1/14/57 Walker made a name for himself, working with NWA promoter Paul Boesch out of Houston but opted to start a family and retired as a young man just ten years after his debut. 3/7/70 1/23/69 We look forward to seeing Noah excel in both sports as well as the classroom. Georgia's Olympic hopefuls, This website is powered by SportsEngine's. 2/10/61 6/17/55 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. 11/25/63 Hulk Hogans Rock n Wrestling | When Wrasslin Shifted to Entertainment, Gorgeous George and the Don Eagle Chicago Short Count Screwjob, Freddie Blassie The Truth (and Somewhere In-Between). 4/13/70 1/21/69 IF YOU DOUBLE BRACKET YOU WILL NOT BE REFUNDED. 1/21/70 Excellent communication! Add to Cart. Event Name: Throughout the 1970s, Georgia Championship Wrestling was one of the main shows that kept the Superstation alive.[1]. 3/20/50 View cart for details. Noah is also a stand out football player for the BMS football team playing running back and linebacker. 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. Professional Wrestling Online Museum, Copyright 2020 Adscape International, LLC - All Rights Reserved, Dr. George Zahorian Convicted Of Selling Steroids To WWF Wrestlers. 2/25/44 2/14/61 Mid-South Sports's longterm prospects were not good at that point, most of their wrestlers had gone with Ann, and Ann's promotion had gotten Mid-South's television time slot, though both promotions aired on WTCG. 3/30/70 Pro Wrestling is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. After gaining control of Georgia Championship Wrestling, the WWF immediately shut down the wrestling operation. Paul Jones (1944-1984) 3/24/70 National Tag Team title (1980-1986) The NWA Georgia Tag Team Championships also saw their origin in the late 60s. 1/11/61 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. 8/19/70 8/8/60 No pads or helmets or jerseys. After two years of strife, a trouble-shooter was called in: Jim Barnett, who had owned promotions in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Colorado and Australia. 3/14/67 3/1/70 7/28/44 Shipping calculated at checkout. On December 25, 1971, Georgia Championship Wrestling made its television debut with a special Christmas program. All Wrestlers Must Make Scratch Weight - No Allowance. 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. 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. 5/6/66 6/8/10U-7:00 - 7:30AM - Wrestling will start at 8:00AM. 8/27/58 1/25/69 El Mongol would retire from wrestling in 1982 to open a pair of Mexican restaurants with his wife in Doraville, Georgia. The WWF version of the show received somewhat lower Nielsen ratings than its NWA-associated forerunner. In July 2018, the Black Saturday episode was made available as a hidden gem on the WWE Network.[7]. 6/25/48 3/16/70 2/3/66 Additionally, in September of 1982, the name of the promotions highly-rated TV program was officially changed to World Championship Wrestling. January 1, 1981 (Thursday) - Columbus, GA - Columbus Municipal Auditorium (Fred Ward - Promoter / Georgia Championship. 7/22/58 Excellent communication! 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. 2/11/55 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. 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. Ray Gunkel died of a heart attack later that year after a match versus Ox Baker in Savannah, Georgia. 6/23/44 3/25/70 This does not mean by any chance, though, that those divisions cooled down. 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. 4/14/70 5/6/55 (Ted Turner and Ann Gunkel had both attended Brown University and were rumored to be romantically involved.) 3/27/50 The restaurants were sold in 2000, and Ray "El Mongol" Molina passed away in 2016 at 86. 9/23/55 1/6/50 He can be reached by e-mail at squints72hhi@gmail.com. 3/19/70 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. 12/28/55 **this is not for the State or Novice Championships tournaments***. 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. Great Female Inventors 10/7/55 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. 2/12/70 10/24/67 1/24/69 All wrestlers report to the awards area immediately following their medal match. 4/24/70 McMahon promised the GCW fans who were tuned in that they would enjoy his new program just as much. 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. The NWA Columbus Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling regional championship in Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW). It opened the door for more nationalization of contracts and the shuffling of top-tier talents between the existing NWA promotions. 1/14/57 1/19/70 Wrestling promoter Jim Barnett at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Showground, March 7, 1973. He brought with him his former partner Lars to continue as The Minnesota Wrecking Crew, where he and Arn had left off. Today, wrestling operates on a global level and McMahon is the person . 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. In 1955, Barnett leveraged his way into the Chicago promotion and bought into the NWA franchise. 1/10/61 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. 4/8/70 11/7/70 , 7/5/67 A+++Thank you again!!! 4/15/61 document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Top Ten in All Areas of Pro Wrestling, The Longest Running Pro Wrestling Columnist, Dave Meltzer, Mike Mooneyham, Steve Yohe, Tim Hornbaker, Greg Oliver, Bill Apter, Karl Stern, Scott Teal, wrestlingclassics.com, wwe.com, kayfabememories.com, wrestling-titles.com, The Lapsed Fan podcast, 6:05 Superpodcast, Great Black Heroes All wrestlers report to the awards area immediately following their medal match. 1/21/44 After Gunkle's death in 1972, his widow Ann started a rival group called the All South . GCW was one of the most powerful wrestling promotions in the NWA. DVD $8.00 Buy It Now +$3.60 shipping 5 watchers Sponsored GEORGIA CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING HOUSE SHOWS 1981-82 PRO WRESTLING DVD (W-992) In April 1985, shows began being co-promoted with Jim Crockett Promotions. 8/26/55 Georgia Championship Wrestling was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Atlanta, Georgia. Likewise, Savannah was one of the last cities ran before the folding of WCW and its assimilation into the WWE. 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. 1/1/70 7/21/61 While Barnett is scapegoated with the demise of GCW, when he sold his shares to McMahon, it allowed the WWF to run its product in the venerated 6:05 time slot on TBS. 11/3/44 3/10/70 Georgia Television title (1969-1979) When the gates returned, so did the wrestlers, and the Omni once again was cranking out the classics. 9/30/55 7/28/44 3/9/70 7/18/60 Still, the incarnation with "nephew" Arn Anderson is the unit that memory evokes when you hear the name. 1/24/61 2/18/44 In 1982, Georgia Championship Wrestling renamed its weekly program World Championship Wrestling, a name the entire promotion would grow to be identified by. 11/14/58 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. There are no bats or balls, or pucks or sticks. Vince McMahon is a very ambitious individual. 11/2/62 [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. 2/11/70 3/14/70 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. 1/18/70 Georgia Championship Wrestling has roots in Atlanta dating back to 1944. 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. The Wrecking Crew left Georgia for a short time and formed the four-man powerhouse, The Four Horsemen, in the Mid-Atlantic territory. Friday Night Weigh Ins - Will be determined by the Tournament Director. 4/3/70 1/17/67 2/6/69 Wrestlers can not be addedafterregistrationcloses. 2/25/55 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. Once they did, the tag ranks became their turf. Alongside the new spot at the Omni, Ted Turner also secured the rights to produce wrestling for his WTCG station that would eventually morph into the TBS cable station. 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. 1/28/57 1/20/66 1/9/70 9/5/47 1/21/44 1/5/68 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) Georgia Championship Wrestling alumni Category page Edit this page This category is for all wrestlers who have wrestled in Georgia Championship Wrestling at some point within their career. 9/12/69 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. The Omni would become synonymous with WCW wrestling in later years. The Masked Superstar Bill Eadie would later make a significant impact in the WWF as Ax in Demolition. 1/28/57 The shortest reigning champion was Hiro Matsuda, whose first and only reign lasted 21 days. (Use code PWS for a nice surprise). 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. Savannah, Georgia is steeped in U.S. history as much as it is the wrestling business. Mid-South Championship Wrestling, Georgia Championship Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida and Jim Crockett Promotions were all homes to Jackson at various points in the 80s. Shows were taped before a small (yet enthusiastic), live in-studio audience, as were most professional wrestling TV shows of that era. 11/15/69 Gerald Brisco (19741984) 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. 12/14U - 12:30-1:00PM Wrestling will start at 2:00PM or at the conclusion of the 1st session. $15.99. 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. Vincent K. McMahon (1984), STATES & PRIMARY CITIES: The revival of a brand of pro wrestling that was the forerunner throughout the 70s & 80s. 9/30/55 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. The exact length of several title reigns are uncertain, so the shortest possible length is used. Click here to send us your information. Black History Moments WWE: The Incredible Story Of Black Saturday, Explained. This move set the stage for an important move in wrestling history, involving another regional promoter: Vince McMahon. 1/1/68 6/21/69 2/18/55 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. 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 2/23/70 Thank you for keeping up with us in this series as we delve into the history of the wrestling territories. 2/15/70 7/8/55 11/5/55 3/25/57 Throughout the season Mr. Stutler made his mark by beating several high level state contending wrestlers from around the state. 3/20/69 2/26/70 2/18/57 11/15/56 4/27/70 11/25/55 ", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black_Saturday_(professional_wrestling)&oldid=1117413106, TBS (American TV channel) original programming, Mass media-related controversies in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 21 October 2022, at 16:07. 8/20/59 This failed to last, and JCP took over everything that was GCW when Crockett bought out the contract from Vince in late 1984, as McMahon was trying to pool all his resources for WrestleMania I. 2/1/70 His battles with Wahoo McDaniel were also the stuff of legend in GCW. 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. 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. 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. 2/7/57 Please disable your ad blocker to view the video content. 12/29/62 3/25/55 8/21/57 8/7/61 , 1/31/58 Team Georgia is an all volunteer organization and is always looking for volunteers. Not only was he the state champion but was the first to ever win this level of tournament for a Bainbridge wrestler. 6/4/68 However, the story of its heyday really begins in 1944, with the first cards held by promoter Paul Jones. 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. 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. 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. 7/2/69 11/18/55 Georgia Heavyweight title (1964-1981) This left Ole out in the financial cold with his drawls in the breeze. 2/18/44 3/27/67 YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DOUBLE BRACKET IN A NOVICE TOURNAMENT. $15.99. 7/22/70 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. 4/27/63 , 8/14/50 3/18/55 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. 12/9/55 Overview; News and Rumors; Articles; . Join Al Getz as he looks at all the known house shows for Georgia Championship Wrestling for a one-week period in 1971. 11/15/56 4/6/70 7/18/56 Jones was so infirmed by this time (he died in 1988) that Gunkel effectively ran the promotion. 1/9/61 Seeing this turmoil, McMahon approached the Brisco brothers and Jim Barnett, the fourth owner of the company, and discussed a potential sale. 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. 4/3/70 10/28/55 georgia championship wrestling vols 11-20- pro wrestling. 1/30/69 Well see you here next time and never forget: Our wrestling history is gold. Pennsylvania (Johnstown, Scranton, Erie, Reading, Altoona, Harrisburg) He got his early training in part by Pat OConnor and made his professional debut as Johnny Walker at 20. We will still have the brackets posted to Floarena after registration closes and brackets become available. Ohio (Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Marion, Stoobenville, Canton), MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIPS: 11/17/55 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). Jim Barnett also worked for JCP for a short time as well. 9/4/69 Jim Oates (19801984) 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. 6/9/44 Trending pages Lars Anderson Hulk Hogan A.J. 6/10/68 10/27/60 Noah was the only Bainbridge wrestler to compete while the tournament was an open invitation to all wrestlers. On April 27's main event, Arn Anderson wrestled Thunderbolt Patterson to a no contest in the Columbus Municipal Auditorium, then CWG disappeared. 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. Team Georgia's Mission & Vision, Click the donate button below to help support our athletes in achievingtheir Olympic Dreams. The new television deal would be one of Gunkel's last decisions. 8/19/60 Promoting events through the mid-1990s across central Georgia, Odum was successful in keeping the brand alive. 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. 3/21/67 The Masked Superstar was born under the name Bill Eadie on December 27, 1947. 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. 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. 4/16/70 , 7/17/67 CAGEMATCH Promotions Database Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) Titles. 8/26/54 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. While there have certainly been many instances of this . 2/7/67 1/29/70 Bad Fads Museum 1/21/57 7 min read. 4/6/70 Along with these matches, Miller did interviews with many of the WWF stars, mainly to promote the first WrestleMania card. Something went wrong. 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