Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling

Pro-Pain Pro Wrestling, or 3PW, was a hardcore professional wrestling promotion that was based around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ran many shows from the former ECW Arena.

The promotion was founded by The Blue Meanie and his partner Jasmine St. Claire, who staged their first show on February 15, 2002 and continued producing shows together for a couple of years. In the beginning, 3PW brought in wrestling legends like Dusty Rhodes, Terry Funk, Abdullah The Butcher and Bam Bam Bigelow to compliment the roster of young and upcoming talent. The first 3PW shows ran at the ECW Arena, but when XPW Owner Rob Black signed an exclusive lease to the arena, 3PW moved operations to The Electric Factory. After a show in October 2003 was canceled in Cherry Hill, NJ due to a previously unknown permit not being obtained, 3PW moved back to the Arena in November 2003 for their monthly shows.

In 2004, 3PW had it's biggest show ever when over 700 fans turned out to see a Blue World Order reunion with Blue Meanie and Stevie Richards. The next month, 3PW hosted an NWA Florida X Division Championship Match between Roderick Strong and Mikey Batts. In April, however, the show was postponed on 48 hours notice when 3PW Owner Jasmin St. Claire had to have an emergency appendectomy. Many people inside 3PW and fans has questioned the timing and validity of this claim. When Ring Of Honor was no longer able to bring in TNA talent after the Rob Feinstein scandal in March of 2004, 3PW made an agreement with TNA to bring in former ROH mainstays AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, and Chris Sabin.

In August 2004, Christopher Daniels won the 3PW Championship after dealing with a very unusual situation. His flight into Philadelphia was seriously delayed in Atlanta, GA for hours. Daniels arrived in Philadelphia around 9:30 PM, was rushed to the arena by a 3PW Office employee, and proceeded to win the Championship in a 4-Way match featuring Joey Matthews, AJ Styles and Chris Sabin. Fans inside the arena were never made aware of the situation and did not find out until the next day when the story made it on internet sites. Due to Daniels fantastic performance that night, made even more extraordinary by the circumstances, the story became part of wrestling lore and actually benefited 3PW.

In December of 2004, however, problems began to surface. The December show was canceled again on 2 days notice when Jasmin St. Claire claimed to have to fly to London due to her Mother having a heart attack. Once again, this reason could not be verified even by her partner Blue Meanie, and rumors that she was going to cancel the show as early as that Monday came to light. The next month, Jasmin simply did not make it to the show. A claim on her website stated she actually was in a New York Police Station being questioned over making prank telephone calls, something Jasmin herself has admitted to doing. Jasmin was never charged with any wrongdoing over this situation. The January show was nearly canceled, but all the talent at the event agreed to perform even though their payouts would be reduced significantly or they would not be paid at all. 3PW Booker Tod Gordon also resigned that day, feeling that the company was faltering. It was also around this time that Blue Meanie and Jasmin St. Claire would have a very public and very nasty separation, with St. Claire even claiming that she was never in a romantic relationship with Blue Meanie despite interviews contradicting those comments. Around this time, Blue Meanie found an investor in California and along with Mike Hawes, continued running 3PW events, but with a scaled down payroll and overhead. TNA talent, formerly exclusive to 3PW in Philadelphia, were again allowed to perform for Ring Of Honor and those talents left 3PW for ROH. Around this time, Rockin' Rebel took over as booker. However, 3PW's financial issues would worsen.

The Spring of 2005 saw Jasmin St. Claire file a lawsuit against the new 3PW Ownership, claiming she had been illegally stripped of the company and was still the legal owner of 3PW. The new ownership settled rather quickly with St. Claire, with unfounded claims that she received $25,000 to legally surrender ownership over to them. Faced with mounting losses and the company showing no signs of turning things around, company figure head Mike Hawes shut 3PW down officially in the summer of 2005 after stating the company was taking the summer off to reorganize. Blue Meanie attempted to resurrect the company, but was unable to find an investor. The company's final show was on June 18, 2005.

3PW titles

3PW Heavyweight Championship

Wrestler	Times	Date	Place	Notes
Gary Wolfe	1		Philadelphia, PA	Won an 8-man tournament to become the 1st 3PW Champion.
Sabu	1	October 19, 2002	Philadelphia, PA
Gary Wolfe	2	December 28, 2002	Philadelphia, PA
Terry Funk	1	June 21, 2003	Philadelphia, PA
Justin Credible	1	August 16, 2003	Philadelphia, PA
Raven	1	November 23, 2003	Philadelphia, PA
Joey Matthews	1	April 17, 2004	Philadelphia, PA
Christopher Daniels	1	August 21, 2004	Philadelphia, PA
Slyk Wagner Brown	1	February 19, 2005	Philadelphia, PA
Amish Roadkill	1	May 21, 2005	Philadelphia, PA
Titles became defunct when the promotion closed down.

3PW Tag Team Championship

Wrestler	Times	Date	Place	Notes
Slyk Wagner Brown & April Hunter	1	August 21, 2004	Philadelphia, PA	Won a battle royal to become 1st champions.
Pitbulls 2004 (Gary Wolfe & Mike Kruel)	1	October 16, 2004	Philadelphia, PA
Wolfe was stripped of the title due to a backstage incident.
Mike Kruel & Simon Diamond	1	February 19, 2005	Philadelphia, PA	Diamond was awarded the title to replace Wolfe
Title vacated on March 29, 2005 when Kruel left 3PW.
Blackball'd (Rockin' Rebel & Greg Matthews)		May 21, 2005		Won a battle royal to win the vacant titles.
Titles became defunct when the promotion closed down.

External links and references

• 3PW title histories