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DCW History
Dutch Championship Wrestling (DCW) was founded in February 2004 by a group of disgruntled former Dutch Wrestling Federation (DWF) members. After the group decided to leave the now-defunct DWF they decided to put their plan in motion: to form a new Dutch wrestling organisation - Dutch Championship Wrestling.

Dutch Championship Wrestling decided to invest in the future so they send Mark Kodiak and Mike Santos over to the United States of America, where they trained at the famed WWA4 Wrestling School in Atlanta, Georgia. WWA4 is formerly known as the World Championship Wrestling Powerplant, the place where former WCW and WWE World Heavyweight Champion Bill Goldberg received his wrestling training. While there they met, and were trained by, former WCW Superstar Glacier. Kodiak and Santos, together known as the Holland Hitmen, almost won the Platinum Championship Wrestling Tag Team Titles, but sadly, they lost the final.

Back in the Netherlands plans were put in motion to organize the first ever DCW show. The city of Rotterdam was chosen to be the city to host the big debut of Dutch Championship Wrestling.

On Sunday, August 29 2004, Dutch Championship Wrestling successfully debuted in front of a fantastic crowd of 325 fans in Off_Corso with DCW Shockwave. DCW Shockwave featured a mixture of some of the best Dutch wrestling talent and internationally acclaimed talent like Swi$$ Money Holding’s Claudio Castagnoli. The biggest selling point of DCW Shockwave was the Dutch debut of former WWF Superstar, the legendary Honky Tonk Man.

On Sunday, March 20, 2005 Dutch Championship Wrestling returned to the city of Rotterdam for our second show. Former WWF Superstar Jim ‘The Anvil’ Neidhart was supposed to make his Dutch wrestling debut but he failed to show up. During the hectic last few days before the event DCW Officials made sure to find a suitable replacement in ‘The Stampede Kid’ TJ Wilson. In the main event DCW Champion Mike Santos successfully defended his title against Ring Of Honor Superstar Chad Collyer. Even though the Anvil no-showed the event still draw many enthusiastic fans to the Atlantic Palace.

On Saturday April 30, Dutch Championship Wrestling took part during the Koninginnedag festivities in the city of Naaldwijk with our first ever free open-air promotional event called DCW Live. During the event Mark Kodiak lost his cool and brutally attacked the Trouble Maker; while Kenzo Richards not only attacked a girl from the crowd, he also scored an upset victory over DCW Champion Mike Santos in a non-title match.

On Thursday, May the 5th, the Dutch National Liberation Day, Dutch Championship Wrestling debuted at Party-Congrescentrum De Leuningjes in the city of Poeldijk with the first ever edition of DCW Thursday Turbulence drawing a decent crowd of 150 DCW Fans for our first weekday show. Kenzo Richards successfully defended his Number One Contendership against the Trouble Maker who lost his first singles match in over two years. Mark Kodiak once again showed his newly found mean streak as he brutally attacked TJ Cain, hitting him with three deadly Grizzly Bombs. In the main event DCW Champion Mike Santos successfully defended the DCW Title against US Indy Star Chris Hero.

On Sunday, August 7, Dutch Championship Wrestling invaded the city of Weert, Limburg with DCW Live II during the All-American Day Festival. DCW Live II was the first DCW event outside of the Randstad area. Even though the event was hit by some bad weather, it was still a huge success as the crowd gathered around the ring to see Kenzo Richards retain his Number One Contendership against the Trouble Maker in a rematch of DCW Thursday Turbulence plus the DCW debut of Max Damon and the 6’9”, 400 lbs. monster Big Bull Johnson.

On Wednesday, August 31, DCW returned to the city of Poeldijk for the third successful edition of DCW Live. Both Shane Marx and Lunacyk arrived earlier from the United States to compete at DCW Live III. Shane Marx won the Poeldijk Rumble to earn himself a shot at the DCW Championship. During the title match Kenzo Richards interfered to cost Shane Marx the title.

On Sunday, September 4, Dutch Championship Wrestling celebrated our First Year Anniversary with DCW Shockwave II. The Honky Tonk Man made his return to Rotterdam to face Number One Contender Kenzo Richards in his final test before his promised title match. Kenzo Richards scored a big upset victory when he defeated the WWF Legend. Mark Kodiak shocked the crowd by knocking out referee Richard van IJsseldijk with a chair. Kodiak counted the pin himself with the hand of the knocked-out referee to score his first victory in a singles match in over a year. In the main event Mike Santos once again showed why he is the rightful owner of the DCW Title as he defeated ‘The Wonderkid’ Jonny Storm in an exciting match.

On Sunday, January 22, Dutch Championship Wrestling held its first event of 2006 as we returned to the city of Poeldijk for the first ever edition of DCW Sunday Night Slam. History was made as Heresy, who made his DCW Debut as the mystery tag team partner of Mark Kodiak, scored the pin for his team on GPW International Champion TJ Cain, and won the title. In the main event of the evening, the long awaited and much anticipated showdown between DCW Champion Mike Santos and Kenzo Richards finally took place. The DCW Champion retained the title after assigned referee Richard van IJsseldijk was attacked by Mark Kodiak and Heresy, and disqualified the challenger.

On Sunday, March 5, Mike Santos and Kenzo Richards once again crossed paths during the second edition of DCW Sunday Night Slam. First they signed the contract to make the DCW Championship Rematch official. During the main event both revealed their Mystery Partners; Kenzo Richards teamed up with Big Bull Johnson and Mike Santos with the Trouble Maker. In the end Kenzo Richards climbed to new heights and stood victories on top of a ladder which was used in a post-match beat down on the DCW Champion and his tag team partner. Mark Kodiak and Heresy continued their path of destruction by demolishing JC Thunder and Damon Leigh. Both Bubblegum and ‘The Model’ Danny Hope made their DCW debut.

On Sunday, March 26, Mike Santos defended the DCW Championship against Kenzo Richards in the first ever Ladder Match in DCW History. The match ended in a controversial way and was declared a no-contest by DCW Commissioner Marco van Campenhout when assigned referee Richard van IJsseldijk and referee Eelco Spruit couldn’t agree on who had actually won the match. Earlier DCW Senior Referee Richard was knocked down; soon after his replacement Eelco was knocked down too. Santos reclaimed his Belt but Kenzo attacked him and took the Belt claiming to have won the Belt. Eelco awarded the victory to Kenzo but Richard saw Santos with the Belt and awarded him the victory. In other matches, JC Thunder, who teamed up with El Ligero, finally gained some revenge over the Ruthless Bastards as he put Mark Kodiak through a Table. And Chris Wyld not only defeated Joey Hayes in singles competition; he also won the DCW Gold Mine Rumble to advance to the DCW Gold Mine Tournament Final!