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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.
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 Wrestling, for twelve years.
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.
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 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.
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] — Vacated: June 17, 1984 ...
The title was picked back up in 1998 by NWA Georgia, which became NWA Wildside in September 1999 when it merged with National Championship Wrestling. Along with this change, the championship became known as the NWA Wildside Heavyweight Championship. The title continued until Wildside ceased operations on April 30, 2005.
World Championship Wrestling is a television program that was produced by WWF that aired on Superstation WTBS from 1984 to 1985. The show took over the time slot of Georgia Championship Wrestling's World Championship Wrestling program that had been broadcasting on WTBS for 12 years; the WWF had purchased a majority interest in GCW. Poor fan ...