[3] Boston won the WFTDA Division 2 Championship in 2017 and the North America East Continental Cup in 2018.

Boston Roller Derby is skater-owned and -operated, sporting more than 70 full-time skaters who both skate and work as part of their duties.

In late October 2015, Boston Roller Derby announced its new name as part of a rebrand "to better reflect the diversity of our community.

[citation needed] The league was formally established as an LLC in the state of Massachusetts by the founding executive board members Andrea Lenco, Sarah Kingan, Alison McAlear, Carroll Cunningham, Eva McCloskey, Lindsay Crudele, and Rebecca Allen the same year.

[13] In addition, Boston offers a Training and Recreation program (TRT), for new and transferring skaters who wish to learn how to play roller derby.

Once skaters graduate from the TRT program, they're eligible to be drafted to a home team and to skate with the Train Wrecks.

[8] In 2006, as a newly formed team, The Boston Massacre played just two sanctioned WFTDA bouts and competed in their first unsanctioned round-robin tournament (Bumberbout) in Seattle.

[31] In 2014, Boston again qualified for Division 1 Playoffs, entering the Charleston tournament as the sixth seed, and finishing in seventh place.

[32] In 2015, Boston returned to Division 1 Playoffs, this time as the sixth seed in Omaha, where they finished in fifth place.

[35] In 2018, Boston qualified for the WFTDA North American East Continental Cup held in Kalamazoo, Michigan as the first seed, and went unbeaten in capturing first place.