History Wrestling / GameChangerWrestling

* '''GCW World Championship:''' '''Wrestling/NickGage''' since October 8, 2022

* '''GCW Tag Team Championships:''' '''Mega Bastards (Alex Colón and John Wayne Murdoch)''' since September 3, 2022

* KnifeNut: Allie Katch occasionally tries carving up her opponents.

* BigBad: 44OH! (and, more specifically, Rickey Shane Page) spent a lot of their time as this. Matt Cardona took over from RSP for a while, and Charles Mason seems to be angling for the role.

* OddFriendship: Late 2022 created one in the form of Nick Gage and Maki Itoh, of all people.

* TheStoner: Grim Reefer, as one might expect from the name. He even lights up during matches.

* '''GCW Extreme Championship:''' '''Cole Radrick''' since July 29, 2022

* '''GCW Ultraviolent Championship:''' '''Alex Colon''' since November 13, 2021
* '''GCW Extreme Championship:''' '''AJ Gray''' since January 15, 2022
* '''GCW Tag Team Championships:''' '''BUSSY (Effy and Allie Katch)''' since April 9, 2022

* TheAce: For most of the 2010's, it was Nick Gage, who held the title for almost two years. More recently, thanks to his lenient contract with Wrestling/{{AEW}}, it was definitely Jon Moxley.[[note]]In fact, his AEW contract ''expired'' while he was holding GCW's world title! The day after AEW announced it had signed Mox to a new long-term deal, he dropped the GCW belt to Nick Gage.[[/note]]

* TheAce: For most of the 2010's, it was Nick Gage, who held the title for almost two years. More recently, thanks to his lenient contract with Wrestling/{{AEW}}, it's definitely Jon Moxley.

* '''GCW World Championship:''' '''Wrestling/JonMoxley''' since September 4th, 2021
* '''GCW Ultraviolent Championship:''' '''Alex Colon''' since November 13th, 2021
* '''GCW Extreme Championship:''' '''AJ Gray''' since January 15th, 2022
* '''GCW Tag Team Championships:''' '''BUSSY (Effy and Allie Katch)''' since April 9th, 2022

* SpiritualSuccessor: Like many hardcore indy feds, for ECW. Though unlike many pretenders, GCW has recently seen praise for actually bringing the kind of energy that ECW brought to the mid-90's; giving a little something for everybody, and allowing talent that otherwise wouldn't flourish anywhere else to make their mark.

* '''GCW World Championship:''' '''Jon Moxley''' since September 4th, 2021

* '''The Collective''' - GCW's biggest event, typically run three days straight during the week of Wrestlemania. While three of the events are static, the rest of each day is typically booked up with different shows of all kinds, sometimes along with other indie promotions.

* TheAce: For most of the 2010's, it was Nick Gage, who held the title for almost two years. More recently, thanks to his lenient contract with AEW, it's definitely Jon Moxley.

* '''GCW Tag Team Championships:''' '''Wrestling/{{The Briscoe|Brothers}}s (Jay and Mark Briscoe)''' since October 23rd, 2021

Gage was brought in to help promote a new kind of deathmatch tournament, which they named specifically after him. The initial ''Nick Gage Invitational'' did absolute gangbusters for an otherwise unknown independent, and it set the future for the company's success; prominently feature rising independent talent and build the event around their gimmick and their preferred styles of performance, and work it out from there. Other events were soon named in honor of deceased wrestlers, such as the Acid Cup. Their big mainstream break would come in 2017 two-fold; both by invading {{Wrestling/CZW}}'s Cage of Death event, and by working with Wrestling/JoeyJanela to create a show called Spring Break, which was hailed for it's party-like, absolutely surreal atmosphere and matches, culminating in a dream match for Janela, and a barn-burning main event that settled up nicely for the promotion to create new events with new wrestlers. Since then, the promotion's biggest month of the year is usually around the week of WrestleMania, where they are often a centerpiece Mania Weekend with their 3-day jam packed group of shows, typically referred to as The Collective. In 2020, GCW would revive the JCW name after a reported deal to outright purchase CZW fell through, and would promote together with them closely. In 2022, the company would promote their first show in the Hammerstein Ballroom; their first traditional PPV event.

* '''GCW Tag Team Championships:''' '''The Briscoes (Jay and Mark Briscoe)''' since October 23rd, 2021

!!GCW Shows and events provide an example of these tropes:

* SpiritualSuccessor: Like many hardcore indy feds, for ECW. Though unlike many pretenders, GCW has recently seen praise for actually bringing the kind of energy that ECW brought to the mid-90's; giving a little something for everybody, and allowing talent that otherwise wouldn't flourish anywhere else to make their mark.

* '''The Collective''' - GCW's biggest event, typically run three days straight during the week of Wrestlemania. While three of the events are static, the rest of each day is typically booked up with different shows of all kinds.

** '''Josh Barnett's Bloodsport''' - A wrestling event held in a ring without ropes, and contested under "mixed martial arts" rules. Initially promoted with Wrestling/MattRiddle, Josh Barnett took over the duties as the presenting talent after Riddle joined the WWE.

** '''Jimmy Lloyd's D-Generation-F''' - Usually the first event of the Collective, with it's focus being on wrestlers who are under 30. The main promoted talent is GCW mainstay Jimmy Lloyd, who is in his early 20's.

** '''Josh Barnett's Bloodsport''' - A wrestling event held in a ring without ropes, and contested under "mixed martial arts" rules. Initially promoted with Wrestling/MattRiddle, Josh Barnett took over the duties as the promoted talent after Riddle joined the WWE.

* '''For The Culture''' - An event notable for promoting and booking solely black talent. Unlike other GCW events, it goes without a promoted talent because the intended point of the card is to help raise the profile of all the talent on the card.
* '''Effy's Big Gay Brunch''' - A show usually held in the middle of the day (or around "brunch"-time) notable for promoting and booking only LGBTQ+ wrestlers. The promoted talent is Effy.

'''Game Changer Wrestling''', or '''GCW''', is a professional wrestling company based in New Jersey that started in 1999, established by independent wrestler Ricky Otazu. Initially known as '''Jersey Championship Wrestling''', it was inspired by the same energy and enthusiasm for hardcore wrestling like ECW, but also was known for featuring the Jersey J-Cup, an affectionate send up of the Super J-Cup from [[Wrestling/NewJapanProWreslting New Japan]], which ran uninterrupted for about four years before the company was purchased in 2004, sitting dormant for about ten years. It was then bought ''back'' by Otazu in 2014, who restarted the promotion from scratch, but just a year later; Brett Lauderdale and Danny Demanto would purchase the promotion, and had big plans for how they were going to change indy wrestling in the 2010's, and they had just the guy they needed to do it: The underground deathmatch icon and recent ex-con {{Wrestling/Nick Gage}}.

Nick Gage was brought in to help promote a new kind of deathmatch tournament, which they named specifically after him. The initial ''Nick Gage Invitational'' did absolute gangbusters for an otherwise unknown independent, and it set the future for the company's success; prominently feature rising independent talent and build the event around their gimmick and their preferred styles of performance, and work it out from there. Other events were soon named in honor of deceased wrestlers, such as the Acid Cup. Their big mainstream break would come in 2017 two-fold; both by invading {{Wrestling/CZW}}'s Cage of Death event, and by working with Wrestling/JoeyJanela to create a show called Spring Break, which was hailed for it's party-like, absolutely surreal atmosphere and matches, culminating in a dream match for Janela, and a barn-burning main event that settled up nicely for the promotion to create new events with new wrestlers. Since then, the promotion's biggest month of the year is usually around the week of WrestleMania, where they are often a centerpiece Mania Weekend with their 3-day jam packed group of shows, typically referred to as The Collective. In 2020, GCW would revive the JCW name after a reported deal with CZW fell through, and would promote together with them closely. In 2022, the company would promote their first show in the Hammerstein Ballroom; their first traditional PPV event. Besides their work with prominent indy stars and unique shows, GCW is well known for having a revolving cast of wrestlers with very few repeats; which allows them to surprise and delight fans whenever possible.

* '''The Acid Cup''' - A tournament held in honor of late wrestler Trent Acid. It's actually a moderately rare event for the company in that it's had long stretches of time off, only to resurface.

* '''GCW vs.''' - An inter-promotional event with whoever steps up to them. Because of the nature of pro wrestling, it is one of their more frequent events.

!!!'''Prominent or notable GCW Events'''

* TheAce: For most of the 2010's, it was Nick Gage, who held the title for almost two years. Recently, thanks to his lenient contract with AEW, it's definitely Jon Moxley.
* BloodSoakedWarrior: Depending on the show, pretty much every person who's worked there has given the crowd a little color.

* RevolvingDoorCasting: GCW gets plenty of big independent stars and hot up and comers, preferring to keep a very small roster of regulars around, who themselves are often seen at different indy events.