GCW The Collective 2024 Schedule and Announcements

We are two weeks away from the biggest week in professional wrestling, WrestleMania week.

Game Changer Wrestling will be joining the festivities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as part of their sixth annual The Collective. The Collective will begin on Thursday April 4th and run through Saturday April 6th with a total of 11 events taking place at Penns Landing Caterers.

New this year to The Collective will be Seattle promotion DEFY Wrestling, UK’s Progress Wrestling and Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling all the way from Japan. There will also be a GCW vs TJPW event.

There will also be the returns of Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport, EFFY’s Big Gay Brunch, Joey Janela’s Spring Break and For The Culture.

The entirety of The Collective will be streamed live on TrillerTV+. Check out below for the full schedule and match announcements.

DEFY Can’t Deny It

Thursday April 4th – 11am

Tickets: DefyPhilly.Eventbrite.com

Match card:

• DEFY Championship Match: KENTA (c) vs. Gringo Loco
• DEFY Worldwide Tag Team Championship Match: Bollywood Boyz (Gurv Sihra & Harv Sihra) (c) vs. Boisterous Behavior (Man Like DeReiss & Leon Slater)
• CCK (Kid Lykos & Chris Brooks) vs Moonlight Express (Mike Bailey & MAO)
• Trios 3 Way Dance: Sovereign (Evan Rivers, Judas Icarus & Travis Williams) vs. Dragon Gate (Shun Skywalker, Ben-K & Ho Ho Lun) vs. C4XKC (Cody Chhun, Guillermo Rosas & KC Navarro)
• 3 Way Dance for the DEFY Women’s Championship: Vert Vixen (c) vs. Trish Adora vs. Jazmin Allure
• BMF Battle Royale: SCHAFF vs. Luke Jacobs vs. Galeno Del Mal vs. Gene Munny vs. ???

Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport X

Thursday April 4th – 4pm

Tickets: SOLD OUT!

Match card:

• Shayna Baszler vs. Masha Slamovich
• Fuminori Abe vs. Takuya Nomura
• Timothy Thatcher vs. Axel Tischer
• Akira vs. Victor Benjamin
• Matt Makowski vs. ???
• Nic Nemeth vs. Mike Bailey
• Josh Barnett vs. Johnny Bloodsport (John Hennigan)
• Minoru Suzuki vs. Royce Isaacs
• Erik Hammer vs. Lou Nixon
• One Night Four Women Tournament: Janai Kai, Marina Shafir, Lady Frost and Lindsay Snow

DDT Goes Philadelphia!

Thursday April 4th – 8pm

Tickets: SOLD OUT!

Match card:

• No Rules Match for the DDT Universal Championship: MAO (c) vs. Billie Starkz
• Kazuki Hirata vs. Yoshihiko
• Yuki Ueno vs. Mike Bailey
• CCK (Kid Lykos & Chris Brooks) vs. Shota & Bryan Keith
• Konosuke Takeshita vs. Shunma Katsumata
• Tetsuya Endo vs. Andrew Everett
• Daisuke Sasaki & KANON vs. Takeshi Masada &Nick Wayne

GCW & JCW vs The World

Thursday April 4th – 11:59pm

Tickets: JCWPhilly.Eventbrite.com

Match card:

• JCW World Championship Match: Masha Slamovich (c) vs. Syuri
• Los Desperados (Arez, Latigo & Gringo Loco) vs. Team Dragon Gate (Dragon Kid, YAMATO & Shun Skywalker)
• Gahbage Daddies (Alec Price & Cole Radrick) & 1 Called Manders vs. Astronauts (Fuminori Abe & Takuya Nomura) & Rina Yamashita
• Jordan Oliver vs. Aigle Blanc
• 4 Way Tag Team Match: Los Macizos (Ciclope & Miedo Extremo) vs. Amboss (Robert Dreissker & Laurance Roman) vs. Boisterous Behavior (Man Like DeReiss & Leon Slater) vs. MAO & Yoshihiko
• Griffin McCoy vs. Session Moth Martina
• Yusaki Ito
• LJ Cleary
• Ho Ho Lun
• Shota
• Lou Nixon

TJPW LIVE in Philly

Friday April 5th – 11am

Tickets: SOLD OUT!

Match card:

• Miyu Yamashita & Maki Itoh vs Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe
• Mizuki & VertVixen vs Max The Impaler & Pom Harajuku
• Suzume & Arisu Endo vs Nao Kakuta & Zara Zakher
• Yuki Aino & Raku vs Yuki Kamifuku & VivaVan
• Shoko Nakajima vs Rhio
• HyperMisao vs Billie Starkz

Progress Wrestling Chapter 165: Freedom Walks Again

Friday April 5th – 3pm

Tickets: ProgressPhilly.Eventbrite.com

Match card:

• Progress World Championship Match: Kid Lykos (c) vs. Man Like DeReiss
• Progress Women’s Championship Match: Rhio (c) vs Lana Austin
• 3 Way Tag Team Match for the Progress World Tag Team Championship: Cheeky Little Buggers (Alexxis Falcon & Charles Crowley) (c) vs. Sunshine Machine (TK Cooper & Chuck Mambo) vs. Sanity (Axel Tischer & Big Damo)
• Progress Atlas Championship Match: Ricky Knight Jr (c) vs. Yoichi
• Session Moth Martina & Gene Munny vs. BUSSY (Allie Katch & EFFY)
• Spike Trivet vs. Luke Jacobs
• Multi-Man Match: Simon Miller vs. Leon Slater vs. Gringo Loco vs. Cody Chhun vs. Marcus Mathers vs. ???
• Kid Lykos II

Joey Janela’s Spring Break 8

Friday April 5th – 8pm

Tickets: SOLD OUT!

Match card:

• GCW World Championship Match: Blake Christian (c) vs Joey Janela
• Masato Tanaka & Minoru Suzuki vs. Rina Yamashita & Masha Slamovich
• Dragon Gate Six Man Tag Match: Dragon Gate Classic (YAMATO, Dragon Kid & KZY) vs. Reiwa New Generation (Shun Skywalker, Ben K & Kota Minoura)
• East West Express (Jordan Oliver & Nick Wayne) & Mike Bailey vs. Rock ‘N’ Roll Express (Robert Gibson & Ricky Morton) & Kerry Morton
• Gringo Loco vs. Amazing Red
• Matt Cardona vs. Blue Kane
• I Quit Match: EFFY vs. Mance Warner
• Maki Itoh & Nick Gage vs. Danhausen & Ram Kaichow
• Grab The Brass Ring Ladder Match: ??? vs. ??? vs. ??? vs. ??? vs. ??? vs. ???

GCW For The Culture

Friday April 5th – 11:59pm

Tickets: FTCPhilly.Eventbrite.com

Match card:

• Special Guest Referee Darius Lockheart: Billy Dixon vs. Darius Carter
• Man Like DeReiss vs. Sonny Kiss
• Pan-Afrikan World Diaspora Wrestling Championship Match: Suge D (c) vs. Alex Kane
• 2 Cold Scorpio vs The Frontman Jah-C
• Four Way Tag Team Match: TME (Duke Davis & Ganon Jones Jr.) vs. Kings Of The District (Eel O’Neal & Jordan Blade) vs. Thick ‘N’ Juicy 3.0 (Brooke Valentine & Faye Jackson) vs. Killionaires Club (J Boujii & PB Smooth)
• Ladies Night Scramble Match: Maya World vs. Jada Stone vs. Joseline Navarro vs. Mazzerati vs. Janai Kai vs. Tiara James
• Team Myron (Myron Reed, Ruckus, Darian Bengston, Devon Monroe & Calvin Tankman) vs. Team Dolla (AJ Francis, Isaiah Broner, Keita Murray, Terry Yaki & Mr Danger)

EFFY’s Big Gay Brunch 9

Saturday April 6th – 11am

Tickets: SOLD OUT!

Match card:

• BUSSY (Allie Katch & EFFY) vs. Dirty Breeze (Dirty Dango & Breeze)
• GCW Ultraviolent Championship Match: Rina Yamashita (c) vs. Billy Dixon
• Dark Sheik vs. Sonny Kiss
• Karam vs. Max The Impaler
• Jamie Lynn Senegal & Edith Surreal vs. The Runway (Calvin Couture & Tyler Klein)
• Team Pollo (Ron Bass Jr, Alex Maze, Don’t Die Miles, Vert Vixen & Dillion McQueen) vs. Team Parrow (Parrow, Keita Murray, Angelo Carter, Juni Underwood & Adriel Noctis
• Four Way Match: Monomoth vs. Aaron Rourke vs. Rico Gonzalez vs. Devon Monroe

GCW vs TJPW

Saturday April 6th – 2:30pm

Tickets: GCWvsTJPW.Eventbrite.com

Match card:

• Rina Yamashita, Masha Slamovich & Maki Itoh vs. Miyu Yamashita, Shoko Nakajima & Yuki Aino
• Billie Starkz & Janai Kai vs. Rika Tatsumi & Miu Watanabe
• Allie Katch vs. Mizuki
• Shazza McKenzie vs. Arisu Endo
• Steph De Lander vs. Hyper Misao
• Dark Sheik vs. Yuki Kamifuku
• Session Moth Martina vs. Raku
• Suzume & Pom Harajuku vs. SAKI & Nao Kakuta

GCW JJSB Clusterf*ck Forever

Saturday April 6th – 11:59pm

Tickets: ClusterPhilly.Eventbrite.com

Match card:

• Punjabi Prison Match for the GCW World Tag Team Championships: Violence Is Forever (Dominic Garrini & Kevin Ku) (c) vs. Jacob & Zilla Fatu vs. Bollywood Boyz (Gurv Sihra & Harv Sihra) vs. Los Macizos (Ciclope & Miedo Extremo)
• 88-Man Clusterfuck Match: The American Giant, Dink, The Carnage Crew, Kaplan, Charlie Tiger, Mane Event, Tank, Bang And Matthews, Matt Tremont, Green Phantom, Tara Zep, Microman, Nate Webb, Bobby Flaco, Brandon Kirk, Kasey Catal, Jordan Oliver, Sam Stackhouse, Juicy Finau, CPA, The Impact Players, Sexxxy Eddy, Terry Yaki, Bam Sullivan, Lindsay Snow, Grim Reefer, To Infinity And Beyond