German Wrestling Federation

The German Wrestling Federation was founded under the name "Graefe Wrestling Federation" by Ahmed Chaer and Crazy Sexy Mike (Hussen Chaer) and their friends, who lived in the Graefestrasse in Berlin-Neukölln. They quickly changed their name to "German Wrestling Federation", following the example of the World Wrestling Entertainment. The first show called "GWF Winter Slam" took place in December 1995.

The GWF Training School was founded two years later in order to train young people who could compete in the shows. The school still exists today and is coached by Ahmed Chaer and Crazy Sexy Mike as well as Orlando Silver, who started his career as a Luchador in Mexico before moving to Berlin. In 2011 an offshoot of the school was also founded in Dresden. The trainer there was Alexander Wolfe, who trained Ilja Dragunov among others.

In 2010, the German Wrestling Federation worked closely with German Stampede Wrestling (GSW) Thus, the German Wrestling Federation functioned as a development territory and training school of GSW. However, after GSW closed down, the German Wrestling Federation started to hold events on their own again.

There were also cooperation shows with other wrestling promotions. For example in 2015 with westside Xtreme Wrestling or in 2003 with Athletik Club Weinheim. In 2017 GWF collaborated with WhatCulture Pro Wrestling and jointly organized the German qualifying tournament for the Pro Wrestling World Cup in Berlin, which was ultimately won by Kushida later that year.