Southern Championship Class Wrestling's creation was due largely in part to the famed East Coast Wars of the late 1990s, which featured a number of various promotions battling on the Atlantic coast for dominance. Shane Sneer had been working for a number of the companies involved in the battle during the time period, and as time wore on he began to realize that the southern US had gone largely ignored by most of the major companies. Knowing the rich wrestling history of the area and the thirst that fans down there always seemed to have for the sport, Sneer began working in 1996 on the idea that would eventually become SCCW.