12 YEARS.FOUR VOLUMES.

Across nine seasons, Old School Wrestling evolved from a violent wrestling promotion into a battleground for corporate warfare, supernatural monsters and the fate of existence itself.

Its earliest years followed Mike Lane, Brent Kersh, The Scarecrow and Red River Jack as factions including The System, The Awakening and RAGE fought for control. Championships repeatedly changed hands amid betrayals, invasions and murders, while Lane’s family became the target of increasingly personal attacks. RAGE was eventually defeated, but new horrors emerged through Doctor D’Ville’s Asylum, Jake Jeckel’s rise and The Scarecrow’s generations-long vendetta against the Kersh family.

After mounting violence forced OSW to close, the mysterious Chief purchased the company and relocated it to Miami’s Tap Room. There, Mike Lane suffered his greatest tragedy when Smiley murdered his wife, Destiny, while Brent’s war with Scarecrow cost him his son.

The arrival of Edward Newton produced one of OSW’s most dominant championship reigns, but even he became part of a much greater conflict. Manipulated by Mother, Lux Bellator broke the Seven Seals, leading to the birth of Noah—the Antichrist—and the apocalypse. Noah revealed himself as Lucifer, forcing the Chief to unveil his true nature as a vessel for Yahweh and save humanity.

That intervention ignited a war between displaced gods. Odin infiltrated OSW through the shapeshifting Mr. Knot, recruited the roster and secretly used Rain to murder his divine rivals. Heroes fell, returned and changed sides as reality itself came under threat.

The saga ultimately returned to its emotional core: Brent Kersh and The Scarecrow. After Yahweh resurrected OSW’s dead but lacked the power to save Brent, Scarecrow sacrificed his own life to restore his greatest enemy—ending generations of hatred with one final act of redemption.

With the gods dead and society collapsing into violence, The Butcher salvaged OSW from the ruins of the Tap Room and transformed it into an underground New York fight club called the Slaughterhouse. A largely new generation emerged, including Luke Storm, Berkshire Ellison Green, Darby Sorrow, SeeSaw and Sigil—the enigmatic Collector whose pursuit of four cosmic crystals became the defining story of Volume II.

Initially trained by the Skull Order to protect reality, Sigil gradually became corrupted by power. He claimed control over time, reality and life, manipulated entire timelines and assembled the children of OSW legends as his personal army. Around him, the Slaughterhouse descended into chaos: the IWF launched an invasion, The Darkness corrupted the roster, The Warped distorted reality and The Returned resurrected OSW’s dead.

Personal tragedies unfolded alongside the cosmic conflict. Luke Storm discovered that Edward Newton was his abandoned younger brother; Brent Kersh was paralyzed by his time-travelling son; Alton Whitlock became the disfigured Two-Face; and SeeSaw learned he was one of Doctor D’Ville’s laboratory creations. The Butcher’s efforts to contain the growing threat ultimately cost him his life.

Sigil eventually gathered the crystals into a near-omnipotent weapon, only to be confronted by Galactus, the creator of the gods and the universe itself. Unmasked as Berengar, prince of the erased planet Halcyon, Sigil admitted that everything he had done was intended to restore his lost world and family.

When Galactus threatened to erase existence and begin again, Berengar willingly sacrificed himself to save creation. Impressed by his selflessness, Galactus destroyed the crystals, restored Halcyon and rewrote reality—giving OSW’s heroes, villains and victims new lives free from divine interference.

The universe survived, its gods were gone, and Old School Wrestling received another unwritten future.

Volume III took place inside Arcadia, a vast underground bunker hidden beneath the Greek island of Nimos. Its inhabitants believed the silo was the entire world, never realizing it had been constructed by Alvin Brown—the father of the Chief—as protection against the prophesied battle between good and evil.

Alvin died after that conflict occurred elsewhere, leaving Arcadia isolated under the control of Cronus and his Greek-named board. Cronus suppressed an uprising and conceived Project OSW, but his son Zeus murdered him, discovered the abandoned plans and established OSW himself.

Zeus became Arcadia’s tyrannical Baron, executing dissidents or condemning them to Deathrow, a lethal wrestling competition. When Deathrow escaped with help from Zeus’ former wife Narcissa, a full-scale war erupted between the regime and the Uprising.

After Nergal destroyed the Red Light District, a mysterious sealed door was discovered. Only descendants of Cronus’ former board—Gemini, Drewitt, Grimskull and El Mariachi Muerte—could open it. Gemini and Muerte betrayed the others, trapping the immortal Drewitt and Grimskull inside a chamber filled with dead monitors and a second door.

As rumors of the “Great Beyond” spread, Zeus and General Ares fought to keep Arcadia imprisoned. Dying from illness, Zeus revealed that resistance fighter Jackson Cade was his son and offered him control of the bunker. Cade refused—or appeared to.

After Zeus died, the final battle reached the door. Cade murdered his stepfather George, betrayed the Uprising and chose to continue his biological father’s tyranny, keeping Arcadia sealed when he could have freed everyone.

Outside, Marvolo had powered the terminal that opened the way. Unable to establish meaningful contact, he departed under orders from the mysterious Custodians, whose true purpose remained unknown.