New Era Wrestling (Maine)

New Era Wrestling, Inc. (doing business as New Era Wrestling) (NEW) was an American privately controlled independent professional wrestling company based out of Presque Isle, Maine. 
==History==
The company began as Pyro Championship Wrestling, LLC. (PCW) in 2007 and started promoting free wrestling events in the Aroostook Centre Mall. During this time, it built a strong following in the local community leading to it's first big event that was promoted as Firestorm. Firestorm took place in the winter of 2007 in the small vacant storefront that used to house the arcade, adjacent to the now vacant K-Mart anchor store. The show sold out at the gate and due to fire regulations, the tarps that were meant to separate the paid guests from the mall was forcefully removed by the fire marshal. PCW went on to promote events at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, the Fort Fairfield Recreational Center, and the Houlton Maine Civic Center. In 2008, one of it's original co-founders left PCW and the company continued to promote shows until it's eventual hiatus. In 2010, the remaining founder of PCW brought in a new Co-Owner and two eager creative minds to assist in the process of rebranding and eventual launch of a new company called New Era Wrestling (NEW). NEW began scouting venues and advertising it's debut event in the spring and summer of 2011. NEW's first event took place on June 17, 2010 at the University of Maine at Presque Isle and they ran 2 more events in Aroostook County, the Caribou Recreational Center on July 23, 2011, and finally the University of Maine at Fort Kent on August 26, 2011. On the day of the Caribou event, the city had a brown out and the event was nearly cancelled until an hour before it would open the doors to fans. Because of this, social media posts went out warning fans that the meet and greet was cancelled and due to the brown out, there would be a potential cancellation of the event. The Rec Center staff turned fans away who showed up for the meet and greet. Due to these unfortunate circumstances, ticket sales suffered greatly. The show went on despite a low turnout. More unfortunate issues befell on the Fort Kent show, as many promises of support from the campus with regards to advertising the event were left unfulfilled. Due to this, the event turn out was worse than the Caribou event with some college students commenting to staff and wrestlers that they had no idea the show was going on. NEW was severely underwater financially and due to poor turnout, the venues did not opt to run another event. Due to lack of funds, lack of community interest, and roster frustration, NEW closed in October 2011.
==External links==
Category:American wrestling promotions
Category:Defunct wrestling promotions