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Revision as of 22:59, 1 March 2009
Ringside Wrestling (rW) is a regional professional wrestling company currently touring the New England states in the United States of America. rW is owned and operated by Ringside Entertainment, LLC, with John Mark Blackburn as the current Chairman of the Board. Ringside Entertainment, LLC is a combination of Ringside, LLC and the Crowley Entertainment Group. The two companies merged in June of 2008 to form Ringside Entertainment, LLC.
rW currently broadcasts one weekly show taped in the Ringside Arena with a live audience which airs on the popular website; YouTube. A television deal is currently being worked out with the sports and outdoors channel, Versus.
rW has two active championships at this current time. They are the Ringside Championship and the Commonwealth Championship. The Fellowship Championship is currently inactive although the company has stated their intent to reinstate this division at some point in 2009.
History
Ringside Wrestling is a wrestling promotion owned by the Ringside, LLC and ran by John Mark Blackburn. The company began in February of 2008 and its base of operations was in Boston, Massachusetts. Ringside Wrestling aired its weekly broadcast, Tradition, on YouTube. These broadcasts were taped in local high school gymnasiums. As popularity of Ringside Wrestling began to grow, Tradition’s taping locations were moved from high school gyms to college and university arenas around the New England states.
As Ringside Wrestling began to fill the arenas of the colleges and universities of the New England states, officials knew they needed to do something to make their broadcasts and live shows more exciting for the fans. Ringside, LLC began a partnership with the Crowley Entertainment Group, a production company out of Boston. The partnership improved Ringside Wrestling’s production value and eventually led to the Ringside, LLC acquisition of the Crowley Entertainment Group.
On September 10th, Ringside Wrestling began airing Tradition to a nationwide audience on the Versus television network from the larger arenas like Madison Square Garden. Ringside Wrestling was given an opportunity to air the broadcast after Versus received high ratings from a trial broadcast entitled No Giving Up, which featured Steven Holt taking on Myles Jake in the Main Event.
Economic hardships began to fall on Ringside, LLC. Many of the top named talents began having to leave the company due to Ringside, LLC’s inability to afford the contracts the talent desired. Blackburn publically came out and expressed to the fans the situation that the company was in. Rumors of layoffs began to pop up that would include both talent and staff.
On November 3rd, 2008, it was announced that Ringside, LLC headquarters would be making a move from Boston to the new Ringside Complex on Staten Island in New York City. Ringside purchased an building almost thirty thousand square feet and turned it into an arena to seat sixty five hundred people. They also purchased a three story office tower. The Ringside Arena along with the Ringside Tower, make up the Ringside Complex.
After a couple of months of broadcasting on Versus, ratings began to drop for Tradition, and the arenas were not selling out of tickets like they were in the past, Versus finally made the decision to end the ‘season’ of Tradition on Ringside on November 19th, 2008, after Ringside Wrestling aired their super card, REVIVAL.
Champions
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Current Roster
Singles Competitors
Fellowship Division
- Currently inactive
Staff
Board of Directors
- Ringside Wrestling President John Mark Blackburn
- Ringside Wrestling Shareholder Robert Maxwell
Production Staff
- Lance Fremont - Head of Security
- Miggy Hernandez - Head of Environmental Services
- Kazuyoshi Nakamura - Global Talent Scout
- Austin Andrews - Online Content Manager
- Chuck Thompson - Broadcast Announcer
- Howard Sanford - Broadcast Announcer
- Nicole Conway - Ring Announcer
- Kayla Brown - Backstage Interviewer
- Silas Eneas - Backstage Interviewer
- Sam Worth - Senior Referee
- Joe Stevenson - Referee
- Brian Cannon - Road Agent
- Jinsei Nakamura - Road Agent