The steep decline in ratings for the Saturday evening WWF show, and viewers clamoring for GCW's return, began to make the WWF's move a money-losing one. However, its origin is attributed to events that began in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), an organization with many members promotions. The NWA International Heavyweight Championship was a singles title recognized by the National Wrestling Alliance through its partnership with the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance, and later by All Japan Pro Wrestling.It is one of the three titles that were unified into the Triple Crown Heavyweight Championship in 1989. Mark Henry In 1984, McMahon's WWF purchased controlling interest in GCW from a number of its co-owners (including Barnett and brothers Jack and Jerry Brisco), thus gaining control of GCW's flagship Saturday night time slot on TBS. 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Keiji Muto ( , Mut Keiji, born December 23, 1962) is a Japanese professional wrestler and professional wrestling executive currently signed to Pro Wrestling Noah (Noah), where he is a former GHC Heavyweight Champion.He is best known for his work as The Great Muta (, Za Gurto Muta) in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and New Japan Pro The NWA National Championship is a professional wrestling championship owned and promoted by the U.S.-based, National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). So, JCP turned major "heel" Nikita Koloff, into a face on October 25, to take Magnum T. Although formally established in 1948, its lineage has been traditionally traced back to the first World Continental Wrestling Association Eventually, McMahon cut his losses and sold the time slot to Crockett for $1 million. The ECW World Heavyweight Championship was introduced originally in 1992 as the NWA-ECW Heavyweight Championship with Jimmy Snuka becoming the inaugural champion on April 25. [9][10] As affirmed by WWE, the World Heavyweight Championship is not a continuation of the WCW Championship, but rather its successor by way of the WWE Undisputed Championship, just as the WCW Championship spun off from the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. The fans loved every second of it, watching the local star defend the sport against the arrogant actor from Hollywood. As part of this performance, Kaufman would imply that these matches were real and thus also imply that professional wrestling was not real, which countered the sacrosanct belief of fans in that era that wrestling was "real". Moreover, even though Flair was obligated to perform title-defense matches in each territory against the territory's own chosen star/challenger, any title changes only occurred between other performers also contracted to Crockett, such as Dusty Rhodes and Ron Garvin. This promotion was a chief NWA territory during the 1970s and early 1980s while operating out of Tennessee and Kentucky. It operated in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, but also included stops in surrounding cities and states. It was very hard to believe that George could regularly beat his larger more experienced foes. He is a two-time Olympian (1992 and 1996) and a To order please visit http://leatherrebelsbelts.com/nwa-replicas Continental Wrestling Association (later the Championship Wrestling Association) was a wrestling promotion managed by Jerry Jarrett.The CWA was the name of the "governing body" for the Championship Wrestling, Inc. promotion which was usually referred to as Mid-Southern Wrestling or the Memphis territory. The entire company was frequently referred to in the influential Pro Wrestling Illustrated and its sister publications by the WCW name or more commonly as "the World Championship area. The title was introduced on August 8, 1998, at a NJPW live event. By the early-1970s, JCP had gradually phased-out its multiple weekly television tapings in such cities as Charlotte, North Carolina, Greenville, South Carolina, and High Point, North Carolina, consolidating its production schedule into just one shoot (a Wednesday night videotaping at WRAL-TV in Raleigh), and then syndicating the broadcast to several local TV stations throughout the Carolinas and Virginia. This split between Gulas and Jarrett created the Continental Wrestling Association as a totally separate promotion run by Jarrett. Hello, and welcome to Protocol Entertainment, your guide to the business of the gaming and media industries. Still champion as of 54-02-05. Defeats Jimmy Lott in tournament final. Jerry Jarrett was in charge of Memphis, Louisville, Lexington and Evansville while still part of NWA Mid-America, while Nick Gulas, who had been the primary booker, continued to promote the other half of the territory. Homicide drops Aries with the Cutter! NWA International Heavyweight Championship Founded in 1931, the promotion emerged as a cornerstone of the National Wrestling Alliance.By the 1980s, Jim Crockett Promotions was, along with the World [8] Meanwhile, by 1983, JCP went from recording its weekly shows in a television studio to shooting on-location, in between matches at live arena events. October 25, 2022 NXT results; October 26, 2022 AEW Dynamite results; October 27, 2022 iMPACT! Meanwhile, mid-carder Ron Garvin beat perennial champion Ric Flair for the NWA world title. Such teams as The Von Brauners, The Interns, The Infernos, The Bounty Hunters, Tojo Yamamoto and Jerry Jarrett, Don and Al Green, Bobby Hart and Lorenzo Parente, The Fabulous Kangaroos, Jerry Lawler and Jim White, The Fabulous Fargos, and a host of other teams were regulars. Jim Crockett died in 1973. [9] Funk did return later in 1981, where he came on television and asked where Lawler was. NWA Junior Heavyweight Championship: Colby Corino vs. Darius Lockhart vs. Won the title under the name Tokimitsu Ishizawa, but defended it under the name Kendo Kashin. Christopher Keith Irvine (born November 9, 1970), better known by the ring name Chris Jericho, is an American-Canadian professional wrestler and singer.He is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of the Jericho Appreciation Society stable.He also represents AEW's sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is the current ROH World Discarding the Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling brand, he began promoting his events simply as NWA shows, although his promotion remained distinct from the larger NWA entity. The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship Guerrera's only reign of 7 days is the shortest in the title's history. Bob Geigel, a former NWA President who bought his promotion back from Crockett in Febrtuary 1987 through a partnership, had also withdrawn from the NWA. "[11][12] As a result of the success World Championship Wrestling now had from acquiring the Saturday night time slots, Crockett (along with JCP booker Dusty Rhodes) was able to establish an annual summer arena tour, "The Great American Bash" starting with a single supercard in 1985 and expanding to the full tour in 1986. Jim Crockett Promotions Inc. is a family-owned professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, restarted by Jim Crockett's son and Jim Crockett Jr's brother, David Crockett. [13] With his victory over John Cena, Randy Orton became the final World Heavyweight Champion. However, Clash of the Champions was now the only thing Crockett could use to keep the NWA alive, though it was not even as highly watched as the WWF's Saturday Night's Main Event. These shows were repeated in some form weekly in Louisville and Nashville (on Saturday nights). However, the WWF then threatened cable companies that if they chose to air Starrcade, they would not be offered future WWF PPVs, including that year's Survivor Series and the forthcoming WrestleMania IV. NWA Powerrr Trip 2 is set for April 30 at Valor Hall in Oak Grove, Kentucky. Despite Crockett now having six consolidated territories under his banner and leading the NWA, JCP and the NWA were still two separate entities, and Crockettlike all NWA promoters before and sincewas simply licensing the NWA brand name, whose true value was as a credibility-infusing, fan-trusted brand name for wrestling championships. Strong Openweight Championship tytu mistrzowski dywizji tag team wrestlingu promowany przez japosk federacj New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). BLACK VS. 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Terry Funk had Jimmy Hart at ringside. Southern Junior Heavyweight Championship; The Freedom Cup; Unified Heavyweight Championship; Wrestler of the Year; GALLERY; Contact; Wrestling Academy; 24 Oct 2022 by greg. Taiji Ishimori is the current champion in his third reign. Bischoff awarded the title to Triple H, who had been designated number-one contender to Lesnar's title the previous week. NWA The promotion featured such stars as Mulligan; his son Barry Windham (then billed as Blackjack Mulligan Jr.); Kevin Sullivan; Wayne Ferris; The Mongolian Stomper; Terry Taylor; Tim Horner, and others. NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship The IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship (IWGP, IWGP juniaheb-ky za) is a professional wrestling world junior heavyweight championship owned by the New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) promotion. Liger holds the record for most reigns with eleven, over which he has successfully defended the title 31 times, more than any champion. 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