Quote from acenase on Mar 11th, 2007, 2:35am:I was watching WWE 24/7 and they have a show called "NWA World Championship Wrestling" and in the very beginning for the Signature it would show all of the territories like Championship Wrestling from Florida, AWA, Jim Crocket Promotions and even WWF. My question is was this show under "Georgia Championship Wrestling" or "Championship Wrestling From Florida?" I know the "WCW" that came to be didn't exist during this time, but isn't it ironic how NWA's Wrestling show at the time was called "World Championship Wrestling?" because from what I do remember is Turner buying part of this "NWA" in 1988 and called it World Championship Wrestling until they finally broke away in 1991. Turner bought Georgia Championship Wrestling and Championship Wrestling from Florida (I think those 2 merged into WCW correct me if im wrong).
Also why on the intro before the NWA show it has an image of the WWF? I thought they were competition? Or is this not an original image from 1985?
http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/1098/nwakg0.jpg The TV show known as "Georgia Championship Wrestling" became known as "World Championship Wrestling" in 1982. At the time the show was produced by NWA affiliate Georgia Championship Wrestling, Inc.
In July 1984, Vince McMahon bought Georgia Championship Wrestling and the WWF took over "World Championship Wrestling" on TBS. Shortly after this happend, Ole Anderson, who had been one of the principle shareholders in GCW, started a new show called "Championship Wrestling from Georgia" (also NWA sanctioned) that began airing on TBS early Saturday mornings.
In March 1985, Championship Wrestling from Georgia merged with Jim Crockett Promotions (Mid-Atlantic) out of Charlotte and JCP took control of the Saturday morning slot, renaming the show simply "Championship Wrestling" a couple of weeks later. Around the same time, Crockett also bought control of the Saturday night "World Championship Wrestling" slot from Vince and that's when the show switched back to the NWA.
In early 1987, Crockett took over running the Florida territory (Championship Wrestling from Florida) and by the end of the year it finally died. He also purchased the UWF from Bill Watts that same year and eventually shut it down.
In late 1988, Crockett sold to Turner and that's when World Championship Wrestling became the name of the company itself, taking over from Jim Crockett Promotions. By late 1990-early 1991, Turner phased out any remaining references to the National Wrestling Alliance and exclusively began using the World Championship Wrestling and WCW names (aside from the brief revival of the NWA World heavyweight and tag team titles that occurred between 1992-93, that is). The show "World Championship Wrestling" on TBS also eventually became known as "WCW Saturday Night".