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WAN History
The History of WAN wrestling originally (NAW)started an independent wrestling circuit which turned national and the reason many people do not remember the company it has basically been erased in history by vince mcmahon who bought the company in 2002. WAN had many wrestlers which are well known now. From 1988-2001 WAN had a tv deal with ION Television i do not know the name formely held by ION Television. WAN had many sucessful years such as 96-97.Colors or Carlos Hernandez Owned the Company.

Alumini

Batman

Crazy 8

Ultimo Dragon

Mortis

Jeff Hardy

Matt Hardy

Hurricane Helmsley

Han Zo Mon

Han Zo Don

Jerkel

Big Daddy

Fishy Fishy

Sheldon Benjamin

Slasher

RVD (Robert Van Dam)

Rey Mysterio Jr.

Buzz

Omegus

Vortex

Falcon

Daken

Professor Frank

Shogun

Charles Haas Sr.

Nasty Knoobs

Bob Holly

Big Bob

Johnny Tusnami

Touchdown

Kim Sue Yung

Myagi Yoshi

Taka

Funaki

Jerry Lyn

Zack Zygi

Brent Zygi

Tidy

OMFG

Colors (Owner of WAN)

Bull Dozer

Lance Storm

American Dragon

Africa

Birdman

Electric Shock

Danny Franklin

Grool Face

BIG BLACK Jack

Robert Zybrisco

Van Hammer

Mr.Kidman

Scorpion

Gargoyle

And many more unknown wrestlers

'''WAN early years

In 1988 a buisness man named Carlos Hernandez owned a buisness with his father they raised enough money to bye a bulding his father suddenly passed and in the will gave the buisness to his son. Carlos secretly loved wrestling but was scared to tell his father so he decided to open a small wrestling circuit in 1983 called NAW (National Altitude Wrestling) he only had $60,000 to do so. He signed 7 wrestlers by the name LA Park, Han Zo Mon, Bull Dozer, Jerkel, Africa, Crazy 8, and Birdman and these would be the wrestlers to start off the company. Carlos bought a ring and later tried to promote the company only 96 people showed in the maximum comapacity of 2,256 people. Carlos was devistated and believed he was gonna go bankrupt the minute he started but then the next week 120 people showed then 160 then 201 and in about 3 months he would have people standing up to watch the show. Then more and more wrestlers started to join the company. Then in a blink of an eye NAW's most popular superstar Crazy 8 died in a car accident. The company never felt the same. Then, The company would boom into something much bigger.

WAN 1988-1996

At the beggining of 1988 a person walked up to Carlos and asked if he could speak with him. Then it happened to be a marketing agent for ION television who noticed that the comapny was growing and asked Hernandez if he wanted to have a meeting with the president and Carlos already knew. They soon signed a contract where renamed NAW (now WAN) would be live on television. In 1990 the comapny would be booming signing many people like Robert Van Dam, Rey Mysterio, and many many more talent. 1990 would introduce many new styles of wrestling Matt and Jeff Hardy brung backyard style wrestling to the company and showed that the ropes were a big part of the ring. Dooms Day would be a huge sucess and then in a matter of no time WAN was officially a target for the WWE(F). Many talent did leave to go to the new company called WCW and some even to ECW. But then in the years passing video games, endorsments, and even vhs tapes would make Carlos Hernandez a rich man. Ladders matches table matches and many more matches would introduce giving fans what they wanted the new hip hardcore wrestling. With new wrestlers, titles, and match concepts coming to the company it was on a boom. Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, RVD, Slasher, Rey Mysterio, and the Han Zo brothers were just a few wrestlers who would attract audiences who love watching high flying and hardcore action. Not only that but they were getting ratings like 2.0 or higher which defitnately put them on a petistule but soon things would change for the worst.

WAN 1997-2003

1997 was called the biggest year of WAN but also the death year. Carlos would soon start to get sneaky with money and usually didnt pay the wrestlers or simply told them they will not get paid and that would put rage in the hearts of wrestlers. Big names such as Batman, Han Zo Mon, Ultimo Dragon, Mortis, RVD, Rey Mysterio Jr, and basically most of his wrestlers left putting the buisness in deep trouble and soon women started to protest because women wrestlers would never be seen. Later Carlos would make a remark very disrespectful to the homosexual community which would send chaos. Soon Carlos was desperate for money begging his rich fans for money and hiring people off the street to wrestle for him. In 2000 WAN would reach there lowest viewings they have had since 1988 and the company would try everything to make money, but this simply wasn't enough and ION Television would take the show off air. In 2002 Carlos had nothing else so he simply sold the company to Vincent Kennedy McMahon. With his wrestlers, the homosexual community, and the women furious at Carlos he soon fled the country and went back to Mexico to open his own dealership buisness. January 12, 2003 would be there last show and ION television would give them there own special to do so. Surprisingly many former superstars returned such as Rey Mysterio, Ultimo Dragon and much more. WAN was a great company but sadly bad marketing, bad spending and booking decisions, offensive remarks, and all of the big names would go to ECW, WCW, and WWE the company would plemish and Vince would simply through its history in the trash. There were many things that killed WAN such as bad match concepts some were sucess like the cage with a top match and TLC and fire and many more but matches such as tag the champion match or double cage matches were failures. It would lead to many injuries and the new generation wrestlers would oftenly make mistakes all through the match. The most sucessful match they had was title on barbwire match where the title would hang high at 14 ft in the air and the wrestlers would stand on a wooden platform and if they would fall they would have tables waiting for them at the bottom. The only man to win the match was Slasher with an astounding 9 wins.

Some World title Holders include:

Mortis

Han Zo Mon

Batman

Bull Dozer

Jeff Hardy

and many others

The top 10 superstars before WAN died were

1.Mortis

2.Batman

3.Han Zo Brothers

4.Fishy Fishy

5.RVD (Robert Van Dam)

6.Rey Mysterio Jr.

7.Jeff Hardy

8.Matt Hardy

9.Crazy 8

10.Bull Dozer

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