Primetime Central
History
First Member Feds
- PCW - Primetime Championship Wrestling
- DWF - Dream Wrestling Federation
- NTCIW - New True Internet Championship Wrestling
- Club De La Lucha
- Eternal Wrestling
PTC's first introduction
Primetime Central was first announced to the general public on the August 31st, 2001 episode of PCW Friday Fusion. This date is considered to be PTC's birthday.
- Friday Fusion starts off with a video tribute to the CEO of PCW, Tyler Nelson. With "Money" by Pink Floyd playing in the backround, the montage features footage from PCW Shanghai'ed, when Nelson was first declared the CEO of PCW.
- Then, we are shown numerous scenes from PCW's dominant reign in Fedwars, led by Media, and spearheaded by Tyler Nelson. Then, the logo of Primetime Central drifts accross the screen, the logos of each involved federation appearing after it one by one. Finally, the logos of each of the properties acquired by Tyler Nelson materializes, over the superimposed image of the smirking CEO.
- PCW...
- Slow motion highlights of Ivan Stanislav, Jeremy Howard, Ed Novak and Trashcan Man, quickly move from left to right across the screen.
- DWF...
- Slow motion highlights of Joey T, Legend Inc., Canada’s Hero and Nerd V2.0 quickly move from left to right across the screen.
- NTICW…
- Slow motion highlights of Rob Freund, Kevin Klaymore and The Elia Brothers quickly move from left to right across the screen.
- CLUB DE LA LUCHA…
- Slow motion highlights of Shirata Rinjiro, Romeo and Agony quickly move across from left to right across the screen.
- ETERNAL WRESTLING….
- Slow motion highlights of Jacob Radder, Branson King and Professor Herbert D. Dorkiman quickly move from across the screen.
- THE PRIMETIME WRESTLING ACADEMY…
- Slow motion highlights of Ritchie Syxx, Corey Williams, Semore Smoke and Impact quickly moves from left to right across the screen.
- Once the PWA logo fades from the screen, the screen, suddenly, gleaming white letters appear.
- PRIMETIME CENTRAL IS HERE!!!
PTC's first event
Now referred to as GTT1, the Global Title Tournament featured 128 competitors.
PTC's second event
PTC Boiling Over, I-PPV, December 22, 2001
Trivia
- PTC was originally hosted at Steelramp.com. The primetimecentral.net domain and hosting was obtained after Steelramp owners disabled the account without notice.
- Primetimecentral.com was purchased much later, to stop a repeat of the fedwars.com / fedwars.net / fedwars.org fiasco.
- PTC has also been hosted at wrestleonline.org.
- When PTC opened, it had a website as well as forums. Who knew?
- During its life, PTC has used IconBoard, T-Forum, PHPBB, IPB and VBulletin forums. Once you've used a legal copy of VBulletin, you can NEVER go back.
- The first two years of posts at PTC has been lost, but the current forums retain 95+% of all posts since September 2003.
- ewcentral.com, ewplanet.org and fedwars.net used to redirect to PTC.
- wrestleonline.net and wrestleonline.org still redirect to PTC.
- ewplanet.com and ew-news.com could be redirected to PTC, but this has not been done out of respect to the original sites.
- PTC was almost rebranded as ewcentral.com after GTT5. Fortunately, sanity prevailed.
- PTC and WO were collectively called ew24-7. Difficulties in prizing the domain name out of a shonky host prevented this model from progressing to its intended destination.