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In 1983, WWF owner Vince McMahon, who promoted the cartoonish gimmicks that GCW fans were not traditionally supportive of and who in recent months had begun to expand his promotion nationwide, took control of the other major cable television contract at the time when he purchased Southwest Championship Wrestling's Sunday morning USA Network time slot for his All American Wrestling program. Though based in Atlanta, the company also ran live wrestling shows throughout its geographic "territory" of Georgia. Tennessee (Johnson City, Knoxville, Chattanooga) All donations are tax deductible. They took the titles in 1980 when they defeated both teams of The Assassins and Mr. Wrestling I & II. The WWF show on TBS was a ratings disaster from the start. 1/1/70 (Ted Turner and Ann Gunkel had both attended Brown University and were rumored to be romantically involved.) 2/7/57 In 1955, Barnett leveraged his way into the Chicago promotion and bought into the NWA franchise. With Gordon Solie providing the soundtrack that only he could, Georgia Championship Wrestling began to tape shows for television at a small studio on Peachtree Street. 1/28/57 Novice Championship is for 1st and 2nd year wrestlers who have not placed at Kids State You can do both Kids State and Novice Championship (you must qualify for Kids State on 2/25/23) Novice Championship Weigh Ins: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 - Little Kids - 8/10U - Must be in line 7AM Sunday, March 5th, 2023 - 12/14U - Must be in line 7AM Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (p.226), NWA Georgia Junior Heavyweight Championship, NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship, List of National Wrestling Alliance territories, List of independent wrestling promotions in the United States, Championship Wrestling from Georgia profile, from WrestlingData.com, "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (July-September 1971)", "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (October-December 1971)", "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (July-September 1972)", "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (January 1973)", "On this day in pro wrestling history: Gagne wins AWA title from Fritz Von Erich, Wahoo beats Piper, Guerrera over Jericho", "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (November 1973)", "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (April-June 1974)", "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (January-March 1977)", "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (January-March 1978)", "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (April-June 1978)", "Pulse Wrestling's Top 100 Wrestlers of the Modern Era: #35 Stan Hansen", "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (October-December 1978)", "CARDS & RESULTS: 1970-79 (January 1979)", Georgia Championship Wrestling Title History, Pay-per-view and closed circuit events (19831990), Professional wrestling in the United States, Universal Wrestling Federation (Herb Abrams), Heart of America Sports Attractions/Central States Wrestling, Independent Professional Wrestling Alliance, International World Class Championship Wrestling, Pacific Northwest Wrestling/Portland Wrestling, Southern Championship Wrestling (Georgia), Universal Wrestling Federation (Bill Watts)/Mid-South Wrestling, Wrestling Association of Championship Krushers, Ladies Professional Wrestling Association, Jim Crockett Promotions (Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling), NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship, NWA United States Heavyweight Championship, Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament, Funny or Die Presents: America's Next Weatherman, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Georgia_Championship_Wrestling&oldid=1141177481, American professional wrestling television series, American companies disestablished in 1984, Entertainment companies established in 1944, Independent professional wrestling promotions based in Georgia (U.S. state), TBS (American TV channel) original programming, 1944 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state), Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. 1/27/66 We will still have the brackets posted to Floarena after registration closes and brackets become available. Once back on American soil, Barnett was involved with the wrestling business full bore, and things started to turn around for Watts and his Mid-South one-off. 11/15/56 11/21/69 Wrestlers from all over began to pour into the promotion, and the title scene exploded. Later in 1984, McMahon decided that, as part of his continued expansion, the WWF needed a second national cable outlet for its weekly programming. 3/14/70 If you have not purchased your USA card please do ASAP. 3/17/70 Mr. Wrestling II worked as a singles and tag competitor during his time at Georgia Championship Wrestling, but two of his opponents really moved that promotion into the 80s and stood out among the many who worked there. Within a year of McMahons debut on the Superstation, Jim Crockett, Jr. was able to purchase the WWFs TBS time slots and Jim Crockett Promotions absorbed Andersons Championship Wrestling from Georgia group, thus establishing the entity that would eventually become WCW. 3/15/70 It opened the door for more nationalization of contracts and the shuffling of top-tier talents between the existing NWA promotions. 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. 1/31/59 , 9/3/43 2/21/70 1/21/55 American professional wrestling promotion, The exact date on which the title was lost is not known, which means their title reign lasted between, The exact date on which the title was won is not known, which means their title reign lasted between, Foley, Mick. After losing the titles for a final time in Savannah, The Vachons were pushed out of the way and sent packing by the team of Jody Hamilton and Tom Renesto, better known as The Assassins. 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) In the shakeup that occurred following the death of his top star (and minority owner in ABC Booking) Ray Gunkel, Jones company went into an unforeseen tailspin that took some time to recover from. Fast shipping! 2/11/55 Big Time Wrestling was hosted by Ed Capral, and featured ring announcer Charlie Harben and referee Leo Garibaldi, and included interviews with wrestlers pertaining to their upcoming matches. 4/3/70 2/6/59 The Georgia Tag Team Championships also saw more than its fair share of action in the late 70s and into the 80s. Jim Barnett. 6/30/61 1/18/61 Learn more about the rise and fall of Georgia Championship Wrestling: This post may contain affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. 7/23/59 3/8/70 In April 1985, shows began being co-promoted with Jim Crockett Promotions. If you can not find the information you are looking for click here for help, Georgia Amateur Wrestling Association is a 501c3 all volunteer organization Non-profit organization. Georgia Tag Team title (1968-1980) Hamilton began wrestling as the original Assassin in the Georgia territory in the mid-60s. 11/2/62 On April 27's main event, Arn Anderson wrestled Thunderbolt Patterson to a no contest in the Columbus Municipal Auditorium, then CWG disappeared. Georgia Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion whose self-titled TV program aired in the 1970s and 1980s on Atlanta, U.S., superstatio. 11/9/57 Herb Abrams' UWF had a weekly program that aired on SportsChannel America. 4/16/70 , 7/17/67 ", After Black Saturday, Ole Anderson tried to carry on in the territory, promoting Championship Wrestling from Georgia (CWG), which briefly aired out of Atlanta. The 2nd image is a modern satellite image. 1/30/67 12/22/55 3/24/70 3/25/70 11/15/56 9/17/68 4/17/64 2/18/44 2/7/70 When WTCG became distributed via satellite in 1976, the renamed Georgia Championship Wrestling became the first television program produced by an NWA-affiliated promotion to be broadcast nationally. 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). 2/9/70 4/11/70 Vince McMahon is a very ambitious individual. There, Barnett learned the workings of the office and how to book to draw from Kohler during his early years. The source of the problem was Ole Anderson, who had begun to alienate his fellow owners with his booking and operation of the company. Championship Wrestling from Georgia 6/17/55 1982 Has no April or July. 1/16/67 1/14/57 The WWF version of the show received somewhat lower Nielsen ratings than its NWA-associated forerunner. Her new All-South Wrestling Alliance looked to be stronger than Watts had anticipated, and they began to draw business away from his new promotion. The shortest reigning champion was Hiro Matsuda, whose first and only reign lasted 21 days. Losing money on the deal and desperately looking for help, McMahon turned to Jim Barnett, who directed him to NWA President Jim Crockett Jr., the owner of Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), which promoted wrestling shows in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. 4/20/70 The earliest recorded champions were The Mighty Yankees (Mighty Yankee #1 and Mighty Yankee #2), and the last-known champions were Robert Fuller and Bob Armstrong. 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. A+++ Thank you again!!! 9/5/69 Georgia Championship Wrestling's first weekly television series had premiered on then-WTCG in 1972 when station owner Ted Turner purchased the rights to air the program from station WQXI. Rich defeated Harley Race for the NWA Heavyweight Championship in April of 1981, only to lose the title back to Race four days later. 4/30/70 10/18/55 Shipping calculated at checkout. 4/8/70 3/7/70 El Mongol would retire from wrestling in 1982 to open a pair of Mexican restaurants with his wife in Doraville, Georgia. Though many teams like Buddy Fuller and Ray Gunkel managed to wrangle the belts away from them on a few occasions, The Assassins always seemed to get them back in short order. Jones staged his weekly cards at the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium every Friday evening beginning in 1944 until his retirement in 1974 and, under his watch, pro wrestling in the state of Georgia flourished. 11/15/56 1/6/61 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. This was in direct violation of a promise McMahon had made at the time of the purchase to provide original programming for TBS,[1] including having shows taped at the TBS studios. 2/14/61 USA gave McMahon another time slot when WWF Prime Time Wrestling, a similar program to the WWF's TBS program that aired on Monday nights and was a forerunner to the current Monday Night Raw, debuted early in 1985. 4/16/68 He continued to achieve and grow with further expansions into the Indianapolis office as well, where he ran shows with Johnny Doyle. 4/29/70 11/3/44 Well see you here next time and never forget: Our wrestling history is gold. Turner's decision to give time slots to Bill Watts and Ole Anderson indirectly led to other wrestling organizations gaining national cable television contracts. GCW's main show, which aired on Saturday evenings, was complemented with a Sunday evening edition. Promoting events through the mid-1990s across central Georgia, Odum was successful in keeping the brand alive. Georgia Championship Wrestling. After two years of strife, a trouble-shooter was called in: Jim Barnett, who had owned promotions in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Colorado and Australia. Eventually, the friction between Barnett and Anderson led to Barnett being forced out of GCW and giving up his long-held position of power within the National Wrestling Alliance. World Championship Wrestling was a program featuring the "rasslin'" style of wrestling, that emphasized a more athletic product and put less emphasis on cartoonish gimmicks. 5/18/67 7/16/63 6/24/55 1/2/68 3/31/70 slaughter vols 1-12 - pro wrestling. 3/6/70 Georgia's Olympic hopefuls, This website is powered by SportsEngine's. WWE: The Incredible Story Of Black Saturday, Explained. 2/13/50 9/9/57 3/25/57 4/5/70 IF YOU DOUBLE BRACKET YOU WILL NOT BE REFUNDED. 3/4/70 McMahon also guaranteed jobs with the WWF for the Briscos; Jerry Brisco remained with WWF/WWE before suffering three strokes in 2009. Georgia Championship Wrestling has roots in Atlanta dating back to 1944. ( GHSA) Photo Galleries All Galleries GHSA Traditional State Championships Day 1 (Class 5A & 6A) Published: 2023 | 148 Photos GHSA Traditional Consolidation Finals (Classes 1A, 4A, 5A & 6A) Published: 2023 | 178 Photos 8/3/68 It was launched under the ABC Booking company run by Paul Jones (not to be confused with Paul Frederik, who was later given the name), a former wrestler who went by the name of Andrew Lutzi. 3/12/65 These programs ran until March 30, 1985, using the same set that would later be used by Jim Crockett when he purchased the WWF time slot from McMahon (see below).[2]. 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. 12/30/60 8/11/58 Pro Wrestling is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. 1/14/57 12/29/58 , 1/1/57 2/5/69 Before he left GCW, Rich also feuded with the newly arrived Road Warriors. Firstly, it started promoting matches at the then-brand-new Omni Coliseum. 1/1/69 Lots of Buzz Sawyer though, for the people that like him.Match listing:Buzz . Noah, who was accompanied by his family, entered the tournament as an individual through USA Wrestling certification.The Georgia Freshman State Championship exists to give college coaches and high school coaches a glimpse of what is to come skillswise in wrestling. While that may only be a story, it always tells the truth if you follow the money. There are no bats or balls, or pucks or sticks. 1/29/70 1/23/50 The Masked Superstar Bill Eadie would later make a significant impact in the WWF as Ax in Demolition. 12/6/53 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. 6/8/10U-7:00 - 7:30AM - Wrestling will start at 8:00AM. 4/6/70 [Photo: Mervyn George Bishop/Fairfax Media]Barnett stayed in Australia for the next decade until he got the call to return to Georgia in 1974. Smirnoff > NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Les Thornton* vs. Kevin Sullivan > the Freebirds (01) (Terry Gordy . 3/31/70 1/28/57 4/27/63 , 8/14/50 Georgia Wrestling Announcer Freddie Miller Introducing Vince McMahon, That did not turn out to be the case and on July 11, 1984, Titan Sports officially took legal control of Georgia Championship Wrestling, Inc. and its two weekend time slots on Ted Turners Superstation. 12/12/55 3/20/67 Its only a five-hour drive up I-95 from our last stop, Championship Wrestling in Florida, so lets get going. 3/11/70 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. 8/19/60 Members of the National Wrestling Alliance after 1949-11 except between 1957 and 1962. He got his early training in part by Pat OConnor and made his professional debut as Johnny Walker at 20. These teams dominated the tag division until The Fabulous Freebirds came to town. At this point, Ann's promotion went downhill, being locked out of arena dates, with wrestlers defecting to Mid-South, and finally Ann Gunkel's All-South Wrestling Alliance folded in 1974. 4/2/70 Tributes: Remembering Some of the World's Greatest Wrestlers, "End of an era on TBS Solie, Georgia and 'Black Saturday', "Full List Of WWE Network Additions (07/12/2018): Historic WWE Network Hidden Gem, Smackdown, and More! This left the trio of The Briscoes and Paul Jones in the decision-making end of the office with Ole along for the ride with his little percentage of stock. History of Spies 5/13/57 Trending pages Lars Anderson Hulk Hogan A.J. 10/27/60 4/12/70 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. 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