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- And You Thought It Would Fail: A YouTube channel-backed wrestling promotion originally centered around its cast... which ended up introducing many wrestling fans to the british wrestling scene, managed to produce many memorable matches, storylines and events, and became itself the launching pad for many other wrestlers. And it managed to pull off a big world tournament which went mostly without any big hitches. At its peak, it was considered one of the (if not THE) best promotions of the UK wrestling scene. Too bad that YouTube's demonetization of anything wrestling-related, the departure of the What Culture Wrestling cast and the eventual launching of NXT UK happened.
- Awesome Music:
- The extremely rocking opening song from Loaded "Let's Go"
from Damien Starkey. LET'S GO! YOU CAN'T STOP US! YOU CAN'T STOP US NOW! - Joseph Conners's theme, "15 Minutes" by Shattered Skies, is also made of all kinds of heavy awesome that will break your neck.
- There's no way to get that bouncy and addictive piece of pop dubstep and 8-bit music that is Martin Kirby's theme out of your head.
- Drake's two entrance themes, extremely heavy both of them, will break your neck in two. "GET UP! GET UP! GET UP! GET UP!"
- Even the GM Adam Pacitti has an awesome theme! GET UP! GET UP! BOOM!
- Defiant's main theme is the ear wormy "Killer" by Katalina Kicks.
- Also from Katalina Kicks is the theme for Jimmy Havoc vs. Primate for the Hardcore championship, the frenetic "We don't care".
- Also from Katalina Kicks is the theme for Jimmy Havoc vs. Primate for the Hardcore championship, the frenetic "We don't care"
- David Starr's bouncy pop theme wouldn't be out of place in a party.
- The official, heavy-hitting theme for WCPW Stacked: IT TAKES BLOOD! SWEAT! AND TEARS!
- What song did they got for WCPW Refuse To Lose? Saliva's skull-crushing "Refuse To Lose", obviously!
- Although a bit generic, the theme for WCPW Lights Out is nothing short of awesome.
- The nu-metalesque theme for WCPW Exit Wounds. You can't go wrong with a wild, low-keyed theme with such a crushing beat.
- The extremely rocking opening song from Loaded "Let's Go"
- Ensemble Dark Horse:
- The promotion itself to the wrestling scene, due to the quality of its booking, its star power and roster.
- Among the WCPW roster, Martin Kirby is this due to his charisma, humor, having a catchy entrance theme, in-ring talent, and gaining his first win against Will Ospreay, leading him to be cheered despite being a heel. This was the catalyst for his face turn.
- Ever since debuting at Defiant No Regrets as a proper wrestler, Simon Miller. Even though he's very green, he's shown more than a lot of promise and quickly grew up a fanbase (the "Why" movement).
- Benji, quickly adopted by the fans for his Determinator attitude despite mostly being a Jobber. This led to his breakout in 2019, as he won the Magnificent Seven briefcase.
- Fan Nickname:
- After Hendry's heel turn, fans chanted "Local Wanker!" at him.
- Thanks to Martin Kirby, "Adam Parmesan" for Adam Pacitti.
- Gateway Series: The promotion introduced many people to british wrestling, especially during its peak. Simply put, without Defiant, RevPro, PROGRESS Wrestling and ICW there wouldn't be an NXT UK.
- Harsher in Hindsight: Defiant #4, which took place in the middle of the IPW invasion, had Mark Haskins declaring that "IPW was before Defiant ever existed, and will still exist once we burn this company to the ground". While the IPW invasion finished some weeks later with the invaders losing and getting permanently added to the roster of Defiant, not only some of them still managed to win Defiant titlesnote , but IPW did indeed outlast WCPW/Defiant, after Defiant closed its doors.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- WCPW Loaded #3 had a fake, overweight El Ligero as part of a "match" against Martin Kirby before the real Fat Ligero made his official debut at the 30-man battle royale for the WCPW World Title at WCPW No Regrets.
- Then-GM Adam Pacitti was "proud to announce" the hiring of Martin Kirby. If only he knew...
- Before WCPW was ever an idea, Adam Pacitti interviewed Wade Barrett (real name: Stu Bennett) for the What Culture Wrestling channel. So basically, the first WCPW GM interviewed the first Defiant GM.
- Like You Would Really Do It: Yeah, El Ligero would lose his mask at WCPW Built To Destroy. At the hands of Martin Kirby. Yeah, sure.
- Memetic Badass:
- Invoked with Rampage. He has done many things including Adam once saw him "kick the shit out of the wind", staring into the sun without blinking,note and if Sam Driver wants to come at Adam, he can "edit him out of existence with his teeth."
- Every time Martin Kirby hits the Zoidberg Elbow, the roof is blown up of the building.
- Moral Event Horizon: The Primate crossed it at Refuse to Lose, when he locked Suzie in a rear naked choke for coming to Jack's defense.
- More Popular Spin-Off: Started as an extra of What Culture Wrestling, itself a wrestling-based offshoot of Whatculture.com, and it become even more popular than both Whatculture.com and WCW, to the point it had its own Youtube channel. The high quality of the booking and matches don't hurt.
- Nightmare Fuel: There's no way Marty Scurll's theme (the one he also used while in Ring of Honor) will NOT give you the chills.
- Retroactive Recognition: Luke Menzies, who would later wrestle for WWE on NXT UK, NXT, and SmackDown as Ridge Holland, performed for the promotion under his real name.
- The Scrappy:
- Pastor William Eaver is pretty disliked among the fanbase due to his pseudo-Undertaker persona (especially the Ministry of Darkness-esque angle which spanned since Defiant #1).
- Kanji started to receive this midway through her reign as women's champion, with even the ReLoaded podcast pointing out the response and attributing it to her lack of a definitive win to establish herself as champion. It didn't help that she pulled out of two scheduled PPV defenses thanks to sudden injuries and at one point even tried to give the title back to General Ameen, citing a crisis of confidence. She would eventually vacate the title, once again due to injury.
- The Dynamic Duo of Thomas and Mark Billington, who were heavily shilled from February to March of 2019 for being Dynamite Kid's nephews despite both being incredibly green (and, well, the fact that Dynamite Kid was not exactly a great person to begin with). They and their overbearing trainer/manager Marty Jones quickly got very annoying. Thankfully, this abated midway through the year, with the two featured much less and mostly as Jobbers.
- Shocking Moments:
- WCPW Loaded #2: the debut of Jay Lethal.
- WCPW Loaded #5: the debut of Will Ospreay, Damien Sandow (as Aron Stevens) and Doug Williams.
- WCPW Stacked: the debut of Moose, EC3, Drew McIntyre (as Drew Galloway) and Marty Scurll.
- WCPW Loaded #8: Kurt Angle announced he's going to wrestle at WCPW. Who's going to fight against him? The one who wins the 12-man Kurt Angle Invitational Tournament.
- WCPW Loaded #10: the debut of Alberto Del Rio, who retired Big Damo... who revealed that he signed up with the 'E as Killian Dain.
- WCPW Loaded #11: Katarina Waters has arrived as Katarina Leigh.
- WCPW Refuse To Lose: the debut of Cody Rhodes, Minoru Suzuki, AND Kurt Angle.
- WCPW Delete WCPW: If you can't guess by the title, Matt Hardy has arrived! And he fights against Bully Ray! This event also marked the debut of John Morrison (as Johnny Mundo). And Galloway wins the World Title!
- Of special mention is the Pro Wrestling World Cup '17:
- Spotlight-Stealing Squad:
- Any time a guest figure makes a fighting appearance.
- Prospect was heavily featured in the earlier WCPW episodes.
- As of Defiant the title goes to The Prestige and (unsurprisingly enough) Austin Aries thanks, in no small part, to the IPW Invasion angle.
- From February - March 2019, the Dynamic Duo. Thankfully this quickly abated afterward.
- Suspiciously Similar Song:
- The recap of Defiant #2 had a song which sounded similar to Metallica's "For Whom The Bell Tolls".
- Joe Coffey's theme, fittingly, has many shades of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man".
