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Pages in category "Defunct professional wrestling promotions" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
During the 1950s, the National Wrestling Alliance oversaw many wrestling territories such as Mid-Atlantic Wrestling and NWA San Francisco, in a business model known as the "territory system". [ 1 ] This is a list of the most notable past and present professional wrestling promotions.
WWE Libraries Inc., [2] branded as the WWE Legacy Department, [3] is an American media company that consists of the largest collection of professional wrestling videos and copyrights in the world. [4] The Legacy Department is a subsidiary of WWE, the professional wrestling subsidiary of TKO Group Holdings.
Fire Star Pro Wrestling Greensboro Labron Kozone 2012-present OMEGA Championship Wrestling: Cameron: Matt Hardy Jeff Hardy: 1997–1999 2013–present Promotion closed when Matt and Jeff Hardy joined the World Wrestling Federation, later reopened: South Atlantic Pro Wrestling: Winston-Salem: Paul Jones Frank Dusek: 1990–1992
Sister promotion to Beyond Wrestling Defunct ChickFight: San Francisco, California: Jason Deadrich 2004–2008 Dangerous Women of Wrestling Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Steve O'Neill, Dan Kowal 1999–2007 Formerly "Gorgeous Ladies of Outrageous Wrestling" until 2003 Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (G.L.O.W.) Las Vegas, Nevada: Meshulam Riklis ...
House of Hardcore founder Tommy Dreamer, 2014. On June 21, 2012, professional wrestler Tommy Dreamer began promoting House of Hardcore on his Twitter account. In the weeks afterward, HOH would be revealed to be a wrestling school run by Dreamer, Hale Collins and Vik Dalishus based out of the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York that would also run an event on October 6, 2012.
He joined the recently founded National Wrestling Alliance in 1949, with his promotion sometimes thereafter referred to as NWA Chicago. From 1949 to 1955, Fred Kohler Enterprises was one of the most profitable and high-profile promotions in the United States due to the success of Wrestling from Marigold , a program airing on the DuMont national ...
Peter Maivia renamed the promotion "Polynesian Pro Wrestling". Following Maivia's death in June 1982, his wife Lia Maivia took over the promotion. In August 1985, Polynesian Pro Wrestling's "A Hot Summer Night" event drew thousands of fans to the Aloha Stadium, however "A Hot Summer Night II" the following August was markedly less successful ...