Georgia Championship Wrestling
| Georgia Championship Wrestling | |
|---|---|
| shape | promotion |
| Establishment date | March 29, 1972 |
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Territories | Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee West Virginia |
| founder | Paul Jones |
| owner | Mid-South Sports |
| management | Paul Jones Jim Bernett Jack Brisco Gerald Brisco Ole Anderson |
| Branch | Pro wrestling |
| Further information | |
| Closed since | 1987 |
| Taken over from | World Wrestling Federation |
Georgia Championship Wrestling , GCW for short , is the name of a former US wrestling promotion that was based in Atlanta , Georgia . The promoter was Ole Anderson .
history
The story of the promotion begins by tradition in January 1944, when Paul Jones founded ABC Booking in Atlanta , which in November became a sub-organization ( affiliate ) of the National Wrestling Alliance .
In November 1972 Jones' company left the NWA and joined the American Wrestling Association as Mid-South Sports .
On March 29, 1974, MSS rejoined the NWA and was reorganized into the new Georgia Championship Wrestling banner . GCW now hosted Georgia Championship Wrestling as NWA . GCW became very present and well known in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s through its TV format .
- The TV format "World Championship Wrestling"
1983 began working with Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling . A joint TV format was now produced, which was called World Championship Wrestling / Georgia Championship Wrestling , or World Championship Wrestling for short .
This "WCW" format was the NWA's first TV show to be nationally designed and had a major impact on the TV formats of the competing World Wrestling Federation . “WCW” was only recorded in small studios with around 100 to 150 people as an audience. But the kind of staging with some well-known wrestlers and excellent matches made the GCW very well known in the USA in its time. But financially the "WCW" developed into a catastrophe.
In 1984 Paul Jones retired from wrestling and left the management of the bankrupt GCW to promoters Jim Bernett , Jack and Gerald Brisco and Ole Anderson . The latter was able to assert himself as chief booker .
- Sale to the WWF
So in July 1984 Bernett and the Brisco brothers sold their major shares to the World Wrestling Federation . On July 14th, Anderson founded the new Promotion Championship Wrestling From Georgia from his share , while the WWF operated the old GCW as a development territory until 1987.