For sometime now, I've been thinking about the United Wrestling Network. Now, I've been watching UWN's Championship Wrestling from Hollywood for a few years now - finding it on TV when I was living in San Dimas, California a few years ago.
According to David Marquez, UWN has been around in one way or another for the past eight years.
From Hollywood I learned of Championship Wrestling from Arizona and they've now begun promoting Championship Wrestling from Memphis.
Slowly, UWN is becoming what the NWA was - a territory system contained within itself featuring satellite promotions under it's umbrella.
They dipped their toes into the national scene over the past year, with their Prime Time Live show on FiteTV - and part of me wonders if that's why Marquez and the NWA recently severed ties - to the point NWA Champion Nick Aldis blocked Marquez on Twitter.
Marquez has also hinted that they will begin running Championship Wrestling in Atlanta as well, posting legal documents that seemed to indicate a license had been obtained.
Each of the three programs in the "Championship ..." shows run about an hour per episode and largely feature talent from that certain area. The programs move very quickly in a studio format very reminiscent of the old Memphis Wrestling days during the Lawler years. There is a lot of untapped talent on the indies scenes who could very easily make UWN must watch television - guys like Cabana Man Dan, Derek Neal, AJ Gray, Allysin Kay, etc. The right talent and the right maneuvering could put UWN into a very different spot - a national wrestling/indie supergroup wrestling hybrid.
All I know is , Marquez is up to something. What exactly is Marquez is up to, I don't know, but he's as quietly building a very interesting machine in the UWN.
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