Golden Canvas Grappling

Golden Canvas Traditional Grappling Co., Ltd. (GCTG), simply known as Golden Canvas Grappling (GCG) is a Magisterian professional wrestling promotion based in Reeve, Livingstone. Founded on May 25, 1965, by Greyson Boucher, the promotion was sold to the WFIG Entertainment. Anthem Sports & Entertainment and Bushiroad own minority shares of the company. Retired wrestler and former ten-time women's world champion Harlow Martel serves as the current president of GCTG.

Owing to its TV program aired on MBC, GCTG is the largest and longest-running professional wrestling promotion in Magisteria. During the mid-1970s and the late-1980s, it was affiliated with the American-based National Wrestling Alliance at various points in its history. GCTG has had agreements with various MMA and professional wrestling promotions around the world, including New Japan Pro-Wrestling, All Japan Pro-Wrestling, All Elite Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, WWE, American Wrestling Association, World Class Championship Wrestling, Impact Wrestling, Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, UWFi, Ring of Honor, Pride Fighting Championships, and Extreme Championship Wrestling.

The promotion is currently owned by Magisterian multinational media & action figures-card game company WFIG Entertainment, hich parlayed its entry to the world of professional wrestling into a best-selling GCTG action figures & trading card game Golden Lions of Pro-Wrestling.

Formation and early history (1965-2007)
The promotion was founded by Greyson Boucher on May 25, 1965 after his departure from the Northeastern Wrestling Federation (NWF) promotion. The first GCTG event, titled Art of Grappling, took place on July 3, 1965, in the Noah City Gymnasium in Reeve, Livingstone, to a large crowd of 25,000. In 1973, GCTG signed a television deal with MBC, as a plan to expand more. By 1975, GCTG is undisputably the most powerful wrestling promotion in Magisteria and it's position seems to be unchallenged. The closest GCTG lost it's spot as the largest promotion was during 2000 and 2007, when then-rival promotion Danger And Violence Extreme was gaining a lot of media attention. DAVE closed in May 2007, and PGHW was created two months later.

GCTG under Valérian Blanchet (2007-2012)
By 2007, the burgeoning popularity of mixed martial arts (MMA) in Magisteria was noticed by then-newly appointed president Blanchet, who wanted to integrate elements of shoot wrestling to make the company appear more realistic. The company would partner with martial arts organization ALPHA-1 and begin to insert wrestlers into MMA fights, with the goal of pushing GCTG in a more realistic direction and to make it appear as an actual sport. The new management was met with an overwhelming negative reaction from fans and critics alike. Blanchet was fired from his position after the company was bought by WFIG Entertainment. After Blanchet's firing, the company began to reintegrate its prior Lutte Magistrale style of wrestling.

GCTG under Jeremy Stone (2012-2018)
GCTG starts its resurgence after a disastrous five years under Blanchet's management in 2012, after its purchase by WFIG Entertainment. In the start of the "WFIG Era", retired veteran and former five-time GCTG International Heavyweight champion Jeremy Stone was appointed the new president of GCTG. Under Stone's 6-year run as the president of the company, GCTG saw a new generation of main event stars ranging from Bryson Winston, Ayden Colson, Abraham Moore, Martin Montana (later left in 2016), Adam Manchester, Alice Greening, Ami Gunner, Leroy Dalton, and Liz Lovas. On December 31, 2017, Jeremy Stone released a two-page written statement, which announced Jeremy Stone's resignation from the company by late-January 2018.

GCTG under Harlow Martel (2018-present)
After Jeremy Stone resigned as the company's president in late-January 2018, former ten-time GCTG International Women's World champion Harlow Martel was appointed as the new president of the company. Martel upheld some traditional aspects of the Stone-run GCTG, as the Golden Singles Grand Prix and the Golden Tag Team Grand Prix remained annual events. On March 4, 2019, Martel announced the creation of a new title: the GCTG International Openweight Tag Team Championship, with the inaugural champions to be crowned during the promotion's Golden Tag Team Grand Prix 2019 semi-main event where Team Trailblazers (Cornelius Black & Sachaverell Shearer) became the inaugural champions. After the Golden Tag Team Grand Prix 2019, GCTG held a press conference to announce plans to establish a subsidiary company in the United States, under the name 'Golden Canvas USA', which was established on November 17, 2019.

Contracts
Up until the 1980s, GCTG signed its workers to multi-year contracts, before changing to a similar system used by New Japan Pro-Wrestling, where the promotion signed its wrestlers to one-year deals that expired at the end of every January. The contracts do not forbid negotiations with other promotions unless it's an exclusive contract. Jeremy Stone returned the multi-year contract system in 2016. Any side contracts or agreements offered to wrestlers under GCTG contracts, need the promotion's approval before being signed. GCTG currently has partnerships with several promotions across the world, for which GCTG wrestlers can also perform for.