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Anaya and Romero defeated Art Nelson and Tokyo Joe in the finals of an eight-team tournament to win the vacant championship. [1] [2] 17 Great Bolo (4) and Tokyo Joe June 26, 1958: Live event: Amarillo, TX: 2 7 [1] [2] 18 Kurt Von Poppenheim and Mighty Zorro July 3, 1958: Live event: Amarillo, TX: 1 13 [1] [2] 19 Art Nelson (5) and Mike DiBiase ...
While there, DiBiase became the first-ever PWF West Texas Wrestling Legends Heritage Champion. He also won the 2006 Jay Youngblood Memorial Tag Team Tournament Cup alongside "Radical" Ricky Romero III. DiBiase and Romero became the first tag team in professional wrestling that consisted of two third generation superstars, and became known as ...
The NWA International Tag Team Championship is a professional wrestling title, originally created as the NWA Western States Tag Team Championship in the National Wrestling Alliance's Amarillo, Texas territory, Western States Sports. [1]
Western States Sports (also known as the Amarillo Territory) was a professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Amarillo, Texas in the United States. [1] Founded by Dory Detton in 1946, the promotion enjoyed its greatest success in the 1960s and 1970s under the management of Dory Funk and, later, his sons Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk, with its top performers including the Funks themselves ...
Amarillo, Texas: Live event 23 Killer Karl Kox and Ciclon Negro: 1 August 26, 1973 [Note 8] Lubbock, Texas: Live event 24 The Funks (Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk) 3 October 1973 [Note 9] Texas Live event 25 Giant Baba (7) and Jumbo Tsuruta: 1 February 5, 1975: 631 San Antonio, Texas: Live event: Returned to All Japan Pro Wrestling with the ...
The Pro Wrestling Federation (PWF) was a professional wrestling promotion that held events in the Carolinas area of the United States from October 1990 to December 2000, when it was run by George South and Gary Sabaugh. The promotion was based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with offices in Hickory, North Carolina.
The NWA Western States Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling title in the National Wrestling Alliance's Amarillo, Texas territory, Western States Sports. [ 1 ] The title was in use from 1969, when it replaced Amarillo's version of the NWA North American Heavyweight Championship , [ 4 ] through the promotion's 1981 closure.
Dorrance Earnest Funk (born February 3, 1941), [2] [5] known professionally as Dory Funk Jr., is an American professional wrestler and wrestling trainer. The son of Dory Funk (Dorrance Wilhelm Funk) and brother of Terry Funk, he was the promoter of the Amarillo, Texas-based Western States Sports promotion.