Catch Wrestling Association

The Catch Wrestling Association (CWA) was a professional wrestling organization based in Austria and Germany that was founded as the Internationaler Berufsringer Verband (IBV) in 1973. From the late 1980s it was known as the CWA in honour of the promotion's World Heavyweight Championship (originally claimed to be sanctioned by the fictitious Canadian Wrestling Association with previous lineage in North America.) This has since become a common retronym for the entire history of the organisation and often for the whole of late 20th Century German/Austrian Wrestling.

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Catch Wrestling Association

The Catch Wrestling Association (CWA) was a professional wrestling organization based in Austria and Germany that was founded as the Internationaler Berufsringer Verband (IBV) in 1973. From the late 1980s it was known as the CWA in honour of the promotion's World Heavyweight Championship (originally claimed to be sanctioned by the fictitious Canadian Wrestling Association with previous lineage in North America.) This has since become a common retronym for the entire history of the organisation and often for the whole of late 20th Century German/Austrian Wrestling.

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