Blog Archives

NWA: Georgia Championship Wrestling (07.13.80) and (07.19.80)

Georgia Championship Wrestling
July 13 and 19, 1980
Atlanta, GA
WTBS-17 Studios

The current GCW champs are as follows:
NWA World Heavyweight Champion: Harley Race (11/7/1979)
NWA Georgia Heavyweight Champion: Baron Von Raschke (6/8/1980)
NWA Georgia Tag Team Champions: The Assassins (6/16/1980)
NWA Georgia Jr. Heavyweight Champion: Kevin Sullivan (6/8/1980)
NWA National Television Champion: Vacant (6/28/1980)

TIME FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT. That’s right. While this show is incomplete and jumps around, it’s available here on YouTube for all to enjoy and there’s enough action here to warrant a watch.

Your host is Gordon Solie. Read the rest of this entry

NWA: Big Time Wrestling (1977?)

detroit_logo

NWA: Big Time Wrestling
Sometime in 1977

Your host is Bob Finnegan. No studio action this week. He tells us we will be traveling around the country to watch various NWA wrestlers currently part of Detroit wrestling or who will be coming to the area in the near future. Read the rest of this entry

NWA: Big Time Wrestling (January 1969)

detroit_logo

NWA: Big Time Wrestling
January 1969
Detroit, MI

Your host is Bob Finnegan subbing for Lord Layton this week.
Read the rest of this entry

Houston Wrestling from the Sam Houston Coliseum (01.07.79)

Harley-Race-77

Houston Wrestling
January 7, 1979
Houston, TX
Sam Houston Coliseum

At the risk of sounding completely hackneyed and just embracing my ignorance of Houston wrestling instead of trying to make you think that I know something about this promotion when I don’t, here is an excerpt from KayfabeMemories.com to give you a little insight: Read the rest of this entry

Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (01.09.82)

Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
January 9, 1982
Charlotte, NC
(taped on 1/6/82)

So we skip ahead three weeks since I don’t seem to have those episodes. I guess we will never find out what happened between Sgt. Slaughter and Jay Youngblood.

Your hosts are Bob Caudle and David Crockett. Read the rest of this entry

%d bloggers like this: