Border City Wrestling (BCW) is an independent professional wrestling promotion based in Windsor, Ontario. It is the base promotion for several Total Nonstop Action Wrestling superstars, including all of Team Canada, Chris Sabin and Alex Shelley. Many BCW employees were trained by Scott D'Amore, the owner and booker of BCW, at the Can-Am Wrestling School.
BCW was founded in 1993 by D'Amore, Chuck Fader and Doug Chevalier. After Chevalier left Ontario in 1994 and Fader left the company after being diagnosed with throat cancer in 2000, D'Amore became the sole owner. D'Amore closed BCW for several months in late-2000, but re-opened the company later that year.
In 2001, several Extreme Championship Wrestling employees who had been made redundant when ECW declared bankruptcy in April 2001 joined the company. On August 29, 2001, BCW held the "Mikey Whipwreck Retirement Bash" to honour the retirement of Mikey Whipwreck. Fader returned to BCW in late-2001 as a publicist when his cancer went into remission.
In 2004, BCW owner Scott D'Amore and partner, Jeffrey Scott, took over Ontario Championship Wrestling and took on an additional partner, James Trepanier, from OCW.
On September 15, 2005, several American wrestlers, most with TNA Wrestling, wrestled for BCW in an event called BCW International Incident. During the event, TNA employee Abyss won the BCW Canadian-American (Can-Am) Heavyweight Championship from Bobby Roode, and Rhino defeated A-1 to become number-one contender. In addition, TNA wrestler Jeff Jarrett challenged fellow TNA wrestler Raven for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. With the unexpected help of America's Most Wanted (who turned heel in the process), Jarrett won the title.
In the summer of 2006, BCW announced a "brand extension" or sorts, known as BCW: Sin City Wrestling. Sin City Wrestling is more of an adult-oriented show which the company promotes as 'R rated'. Sin City runs smaller scale shows featuring local talent and students from the Can-Am Wrestling School.
BCW holds most of its events in the Ciociaro Club in Oldcastle, a suburb of Windsor. They also partner with Prime Time Wrestling in Detroit, Michigan, which uses several of the same wrestlers. BCW went on hiatus, not having run a show since the summer of 2006.
It was announced in March 2008 that BCW will be holding their first show in almost 2 years, on May 3, 2008. The event will take place at Brentwood Recovery Home and will feature former WWE & ECW Superstar Al Snow.
