Jones was so infirmed by this time (he died in 1988) that Gunkel effectively ran the promotion. 2/25/44 143 talking about this. 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. 4/30/70 I am extremely proud of Noah and his record setting accomplishments this year. 8/26/55 The Wrecking Crew left Georgia for a short time and formed the four-man powerhouse, The Four Horsemen, in the Mid-Atlantic territory. (The Australian promotion was called World Championship Wrestling.) It would be a position he would hold for the next several years. Jack Brisco and Gerald Brisco had major stakes in the organization while Ole Anderson was head booker and was basically in charge of operations. 1/24/61 2/27/70 10/14/55 12/14U - 12:30-1:00PM Wrestling will start at 2:00PM or at the conclusion of the 1st session. 4/6/70 12/12/55 1/30/68 In April 1985, shows began being co-promoted with Jim Crockett Promotions. 3/30/70 Still, the incarnation with "nephew" Arn Anderson is the unit that memory evokes when you hear the name. 12/29/61 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 Year: All-Time Roster Displaying items 1 to 117 of total 117 items that match the search parameters. 2/19/70 10/28/55 Championship vacated for unknown reasons. Smirnoff > NWA World Junior Heavyweight Title Match: Les Thornton* vs. Kevin Sullivan > the Freebirds (01) (Terry Gordy . 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. 2/2/70 7/16/63 12/7/62 After moving to Sydney, Australia, Barnett would open the original World Championship Wrestling there in 1964. 2/13/70 History of Spies Fritz Von Erich's World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) joined ESPN in 1986 and its Dallas-based successors, the United States Wrestling Association (USWA) and the Global Wrestling Federation (GWF), later occupied time slots on the network as well. 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. 8/26/70 Ann Gunkel decided to start her own promotion outside of the National Wrestling Alliance, which she named the "All-South Wrestling Alliance.". They took the titles in 1980 when they defeated both teams of The Assassins and Mr. Wrestling I & II. 4/27/63 , 8/14/50 Consequently, he approached Turner with an offer to buy the Saturday night GCW time slot, only for Turner to reject him out of hand. 7/4/66 3/4/70 10/18/55 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. 1/26/70 3/17/70 4/4/70 1/19/70 50 talking about this. 11/21/69 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. 7/29/61 3/18/55 11/6/57 The footprint left by Georgia Championship Wrestling can still be felt in the way the product is presented today. 11/17/55 3/7/53 While GCW's programming had a loyal fan base and was fairly popular, things were not as great for the promotion behind the scenes. 1/21/69 Championship Wrestling from Georgia 2/17/70 He's been a wrestling fan since the late '70s and a journeyman writer for the past decade. Noah was the only Bainbridge wrestler to compete while the tournament was an open invitation to all wrestlers. 2/3/66 The team of Gene and Lars Anderson originated the Minnesota Wrecking Crew back in 1966. 8/7/57 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. 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. 3/6/70 1/18/69 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. $15.99. 12/8/61 Georgia Tag Team title (1968-1980) 1/8/70 10/14/58 The company was also known for its self-titled TV program, which aired in the 1970s and 1980s on Atlanta-based superstation WTBS. He brawled his way through the Georgia heavyweight division, capturing the title four times during his time there, and he unified his belt with the newly formed NWA National Heavyweight Championship in September 1981. 6/30/44 One worked under the mask, while the other lit the territory up like wildfire. Georgia Championship Wrestling was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Atlanta, Georgia. Jones ran shows out of the Municipal Auditorium for nearly thirty years before his retirement. 1/3/61 Along with the squash matches, Miller did interviews with many of the WWF stars, mainly to promote the upcoming, inaugural WrestleMania I. Published Nov 7, 2021. 1/23/68 1/30/67 Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! 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. Not only was he the state champion but was the first to ever win this level of tournament for a Bainbridge wrestler. 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. 2/18/44 1/6/50 11/7/70 , 7/5/67 Paul Jones (1944-1984) GCW announcer Freddie Miller was the only member of the original GCW on-air cast who did not quit in protest or just get replaced by the new owner. His battles with Wahoo McDaniel were also the stuff of legend in GCW. 4/9/70 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. Although positive changes were being made internally, things were not good at Georgia Championship Wrestling during this time. 1/1/65 2/8/70 2/20/50 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. 11/18/55 The WWF show on TBS was a ratings disaster from the start. 4/15/61 9/19/69 Published 2:21 pm Tuesday, February 28, 2023. 1/21/44 3/18/70 1/31/67 3/27/50 Firstly, it started promoting matches at the then-brand-new Omni Coliseum. Following the Dromo event, GCW again lay dormant until October 3, 2020, when Odum granted local wrestlers and businessmen Tim Rice and Chris Nelms the rights to begin promoting their events under the Georgia Championship Wrestling banner. 4/3/70 1/2/68 Later in 1984, McMahon decided that, as part of his continued expansion, the WWF needed a second national cable outlet for its weekly programming. World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was founded in 1964 by Jim Barnett in Australia and represented much of the NWA's Asian and Oceania territory. Thousands of complaints were received, many of which focused on the loss of Gordon Solie. 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. Please disable your ad blocker to view the video content. 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. Wrestling promoter Jim Barnett at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Showground, March 7, 1973. Another great transaction from this seller! Ole Anderson (1980-1984) Pennsylvania (Johnstown, Scranton, Erie, Reading, Altoona, Harrisburg) 4/23/57 Walker would also travel to the transplanted Mid-South territory in the early 80s to work, and while he was there, he trained a few names that would change the business: "Magnum TA" Terry Allen and Rick Rude, among others. Black History Moments 1/30/70 1/2/69 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. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Shows were taped before a small (yet enthusiastic), live in-studio audience, as were most professional wrestling TV shows of that era. El Mongol would retire from wrestling in 1982 to open a pair of Mexican restaurants with his wife in Doraville, Georgia. He continued to achieve and grow with further expansions into the Indianapolis office as well, where he ran shows with Johnny Doyle. 3/25/70 6/10/68 4/25/70 , 1/2/61 4/21/70 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. During the 1990s, Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) rose to become the third-largest wrestling company in North America, behind the WWF and WCW. Another great transaction from this seller! As a result, on March 30, 1985, McMahon sold the Saturday night time slot (but not the Georgia Championship Wrestling promotion) to Jim Crockett, Jr., a Charlotte-based promoter who ran NWA-branded shows in the Mid-Atlantic states. 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. 9/16/70 1/23/50 4/11/70 1/7/57 The oldest city in Georgia and a strategic port city in the American Revolution, Savannah was the last city occupied by the British before they sailed back home in 1782. 4/15/44 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. 3/1/70 1/6/69 6/23/61 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. Whether or not Barnett was in fact taking the promotion national is a matter of dispute. Bad Fads Museum Turner's decision to give time slots to Bill Watts and Ole Anderson indirectly led to other wrestling organizations gaining national cable television contracts. 1/7/70 Jim Crockett Promotions took over production of the television show using the same set. 2/6/59 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. WWE's purchase of Georgia Championship Wrestling set forth a course of events that would change pro wrestling forever. wrestling superstars - road warrior hawk vols 1 & 2 - pro wrestling. No one was safe, and no quarter was given when the Wrecking Crew hit the ring. 2/22/70 12/28/55 8/24/59 4/5/70 1/25/70 11/3/44 7/15/53 6/17/55 2/7/67 1/31/59 , 9/3/43 Awards ceremonies will take place by weight-class as each weight class is completed. 3/21/70 12/9/57 All final champions are for this promotion, the title may have continued in other promotions. 4/1/70 12/9/55 Its only a five-hour drive up I-95 from our last stop, Championship Wrestling in Florida, so lets get going. 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. 9/17/68 1/11/69 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. If you have not purchased your USA card please do ASAP. 2/7/61 1/16/64 4/16/68 Finally, on March 2, 1985, the WWF began airing in-studio matches (while changing the name of the program to WWF Georgia Championship Wrestling) co-hosted by ring announcer Miller and play-by-play commentator Gorilla Monsoon. 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. In 2001, the WWF gained the rights to Crockett's library of GCW/WCW/NWA matches and shows, augmenting the WWE Tape Library through its purchase of assets and trademarks belonging to the now-defunct WCW (now a legal entity called WCW, Inc.). 11/2/62 Fast shipping! 3/31/70 The only other national cable deal available at the moment was the one GCW had with WTBS; if McMahon was able to acquire this time slot, he would control all nationally televised professional wrestling in the United States. 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. 2/7/70 ( 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 The exact length of several title reigns are uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. When Georgia Championship Wrestlings local television carrier, WTCG Channel 17 (later renamed WTBS) was broadcast nationally via satellite beginning on December 17, 1976, it became cable TVs first superstation and the NWAs Georgia promotion was poised to become the first wrestling program with nationwide coverage since the days of the Dumont network in the 1950s. 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. 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. 4/22/70 9/10/68 Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region. 2/20/70 Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. 4/28/70 7/20/61 , 1/7/55 By 1994, none of these companies remained in business, with the exception of the Memphis-based branch of the USWA, which folded in 1997. 1/28/55 2/7/57 Event Name: He was very respectful from the first day I met him and his Step Dad. 1/21/69 9/5/47 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. 7/29/60 The promotion underwent some big changes in 1972. Ray Gunkel died of a heart attack later that year after a match versus Ox Baker in Savannah, Georgia. They bought into the promotion alongside Graham, Barnett, and Paul Jones. The NWA Columbus Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling regional championship in Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW). After Gunkle's death in 1972, his widow Ann started a rival group called the All South . View cart for details. 4/18/70 Both Mid South Wrestling and Championship Wrestling from Georgia outdid the WWF in ratings. 3/14/67 4/18/70 11/22/63 1/14/69 4/21/61 GCW- Georgia Championship Wrestling Event Name: 1/16/50 2/4/57 He brought with him his former partner Lars to continue as The Minnesota Wrecking Crew, where he and Arn had left off. 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. If you are willing to volunteer a few hours a year or a few hours a week, please let us know. 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. 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. 2/9/70 Tommy Rich was born in the Volunteer State of Tennessee at the height of the 1956 summer. 10/27/60 1/25/69 5/5/44 Sunday, March 5, 2023(Little Kids State), 7:00AM Weigh Ins for 6/8/10U State and 12/14U Novice - MUST BE IN LINE AT 7AM, Est 3:30pm Finalist Ceremonies and Finals for 1st/2nd and 3rd/4th place matches. Georgia Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion whose self-titled TV program aired in the 1970s and 1980s on Atlanta, U.S., superstatio. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 4/11/70 3/17/44 Georgia Championship Wrestling had many glory years that saw wrestlings finest journey through its doors. 1/31/57 4/13/70 9/25/58 12/16/55 1/11/70 The final champion was Angelo Mosca and the title was eventually abandoned after 1979. Georgia Championship Wrestling is mostly remembered for its glory days from the 70s through the mid-80s as the likes of Jake Roberts, Ted DiBiase, The Hollywood Blonds (Rip Rogers & Ted Oates), Randy Savage, Dusty Rhodes and Harley Race were regularly featured in the promotion on WTBS in Atlanta. While there have certainly been many instances of this . 3/10/44 Hamilton began wrestling as the original Assassin in the Georgia territory in the mid-60s. Georgia (Atlanta, Columbus, Marietta, Gainesville, Canton, Macon, Athens, Savannah, Augusta, Rome) 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. 3/21/67 2/13/50 The shortest reigning champion was Hiro Matsuda, whose first and only reign lasted 21 days. 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. He died on September 18, 2004, from complications of pneumonia. This promotion would eventually become World Championship Wrestling (WCW) when Turner bought the promotion from Crockett in 1988 and later withdrew it from the NWA. The NWA Georgia Heavyweight Championship was a sought-after belt from its inception in the territory, but it was the man from Mexico known as El Mongol that really made the title his for the taking throughout the 60s and as far up as 1972. 2/18/55 10/14/55 8/21/57 2/18/44 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. Dating back to the 1920s, professional wrestling has enjoyed a long and rich history with the city of Atlanta. 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. 4/30/57 8/7/61 , 1/31/58 8/11/58 That man? 1/16/69 All of the NWA National Titles that were active in GCW went on to see time in JCP and the later World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in one capacity or another. At 6:05 p.m. the following Saturday, July 14, 1984, WWF World Championship Wrestling made its debut on TBS, an event that was later dubbed Black Saturday. For his part, Ted Turner was not at all pleased with news of the takeover and he soon allocated a Saturday morning time slot for Andersons new Championship Wrestling from Georgia program, as well as a Sunday afternoon spot for Bill Watts popular Mid South Wrestling Association. 4/7/70 11/14/58 7/16/59 2/6/69 1/29/59 7/17/57 3/7/70 Est 3:30PM Finalist Ceremonies and Finals for 1st/2nd and 3rd/4th place matches - -State Championship ONLY - - Novice Championship will run straight through the finals. Nick Bockwinkel and Thunderbolt Patterson both held the title three times in the 70s, with Bob Armstrong holding it twice in those years as well. 8/8/60 11/4/55 9/15/67 1/1/69 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. 4/6/70 7/22/58 This was considered heresy in the wrestling world and probably did Vince more harm than good over the decade and a half that followed. McMahon's purchase led to a longstanding rivalry between himself and WTBS owner Ted Turner, who later bought GCW's successor Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) and formed his own company under the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) name. 2/25/55 Though based in Atlanta, the company also ran live wrestling shows throughout its geographic "territory" of Georgia. 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. Gunkel quickly made moves to open her own outlaw promotion outside of the NWA banner and run shows against Watts. Wrestlers can not be addedafterregistrationcloses. As our story unfolds, we will see how this little city by the Atlantic, with its moss-laden live oaks and old money, had a hand in guiding the outcome of Georgia Championship Wrestling. 7/28/44 Refresh your browser window to try again. 1/1/69 12/2/60 Secondly, it switched its television outlet from its original home, then-ABC-affiliated WQXI-TV (now WXIA-TV) to UHF independent station WTCG, then owned by Ted Turner. After documenting 9 house shows durin. After a falling out there, Ole was booted out of the faction, and he returned to Georgia Championship Wrestling. 9/16/57 You do not have to qualify for Novice Championship, 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), Saturday, March 4th, 2023 - Little Kids - 8/10U - Must be in line 7AM, Sunday, March 5th, 2023 - 12/14U - Must be in line 7AM, Schedule of Tournaments (teamgawrestling.org), 2/12/23 The Commerce Clash, https://www.usawmembership.com/usaw_events/2300150502?section=registration, 2/18/23 Dawsonville Mean Streak Open, https://www.usawmembership.com/usaw_events/2300149702?section=registration, https://www.usawmembership.com/usaw_events_registrations/participant?event_category_id=&state_id=11&month=&year=, 2/26/23 Freshman/Girls State, https://www.usawmembership.com/usaw_events/2300148102?section=registration, Team Georgia USA Wrestling Events and Tickets by GoFan, 3/4-3/5/2023 Kids State & Novice Championship, https://www.usawmembership.com/usaw_events/2300148202?section=registration. 5/13/57 2/25/57 12/30/60 Expansions into the promotion alongside Graham, Barnett would open the original World Championship set. 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