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Canadian Pride Wrestling (background info); It's always been the place to be
Topic Started: Mar 16 2011, 09:36 PM (613 Views)
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Canadian Pride Wrestling - "Grappling's Finest, North Of The Border"
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Opened by a 30 year old businessman from Oklahoma, Paul Reed, beginning
in 1970. Cards were held up and down the Golden Horseshoe area of
Southern Ontario and Quebec, anchor cities being Toronto and Quebec City.
Weekly wrestling programs in both Toronto and Quebec (known there as as
Soirée de Lutte Canadienne - Canadian Wrestling Night) helped solidy CPW
as the preeminent Canadian wrestling promotion of the 70's and 80's.

Major supercards were held twice yearly. The first was usually during
the summer with different names each year and usually in a different
location. The second, and biggest show of the year was held around
Canadian Thanksgiving each October, and called Rush For The Gold
(shortened to Gold Rush in 1990 for the 90-93 events).

Reed ran the day to day operations of the promotion from its inception
until 1982 when he was forced to relinquish some control to his head
booker at the time, Eddie Thompson, after suffering a heart attack. From
then on Reed's medical problems continued off and on, hampering his
ability to run every aspect of CPW.

In 1984 the promotion changed it's name in Ontario to the Ultimate
Universal Wrestling Federation, but retained the name Canadian Pride
Wrestling in Quebec. The change to UUWF only lasted 3 years before
returning to the traditional CPW moniker due to fan disapproval, though
popular opinion has it Reed never liked the name and was actually on a
medical hiatus when the decision to change was made. Business remained
solid upon his return, and only after it started to decline in the late
80's did Reed seek to restore the promotion's original name.

Reed and Thompson finally shut down in late 1993 due to financial
problems, coupled with Paul Reed's continuing health problems. It also
coincided with the in-ring retirement of the last major star to work for
CPW, Jimmy Junas, due to a knee injury.

Several smaller promotions ran the territory for the next couple of
years, until the Universal Wrestling Federation started up in March 1996.
Paul Reed was brought in by the upstart UWF as an on-air interviewer and
later president of the company as a way to bridge the gap from the past
to the present. Similarly, Jimmy Junas was named senior referee and has
served in that capacity for more than a decade.
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