Combat Zone Wrestling,(CZW) began as a Professional wrestling is a form of performance entertainment where the participants engage in simulated sporting matches. In its purported rules and competitions, it apes the convention of sport. Originating as such, in the days of travelling carnival shows, Professional Wrestlings humbler beginnings include strongman feats, hook wrestling, and other... professional wrestling school run by John Zandig (real name: John Corso).

In 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. Events Kosovo War Shooting in Littleton, Colorado, United States, leaves several high school students dead. Y2K preparation was a major event in 1999 both in... 1999, John Zandig and his four original trainees, Ric Blade, Lobo, Nick Gage and Justice Pain, started to run shows. They primarily involved "hardcore" wrestling, using such instruments of destruction as ladders, tables, thumbtacks, barbed wire, cacti, fluorescent light tubes and even fire.

Over nearly six years, the company has developed into a organization involving many styles of wrestling, such as Rey Mysterio performing one of many aerial techniques to Dvon Dudley Aerial techniques are used in professional wrestling to show of the speed and agility of a wrestler. These moves are mainly done by smaller quicker wrestlers that are unable to do most of the power moves. There is... high-flying, hardcore, technical work and brawling.

CZW has created a good deal of "homemade" stars, such as "Sick" Nick Mondo, or Ruckus. Ruckus is the current CZW Heavyweight Champion, while Mondo was one of the most successful CZW Iron Man champions and winner of the Tournament Of Death II, the annual CZW deathmatch tournament that has been running since 2002.

Another successful and important tournament for CZW is the annual Best of The Best, the Jr. Heavyweight tournament, although this year, it has been changed to an all weight tournament.

The most important show that CZW runs would have to be the Cage Of Death, which happens at the end of the year. It's CZW's biggest show, and always features the Cage Of Death match, which is a cage match, usually with weapons and a scaffold on top of the cage. It's always an amazing spectacle, especially the 5th one, which happened in 2003.

External Links

• Combat Zone Wrestling's homepage (http://www.czwwrestling.com)