Metro Pro Wrestling (MPW) was an independent wrestling organization operating out of

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. The company began with its first television taping event on June 5, 2010, and has since put on monthly events which are all taped and aired on Time Warner Cable Metro Sports. Metro Pro Wrestling was founded in 2010 by Chris Gough. It became the first wrestling organization to be based out of Kansas City and hold monthly shows, in 25 years. The last promotion to call Kansas City home was

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( Central States Wrestling), which ran shows out of the historic Memorial Hall (site of the first Metro Pro TV taping).

History

Metro Pro Wrestling was created in 2010 by former

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employee Chris Gough, who works at Time Warner Cable Metro Sports as an anchor/producer in

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. The hour-long television program airs every Saturday night at 11 p.m. on Time Warner Cable Metro Sports in Kansas City in both standard definition and high definition. It also airs on Comcast, Knology of Kansas and Time Warner Nebraska. The show replays multiple times during the week. Metro Pro Wrestling was a member of the

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(NWA), acting as the official Kansas City-area representative for the organization, from June 2010 to October 2012. During that time, Metro Pro housed Match #4 of the Seven Levels of Hate series between "Scrap Iron"

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and

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. Pearce defeated Cabana on July 21, 2012, to become a five-time

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. It was the first time the NWA World Heavyweight Championship had changed hands in Kansas City since

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defeated

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on September 17, 1981. On December 3, 2016, Chris Gough announced that he had sold Metro Pro Wrestling to Major Baisden and the National Wrasslin' League. On April 12, 2018, Major Baisden announced that the NWL will cease all operations effective immediately. Following the closing of the NWL it was announced by the old official Facebook page of Metro Pro Wrestling that it would return with a show on May 19, 2018. Many NWL roster alumni were announced for the show including a main event pitting former NWL Champion Jeremy Wyatt against Dak Draper in a two out of three falls match.

Metro Pro Wrestling TV

Metro Pro Wrestling began an hour-long television series in September 2010. The program premieres each Saturday night at 11 p.m. CT on Time Warner Cable's Metro Sports, Comcast, Knology of Kansas in the Kansas City area. It also is simulcast on Time Warner Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska. The commentators for the program are play-by-play man, Dave Borchardt, and color man, Chris Gough. Stars who have been showcased on Metro Pro TV are

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, Adam Pearce, Colt Cabana,Colt Cabana will wrestle for Metro Pro Wrestling Saturday night in KCK; pro wrestler talks about succeeding outside of WWE ,http://www.pitch.com/plog/archives/2011/10/06/colt-cabana-will-wrestle-for-metro-pro-wrestling-saturday-night-in-kck-pro-wrestler-talks-about-succeeding-outside-of-wwe Angel Medina,

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and

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. The television program is taped one Saturday a month at Turner Recreation Center in Kansas City, Kansas. Four one-hour episodes are taped at each television taping event.

Championships

Roster

* Rhino *

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*Derek Stone *Michael Strider *Jeremy Wyatt *Mark Sterling * Matt Murphy *Bull Schmitt *Steven J. Girthy *Tyler Cook *

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*"Showtime" Bradley Charles *Lucy Mendez *Stacey O'Brien *Miss Natural *Dan Walsh *Jake Dirden *Iceman *Brett Young *The Hooligans (Devin & Mason Cutter) *Neil Diamond Cutter *Jon West *Der Oysleyz *Jimmy Rockwell *Zach Thompson *Pierre Abernathy *Evan Gelistico *Domino Rivera *Mad Dog McDowell *Jack Mecidol *Pete Madden *The Magic Man *Simon Gotch (as Ryan Drago) *Josh FX *Hoodlum *Ricky Cruz *Davey Vega *Michael Barry *

*Rebelucha *Steve Fender *

* Angel Medina *Referee Michael Crase *Referee Nick Chinn *Ring Announcer Don Diablo

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