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Southside Wrestling Entertainment
Southside Wrestling Entertainment is a British professional wrestling promotion that was established in 2010. Ben Auld is the majority owner, chairman and founder of the company. Originally entitled NBW: Southside as a Cambridgeshire based sister promotion of Yorkshire based Nortons British Wrestling, the two companies parted ways in 2011 and the promotion was rebranded as Southside Wrestling Entertainment. In 2011 the promotion expanded to run semi-monthly shows in Nottinghamshire along with it's Cambridgeshire base. SWE focuses on utilizing the best wrestling talent available in England along with internationally to create shows appreciated by all wrestling fans.

2010/11
On the 24th of October 2010 NBW: Southside presented their debut show in Cambridge. Future long standing roster members such as Martin Kirby, El Ligero, Robbie X and Kris Travis all featured on this show.

In the first show of 2011 NBW: Southside marked their debut in their future home venue in St Neots, Cambridgeshire. This show also featured debuts of future WWE NXT wrestler Paige and her mother, former SHIMMER Champion, Saraya Knight along with former TNA British Bootcamp competitor, Marty Scurll. This show also marked the first appearance of the masked wrestler, Ego Dragon, who immediately began a feud with fellow masked wrestler, El Ligero.

After a debut show in Preston, Lancashire, NBW: Southside returned to St Neots to present the debuts of former WWE and WCW wrestler, Dave Taylor, former Gladiator, Jemma Palmer and future TNA British Bootcamp Winner, Rockstar Spud. NBW: Southside presented their last show under that banner on the 3rd of June in Preston with a show that featured the debut of then TNA superstar, Doug Williams, as well as the debut of Nottinghamshire based wrestler, Stixx.

Now known as Southside Wrestling Entertainment they debuted in Huntingdon in September 2011. A further debut would follow the next month as they presented their first show in Nottingham. This show was entitled "Salvation" to attempt to salvage the situation created by the collapse of 1PW who were to run a supershow on that date featuring Shawn Michaels, a move that left many out of pocket with refunds still being owed to this day. This show was co-promoted with Japanese Joshi promotion, Ice Ribbon, who were originally supposed to work with 1PW and ran their very first UK event immediately after the SWE show.

On Sunday the 6th of November SWE presented their One Year Anniversary Show headlined by Kris Travis against Martin Kirby along with T-Bone winning the Southside Heavyweight Championship in a triple threat match against Greg Burridge and Val Kabious. For their last show of 2011 they made their return to Nottingham where Stixx turned heel in a match against El Ligero, the storyline explanation being given was that Stixx was unhappy with another promotion running the Nottingham area and in direct competition with his own training school and academy wrestling promotion, the House Of Pain. This show marked the last ever UK wrestling match of former ROH World Champion, Nigel McGuinness, who defeated Martin Kirby.

2012
2012 saw a quick return to Nottingham in February which featured the debuts of then American Indy Wrestler, Sami Callihan (Now Solomon Crowe in WWE NXT), UK wrestler Joel Redman (Now Oliver Grey in WWE NXT) as well as WWE and WCW star, Fit Finlay, in his brief absence from the WWE. March's return to St Neots saw the debut of former TNA wrestler, Mark Haskins, to become a full time fixture with the promotion going forward. Their Huntingdon April show saw the first official one on one match between Ego Dragon and El Ligero after over a years worth of encounters in a match in which Dragon would claim victory.

Marty Scurll won the inaugural Speed King event and the Speed King Championship belt in a six man elimination match in Nottingham. 12 light heavyweights including then Dragon Gate star, PAC (Now Adrian Neville in WWE NXT) competed in 6 one on one matches before the six man finale. The Speed King event is a now well established yearly event for SWE.

In May 2012 in St Neots Scurll made his first successful Speed King Title defence against Haskins, a second singles match between Ego Dragon and El Ligero ended in a No Contest, Max Angelus won SWE's first ever Money In The Bank match and in a shocking move, former WWE wrestler, Rene Dupree won the Southside Heavyweight Championship in a triple threat match against T-Bone and former WWE signee, Rampage Brown. This would mark Dupree's first and last appearance with the promotion as although he came over on a three month visa to live and work in England due to extreme home sickness he left the country only a few weeks later.

Following Dupree's departure the next show was headlined by a Street Fight between Ego Dragon and El Ligero in Nottingham. The two battled for over 25 minutes until the top ring rope was dismantled by Dragon and then used to choke Ligero unconscious for the knock out victory. Also on that show Max Angelus, a House Of Pain roster member but with impartiality to the on-going feud between the two promotions, was defeated in a singles match by House Of Pain leader, Stixx, so Max's contract became property of Stixx.

Presenting their first double shot of shows on back to back nights in August they were joined that weekend by ROH star, Davey Richards, along with crowning Southside's first ever Tag Team Champions when The Predators (Paul Malen and Joseph Connors) defeated Project Ego (Martin Kirby and Kris Travis) on the first night in Huntingdon and a new Southside Heavyweight Champion when Stixx defeated Mark Haskins for the vacant belt on the second night in Nottingham. October saw SWE make their Stevenage debut in the beginning of the month followed by their Second Anniversary Show in St Neots at the end of the month. As American promotion CZW was over at the time several of their wrestlers appeared on the card at St Neots which was main evented by Ego Dragon against El Ligero in a mask vs mask, no ropes match. After almost 30 minutes El Ligero finally claimed a victory over his rival and Ego Dragon was unmasked, revealed to be one of Ligero's best friends, Martin Kirby. Although this match was billed as a feud ender, Kirby attacked the shocked Ligero and claimed their feud was far from over before embarking upon a brief sabbatical from the company. This show also saw the Speed King Championship change hands as Robbie X won the belt in an elimination four-way also featuring Jonathan Gresham, Martin Kirby (pre-unmasking) and former Champion, Marty Scurll.

Southside finished the year with another double shot in Nottingham and Huntingdon. The Nottingham event was billed as an inter-promotional show feud ender between Southside and House Of Pain which saw Southside win the rivalry as well as crown a new Southside Heavyweight Champion as after Stixx's ambiguous successful title defence over Mark Haskins, Max Angelus, who had earlier in the night walked out on House Of Pain and his contract, cashed in his money in the bank to defeat Stixx and become the new Heavyweight Champion. As an added bonus the show also saw New Japan Pro Wrestling wrestler and then IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion, Prince Devitt, wrestle ROH star, Michael Elgin, in a first time ever international dream match. The next night Max made his first title defence against Michael Elgin and Prince Devitt faced El Ligero in the main event.

2013
Beginning 2013 with a small debut show in Letchworth in February with former WWE and ROH wrestler, Colt Cabana, in which former Southside Heavyweight Champion, T-Bone, won a one night four man elimination tournament for a future Heavyweight Title shot. That shot came on the March St Neots show where he unsuccessfully challenged Max Angelus. Also that show featured Robbie X successfully defending the Speed King Championship in a one on one rematch against Marty Scurll in the main event.

April saw the first double shot of 2013 with shows in Stevenage and Huntingdon that featured WWE Hall Of Fame inductee, the Million Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase and former ECW legend, Tommy Dreamer, in Stevenage. Along with the Southside debuts of Dragon Gate USA, Open The Freedom Gate Champion, Johnny Gargano and two weeks removed from his ROH World Championship loss, Kevin Steen. After a tainted victory over Steen in the Huntingdon main event, Stixx took to threatening the promoters family in order to secure a future rematch against Max Angelus. This weekend also saw the return of Martin Kirby after his unmasking as Ego Dragon in October the previous year where he informed El Ligero that their feud was far from over.

The second annual Speed King event in Nottingham saw the Speed King Championship change hands as Robbie X was eliminated in the first round by Dean Allmark. Future WWE NXT wrestler Kalisto (then Samuray Del Sol), CHIKARA mainstay Jigsaw, and former TNA and current ROH wrestler, Jay Lethal, all made their debuts with the company. Lethal would be the only man out of the three to advance to the six way elimination final where he would ultimately out last Martin Kirby to become the third Speed King Champion.

Stixx regained the Southside Heavyweight Championship from Max Angelus at the June St Neots show and Mark Haskins won the second Money In The Bank match. This show also saw the debuts of The Sumerian Death Squad, wXw World Heavyweight Champion Tommy End and his partner Michael Dante, and an I Quit match between Kirby and Ligero that ended with a referee stoppage in the favour of Ligero, something Kirby did not take kindly with as he never said the words to end the match.

July saw a return to Letchworth where Stixx successfully defended the Heavyweight Championship against Johnny Storm and Mark Haskins bested recently released TNA wrestler, Doug Williams. August saw another double shot this time in Nottingham and Huntingdon with the Southside debuts of ECW icon, Sabu, and former ECW/WWE wrestler Super Crazy. The wXw World Heavyweight Championship was defended in England as Tommy End took on Zack Sabre, Jr on the same night Jay Lethal successfully defended the Speed King Championship against former champion, Robbie X. Lethal's reign would come to an end the very next night however as Martin Kirby would avenge his loss from the Speed King Finals and become the fourth Speed King Champion.

Continuing the CZW partnership at their September Nottingham show the holder of the CZW World Heavyweight Championship, Drew Gulak, defended his belt against MK McKinnan. Drew Gulak wasn't the only Southside debut as A. R. Fox competed in a three-way against Tommy End and El Ligero and Drake Younger faced off against Mark Haskins. CHIKARA and Dragon Gate USA was also represented at the show as Solider Ant faced Stixx and in the main event, Ricochet took on Zack Sabre Jnr. To further push the feud between Kirby and Ligero, Kirby attacked Ligero's ex-girlfriend, Kay Lee Ray.

October saw two shows take place at the middle and end of the month in Stevenage and St Neots respectively, the St Neots show acting as their Third Year Anniversary. Stevenage saw the debuts of former WCW, WWE, NJPW and Toryumon founder, Ultimo Dragon, along with former WWE and TNA star, The Pope Elijah Burke, and Michinoku Pro Wrestling's Kenbai. And the returns of Davey Richards and Michael Elgin. The latter two would team up in the main event to replace the absent Brian Cage (Richards had wrestled earlier in the night against El Liger) to take on the reunited Project Ego.

The Anniversary show proved to be a sell-out as The Predators retained their Tag Team Title's against top contenders The Hunter Brothers and the Bhangra Knights, Tommy End defeated Davey Richards in an international challenge match and Mark Haskins became the new Southside Heavyweight Champion when he dethroned Stixx in a three-way also featuring former Champion, Max Angelus. The night was headlined by Southside's first ever cage match in which Kirby managed to defeat El Ligero and retain his Speed King Title in the process whilst also damaging the mask of Ligero by cutting a horn off and tearing the fabric around his mouth and eye.

The final event of 2013 was Southside's first ever "Supershow" that took place in November in Nottingham and featured the debut of former WWE wrestlers Hardcore Holly, Chris Masters and Kharma (Awesome Kong in TNA). Kevin Steen returned in a main event rematch against Stixx and Dragon Gate USA Uhaa Nation made his debut as Haskins first challenger for the Southside Heavyweight Championship. The Predators Southside Tag Team Championship reign came to an end at 456 days when they were defeated by the first time tandem of Robbie X and Mark Haskins (pulling double duty after his match with Uhaa). The bad news for House Of Pain continued during the course of the night as HOP's ring announcer/manager Harvey Dale was fired from Southside after a Loser Leaves elimination match and Stixx was defeated by Kevin Steen.

2014
Southside started 2014 with three seperate shows in March. The first came at the beginning of the month in St Neots with another sell-out as Chris Masters returned to defeat T-Bone and become number one contender to the Heavyweight Championship. The team of Haskins and Robbie X made their first successful Tag Team Title defense against former Champions, The Predators, the result of that match saw Connors attack Malen and effectively end their tag team and Tommy End faced off with a returning Dave Mastiff. The main event saw the debut of ROH Television Champion, Tommaso Ciampa, as he defended his Title against Kris Travis. The next weekend Southside returned to Nottingham for an afternoon and evening show with debuts from former WWE wrestler, Trent Barreta and Dragon Gate USA Star, Rich Swann. Dragon Gate USA Open The Freedom Gate Champion, Johnny Gargano, returned to the promotion to defend his Title against Robbie X on the afternoon show. Gargano faced ROH Television Champion, Tomasso Ciampa, on the evening show while Swann faced Mark Andrews, Tommy End defeated Robbie X and made a challenge to Mark Haskins who in turn defeated Trent Barreta in the nights main event to retain his Southside Heavyweight Championship.

For their last March event Southside came back to Stevenage with the debuts of former WWE Tag Team Champions, Brian Kendrick and Paul London who faced Mark Haskins and Robbie X for the Southside Tag Team Championships in the nights main event. Earlier that night Project Ego became the number one contenders to those belts and Michael Dante won a four-way for a Title shot of his choosing at any given time. As soon as Haskins and Robbie X had successfully defended those belts, Dante and Tommy End, the Summerian Death Squad came down to the ring and with the assistance of Stixx they duct-taped Haskins to the ring ropes while they attacked and then pinned Robbie X to become the new and third Southside Heavyweight Tag Team Champions.

The 2014 edition of Speed King took place on April the 26th in Nottingham. Prince Devitt and A. R. Fox made their Southside returns and former TNA X Division Champion Petey Williams made his debut during the afternoon show. Martin Kirby managed to retain his Speed King Championship outlasting Kay Lee Ray, A. R. Fox, Robbie X, Will Ospreay and Pete Dunne in the evenings main event and Mark Haskins successfully defended his SWE Heavyweight Championship for the fourth time against Prince Devitt.

On the 11th of May former WWF Light Heavyweight Champion, WCW Cruiserweight Champion and TNA X Division Champion X-Pac made his Southside debut at a show entitled X-Factor. The main event of the show was X-Pac teaming up with Robbie X to defeat Project Ego and Joseph Conners and Paul Malen faced each other for the first time in a singles match which ended in a double count out.

Southside presented two shows in June. The first at St Neots saw debuts from former WWE and WCW wrestlers The Hurricane and Juventud Guerrera along with former WWE NXT contracted wrestler and former PWG World Champion Chris Hero. On that show Mark Haskins retained his Southside Heavyweight Championship against Tommy End, albeit via DQ. The mind games between Haskins and End continued with at their Stoke debut show as a video package played from End distracted Haskins in the nights main event which resulted in a tag team loss against Project Ego. Conners and Malen's feud continued in Stoke but this time ended in a double DQ.

August's annual tradition of back to back weekend shows continued with afternoon and evening shows in Nottingham followed by one in St Neots. At the Nottingham afternoon show Martin Kirby defeated former WWF Intercontinental Champion Marty Jannetty, former ROH World Champion Roderick Strong defeated former TNA World Champion Chris Sabin, Mark Andrews and Will Ospreay in a four-way match and also Mark Haskins and Robbie X defeated The Sumerian Death Squad in a non-title match. At the evening show Chris Masters made an unadvertised appearance losing to Joseph Conners via DQ after the latter had just defeated Jannetty. Former WWE star Tatanka also debuted for Southside and Chris Sabin beat Robbie X. In the evenings two title matches Mark Haskins again defended the Southside Heavyweight Championship against Tommy End but again lost via DQ so the belt didn't change hands and Kay Lee Ray dethroned Martin Kirby's year long reign as Southside Speed King Champion to become the fifth Champion.

For the St Neots show Kay Lee Ray made her first successful defense of her Speed King Championship, Chris Sabin teamed with Will Ospreay to defeat The Hunter Brothers, Chris Masters defeated Eddie Dennis, Paul Malen beat Joseph Conners in the first match between the two to finish, The Sumerian Death Squad made their first successful defense of their Southside Tag Team Championship against the number one contenders, Project Ego, and in the night's main event Mark Haskins made his eighth Southside Championship defense against Roderick Strong.

Southside are set to make their debut in Sheffield with the current PWG World Tag Team Champions, The World's Cutest Tag Team (Joey Ryan & Candice LaRae) as they face Project Ego.

CZW will continue their relationship with Southside with four shows in October in Nottingham and St Neots that will also feature former WWE wrestler, Scotty 2 Hotty and a No Ropes Barbed Wire match between DJ Hyde and Jimmy Havoc, the first time that match type has occurred in England for eight years.

Their Fourth Year Anniversary show will take place on October 25th in Stevenage with the returns of Hardcore Holly and Chris Masters with the debuts of Chavo Guerrera and former TNA World Tag Team Champions, Bad Influence (Christopher Daniels & Frankie Kazarian) along with a 30 man battle royal.