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1961 1979 The Big Time Wrestling World Tag Team Championship was created in June 1961 with Guy and Joe Brunetti billed as the inaugural champions. In 1968, it was renamed the NWA World Tag Team Championship after Big Time Wrestling joined the National Wrestling Alliance. It was abandoned in 1979 as the promotion wound down.
Shires' promotion created its own World Tag Team Championship in 1961, with Guy and Joe Brunetti as its first champions. [3] [4] Initially Shire was associated with the American Wrestling Alliance, but in 1968 he became a member of the NWA. At that point the Big Time Wrestling tag team championship was given the NWA suffix.
It traded until 1961, when it folded due to competition from the upstart Big Time Wrestling promotion. The promotion's heartland was San Francisco, with the San Francisco Civic Auditorium as its core venue, but it also ran shows in other Northern Californian cities including Fresno , Oakland , Richmond , Sacramento , San Jose , Santa Rosa ...
Big Time Wrestling: the San Francisco years [ edit ] Stevens, reverting to his real name, started out in San Francisco for Big Time Wrestling on March 4, 1961, where he was involved in an angle with Pepper Gomez and captured the NWA United States Championship nine times and the NWA World Tag Team Championship three times.
In 1961, Karasick retired from promoting, selling the territory to "Gentleman" Ed Francis, who rebranded it "50th State Big Time Wrestling". [10] Francis continued promoting weekly Wednesday shows at the Civic Auditorium, with the venue regularly sold-out. [ 11 ]
In November 1961, Bockwinkel began wrestling in Canada for the Regina, Saskatchewan-based Big Time Wrestling promotion. He occasionally teamed with George Scott, while his regular opponents included Dave Ruhl, Tiny Mills, and Killer Kowalski. In December 1961, he unsuccessfully challenged Kowalski for the NWA Canadian Heavyweight Championship ...
Big Time Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion that held events in the New England area of the United States from 1960 to 1975. For much of the 1960s, BTW was the top professional wrestling promotion in Boston, Massachusetts, and was a significant competitor to the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF).
Roy Shropshire (December 17, 1921 – September 24, 1992) was an American professional wrestler and promoter who worked for Big Time Wrestling in San Francisco from 1961 to its closure in 1981. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ]