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Georgia Championship Wrestling is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Atlanta, Georgia. 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.
GCW Georgia Heavyweight Championship: Terry Lawler 1 April 24, 2021 Buckhead, GA Title is revived under the new GCW. Lawler wins a 20 man Rumble match to win the vacated championship. Last eliminating Shawn Hunter: Shawn Hunter 1 July 24, 2021 Buckhead, GA Charlie Anarchy 1 April 30, 2022 Buckhead, GA Chop Top 1 July 30, 2022 Buckhead, GA ...
The Fred Ward Memorial Show was an annual professional wrestling memorial event produced by the Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) promotion, which was held from 2004 to 2009. The show was held in honor of Fred Ward, a pioneering wrestling promoter who controlled the central Georgia wrestling territory for over 30 years, [ 1 ] who died on May ...
GCW show Macon, Georgia 2 14 [6] [7] 6 Mr. Wrestling II: May 14, 1974: GCW show Macon, Georgia 1 [Note 1] [7] — Vacated: 1975 — — — — Championship vacated for unknown reasons. 7 Toru Tanaka: March 18, 1975: GCW show Macon, Georgia 1 84 Defeated Danny Little Bear in a tournament final. [8] 8 Bob Armstrong: June 10, 1975: GCW show Macon ...
In American professional wrestling, the term Black Saturday refers to Saturday, July 14, 1984, the day when Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) took over the timeslot on Superstation WTBS that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) and its flagship weekly program, World Championship Wrestling, for twelve years.
By the mid-1980s, Anderson was a part-owner of, and the booker for, Georgia Championship Wrestling. After Georgia Championship Wrestling was acquired by Vince McMahon in 1984 in what was known as "Black Saturday", Anderson broke away to form his own promotion, Championship Wrestling from Georgia, which was itself acquired by Jim Crockett ...
After wrestling for Watts in Mid South, they worked for Memphis based Continental Wrestling Association (CWA) where they feuded with Jerry Lawler and Bill Dundee. In late-1980, the Freebirds moved to Georgia Championship Wrestling, where they won the National Tag Team titles in the Omni, from Mr Wrestling 1 and 2. Throughout the first half of ...
The father and son duo of Bob Armstrong and Brad Armstrong defeated Mr. Fuji and Mr. Saito in the final to win the vacant NWA National Tag Team Championship. When the World Wrestling Federation's Vince McMahon bought Georgia Championship Wrestling's TV timeslot (after GCW's contract with Turner Broadcasting System expired without renewal: Black ...