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Extreme Showdown Wrestling (ESW)
Extreme Showdown Wrestling (ESW) is a backyard wrestling company that originated in Somerset, Texas in the year of 2005. It was founded by Alex Garza, Austen Garza, and Paul Lex. ESW posts it's shows,recap videos, and information on Youtube,Facebook, and formerly MySpace. ESW features scripted and pre determined matches for entertainment purposes and because of this it has grown popular throughout the world. Also this prevents the wrestlers from frequently getting injured.

ESW's live fan base consist of juggalos and the Somerset community while online they average over 20'000 views with every video on Youtube. They wrestlers compete with 4 trampolines, a scaffold, and the ground. ESW consist a variety of weapons with almost every match such as:nails, tacks, forks, light tubes, salt, mousetraps, injection needles, plywood, fire, steel steps, dirt, glass, etc. Despite with numerous weapons there ha only been a few major injuries.

ESW has produced other forms of entertainment besides wrestling. They have made a Youtube exclusive mini movie in 2010 called "Midnight Terrors". They also made a mini series called "ESW". They have filmed a movie with people from Guys Like Us

Like most backyard wrestling company's however ESW is looked down upon by many professional wrestlers and professional wrestling fans. Ironically several professional wrestlers competed in ESW.

The Beginning (2005-2008)
Before ESW actually began Alex and Austen Garza were wrestling each other in their backyard in Somerset, Texas which was recorded by their mother. Paul Lex moved there and befriended Alex and Austen. They would spend everyday mimicking the wrestlers on WCW Nitro in their backyard. They would make a variety of backyard wrestling names but eventually ending up with ESW. It is unknown weather they used weapons during this time.

In 2006 Alex became in the 7th grade where he made friends with Joshua Cruz. Joshua soon joined ESW and along with Paul Lex and Austen Garza they made a show called the Wednesday Night Wars. It featured the first ever ESW Tag Team Championship. In the documentary it is seen with Joshua and Austen (M.O.D. and Austen G) but it seemingly disappeared in the future. They used smoke bombs as pyro and even though at that time there was only 4 people they portrayed a variety of characters. They made a website on BlogSpot to help promote there shows.

ESW was cancelled for unknown reasons. It wasn't until 2007 or early 2008 that the Wednesday Night Wars and ESW returned. At this time Alex Garza was in high school and met Chris Giddens and Andrew Olivia. He invited them to his house and they talked him into bringing the company back. Alex called Paul Lex and asked if he wanted to wrestle again for ESW. He agreed and he was made the first ESW Champion. Every week they would film for Wednesday Night Wrestling and Alex had gotten better with his filming/editing skills so the quality of the video was more advanced them they first started. Now that they had 6 people they would now have a full match card. However the fan base was still at a minimum.

2008
While focusing on the show Alex Garza was also focusing on building up the ESW fanbase. They used more weapons in their matches, M.O.D. (Joshua Cruz)