MLW Opera Cup

The Opera Cup tournament is a professional wrestling single-elimination tournament held by Major League Wrestling (MLW). First introduced in 2019 at the namesake event, the tournament is a revival of the Professional Wrestling Opera House Cup, which had been last won by Stu Hart in 1948. The tournament was revived by MLW in 2019 and has become an annual recurring tournament.

Opera Cup
Promotion(s)Major League Wrestling
First eventOpera Cup (2019)

History

Opera House Cup was annually held as a professional wrestling tournament for nearly fifty years in various cities in the United States until 1948, when Stu Hart won the tournament and it was discontinued. Hart kept the possession of the Opera Cup trophy since then. On July 21, 2019, Major League Wrestling announced that it would be holding an event on December 5 at the Melrose Ballroom in Queens, New York City, New York which would be a set of television tapings of MLW's television program Fusion.[1] On July 24, it was reported that Stu Hart's grandson and MLW wrestler Teddy Hart would be donating an inherited "family heirloom" to MLW.[2] On July 30, MLW.com announced that the family heirloom was Stu Hart's Opera Cup trophy and MLW would be bringing back the Opera Cup tournament on the December 5 supercard, naming it Opera Cup.[3] In 2020, the Opera Cup tournament resumed on Fusion after the promotion resumed tapings after the COVID-19 pandemic.

List of winners
Year Winner Times won Finals date Runner-up Venue Location
2019 Davey Boy Smith Jr. 1 December 5, 2019 Brian Pillman Jr. Melrose Ballroom Queens, New York, New York
2020 Tom Lawlor 1 December 23, 2020 Low Ki GILT Nightclub Orlando, Florida

References
  1. "MLW SETS RETURN TO NYC LATER THIS YEAR". Major League Wrestling. July 21, 2019.
  2. "TEDDY HART DONATES FAMILY HEIRLOOM TO MLW". Major League Wrestling. July 24, 2019.
  3. "NYC TO HOST FIRST OPERA CUP IN OVER 70 YEARS". Major League Wrestling. July 30, 2019.
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