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Georgia Championship Wrestling is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Atlanta, Georgia. The promotion was affiliated with what had been the world's top sanctioning body of championship titles for decades before, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), and ran live wrestling shows throughout its geographic "territory" of Georgia ...
NWA Georgia Championship Wrestling United States: TBS: 1971–1984 Georgia Championship Wrestling: WWWF Championship Wrestling United States: Syndicated: 1972–1979 World Wide Wrestling Federation: All Japan Pro Wrestling Japan: Nippon TV: 1972–2000 All Japan Pro Wrestling: NJPW World Pro-Wrestling Japan: NET: 1973–1977, TV Asahi: 1977 ...
WCW Clash of the Champions. WCW Pro. WCW Saturday Night is an American weekly Saturday night television show on TBS that was produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Launched in 1971 initially by Georgia Championship Wrestling, the program existed through various incarnations under different names before becoming WCW Saturday Night in 1992.
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.
Professional wrestling. In American professional wrestling, the term Black Saturday refers to Saturday, July 14, 1984, the day when Vince McMahon 's World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) took over the timeslot on Superstation WTBS that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) and its flagship weekly program, World Championship ...
The GCW Heavyweight Championship is the major title in the Georgia Championship Wrestling professional wrestling promotion. It started in 1964 and was unified in 1981 with the NWA National Heavyweight Championship. The title was picked back up in 1998 by NWA Georgia, which became NWA Wildside in September 1999 when it merged with National ...
Live event: Atlanta, Georgia 1 153 Title recognized as the NWA World Television Championship after March 1984. 46 Ron Garvin: April 7, 1984: Live event: Atlanta, Georgia 2 71 47 Jake Roberts: June 17, 1984: Live event: Atlanta, Georgia 2 0 This was shown on tape delay on Georgia Championship Wrestling as part of the "NWA Superstars" series. [9 ...
NWA National Championship. The NWA National Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned and promoted by the U.S.-based, National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The championship was established in January 1980 as the top singles title of Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW), a prominent NWA-affiliated promotion.