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About GBWYN Sat Jan 01, 2011 8:51 am
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What is GBYWN?
Global Backyard Wrestling News (GBYWN) is a globally outreaching, backyard wrestling social, media-sharing online forum community devised and created by Cam in 2006 and is currently being operated by a set of Administrators.
Through some doubt, the community rose from scratch to heightened popularity beginning in 2007 eventually surpassing top competitor such as Backyard Wrestling Link. Attributed much to its early success was its 24/7 operation and attractive multi-featured urban-like community. Multiple backyard wrestling federations have been integrated varying in style and quality and given entitlement to promoting their videos within.
GBYWN has been viewed to an extent as a controversial community that currently remains as the highest commercialized backyard wrestling site with over 1000+ registered members and generally seen by a handful to be the modern and preeminent backyard wrestling & professional wrestling social online following.
Origin
In early 2006, Shawn Kozone (only known by that name then) opened a wrestling site called Wrestlezone 4000 in which did news coverage on professional wrestling companies, some time before the site would be hacked. Kozone became aware of backyard wrestling, but however, held no initial interest until Dreadvenom (The Frank) of Backyard Wrestling Association directed him to BWA, the only federation Kozone would know of for the time being.
In March 2006, Kozone, operating site 321wrestling, engaged in competition with his friends' more successful site, 365wrestling, having a rivalry of Freewebs wrestling sites. He would later after disposing his site and taking a hiatus, allegedly return in June to overthrow his friends with his new 500wrestling website. Meanwhile, his backyard wrestling interest heightened after discovering promoted federations on The Frank's National New Age Alliance (NNAA) webpage, inspiring the foundation of his own federation alongside his brother City Boy, and friend, Wild Wyatt known as Brutal Backyard Wrestling (later turning into Carolina Xtreme Wrestling).
In September 2006, after folding 500wrestling, Kozone adopted the nickname Cam abbreviated from actual name, Cameron. Cam gained ownership of the regarded biggest wrestling site on Freewebs, 123pin. Now highly fond of backyard wrestling, he formed a backyard wrestling Freewebs affiliate sub-site, Backyard Wrestling News (BYWN). This site was incorporated to 123pin without the expectation of succeeding, but when the subsite began surpassing the status of his most successful wrestling site, he immediately terminated 123pin for BYWN.
Backyard Wrestling News (2006-2007)
BYWN ran moderately, but at times declined to mere visitation and with Cam determined, this fuelled the need to develop and mass advertise it on the internet. Cam provided quick consistent updates and promoted it across countless freeweb wrestling sites pulling in many backyard wrestlers and federations as the guestbook began hosting frequent conversations. Interviews, ranking and competitive community features including "Federation of the Week" and "Federation of the Month" took implementation which assisted to grow interest in BYWN. Federations well received by Cam at that time included Championship Wrestling Association, Extreme Wrestling Alliance, Backyard Wrestling Association, In Your House Wrestling Alliance, Revolutionary Household of Wrestling and many more.
Not easily succeeding with a non-professional website receiving some accusations and criticism of being of "bland and unprofessional nature", BYWN underwent outlook modification for further attractiveness as changes were made giving it an urban, hang-out-spot feeling, continuously offering a guestbook, chatbox, embedded videos usually of selected videos of the week, and additional rap music themed in the background for a brief point.
The regulation then was to join the community and stay participating for promotional benefits as opposed to just only visit to promote, where applicants were granted full accessibility to promotional rights. Also in January 2007, an opposition was faced in the arrival of a community known as World Backyard Wrestling (WBYW) attempting a rivalry but BYWN already had a stronghold. Subsequently, Cam realized the potential for worldwide outreach to backyard wrestlers and federations and renamed Backyard Wrestling News as "Global Backyard Wrestling News".
Global Backyard Wrestling News 2007-Present
While the Backyard Wrestling Link was a leading force, GBYWN continued its advancement in gaining community popularity assembling several federations under banner. 2007 was a notable year for the community getting much notice and federations such as Trampoline Championship Wrestling, 2KW, Allied Wrestling Syndicate, and Kick Ass Wrestling joining the alliance. It would be around this time a small Freewebs forum board was soon introduced which was infrequently used to the guestbook and chatbox parts of the website.
In June 2007, backyard wrestler Cassias Chaos claimed himself the GBYWN Champion. Statements were proclaimed that he brought the idea up for the site to have a champion. In July 2007, a new and exceptionally high profile, user-generated, social backyard wrestling network website called Breakfall.net (BFN) stemmed from a discontentment with the backyard wrestling community and based around the Australian backyard wrestling scene. Boldly, Cam contacted the website founder Chris Cryptic sending him a notification of a pending community rivalry which went lightly received.
Both sites battled for visiting numbers where Breakfall led the race periodically having more resources and being steps ahead with technology forcing GBYWN in need of a table-turning strategy while experiencing plaguing issues with some of its members that were eventually banned. In 2008, The competition further ignited when "The Cheese Kid" Steven Alvarez stated that he intended to develop a GBYWN video game, where quickly thereafter, Cam restricted the game to featuring backyard wrestlers that were forum members only. Many of the banned members defecting to Breakfall, who felt they had BYW seniority, made their complaints known influencing Steven Alvarez to no longer want to create the game.
In April 2008, a new Forumotion forum was opened. Subsequently, defamatory activities which became a natural tendency were perpetrated and reflective in the entire deletion of topics, and posted obscenities among other provocations prompting the borderline closure of the site. Notable reasons for such behavior were contemption for the "GBYWN Power 25" feature and having been banned.
Meanwhile, Breakfall proceeded to lampoon the community and its "GBYWN Dollars" idea. However soon enough, their own webmaster Jonathan Bravata
began to no-show his duties with maintaining the site. The situation deteriorated in the malfunction of the registration code disallowing new members to sign up. Opportunistically, the competition was beaten out to the high maintainance activity and advertisement awareness coupled with new interactive features of GBYWN while Breakfall was stuck in a rut. Eventually, Backyard Wrestling Link even faded out from existence. Gradually, such conflicts that were problematic were resolved, particular features discontinued, and the forum was revamped with the addition of a portal, and chatbox, later defeating the purpose of having the main website which was backyardwrestlingnews.webs.com.
- Controversy in GBYWN An aim towards more standardization in relation to the wrestling quality of posted media has been sought after for some time, leading to videos with lack thereof, being overlooked for more established yarders and federations. This inevitably led to some citing the social territory as controversial and accusing many people of "playing favorites" and "forming a large clique" that comment on their own videos.
-In 2009, GBYWN procured a professional domain at thegbywn.com.
-The GBYWN community is known for being a community where there is always some kind of problem, but always seems to prevail through at the end. The original GBYWN Web site has been hacked once & deleted twice but brought back. & the GBYWN Forum posts and topics has been deleted twice but even today, the forum has racked up nearly 200,000 forum posts in 2 years. - Global Backyard Wrestling Nation (2009-2010) GBYWN, had from the community aspect, established themselves as a global alliance and as did the territorial outstretched Battle Born Wrestling body of federations which Chairman Rad Hazard operated. In November 2009, after a conception had been within talks between Cam and Hazard, Hazard exclusively broke the news on the first episode of his reincarnated Backyard Wrestling Weekly series that both alliances would fuse for the result of becoming "Global Backyard Wrestling Nation", and that Hazard was the Chairman of the alliance. Federations soon began being inducting into the GBYWN alliance on his show. Over a course of episodes for the first time ever, the GBYWN End Year Awards (2009) was featured in a media presentation. The forum itself was converted to the new name only shortly, however, as Cam reverted the community back to "Global Backyard Wrestling News" based partly on Hazard himself wanting the alliance differentiated from the community as well as Cam's decision. As a result, it was made that "Global Backyard Wrestling Nation" refer to the alliance side of the agreement.
-In 2010, Rad Hazard had appointed well over 30 GBYWN Championships across the nation, It looked well at first, but near the end almost nobody could keep track with the GBYWN Championships unless you actually watched Rad Hazard's Backyard Wrestling Weekly 1 hour long program on youtube. Rad Hazard appointing champions that Cam didn't even know of became a problem in 2010, once Cam appointed the GBYWN Australian Championship to AWGP, while on the other hand, Rad Hazard appointed the GBYWN Australian Championship to ICWS. Ever since then, we realized the GBYWN Championships listing was becoming a corrupt system. Mostly because Hazard only kept the Championships information & history to himself and his Backyard Wrestling Weekly Viewers. which was averaging 150 Viewers, 150 viewers out of over 1000 GBYWN members knew about the GBYWN Championships. This became a huge problem to GBYWN owner Cam, and resulted in the termination of Rad Hazard's GBYWN Championship Management and the end of the Global Backyard Wrestling Nation.
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