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 | 98 |
| Current status | Active |
| External links | GBYWN Website |
Global Backyard Wrestling News (GBYWN) once known as Backyard Wrestling News (BYWN) is a globally-appealing, 24/7-running, backyard wrestling social, media-sharing database 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.
GBYWN stemmed following numberous pro wrestling-related news websites owned by Cam who was a solid Total Non-stop Action Wrestling fan, and after The Frank of BWA led his fascinations into backyard wrestling that would fuel Cam to creat what is globally (individually known by people of various parts of the world) known today as GBYWN. With few obstacles and criticism, Cam socially impacted the backyard wrestling world congregating numerous leagues varying in style and quality in which align with the community to receive full accessibility to promotional rights in posting and sharing video and other media (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
 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 The Frank of BWA 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, giving Tripod a try that met his disinterest, 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 New Age Backyard Wrestling (NABA), that promoted several leagues including EWA, CWA, RHW and more, inspiring Kozone to form his own federation with his brother City Boy and friend, Wild Wyatt known as Brutal Backyard Wrestling. At the closure of 500wrestling, in September, Kozone was prompted to adapt a nickname now well-known as Cam, going under ownership of said biggest WWE/TNA news site ever on freewebs, 123pin.
Backyard Wrestling News would be incorporated as a subsite as part of 123pin that exceeded 123pin before Cam closed it to fulfill his duties managing BYWN. With YouTube and various website promoting, development, second-by-second update and the introduction of features such as "Wrestler of the Week", "Federation of the Week", "Federation of the Month", "Show of the Month", "GBYWN Power 25", and "GBYWN Head To Head", Cam gained more viewers to what was at one time was a low-visited site which became the fastest growing community Cam ever devised.
Inevitably, criticism followed GBYWN, while and after altering from Backyard Wrestling News to Global Backyard Wrestling News, as few disputed and accused the site of being of "unprofessional nature", but Cam stayed loyal to GBYWN, competing with other sites like Breakfall.net and The Backyard Wrestling Link and achieved what is seen today as the best known, daily visited, and active backyard wrestling community worldwide.
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 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
- Championship Wrestling Association (CWA) - ended in October 2008
- Carolina Xtreme Wrestling (CXW) - owned by Cam - ended in October 2008
- Kick Ass Wrestling (KAW) - ended in Summer 2008
- KKW - ended in October 2008
- Pure Wrestling Federation (PWF) - ended in November 2008 for Pure Ontario Wrestling
- Round Lake Syndicate Wrestling (RLSW) - ended in November 2008; intending to do supershows only
Below is a list of federations that dissociated themselves or suddenly left GBYWN:
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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