OWE, a Chinese wrestling promotion that has gained a cult online following, has announced a massive expansion in the United Kingdom.
They made the announcement on the promotion’s social media pages that OWE will be launching a United Kingdom division and there will be OWE U.K. Champions along with a tag team division as well.
OWE was formed by Chinese film director Fu Huayang, starting a talent search from around 200,000 applicants that had martial arts backgrounds, before selecting a final group of 50 to be professionally trained.
On May 7th 2018, Dragongate, Japan main-stays CIMA, El Lindaman, T-Hawk and Takehiro Yamamura, collectively known as The Stronghearts, announced they would be relocating to China to join OWE with CIMA taking up the role of Head Coach. Earlier this year, All Elite Wrestling announced a partnership with OWE.