The National Wrestling Alliance strikes back (When territories unite)

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By 1983, JCP went from recording its weekly shows in a television studio, to recording them live in arenas. After purchasing a mobile television unit for $1 million, Crockett started thinking big. In some people's eyes, he thought too big. In order to prevent another Showdown At the Shea from taking place, Crockett created the new dominant supercard for the NWA, Starrcade. In 1984, the WWF purchased a majority interest in Georgia Championship Wrestling from a number of its shareholders, including the Brisco brothers and Jim Barnette, and thus controlled GCW's Saturday night timeslot on WTBS. This was part of the WWF's attempt to go national, in part by co-opting local wrestling timeslots. However, TBS received many complaints for the move, so much so that another promotion backed by holdout GCW shareholder and NWA member Fred Ward and former GCW wrestler/booker Ole Anderson was given an early Saturday morning time slot on TBS. This company (and its television show and brand name) was named Championship wrestling from Georgia. This program, along with Bill Watts' Mid South Wrestling, easily surpassed the WWF TBS clip show program. The decline in ratings for the Saturday evening show, and the fans clamoring for GCW, began to make the WWF's move one that lost the federation money Eventually McMahon cut his losses and sold the ex-GCW timeslot to Crockett for $1 million. An extra sense of urgency was added to Crockett's national ambitions when, after Frank Tunney's death, the Toronto promotion joined forces with the WWF. If Crockett wanted to run shows outside the Mid Atlantic states, he'd have to either find other willing promoters, or buy out their territories. A meeting was called by Jim Crockett Jr., the NWA president. In attendance are David Crockett (representing Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling), Jim Barnett (Georgia Championship Wrestling), Bob Geigel (Central States), Eddie Graham (Championship Wrestling from Florida)

In this historic meeting, Jim Crockett Jr.Decides to unite several NWA promotions under one banner. Those promotions would include Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, Georgia Championship Wrestling, Central States Wrestling,and Championship wrestling from Florida. They would all be merged to form a promotion that would be promoted as "NWA: World Wide Wrestling" using GCW's slot on TBS to give the NWA as a whole more exposure. Jim Crockett Jr. also decided that all NWA member promotions would share talent more often. These two decisions would allow the NWA to fight on an equal level with the WWF.

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CHAMPIONS

 

Territory/Central States Championship Wrestling

Central States Heavyweight Champion- Harley Race

Central States Tag Tean Champions- The Masked Grapplers

 

 

Territory/Ga Championship Wrestling

National Heavyweight Champion- Ron Garvin

National TagTeam Champions- The Road Warriors

 

 

Territory/Championship Wrestling from Florida

Southern Heavyweight Champion- Ric Rood

Florida TagTeam Champions- Chavo & Hector Guerrero

 

 

Territory/Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling

Mid Atlantic Heavyweight Champion - Jimmy Valiant

 

NWA CHAMPIONS

 

NWA Heavyweight Champion - Ric Flair

NWA TagTeam Champions - Wahoo McDaniels & Mark Youngblood

 

NWA Television Champion - Tully Blanchard

NWA United States HeavyWeight Champion - Ricky Steamboat