Golden Canvas Grappling

Golden Canvas Grappling (GCG) is a Magisterian professional wrestling cooperative promotion based in Annesia City, Federal Capital Territory. It is considered the second largest wrestling promotion in Magisteria behind the NWF. It is the only major professional wrestling promotion in the world to be known as a worker cooperative with Yoshimi Mushashibo, a former 5-time GCG World Heavyweight champion, currently serving as the promotion's president since June 2009.

GCG is the longest-running and second-largest professional wrestling promotion in Magisteria, only behind to the National Wrestling Federation (NWF). GCG was founded in 1960 by veteran wrestler Ronan Jacques and a consortium of his fellow wrestlers, and was firmly established as the largest promotion in Magisteria from its opening until the early-1980s. From the mid-1990s to the late-2000s, the company saw its most profitable period of its history, mainly due to the second generation of GCG's quartet of exceptionally-skilled wrestlers 'Golden Four' which were Kintaro Kinjo, Nobuatsu Tatsuko, Shuji Inukai, and Yoshimi Mushashibo.

GCG's attendance had dropped by the early 2010s, and the promotion seemed to be in trouble again, but by 2014, it had new sponsors and appeared to have recuperated.

Formation and early history (1960-1981)
On May 12, 1960, Ronan Jacques, a wrestler and known trade unionist who was determined to bring the previously dead sport back to Magisteria, founded the promotion. On May 29, 1960, the promotion held their first event, titled The Awakening, in front of 5,000 people. Simultaneously, Ronan Jacques' protege, Jack Williams, spent his first year with the company honing his exceptional abilities with victories over the majority of the roster, propelling him to become a major news story in 1961 when he won a tournament to crown the first GCG World Heavyweight champion.

With Jack Williams only 20 years old at the time, the victory signaled the beginning of his meteoric rise to superstardom. He held the GCG World Heavyweight title until January 20, 1963, when he was defeated by Antonio Moretti. Williams would remain GCG's biggest star for two decades before retiring in 1981, passing the torch to his protege Jeremy Stone.

The first generation of the Golden Four (1981-1997)
Jacques began pushing four promising young talents on the GCG roster at the time of Jack Williams' retirement: Jeremy Stone, Eugene Edmonton, George DeColt, and Rip Chord. Despite regaining traction following Jack Williams' retirement, the promotion remained behind the National Wrestling Federation (NWF) due to Master Sullivan's involvement with the NWF.