CWE Conflict Wrestling Entertainment
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| Ryan Harris | |
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| Statistics | |
| Ring Type | Home made, later followed by Professional |
| Wrestling Style | All Styles |
| Founded | May 2006 |
| Ended | July 2008 |
| Location | Essex, England |
| Crowds | Over 200 per show |
Conflict Wrestling Entertainment run for three calendar years. 2006, 2007, 2008. CWE consistently drew crowds of over 200 people on a monthly basis. Making it arguably the biggest backyard fed in the history of the UK. By 2008 CWE was forced to close due to too many roster members going pro or people retiring from wrestling.
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2006
The XHW era ends
Ryan Harris run a hardcore based backyard fed called XHW, anything goes wrestling. In early 2006 there was an influx of new talent who thought backyard should be about more than violence, but also include a lot of comedy to hook more main stream viewers. This lead to an increased popularity on myspace, and the boys thought they had moved so far forward that they needed a name change and should start marketing via myspace as CWE. The name CWE stands for Conflict Wrestling Entertainment as the boys had many arguments in what direction they should be going in. The people who had been there longer wanted it to be mainly hardcore, the newer guys wanted more comedy. Overtime it can be said CWE was a good mixture of both.
The CWE Era
By May 2006 the boys put on there first live show attracting about 20 people to there backyard, not including the wrestlers themselves. The show was called Live and Unleashed and Buck Buckworth declared XHW to be CWE along with himself boss and champion. On the card Oliver Twisted defeated the 6ft 5 Big Mac in a giant vs peasant match. Harley Griggs became the first hardcore champion defeating Luke Street and Ryan Harris and Buckworth defended the title against Rusheed Patel in a Bangledeshi Camel Rope match.
CWE put on two shows in June 2006 both drawing around 50 people. This Climaxed in Rusheed Patel becoming CWE champion with the fans swarming the make shift ring and embracing Rusheed and chanting his name in unison. It is believed that this is the moment solidified CWEs local popularity.
Through out the summer several of the CWE talent went to work overseas so the promotion was forced to close for a couple of months. During this time CWE turned up at ORW and started a kayfabe war storyline against them. ORW at the time were drawing around the 100 fan mark. In one of these summer shows Ryan Harris vs Luke Street stole the show in an epic hardcore match.
In September CWE shows started back up again drawing around 120 people. The Main event featured a CWE vs ORW 8 Man Tag Team elimination match. Team CWE won with Buck Buckworth being the last man standing, also with some help of outside interference from Parliament. The feud went on into October with about 150 fans going into that show. ORW continued to fued with CWE in the midcard, where as in the main event Rusheed shaved Buckworths head bald. Afterwards Rusheed was swarmed and danced with the 150 fans.
The relationship between CWE and ORW had a real life break down causing the two feds to go there separate ways in November. With each having there own separate fan contingent is was worrying that the crowds would drop but this real life heat just got the crowds even more supportive. At the November show Dismemberance day CWE drew over 250 people an all time attendance record for them. The main event featured Parliament winning the belt from Rusheed. Parliament was CWE first truly hated heel champion.
CWE also put on a hardcore only show later that month which drew around 80 people, this was on a Sunday night however.
December CWE put on a Christmas Spectacular called Seasons Beatings which drew well over 200 people. In the main event Parliament retained against Rusheed due to interference from the Special forces.
2007
February 2007 CWE put on a show called Retribution which drew around 200 people. The fans weathered the freezing temperatures to see the show. The ring was even slightly iced over which caused the wrestlers minor problems. Parliament defeated Buckworth in the main, but was afterwards jumped by Luke Street, Ryan Harris and Rusheed Patel, leading him to declare the three friends have a match against each other the following month.
At Unfinished Business In March 2007, Parliament retained against Simon Travelli, Harris announced he would cash in his money in the bank at the next live show. And CWE announced to the crowd they had purchased a professional ring. The fans were all invited to a celebration after party.
April 2007 CWE put on a show with there pro ring. The show drew the usual big crowd. The main featured Ryan Harris defeating Parliament becoming the CWE champion.
May 2007 CWE had there first anniversary show, Live and Unleashed 2. The show featured an amazing TLC match, along with Ryan Harris retaining in a last man standing match against Parliament. After the match Harris was jumped by Rusheed Patel. Leading them to have a match at the next show.
June 2007 Saturday fight night. Rusheed defeated Ryan Harris to become the first two time CWE champion.
After this show the usual roster contingent went abroad for the summer leaving CWE on there three month break.
October saw CWE Reloaded take place this show featured an amazing fire work display to kick things off, the quarter finals of a cup tournament and a fantastic main event seeing Scott Smith win the hardcore championship in a triple threat against Ryan Harris and Burty Kwango.
November was CWEs first pay gate show at a local social club, the show drew around 150 and featured CWEs first all womens match.
2008
May 2008 CWE put on a one off backyard show. The main featured an old school hardcore encounter between Ryan Harris and Luke Street.
July 2008 CWE put on there first fully pro show in a hall. This show didn’t feature much original talent as many by this point had left wrestling. The show used mainly indie talent and a couple of ex CWE guys.
2009
Ryan Harris has started an old school weekly taping backyard fed called AGW. It can be seen as a spiritual successor to the almighty CWE.
Title Histories
CWE Championship
- Buck Buckworth
- Rusheed Patel (Two Time)
- Parliament
- Ryan Harris
CWE Hardcore Championship
- Harley Griggs (Two Time)
- Luke Street (Three Time)
- Macmanovich (Two Time)
- Simon Travelli
- Scott Smith
CWE Tag Team Titles
