The HCW Era

2005-2007 (The HCW Era):

This was a period which immediately followed the closure of UWA and the conclusion of the Third Era. UWA’s closure led to a large sea of UWA and WWO talent heading to HCW (UWA’s roster was the largest of all brands throughout the Era, just as USWA had boasted the largest roster in the Second Era), including all the talent which had dual contracts such as Sean Olson, Brandon Lee, and Rhyno.

With the HCW being the only mainstream brand left to fill the void, John Brown’s company featured a number of great feuds, with the primary one being between Dragonfly and Rhyno, where Rhyno infamously tried to kill Dragonfly by throwing him off of a platform and causing him to hang (this reportedly caused a neck injury for Dragonfly and left him out of action for quite some time). At the end of this Era – which was, again, entirely up to HCW in lieu of any competition -, HCW’s last champion was Flyer, who had previously been popular as a lightheavyweight wrestler in USWA.