Battle Zone Wrestling (usually typeset as BaTTle ZOne WrestLing) or simply "BZW" is a wrestling federation founded and run in Enoree, South Carolina. It was founded in 2003 on February 21st and has so far been running for 5 years. It is best known for its style of wrestling with matches mostly taking place on a Trampoline that was modified to be more like a wrestling ring. As of May 10th 2008, BZW has a roster of 26 wrestlers on 2 brands (Bloodfest and Aftershock). BZW is often critisized as being a "wannabe" wrestling federation and promoting children to cause harm to their selves. BZW has witnessed one death inside the company although the cause was not of wrestling reasons. "Dark Angel" Jordan Walker was killed in a car crash on February 2nd 2008 at the age of 16 he was BZW's oldest member.
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History

Early Days

Anthony Lida and his cousin Gideon Henderson founded Battle Zone Wrestling in December of 2002 but it wasnt until February 21st 2003 until the first show was held, therefore, leading to most people, including the company to count that as the official birthday of the company. The first show only had one match it was a 60 minute ironman match between Gideon Henderson and Anthony Lida. There was no crowd and barely anyone knew of BZW. At the time the other federations such as Wrestling Freakshow Organization and Hardcore Championship Wrestling (Both located around the same area as BZW) so they didn't pay any attention to BZW. So Anthony asked his good friends the Peavy's, Braxton and Brandon to join BZW along with their cousin Dillan. So the roster went from 2 to 5 in one week. The second show got more attention thanks in part to the addition of former WFO wrestler Dillan "The Clemson Tiger" Collins. With such recognition from other companies, BZW quickly added onto their roster expanding from 5 to 20 in less than a month. Just a couple of the wrestlers they accquired from other companies include Tokana Rana, Awesome AJ, JK Crazy, and Damien Gregory. During the following months of BZW they began to dominate the independent scene in the Upstate of South Carolina, eventually putting competitor, WFO, out of business in July 2003. With WFO out of the way and over half of HCW's roster gone to BZW, BZW took over as the number 1 wrestling federation in Upstate, South Carolina. The early story of BZW is rarely believed to be true and often widely considered as a hoax. When asked about this Founder and Owner Anthony Lida said "Of course people will be skeptical i mean, if you don't live here then you can't understand the whole scene in our area. And damn kids doing this shit makes it seem even more fucked up but still, swear to satan that its all true." The quote from that quote "swear to satan" caused an uproar for parents of some BZW wrestlers. They began to think Anthony was pushing his Satanist religon on the rest of BZW's roster. As a result of that, heavy christian, Martin Martinson was removed from BZW by his mother.