Global Backyard Wrestling Alliance
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| Global Backyard Wrestling Alliance | |
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| Acronym | GBYWA |
| Established | November 25, 2009 |
| Creators | Rad Hazard & Cam |
| Board of Directors | The BOD consists of all empowered officials (Commissioner/General Manager/etc) within the federations of the alliance |
| Formerly | Global Backyard Wrestling Nation |
| Advertising | [1] [2] |
| Inducted Federations | Freelance Wrestling Alliance Jersey Wrestling All-Stars Suicidal Wrestling Clash Collision Championship Wrestling Candlewood Backyard Wrestling Elite Wrestling Association 2KW Oakdale Wrestling Federation Anything Goes Wrestling TKO War Zone Wrestling Non Stop Wrestling Iconic Wrestling Circuit Altitude Backyard Wrestling Red Star Wrestling Southern Championship Wrestling Bethlehem Xtreme Wrestling Adrenaline Wrestling Foundation Extreme Wrestling Showdown Total Wrestling Fanatics Backyard Kamikaze Wrestling Justified Revolution Wrestling New Total Destruction Wrestling Head Bangers Brawl Universal Championship Wrestling Renegade Wrestling Alliance NEW ERA REVIVAL |
| Defunct federations | Ronus Championship Wrestling Lewiston Wrestling Federation Alpha Semi Pro Wrestling Bridgeview Wrestling Association Backyard Wrestling Entertainment Indiana Championship Wrestling |
| External links | [3] [4] |
Global Backyard Wrestling Alliance (GBYWA) is a globally outreaching backyard wrestling alliance & social community created by Rad Hazard & Cam in 2009.
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History
Before the Alliance
In the summer of 2008, The Shooter entered a promo into the GBYWN 2008 promo challenge, declaring himself the very first GBYWN World Heavyweight Champion, a claim that was soon sanctioned by GBYWN forum owner Cam, effectively creating the first championship in the alliance (GBYWN would not officially declare itself an alliance until late 2008-early 2008 when more titles were sanctioned. On December 7, 2009, Battle Born Wrestling was formed by Rad Hazard, a known internet personality from his web show [[Backyard Wrestlign Weekly] , beginning another major backyard wrestling alliance for the community to choose from. Over the course of 2009, GBYWN acted as a mainstream BYW alliance while BBW showcased lesser known federations and talent. This would continue until the federations began to jump ship & join both alliances in order to reach maximum exposure, initiating the idea to shut both alliances down and start anew, utilizing the entire community under one unified banner.
Global Backyard Wrestling Nation (2009-2011)
GBYWN, had from the community aspect, established themselves as a global alliance and as did the territorial outstretched Battle Born Wrestling body of federations which Chairman Rad Hazard operated. In November 2009, after a conception had been within talks between Cam and Hazard (Hazard initially started the negotiations in October), Hazard exclusively broke the news on the first episode of his reincarnated Backyard Wrestling Weekly series that both alliances would go defunct in order to create a new alliance, also known as the GBYWN (GBYWNation)in order to keep the change simple for it's followers. As a result, a new alliance was made with Cam as president and Rad Hazard as chairman.
Federations soon began being inducting into the GBYWNation alliance on Backyard Wrestling Weekly. Over a course of episodes for the first time ever, the GBYWN End Year Awards (2009) was featured in a media presentation. The forum itself was converted to the new name only shortly, however, as Cam reverted the community back to "Global Backyard Wrestling News" based partly on Hazard himself wanting the alliance differentiated from the community as well as Cam's decision. As a result, it was made that "Global Backyard Wrestling Nation" refer to the alliance side of the agreement.
By late 2010, Hazard had effectively established himself as the "Chairman of the Board of Directors" of the GBYWNation federation alliance which reached lengths in causing some confusion between the two GBYWN's (the alliance and the forum). Rad sanctioned over 30 GBYWN championships across the Nation, and while a wildly fun idea in theory, became a hindrance abroad as many titles lacked in defenses and overall prestige in the eye of it's followers. Cam was unaware of these changes as he had taken a brief hiatus from which, upon his return, disapproved of. When negotiations were brought to a deadlock between the President & Chairman, both parties agreed to once again utilize two alliances with Cam reactivating the GBYWNews brand while Rad continued his GBYWNation brand under a new name, the Global Backyard Wrestling Alliance (GBYWA), in order to differentiate the brand's initials from one another.
Global Backyard Wrestling Alliance (20011-present)
When negotiations were brought to a deadlock between the President & Chairman, both parties agreed to once again utilize two alliances with Cam reactivating the GBYWNews brand while Rad continued his GBYWNation brand under a new name, the Global Backyard Wrestling Alliance (GBYWA), in order to differentiate the brand's initials from one another. Hazard would also begin to recognize a completely different map of regions and in order to differentiate the titles both alliance's sanctioned. Both alliances recognize the same past lineage in their championship up until this point where the titles utilized by both entities were split in two. These changes were officially recognized on January 1st, 2011 & were presented in full in the first 2011 episode of Backyard Wrestling Weekly.
GBYWNation Inducted Alliance
| The Global Backyard Wrestling Nation logo. |
The GBYWA as operated by Rad Hazard. Federations are inducted on webcast Backyard Wrestling Weekly which allows a federation to be frequently featured on the show.
- Bridgeview Wrestling Association/FWA - Illinois - Inducted on 11/25/09
- Jersey Wrestling Allstars - New Jersey - Inducted on 12/2/09
- Indiana Championship Wrestling - Indiana - Inducted on 12/9/09
- Suicidal Wrestling Clash - Pennsylvania - Inducted on12/16/09
- Collision Championship Wrestling - Indiana - Inducted on 12/23/09
- Candlewood Backyard Wrestling - Ohio - Inducted on 12/27/09
- Elite Wrestling Association - New Jersey - Inducted on 1/20/10
- 2KW - New York - Inducted on 1/27/10
- Lewiston Wrestling Federation - Idaho - Inducted on 2/03/10
- Oakdale Wrestling Federation - Inducted on 2/10/10
- Ronus' Championship Wrestling - Wisconsin - Inducted on 2/17/10
- Australian Wrestling Grand Prix - Australia - Inducted on 2/23/10
- Anything Goes Wrestling - United Kingdom - Inducted on 3/03/10
- Alpha Semi Pro Wrestling - Florida - Inducted on 3/10/10
- TKO Wrestling - Florida - Inducted on 3/17/10
- War Zone Wrestling - New York - Inducted on 3/13/10
- Non Stop Wrestling - New York - Inducted on 3/20/10
- Iconic Wrestling Circuit - Connecticut - Inducted on 3/27/10
- Altitude Backyard Wrestling - Colorado - Inducted on 3/27/10
- Red Star Wrestling - England - Inducted on 4/4/10
- South Carolina BackYard Wrestling Alliance - South Carolina - Inducted on 4/18/10
- Bethlehem Xtreme Wrestling - Pennsylvania - Inducted 5/2/10
- Adrenaline Wrestling Foundation - Georgia - Inducted 5/5/10
- Backyard Wrestling Entertainment - Louisiana - Inducted 4/28/10
- Extreme Showdown Wrestling - Texas - Inducted 5/26/10
- Total Wrestling Fanatics - New Jersey - Inducted 5/26/10
- Backyard Kamikaze Wrestling - New York - Inducted 5/29/10
- Justified Revolution Wrestling - New York - Inducted 6/5/10
- New Total Destruction Wrestling - Indiana - Inducted 6/29/10
- Head Bangers Brawl - New Jersey - Inducted 07/28/10
- Universal Championship Wrestling - New York - 8/1/10
- Renegade Wrestling Alliance - Rhode Island - 9/4/10
- NEW ERA - Northeast - N/A
- REVIVAL - Mid-west - N/A
Hall of Fame
- Class of 2009
- Tek - Inducted December 2009
- Class of 2010
- Marcus Centofante - Inducted January 2010
- Lee Andrews - Inducted February 2010
- Paul Kunkle - Inducted May 2010
Championships
- Any territorial championship is required to be defended and contested in not only the federation the holder wrestles for, but also in other federations in the geographical territory of regions the title is bound to. National and world championships are not expected or required to be defended or contested in full capacity of its boundaries but are still the top championships that represent the alliance.
Defunct championships
- GBYWN North American Heavyweight Championship
- GBYWN North American X-Division Championship
- GBYWN Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship
- GBYWN Great Lakes Tag Team Championship
- GBYWN Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship
- GBYWN Midwest X-Division Championship
- GBYWN Mid South Heavyweight Championship
- GBYWN Mid South Atlantic Heavyweight Championship
- GBYWN South Atlantic Heavyweight Championship
- GBYWN Deathmatch Championship
- GBYWN Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship
