Talking Wrestling 06/22 by Ringtimeprowrestling | Blog Talk Radio

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Atlanta Makes #3 on Wrestling Hotspots

In the tour of wrestling hot spots is the wonderful city of Atlanta, GA. The home of Coca Cola, UPS and CNN is also the home to great professional wrestling history. Places like the the Omni and Georgia Dome are forever embedded in our mind as places where legendary matches have happened. Atlanta was and still is one of the country's great wrestling cities. Promotions such as Platinum Championship Wrestling and NWA Anarchy are thriving promotions in the area that are still bringing in crowds.

Fans of good old WTBS channel 17 remember Georgia Championship Wrestling as staple of 1970's and 80's wrestling. A NWA territory that was based out of Atlanta but ran shows throughout the entire state of Georgia. The TV show, hosted by the great Gordon Solie was recorded in one of WTBS' studios at 1050 Techwood Drive, in midtown Atlanta. When the Superstation went on satellite in 1976, making the channel available to cable systems all across the United States, became the first NWA promotion to be broadcast nationally. The company had big time wrestlers like Ole Anderson, Stan Hansen and Killer Karl Kox.


In the early to mid 1980's the promotion was owned by a group that included Jack and Jerry Brisco and Ole Anderson. In 1984 the Brisco brothers sold their stake in GCW to a promoter named Vince McMahon for 900,000 dollars and guaranteed jobs with the WWF. This move forever changed the landscape of professional wrestling.

July 14, 1984 is now known as Black Saturday in wrestling circles. Georgia Championship Wrestling ceased to exist when Vince McMahon bought the promotion and its TV time slot for his then-nationally expanding WWF.

You have to love WCW

The most famous promotion to ever run in the Atlanta area would have to World Championship Wrestling. WCW stands as the only promotion to ever compete toe to toe with the WWE.

Birthed out of Jim Crockett Promotions, WCW was a NWA terroritory before branching out as their own brand. Their run is mostly identified from 1985 until 2001 when purchased by the WWE. Running primarily out of Atlanta after 1988 when purchased by cable television mogul Ted Turner. Having some of the biggest names ever in wrestling such as the Road Warriors, The Four Horsemen and Dusty Rhodes, they built a juggernaut that was very hard to stop.

The most famous name probably associated with this era would have to be the Nature Boy Ric Flair (#2 on my list of all time greats). Flair was the last traveling NWA World Champion that defended the belt in different territories.

Ric Flair Promo

Putting on large pay per view events that could only be rivaled WWE. The birth ideas like Starrcade, The Great American Bash and Halloween Havoc became staples in the wrestling business.

On September 4th, 1995 one the biggest moves ever in the wrestling landscape was made. Under the leadership of Eric Bischoff, WCW launched Monday Night Nitro to rival the WWE's Monday Night Raw. This is what started what is known in the wrestling world as the Monday Night Wars.

With bankroll of Ted Turner the company was able to acquire some of the top names in professional wrestling like Macho Man Randy Savage, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. Also they brought in non in ring legends like Mean Gene Oakerland and Bobby The Brain Heenan. Combing this talent with names like Sting, Harlem Heat and The Steiner Brothers.

The most famous name that they brought in was the biggest name ever in wrestling. Bringing Hulk Hogan was the icing on the cake that made WCW a major power player on a national scale.

The Day That Changed Wrestling

Nitro had a very successful run in the late 1990's. Aside from bringing in major names they introduced the Cruiserweight division that feature some of the best pure wrestlers in the world. Bischoff also employed some tactics that was frowned upon in the wrestling business like, at the opening of Nitro broadcasts giving away the results of Raw matches that were prerecorded.

WCW made their biggest splash of the era by introducing the NWO. The original members being Scott Hall, Kevin Nash and Hulk Hogan. What shook the wrestling landscape was the heel turn of Hulk Hogan. While both shows posted strong ratings WCW went on a long winning streak that lasted over 80 weeks over WWE.

As the company entered the new millennium WCW began to see a decline in their ratings and became not as profitable as once before.

Great Wrestlers from WCW/ Mid Atlantic Wrestling

Ricky The Dragon Steamboat
The Fabulous Freebirds
Rock N Roll Express
Midnight Express
Big Van Vader
Ron Simmons

Check Out Legends FanFest

August 4-7, 2011 - Atlanta's Airport Marriott Hotel
http://www.nwalegends.com/

Talking Wrestling at 11pm 06/08 by Ringtimeprowrestling | Blog Talk Radio

Talking Wrestling at 11pm 06/08 by Ringtimeprowrestling | Blog Talk Radio

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Keith and Keshia will talk about professional wrestling. At our new 11pm showtime. Giving you everything TNA, WWE and wrestling around the world.

Funny YouTube Clip

I saw this on Nickla Roberts(BabyDoll) Facebook page and thought it would be funny to share. Dr. "D" David Shultz will be at NWA Legends Fest in Atlanta, GA

Japan Makes Honorable Mention

Had to break countdown with an honorable mention for wrestling hotspots. Japan is an incredible place for professional wrestling and could have easily made the the top 5 list and I am sure is on somebody's countdown. The land of the rising sun has an incredible history and present in professional wrestling. Many superstars have fine tuned their skills in Japan. Names like Chris Jericho, Mick Foley and Brock Lesnar have all fine tuned their skills in Japan at one time or another.

Puroresu (プロレス) is the popular term for the predominant style or genre of wrestling that originated in Japan. The is derived from the Japanese pronunciation of "professional wrestling" (プロフェッショナル・レスリング), which is shortened to puroresu ("purofesshonaru resuringu").

Japan also produced its own great homegrown talent that have made names for themselves around the world. Names like The Great Muta, Jushin Liger and Kenta Kobashi have had success in the United States.

Japan has had a few promotions over the years that have thrived in Japan. Names like WAR, All Japan Pro Wrestling and Big Japan Wrestling are all names of promotions that have thrived in Japan. On of the popular and up and coming promotions is Dragon Gate. Japan based since 1999 Dragon Gate does over 250 shows a year in the land of the rising sun. It has also lent its name to Dragon Gate USA where both promotions thrive on a talent exchange of some of the best wrestlers in the world.

Welcome to New Japan Pro Wrestling

The largest and best know promotion in Japan is New Japan Pro Wrestling founded by the great Antonio Inoki in June of 1972. One thing that has heavily contributed to the popularity of the promotion is their openly engaging in working agreements with MMA promotions and other professional wrestling organizations from around the world. NJPW has worked with WCW, TNA and Ring of Honor just to name a few. NJPW's biggest event of the year is the Wrestlmania style show that is held at the Tokoyo Dome on January 4th. The event has been a staple of the promotion since 1992.

New Japan has been a place where many American wrestlers have been able to have successful runs. As a part of NJPW or in the cross promotion. Tag teams like The Steiners, The British Invasion and Team 3D(Dudley's) have all won tag team gold during cross promotional matches. Guys like Brock Lesnar and Big Van Vader have had success under New Japan banner.

The promotion has had several big cross promotional matches like Antonio Anoki taking on "Nature Boy" Ric Flair. Also this year NJPW had their first tour of the United States where they introduced their new Intercontinental Championship, which was won by former WWE superstar MVP.

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