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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox company Deadlock Pro-Wrestling (DPW) is an American independent professional wrestling promotion, founded on November 1, 2021, by Anthony Douglas, James Darnell, and John Blud. On December 11, DPW taped the first episode of their broadcast show, Fire, which aired five days later on YouTube. Since then, new episodes of DPW's Fire and Spark programs have aired on YouTube and the promotion's streaming platform, DPW On Demand. The name of the promotion is derived from the Deadlock Podcast, which is hosted by the promotion's founders.

Notable mainstays for the promotion include Andrew Everett, Calvin Tankman, Colby Corino, Anthony Henry, Krule, Emi Sakura, Baliyan Akki, Miyuki Takase, Nicole Matthews, Mike Bailey, Bryan Keith, Tom Lawlor, and the Motor City Machine Guns. Other prominent wrestlers who have also been featured include Rosemary, Luther, JTG, Konosuke Takeshita, the Grizzled Young Veterans, Mase Madden, Mansoor, and the Super Smash Brothers.

Championships from other companies have been defended on DPW programming, such as Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling's Super Asia Championship and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling's Princess Tag Team Championship.

History

On November 1, 2021, the formation of Deadlock Pro-Wrestling (DPW) was announced by Anthony Douglas, James Darnell, and John Blud, the hosts of the Deadlock Podcast. On December 11, DPW taped their first show, Fire, which aired on YouTube on December 16. The first episode of Fire introduced a tournament to crown the first DPW Worlds Champion. Fire would conclude on June 3, 2022, due to the series not being considered finanical enough to continue doing. Thus, the company would stick to its monthly event format.

On January 8, 2022, DPW produced their first internet pay-per-view (PPV) event named You Already Know, which aired on January 15. At the event, Bojack defeated Andrew Everett in the DPW Worlds Championship tournament finals to become the inaugural champion. On April 16, at Forever, The Reality (Chance Rizer and Patrick Scott) defeated The Workhorsemen (Anthony Henry and JD Drake) to became the first Worlds Tag Team Champions. On June 10, at Showdown In The Carolinas, Calvin Tankman defeated Kevin Ku in a tournament final to became the inaugural National Champion, and on August 6, at Believe The Hype, Raychell Rose defeated Rosemary in a tournament final to became the inaugural Women's Worlds Champion.

DPW obtained attention after the in-ring debut of notable wrestling game content creator-turned wrestler, Christopher Denker, better known by his YouTube name DenkOps, and ring name Chris Danger, who was set to face Adam Cole in his debut match on November 12, 2023 at World's Strongest, but did not occur do to an injury of Cole at AEW Grand Slam. Danger’s very first match was instead against his trainer Shawn Spears, who defeated Danger in this match.

On January 14, 2023, DPW held their first live PPV event named Live 1: Ali vs KENTo. On April 16, 2023, the promotion held Live 2 in New Jersey – marking their first event outside of North Carolina. On April 25 and 27, 2023, DPW held a two-night collaboration event with Gatoh Move Pro Wrestling in Japan, which marked their first event outside of the United States. On December 2, 2023, DPW announced it would be touring outside of North Carolina for the year of 2024. Such locations included Texas and Illinois.

Programming and events

Current

DPW Spark

Spark is a web television program that airs on DPW's YouTube and the company's streaming service DPW On Demand. The series debuted on December 30, 2021. The series acts as a pre-show to major events.

Former

DPW Fire

Шаблон:Main Fire was the flagship program of DPW that aired DPW's YouTube channel and DPW On Demand. The series debuted on December 16, 2021, originally airing on the DPW's YouTube channel, and concluded on June 3, 2022.

Major events

Шаблон:Main Deadlock Pro-Wrestling has produced 24 chronological events. The first event took place on January 8, 2022, in Raleigh, North Carolina at the Raleigh Convention Center. The Durham Armory in Durham, North Carolina has held the most events with six.

Championships and accomplishments

Championship	Current champion(s)		Reign	Date won	Days held	Successful defenses	Location	Notes	Ref.
DPW Worlds Championship	Файл:No image available.svg	Calvin Tankman	1	December 10, 2023	Шаблон:Age in days	3	Durham, NC	Defeated Colby Corino to win the vacant championship at 2nd Anniversary.
DPW National Championship	Файл:BryanKeithWrestler.jpg	Bryan Keith	1	August 13, 2023	Шаблон:Age in days	4	Durham, NC	Defeated previous champion Andrew Everett at Beast Coast.
DPW Worlds Tag Team Championship	Файл:The Motor City Machine Guns February 2016.jpg	The Motor City Machine Guns Шаблон:Small	1	December 10, 2023	Шаблон:Age in days	1	Durham, NC	Defeated previous champions The Workhorsemen (Anthony Henry and JD Drake) at 2nd Anniversary.
DPW Women's Worlds Championship	Файл:20230414miyuki2.jpg	Miyuki Takase	1	December 10, 2023	Шаблон:Age in days	2	Durham, NC	Defeated previous champion Emi Sakura at 2nd Anniversary.

Tournaments

Шаблон:Color box – Championship victory

Шаблон:Color box – Championship match loss

Accomplishment:	Winner(s):	Date won:	Note:
Carolina Classic 2022	Lucky Ali	October 15, 2022	Defeat defending champion Bojack and Kidd Bandit to win the DPW Worlds Championship at World's Strongest 2022.
Tag Festival 2023	The Workhorsemen (Anthony Henry and JD Drake)	June 18, 2023	Won the DPW Worlds Tag Team Championship in the finals.
Carolina Classic 2023	Jay Malachi	September 17, 2023	Defeat Lucky Ali to win the DPW Worlds Championship the same night.

External links

• Official DPW website