Northern Championship Wrestling (Les Promotions NCW Inc.) is an independent professional wrestling promotion

Professional wrestling promotion

A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that regularly performs shows involving professional wrestling. Promotion also describes a role which entails management, advertising and logistics of running a wrestling event...

 based in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

.

It was founded in 1986 by François Poirier and Phil Bélanger in Joliette, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

. It has since moved to Montreal in 1996, running wrestling shows at the Centre Notre-Dame de Rosaire (Centre N.D.R.) from 1996 to 2009 but recently moved to the Saint-Barthelemy Center in June 2009.

On August 13, 2005, shortly after his departure from World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...

 (WWE), the promotion hosted Lance Storm

Lance Storm

Lance Timothy Evers known professionally by his ring name Lance Storm, is a semi-retired Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his work in World Wrestling Entertainment, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling...

 for a show called SummerStorm in order to promote his new Storm Wrestling Academy. Storm got involved in the main event, doing a run-in to help Manuel Vegas retain the NCW Quebec title against Chakal.

Sylvain Grenier

Sylvain Grenier

Sylvain Grenier is a Canadian professional wrestler, who is best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment in the La Résistance tag team. He is currently a French language announcer for TNA Impact! on RDS....

 wrestled for the promotion from November 2002 until starting full time with WWE at No Way Out 2003

No Way Out (2003)

No Way Out was the fourth annual No Way Out pay-per-view event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment . The event took place on February 23, 2003 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec and starred the promotion's Raw and SmackDown! brands.The main event from the SmackDown! brand was a rematch...

. He first wrestled former NCW Quebec Champion Manuel Vegas, then defeated NCW wrestlers Chakal, Chase Ironside and Nova Cain.

Sylvain returned to NCW at ChallengeMania 15 on May 19, 2007. Still under contract with WWE, he tagged with Don Paysan and Bishop to defeat Chakal, Nightmare and Phil Bélanger in the Main Event. After his release from WWE, Sylvan returned to NCW, wrestling Franky the Mobster

Franky The Mobster

Marc-Andre Boulanger is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Franky The Mobster .He currently wrestles for Montreal's Northern Championship Wrestling , the Ontario-based Blood Sweat and Ears promotion, as well as on the US independent circuit. He also has made occasional...

 to a draw at Montreal Chairshot Massacre in October 2007.

On August 23, 2008, NCW hosted a wrestling SuperShow involving The Honky Tonk Man

The Honky Tonk Man

Roy Wayne Farris , better known by his ring name The Honky Tonk Man, is an American professional wrestler. A 1975 graduate from University of Memphis with a B.S. degree in Education. Coached high school football 2 seasons at Munford High School in Munford, Tennessee...

, Johnny Devine

Johnny Devine

John Peter "J.P." Parsonage is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name "Hot Shot" Johnny Devine...

 and Bushwacker Luke.

On August 30, 2008, La Résistance (Sylvain Grenier

Sylvain Grenier

Sylvain Grenier is a Canadian professional wrestler, who is best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment in the La Résistance tag team. He is currently a French language announcer for TNA Impact! on RDS....

 and Rob Conway) defeated Jay Phenomenon and Karl Briscoe to win the NCW Tag Team Championships.

On December 20, 2008 at "Noël D'Enfer", Sylvain Grenier

Sylvain Grenier

Sylvain Grenier is a Canadian professional wrestler, who is best known for his appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment in the La Résistance tag team. He is currently a French language announcer for TNA Impact! on RDS....

 defeated Samson to become the NCW Quebec champion.

Since 1995, NCW wrestlers such as Chakal, Franky the Mobster

Franky The Mobster

Marc-Andre Boulanger is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Franky The Mobster .He currently wrestles for Montreal's Northern Championship Wrestling , the Ontario-based Blood Sweat and Ears promotion, as well as on the US independent circuit. He also has made occasional...

, Nova Cain and Don Paysan

Don Paysan

Luciano Luprano is an Italian-Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Don Paysan. He has competed in numerous North American independent promotions including the International Wrestling Syndicate, Combat Zone Wrestling, Alpha-1 Wrestling and Northern Championship...

 have been ranked in the Pro Wrestling Illustrated

Pro Wrestling Illustrated

Pro Wrestling Illustrated is a professional wrestling magazine. PWI is currently based in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and published by Kappa Publishing Group.-History:The first issue of Pro Wrestling Illustrated was released in 1979...

's PWI 500.

In April 2009, nCw drew 600 for Abdullah The Butcher

Abdullah the Butcher

Lawrence Robert "Larry" Shreve best known as Abdullah the Butcher, and also at times The Madman from the Sudan, is a semi-retired Canadian professional wrestler known as one of the most brutal or "hardcore" professional wrestlers of all-time...

's Last Match in Canada.

In September 2009, nCw hosted their first edition of NCW Femmes Fatales which regrouped the best fighting female in North America. NCW Femmes Fatales was announced in April 2010 to be part of the Female Fight League during the 45th Edition of the Cauliflower Alley Club Reunion in Las Vegas.

In November 2009, they gave an hommage to Maurice Vachon

Maurice Vachon

Maurice Vachon is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, best known by his ring name "Mad Dog" Vachon. He is the brother of wrestlers Paul and Vivian Vachon, and the uncle of wrestler Luna Vachon...

 & Paul Vachon

Paul Vachon

Paul "Butcher" Vachon is a former professional wrestler. He is a member of the Vachon wrestling family.-Professional wrestling career:Paul Vachon grew up as one of thirteen children of Ferdinand Vachon, a Montreal police officer...

 as part of a documentary tracing back Mad Dog's career.

2010 Schedule

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All shows are held at Centre St-Barthélemy - 7111 des Érables, Montréal

• "July 31st - Accès Interdit"
• "August 14 - SummerStorm with Tommy Dreamer"
• "August 28 - St-David***"
• "September 4th"
• "September 11–12 - MTL Comic Con"
• "September 25th - Mesures de Guerre(10th Anniversary)"
• "October 3rd"
• "October - Verchère #2****"
• "October 23rd - Femmmes Fatales #4"
• "November 6th - Montreal Chairshot Massacre"
• "November 20th"
• "December 4"
• "December 18 - Noël D'Enfer"

Shows

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• NCW Femmes Fatales
• "Power Play"
• "Crime Scene"

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• "ChallengeMania"
• "Fight Nationale"
• "Dream Slam"

| valign="top" |

• "SummerStorm"
• "Accès Interdit"
• "Battle of the Super Juniors"

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• "Mesures de Guerre"
• "Montreal Chairshot Massacre"
• "Noël D'Enfer"

|}

Championships

{| class="wikitable"
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Championship
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Current champion(s)
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Previous champion(s)
!style="background: #e3e3e3;"|Held since
|-style="background: #FFEEEE;"
|NCW Quebec Championship
|Goergous Mike
|Tank
|25/09/10
|-style="background: #FFEEEE;"
|NCW Inter-City Championship
|Handsome JF
|Urban Miles
|15/05/10
|-style="background: #FFEEEE;"
|NCW Tag Team Championship
|Jay Phenomenon and Mr.Cobra
|Project 13
|25/09/10
|-style="background: #FFEEEE;"
|NCW Triple Crown
|Karl Briscoe
|Electrico
|25/09/10
|}

Roster:

• Gorgeous Mike
• James Stone
• Jay Phenomenon
• Don Paysan
  Don Paysan
  Luciano Luprano is an Italian-Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Don Paysan. He has competed in numerous North American independent promotions including the International Wrestling Syndicate, Combat Zone Wrestling, Alpha-1 Wrestling and Northern Championship...
  
  
• Handsome JF
• Urban Miles
• Mobster 357
• Mark Andrews
• Karl Briscoe
• Marvelous Jeff
• Pee Wee
• Mathieu St-Jacques
• Alex Miller
• Le Prince Kiol
• Hanzel
• Leon Saver
• Maxime Boyer
  Max Boyer
  Maxime "Max" Boyer is a Canadian professional wrestler, best known for his time in the Chikara and International Wrestling Syndicate professional wrestling promotions...
  
  
• Alex Silva
• Franky The Mobster
  Franky The Mobster
  Marc-Andre Boulanger is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Franky The Mobster .He currently wrestles for Montreal's Northern Championship Wrestling , the Ontario-based Blood Sweat and Ears promotion, as well as on the US independent circuit. He also has made occasional...
  
  
• Diablero
• Eddie Morales
• Guil Reno
• Mr. Cobra
• Chakal
• Bishop
• Lucky Sabiti
• Ivan Sullivan
• Steve Blackwell
• Sidi Mansour
• Adib Mansour
• Lex Lerman
• Derrek Banes
• Anna Minoushka
• LuFisto
• Mary Lee Rose
• Kalamity
• Ségolène
• Tank
• Alex Price
• Electrico
• This Guy
• King TNT
• Nova Cain
• That Guy
• Kevin Skully
• Jake Matthews
• Samson
• Black Eagle
• Tolo
• James Kraven
• Buxx Belmar
• Lollypop
• Van Hawk
• Richtor Oz McGoth

Special Guests

• Jazz (former WWE diva)
• Serena
  Serena Deeb
  Serena Deeb is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for her time with World Wrestling Entertainment, appearing on the SmackDown brand and also known for her time with the developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling. under the ring name Serena...
  
   (former WWE diva)
• "Road Dogg" Jesse James (WWE legend, former TNA
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
  
   superstar)
• Billy Gunn
  Billy Gunn
  William Gunn or Bill Gunn may refer to:*Bill Gunn , Australian rules footballer*Bill Gunn , member of Australian parliament...
  
   (WWE legend, former TNA
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
  
   superstar)
• Cheerleader Melissa  (TNA
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
  
   knockout)
• Eddie Edwards
  Eddie Edwards
  Edwin Branford "Eddie" Edwards was an early jazz trombonist, best known for his pioneering recordings with the Original Dixieland Jass Band.-Life and Career:...
  
   (ROH
  Ring of Honor
  Ring of Honor ' is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded in 2002 by Rob Feinstein and Gabe Sapolsky. From 2004 to 2011, the promotion was under the ownership of Cary Silkin before being sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in May 2011...
  
   Wrestler)
• Ayako Hamada
  Ayako Hamada
  is a female professional wrestler of mixed Japanese and Mexican descent, who is currently wrestling most notably for Pro Wrestling WAVE in Japan and Shimmer Women Athletes in the United States, where she is a co-holder of the Shimmer Tag Team Championship.She is best known for winning several...
  
   (TNA
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
  
   Knockout)
• Necro Butcher
  Necro Butcher
  Dylan Keith Summers is an American professional wrestler best known by his ring name Necro Butcher. Throughout the years he has worked for various promotions, including Beyond Wrestling, Firestormpro, Ring of Honor, Full Impact Pro, IWA-Mid South, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, Big Japan Pro Wrestling,...
  
   (Ring of Honor
  Ring of Honor
  Ring of Honor ' is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded in 2002 by Rob Feinstein and Gabe Sapolsky. From 2004 to 2011, the promotion was under the ownership of Cary Silkin before being sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in May 2011...
  
   wrestler, starred in The Wrestler)
• Maxine
  Karlee Perez
  Karlee Leilani Perez is an American professional wrestler, manager and authority figure, currently working for WWE appearing in their NXT season 5 show and competing in their developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling , under the ring name Maxine. She also serves as acting general...
  
   (WWE Diva)
• Kharma (former TNA
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
  
   knockout
  TNA Knockout
  Knockout is a term used by Total Nonstop Action Wrestling to refer to its female talent. The term is applied universally to wrestlers, backstage interviewers, and managers/valets. They are analogous to the Divas of rival WWE.-History:...
  
   and WWE Diva)
• Tommy Dreamer
  Tommy Dreamer
  Thomas James "Tom" Laughlin is an American professional wrestler better known by his ring name Tommy Dreamer. He is currently working for various promotions on the independent circuit. He is best known for his time spent with Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment...
  
   (TNA
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
  
   wrestler, ECW
  Extreme Championship Wrestling
  Extreme Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1992 by Tod Gordon and closed when his successor, Paul Heyman, declared bankruptcy in April 2001...
  
   legend, former WWE Superstar)
• Daffney
  Shannon Spruill
  Shannon Claire Spruill is an American professional wrestler and valet. She is best known for her appearances with World Championship Wrestling between 1999 and 2001 under the ring name Daffney and for working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling, where she used the ring name "The Governor", a...
  
   (TNA
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
  
   Knockout)
• "Sycho" Sid Vicious
  Sid Eudy
  Sidney Raymond "Sid" Eudy is an American professional wrestler, best known as Sid Vicious in World Championship Wrestling, and as Sid Justice and Sycho Sid in the World Wrestling Federation...
  
   (WWE Legend)
• Lance Storm
  Lance Storm
  Lance Timothy Evers known professionally by his ring name Lance Storm, is a semi-retired Canadian professional wrestler. He is best known for his work in World Wrestling Entertainment, Extreme Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling...
  
   (Former WWE Superstar, Former ECW wrestler)
• Pierre-Carl Ouellet (Former WWE, WCW
  World Championship Wrestling
  World Championship Wrestling, Inc. was an American professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it began as a regional promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance , named Jim Crockett Promotions until November 1988, when Ted Turner and...
  
  , Former ECW wrestler, Former TNA
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
  
   RDS
  Réseau des sports
  Réseau des sports , is a Canadian French language Category C specialty channel showing sports and sport-related shows. It is available in 2.5 million homes, and is owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc....
  
   Commentator)
• Robert Roode (TNA
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
  Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
  
   wrestler)
• Nikolai Volkoff
  Nikolai Volkoff
  Josip Nikolai Peruzović , better known by his ring name of Nikolai Volkoff, is a professional wrestler who is best known for his performances for the World Wrestling Federation...
  
   (WWE Hall Of Fame
  WWE Hall of Fame
  The WWE Hall of Fame is a hall of fame for professional wrestlers maintained by WWE. It was officially created on the February 1, 1993 episode of the World Wrestling Federation's Monday Night Raw television program...
  
  r)
• Jimmy Snuka
  Jimmy Snuka
  James William "Jimmy" Reiher is a semi-retired Fijian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. Originally from the Fiji Islands, Snuka wrestled for several promotions in the 1970s and 1980s. Snuka is a two-time world heavyweight champion, having been a...
  
   (WWE Hall Of Famer)
• Glenn Kulka
  Glenn Kulka
  Glenn Kulka is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, hockey and football player who competed in Canadian independent promotions during the late 1990s and had a brief stint in the World Wrestling Federation in 1997....
  
  (Briefly WWE Superstar)
• Mike Hughes (Briefly WWE Superstar)
• Kizarny
  Nick Cvjetkovich
  Nicholas "Nick" Cvjetkovich is a Canadian professional wrestler, best known for his stint in World Wrestling Entertainment, where he worked on its SmackDown brand as Kizarny.-Training and beginning:...
  
   (Briefly WWE Superstar)
• Traci Brooks
  Tracy Brookshaw
  Tracy Brookshaw is a Canadian professional wrestler, professional wrestling valet and professional wrestling referee, better known by her ring name Traci Brooks. She is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where she has spent most of her career.-Early life:Brookshaw grew up on a...
  
   (TNA Knouckout)
• Gail Kim
  Gail Kim
  Gail Kim is a Canadian professional wrestler of Korean descent, who is currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling , where she is the current TNA Women's Knockout Champion and one half of the TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champions with Madison Rayne...
  
   (WWE Diva and former TNA Knockout)
• Abdullah The Butcher
  Abdullah the Butcher
  Lawrence Robert "Larry" Shreve best known as Abdullah the Butcher, and also at times The Madman from the Sudan, is a semi-retired Canadian professional wrestler known as one of the most brutal or "hardcore" professional wrestlers of all-time...
  
   (Hardcore Wrestling Legend)
• Johnny Devine
  Johnny Devine
  John Peter "J.P." Parsonage is a Canadian professional wrestler, better known by his ring name "Hot Shot" Johnny Devine...
  
   (Former TNA wrestler)
• Kevin Steen
  Kevin Steen
  Kevin Steen is a Canadian professional wrestler, currently performing for various promotions on the independent circuit, most notably California-based Pro Wrestling Guerrilla and Ring of Honor.-Professional wrestling career:...
  
   (ROH
  Ring of Honor
  Ring of Honor ' is an American professional wrestling promotion, founded in 2002 by Rob Feinstein and Gabe Sapolsky. From 2004 to 2011, the promotion was under the ownership of Cary Silkin before being sold to the Sinclair Broadcast Group in May 2011...
  
   wrestler)
• The Honky Tonk Man
  The Honky Tonk Man
  Roy Wayne Farris , better known by his ring name The Honky Tonk Man, is an American professional wrestler. A 1975 graduate from University of Memphis with a B.S. degree in Education. Coached high school football 2 seasons at Munford High School in Munford, Tennessee...
  
   (WWF Legend)
• Bushwhacker Luke (WWF Legend)
• Rob Conway (Former WWE Superstar)
• Max Moon (Former WWF Superstar)
• Jim Neidhart
  Jim Neidhart
  James Henry "Jim" Neidhart is an American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances in the 1980s and 1990s in the World Wrestling Federation as Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart. Jim is the father of WWE Diva Natalya...
  
   (WWF Legend)
• King Kong Bundy
  King Kong Bundy
  Christopher Alan "Chris" Pallies is an American professional wrestler, stand-up comedian and actor, better known by his ring name, King Kong Bundy.-Personal:...
  
   (WWF Legend)
• Shantelle (TNA Knockout)
• Cheerleader Melissa (TNA Knockout)
• Sara Del Rey
  Sara Del Rey
  Sara Amato is an American professional wrestler, better known by her ring name, Sara Del Rey. She is a mainstay for Chikara and Shimmer Women Athletes. She has also appeared for many other independent promotions in the United States, including Ring of Honor, IWA Mid-South, All Pro Wrestling, as...
  
   (ROH wrestler)
• MsChif
  MsChif
  Rachel Collins is an American professional wrestler who is better known by her ring name MsChif. She has been wrestling since 2001 and in that time has worked for several independent promotions across the United States, with guest matches in England and Japan...
  
   (ROH wrestler)
• Mad Dog Vachon (Québec Wrestling Legend)
• Paul Vachon
  Paul Vachon
  Paul "Butcher" Vachon is a former professional wrestler. He is a member of the Vachon wrestling family.-Professional wrestling career:Paul Vachon grew up as one of thirteen children of Ferdinand Vachon, a Montreal police officer...
  
  (Québec Wrestling Legend)

External links

• Les Promotions nCw Inc. official site (in French)