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Jim Crockett Promotions: National Wrestling Alliance, Universal Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling - Softcover
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: National Wrestling Alliance, Universal Wrestling Federation, World Championship Wrestling, 1980s professional wrestling boom, Greensboro Coliseum, Georgia Championship Wrestling, List of Jim Crockett Promotions alumni, Black Saturday, Heart of America Sports Attractions, Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett, Jr., St. Louis Wrestling Club, Pro Wrestling USA, Grady Cole Center, David Crockett. Excerpt: The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is a governing body for a group of independent professional wrestling promotions and sanctions various NWA championships in the United States. The NWA has been in operation since 1948. Prior to the 1960s, it acted as the sole governing body for most of professional wrestling, operating as a talent and brand name franchiser for the inter-regional "territory" system. Before the NWA was founded in 1948, there existed many regional professional wrestling promotions across North America (each promoting its own "World" champion). None of them, however, had backing or recognition outside of their own respective geographic base-areas. The concept of the NWA was to consolidate the championships of these regional companies into one true world championship of pro wrestling, whose holder would be recognized worldwide. In 1948, Paul "Pinkie" George, a promoter from the Midwest, founded the original version of the National Wrestling Alliance with the backing of five other promoters (Al Haft, Tony Strecher, Harry Light, Orville Brown, and Sam Muchnick). This newly-formed NWA Board of Directors wanted Brown to be the first-ever NWA World champion. During the reign of the second NWA World Heavyweight Champion, Lou Thesz (1949-1956), the title was further unified with several more previously-competing "World" titles, such as those recognized jointly by the National Wrestling Association ...
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- PublisherBooks LLC, Wiki Series
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1157686281
- ISBN 13 9781157686286
- BindingTapa blanda
- Number of pages32
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