Can-Am Wrestling School
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| Acronym | BCW |
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| Founded | 1993 |
| Headquarters | Windsor, Ontario |
| Founder(s) | Doug Chevalier Scott D'Amore Chuck Fader |
| Sister | Ontario Championship Wrestling |
| Website | http://bordercitywrestling.com/ |
Border City Wrestling (BCW) is an independent professional wrestling promotion based in Windsor, Ontario. Many BCW employees were trained by Scott D'Amore, the owner and booker of BCW, at the Can-Am Wrestling School. The promotion merged with BSE Pro to create Maximum Pro Wrestling in 2010 before returning to running BCW shows in 2012.
Border City Wrestling (BCW) was founded in 1993 by Scott D'Amore, Chuck Fader, and "The Canadian Destroyer" Doug Chevalier. After Chevalier's departure in 1994 and Fader leaving the company due to his diagnosis with throat cancer in 2000, D'Amore became the sole owner of the company. D'Amore closed BCW for several months in 2000, but re-opened the company later that year.
In 2001, BCW began utilizing several Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) employees who had been left without full-time work when ECW declared bankruptcy in April of that year. On August 29, 2001, BCW held the "Mikey Whipwreck Retirement Bash" to honour the retirement of Mikey Whipwreck.
After his cancer went into remission in late 2001, Fader returned to BCW as a publicist and their kayfabe Commissioner. That year, BCW merged with Maximum Pro Wrestling (MXPW) out of Detroit. BCW/MXPW put on a few shows under the MXPW banner, but the merger was short-lived.
After another short hiatus the previous year, BCW returned in Spring 2004 after merging with rival promotion Ontario Championship Wrestling (OCW) and taking on OCW founder James Trepanier as a new partner. After the merger, BCW began running regular smaller scale shows at OCW's former venue in Windsor.
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