photo snapshot of the GBYWN Forum. |
In early 2006, Shawn Kozone (only known by that name then) opened a wrestling site called Wrestlezone 4000 in which did news coverage on professional wrestling companies such as World Wrestling Entertainment and Total Non-stop Action Wrestling before hacked, whilst acknowledging backyard wrestling with no initial interest until Dreadvenom (The Frank) of Backyard Wrestling Association lured his preoccupation into the practice as Kozone only knew of BWA.
In March 2006, after creating a freewebs wrestling site entitled 321wrestling under the slogan "we got two words for you, suck it" borrowing a catchphrase from World Wrestling Entertainment's D-Generation X, while in competition with two of his friends' more successful 365wrestling site on freewebs, Kozone closed his site going on hiatus from freewebs, testing Tripod that met his disapproval, sending him back to freewebs in June to create new wrestling site, 500wresting to allegedly overthrow 365wrestling.
His interest furthered in backyard wrestling at the discovery of backyard wrestling site National New Age Alliance (NNAA) operated by The Frank, that promoted several heard-of internet promotions, inspiring Kozone to form his own federation alongside his brother City Boy and friend, Wild Wyatt known as Brutal Backyard Wrestling (later turning into Carolina Xtreme Wrestling). In September, following the folding of 500wrestling, Kozone was prompted to adapt a nickname into the wrestling community now well-known in the backyard wrestling community as Cam, going under ownership of said biggest WWE and TNA news site ever on freewebs, 123pin.
Shortly, Cam formed a backyard wrestling-oriented freewebs subsite, Backyard Wrestling News, incorporated to 123pin without expectation of exceeding. When the subsite began surpassing the status of his most successful wrestling site, he immediately terminated it for BYWN.
BYWN (2006)
Through rough edges where the site was low-visited, it pushed Cam to develop, constantly update and undergo work of plugging the creation on YouTube and countless freeweb wrestling sites, but most significantly backyard wrestling-based territories attracting a mass deal of mixed-aged personnels and practitioners of the underground sport, who used the Freewebs-feature guestbook for means of communication. Interviews, ranking and competitive community features including "Federation of the Week" and "Federation of the Month" took implementation which assisted to grow interest in BYWN.
Not easily succeeding with a plain, non-professional web network receiving some accusations and criticism of being of "bland and unprofessional nature", BYWN underwent outlook modification for further attractiveness. Changes to BYWN were made, giving it a vivid, virtual home-like tailor-made feeling and look with major courtesy to the BYWN banner atop the page, colorful text and additional rap music themed in the background for a brief point.
The site comprised of ads supporting then-presidential candidate, Barack Obama, embedded videos of backyard wrestling content and other pictures. The emmo was now to join the site and stay participated for promotional advantages as opposed to just solely joining it regulated previously. Subsequently, Cam realized the world-wide (individual) outreach of the community and renamed Backyard Wrestling News as Global Backyard Wrestling News.
GBYWN (2007-present)
GBYWN blossomed with multiple federations under banner and gained abundant fandom and acknowledgement as a result, getting a short url with bigbig.com and becoming a household name in the backyard wrestling world, endlessly promoted on many backyard and internet video sharing sites around the time of a debuting Breakfall.net community that wrote gossip columns to attempt to degrade and ridiculize GBYWN and its operation.
Despite all outside rival communities however, GBYWN continually maintained popularity and proceeded to retain a delectable place by having assembled a creative team to help conceive more fun features: GBYWN Power 25, GBYWN Head To Head (H2H), later "GBYWN Dollars" (used as a money system to reward community participants and enable them to purchase promotion), the GBYWN Backyard Simulation Game, GBYWN Championships, video challenges and soon enough forums that were barely used, and when improved, were also abused by trusted and appointed moderators.
With the usage of forums, it provided a better conversing platform for members and even online gimmicks done by the backyard wrestlers, later incorporating a chatbox called the "GBYWN Shoutbox". Disruptive issues formed when members (which few had "mod powers") felt unjust or cheated out of status in a feature like GBYWN Power 25, which led to immature action taken at the perpetual deletion and sometimes offensively profane abuse of the boards that looked to tarnish GBYWN and drive Cam at the brink of discarding the site. It was also abused due to personal conflicts between Cam and others.
After re-designing and many re-births to the forums, "mod strips" and the discontinuation of most features like GBYWN Power 25 for one, GBYWN revolutionized in another stage of development. To further ease Cam's complications, putting balance between his virtual and real-life responsibilities after the eventual consensual agreement by a majority, the site was dropped only utilizing what would gradually transform into a portal-site forum.
GBYWN has been a continually modified, growing, and improving site holding its visitors and provides a congregation of backyard federations and wrestlers who share media, content and engage in choatbox and sub-forum discussions. Recently, a loyalist and owner of The Backyard Wrestling Station on YouTube, D.Miller, has also recently been delegated under the GBYWN Boards of Directors as the GBYWN Scout Chief to garner leagues into GBYWN association.
With a wide affection for GBYWN among many in the community, it is able to recover and overcome any situations, one fact that continues to unify and strengthen a site known for becoming the fastest growing project Cam ever devised and seen today as the best known, 24/7 visited and active backyard wrestling public social/media group in the world.
Features
GBYWN has utilized a number of features in maintaining a socially-attractive, virtually home-appealing mixed-age-group community filled with backyard wrestlers (and few fans) allowing members to converse, share media and promote themselves. A chat box entitled the “GBYWN Shoutbox”, one of more features and one which was formerly used on its website, is an applied addition to the forums which gives all personnel interactive conversing privileges within the forum community.
Many of other rewarding features incorporated into the community had only precipitated disputes between the backyard wrestlers, who cited some decisions as “unjust” and “inaccurate” leading to its disuse, coupled with the fact that it weighed in heavy on the hands of 16-year-old owner, Cam, who was generally responsible for its updates that required to be alleviated to bring equilibrium between his virtual and real life and his commitments to school and extra curricular activities.
With that, GBYWN retired features such as the GBYWN Power 25 which was a ranking board regarded as a bias system that rewarded backyard wrestlers for victories rather than skill. The “GBYWN Dollars” stood for a money system temporarily implemented to give those representing their leagues who partook in community games, contests and activities such as the GBYWN Backyard Simulation Game eventually dropped, unofficial dollars eligible for purchasing promotion for their federation. Cam’s duties were also lessened at the discontinuation of the GBYWN Weekly and Monthly Awards, prior to abandoning in the use of the main site.
The features still used today are the annually rewarded GBYWN End of the Year Awards, rewarded to a year’s effort and given to the deserving federations. Personalized instant-messenger-conducted interviews are seen in GBYWN and the GBYWN Game Room for all members to forecast pro wrestling pay-per-view matches. The community is always inventing news ideas to better the community and make it that much bigger among the backyard wrestling world.
Controversy
Federations
Below is a list of federations that went defunct while under association with GBYWN:
- AnyTime Wrestling (ATW) - ended in December 2008
- Basement/Backyard Wrestling Association (BWA)
- Championship Wrestling Association (CWA) - ended in October 2008
- Carolina Xtreme Wrestling (CXW) - owned by Cam - ended in October 2008
- Extreme Pro Wrestling (EPW)
- Kick Ass Wrestling (KAW) - ended in Summer 2008
- Kid's Wrestling Alliance (KWA)
- Kid's Wrestling Federation (KWF)
- KKW - ended in October 2008
- New City Wrestling (NCW)
- Over The Top Wrestling (OTT)
- Pure Wrestling Federation (PWF) - ended in November 2008 for Pure Ontario Wrestling
- Rez Wrestling Federation (RWF)
- Round Lake Syndicate Wrestling (RLSW) - ended in November 2008; intending to do supershows only
- Trampoline Wrestling Australia (TWA)
- Total Extreme Wrestling (TEW)
- Trampoline Wrestling Federation (TWF)
- Under Ground Wrestling (UGW)
- Xtreme Jersey Wrestling (XJW) - turned pro as BLADE wrestling
- Xtreme Violent Wrestling (XVW)
Below is a list of federations that dissociated themselves or suddenly left GBYWN whether active or inactive:
- Bash Belt Wrestling (BBW)
- Calumet Wrestling Alliance (CWA) - inactive
- Controversy Chaos Carnage Wrestling Entertainment (3CWE) - still active
- MRL Backyard Wrestling (MRL)
- Steve and Ross Wrestling (SnR) - went defunct in November 2008
Championships
In noting, these championships were randomly created in federations to represent as a GBYWN Champion.
| Championships | Current champion(s) | Date Won | Event |
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Awards
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BYWTube
In recent wake of YouTube's over-effective legal action of removing videos containing copyright infringement, backyard wrestling videos have become victimized as a result for possessing unpermitted borrowed material from various bands and music artists. As a back-up source, Cam created Backyard Wrestling Tube (BYWTube) on a custom social media-sharing network, Ning, that is slowly gaining more members.
