Backyard Wrestling Weekly

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Backyard Wrestling Weekly
Format	Backyard wrestling
Created by	Rad Hazard
Starring	Backyard wrestling federations
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	2-7 part (Approx. 10 min. per video)
Broadcast
Broadcast channel	YouTube
No. of Seasons	3
Original Run	October 12, 2008 - Present
External links
Site	YouTube channel

Backyard Wrestling Weekly is a webcast program on YouTube created by Rad Hazard in October 2008, centering around news and media in backyard wrestling on a weekly basis. The program was conceived to bring unity in backyard wrestling.

In November 2009, the program returned from a five month absence with the original host, who had not been seen for several months on the show due to the Faces of Backyard Wrestling Initiative.

History

Origination

Daniel Baldwin, a resident of Las Vegas, Nevada, had taken interest in backyard wrestling having done it before. In September 2008, he began promoting his backyard wrestling community Backyard Wrestling World (BWW) on YouTube video pages and channels and later released advertisements promoting his new weekly backyard wrestling webcast program Backyard Wrestling Weekly (BWW) over two weeks leading to its premiere on October 12, adhering to a sunday schedule.

The initial beliefs from Baldwin were full of skepticism for the show as he felt insufficient interest was garnered from the ads. Backyard Wrestling Weekly debuted as a 10 minute formatted program, though was critical received for its focus on sterreotypical backyard wrestling in clips on a monitor in the background, but was a success for Hazard, attracting the backyard wrestling world. On the second episode, Baldwin altered his name to a backyard wrestling type name known as Rad Hazard and introduced segments including "Top Rope News", "Backyard Wrestling Spotlight" and "Mark Out Moment" to his show sheding news and media on backyard wrestling federations.

Hazard subsequently commented on his status in the third edition thanking viewers and stating that, "at the very beginning, I didn't expect anyone to watch this show. Why would they watch some random guy from Las Vegas who has no matches on YouTube". With the promotional help of Georgia Wrestling Circuit (now Global Wrestling Circuit) (GWC) channel on YouTube, the program gained 1000 plus views a week in combination on both accounts. In November, the show shifted to a two-part program and featured a more cutting-edge intro to the previous up until the end of 2008 before going back to the first.

Progress trouble

In November 2008, Hazard discovered the existence of backyard wrestling federations in his Vegas area. His first Backyard Wrestling Weekly ad had explained that he would wrestle if there were any in his location. BWW started to become posted late on a Wednesday instead of it's usual Sunday time.

Soon, after announcing the formation of a Vegas backyard wrestling alliance, Battle Born Wrestling (BBW) debuted successfully and conflicted with the BWW program schedule that caused time constraints with Hazard (visible with late episodes), ending up with BWW eventually taking a back seat to an upstarting BBW.

Return & Faces of Backyard Wrestling Initative

In February 2009, Rad Hazard addressed to the community that the Backyard Wrestling Weekly schedule was to be resumed beginning on March 1, and repremiered adopting a new 50 minute 5-part format in an office-like settings using the initial opening sequence. However, after the show shortly returned, Hazard realized how time consuming it was for the editorial process of the show between it and BBW.

Moreover, instead of renouncing the program, he presented the Faces of Backyard Wrestling Initiative, a concept designed to feature backyard wrestlers and/or personalities as new hosts during every show with the first host being Cassias Chaos. From then on, the show has been presented on an occasional basis featured on a varying 3-6 part format until June.

Reincarnation

In November 2009, promos were broadcasted promoting the return of the program with the original host Rad Hazard by popular demand and aired its first episode on November 25. On the first return episode, exclusive news was broken that Battle Born Wrestling and Global Backyard Wrestling News merged to create Global Backyard Wrestling Nation. The GBYWN Year End Awards also saw its first media presentation for its forth annual 2009 awards on the show.

Segments on the show include "Backyard Wrestling Recaps", "Federation Spotlight" (a federation induction into the alliance), "Global Backyard Wrestling Nation Rankings" and "Mark Out Moment of the Week" as well as sporadically, often monthly, a GBYWN Hall of Fame Induction.

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