Bridgeview Wrestling Association

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Bridgeview Wrestling Association
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Details
Acronym BWA
Established 2005
Creator(s) Tornado & Blaze
Style Athletic and technical wrestling
Wrestling base 16X16 Base/Professional ring
Location Bridgeview/Justice, Illinois
External links BWA Website
BWA Wrestling on YouTube

Bridgeview Wrestling Association (BWA) is a backyard wrestling federation based in Illinois that formed in 2005, founded by John Steele (Tornado) and Joe Shue (Blaze). BWA is also a member of Battle Born Wrestling and Global Backyard Wrestling News.

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History

BWA started out as a basement wrestling league with no name in about 2003. It was founded my John “Tornado” Steele and Joe “Blaze” Shue and was held in Shue’s basement. Gradually, more people began to join, such as Marc “Scorpion” Denson, Mike “Inferno” Neri and others. They eventually moved all Steele’s yard in the summer of 2005 and began to wrestle on his trampoline. Still with no name, more people began to join. We saw the debuts of Shooter, Sam “Ambition” , James “Extreme” Thomas, and Mike “X” Rodriguez. At this time Shue and Denson were rarely wrestling and John Steele and Shooter took over as co-owners and came up with the name AAW (All-American Wrestling). After some time, AAW moved all operations to Rodriguez’s yard and his trampoline. AAW then celebrated their 1st Year Anniversary, which was main evented by Shooter and X in a Bridgeview Death Match for the AAW Heavyweight Championship. Soon after this, Steele left the company leaving full ownership to Shooter. Then, soon after this, he decided to change the name of AAW, as to not confuse people with the Chicago Independent wrestling promotion of the same name. Then in the summer of 2006 he changed the name to BWA (Bridgeview Wrestling Association). With the new name Shooter new he had to add more people to his roster. With that we saw the addition of people like Kyle “Ace” Watson, Paul “Grande Pablo” Ferfecki, Dominic “Domi” , Alex Ohlson, Brad “ Social Hazard” Shear, Justin “J-Ash” Ashley, Dan “Phoenix” Leja, Dan “ Wicked Hatchet Dan” Rodriguez, Shane “Shane O’Mac” Schmitt and Kyle “ The Impact Player” Freiberg. Then in the summer of 2007 they celebrated their 2nd Anniversary which was main evented by Domi and X for the BWA Heavyweight Championship. Also at the show, there was a performance by an up and coming local band, The Forgotten Saints. BWA then celebrated their 3rd Anniversary titled BWA 3rd Anniversary: A New Era, on July 19th, 2008. It took place at the Justice Park District and was done in a real ring rented from the NWA Underground promotion in southwestern Michigan. The shows main event was Shooter defending his BWA Heavyweight Championship against Domi in a 2 out of 3 falls match. Also on the show saw NWA Underground wrestler, Hardcore Harry wrestle X. As of this writing, BWA is set to do more shows with the NWA Underground and will be having GBYWN supershows.

Global Domination

BWA is currently scheduled to host a GBYWN Supershow on June 5th and 6th, 2009 titled BWA 4th Anniversary: Global Domination. It has shown to have huge support and interest and the federations who plan on participating are DWA, CCW, ICW, MSW, FWA, X2X, HCW, JWA, NECW, and ACW.

Current Roster

Current Champions

Championship: Wrestler: Date Won: Won From: Location: Notes:
BWA Heavyweight Championship
X
July 24, 2009
Domi
Bridgeview, IL
Defeated Domi.
BWA Middleweight Championship
Shooter
October 20, 2009
James Extreme
Bridgeview, IL
Defeated James.
BWA Tag Team Championships
X & Black Wolf
October 6, 2009
Shooter & Domi
Bridgeview, IL
Defeated Knicks and Domi.

Retired Championships

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