Wrestling promoter Jim Barnett at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Showground, March 7, 1973. 1/9/70 Wrestlers can not be addedafterregistrationcloses. Vincent K. McMahon (1984), STATES & PRIMARY CITIES: When the National Wrestling Alliance formed in 1948, one of the primary benefits it offered its members was protection from (and support against) an "outlaw" promotion entering a territory and working in opposition to the established NWA office. 1/19/70 In addition, WWF World Championship Wrestling was mainly used as a re-cap show, featuring matches which had previously aired on the WWF's main programming venues such as WWF Championship Wrestling and WWF All-Star Wrestling. West Virginia (Wheeling, Bluefield, Huntington) 9/25/58 1/29/69 1/13/70 Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region. 7/21/60 In 1999, it secured a cable deal to air a show on TNN, but the next year, TNN gained rights to WWF programming and dropped ECW, which folded in April 2001, shortly after the WWF's purchase of WCW's assets. 1/28/69 Georgia Championship Wrestling has roots in Atlanta dating back to 1944. The NWA Columbus Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling regional championship in Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW). World Titles World Heavyweight Title World Junior Heavyweight Title World Women's Title World Tag Team Title World Television Title Championship vacated for unknown reasons. 7/15/53 1/30/68 There's no doubt about it, wrestling tops the list of intense, highly-competitive sports. 1/11/69 6/15/57 , 11/14/56 There have been a total of 13 recognized individual champions and 8 recognized teams, who have had a combined 10 official reigns. 8/27/58 4/29/70 Dating back to the 1920s, professional wrestling has enjoyed a long and rich history with the city of Atlanta. The two sometimes ran shows against the NWA Detroit brand periodically but mostly kept within the confines of the organizations umbrella. Published Nov 7, 2021. Barnett saw this as an opportunity to go beyond the confines of just his home base of Atlanta to get his product into any cable market in the country. He is not only taking care of his responsibilities on the mat and field but is an A/B student in his academics with great behavior for Bainbridge Middle School. 9/16/70 Mr. Wrestling I & II gave them their most competition while at GCW, but very few teams stood in their way for long. 8/24/59 Still, the incarnation with "nephew" Arn Anderson is the unit that memory evokes when you hear the name. Barnett then joined Vince McMahon as the Vice President of the World Wrestling Federation, a move that would come back to haunt his former booker. Current name: Georgia Championship Wrestling Current abbreviation: GCW Status: Inactive Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA Active Time: 1944 - 1984 Details Names: Georgia Championship Wrestling (1944 - 14.07.1984) Abbreviations: GCW Owners: Vince McMahon (1984) Gerald Brisco, Jack Brisco, Ole Anderson & Paul Jones (1983 - 1984) During the season I decided to move Noah from the BMS wrestling team to the Bainbridge High School team due to his ability and work ethic. 4/6/70 Jones operated ABC for thirty years until his retirement in 1974, though from about 1970 until 1972 he was assisted by his booker Ray Gunkel. 11/30/55 The first image is an aerial image of the Techwood Drive area from the mid-1960s (which looked very similar to this during the 70s and 80s when wrestling TV was taped there.) Firstly, it started promoting matches at the then-brand-new Omni Coliseum. 3/21/67 Though he had a tough time getting his product out there as easily as he thought, things began to pick up swiftly. He was 80 years old. 12/29/58 , 1/1/57 All wrestlers report to the awards area immediately following their medal match. After his death, Rays widow Ann wanted to take over her husbands share in the business, but the promotion was sold from under her to Bill Watts, who began to spin off his own Mid-South Sports out of the business move. 8/19/70 9/4/69 10/28/55 While The Torres Brothers and The Vachons went to war in the fall of that year, there was another powerhouse that was about to get the titles in their grasp. 12/2/69 1/10/61 Compare and contrast the images below. 9/5/69 In 1982, Georgia Championship Wrestling renamed its weekly program World Championship Wrestling, a name the entire promotion would grow to be identified by. Join Al Getz as he looks at all the known house shows for Georgia Championship Wrestling for a one-week period in 1971. 12/21/57 10/7/55 He first started as the tag partner to the original Mr. Wrestling but would eventually take the character full-time once Tim Woods moved on to work the Mid-Atlantic territory. According to Ric Flair in his autobiography To Be the Man, The Road Warriors were offered $5,000 to injure the Brisco brothers during a tag team match by an unnamed, disgruntled source. 1/5/62 2/6/59 1/23/70 DVD $8.00 Buy It Now +$3.60 shipping 5 watchers Sponsored GEORGIA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING HOUSE SHOWS 1981-82 PRO WRESTLING DVD (W-992) 3/18/55 2/28/67 All wrestlers report to the awards area immediately following their medal match. The source of the problem was Ole Anderson, who had begun to alienate his fellow owners with his booking and operation of the company. While Barnett and Anderson were very successful in their efforts to expand into new markets, that success came at a price and the cities within Georgia that had long been the lifeblood of the promotion soon began to suffer from a lack of attention. 1/9/61 Ole Anderson (1980-1984) Some wrestlers, such as Roddy Piper, say that he was in fact doing so, but was prevented by fears of crossing organized crime figures involved with the sport. Tennessee (Johnson City, Knoxville, Chattanooga) The changing of hands and promotional banners that Georgia Championship Wrestling went through in the early 70s leaves its history somewhat clouded during that time. With the grizzled, stoic Ole calling the shots, and the pitbull of a young worker in Arn delivering the heavy hits and suffocating spine busters that looked like Rembrandt in motion, the two decimated any pair that they laid their gaze on. 3/7/70 What became known as Black Saturday happened solely due to greed and spite. Yes this is some of the most legendary of all Georgia Championship Wrestling television with the angle in full and all the promos in the aftermath from every. Following a 1962 scandal that involved film star Rock Hudson and accusations of homosexual improprieties with some of Barnetts wrestlers, the promoter began to sell off shares and stockholdings he had in several ventures across the country. 9/19/60 Some reigns were held by champions using a ring name, while others used their real name. John Walker was born in the midst of the Turbulent Thirties in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina. 11/7/70 , 7/5/67 Whether or not Barnett was in fact taking the promotion national is a matter of dispute. Ted Turner had taken his investment capital and made the right moves to secure himself a swath of prime real estate in downtown Atlanta. 12/22/55 PWSTees.com Your favorite Pro Wrestling Stories, on a tee! This does not mean by any chance, though, that those divisions cooled down. Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region Overview News and Rumors Articles Events Event Statistics Results Titles All-Time Roster Matchguide Win/Loss Records Promos Tournaments Rivalries Books Ratings Comments Results Displaying items 1 to 100 of total 2063 items that match the search parameters. 3/14/67 6/30/61 Ratings for the WWFs TBS programs ranged from mediocre to low while the handful of live events that the Federation staged in Georgia drew poorly. 2/5/69 The most up-to-date schedule for the season can be found here:Schedule of Tournaments (teamgawrestling.org), The directions on how to register can be found here:www.teamgawrestling.org/register, Registrations will close on Friday before tournament at 9AM. 4/14/70 Excellent communication! 8/8/60 The shortest reigning champion was Hiro Matsuda, whose first and only reign lasted 21 days. 1/27/70 Noah competed at the 170 lbs weight class and was the eventual Georgia State Freshman Champion. 2/8/63 , 10/29/60 Wrestling) > Bill Dromo and Luke Graham . Both Mid South Wrestling and Championship Wrestling from Georgia outdid the WWF in ratings. 6/30/44 3/9/70 Georgia Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion whose self-titled TV program aired its first show on WTCG, a UHF independent station in Atlanta, as a Christmas special on December 25, 1971. 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He died on September 18, 2004, from complications of pneumonia. 2/1/70 4/4/70 GCW's program was hosted by NWA announcer Gordon Solie, who also hosted programs for various other NWA affiliated promotions at the time (such as Championship Wrestling from Florida). legends of wrestling - pedro morales vols 1-10 - pro wrestling. After documenting 9 house shows durin. Awards ceremonies will take place by weight-class as each weight class iscompleted. After two years of strife, a trouble-shooter was called in: Jim Barnett, who had owned promotions in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Colorado and Australia. Additionally, in September of 1982, the name of the promotions highly-rated TV program was officially changed to World Championship Wrestling. 4/1/55 The WWF's style of wrestling sharply differed from that of GCW, with the WWF featuring cartoonish characters and storylines and squash matches and GCW featuring more athletic competition. 4/4/70 McMahon, undeterred, tried to find another way of securing the slot for the WWF; he discovered that method shortly after his rejection by Turner. It looked like Ann had Mid-South against the ropes, but it was an audible call by Watts to bring in outside help that would finally help him win the insurrection. The show featured wrestling matches, plus melodramatic monologues and inter-character confrontationssimilar to the programming offered by other territories, including the Northeast-based World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). 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