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Promotions | Major League Wrestling |
First event | Rise of the Renegades (2003) |
Rise of the Renegades is a professional wrestling supercard event first held by Major League Wrestling (MLW) in 2003. [1] [2]
A second event was produced sixteen years later in 2019 as a set of television tapings for MLW's television program, Fusion . [3] The event's name was used in 2022 for a special episode of Fusion, but it featured matches taped from the MLW Azteca Underground event held on April 1 of that year. [4]
# | Event | Date | City | Venue | Main event |
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1 | Rise of the Renegades (2003) | July 26, 2003 | Orlando, Florida | Tabu Night Club | "Dr. Death" Steve Williams and The Sandman vs. The Extreme Horsemen (CW Anderson and Simon Diamond) |
2 | Rise of the Renegades (2019) | April 4, 2019 | Queens, New York City, New York | Melrose Ballroom | LA Park vs. Pentagon Jr. |
3 | Rise of the Renegades (2022) | April 1, 2022 (aired June 9, 2022) | Dallas, Texas | Gilley's | The Von Hammers (Alexander Hammerstone, Marshall Von Erich and Ross Von Erich) vs. King Muertes, Mads Krügger and Richard Holliday |
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