WFW Logo
World Fanatic Wrestling (WFW) is a professional wrestling promotion with its corporate headquarters located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded by professional wrestler Mike Damon. The parent company of WFW is a sports-entertainment organization called One Century Entertainment, (1CE). A 1CE executive is the Owner and Chairman of the WFW Board of Directors, who's name he has requested to remain anonymous, thus he has been known by all WFW personnel and wrestlers as "The Powers That Be" of WFW, while a man named Nick Dillonson is the company's Chief Executive Officer, (CEO). WFW's weekly televised shows, Inferno and Epic, are the two co-flagship programs of WFW, each airing once a week. The Creative Writing/Booking Team consists of the duo of Victor James and Brian Runnels, who write WFW's weekly shows and pay-per-veiw events. Information and History of the WFW company are listed in the contents box as followed.
History[]
World Fanatic Wrestling, (WFW), was founded in early July of 2012 by wrestler Mike Damon. Nonetheless, he decided to remain an active wrestler instead of being a part of the WFW management staff, which includedes WFW Commissioner Nick Dillonson and an unknown, anonymous person who became the company’s Owner and Chairman. This person had the final say in all WFW day-to-day operations, and wished to not have his identity be revealed on WFW programming. As a result of this, he became known by everyone within the company as “The Powers That Be” of WFW. To this day, no one, not even WFW Founder Mike Damon himself, knows who “The Powers That Be” of WFW is.
Old WFW Logo
Crowning an Inaugural Champion and Ron Taylor[]
WFW initiated its television programming on July 24, 2012. On that night, an elimination wrestling tournament was held by WFW to crown the first WFW World Champion, and in the end, Bryan Richards won the tournament and was deemed the first ever WFW Champion by defeating Burl Horace in the final round of the tournament. For the next few weeks after winning the World title, Richards went on to defend the title against Horace on a few occasions. Other challengers Richards managed to defend and retain his title against were David Burke, Giganton, and WFW Founder and still a wrestler, Mike Damon. Eventually, on September 28, 2012, on WFW’s flagship television show, Inferno, Bryan Richards lost the WFW World title to Ron Taylor, who not only became WFW’s second world heavyweight championship title holder, but also WFW’s first African-American world champion as well. As Taylor went on to defend the title against wrestlers like Myst, Montel Palone and the masked wrestler Zaul, he became adored by the WFW fans as the top “babyface” of the company.
The Mike Damon Era: Late-2012 to Mid-2013[]
When WFW started, Mike Damon, the founder of WFW, was a heel wrestler. As a bad guy, Damon was obsessed with becoming the next WFW World Champion. He first went after the title when Bryan Richards was champion, but failed in every title match against Richards. After his third and last title shot match against Richards, Damon was about to give up on his obsession to become WFW Champion. He was really starting to consider giving up when WFW superstar Ron Taylor defeated Richards to become the second WFW Champion. During Taylor’s run as champion, the WFW’s Head Booker/Head Writer at the time, John Lauren, had quit the company due to disputes with the WFW’s anonymous Owner and Chairman, “The Powers That Be” of WFW. With Lauren gone, the company’s Creative Writing Team was without a Head Writer. Mike Damon saw this as the perfect opportunity to win the WFW World title. As the founder of WFW, Damon was able to convince “The Powers That Be” of WFW and the WFW Board of Directors to promote him as the next WFW Head Writer. Convinced, the Board elected Damon the new head of WFW’s Writing/Booking Department, however, “The Powers That Be” decided to make Damon only an Interim or “Acting” Head Booker of WFW until a new Head Booker could be hired. As WFW’s “Acting” Head Writer, the first thing Mike Damon did was book himself in a match against the current WFW Champion Ron Taylor for the title on November 9, 2012, on one of the WFW’s pay-per-view events, Fury. Low and behold, Damon won the match and the championship via pinfall after hitting the WFW title belt in Taylor’s head which the referee didn’t see due to getting knocked out earlier in the match. After that, Damon would go on to hold the WFW title belt for an incredible seven months. The reason behind Damon’s long title reign was of course due to him booking himself to win all of his wrestling matches against the likes of Myst, Burl Horace, Giganton, and Danny Douglas. Damon’s abuse of booking power became a great concern behind the scenes of the WFW.
Finally, near the end of the seventh month, “The Powers That Be” of WFW felt that Damon had gone too far with his creative powers, and as a result fired him as the company’s Interim head of the Booking Team. After that, "The Powers that Be" booked him to put his title on the line against WFW superstar Derek Matthews on WFW’s co-flagship TV show, Epic. Both men put up a great fight, but in the end it was Matthews who overcame all the odds and defeated Mike Damon for the WFW Championship, ending both his reign as champion and his selfish ambitions. With Damon gone, The WFW Board of Directors then promoted a man named Victor James as the new head of the Writing Team. James was also given a partner, Brian Runnels, who became the company’s co-Head Writer. Together, the duo of James and Runnels now made up the new WFW Booking Team.
Extreme Times: The Birth of Triple Khaos, “T-K”[]
By the end of the Mike Damon Era, many within WFW looked forward to a prosperous and successful year of 2013. However, there was another problem that WFW management was trying to settle, and that problem was WFW superstar Burl Horace. Near the end of the Mike Damon Era, Horace was showing signs of frustration and paranoia concerning how management was running the company. He began to question the unknown “Powers That Be” of WFW’s motives and actions whenever something controversial happened during wrestling matches. Subsequently, Horace eventually partnered with the WFW’s largest wrestling athlete, Giganton, who promised to calm him down and show him that the WFW wasn’t all that bad of a company. The two wrestlers soon became close friends, and on March 14, 2013, at the pay-per-view event Slamathon, during the height of the Mike Damon Era, Horace and Giganton both won the WFW Tag-Team Championship belts from The Bad News Browns. They would hold the Tag titles for nearly three months. During this time, however, the WFW audience still showed resentment towards Horace since he still showed frustration with WFW, despite Giganton trying to talk him down. One night on the WFW’s flagship TV show Inferno, Horace was confronted backstage by new WFW superstar named Jay Walker, who explained to Horace that he had every right to question WFW management since it was “a free country.” Walker even explained to Horace that Giganton wasn’t really looking out for him, but that he was just using Horace to win the Tag titles, which angered Horace. Eventually, on June 7, 2013, on WFW’s co-flagship show Epic, the same event when the Mike Damon Era came to an end, Horace and Giganton lost the Tag titles to the team of Gus Garrow and Burt Broham. After the match, Horace angrily attacked Giganton out of frustration on losing the titles and partnered himself with Jay Walker, accepting him as his new friend.
The next week on Inferno, Walker introduced Horace to a close friend of his whom he claimed would help them question the motives of WFW management. That friend turned out to be current WFW superstar David Burke, who reminded Horace and Walker that, not too long ago, he had lost winning a Road to Glory Tournament to crown a new number-one contender for the WFW Championship, which frustrated him to the point that he had no more faith in WFW management anymore either. After aligning himself with Horace and Walker, Burke announced that this new trio posse would be called Triple Khaos, or T-K for short. The group first started feuding with Giganton since Giganton was looking for revenge on Horace for attacking him last June on Epic.
The Coming Ruin: T-K becomes M.A.S.H.[]
During Triple Khaos's feud with Giganton, Burl Horace was booked to face WFW Champion Derek Matthews for the title. However, Horace had sprained his lower right leg during a match with Ron Taylor on Inferno. As a result, then WFW Commissioner at the time, Eric Brandon, booked Giganton to take Horace's place to face Matthews for the title at WFW's special live event, One Night Stand. At the event, both Giganton and Matthews put on a great show of wrestling performance, until it looked as if Matthews was going to retain his title. However, in the end, a healed Burl Horace ran out to the ring to try to screw Giganton in his match, but was quickly stopped by former World Champion Ron Taylor, which led to a brawl outside the ring. This brawl, however, distracted Matthews instead, which led to Giganton hitting a massive choke-slam on the champ and scoring the pinfall, thus Giganton won the match and the WFW title belt, much to Horace's outrage. Giganton would go on to hold the WFW Championship for the next week-and-a-half, until Derek Matthews decided to invoke his re-match clause in his WFW contract against Giganton for the title. On the August 13, 2013 edition of WFW's flagship show, Inferno, Giganton and Matthews squared-off one more time to see who was the better man to hold the title belt. During the match, Giganton inadvertently knocked-out the referee, thus the match went on un-officiated. With the referee knocked out, Horace ran out to the ring and attacked Giganton in order to try to screw him once again, until another referee ran out and managed to force Horace back to the backstage area. With Giganton weakened after Horace's attack, Matthews took the opportunity to ambush Giganton from behind and hit the giant wrestler with a massive DDT on the ring mat. With Horace gone, the new referee ran back to the ring to make the three-count for Matthews, who was pinning Giganton for the win. However, the new referee was suddenly stopped from counting by the old, original referee of the match, who argued that he was the real referee of the match. Frustrated by their arguing, Matthews attacked both refs, only to be ambushed by a revived Giganton from behind. Before anything else could happen next, WFW Commissioner Eric Brandon ran out and declared the outcome of the match a joint No-Contest/Disqualification. As a result, because the match had ended in an overwhelming controversial style, Brandon stripped Giganton of the title belt, marking the first time that the WFW World Championship was declared vacant, thus no one in the WFW was the World Heavyweight Champion.
Commissioner Brandon, with permission from both the WFW Board of Directors and "The Powers That Be" of WFW, set up an elimination tournament to crown a new WFW Champion. While the tournament consisted of new WFW superstars that had never been World Champion before, like Burl Horace, it also consisted of former champions like Bryan Richards, Ron Taylor, Mike Damon, Derek Matthews, and Giganton. The elimination tournament started on an edition of WFW Epic, and ended at WFW's next PPV event, Summer Survival, on August 25. The last two participants in the Final Round of the tournament were none other than Burl Horace and former champion Giganton. Everyone expected the match between the two rivals to be a heated match, until something shocking happened. After the referee called for the bell to begin the match, Horace merely walked up to Giganton and gave him a not-so-hard push on his chest; after that, Giganton deliberately fell down on the ring mat on his back, allowing Horace to make the pinfall. Aghast, the referee had no choice but to make the three count for Horace, and once he did, both Giganton and Horace got back up and hugged each other, laughing. Subsequently, Horace's partners in Triple Khaos, Jay Walker and David Burke, ran out to join in the celebration, as well as WFW Commissioner Eric Brandon! All of WFW was shocked as they had no idea what was going on. All they knew was that Burl Horace had finally, somehow, won the WFW World Championship.
The next night on Inferno, both Giganton and Eric Brandon came out to the ring with Triple Khaos and cut an in-ring promo. Brandon announced to everyone that the whole thing had been a setup from the beginning just to help Horace win the WFW title. With Giganton and Brandon aligned with T-K, Horace announced to the audience that T-K would continue to question and resist WFW authorities and their motives. As a result of T-K's new members, Horace declared that the new group would no longer be called Triple-Khaos, (since the members of T-K originally consisted of three persons). So instead, Horace renamed this new group The League of Mayhem, Anarchy, Suffering, and Havoc; otherwise known as The League of M.A.S.H., or simply just M.A.S.H. The heel group's main objective was to take over WFW, and destroy it from within.
The War for WFW's Soul: WFW vs M.A.S.H.[]
After Triple-Khaos had grown into The League of M.A.S.H., WFW's front office staff was all too quick to realize that they were on the defensive line against a brood of rebellious thugs, who threatened to destroy WFW. With Burl Horace the WFW World Heavyweight Champion, WFW's President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Nick Dillonson knew that M.A.S.H. had the upper hand. Thus he decided that the only way for WFW to score a major point in its war against M.A.S.H was to win back the World title belt from Horace. So at WFW's next pay-per-view event, Hardcore Havoc, Dillonson booked a match between Horace and former WFW Champion, Ron Taylor, with the World title on the line. The main event match would be an Extreme Rules match. As usual, both wrestlers put up a great fight, but near the end, M.A.S.H. members David Burke and Jay Walker ran out in an attempt to screw Taylor on Horace's behalf, but were suddenly attacked from behind by WFW superstars who had come out to Taylor's aid. With Walker and Burke subdued, Taylor hit a massive DDT on Horace off the top ring rope onto a table, covered him, and scored the 3-count for the win and the WFW title belt, then subsequently celebrated his second WFW World title reign with the WFW stars who had come out to help him.
Taylor would go on to be the man who led WFW on the front lines against M.A.S.H. due to his popularity among the WFW fans as he was when he had won his first World title from Bryan Richards back in 2012. However, despite this major victory for WFW, M.A.S.H. had also scored a victory on the same night: Burke and Walker, before attempting to screw Taylor out of his match with Horace, had defeated the team of Gus Garrow and Burt Broham for the WFW Tag-Team titles, thus M.A.S.H. was now in possession of the Tag title belts. Nonetheless, Taylor would go on to hold the World title for the duration of the month of October 2013. But during this month, Horace had invoked his re-match clause in his wrestling contract to face Taylor for the WFW title. Dillonson, determined not to let Horace re-gain the World title, decided that Horace would have to earn his shot at the title, thus he booked Horace in a match against former WFW Champion Derek Matthews, in which the winner would get a title shot against Ron Taylor for the belt. On an TV edition of WFW Inferno, Horace fought Matthews in a grueling match, with Horace getting bloodied up a bit. At first Matthews was gaining the upper hand against Horace, until M.A.S.H. spokesperson and former WFW Commissioner Eric Brandon ran out to help his M.A.S.H. comrade win the match, until Matthews' long-time tag-team partner Danny Douglas ran out. At first, it looked like Douglas was going to help his Natural Xpress partner succeed in his match against Horace, when something unexpected happened. When he got in the ring and chased off Brandon, Douglas stared down Horace, until he turned right around and attacked Matthews instead! With Matthews down from Douglas's beating, Horace hit a massive splash off the top rope onto Matthews and pinned him for the 1-2-3 victory. Douglas then hugged Horace and Brandon in the middle of the ring, revealing himself as the newest member of The League of M.A.S.H. much to everyone's surprise and disgust. With this victory, Horace had become the new number-one contender for Ron Taylor's WFW title, and would face him next month for the belt.
After Horace's victory, new M.A.S.H. member Derek Matthews started a feud with his former Natural Xpress partner Danny Douglas, and challenged him to a grudge Street Fight match at WFW's November PPV event, Fury, to which Douglas agreed to. Meanwhile, on November 2, 2013, on an edition of WFW's TV show Epic, Burl Horace fought Ron Taylor for a second time with the World title on the line. Unlike their last battle, however, this match was a strict DQ match, meaning that no one could interfere in the match, and that if Horace would cheat, he would never get a shot at the WFW title ever again. However, if Taylor would cheat, Horace would win the title belt. These stipulations were added by the WFW "Powers That Be." In the end of the match, Taylor, desperate to win and keep the WFW title, suddenly lost control of himself and viciously low-blowed Horace, thus Horace had regained the World title! Then the rest of M.A.S.H. came out and celebrated with Horace and together they all beat down Taylor, then got chase away by loyal WFW superstars. With the World Heavyweight title belt back in the possession of The League of M.A.S.H., WFW CEO Dillonson was irate, and later allowed Taylor to invoke his re-match clause in his WFW contract against Horace at WFW Fury.
At Fury, the grudge Street Fight match between former Natural Xpress Tag-Team partners Derek Matthews and Danny Douglas was intense, with both wrestlers getting bloodied up, but in the end Matthews slammed Douglas onto a table that had been covered in barbed wire, pinned him, and won. Nonetheless, both wrestlers had to be helped to the backstage area and needed stitches in the foreheads. Later, after M.A.S.H. members Jay Walker and David Burke had successfully defended their WFW Tag titles in a rematch against former champions Gus Garrow and Burt Broham, WFW star Ron Taylor fought M.A.S.H. lead star and WFW World Champion Burl Horace for the World title belt for a third consecutive time. In the end, M.A.S.H. spokesperson Eric Brandon ran out to once again try to help Horace win the match, until WFW CEO Nick Dillonson ran out and attacked Brandon, and the two eventually started fighting outside of the ring. With this outside fight distracting the referee, M.A.S.H. member Giganton snuck-up from behind and choke-slammed Taylor, allowing Horace to pin the challenger for the 1-2-3 count after the referee had returned to the match and Giganton had left the ring. With that, Horace had retained the WFW title. Much to Dillonson's anger, he ran into the ring and attacked Horace himself, only to get choke-slammed by Giganton. Eventually, the rest of M.A.S.H., Douglas, Walker, and Burke ran out to help Giganton, Brandon, and Horace assault Dillonson and Taylor. Once again, this led to multiple WFW superstars to run out in an attempt to save Dillonson and Taylor from being assaulted, when suddenly they were all outnumbered by the shocking revelation of new M.A.S.H. members, Hunter Harrison, Montel Palone, and Ken Kruel! With these new additional members, M.A.S.H. had now become the biggest threat to WFW's future.
After M.A.S.H.'s growth in numbers at Fury, everyone in WFW were now starting to have doubts about the company's success in its future endeavors. And with Ron Taylor's second loss to Horace over the WFW title, all of the WFW superstars no longer had faith in him as their "front-man" to lead WFW in its war against M.A.S.H. As such, everyone in WFW began to distrust each other, accusing each other of being "the next guy" to join M.A.S.H.
Roster[]
Wrestlers[]
- Bryan Richards
- Burl Horace
- Burt Broham
- Chris Martell
- DG Brown
- Danny Douglas
- David Burke
- Derek Matthews
- Giganton
- Gus Garrow
- Jacob Brown
- Johnny Jetter
- Myst - Free Agent
- Mike Damon – WFW Founder
- Ron Taylor
- Ricky Ravage
- Ryan Bradley
- Sal Santiago W/Miss Martinez
- Steve Jones
- Terro
- Tyler Stevens
- Zaul
Tag-Teams and Stables[]
The Bad News Browns:
- DG Brown
- Jacob Brown
Current Champions[]
| Title | Champion | Won From/Against | Event | Date Won |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WFW Championship | Ricky Ravage | Burl Horace | War Series | April 20, 2014 |
| WFW Grand Championship | Johnny Jetter | Ryan Bradley | Inferno | April 2, 2014 |
| WFW Tag-Team Championships | Sal Santiago & Terro | The Bad News Browns | Inferno | April 2, 2014 |
Other Accomplishments[]
| Accomplishment | Recent Winner(s) |
|---|---|
| Road to Glory Tournament | |
| "Million Dollar Dream" 30-Man Battle Royal | |
| Tag-Team Turmoil Tournament |
The "Million Dollar Dream" 30-Man Battle Royal is used to determine a new number one contender for the WFW World Heavyweight Championship. Whoever wins the Battle Royal wins a special "Millon Dollar" wrestling belt that can be used by the winner to "cash in" into WFW Management in exchange to face whoever the current World Heavyweight Champion is anytime and anyplace.
Inferno Logo
Epic Logo
War Series Logo
Events[]
TV Programs[]
- Inferno
- Epic
List of Pay-Per-View Events[]
(Each Held Once a Month)
- Road to Ambition - January
- Invincible - February
- Slamathon - March
- War Series - April
- Mayhem - May
- BreakDown - June
- Road Bash - July
- Summer Survival - August (Click here for Summer Survival PPV Results)
- Hardcore Havoc - September (Click here for Hardcore Havoc PPV Results)
- The Ultimate Bash - October (Click here for The Ultimate Bash PPV Results)
- Fury - November (Click here for Fury PPV Results)
- Resolution Rage - December
Special Live Event[]
- One Night Stand - Held in July.
WFW Management Staff[]
Administrative Department[]
| Employee | Note(s) |
|---|---|
| "The Powers That Be" | Anonymous Owner & Chairman |
| Nick Dillonson | President/CEO |
Production Department[]
| Employee | Note(s) |
|---|---|
| Sam Johnston | Executive Producer |
| Frank Howell | Producer/Television Director |
| Bob Forman | Producer |
| Andrew Charles | Producer |
Writing (Booking) Department[]
| Employee | Note(s) |
|---|---|
| Victor James | Head Writer |
| Brian Runnels | Co-Head Writer |
| Ed Curtis | Writer |
WFW Alumni[]
Wrestlers[]
- Bob Anthony - Former Wrestler
- Jay Walker - Former Wrestler
- Hunter Harrison - Former Wrestler
- Montel Palone - Former Wrestler
- Ken Kruel - Former Wrestler
Staff[]
- Alan Korpela - Former Writer
- John Lauren - Former Head Writer
- Ron Collins - Former Writer