2/4/55 1/18/61 DVD $8.00 Buy It Now +$3.60 shipping 5 watchers Sponsored GEORGIA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING HOUSE SHOWS 1981-82 PRO WRESTLING DVD (W-992) Georgia football coach Kirby Smart said the accusations surrounding Bulldogs star defensive lineman Jalen Carter, and his alleged . Several loyal wrestlers went with her, including then Georgia Tag Team champs Dick Steinborn and Argentina Apollo, which left those titles vacant. 6/23/61 1/30/69 143 talking about this. Jim Crockett Promotions took over production of the television show using the same set. 4/14/70 Pro Wrestling Stories - Your daily source of nostalgia and a peek behind the curtain wall of wrestlings past! Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region. The following year, in addition to the cable contract and his nationally syndicated offerings (WWF Championship Wrestling and WWF All-Star Wrestling), McMahon expanded further by premiering Tuesday Night Titans on USA. 2/11/44 The company was also known for its self-titled TV program, which aired in the 1970s and 1980s on Atlanta-based superstation WTBS. Team Georgia is an all volunteer organization and is always looking for volunteers. 7/8/55 9/23/55 1/3/61 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. 1/13/61 In April 1985, shows began being co-promoted with Jim Crockett Promotions. Please make sure you are signing up for the correct tournament. 12/16/55 7/29/55 4/25/70 , 1/2/61 4/15/70 3/14/70 8/21/57 7/20/61 , 1/7/55 4/18/70 1/10/69 9/10/68 1/30/50 7 min read. John Walker was born in the midst of the Turbulent Thirties in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina. Georgia Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion whose self-titled TV program aired in the 1970s and 1980s on Atlanta, U.S., superstatio. 11/11/55 11/30/55 As the NWA tried to broaden its scope and unify the territories, instead of seeing them bought out by the McMahon machine, many titles were absorbed and ceased to exist, as weve learned so far. 1/11/70 7/29/61 Something went wrong. Though he got his break in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, it was in Georgia Championship Wrestling that he really made his mark on the NWA. Parade Of Champions 4/28/70 11/16/56 2/15/70 12/23/68 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). 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. This program was hosted by Gordon Solie and was recorded in the studios of WTCG in Midtown Atlanta. 6/30/61 4/23/70 7/21/61 9/30/55 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]. 3/28/70 3/4/70 El Mongol would retire from wrestling in 1982 to open a pair of Mexican restaurants with his wife in Doraville, Georgia. 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. The Grahams worked there for a bit, and Eddie managed to get a piece of the promotion as well. 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. 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 1/29/70 On April 27's main event, Arn Anderson wrestled Thunderbolt Patterson to a no contest in the Columbus Municipal Auditorium, then CWG disappeared. The NWA Georgia Television Title was also battled for by some of the best in the business. 1/18/69 From that date, GCW's program aired for two hours (from 6-8 PM and later from 6:05 to 8:05 following the introduction of TBS' "Turner Time" in 1981) every Saturday night. 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. 11/2/57 The new television deal would be one of Gunkel's last decisions. 7/4/66 Tennessee (Johnson City, Knoxville, Chattanooga) 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. Jackson most regularly worked with GCW based out of Atlanta and Continental Championship Wrestling based out of Dothan, Ala., as well as working TV tapings for . There have been a total of 13 recognized individual champions and 8 recognized teams, who have had a combined 10 official reigns. At 131 days, Armstrong's second reign was the longest in the title's history. 9/26/55 9/30/55 The Masked Superstar Bill Eadie would later make a significant impact in the WWF as Ax in Demolition. 2/1/69 1/16/64 The promotion underwent some big changes in 1972. 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. 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. 4/18/70 1/7/70 Jim Barnett quickly saw the marketability in Rich and christened him "Wildfire" Tommy Rich due to his ability to captivate and pop a crowd. 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." 4/11/70 wrestling superstars - road warrior hawk vols 1 & 2 - pro wrestling. 10/31/67 In 1984, the Brisco brothers sold their stock in GCW to McMahon for $900,000. 3/3/66 There have been a total of 11 recognized champions who have had a combined 18 official reigns, with "Bullet" Bob Armstrong holding the most at four. In return McMahon received GCW's television time slots on WTBS, which McMahon then claimed for his WWF, which was in the midst of expanding into a national promotion. 2/17/70 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. 4/29/70 1/27/70 9/4/57 1/6/61 9/5/47 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. 1/7/69 7/29/60 While there have certainly been many instances of this . 11/6/57 Once they did, the tag ranks became their turf. 13/9/54 Ann Gunkel decided to start her own promotion outside of the National Wrestling Alliance, which she named the "All-South Wrestling Alliance.". One such leap of growth was catalyzed by Barnett himself when he saw an opportunity to go nationwide in 1976. 3/20/69 6/8/10U-7:00 - 7:30AM - Wrestling will start at 8:00AM. The CNN Complex housed the now booming Omni Coliseum and his ground-breaking twenty-four-hour news service and the newly crowned "Superstation," WTBS. 4/14/70 By using this site, you agree to the legal terms set out in ourDisclaimer, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Disclosure. The 2022 NJSIAA Wrestling Championships kicked off on Thursday, March 3, 2022 at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. 2/6/59 The shortest reigning champion was Hiro Matsuda, whose first and only reign lasted 21 days. 10/14/55 9/9/55 While it probably wasnt a good idea to screw over Ole, the partners all came out of the deal financially or occupationally sound for the rest of their careers in the business. Smirnoff > NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Les Thornton* vs. Kevin Sullivan > the Freebirds (01) (Terry Gordy . The team of Gene and Lars Anderson originated the Minnesota Wrecking Crew back in 1966. 1/16/50 GCW was one of the most powerful wrestling promotions in the NWA. 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. $15.99. [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. The Wrecking Crew left Georgia for a short time and formed the four-man powerhouse, The Four Horsemen, in the Mid-Atlantic territory. He went on and on about sports and what he wanted to accomplish as a wrestler. 1/4/61 12/9/57 7/14/58 National Heavyweight title (1980-1986) Jones was so infirmed by this time (he died in 1988) that Gunkel effectively ran the promotion. 2/21/70 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. They took the titles in 1980 when they defeated both teams of The Assassins and Mr. Wrestling I & II. Georgia Championship Wrestling was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Atlanta, Georgia. 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. 12/17/68 1/22/70 2/8/61 11/19/57 1/30/61 One worked under the mask, while the other lit the territory up like wildfire. 9/16/70 A+++ Thank you again!!! 4/9/70 1/30/67 All wrestlers report to the awards area immediately following their medal match. 1/6/50 9/15/67 Verne Gagne's AWA debuted on ESPN in 1985 and aired on the network until the company folded in 1991. 2/21/70 Friday Night Weigh Ins - Will be determined by the Tournament Director. 4/9/70 1/19/63 12/9/68 Experience, preparation and the will to succeed will determine the victor. Its only a five-hour drive up I-95 from our last stop, Championship Wrestling in Florida, so lets get going. Jack Brisco and Gerald Brisco had major stakes in the organization while Ole Anderson was head booker and was basically in charge of operations. 2022-2023 FOLKSTYLE TOURNAMENT INFORMATION, 7:00 Weighs in for 12/14U State and 8/10U Novice - -MUST BE IN LINE AT 7AM -. georgia championship wrestling vols 11-20- pro wrestling. Styles Dusty Rhodes Jake Roberts Ric Flair Randy Savage Andr the Giant All items (429) # A B C D E F G H I J K L M 1/2/69 8/17/55 We look forward to seeing Noah excel in both sports as well as the classroom. Barnett wasnt the only one growing a company in the 70s. 4/6/70 If you are willing to volunteer a few hours a year or a few hours a week, please let us know. 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. 2/8/70 1/29/69 First, Turner made an offer to Bill Watts, a promoter who ran Mid South Wrestling out of Oklahoma, to take a Sunday afternoon time slot on TBS. 2/25/57 4/8/70 6/15/57 , 11/14/56 I don't exactly know the dates for these things, so they'll just go up in parts. 1/5/70 Jim Barnett also worked for JCP for a short time as well. It was a regular stop-off for the NWA Champion, but they maintained their own set of NWA-branded Georgia championships. Along with the squash matches, Miller did interviews with many of the WWF stars, mainly to promote the upcoming, inaugural WrestleMania I. 3/25/70 1/23/67 (Ted Turner and Ann Gunkel had both attended Brown University and were rumored to be romantically involved.) Rich was a fan favorite during his run in the NWA, working the babyface angle to the hilt as he battled with Buzz Sawyer, The Fabulous Freebirds, among many others. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 3/21/67 4/30/70 Mr. Wrestling I & II gave them their most competition while at GCW, but very few teams stood in their way for long. Championship vacated for unknown reasons. 12/21/57 12/2/55 By Coach Chad Smith Noah Stutler, a 8th grade wrestler for Bainbridge Middle School and also a Junior Varsity starter for the Bainbridge High School wrestling team competed at the Georgia All Freshman State Competition yesterday in Atlanta. They captured their first tag titles in November 1968 and held them a record ten times over the next four years. 9/19/60 2/14/67 In professional wrestling, the term Black Saturday refers to Saturday, July 14, 1984, the day when Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF) took over the time slot on Superstation WTBS that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) and its flagship weekly program, World Championship Wrestling, for 12 years. 7/2/69 Professional Wrestling Online Museum, Copyright 2020 Adscape International, LLC - All Rights Reserved, Dr. George Zahorian Convicted Of Selling Steroids To WWF Wrestlers. Herb Abrams' UWF had a weekly program that aired on SportsChannel America. 1/7/57 The second half, however, ushered in such promotional notables as Ray Gunkle, Jim Barnett, and Paul Jones, who made Georgia Championship Wrestling, Inc. (a member of the National Wrestling Alliance) a household term throughout the state via television. The territory was affiliated with what had been the world's top sanctioning body of championship titles for decades before, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). 2/2/70 3/18/70 At the time, Crockett was trying to counter the WWF's national expansion by unifying the remaining NWA territories that McMahon had not driven out of business into one nationwide unit. 11/21/69 Noah competed at the 170 lbs weight class and was the eventual Georgia State Freshman Champion. McMahon promised the GCW fans who were tuned in that they would enjoy his new program just as much. Championship Wrestling from Georgia On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 3/6/70 9/16/60 The final champion was Angelo Mosca and the title was eventually abandoned after 1979. West Virginia (Wheeling, Bluefield, Huntington) 1/9/61 In 2011 he began promoting a string of reunion shows in Macon, Cordele, Athens and Augusta which saw many legends of GCW along with upcoming local talents. 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. 4/4/70 12/30/60 This does not mean by any chance, though, that those divisions cooled down. Whether or not Barnett was in fact taking the promotion national is a matter of dispute. 2/23/70 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. 8/26/70 2/21/67 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. WWE's purchase of Georgia Championship Wrestling set forth a course of events that would change pro wrestling forever. 11/15/69 The exact length of several title reigns are uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. 6/27/52 3/20/67 1/16/67 2/28/70 9/14/62 2/26/70 6/16/44 3/16/70 He continued to achieve and grow with further expansions into the Indianapolis office as well, where he ran shows with Johnny Doyle. Georgia Championship Wrestling was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Atlanta, Georgia. 3/2/70 Though based in Atlanta, the company also ran live wrestling shows throughout its geographic "territory" of Georgia. 7/18/60 He held the Georgia Tag titles with Tarzan Tyler for a short time, but it was short-lived as the Torres and Vachon families battled for the straps for most of 1968. Georgia Championship Wrestling has roots in Atlanta dating back to 1944. 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. 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. Gunkel also used her inside connections with Ted Turner, rumored to be romantically linked from their college days at Brown University, to acquire the television spot occupied by Watts at WTCG. 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. Their main interest was the 3 hours of national television time on Superstation WTBS (local Atlanta channel 17), as well as eliminating their competition in the state of Georgia which also gave them Ohio, Michigan, and West Virginia . 3/10/44 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. All three men agreed to sell their stakes in GCW to McMahon, giving the WWF the controlling stake in GCW and McMahon access to the Saturday night time slot. 10/2/59 4/3/70 8/27/58 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. He's been a wrestling fan since the late '70s and a journeyman writer for the past decade. 3/17/70 4/4/70 Today, wrestling operates on a global level and McMahon is the person . 1/5/68 10/23/57 2/11/55 2/4/57 9/17/68 After two years of strife, a trouble-shooter was called in: Jim Barnett, who had owned promotions in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Colorado and Australia. Likewise, Savannah was one of the last cities ran before the folding of WCW and its assimilation into the WWE. 1/21/63 1/10/61 There's no time to rethink strategy, regroup, or even to catch your breath. 4/5/70 9/16/57 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. 2/12/70 6/21/69 1/7/70 4/23/57 4/15/70 Eadie was a hard-hitting bruiser that met every challenge with a flurry of fists and a hail of boots. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. 11/25/55 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 Events Displaying items 1 to 100 of total 2063 items that match the search parameters. This left Ole out in the financial cold with his drawls in the breeze. 5/6/55 5/10/63 1/11/69 11/7/70 , 7/5/67 In 1979, Austin Idol made his bid for the belt and took it from Ray Candy, and captured it two more times by the end of 1980, feuding with Tommy Rich and Kevin Sullivan, who held it three times himself. 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.) The two main titles in the promotion in those days were the NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship and the Tag Team Championships, both of which got their starts in the early 50s. In addition to the cities within Georgia that made up its traditional circuit, the stars of GCW began appearing in markets that had no specific NWA affiliation and soon cities in Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Michigan became part of the Georgia promotions touring schedule. BMS Coach and Athletic Director, Chad Smith, had the opportunity of welcoming in Noah on day one of his enrollment and was immediately excited about the skill set Noah contained in both sports. 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. WRESTLING STARS - PAUL ELLERING VOLS 1-3 - PRO WRESTLING (#185720955946). The Brisco Brothers also worked GCW during these years. NWA Georgia Tag Team Championship: INACTIVE: xx.xx.2016 : 8: NWA Macon Heavyweight Championship: INACTIVE: xx.xx.1979 : 9: NWA Macon Tag Team . 2/1/61 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). 7/18/56 12/2/60 2/9/70 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. 6/30/44 They bought into the promotion alongside Graham, Barnett, and Paul Jones. 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