New European Championship Wrestling
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| Acronym | NECW |
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| Founded | 2009 |
| Style | Professional wrestling |
| Headquarters | Heßdorf |
| Founder(s) | Alex Wright |
| Owner(s) | Alex Wright |
The New European Championship Wrestling (NEW) is a wrestling-league which was founded in Germany in 2009. It resides in the frankonian village of Heßdorf near Erlangen. Founder is Alex Wright, well known as an international successful wrestler himself and owner of the wrestling training centre "The Wright Stuff - Pro Wrestling School". NEW is the only league in Germany with its own sports and training hall, called N.E.W. HotSpot. It is specially equipped for all different kind of matches. NEW events take place on a monthly base, each with a different topic or match stipulations.
In 2009 NEW was founded by Alex Wright, former WCW World Cruiserweight Champion, WCW World TV Champion and WCW World Tag Team Champion. NEW is a professional platform for trainees of his training centre "The Wright Stuff", rookies as well as internationally experienced and established wrestlers. The first professional event was "Hoch Explosiv" on October 3, 2009 and it was sold out with around 500 spectators. The monthly events take place in the hall N.E.W. HotSpot. Most of them with recurring topics and names like Hoch Explosive, EXTREME, Deadline etc. The NEW regularly records their events and broadcasts them on Vimeo on demand, YouTube as well as publishes them on DVD. Since 3 June 2016, the NEW shows are also broadcast on TV Fightbox HD.
Alex Wright, second generation wrestler, founded the training centre "The Wrigt Stuff" - Pro Wrestling School in 2007. Many of his trainees had their in ring debut in the NEW and now compete on regular basis in other international leagues, like Adrien Severe who already had a WWE-tryout in the cruiserweight classic in 2016 as Fabian Aichner. Others are Hakem Wakuur, Juvenile X, T-K-O and V.I.P. The training centre "The Wright stuff" is known for regular training, high-impact-seminars at weekends and special training sessions in singles session and group-training. The wrestling school offers 2 wrestling rings.
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