"Heart & Soul" Hannah Hope
Joanna Calloway of Hutchinson, Kansas wrestled as "Heart & Soul" Hannah Hope from 1980 to 1993 on the Great Plains and Pacific Coast. She held the GWA Women's Championship twice.
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Sakina Redmoon
Darlene Benally, a Navajo woman raised in Los Angeles, wrestled as Sakina Redmoon from 1978 to 1986 in the Southwest and on the Pacific Coast. She held the GWA Women's Championship in 1979.
GWA Day 2026
Three years in. Twenty new profiles joined the Worldbook this year, a few more are waiting for 2027, and here is where to find the GWA.
Kiki Starr
Kiki Starr came out of the Sunset Strip go-go clubs and debuted on the Pacific Coast in 1968. She teamed with Peaceful Pete Donovan as Donovan & Starr, held the GWA Women's Championship from 1975 into 1976, and played the older woman to Barrett Mason on Wrestling Junction in 1977.
Chief Black Hawk
A Ute fire-crew man from southern Colorado who became the most popular wrestler in the Rocky Mountain territory, held the Great Western Championship from 1981 into 1982, and asked every Native wrestler in the West to stand together.
Billy "Bake-Lite" Larson
Billy Larson left a Bakersfield plastics plant for the ring in 1973. On the Pacific Coast he stood up to management on TV, beat "Big" Stan Rafferty in a factory outside Fresno, and met Jackie Burns in the Heatwave Showdown.
Emily Beaumont
Emily Beaumont left Magnolia Hall for the wrestling ring before her brother James Montgomery did. She worked the Rio Grande Valley and the Gulf Coast for nineteen years with a lace parasol and a sleeper hold.
Wendell Briggs
Wendell Briggs wrestled the Rocky Mountain and Rio Grande Valley circuits for nineteen years and set up the ring for the cards he opened. In 1976 Bo Bradley picked him for the Frontier Justice League.
Trash Candy
Punk women's wrestler Trash Candy came out of Tacoma in combat boots, fishnets and a torn cheerleader's uniform, swinging a kendo stick. One of the first women in the GWA to fight hardcore, she knocked out Vivian Vanceworth's tooth and never stopped fighting Hannah Hope.
El Violín
El Violín was the masked high-flyer of The Midnight Maracas, the mariachi luchador tag team he formed with El Guitarrón. He worked the GWA from 1968 to 1989.
Vinnie Voltage
Bodybuilder Vinnie Voltage bellowed promos into the hard camera and won the Columbia tag titles twice beside Felix Frenzy. Then Sterling Radcliffe handed him a check, and in a shocking turn he clamped his nerve hold on his own partner.
Scott Darkness
Scott Darkness came to the GWA in 1988 in face paint and taped fists, talking about heavy metal. Crowds laughed at him until he walked out behind The Phantom on Night Trials.
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XEOJ Radio is on the App Store
The GWA's border blaster is back on the air at xeoj-am.com, 24 hours a day, and XEOJ Radio for iPhone carries the same signal with the phone in your pocket.
Profiles
Tom Dillon
Tom Dillon came into the Frontier Justice League at twenty-one, the year the group expelled Tommy Tucker, and stayed until it broke up in 1982. He worked the Frontier loop for sixteen years and never held a championship.
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Two new pages: the territory map and the worldbuilding guide
Two new pages on the site: a map of the real wrestling territories, and a guide to building a fictional promotion of your own.
Profiles
"Canadian Crusher" Chris Coleman
Out of Hamilton by way of the Maritimes, Chris Coleman took the Canadian Championship three times before he was twenty-six. Then he spent nine years as the Frontier Justice League’s enforcer, the man they sent when something needed stopping.
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Build one wrestling territory from scratch
A walkthrough of the whole method on one invented territory: the ground, the work, the house style, the company, and the belt.
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"The Pacific Prince" Kalani Koa
The Pacific Coast's island prince of the Traditions years: barefoot kenpo speed, a crown of flowers, and an Intercontinental Championship won at home in Honolulu.
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"Rocket" Roger Rush
A Houston high flyer in red, white, and blue, Rocket Roger Rush was a three-time Gulf Coast Champion and the 1988 Western Traditions Champion across eighteen years in the GWA.
Expansion Era (1969-1975)
Billy "The Kid" Carson
A 21-year GWA veteran who never held a title, Billy "The Kid" Carson was the ultimate utility player — tagging in Imminent Domain, carrying bags for two different heel stables, and pulling double duty as Brother Bones in the ill-fated Ministry of Night before finishing out on the Frontier circuit.
Profiles
"Corporate" Craig Williams
The GWA's final Intercontinental Champion who made ambiguity an art form—a 1950s technical wrestler in a corporate motivational speaker's body, speaking in sales platitudes that simultaneously mocked and embraced wrestling's carnival roots while holding the belt for a record 669 days.
Frontier Era (1957-1968)
El Desperado Enmascarado
West Texas roughneck who wore a lucha mask and spoke broken Spanish on the Rio Grande Valley circuit from 1963 to 1975. Two-time Rio Grande Valley Champion and the first masked GWA Radio Champion.
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Hank Remington, The Cowboy Diplomat
Silver-tongued heel who weaponized verbosity and handshake betrayals across the Great Plains Territory from 1980-1993. Never used one word when twenty would do.
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Wrestling Viceroy
A delusional colonial bureaucrat who enforces imperial order through ceremony, convinced he represents an authority that publicly denies his existence—the Wrestling Viceroy is territorial wrestling's most pompous tyrant.