Global Professional Wrestling Alliance
- Global Professional Wrestling Alliance
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name=Global Professional Wrestling Alliance
acronym=GPWA
established=2006
style=Puroresu
location=Japan
founder=Mitsuharu Misawa
Yoshiyuki Nakamura
owner=Mitsuharu Misawa
Yoshiyuki Nakamura
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sister=
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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.
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.
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.
Members
Promotions
Freelance wrestlers
Resources
* [http://www.zerooneusa.com/news33.shtml Announcement of formation at Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX website]
External links
* [http://www.noah-usa.cc/ Pro Wrestling NOAH’s official English website]
* [http://www.zerooneusa.com/ Pro Wrestling ZERO1’s official English website]
* [http://www.rohwrestling.com Ring of Honor’s official website]
* [http://www.harleyrace.com/wlw/wlwhome.htm World League Wrestling’s official website]
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