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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.
Eastern Championship Wrestling Knoxville, Tennessee 1981 Short-lived group that attempted to run Knoxville following the ASW/SCW promotional war. [7] Independent Wrestlers Union Franklin, Tennessee: 1982 [4] [9] Mid-South Wrestling Association Memphis, Tennessee: Russ Edwards 1982 Also known as Mid-South Pro Wrestling. [4]
The following is the 1970–71 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1970 through August 1971. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1969–70 ...
The 1970–71 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1970 to August 1971.
In 1977, promoter Jerry Jarrett and wrestler Jerry Lawler broke away from NWA Mid-America, breaking the Memphis area off to start on the own under the name the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA). Mid-America stopped promoting in 1981 and the CWA took over most of their territory as well as some of the championships promoted by NWA Mid-America
Mid-Am Show Knoxville, Tennessee 2 20 Defeats The Spoilers in a tournament final 10 Frank Morrell and Tony Russo December 19, 1969: Mid-Am Show Knoxville, Tennessee 1 28 11 Whitey Caldwell (3) and Johnny Walker (2) January 16, 1970: Mid-Am Show Knoxville, Tennessee 1 6 12 The Spoilers (Spoiler #1 and #Spoiler 2) January 22, 1970: Mid-Am Show
Continental Championship Wrestling: 1974–1987 Knoxville, Tennessee: Jim Barnett Ron Fuller: Korean Wrestling Association Mid 1970s–1983 Seoul, South Korea: Kim Ill New Japan Pro-Wrestling: July 20, 1975 – 1985 1992–1993 2008–2010 Tokyo, Japan: Antonio Inoki (1972–1989) Seiji Sakaguchi (1989–1999) Tatsumi Fujinami (1999-June 2004)