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WRESTLING PROMOTION

A professional wrestling promotion is a company or business that performs regular shows involving professional wrestling for monetary gain.

Currently, the only major wrestling organizations left in North America are World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) (a former NWA member that is still loosely linked to that organization), all based in the United States; and the Mexican lucha libre promotions Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración. Of these, WWE is by far the largest and most influential. However, outside North America, there are other federations throughout Europe and also in Japan, South America, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the rest of the Caribbean. However there are also a number of small independent wrestling organizations that are upstarts. Or they are the creations of former wrestlers from the bigger promotions. Some of the smaller organizations include Ring of Honor, Jersey All Pro Wrestling and Border City Wrestling


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Australia

Defunct

Canada

Defunct

  • Action Wrestling Entertainment (AWE)
  • Apocalypse Wrestling Federation (AWF)
  • Real Action Wrestling (RAW)

Germany

Finland

Defunct

  • Pro Wrestling Finlandia (PWF)
  • Valhalla Pro Wrestling (VPW)

France

Israel

  • Makat Medina (actually a comedy show that compares different kinds of people [rabbis, teachers, business men, etc.] to wrestling)
  • Israeli Pro Wrestling Association (IPWA)

Italy

  • Frontier Championship Wrestling (FCW)
  • Italian Championship Wrestling (ICW)
  • Italian Wrestling Entertainment (IWE)
  • Italian Wrestling Superstars (IWS)
  • International Wrestling Zone (IWZ)
  • Nu-Wrestling Evolution (NWE)
  • United Italian Wrestlers (UIW)

Defunct

  • Xtreme Italian Wrestling (XIW) *its inheritance was picked up by the Italian Wrestling Entertainment

Japan

Defunct

Mexico

Defunct

  • International Wrestling All Stars (IWAS)

New Zealand

Defunct

  • New Zealand Wrestling Union
  • NWA New Zealand

Norway

Pacific

Defunct

  • Polynesian Pacific Wrestling (PPW)
  • World League Wrestling (WLW)
  • Hawaii Pro Wrestling (HPW)
  • Pro Wrestling Hawaii (PWH)
  • Island Xtreme Wrestling Federation (IXWF) *Partially joint with NWA Hawaii
  • World Pacific Championship Wrestling (WPCW)

Puerto Rico

Defunct

  • Americas Wrestling Federation (AWF)

South Korea

  • World Wrestling Association (WWA)
  • New Korea Pro Wrestling Association (NKPWA)
  • Kang-Chul Proresu

Sweden

United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland

Defunct

United States of America

Defunct