@@Gold3n8oY3 Thank you for going out of your way to be a jerk and add absolutely nothing to this conversation. Really shows how great of person that you are.
This was beautiful! Hopefully, you will make a longer video and go into more details about the wrestling territories. The old territory system is very fascinating stuff to me.
Oh but Verne had a great "amateur" background. Amateur promoter? Yeah he had that. Otherwise, I don't think he could have wrestled his way out of a port-a-potty on a construction site.
Damn, I must be one of the few that made it through this whole video. Rather than correcting anything (which I'm wholly unqualified to do), I will simply say thank you for making a funny yet highly informative video about the good old days of wrestling.
No smokey mountain wrestling mention......you do a wrestling video and don't even mention the greatest wrestling historian of all time? .....Jim fuckin Cornette..... alright go edit and let's see what you got
@@johndavies5582 Well, it's more a history of the old territories. Smokey Mountain didn't start until 1991 and the other territories were already dying or dead.
@@johndavies5582 Bro, stop jizzing for a moment and relax. This is about the old territory days. Damn, Cornette doesn't HAVE to be in every wrestling related video.
It's a shame the territories didn't survive Vince McMahon expansion. What the territories lacked in production value they made up for with great quality wrestling.
I think you mean fucking Dusty Rhodes. Or Dusty Rhodes fucking up JCP and/or WCW. Liked him best when Vince put those prison, soap-dropping, polka dots on him. He looked so at home then.
Going national, pre-1980s, would have been impossible. The limitations in broadcasting combined with the power of the NWA wouldn't have allowed it. Memphis was the closest thing to a national territory, since it was broadcast in every state east of the Mississippi that Vince Sr didn't own and in several states west of the Mississippi.
Man, I wish it was still like this. I remember going to these wrestling events with my step dad and grandparents. Got my picture taken smack dab in the middle of the ring with Kerry Von Erich. It was a blast. Its just not the same anymore. I couldn't even imagine wanting to take the kids to a wrestling show these days. They're missing out on so many things, and what's worse is they don't even realize it!
this is an absolutely stunning video! It would be almost perfect if there was a real voice narrating... quite hard to hear sarcasm from a computer generated voice 😂 but outstanding work!
Thanks for the education. It's a great video. Maybe you could have explained some parts a little more, like the Memphis stuff, but the video is very interesting and informative. Thanks for taking the time to do it.
ua-cam.com/video/SJphBcM3JRU/v-deo.html - Houston Wrestling | The Untold Story | Wrestling Territories Documentary 11/50 (7 mins. 55 sec.) - by: Original Wrestling Documentaries on •Dec 11, 2017; Paul Boesch (Houston Wrestling)
I kept waiting for Paul Boesch and Houston Wrestling. More an independent, whose Friday night at the Sam Houston Coliseum was huge. He was able to get big card wrestlers from all over the world.
The only Territorial Organization to book consistently the given Era's AWA, NWA, and WWWF World Champions for appearances before impressive crowds. And technically they booked FOUR since The North American Champion appeared in Houston quite often since that title's inception. Representing the same Tri States promotion that eventually developed into first NWA MidSouth and then eventually the first and much better UWF. Historical Footnote: In 1979, Ted DiBiase competed in a WWWF Tourney to decide what was then known as The North American (and later InterContinental) Champion. Fast forward to the early middle Eighties where MidSouth troublemaker Ted DiBiase habitually grabbed the promotion's top gold. Which they called...The North American Championship!😂😮B.W.
Literally stumbled on this video by chance. And holy shit this is so wonderfully done! I actually was looking for a video explaining territories and the NWA. This was so well done and I'm so sad it doesn't have more views.
Great documentary! I love love hearing stories about the Funks/Amarillo territory. Here in Albuquerque weekly wrestling shows ran on TV from the '50's till early '80's. Anyone have any footage out there?
Not one mention of Fred Kohler's Chicago promotion. Kohler controlled wrestling in Chicago and surrounding area including Milawaukee from around 1940 to 1963. He was the first to recognize the power of television and televised regular weekly wrestling shows from the Rainbo Arena and then Marigold Gardens Arena starting around 1947. Kohler and Vince McMahon, Sr. promoted the Rogers/O'Connor title switch in Comiskey Park on June 30, 1961 that drew 38,665 fans - a record that stood for almost two and a half decades. One sentence mentioning Buddy Rogers with no further explanation is ridiculous. I could go on, but I'm not going to get into it. This video is an example of knowing enough to be dangerous.
This is a very informative video, with the exception, of the voice over. I don't know if this is a computer generated v/o, but if you guys want someone to do a live better job, please let me know!!
NWA has such a long and rich history I feel so ashamed to call myself pro wrestling fan while not knowing NWA until this year. It's amazing how this company survived the wrath of WWE to this very day.
They’re a mere shell of what they used to be before the 1980s. Instead of thinking about how technology & globalization would impact their product, they stuck to their traditions & lost nearly everything.
@@hakimdiwan5101 As much as they want to play victim to WWE’s talent raids, note that these other companies were equally willing to raid each other too. Vince just knew what was going to happen before Ted Turner would’ve very likely done the exact same thing had there been no WWF national expansion. It was inevitable that cable TV was going to start putting dents into territory live events when they could see their stars on TV weekly instead!
@@rlouie05 Turner didn't know shit from shinola until he picked up on it well after the fact (and finally bought out a struggling JCP/WCW). GCW freaking made his superstation (WTBS) what it became. That and Braves baseball, which Fidel Castro himself loved. Without GCW, there would have been no TBS, CNN, TNT, TCM, or any other Turner endeavor that lasted beyond a brief Jane Fonda fascination. As for Vince, he really knew only one thing after his dad's withdrawal from the NWA: "if I can only convince Turner that my New York product is better, I will get national control". Well he did, and it lasted about 5 minutes. But by then, the damage was done, and another chapter in wrestling was closed. Now the worm has turned again, and the AEW and Japan promotions have marginalized WWE. Sad to say, but WWE has become the NWA in recent nostalgia. "Son, I remember when Hulk Hogan jumped from a skyscraper to save ninja turtles and pinned Dusty Rhodes in the ring. Now they have anime characters fighting with invisible force fields. Boy I sure do miss 'real' wrestling'". LOL
My grandfather on mom’s side was a big nwa tri state fan. Noticed on some of the titles champions several names because WWF stars and stars in others promotions after Watts took over from McGuirk. No lie Watts still did a phenomenal job with MSWA
I really enjoyed everything about this. I do wish it were much longer especially going over the map. The other thing is the robotic sounding narration during the map. I really thought it was a computer generated voice for half of it
@@newterritorywrestlingnetwo1723 It's like if Stephen Hawking's wheelchair was voiced by Charles Dance. And this is what it got up to while Hawking was sleeping Perfection.
Good now I can rant about this. First off you made this to coherent and understandable. The images mixed with the audio was great and very easy to follow. I don't understand how you could be a wrestling fan a break it down that anyone can understand. I don't know man, I'm sorry for all the hate but you asked for it. Oh and where do you get off giving me some extra information that I never knew. Damn. You know what I will make it better, after I finish my novel.. So there. (That last sentence was an Easter egg to Joey Styles.) So in conclusion of my rant. How dare you make a very informative and entertaining video. I'm going to subscribe just to see how more of this great nonsense you got. Also check out my stuff, you might find somethings in there too. Sorry for being harsh.
Stars were Verne Gagne, Nick Nick Winkle, Verne Gagne, Hulk Hogan FOR A WHILE, and Verne Gagne.......This monologue had to have been done with a computer
Southeastern Championship Wrestling is what I will point out. The Fullers are the oldest family in wrestling who ran their territory for over 5 decades at the time and started from Ron and Bob Fullers grand daddy. That should have been talked about as not many fans know that bit of history. Also, in the Portland territory, "Playboy" Buddy Rose was the biggest star in their history, not Roddy Piper. Buddy Rose drew more money than any wrestler who ever stopped there, wrestled there, or even was a regular. That should be fixed.
Man I remember my cousin watching wrestling wayyyyyy back in the day in the early 90’s on our local channels 😭 it really seems like it was an entire lifetime ago….sheesh it’s been 33 years since then….imma old MFer 😭 😭 😭
"the good thing about the territorial days was it gave the wrestlers a chance to travel around and wrestle in an area for awhile then move on to another promotion and so on, the bad thing was not every Wrestling promotion was seen around the world on television, if you live in one state or area you got only certain promotions on local tv stations or cable superstations in the Southern Ok where I'm from i got Mid South Wrestling out of Oklahoma, we got WCCW out of Texas,when we got cable we got Georgia Championship Wrestling out of Georgia of course, WWF on the USA Network and AWA on ESPN, in later years other cable stations began showing other promotions off & on over the years,but when I got the internet I now am able to get old Wrestling promotions i couldn't get back then, and Wrestling in the 2000's to present has gotten boring and wrestlers began looking like out of work bums instead of wrestlers,the gimmicks went from good to ridiculous to bland to no gimmicks at all, so I now watch the Wrestling promotions on UA-cam that I couldn't get back then on tv in my area,well thats how it was here in Southern Oklahoma & Northern Texas back then,thanks."-🤔🌐🖥🇺🇲🌐..
Would love to see a follow up video....showing how all the territories were disbanded or bought up.... It would be kind of cool to watch WWE's growth on the map
The west coast promotions disbanded because the crowds weren’t there anymore, from what I was told except for Portland. The old Tri-State (Later known as the Mid-South/UWF) got hit with the tail end of the oil bust. WWF killed Georgia, AWA, and eventually WCW. That Black Saturday was a big night in Wrestling
Up in western Canada, we had al Tomko All Star wrestling - an nwa territory in BC, and we had Stu Hart’s Stampede wrestling which I would argue was THE best wrestling of any of the small territories. Owen hart, bret hart, dynamite kid, Davey boy smith, neidhart, benoit, Pillman, Jushin thunder lager, hiro hase, bad news Allen, Steve disalvo, bastion booger, Larry Cameron… and others like Jake Robert’s, muraco, etc doing stints…. It looked like it was filmed in a rundown barn in Calgary (the pavilion), but the wrestling… wow.. was it incredible and light years beyond what was happening in other places.
Awesome work. But I feel like the old Fred Kohler territory (Essentially the Chicago-Milwaukee corridor) gets overlooked and lumped in with the AWA even though it was responsible for the first national wrestling boom on the DuMont network in the 1950s.
Kohler gets short shrift because he somehow ended up being involved (rightly or wrongly) with the formation of the AWA AND the WWF! Kohler backed Gagne in a three-way dispute in 1958 over the NWA title between Lou Thesz, Edouard Carpentier, and Verne, a dispute that occurred over some booking blunders. Most of Gagne's backers formed the AWA. Kohler was not one of them, staying on with the NWA. Meanwhile Kohler started making deals with another promoter named Vince J. McMahon, as Chicago was dying as an NWA city. By then, Buddy Rogers and Pat O'Connor were feuding over the NWA title. At the same time, Kohler and St. Louis promoter Sam Muchnick were also feuding over control of the NWA. The two feuds, in-ring and backstage, were finally settled at a record-breaking attendance event in Chicago's Comiskey Park, with O'Connor dropping the title to Buddy Rogers. Rogers, upon winning the title, rarely defended it outside the Northeast. The NWA people called for a title change (with a little help from Bill Miller and Karl Gotch who broke Rogers' hand) with Rogers dropping the belt to Lou Thesz. McMahon and Toots Mondt pulled out of the NWA to form the WWWF (now WWE). Both the WWWF and Kohler's Chicago promotion continued to recognize Rogers as the World Champion. Kohler in turn left the NWA, selling the Chicago/Milwaukee territory to Dick the Bruiser and Wilbur Snyder.
@@actionsub It's rare that someone tells me things I don't already know about that territory's history, but I definitely appreciate the time you took to make this comment. Although if I remember correctly, Verne got all of Milwaukee and half of Chicago. Which was the start of the volatile relationship between Verne and Crusher. Crusher was obviously the opposite of what Verne thought a wrestler should be, so he went to work for Brusier exclusively while Verne tried running Milwaukee with Bill Watts on top. Verne learned very quickly that trying to run Milwaukee without Crusher was like trying to run Dallas without Fritz or Memphis without Lawler and reluctantly gave in.
Slight correction; The Sheik's Detroit promotion did not concede Cleveland. Channel 43 ran the Johnny Powers promotion saturday mornings with Jack Reynolds on the mic, and the next hour channel 61 ran the Sheik's promotion with Lord Athol Layton on the mic. They both had shows in Cleveland on a regular basis.
Lord Athol Layton, Whipper Billy Watson (whose son taught at our school), The Sheik (with his manager Abdulla Farouk), Dick "The Bulldog" Brower, etc., all names that bring back some great memories. MAKE WRESTLING GREAT AGAIN
I haven't been a fan since about 92. But for some reason I find the days of regional wrestling interesting. No idea why it's intriguing to me, buy I'd watch a dozen docs on it.
I knew about the different territories what I didn't know till I saw this video it started in 1948 and prior to that it focused on three wrestlers with Toots Mondt who was a wrestler, a promoter and also revolutionized and co promoted the World Wide Wrestling Federation.
For the individual on here who asked about Wyoming for one. Territorially they owned a membership in The AWA from 1972 to 1978. And three different guys promoted cards throughout the state in The 1920s. Idaho more or less missed out on the Territorial Era altogether. As for Utah the ironically named Verne McCullough started promoting cards in The Beehive State circa 1926. Their AWA Era with events supervised in conjunction with a Salt Lake City branch office dates from 1982 to 1987. As to Nevada check into the viselike grip Los Angeles held over Las Vegas booking for a good while starting in 1924 via the Daro Brothers. And they were widely considered to be shadier than an elm grove. Las Vegas had the last laugh eventually though and the ESPN Footage still exists to prove it!😂🤔B.W.
This entire saga can be dedicated to Jack Reynolds and now Angelo King Kong Mosca who himself just passed away only a day before. Championship Wrestling from Florida mainstays I will always remember them fondly as the announcing crew for the 1983 version of Vince's product. The show in syndication aired on Sunday nights in Birmingham. NWA Southeastern Championship Wrestling appeared twice on a Birmingham station on Saturdays. As it turned out I have very fond memories of both shows and each done very differently. R.I.P. Sir Angelo.😔B.W.
Deciding the outcome of wrestling match beforehand and the creation of Kayfabe on a regular basis first came around in late 1920's in the Northern America it Kayfabe took a while to spread to other parts of the world.
Why does this not have more views? This is gold
I agree, this should be in every Pro Wrestling fan's wrestling playlist!
must watch alot of wrestling bios videos, LOL CAUSE HE USES THE WORD "GOLD" OR "PURE GOLD"
i'd have recommended it to friends if it weren't for the shitty robot voice doing my head in the whole video..
Lol
Agreed
I love how he repeats Verne Gagne between the other names for the AWA.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lmao. Cause verne gagne pushed his worthless son to the top of the card and shit on awa. Verne Gagne junior was trash
Greg Gagne
Thanks for pointing it out... Since the rest of us need you to narrate it for us. 👍🖕
@@Gold3n8oY3 Thank you for going out of your way to be a jerk and add absolutely nothing to this conversation. Really shows how great of person that you are.
This text to speech commentary is fucking gold 🤣
WWWF was actually a Washington D.C. based promotion that extended to New York. It did not start out as a New York promotion as it was based in D.C.
Under Joe Turner yes, the old capital arena was their first base.
This was beautiful! Hopefully, you will make a longer video and go into more details about the wrestling territories. The old territory system is very fascinating stuff to me.
"Verne Gagne, Nick Bockwinkle, Verne Gagne, Hulk Hogan for a moment and Verne Gagne" 👏
Oh but Verne had a great "amateur" background. Amateur promoter? Yeah he had that. Otherwise, I don't think he could have wrestled his way out of a port-a-potty on a construction site.
Things I never knew I needed: a history of American wrestling territories read by a robotic English historian voice.
Damn, I must be one of the few that made it through this whole video. Rather than correcting anything (which I'm wholly unqualified to do), I will simply say thank you for making a funny yet highly informative video about the good old days of wrestling.
I love the pioneer era. Londos, Stetcher, etc
Is this any good?
No smokey mountain wrestling mention......you do a wrestling video and don't even mention the greatest wrestling historian of all time? .....Jim fuckin Cornette..... alright go edit and let's see what you got
@@johndavies5582 Well, it's more a history of the old territories. Smokey Mountain didn't start until 1991 and the other territories were already dying or dead.
@@johndavies5582
Bro, stop jizzing for a moment and relax. This is about the old territory days. Damn, Cornette doesn't HAVE to be in every wrestling related video.
"Dusty Fucking Rhodes" 🤣🤣
'Nuff said!
It's a shame the territories didn't survive Vince McMahon expansion. What the territories lacked in production value they made up for with great quality wrestling.
It wasn't just Vince that did them in . It was also deregulation of television and the onset of the infomercial invasion into wrestlings
WWE were part of the territories until they got screwed by the NWA & went out on their own
People forget McMahon couldn't get over in the South so it was Crockett's expansion that did that part of the country in
Mike Mirch not exactly the reason they left
Let's be honest - people just put up with crappy wrestling until Vince and Ted put a superior product on nationwide television.
The ending with Championship Wrestling from Florida was the best. Dusty FUCKING Rhodes!!!
I think you mean fucking Dusty Rhodes. Or Dusty Rhodes fucking up JCP and/or WCW. Liked him best when Vince put those prison, soap-dropping, polka dots on him. He looked so at home then.
Imagine if wrestling promotions back then went national. It would either boom the economy or cause a real gang like war.
Going national, pre-1980s, would have been impossible. The limitations in broadcasting combined with the power of the NWA wouldn't have allowed it. Memphis was the closest thing to a national territory, since it was broadcast in every state east of the Mississippi that Vince Sr didn't own and in several states west of the Mississippi.
Man, I wish it was still like this. I remember going to these wrestling events with my step dad and grandparents. Got my picture taken smack dab in the middle of the ring with Kerry Von Erich. It was a blast. Its just not the same anymore. I couldn't even imagine wanting to take the kids to a wrestling show these days. They're missing out on so many things, and what's worse is they don't even realize it!
Then we international people wouldn't know wrestling now would we🙂
Mann sounds soo cool meeting Kerry
this is an absolutely stunning video! It would be almost perfect if there was a real voice narrating... quite hard to hear sarcasm from a computer generated voice 😂 but outstanding work!
“Unfortunately, the success of the Freebirds in this territory led to decades of sound bites from Michael P. S. Hayes.” So casually said! 😂😂
Hayes and company were a big thing over in the Louisiana region too
The Freebirds were everywhere. Mainstays in Georgia, Florida, Mid-South, Dallas, and even the unfortunate AWA. Those guys got around.
Who the f**k is going to correct anything in this video? It was bloody amazing!
I know one thing, getting an actual person to narrate the video instead of that shitty robot
Making the robot a heel announcer was a nice touch.
What about Houston Wrestling? That was the biggest and oldest promotion in Texas.
This was great and the FUNK YOU line was good
This is awesome. Thanks for posting!
Thanks for the education. It's a great video. Maybe you could have explained some parts a little more, like the Memphis stuff, but the video is very interesting and informative. Thanks for taking the time to do it.
This was dope…from the educational info to the witty smart remarks which made the video funny! Definitely appreciate this! 💪🏾💪🏾
Thank you for this :) your work product is outstanding!
This was amazing. Great video, thank you!
Awesome video. Loved the subtle references.
This is incredible. Thank you.
Enjoyed that. Many thanks.
That map is amazing. Excellent work! Subscribed!
Great video. Except you forgot Paul Boesch and his Houston Territory.
ua-cam.com/video/SJphBcM3JRU/v-deo.html - Houston Wrestling | The Untold Story | Wrestling Territories Documentary 11/50 (7 mins. 55 sec.) -
by: Original Wrestling Documentaries on •Dec 11, 2017; Paul Boesch (Houston Wrestling)
Didn't have shit on WCCW
The also forgot Carlos Colon in Puerto Rico.
Forgot Santa Claus promotions the North Pole Territory
Awesome job! Loved this video!
5:05 Last person I expected to see in a history of the territories video
😂😂😂😂😂
Great video. Thank you for the nice things you said about Portland Wrestling.
one of the best videos on the subject. loved it so much
"boxing promoters whose sport had not yet been exposed as fake" wait wut
In spite of being a gigantic dork, 16:00, I greatly appreciate this presentation. Thank you!
I have several hundred corrections... actually, I don’t but thought I would chime in. This was fantastic, thanks!
Great from beginning to end. Heel commentator vibes, love it!
Not to mention Sammartino selling out MSG over 16,000 times…
I just digged the gold awesome content.
I kept waiting for Paul Boesch and Houston Wrestling. More an independent, whose Friday night at the Sam Houston Coliseum was huge. He was able to get big card wrestlers from all over the world.
Houston Wrestling, the oldest, biggest, most prestigious promotion in Texas.
The only Territorial Organization to book consistently the given Era's AWA, NWA, and WWWF World Champions for appearances before impressive crowds. And technically they booked FOUR since The North American Champion appeared in Houston quite often since that title's inception. Representing the same Tri States promotion that eventually developed into first NWA MidSouth and then eventually the first and much better UWF. Historical Footnote: In 1979, Ted DiBiase competed in a WWWF Tourney to decide what was then known as The North American (and later InterContinental) Champion. Fast forward to the early middle Eighties where MidSouth troublemaker Ted DiBiase habitually grabbed the promotion's top gold. Which they called...The North American Championship!😂😮B.W.
Hilarious Video! Well done.
Please make more videos s out the territories. This was fantastic.
I’d love to see another video for the Canadian Territories
Calgary and Quebec.... that was pretty much it lol Hart's Owned Calgary. Rene Dupree's dad ran Quebec.
BRILLIANT WORK! I had no idea Pro Wrestling got started in the Post Civil War years!
Literally stumbled on this video by chance. And holy shit this is so wonderfully done! I actually was looking for a video explaining territories and the NWA. This was so well done and I'm so sad it doesn't have more views.
Thank the AI.
This is amazing!
Great documentary! I love love hearing stories about the Funks/Amarillo territory. Here in Albuquerque weekly wrestling shows ran on TV from the '50's till early '80's. Anyone have any footage out there?
I followed J C Dykes and The Infernos thru the wrestling mags.
very interesting,, saw so many wrestlers I grew up watching! Loved that you werent worried what you said about people you obviously didnt like!! LOL
Not one mention of Fred Kohler's Chicago promotion. Kohler controlled wrestling in Chicago and surrounding area including Milawaukee from around 1940 to 1963. He was the first to recognize the power of television and televised regular weekly wrestling shows from the Rainbo Arena and then Marigold Gardens Arena starting around 1947. Kohler and Vince McMahon, Sr. promoted the Rogers/O'Connor title switch in Comiskey Park on June 30, 1961 that drew 38,665 fans - a record that stood for almost two and a half decades. One sentence mentioning Buddy Rogers with no further explanation is ridiculous. I could go on, but I'm not going to get into it. This video is an example of knowing enough to be dangerous.
Same with Houston Wrestling, the oldest, biggest, most prestigious promotion in Texas.
Florida wrestling still goes hard in the indy's. some of the small indy promotions almost feel like an old school territory show.
Great video
This is a very informative video, with the exception, of the voice over. I don't know if this is a computer generated v/o, but if you guys want someone to do a live better job, please let me know!!
that Verne line is gold!
NWA has such a long and rich history I feel so ashamed to call myself pro wrestling fan while not knowing NWA until this year.
It's amazing how this company survived the wrath of WWE to this very day.
They’re a mere shell of what they used to be before the 1980s. Instead of thinking about how technology & globalization would impact their product, they stuck to their traditions & lost nearly everything.
@@rlouie05 I don't know what to say I hope they survive and become a better company.
@@hakimdiwan5101 As much as they want to play victim to WWE’s talent raids, note that these other companies were equally willing to raid each other too. Vince just knew what was going to happen before Ted Turner would’ve very likely done the exact same thing had there been no WWF national expansion. It was inevitable that cable TV was going to start putting dents into territory live events when they could see their stars on TV weekly instead!
@@rlouie05 Turner didn't know shit from shinola until he picked up on it well after the fact (and finally bought out a struggling JCP/WCW). GCW freaking made his superstation (WTBS) what it became. That and Braves baseball, which Fidel Castro himself loved. Without GCW, there would have been no TBS, CNN, TNT, TCM, or any other Turner endeavor that lasted beyond a brief Jane Fonda fascination.
As for Vince, he really knew only one thing after his dad's withdrawal from the NWA: "if I can only convince Turner that my New York product is better, I will get national control". Well he did, and it lasted about 5 minutes. But by then, the damage was done, and another chapter in wrestling was closed. Now the worm has turned again, and the AEW and Japan promotions have marginalized WWE. Sad to say, but WWE has become the NWA in recent nostalgia. "Son, I remember when Hulk Hogan jumped from a skyscraper to save ninja turtles and pinned Dusty Rhodes in the ring. Now they have anime characters fighting with invisible force fields. Boy I sure do miss 'real' wrestling'". LOL
Beautiful video
I would love it if Netflix would do a documentary on the Territory days. There docs are so good I think it would be awesome!
My grandfather on mom’s side was a big nwa tri state fan. Noticed on some of the titles champions several names because WWF stars and stars in others promotions after Watts took over from McGuirk. No lie Watts still did a phenomenal job with MSWA
I really enjoyed everything about this. I do wish it were much longer especially going over the map. The other thing is the robotic sounding narration during the map. I really thought it was a computer generated voice for half of it
@@newterritorywrestlingnetwo1723 It's like if Stephen Hawking's wheelchair was voiced by Charles Dance. And this is what it got up to while Hawking was sleeping Perfection.
Sounds like GPS voice mispronouncing local place names. Bob Gay-Eigel haha.
Good now I can rant about this. First off you made this to coherent and understandable. The images mixed with the audio was great and very easy to follow. I don't understand how you could be a wrestling fan a break it down that anyone can understand. I don't know man, I'm sorry for all the hate but you asked for it. Oh and where do you get off giving me some extra information that I never knew. Damn. You know what I will make it better, after I finish my novel.. So there. (That last sentence was an Easter egg to Joey Styles.) So in conclusion of my rant. How dare you make a very informative and entertaining video. I'm going to subscribe just to see how more of this great nonsense you got. Also check out my stuff, you might find somethings in there too. Sorry for being harsh.
I can’t believe I’ve never seen this video before! I love the old time m feel with the sharp tongued commentator!
Stars were Verne Gagne, Nick Nick Winkle, Verne Gagne, Hulk Hogan FOR A WHILE, and Verne Gagne.......This monologue had to have been done with a computer
This was awesome
this is fantastic!
This is awesome
Southeastern Championship Wrestling is what I will point out. The Fullers are the oldest family in wrestling who ran their territory for over 5 decades at the time and started from Ron and Bob Fullers grand daddy. That should have been talked about as not many fans know that bit of history. Also, in the Portland territory, "Playboy" Buddy Rose was the biggest star in their history, not Roddy Piper. Buddy Rose drew more money than any wrestler who ever stopped there, wrestled there, or even was a regular. That should be fixed.
Buddy Rose was the kingpin in Portland, but Piper is probably the best-known outside of Portland.
Awesome video
Watching this brought a tear to my eye.
This video was HILARIOUS
Man I remember my cousin watching wrestling wayyyyyy back in the day in the early 90’s on our local channels 😭 it really seems like it was an entire lifetime ago….sheesh it’s been 33 years since then….imma old MFer 😭 😭 😭
I remember watching the old tri state shows from KTBS studios back in the 1970’s
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC
He had nothing to say about one of the most popular territories--- the Florida (Tampa) Territory.
They had a couple their title matches at the municipal auditorium in Lafayette Louisiana
This video is the best!!!
I’m your 100th subscriber, cheers
Good stuff!
This is GREAT!
"the good thing about the territorial days
was it gave the wrestlers a chance to travel
around and wrestle in an area for awhile then
move on to another promotion and so on,
the bad thing was not every Wrestling promotion
was seen around the world on television,
if you live in one state or area you got only certain promotions
on local tv stations or cable superstations in the Southern Ok
where I'm from i got Mid South Wrestling out of Oklahoma,
we got WCCW out of Texas,when we got cable we got
Georgia Championship Wrestling out of Georgia of course,
WWF on the USA Network and AWA on ESPN,
in later years other cable stations began showing other
promotions off & on over the years,but when I got the internet
I now am able to get old Wrestling promotions i couldn't get back then,
and Wrestling in the 2000's to present has gotten boring and wrestlers
began looking like out of work bums instead of wrestlers,the gimmicks went
from good to ridiculous to bland to no gimmicks at all,
so I now watch the Wrestling promotions on UA-cam that I couldn't get back
then on tv in my area,well thats how it was here in Southern Oklahoma &
Northern Texas back then,thanks."-🤔🌐🖥🇺🇲🌐..
Would love to see a follow up video....showing how all the territories were disbanded or bought up.... It would be kind of cool to watch WWE's growth on the map
The west coast promotions disbanded because the crowds weren’t there anymore, from what I was told except for Portland. The old Tri-State (Later known as the Mid-South/UWF) got hit with the tail end of the oil bust. WWF killed Georgia, AWA, and eventually WCW. That Black Saturday was a big night in Wrestling
Up in western Canada, we had al Tomko All Star wrestling - an nwa territory in BC, and we had Stu Hart’s Stampede wrestling which I would argue was THE best wrestling of any of the small territories. Owen hart, bret hart, dynamite kid, Davey boy smith, neidhart, benoit, Pillman, Jushin thunder lager, hiro hase, bad news Allen, Steve disalvo, bastion booger, Larry Cameron… and others like Jake Robert’s, muraco, etc doing stints…. It looked like it was filmed in a rundown barn in Calgary (the pavilion), but the wrestling… wow.. was it incredible and light years beyond what was happening in other places.
I totally agree with you, why? because I am Canadian.
This is a great vid, very informative. Where did you get the maps/map graphics from btw?
@@newterritorywrestlingnetwo1723 very cool!
Awesome work. But I feel like the old Fred Kohler territory (Essentially the Chicago-Milwaukee corridor) gets overlooked and lumped in with the AWA even though it was responsible for the first national wrestling boom on the DuMont network in the 1950s.
Kohler gets short shrift because he somehow ended up being involved (rightly or wrongly) with the formation of the AWA AND the WWF!
Kohler backed Gagne in a three-way dispute in 1958 over the NWA title between Lou Thesz, Edouard Carpentier, and Verne, a dispute that occurred over some booking blunders. Most of Gagne's backers formed the AWA. Kohler was not one of them, staying on with the NWA.
Meanwhile Kohler started making deals with another promoter named Vince J. McMahon, as Chicago was dying as an NWA city. By then, Buddy Rogers and Pat O'Connor were feuding over the NWA title. At the same time, Kohler and St. Louis promoter Sam Muchnick were also feuding over control of the NWA. The two feuds, in-ring and backstage, were finally settled at a record-breaking attendance event in Chicago's Comiskey Park, with O'Connor dropping the title to Buddy Rogers.
Rogers, upon winning the title, rarely defended it outside the Northeast. The NWA people called for a title change (with a little help from Bill Miller and Karl Gotch who broke Rogers' hand) with Rogers dropping the belt to Lou Thesz. McMahon and Toots Mondt pulled out of the NWA to form the WWWF (now WWE). Both the WWWF and Kohler's Chicago promotion continued to recognize Rogers as the World Champion. Kohler in turn left the NWA, selling the Chicago/Milwaukee territory to Dick the Bruiser and Wilbur Snyder.
@@actionsub It's rare that someone tells me things I don't already know about that territory's history, but I definitely appreciate the time you took to make this comment.
Although if I remember correctly, Verne got all of Milwaukee and half of Chicago. Which was the start of the volatile relationship between Verne and Crusher. Crusher was obviously the opposite of what Verne thought a wrestler should be, so he went to work for Brusier exclusively while Verne tried running Milwaukee with Bill Watts on top. Verne learned very quickly that trying to run Milwaukee without Crusher was like trying to run Dallas without Fritz or Memphis without Lawler and reluctantly gave in.
Slight correction;
The Sheik's Detroit promotion did not concede Cleveland. Channel 43 ran the Johnny Powers promotion saturday mornings with Jack Reynolds on the mic, and the next hour channel 61 ran the Sheik's promotion with Lord Athol Layton on the mic. They both had shows in Cleveland on a regular basis.
So what???? In buffalo they aired the Buffalo Cleveland product, as well as the original WWF out of NYC. It doesn't make his short doc wrong.
Lord Athol Layton, Whipper Billy Watson (whose son taught at our school), The Sheik (with his manager Abdulla Farouk), Dick "The Bulldog" Brower, etc., all names that bring back some great memories.
MAKE WRESTLING GREAT AGAIN
Cool video
Phenomenal bio. Great work sir. Most skip over the early 1900s.
The commentary is funny as shit 😂
Thanks, enjoy it.
The Knoxville/Dothan territory was also known as Southeastern Championship Wrestling.
Wasn’t that the old Gulf States promotion shared with the old Tri-State promotion till Fuller took over the Eastern parts
Good job
Underrated video!
Great video I love pro wrestling
This is fucking great and surprisingly hilarous
I haven't been a fan since about 92. But for some reason I find the days of regional wrestling interesting. No idea why it's intriguing to me, buy I'd watch a dozen docs on it.
I am shocked someone put this together in a video. This is exactly right.
I knew about the different territories what I didn't know till I saw this video it started in 1948 and prior to that it focused on three wrestlers with Toots Mondt who was a wrestler, a promoter and also revolutionized and co promoted the World Wide Wrestling Federation.
Here at 192 views. Will reach 1 mil one day.
At this rate, it will reach 1 million views about 2085.
@@plaidmoon5642 Hopefully we see it.
That NWA Hollywood had some records of wrestlers and the amount of times they won the Americas, tag and six man tag
12:25 Harley Race is a "bard arse" lol
For the individual on here who asked about Wyoming for one. Territorially they owned a membership in The AWA from 1972 to 1978. And three different guys promoted cards throughout the state in The 1920s. Idaho more or less missed out on the Territorial Era altogether. As for Utah the ironically named Verne McCullough started promoting cards in The Beehive State circa 1926. Their AWA Era with events supervised in conjunction with a Salt Lake City branch office dates from 1982 to 1987. As to Nevada check into the viselike grip Los Angeles held over Las Vegas booking for a good while starting in 1924 via the Daro Brothers. And they were widely considered to be shadier than an elm grove. Las Vegas had the last laugh eventually though and the ESPN Footage still exists to prove it!😂🤔B.W.
This entire saga can be dedicated to Jack Reynolds and now Angelo King Kong Mosca who himself just passed away only a day before. Championship Wrestling from Florida mainstays I will always remember them fondly as the announcing crew for the 1983 version of Vince's product. The show in syndication aired on Sunday nights in Birmingham. NWA Southeastern Championship Wrestling appeared twice on a Birmingham station on Saturdays. As it turned out I have very fond memories of both shows and each done very differently. R.I.P. Sir Angelo.😔B.W.
Use to watch the Amarillo with Dory Funk and his kids. Jose Lothario, Ricky Romero and Pepper Gomez.
'Dallas Territory, also known as Hey Look It's the Boys!'
Def will make this so much better, i thought it'd b decent.
“Dusty fucking Rhodes” drops mic!!!
Deciding the outcome of wrestling match beforehand and the creation of Kayfabe on a regular basis first came around in late 1920's in the Northern America it Kayfabe took a while to spread to other parts of the world.