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On October 13, 1970, the championship was introduced as the NWA Eastern Heavyweight Championship during a taping of Championship Wrestling. [Note 2] It was announced that the Missouri Mauler had defeated the defending champion Pat O'Connor in New York City to win the title; this title change was fictitious and a storyline to introduce the championship to the promotion; nevertheless, O'Connor's ...
On December 25, 1971, Georgia Championship Wrestling made its television debut with a special Christmas program. Beginning in late January 1972 the promotion's regular series, Big Time Wrestling, began airing on Saturday afternoons on WQXI-TV in Atlanta; the show was recorded for later broadcast over WJBF in Augusta and WTOC-TV in Savannah, stations located in two of GCW's major cities.
Memphis Wrestling: MLW Underground TV United States: Syndicated: 2003–2004 Major League Wrestling [22] [23] WWE Diva Search United States: Spike: 2004–2005 USA Network: 2006 UPN: 2006 WWE.com: 2007 World Wrestling Entertainment: 6 FWA TV United Kingdom: Portsmouth TV: 2001 The Wrestling Channel: 2004–2005 Frontier Wrestling Alliance: WWP ...
American Wrestling Association [19] 1949–1957 [18] Boston, Massachusetts: Paul Bowser: NWA Nebraska 1949–1957 [20] Omaha, Nebraska: Max Clayton Montreal Wrestling 1949–1957 [18] Montreal, Quebec, Canada Eddie Quinn: John J. Doyle Enterprises California Wrestling Office Hollywood Wrestling [16] 1949–1958 1968–1983 [16] Los Angeles ...
The company descended from the National Wrestling Federation. [1] It was originally intended to be the first national wrestling promotion, but stayed primarily in the Mid-Atlantic region. Einhorn offered his wrestlers more money and benefits than competing promotions, helping to lure big names such as Mil Mascaras (the company's heavyweight ...
Also known as the Canadian Wrestling Association in select Canadian markets. Ran against the NWA's Toronto office under Frank Tunney during the mid-1970s but also had a working relationship with the NWA's Detroit office under Ed Farhat. [4] [8] [9] [19] Universal Wrestling Detroit, Michigan: Jack Cain Tony Marino Terry Sullivan 1974–1976
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Caudle was the official voice of Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and is known for his trademark greeting, "Hello wrestling fans...", and his trademark sign-off line, "That'll do it for this week. We'll see you next week, and until then, so long for now."
The WCW World Television Championship was a professional wrestling world television championship owned by the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotion. The title was introduced on February 27, 1974, in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (MACW), a territory of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).