Mach One Wrestling

Mach One Wrestling is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Anaheim, California and promoting events throughout Southern California. The company is owned by Jon Ian.

History

In 2008, Jon Ian, long time wrestling ring announcer and creative team member for several organizations, created Mach One Wrestling as an associate of NWA Pro Wrestling. Promoting events throughout Orange County, M1W quickly became one of the most successful promotions in the area. In 2009 M1W opened a training school in Anaheim, CA with Joey Ryan as head trainer. They also began hosting weekly Friday Fight Night events at the school.

Highlights

The first M1W event took place on June 1, 2008 at Santa Ana High School in Santa Ana, California. The event featured a defense of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship by Adam Pearce. Pearce, with his manager C. Edward Vander Pyle, narrowly defeated TJ Perkins to retain the title. Despite the loss, Perkins went on to the main event to win a Battle Royal to claim the NWA Heritage Championship, ironically left vacant when Pearce became World Champion.

In addition to future defenses of the NWA Heritage Championship, M1W wrestling also hosted a successful defense by Los Luchas of the NWA World Tag Team Championship against the Cutler Brothers on August 2, 2008 at Santa Ana High School.

M1W ran an event in conjunction with the Long Beach Comic-Con that included a double main event of Joey Ryan facing Scotty 2 Hotty and James Morgan defending the M1W Championship against Paul London. Ryan, with assistance from Vander Pyle, defeated Scotty 2 Hotty then attacked Morgan after he upset London to retain the title. After London came to Morgan’s aid, Scotty 2 Hotty gave his signature W.O.R.M. to both Ryan and Vander Pyle.

The Mach One Wrestling school’s Wrestling 101 has featured several guest speakers and trainers including Terry Taylor, Frankie Kazarian, Paul London, Brian Kendrick and Ryan Sakoda. Additionally, the school hosted a seminar by Chris Hero in January 2010.

Mach One Championship

M1W’s first Champion was crowned in a Battle Royal on February 21, 2009 . 7 entrants were determined by a series of qualifier matches that took place on January 31, 2009 in Santa Ana, California. 3 more wrestlers were entered into the Battle Royal in a 6-Man second chance match on February 21 immediately followed by a last chance 3-Way between members of the losing team of the 6-Man match.

  • Qualifier Matches

:* Human Tornado defeated Hurricane Marquez and Devon Willis in a 3-Way Dance

:* Under Pressure defeated James O’Grady

:* Tommy Wilson defeated Andrew Hellman

:* Charles Mercury defeated Johnny Goodtime

:* Scott Lost defeated Ryan Taylor

:* TJ Perkins defeated James Morgan

:* Aaron Aguilera defeated Joey Ryan

  • Second Chance Match

:* Joey Ryan, Ryan Taylor and Hurricane Marquez defeated James Morgan, Andrew Hellman and Peter Goodman

  • Last Chance Match

:* James Morgan defeated Andrew Hellman and Peter Goodman in a 3-Way Dance

  • Battle Royal

:* James Morgan defeated Human Tornado, Joey Ryan, TJ Perkins, Scott Lost, Charles Mercury, Hurricane Marquez, Tommy Wilson, Under Pressure, Aaron Aguilera and Ryan Taylor to become the first Mach One Wrestling Champion

1.

Title History

Wrestler:

Times:

Date:

Location:

Notes:

James Morgan

1

February 21, 2009

Santa Ana, California

Bobby Marshall

1

December 18, 2009

Anaheim, CA

Willie Mack

1

February 5, 2010

Anaheim, CA

Mach One Tag Team Titles

The Mach One Tag Team Championship was first crowned in a 16 Team Tournament that took place throughout January 2010.

  • Participants:

:* Dan Moore & Alex Kingston

:* The Ballard Brothers (Shannon & Shane)

:* Ric Ellis & Devin Sparks

:* Willie Mack & Jerome “LTP” Robinson

:* Natural Selection (Brian Cage & Shawn Rickers)

:* Mikey Callahan & David “Flex” Frazier

:* The Cutler Brothers (Dustin & Brandon)

:* Todd Chandler & Locura

:* Andrew Hellman & Sonny Samson

:* Ryan Taylor & Chris Kadillak

:* Peter Avalon & Mr. Biggz

:* Terex & Jarek Matthews

:* Brandon Parker & Kyle Webb

:* The RockN.E.S. Monsters (Johnny Yuma & Johnny Goodtime)

:* Los Luchas (Phoenix Star & Zokre)

:* Scorpio Sky & Mr. Excitement

2.
First Round matches took place at Friday Fight Night on January 8 and January 15. Second Round matches took place on January 22. The Third Round and Final matches took place on January 29.

NOTE: To date, Natural Selection are the only Mach One Tag Team Champions