Internet Pro Wrestling

Internet Pro Wrestling was an e-fed that existed briefly from July 10 to July 25, 2000. It was created by Captain Jeff Silvers, who also wrestled in the e-fed. The e-fed's highest ranking championship was resurrected by Silvers in February 2007 to be defended in his MFGG Wrestling.

Formation
Due to the fact that Silvers did not keep proper offline records at the time, most of Internet Pro Wrestling's history is blurry. What is known for certain is that Silvers founded the e-fed in July 2000 after reading about various systems of pencil-and-paper character-based wrestling simulation. Silvers created his own system and began a website hosted on The Express Page (aka Expage), a former free webhost targeted at beginning webmasters (Silvers was very inexperienced as a webmaster at the time). Silvers did not aggressively promote the e-fed, though he did manage to get a few friends to sign up.

The e-fed would book two weekly shows (Monday Mayhem and Wednesday Warfare) plus a pay-per-view event every Sunday. On July 10, Silvers announced that as the first wrestler in the e-fed, he was declaring himself the first IPW World Heavyweight Champion. This is regarded as the "official" start date for Internet Pro Wrestling.

Dissolution and attempted revival
After just over two weeks of existence, Internet Pro Wrestling closed down. Its demise was the result of a small, apathetic roster combined with the amount of time necessary to run just a single match using Silvers' homemade simulation system. On March 25, 2001, Silvers posted an update on the IPW website announcing the return of the e-fed and a tournament to crown a new IPW World Heavyweight Champion, but neither the tournament nor the revival of the federation ever occurred.

IPW today
In July 2006, Silvers (now a moderator at the Mario Fan Games Galaxy message boards) created MFGG Wrestling, an e-fed open to members of the forums. Silvers used some concepts from IPW--such as the pay-per-view title Deathrow and the concept of an Internet Championship (though the MFGG Internet Championship has no lineage connection to the IPW Internet Championship). Before Silvers settled on a daily format, one of the two weekly shows was to be called MFGG Wednesday Warfare.

In February 2007, while writing his article on the eWrestling Encyclopedia, Silvers became interested in finding out what titles he held in his old e-fed (he could not recall offhand). He attempted to find the old IPW website, only to discover that The Express Page was ending its free webhosting service. Pages hosted there would be deleted based on when they were last updated. Unfortunately, Silvers was not aware of this until nearly all pages from the IPW website had been removed. All that remained was the title history page for the IPW World Heavyweight Championship. Silvers copied the information (which revealed that, at the least, he had held the IPW World Heavyweight Championship; he also suspects he held the IPW Internet Championship, but cannot confirm this). He then used the information to create a title history page for the championship at MFGG Wrestling's website for historical reference.

Soon thereafter, the idea of introducing a fourth singles championship to the e-fed was brought up. Still feeling nostalgic from his discovery of the IPW World Heavyweight Championship's title history page, Silvers announced that he was reactivating the title (sans "world" status) to be defended in MFGG Wrestling.

To make a comparison to "real life" wrestling, IPW is to MFGG as WCW is to WWE; it no longer exists as its own entity, but concepts from it are still being used.