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Encyclopedia > Global Professional Wrestling Alliance
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The Global Professional Wrestling Alliance (GPWA) are a group of professional wrestling promotions and wrestlers from around the world who have come together to cooperate. Formed in 2006, the group is led by chairman Mitsuharu Misawa, a professional wrestler and owner of Pro Wrestling NOAH, and president Yoshiyuki Nakamura, co-owner of Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mitsuharu Misawa ) is a Japanese professional wrestler. ... Pro Wrestling NOAH is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion, founded in 2000. ... Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX, formerly known as Pro Wrestling ZERO-ONE, is a Japanese professional wrestling promotion founded in 2001. ...

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Aims

The group was established as a means to aid the many competing wrestling promotions in Japan. Members will share resources including training facilities and their wrestlers themselves. They will also coordinate the arrangements of their shows in order to avoid clashes. In addition to this "super shows" will be run with wrestlers from the member promotions competing on the same shows. This first of which occurred on November 14, 2006. is the 318th day of the year (319th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


It is also likely that in the future the promotions will donate part of their profits towards a fund which could supply a pension for retired wrestlers. This has been seen as a sign of the GPWA developing towards becoming a union, something which the professional wrestling industry has always lacked. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A trade union or labor union is an organization of workers. ...


Members

Promotions

Promotion Representative Country
Big Mouth Loud Kazunari Murakami Japan
Dramatic Dream Team Sanshiro Takagi Japan
El Dorado Wrestling Nariaki Kawabata Japan
European Wrestling Association Chris Raaber Austria
IWA Japan Tatskuni Asano Japan
Kaientai Dojo TAKA Michinoku Japan
Kensuke Office Hisako Sasaki Japan
Pro Wrestling NOAH Mitsuharu Misawa Japan
Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX Shinjiro Ohtani Japan
Ring of Honor Cary Silkin United States
World League Wrestling Harley Race United States

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Freelance wrestlers

Wrestler Country
Kikutaro Japan
MAZADA Japan
Magnitude Kishiwada Japan
Minoru Suzuki Japan
NOSAWA Japan
Mexico
Shiro Koshinaka Japan
Tadao Yasuda Japan
Takaku Fuke Japan
Yoshihiro Takayama Japan

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Resources

Announcement of formation at Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX website


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