What’s old is new again as Scott D’Amore announced the relaunch of Maple Leaf Wrestling today, August 8, which happens to be his 50th birthday.
Actually, it’s Maple Leaf Pro Wrestling to keep it separate from Court Bauer’s Major League Wrestling.
Maple Leaf Wrestling as a promotion traces its lineage back to the Queensbury Athletic Club in Toronto in the 1930s, which became Maple Leaf Wrestling in the 1940s under Frank Tunney, and then into the 1980s, with Frank’s nephew, Jack Tunney, working alongside. WWE expansion in 1984 brought the Toronto-run territory to a close.
The first MLPW promotion wrestling shows will be Saturday, October 19 and Sunday, October 20, at St. Clair College, in D’Amore’s hometown of Windsor, Ontario. Scheduled to appear are Raj Dhesi (former WWE Champion Jinder Mahal), Josh Alexander, Gisele Shaw, KUSHIDA, Kylie Rae, Trevor Lee (formerly Cameron Grimes) and many more. Both nights will stream on TrillerTV.
This is D’Amore’s first major foray back into pro wrestling after being fired from TNA in February 2024, though there was a Border City Wrestling show in Windsor at the end of July, D’Amore’s long-time home promotion.
News broke of D’Amore intentions back in May through trademark filings.
It is expected that D’Amore will soon announce access to a vault of Canadian wrestling footage as well, as he bought or licensed a good amount of footage from various Canadian promotions like Maple Leaf Wrestling, Grand Prix Wrestling and others in the past, and has been sitting on the footage.
“For six decades, Maple Leaf Wrestling hosted a who’s who of the world’s greatest wrestlers,” Scott D’Amore, the President of MLPW in a press release. “Legends like Lou Thesz, Bruno Sammartino, Ric Flair, Andre the Giant and Rowdy Roddy Piper all competed in Maple Leaf. Now, we’re bringing that legacy back with modern-day legends from WWE, New Japan, TNA, AEW and beyond.”
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