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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 ...
AWA Superstars Of Wrestling CWF Mid-Atlantic: Date established: 2000: Date retired: December 31, 2019: Other name(s) CWF Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship (2007 ...
The original NWA territory system in North America (1940s-1980s).. The following is a list of National Wrestling Alliance attendance records.Founded in 1948, the National Wrestling Alliance controlled the professional wrestling industry in North America and other parts of the world during the "Territory-era" (1940s-1980s).
National Wrestling Alliance affiliates set a number of records as well. Following a successful international USO tour in 2000, NWA Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling held the first-ever American pro wrestling shows in China from December 30, 2003, to January 3, 2004.
The Omni, one of the most popular wrestling venues in Southeastern U.S. during the "Territory-era", set a number of attendance records in the 1980s and 1990s. Arn Anderson has called The Omni the equivalent of Madison Square Garden for Southern wrestling fans. [1] The following is a list of World Championship Wrestling attendance records.
NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship [87] NWA Mid-Atlantic Heritage Championship [80] NWA Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Championship [63] NWA Mid-Atlantic Women's Championship [181] NWA Mid-South Unified Heavyweight Championship; NWA Mountain State Heavyweight Championship [182] NWA Mountain State Tag Team Championship [183] NWA New York No Limits ...
CWF Mid-Atlantic was initially based in Durham, North Carolina. It later moved to Burlington, where it established the Carolina Sports Arena (renamed the Mid-Atlantic Sportatorium [5] in 2009), an industrial building near the Burlington-Alamance Regional Airport, as its home arena and official wrestling school. In spite of the large number of ...
The championship was originally created in the summer of 1968 and was originally named the NWA Atlantic Coast Tag Team Championship. During this time, the title was the primary tag team championship that was defended in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling owned by Jim Crockett, Sr. and later by his son, Jim Crockett, Jr.