6/21/69 2/21/70 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). 7/28/44 The Georgia titles were absorbed, and The Freebirds carried on as NWA National Tag Champs. 1/31/57 1/30/67 11/7/70 , 7/5/67 5/19/44 7/28/60 3/31/70 4/2/70 The WWF show on TBS was a ratings disaster from the start. 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. 7/17/57 Dating back to the 1920s, professional wrestling has enjoyed a long and rich history with the city of Atlanta. 4/9/70 After gaining control of Georgia Championship Wrestling, the WWF immediately shut down the wrestling operation. ( 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 4/20/70 12/7/62 YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DOUBLE BRACKET IN A NOVICE TOURNAMENT. 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. 8/19/70 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. Georgia Heavyweight title (1964-1981) 4/15/44 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 3/2/70 1/1/68 Another great transaction from this seller! 10/28/55 The Brisco Brothers also worked GCW during these years. 7/22/58 Thousands of complaints were received, many of which focused on the loss of Gordon Solie. 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. > Ted Oates versus Bobby Eaton . Jim Barnett went on to become Vice President at Titan Sports, the parent company of the WWF. CAGEMATCH Promotions Database Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) Titles. One worked under the mask, while the other lit the territory up like wildfire. Ole Anderson (1980-1984) 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. In 1982, Georgia Championship Wrestling changed its main programming name to World Championship Wrestling. A small percentage was even owned by part-time booker and a man with one expression: Ole Anderson. 1/9/69 1/16/50 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. 3/18/70 9/15/67 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. 5/20/60 , 6/21/50 He died on September 18, 2004, from complications of pneumonia. Event Name: 1/7/70 1/22/70 By Malik umar Khalid mahmood. 6/15/57 , 11/14/56 1/10/69 To register for novice tournaments you must be a first or second year wrestler, you can not have placed at kids state. 2/17/70 7/21/60 Tennessee (Johnson City, Knoxville, Chattanooga) Although Ole had a run in the tag division with many partners, including Stan Hansen, the two lost the titles due to too many disqualifications. 9/5/69 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. 1/21/57 1/31/67 Long before some territories adopted a Light Heavyweight or Junior Heavyweight Title, the Television Championship was one where the smaller wrestlers, or workers that werent in the major title hunt at that time, could still achieve gold and carry the notoriety that went along with it. Honoring the history of the greatest in professional wrestling while writing the next chapter. 2/7/57 The following is a chronological list of teams that have been Columbus Tag Team Champions by ring name. 9/23/61 8/26/54 Along with the squash matches, Miller did interviews with many of the WWF stars, mainly to promote the upcoming, inaugural WrestleMania I. 3/17/70 This was considered heresy in the wrestling world and probably did Vince more harm than good over the decade and a half that followed. 11/14/58 The last World Championship Wrestling program under GCW control aired on July 7, 1984. 6/30/44 4/7/70 3/23/70 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. PWSTees.com Your favorite Pro Wrestling Stories, on a tee! Austin Idol is still in the aftermath of breaking Tommy Rich's leg plus other great moments from that day at TBS Studios 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. 11/15/56 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. 1/16/64 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. 9/1/60 7/29/55 ABC held its matches at Atlanta's Municipal Auditorium on Friday evenings. Michigan (Lansing, Dearborn, Grand Rapids) 9/5/47 7/28/44 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. Upon receiving the news that Titan Sports had purchased the promotion and its valued time slot on TBS, Ole Anderson temporarily blocked McMahon by obtaining a restraining order against Titan and he hoped that the court system would find the forced buyout to be unlawful. Learn more: 11 Unforgettable Wrestling Moments at The Omni. 1/6/61 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." 3/14/67 Additionally, in September of 1982, the name of the promotions highly-rated TV program was officially changed to World Championship Wrestling. Today, wrestling operates on a global level and McMahon is the person . 10/21/55 Longtime GCW booker, Ray Gunkel, died suddenly from a heart attack shortly after a match with Ox Baker in Savannah. Pay in 4 interest-free installments of $18.75 with. Before they joined the NWA, they were a member. The NWA Columbus Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling tag team championship in Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW). 1/28/69 Event Name: 10/18/55 4/23/70 These teams dominated the tag division until The Fabulous Freebirds came to town. 7/27/50 4/15/70 3/17/44 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. Wrestling promoter Jim Barnett at the Hordern Pavilion, Sydney Showground, March 7, 1973. 4/14/70 Despite his setback with regard to the TBS time slot, McMahon's USA Network contract and syndicated programming were not affected in any way. Gunkel quickly made moves to open her own outlaw promotion outside of the NWA banner and run shows against Watts. 9/16/55 The shortest reigning champion was Hiro Matsuda, whose first and only reign lasted 21 days. 4/11/70 3/9/70 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. 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). 2/15/70 8/26/70 Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region. 4/1/70 4/18/70 10/7/55 He was very respectful from the first day I met him and his Step Dad. However, greed, Vince McMahon, and a dark day in wrestling forever remembered as Black Saturday led to the demise of this territory, leaving many to wonder what could have been. 12/9/57 8/8/60 The final champion was Angelo Mosca and the title was eventually abandoned after 1979. 9/30/55 2/25/44 3/27/50 1/7/69 All Wrestlers Must Make Scratch Weight - No Allowance. 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. 4/29/70 7/27/62 Jack Brisco and Gerald Brisco had major stakes in the organization while Ole Anderson was head booker and was basically in charge of operations. El Mongol would retire from wrestling in 1982 to open a pair of Mexican restaurants with his wife in Doraville, Georgia. 1/4/61 Herb Abrams' UWF had a weekly program that aired on SportsChannel America. They captured their first tag titles in November 1968 and held them a record ten times over the next four years. 1982 Has no April or July. 1/25/69 ", After Black Saturday, Ole Anderson tried to carry on in the territory, promoting Championship Wrestling from Georgia (CWG), which briefly aired out of Atlanta. 1/30/68 If you are willing to volunteer a few hours a year or a few hours a week, please let us know. Awards ceremonies will take place by weight-class as each weight class is completed. 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. 1/16/69 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. 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. 8/21/57 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. He ended his time in Georgia with a series of matches against Ted DiBiase, where he lost his title and began wrestling under the mask against DiBiase as Mr. R. Tommy wrapped up his time in GCW in 1984 before he headed on to Memphis. 4/13/70 Eadie was a hard-hitting bruiser that met every challenge with a flurry of fists and a hail of boots. 8/14/57 **this is not for the State or Novice Championships tournaments***. Once they did, the tag ranks became their turf. 13/9/54 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. No matter how many top-tier competitors came after it, the Georgia Heavyweight Title was dominated by one man. National Heavyweight title (1980-1986) 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. 1/20/61 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. Verne Gagne's AWA debuted on ESPN in 1985 and aired on the network until the company folded in 1991. 10/14/55 McMahon worked one against the other and bulldozed down the middle like something out of Fistfull of Dollars, coming out a winner of everything in the end. 9/12/69 1/21/69 3/8/69 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. A+++Thank you again!!! McMahon also guaranteed jobs with the WWF for the Briscos; Jerry Brisco remained with WWF/WWE before suffering three strokes in 2009. 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. Though based in Atlanta, the company also ran live wrestling shows throughout its geographic "territory" of Georgia. Promoting events through the mid-1990s across central Georgia, Odum was successful in keeping the brand alive. 2/22/70 McMahon had underestimated two major factors, however. 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. 2/6/59 4/8/70 Watts pulled out and headed to Oklahoma full-time with his Mid-South brand that would morph into the UWA before its eventual demise at the hands of national expansions. 4/15/61 7 min read. 1/27/69 2/14/67 By 1994, none of these companies remained in business, with the exception of the Memphis-based branch of the USWA, which folded in 1997. 2/28/70 8/26/69 8/7/57 8/19/60 8/20/59 In 1982, Georgia Championship Wrestling renamed its weekly program World Championship Wrestling, a name the entire promotion would grow to be identified by. 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. 1/1/69 4/27/70 georgia championship wrestling vols 11-20- pro wrestling. 10/23/57 4/27/63 , 8/14/50 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. 1/1/70 The NWA Georgia Television Championship shuffled around a lot, but it also gave many wrestlers the chance to make it their own and push their careers in the process. 4/14/70 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). 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