nCw, which stands for Northern Championship Wrestling, is an independent professional wrestling organization, founded in 1986 by Therese-Martin high-school students, in Joliette, Quebec. School counselor Luc Pelletier supported the students' idea of an amateur wresting organization, and they created together the AWA (Amateur Wrestling Association). This is where some of nCw's legends such as Black Bear, Frank Blues and Phil Bélanger started it all. Years later, 9 of their wrestlers stood out in PWI's top 500. After getting an actual wrestling ring, what first started as AWA would become Lutte Lanaudière / nCw.
Northern Championship Wrestling first got on the map with their flagship event, Challengemania. Its first edition, took place at the Marcel-Bonin centre in 1993. Thereafter, it had quite a growing spout when many graduates from nCw's wrestling school became performers themselves. It was then that PWI got interested with nCw, making it Quebec's only wrestling promotion to have regular coverage in a worldwide read pro-wrestling magazine. On July 1996, nCw, along with ACW, WTA and World Wrestling Entertainment (then known as WWF) presented Quebec's first wrestling Superbowl. At Challengemania 8, in May 2000, nCw made their place permanent in Montreal's wrestling scene with a main event consisting of Pierre-Carl Ouellet facing Glen Kulka.
Nowadays, nCw still reigns as one of the top wrestling promotions not only in Quebec, but in Canada as well.
