By 1992, IPW had signed away most of the top talent from the RWC, including Sir Phillip J Edmond and Allen Epperson, RWC's top young stars. Germany natives Kai Hanson and Marcus Weirkeith won the WWA World Tag Team Titles. With more British wrestlers on the roster, IPW begin producing an English version of its TV show, which was syndicated thru out Great Britain. IPW was now on the air all over Europe.

The emergence of talent like Robert Bayley and his friend Steve Elliott, both Americans, soon pushed IPW to the top of the TV ratings where ever it was broadcast. Both Bayley and Elliott's fathers has been stationed at a US Army base in German, so they both had grown up in Germany. They became the most popular wrestlers in Europe. Bayley soon left IPW for America, but Elliott and other young and upcoming talent were waiting in the wings. Dutch born, German raised Leif Edling became the top villain with his manager The Phantom Lord. Edling's group "The Phantom Zone" first brought the horror/gothic style element to IPW, which proved to be extremely popular. IPW regined on top of the ratings from 1993 to 1997 as the other promotions in WWA Europe were falling to nothing and soon begin to close. In late 1995 the Royal Wrestling Council finally merged with IPW, leaving IPW as the only major wrestling group in Europe at that time. Both WWA France and Spain announced developmental deals with IPW, leaving them as the only two active promotions besides IPW in WWA Europe in 1996.

In 1997 a group of British investors reformed the European Wrestling League and applied for WWA membership which was granted. They applied for the WWA United Kingdom position, which was granted. The EWL promoters called for WWA Europe to return to it's regional roots. IPW Owner Fritz Kaiser protested and said he would not leave England. After much debate, IPW pulled out of the WWA in 1997. With out the restrictions of the WWA, IPW begin promoting an more aggressive style of wrestling, mixed with even more horror/gothic style. They signed an agreement with the Pro Wrestling Alliance, which was not apart of the WWA at that time. The PWA soon begin co-promoting a bi monthly IPW PPV shown in America. This proved very popular in the states.

The ratings kept growing at a record pace all over Europe. IPW soon joined the revamped National Wrestling Alliance (NeWA) and became the first member under the new management. Germany superstar Frans Joule won a tournament to win the vacant NWA (NeWA) World Title. Joule soon had a disagreement with NWA Officials and left IPW and returned to the WWA European Wrestling League. Soon more European wrestlers had left IPW to join EWL. IPW begin promoting new stars, such as Siva the Warrior, Chris Worrall and Adam Riggs (all of which would go on to win the NWA/NeWA World Title) with the current talent Leif Edling and Kai Hanson. The new roster proved to be a major success, but larger problems were coming.

IPW owner Fritz Kaiser was dealing with major money problems in his other non wrestling company and was forced to sell IPW to stay ahead. Fredrickson Sports Promotions, owners of the PWA, took over the management of the promotions until a new owner could be found. In mid 1998, the same investment group that owned EWL bought IPW. They soon merged the two promotions together under the IPW name and back under the WWA banner. The new owners concentrated on the British market, but the ratings and attendance in England continued to drop. Hammerlock Pro Wrestling, also based in England, which featured more "traditional" wrestling than IPW, begin to climb in popularity .

In mid 1999 a group of investors lead by PWA Head Booker Phil Baker bought IPW. Strangely, Baker and company attempted to compete with Hammerlock, by altering IPW's style away from the aggressive/horror/gothic style to that of Hammerlock's traditional wrestling. Until then IPW was still selling out arenas in Germany, Denmark and Switzerland, but the change of style proved very unpopular with those core fans. Baker named another former IPW booker Nolan Gerencser as President in 2001. Gerencser attempted to win back IPW's core fans with a return to IPW's past booking style. He also asked for the owners to give up on the United Kingdom and concentrate on Germany, France, Denmark and Switzerland. The owners refused and Gerencser soon quit after IPW's old style proved even more unpopular in England. Baker himself took over as booker in late 2001, but by this point IPW was starting to lose money all over Europe.

The company was again sold, this time to Joel Warner, a former executive with the PWA. Warner like the former owners wanted to win the UK market back from Hammerlock and took IPW into an American promotional style similar to the PWA, which was still very popular on Britain TV. Warner brought in more American wrestlers, and put stars like Leif Edling on the back burner. Once again IPW's ratings fell flat in the UK, and Warner's new booking style had done further damaged the promotion in Germany. While in France. The ratings were up and Warner begin running more shows there then before, using talent from the WWA French promotion.

After less than a year of ownership, Warner placed IPW for sale in June of 2002. Warner could not find anyone willing to buy IPW immediately, so long time star Leif Edling took over the promotion and booking temporally for Warner, while new ownership could be found. Edling fired many of the American stars, like Jerry Lynn and Shane Helms, and begin pushing the local European talent once again. Under Edling IPW finally stopped promoting shows in Britain. In Germany, the ratings and arena attendance slowly begin to rise again. In October 2002, Former PWA and NWA President Chris Champion announced he was buying IPW from Joel Warner. Champion vowed to stay on the same path of Edling and a return to the aggressive/horror/gothic style, taking IPW even further back to it's roots. Soon after the ownership of Hammerlock left the NWA and joined the WWA, placing IPW and Hammerlock under the same banner for the first time. How will the two former rivals promotions will work together. How will will it work out with the two sharing the WWA European Heavyweight and Tag Team Titles? We will see in time.

IPW's first card under new owner Champion featues many new veteran wrestlers making their European debuts, the return of former IPW stars like Kai Hanson and Jullian LeMonie. The most anticipated of all is former WWA and NWA World Champion turned movie star, "The Kutlu" Warrior Jon Stewart. Stewart, the son of Roddy Piper, has promised this is a return to full time wrestling, after two years of only wrestling in hardcore matchs and shoot fights.

October 2002 truly marks a total new beginning in the history of IPW.

IPW History was written by John H. Fredrickson and Christopher R. Champion