-THE STORY BEHIND SHOWRESTLING-



October, 31. 2001… it was a day when the world was introduced to something new - something that it would never understand, or ever be satisfied with. A company in which was sabotaged for being something, different. The company was none other than SHOWrestling. It was an upstart promotion that was destined for success. However, it had a lot thrown its way.

The promotion suffered a lot during it buildup. It started off with two best friends who were in the pluming business. Both thought that they could be something one day. Both had hopes and dreams just as any other human being on the planet earth does. However, unlike the other 5,999,999,998 people in the world, these two actually achieved their hopes and dreams. Who were these people? They were the owners of KoNing and Tern Pluming Co. in Las Vegas, NV. What were their dreams? Running their own wrestling company.

After paying $50 a piece for lottery tickets, KoNing bought $100 worth of tickets. One actually struck big and won the pair the sum of $98.2 mil. However, after learning the news, KoNing never told Tern about the win. Tern didn’t hear from or see KoNing over a month. However, via the nifty invention of the internet, Tern tracked KoNing down and confronted him.

By that time KoNing was all ready in the process of building what would be SHOWrestling. KoNing finally gave in and let Tern in on the promotion. The hatred for one another became one of the biggest mistakes in SHOW, as kayfabe was broken left and right during events. The two just could stand each other any more.

Things were looking to be very good. However, the television provider, FOX caused SHOWrestling its biggest mistake. During the first STATIC, FOX forced the show to end in a really unprofessional manner. Internet columnist quickly threw out “SHOW has terrible matches,” one even called the promotion, “Mediocre.”

After a nice three month reign, SHOW’s world collapsed as it was found out that the company was bankrupt. Six months later, it was discovered that the reason for the strange bankruptcy was due to the ringside announcers Bill Yeager and Ryan Harms. They had been robbing SHOWrestling blind for months.

KoNing agreed to leave the promotion after the first month. That left Tern running the company. When the company was forced to file bankruptcy in 2002, he made the decision for the promotion to go on a hiatus, one that would last for six months until he was found selling drugs on the streets. His idea was to take a break and earn enough money to start the promotion again. However, it was not to be.

John Fiktshon, the company’s former storywriter and booker, then bought the trademarks, copyrights and all such material of the former promotion. However, he was found dead in his car after a suspected mob shoot out in New York City.

On January 1st, 2004, the duo that had caused all of the turmoil for SHOW in the first place, Bill and Ryan, reopened the promotion under their own vision. After a month's worth of programming out of the way, they decided to take a different turn with the company. They bought the rights to the former underground fighting promotion, The Fighting Zone. With this, they decided to make SHOWrestling a hybrid promotion, booking both wrestling and fighting bouts.

The fans lost interest almost immediately. SHOW had lost their television and Pay-Per-View deals nationwide after there was a murder backstage at what was their final Pay-Per-View. The murder is still deemed as unsolved to this day.

As it turned out, Bill and Ryan were involved heavily with the mafia in New York City. Although all charges had been dropped. Ryan had to fake his own death in order to save himself from any backlash he may receive when the duo had agreed to testify against the family they were involved with. Eventually, the entire mob organization was brought to justice, leaving both Ryan and Bill with a clean slate.

With Bill starting his own production company with a few major titles on the way, Ryan is now the sole owner of SHOWrestling.