History of Backyard Wrestling in Our Area
Backyard Wrestling in our area started back in 2001 when 2 best friends, Shawn (Greatness) & Aaron, started the HWL, Hardcore Wrestling League. The HWL went on ran until the end of 2006. The HWL was always looking for new wrestlers with talent. Along the way they found some people that could make it and other people that could not. Shawn & Aaron became bitter enemies after Aaron tried to say that he made up the HWL all on his own. And after Aaron gave Adam partial ownership of the HWL instead of Shawn. They had a feud which lasted for years. They tried to put their differences aside and be partners for a couple of weeks but it did not work out. They had some classic matches, some match types that only these two had. For example, Dog Kennel match, I Quit match, Roof Top Death match. Aaron beat Shawn in all 3 of these matches. The best had to have been the roof top death match. The object of the match was to climb to the top of the roof and grab the belt that was hanging above it. Well, the match was a classic. Shawn threw Aaron off the roof onto a car and instead of winning he continued the match. Aaron wound up winning after Shawn went to jump off the roof onto Aaron and Shawn went right threw the roof. Aaron then set a ladder up to climb on top of the roof, grabed the belt and won the match. Shawn suffered a concusion during that match. Another classic was the I Quit match. When Shawn was knocked out cold Aaron moved Shawn's lips with his hands and he whispered "I Quit" making it look like Shawn said it. Aaron also came up with the dog kennel match win when he slammed Shawn on the thumbtacs. Shawn came back after the roof top deathmatch and his concusion, the next week, and he threw Aaron on a a peice of drywall, with thumbtacs on it, and it was lit on fire. He beat Aaron and won the Hardcore Title. Aaron suffered severe burns because of that.
Jr. (now CD Catstrophy) who also is the cousin of Shawn (Greatness) left the HWL and started up the EHW with his friend Tommy Floyd. Well, this is when Shawn and Aaron went back on the same path. Aaron was to team up with Shawn to take on Jr. and Tom at the Battle for the Bussiness Supercard. The losing fed. had to shut down. Well, when Aaron was suppose to announce that it will be him and Shawn vs Jr. and Tom, there was a surprise. Aaron picked Adam to be his tag partner instead of Shawn. Well that ticked Shawn off. The HWL went on to beat the EHW and Jr. turned on Tom and went back to the HWL. Well Tom wanted to join the HWL but Jr. talked Aaron into not letting him join. Shawn was for Tom joining the HWL but Aaron and Adam had final say and voted no towards it. Well this is when Shawn came up with an idea to shut down the HWL and start up the APW without Aaron. There was a period back in 2005 when Aaron faked a major concusion and pretended to forget who he was. Well he started to act like everybody else until he came out and told Shawn he was just playing mind games with him. After Aaron and Adam agreed not to let Tom Floyd in the HWL Shawn took the tapes and turned them into to a mental hospital.
After Aaron was gone Shawn shut down the HWL and started his own fed. from scratch, the APW. Shawn brought his cousin Jr. (now CD Catstrophy) and the old EHW superstars and some new guys over to his APW. Well, the APW lasted for only a year. Tom and Jr. had a big time rivalry because Tom was still pissed that Jr. talked Aaron into not letting him join the HWL. Well, Shawn teamed up with Jr. because they are family, and blood is thicker than water. Jr. and Shawn went threw a stage when they became emo, and called them selves Emo X. Well they took out almost everybody. Exspecailly former HWL superstar Bionic Byron (who is now known as Dark X in the HCW). Byron and Shawn had a rivalry from the end of the HWL when they had a neo-thumbtac match. It is basically a 2 out of 3 falls match except every time you get pinned for a 3 count you get a tumbtac shoved in your back. Well Byron won that match against Shawn which was Byron's first ever win in backyard wrestling. Well Byron went on to the APW's biggest (and last) supercard, Pursuit to the Top, and faced Jr. for the APW Title in a Pursuit to the Top match, a match where they had to climb a tree to grab the belt and win (without using anything to help them get up the tree.) Well Jr. won that match and won the title off of Byron but lost it weeks later at the last APW show to Kunny.
Well now APW superstars and new superstars make up the HCW so everybody could follow us online here on our website. The season runs from April until October and each month you can see a Supercard (like a ppv) on our Supercard page and each week during our season you can watch the HCW Weekly Show on the Weekly Show page. I hope you enjoyed this backyard wrestling history lesson. Enjoy the HCW!!!!!!!!!!!
The first season of hcw saw everything. It had awsome matches, incredible feuds, major shocks, and some incredible upsets. First of all Aaron made his return after a long time away. He came back to make Shawn Greatness's life a living hell. Both men went at each other for monthes battling each other in hardcore matches, trunk matches and the hwl vs hcw elimination match but in the end the biggest shock was when Aaron turned on the hwl and started above u with Shawn Greatness and Tommy Floyd. Also some other suprises were when Shawn made himeslf the 1st hcw champ but lost it to CD Catastrophe a week later, how far noggle rose in his first ever year, and the biggest suprise of all when Krazy Waka Aaron and Shawn greatness all announced there retirement from bakcyard wrestling. In its 1st season hcw did not disappoint on the exciting matches like the pursuit to the top match, neo thumbtac match with Oprea and Dark X, and the iron man match with CD and Aaron among some of the great matches. Also in the matches the OMG factor was turned up. You can not forget CD givng Shawn the blowout off of a roof, Dark X getting light into a burning inferno by Shawn, and Dark X beating Oprea with a broken ankle. The 1st season of hcw saw a lot but what people are asking now is what the future is. At the end of pursuit to the top so many questions were left unanswered. So you will have to wait and watch next year
TITLE HISTORY
1.Shawn Greatness
2.CD Catastrophe
3.Shawn Greatness
4.Aaron Awsome
5.Noggle
6.Tom Floyd