Xtreme Latin American Wrestling
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| Acronym | X-LAW |
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| Founded | 2001 |
| Style |
Professional wrestling Hardcore wrestling Lucha libre Shoot |
| Headquarters | Mexico City |
| Founder(s) | Ernesto Ocampo |
| Owner(s) | Ernesto Ocampo |
Xtreme Latin American Wrestling (XLAW or X-LAW) is a lucha libre professional wrestling promotion based in Mexico, founded in 2001 by wrestling journalist Ernesto Ocampo. The promotion is credited to be the first Hardcore wrestling company in Mexico.
The promotion began in an attempt to show the Mexican fans the wrestling style that was practiced during the nineties in foreign promotions like FMW and ECW.
The promotion was founded in 2001 and closed in 2005. However, the promotion was restarted in 2009.
In 2000, Ocampo, who was then working for the magazine Luchas 2000, had a meeting with Antonio Peña, the owner of AAA, to show him a project to form a hardcore stable within the company, knowing that Paul Heyman had offered Peña the opportunity to acquire shares of ECW (which at that time was in financial troubles), which would have given the rights to create an "ECW Mexico" group in AAA.
Given the refusal of Peña, Ocampo and fellow journalist Manuel Flores began to work on creating their own promotion, raising money for months. In December 2000, both traveled to Tijuana to signing several luchadores with experience in hardcore wrestling, like Damian 666, Halloween and Nicho el Millonario. The venue chosen to debut the new promotion was El Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, a bullring that for more than two decades host the shows of UWA.
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