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3/1/70 4/15/70 1/13/70 The Tag and Heavyweight Titles werent the only championships in the Georgia Championship Wrestling territory being fought over in the promotions heyday. After documenting 9 house shows durin. McMahon promised the GCW fans who were tuned in that they would enjoy his new program just as much. 1/30/68 9/15/67 These teams dominated the tag division until The Fabulous Freebirds came to town. 3/21/67 4/8/55 1/3/66 3/16/70 4/25/70 , 1/2/61 8/19/60 11/25/63 9/23/61 2/28/70 A power struggle in late 1983 forced Barnett to sell most of his shares in GCW to a conglomerate consisting of wrestlers and brothers Jack Brisco and Jerry Brisco; Paul Jones; and Al Rogowski, a match booker, who also wrestled as "Ole Anderson." It can be purchased here:https://www.usawmembership.com/login. 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. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 8/21/57 GCW's core audience began writing and calling TBS in droves,[3] furious over the fact that GCW was no longer airing on the station and demanding to know why. Another great transaction from this seller! The past wrestling season Noah transferred in from Ohio to begin the season and finish with a near flawless record losing only once during the middle school and high school season. 5/6/66 In 1983, Barnett was edged out of any shot calling in GCW through politicking and backroom dealings. 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]. 7/22/70 Rich got his training from Jerry Jarrett when he was still a young man, and he took to the roads and worked most of the major NWA markets in the South and Southeast. 1/11/70 Gunkel quickly made moves to open her own outlaw promotion outside of the NWA banner and run shows against Watts. 1/14/57 Friday Night Weigh Ins - Will be determined by the Tournament Director. 3/23/70 1/25/61 Once Barnett sold, The Briscos were quick to follow, leaving Paul Jones little choice but to scramble and get what he could out of his piece of the pie. 11/22/63 Wrestling promoter Jim Barnett at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Showground, March 7, 1973. 3/30/57 February 27, 2023 Monday Night RAW results, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, NWA Georgia Junior Heavyweight Championship, GeorgiaWrestlingHistory.com (Official Website), Georgia Championship Wrestling at CAGEMATCH.net. 5/1/70 , 6/10/57 Hamilton began wrestling as the original Assassin in the Georgia territory in the mid-60s. 1/23/61 4/18/70 The Garvins, Ronny and Terry, also held the titles in the early 70s and battled with Bullet Bob Armstrong and Robert Fuller until a new pair of heels took the title scene and made it their playground. The Minnesota Wrecking Crew sold out anywhere they wrestled in Georgia and tore the house down in Arns birthplace of Rome anytime they made their way through the area. The old NWA cage matches are some of the bloodiest Ive ever seen, and The Masked Superstar was up at the top of that list with Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair for the amount of blood let onto the canvas. Due in large part to both parties' actions, McMahon and Turner began a rivalry that would continue for over a decade, before ending in 2001 when McMahon purchased the non-license assets of WCW from AOL Time Warner, which had previously purchased Turner's wrestling assets (along with the rest of his company) in 1996. 1/22/70 He died on September 18, 2004, from complications of pneumonia. In 1976, GCW became the first National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory to earn a national cable television contract as the soon-to-be-renamed Superstation WTBS began to be carried by various cable and satellite providers nationwide. 4/8/70 7/29/61 1/24/61 10/7/55 Ray Gunkel died of a heart attack later that year after a match versus Ox Baker in Savannah, Georgia. Merged with Mid-Atlantic / Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985-03 and became a national promotion. Coach Paul Coleman has done a great job getting Noah mat time at the high school level and putting him in position to elevate and push his skills further. 1/27/66 1/5/70 1/21/55 1/7/69 11/2/57 Despite his setback with regard to the TBS time slot, McMahon's USA Network contract and syndicated programming were not affected in any way. Without Andersons knowledge, Jim Barnett, with help from the Briscos, facilitated the buyout of minority shareholders Frances Jones and Jim Oates, which allowed McMahon to acquire 51% of the company and controlling interest of the stock on April 9, 1984. 7/20/61 , 1/7/55 Please make sure you are signing up for the correct tournament. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), GCA Cougars baseball seeing progress in 2023 under new coach, GCA Cougars basketball defeats Fullington before falling to RTCA in final seconds, Bearcats track programs set to kickoff 2023 Larry Clark Invitational, GCA Lady Cougars basketball looking ahead as 2023 season comes to a close. 4/20/70 2/19/70 9/16/57 No matter how many top-tier competitors came after it, the Georgia Heavyweight Title was dominated by one man. They took the titles in 1980 when they defeated both teams of The Assassins and Mr. Wrestling I & II. 4/27/70 7/28/44 YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DOUBLE BRACKET IN A NOVICE TOURNAMENT. 1/18/61 Promoter and businessman, Grady Odum acquired the rights to Georgia Championship Wrestling in the early 1990s. National Tag Team title (1980-1986) 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! 4/27/70 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. The 2nd image is a modern satellite image. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! Given the programs nationwide reach, it was soon common to see performers who were not normally associated with Georgia to come into the territory for short stints in order to benefit from the exposure that WTBS and Georgia Championship Wrestling afforded them, men like AWA legend The Crusher, Texas Kevin Von Erich, Calgarys Bret Hart, Mid Atlantics Ric Flair, Roddy Piper and Greg Valentine and even WWF Heavyweight champion Bob Backlund. To register for novice tournaments you must be a first or second year wrestler, you can not have placed at kids state. Noah was the only Bainbridge wrestler to compete while the tournament was an open invitation to all wrestlers. Well discuss one of the most prolific territories to have ever opened its doors on the way. 7/28/60 A respected member of the National Wrestling Alliance for the vast majority of his three decades as a promoter, his ABC Booking company was one of the most successful regional wrestling companies of the era and, not excluding the normal fluctuations in attendance that were a part of the promotional business, that success continued through to the early 1970s when ABC Booking became Mid South Sports, Inc. and Georgia Championship Wrestling was born. 10/14/55 1/1/69 Whether or not Barnett was in fact taking the promotion national is a matter of dispute. 1/1/69 Following Black Saturday, Ole sued Barnett and tried to continue with his own Championship Wrestling from Georgia. 4/7/70 Honoring the history of the greatest in professional wrestling while writing the next chapter. 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. Black Inventors Online Museum 3/18/70 Michigan (Lansing, Dearborn, Grand Rapids) However, unlike World Championship Wrestling, which had been a weekly show from the TBS studios in Atlanta, the WWF's TBS show at first consisted solely of highlights from the WWF's USA Network and syndicated programming, as well as house show clips from Madison Square Garden, Boston Garden, and most of the other major arenas it did business in. Both Mid South Wrestling and Championship Wrestling from Georgia outdid the WWF in ratings. In the Summer of 1984, McMahon began a correspondence with Barnett in an attempt to buy his portion of GCW. Pennsylvania (Johnstown, Scranton, Erie, Reading, Altoona, Harrisburg) 3/3/44 He continued to achieve and grow with further expansions into the Indianapolis office as well, where he ran shows with Johnny Doyle. 3/6/70 The Georgia Tag Team Championships also saw more than its fair share of action in the late 70s and into the 80s. 4/7/70 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. 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. As the Georgia Championship Wrestling promotion headed into 1972, some major changes were set into motion. World Titles World Heavyweight Title World Junior Heavyweight Title World Women's Title World Tag Team Title World Television Title Georgia Championship Wrestling was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Atlanta, Georgia. 1/18/69 7/29/55 After gaining control of Georgia Championship Wrestling, the WWF immediately shut down the wrestling operation. 1/26/61 12 All-Time Legends the WWE Hall of Fame Did Wrong, Wrestler Nanjo Singh and His Wifes Brutal Murder, Global Force Wrestling: Its Brief History and Why It Broke Down, Yam Bag: The Night I Wrestled an Elderly Woman, Kurt Von Hess Lifestyle of an Old-School Ethnic Heel, Lou Thesz The Side Business Hustles of a Champion Wrestler, Buddy Rogers The Man Who Drove a Wedge in the NWA, Steve Austin and his Flat-Out Refusal to Work with Jeff Jarrett. The company was also known for its self-titled TV program, which aired in the 1970s and 1980s on Atlanta-based superstation WTBS. 2/15/70 3/17/44 3/18/55 8/7/61 , 1/31/58 By 1994, none of these companies remained in business, with the exception of the Memphis-based branch of the USWA, which folded in 1997. 1/8/70 Seeing this turmoil, McMahon approached the Brisco brothers and Jim Barnett, the fourth owner of the company, and discussed a potential sale. 4/9/70 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. Many of the NWA's regional promoters were unhappy, but Barnett claimed since he was only using Georgia-based wrestlers, that there was no harm. 6/17/55 While still a shareholder in the company, Paul Jones was, by this point, a silent partner and the day-to-day operations of the promotion were primarily handled by the Chief Executive Officer of Mid South Sports, James E. Barnett and his booker, Ole Anderson. Tommy Rich was born in the Volunteer State of Tennessee at the height of the 1956 summer. 2/15/70 Georgia Championship Wrestling Back to Solie's Wrestling Videos Catalog Georgia Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion whose self-titled TV program aired in the 1970s and 1980s on Atlanta, U.S., superstation WTBS. Buddy Fuller and Mr. Wrestling Tim Woods gave El Mongol his best matches, but he managed to capture the title ten times in that stretch of time. 4/23/57 9/19/69 7/14/58 2/8/61 Join us to honor history and carve. 3/31/70 In April 1985, shows began being co-promoted with Jim Crockett Promotions. Meanwhile, The Briscos payday, besides the near one million dollars they sold their stock for, was guaranteed spots at the WWF as road agents and later an on-air role for Gerald in the Attitude Era. 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. 11/9/57 Rich defeated Harley Race for the NWA Heavyweight Championship in April of 1981, only to lose the title back to Race four days later. 2/10/61 2/9/70 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. 2/18/44 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. 12/9/66 3/8/70 8/15/56 Secondly, Southerners resented the symbolism of a "Yankee" company coming down from the North and "taking over" their wrestling. The CNN Complex housed the now booming Omni Coliseum and his ground-breaking twenty-four-hour news service and the newly crowned "Superstation," WTBS. WRESTLING STARS - PAUL ELLERING VOLS 1-3 - PRO WRESTLING (#185720955946). Ann Gunkel decided to start her own promotion outside of the National Wrestling Alliance, which she named the "All-South Wrestling Alliance.". WWE's purchase of Georgia Championship Wrestling set forth a course of events that would change pro wrestling forever. Jim Barnett went on to become Vice President at Titan Sports, the parent company of the WWF. 1/20/61 GCW moved its weekly live shows to the new venue, and it held wrestling events there over the next 25 years. 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. Parade Of Champions When Georgia Championship Wrestling's local television carrier, WTCG Channel 17 (later renamed WTBS) was broadcast nationally via satellite beginning on December 17, 1976, it became cable TV's first "superstation" and the NWA's Georgia promotion was poised to become the first wrestling program with nationwide coverage since the days of the Dumont 1/19/70 The Brisco Brothers also worked GCW during these years. 2/8/70 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. Pro Wrestling is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. 8/8/60 3/6/70 5/10/63 Vince McMahon is a very ambitious individual. Verne Gagne's AWA debuted on ESPN in 1985 and aired on the network until the company folded in 1991. 12/6/53 Championship vacated for unknown reasons. They bought into the promotion alongside Graham, Barnett, and Paul Jones. 1/21/63 3/7/70 10/14/58 3/4/55 The NWA Columbus Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling regional championship in Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW). 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). What had once been a model of success began to crumble internally due to overspending, mismanagement and in-fighting. After it was merged into the NWA World and subsequently the NWA National Television Title, the duo of Ron Garvin and Bob Roop battled back and forth for the belt. 2/16/70 1/30/69 6/4/68 3/30/70 3/16/70 11/15/56 Jim Oates (19801984) 9/14/62 2/18/57 1/20/66 Ohio (Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Marion, Stoobenville, Canton), MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS: 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. The National titles, originally created in 1980 in Georgia, were carried on by Crockett until 1986, when they were either abandoned or unified with equivalent titles.[3]. 3/14/70 1/6/50 4/4/70 Throughout the 1970s, Georgia Championship Wrestling was one of the main shows that kept the Superstation alive.[1]. 3/12/65 10/7/55 11/19/57 Promoting events through the mid-1990s across central Georgia, Odum was successful in keeping the brand alive. Firstly, it started promoting matches at the then-brand-new Omni Coliseum. The last World Championship Wrestling program under GCW control aired on July 7, 1984. 1/1/68 1/5/68 Jim Phillips is a contributor for Pro Wrestling Stories. 11/11/55 Great Female Inventors 2/14/70 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. 3/2/70 The death set off some internal problems, with Ray's widow Ann, who had worked closely with Ray and expected to get her share of the promotion being shut out in favor of Bill Watts, with the promotion being renamed "Mid-South Sports." 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. However, once he paired with Renesto, the team of The Assassins tore through the Southern and Southeastern wrestling area and left no prisoners in their wake. However, the story of its heyday really begins in 1944, with the first cards held by promoter Paul Jones. Jim Barnett (1974-1984) 1/24/69 12/2/55 $15.99. This did not last long, and after starting a family, he went back to wrestling under the mask, firstly as The Grappler, but then as the name that would be his legacy: Mr. Wrestling II. 7/24/57 Then, only a month later, in a match where they defeated NWA National Tag Team Champions Robert Fuller and Stan Frazier, better known for his time in the WWF as Uncle Elmer, The Freebirds unified the NWA and Georgia Tag Titles. 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. 2/4/57 4/4/70 9/1/61 4/16/68 4/11/70 Boasting a rotating but consistently first-rate roster of talent that was now being seen by fans from coast to coast, the already popular Georgia territory quickly became the place to be in professional wrestling and its television program, hosted by the legendary Gordon Solie, was a bona fide ratings giant during the infancy of cable TV. 1/9/69 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. Before they joined the NWA, they were a member. 6/24/55 1/6/69 In 1982, Georgia Championship Wrestling changed its main programming name to World Championship Wrestling. 2/25/44 2/21/70 12/9/68 9/12/69 Well see you here next time and never forget: Our wrestling history is gold. 12/28/55 Georgia Tag Team title (1968-1980) 11/22/63 , 10/13/55 GCW's main show, which aired on Saturday evenings, was complemented with a Sunday evening edition. 1/8/70 2/4/57 I am extremely proud of Noah and his record setting accomplishments this year. Finally, on March 2, 1985, the WWF changed the name of their program to WWF Georgia Championship Wrestling and began airing in-studio squash matches co-hosted by ring announcer Miller and play-by-play commentator Gorilla Monsoon. Turner's decision to give time slots to Bill Watts and Ole Anderson indirectly led to other wrestling organizations gaining national cable television contracts. 4/16/70 View cart for details. 1/14/57 All Wrestlers Must Make Scratch Weight - No Allowance. Overview; News and Rumors; Articles; . 1/14/44 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. - Top Rated Plus - opens in a new window or tab, - eBay Money Back Guarantee - opens in a new window or tab, GEORGIA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING Vols 21-30- PRO WRESTLING, cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab, Report this item - opens in new window or tab. 8/3/68 12/29/58 , 1/1/57 1/27/69 2/6/50 The July 14 program opened with show co-host Freddie Miller (Gordon Solie was absent for reasons never made clear; he either resigned in protest or was terminated following the purchase, as were many other people involved with the production) introducing McMahon and welcoming the WWF to TBS. Born in Oklahoma City in June of 24, Jim Barnett started working around the wrestling business in his teens for Fred Kohler in his NWA Chicago territory. Though based in Atlanta, the company also ran live wrestling shows throughout its geographic "territory" of Georgia. 3/17/70 1/28/55 According to Ric Flair in his book To Be The Man, Ole vowed revenge, and he even attempted to pay the Road Warriors to cripple The Briscos in a tag match over the NWA National Tag Titles in Georgia. 8/17/55 10/14/58 9/19/60 4/2/70 Throughout the season Mr. Stutler made his mark by beating several high level state contending wrestlers from around the state. Team Georgia's Mission & Vision, Click the donate button below to help support our athletes in achievingtheir Olympic Dreams. The NWA Georgia Television Title was also battled for by some of the best in the business. 1/30/61 4/14/70 1/21/70 After a falling out there, Ole was booted out of the faction, and he returned to Georgia Championship Wrestling. 2/1/69 The first was the differences in tastes between fanbases of different geographical regions. free shipping. The Genius Cast with Lanny Poffo (2018-19), HOMAGE.com Our favorite in retro wrestling attire! [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. georgia championship wrestling vols 11-20- pro wrestling. 10/2/57 We will still have the brackets posted to Floarena after registration closes and brackets become available. Georgia Championship Wrestling was a promotion whose self-titled TV program aired in the 1970s and 1980s on Atlanta, Georgia superstation WTBS. 10/31/67 Georgia High School Wrestling Photo by Steven Ryan In Partnership with the GA High School Assn. Once they did, the tag ranks became their turf. 1/4/69 4/11/70 After Gunkle's death in 1972, his widow Ann started a rival group called the All South . 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