Tales From The Territories - CWA Continental Wrestling Association - Memphis - Full Episode 1/30
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Continental Wrestling Association (later the Championship Wrestling Association) was a wrestling promotion managed by Jerry Jarrett. The CWA was the name of the "governing body" for the Championship Wrestling, Inc. promotion which was usually referred to as Mid-Southern Wrestling or the Memphis territory. This promotion was a chief NWA territory during the 1970s and early 1980s while operating out of Tennessee and Kentucky. The CWA was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance until 1986 and affiliated with the American Wrestling Association until 1989. In 1989, the CWA merged with the World Class Wrestling Association to form the United States Wrestling Association thus ceasing to exist as a separate entity. Lance Russell and Dave Brown were the television commentators and hosts for the Memphis territory, including the Continelntal Wrestling Association.
The professional wrestling territory[1] commonly referred to as the “Memphis Area” was originally part of the NWA Mid-America promotion that was founded in the 1940s. It operated in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, but also included stops in surrounding cities and states. The "NWA Mid-American" territory featured tag teams in nearly all of its main events, and sometimes featuring only one or two singles matches to compliment an evening of tag matches. Such teams as The Von Brauners, The Interns, The Infernos, The Bounty Hunters, Tojo Yamamoto and Jerry Jarrett, Don and Al Green, Bobby Hart and Lorenzo Parente, The Fabulous Kangaroos, Jerry Lawler and Jim White, The Fabulous Fargos, and a host of other teams were regulars. During the mid-1970s the focal point of the territory changed from tag wrestling to singles action.
In the mid-1970s the territory split in two, with separate promoters for each half. Jerry Jarrett was in charge of Memphis, Louisville, Lexington and Evansville while still part of NWA Mid-America, while Nick Gulas, who had been the primary booker, continued to promote the other half of the territory. Many of the wrestlers in the promotion were upset at Gulas for over booking his son George Gulas in the profitable Memphis half of the territory. It was very hard to believe that George could regularly beat his larger more experienced foes. George was given matches and wins over longtime veterans of the territory without "paying his dues". After Jarrett had invested a large sum of money into what he thought was a 10%-share of the promotion and learned that Gulas had tricked him into paying for an option to buy less (which by the time he learned had already expired), he decided to go his own way. Jarrett decided to break away by starting competing cards at the Cook Convention Center in March 1977. Gulas, who lived in Nashville, eventually made "Music City" his home base, running weekly cards at the Fairgrounds and all over mid-Tennessee. Originally Gulas was backed by many of the areas top draws. Jarrett, however, was backed by Jerry Lawler, who had just toppled Jackie Fargo as the headliner of the area, and second with Lawler he had Memphis. Gulas did attempt to run shows in Memphis for some time but without the headliner, Lawler, he could not compete. This split between Gulas and Jarrett created the Continental Wrestling Association as a totally separate promotion run by Jarrett. In 1980 after only three years, the Gulas territory folded when Gulas retired and the CWA took over some of the more profitable locations (e.g. Nashville).
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This was the Promotion that I grew up with. Great memories.
So did I. There was nothing like it. I wished it had talked about the legendary Tupelo, MS concession stand fight in 1979. I'll never forget that.
Original Wrestling Documentaries.
Another great documentary.
I always thought that the CWA Championship Belt looked like an dressed-up license plate.
By far the ugliest title I've ever seen..
@@chrisnorton4912 then again, most Championships back then looked like complete shit
Thanks for the shout out..lol
Yes it did! 😄
That was my childhood. LOVED my Sat morning "wrasslin"
Dude thank you for making this channel I've always want to learn more about territorial wrestling you just earned yourself a subscriber good sir
Hey thanks for watching, I appreciate that.
@@OriginalWrestlingDocumentaries thanks for all the uploads on the territory days really appreciate your time and work
Good stuff. I know I'm not alone in missing the territory days.
I wish I had existed during that time. Sounds like it was an amazing time.
Super Nitro,I existed at that time and wrestling was the best back then.
@@tonypastor705 lucky
This is the territory I grew up watching. Your information was spot on.
Every body from Kurt angle,mark Henry,hulk Hogan ,the undertaker,Jerry Lawler(who owned part of the promotion),ect. Wrestled here in Memphis .
Daddy said sell.
Memphis seems like the most fun promotion
Back during cable Wrestling boom of the 1980s , I live in the DC area, got to watch Memphis Wresting when it was show Nationally on FNN/Score with the stock ticker.
Mid Atlantic wrestling
Where have you been all my life? Your channel is fantastic - educational and entertaining! Thank you!
These videos are outstanding!
I love all these wrestling territories that you did they are fantastic
Thanks for watching!
Yeah I have been following wrestling since the 1960s, and I have to tell you this is a very good informational video. And thank you I will most definitely be following and sharing your great information of History of wrestling...........
I'm glad you're making quality videos and not clickbaits. Never lose hope brother!
I appreciate that
So many of your docs are mis-guided.....but you actually nailed my home territory lol Good for you.
Love it ... keep them coming
Those title belts look absolutely incredible
So Lawler was the first to leave a major wrestling company with the physical belt out of protest before Flair did in WCW with their world title.
Technically, Lawler refused to work with Verne Gagne or return the belt until he was paid from Super Clash 3, which Verne refused to do. In Lawler's case, he stayed in his home territory with the belt. Ric Flair's contract was not renewed by WCW and Bill Herd, who was running things then, demanded that Flair return the Championship Belt. Flair told Herd that he would if he gave him back his $25000 security deposit for the belt, which Herd flatly refused to do. So therefore, Flair kept the belt and took it to the WWF.
Best faction in CWA is the first family led by Jimmy Hart.
Yes! One of the top 5 managers of all time.
So many memories. Good stuff.
7:03-7:04 *Bill* *Apter*
The guy that introduced Andy to Jerry
I watched every Saturday morning.
Thanks for the video's. We were in the Southern part of this Territory. A lot of the TV programs we received were from this promotion. Poor George Gulas was obviously out of his element and it was always awkward watching him. Jackie Fargo and Jerry Lawler were always big. One of my favorites was Tojo Yamamoto.
"Well...you know..."
Very well-written piece and nicely edited. You need a Visio diagram to follow this territory from start to end.
Thanks I appreciate that.
Yes being from East Kentucky I watched a lot of this promotion as a kid
Thought this was going gonna be about Southeastern Championship Wrestling aka continental championship wrestling. The Fuller’s territory here in Alabama, Tennessee, and into Georgia/Florida (Pensacola)
I did too!! That’s why I clicked on the video. I grew up watching Continental, “ Bullet” Bob Armstrong was my favorite wrestler.
Note Jimmy Hart appeared as a manager in Georgia this was that lull time after Crockett Purchased it off McMahon and slowly merged and absorbed it to Mid Atlantic totally. You can reference Hart managing the Long Ryders the Irwin brothers as National Tag Team Champions Ole came out of retirement as guest host of TBS and teamed with Thunderbolt Paterson to win the titles. Hart split for WWF and the Irwins went to AWA. Then Ole turned on Bolt to team with Arn and beat Manny and Bolt for titles with Arn ... four horse men yadda yadda yadda
"Here I come to save the day!!...."
Could you do one on the numerous Montreal promotions? I grew up watching both Gran Prix and Jacques Rougeau, Senior's shows. They had so much talent up there.
My dad said that everytime the CWA would come to Evansville, he would always go watch them live..
Wish this guy made new videos. He does a good job
Best wrestling ever.
Thanks for the video. Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling coming up?
I LOVE this series but when are you going to do a video about Vern Gagne's AMERICAN WRESTLING ASSOCIATION (AWA)?
Andy Kaufman made wrestling huge.
Lawler/Kaufman feud was one of the best of all time.
BTW Memphis is the greatest territory of all time
M.E.M.P.H.I.S. my city is cold blooded homey!
Mid Atlantic hands down.
Memphis was the shit but Mid South is a close 2nd, extremely close.
Yes Sir, the best "heat" happened there in my opinion
Depends on what you grew watching mostly.
Michael PS Hayes was The Soap and Water World Heavyweight Champion
When you say that the area's top title was the Southern Title that is correct, but what you have pictured there is actually the short lived CWA World Title, not the Southern Belt. The CWA World Title was brought around in 1979 by Jarrett in order to have some unification matches with the AWA, but the plan really didn't get off the ground with Lawler missing most of 1980 after breaking his leg in a backyard football game.
With Lawler being out, the Southern Heavyweight title was passed around a lot.
Can your do Mid-Atlantic Wrestling
and the Crocketts?
Wheeew, those were some tag teams, there! The Interns is probably the greatest tag team name in history!
love the poster for Lawler vs "Cool" Curt Hennig (with an extra N in the last name 'Henning' for no reason)
Good video
Andy Kaufman & Jerry Lawler actually continued their feud another year or so after Lawler burned Kaufman. I watched every bit of it from Senath & Kennett MO on Cable TV
Lawyer proving how aging wrestlers burying more talented and more popular wrestlers can kill a promotion.
1:05 honkey tonk man (left)
Question why is it the mid South Coliseum but only use Memphis Wrestling shows in it
I know that this is an older video buuuuut...
Why a *boxing* ring for the background and a *boxing* ref at the end?
Wow so much info.
perfect Channel... great production value, flows nice for all the info u include, not2 long nor 2short -well done. i subbed & belled on my 1st video here...keep it up...
Thanks for commenting, I appreciate that.
That photo of the Fargos is of the wrong Fargos. That's Donnie and Johnny Fargo of the NWF; Johnny was actually a young Greg Valentine. The Memphis Fargos were the originals: Jackie and Sonny, aka Roughhouse. They wrestled all over the country in the '50s and early '60s, including in NYC for Vince's dad.
"I keep on Dancing...."
Cue Eddie Murphy's "Party All The Time" instrumental.
Just subscribed. Will there be one on the WWWF? or WWF before it became the WWE? People often disagree but I still there was a lot great history there before VKM took it over.
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Thanks :)
Would love to see one on WWA Indianapolis!
Soon.....
Jerry Jarrett jeffs dad
Where is the cwa belt now?
You don't say the s in Louisville
Good video. It would help if you got a better microphone/sound mixing? Nice video, though.
Hey thanks Ive bought a new mic
I am requesting a mid Atlantic wrestling docu please
Soon
I was in the 3rd row when Lawler beat Henning to combine the belts
wow interesting facts
Thanks for watching!
Would you care to do XPW Xtreme Pro Wrestling and GWF Global Wrestling Federation?
I will be doing GWF soon
The real reason Kaufman's feud with Lawler ended, was because of his cancer diagnosis.
This was the best wrestling organization of the 70’s & 80’s and early 90’s because WWF integrated with the USWA that’s how HULK HOGAN HBK STONE COLD THE ROCK The undertaker , KANE , JT ICE 🧊 WOLFY D ,RO DOGG JESSIE JAMES ,TOO SEXY BRYAN CHRISTPHER , SID VICIOUS ,SCOTT HALL AUSTIN IDOL, TOMMY RICH 🤑 DUTCH MANTELL , double J Jeff Jarrett , Randy Savage , JACKIE FARGO , STING 🦂 THE WARRIOR , Rick Steiner Pure class Mr Winkle THEY CHANGED THE LANDSCAPE OF PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING 🤼♀️ THEY MAIN EVENTED WWF AND WCW DURING THE 90’s memphis Tennessee was on fire 🔥 on Monday nights during the 70’s 80’s 90’s it died because WCW & WWF went prime time on Monday night and they basically had all of the talent
Well, you know.
These are fantastic! I just started a new channel featuring matches from jobbers of the 1980s. CWA's Jim Jamison is one of the first wrestlers I've featured.
Did Dutch mantell and bill Dundee whoop Jim Jamison several times
He slapped Kaufman then after andy tossed the coffee. You dummy
Rip jerry
A lot of Inaccuracies
1st I WANT 2SAY THANK U...As some1 who grewup watching SOUTHEASTERN CHMPSHIP WRESTLING That switched to CONTINENTAL Chmpship Wrestling n 84 or 85 every Saturday Morning & begged my parents to take me 2Boutwell on Monday nights, I'm glad u got this right. There's so many ppl that think the "I wanna talk to Tom Prichard/ Dirty white boy angle,Stud&TheBullet,Gilbert/Gillam angles were from Jarretts Continental. Have u done or have plans to do a doc on SoutEastern/Continental. If u haven't but plan on doing 1 I mayb able to help as a fan who attended and watched from 80 until the end n 89/90..THX AGAIN
Brent W That East Tennesse territory you are referring to is an interesting one. Only fans that grew up in East Tennessee or hardcore wrestling fans have really ever heard of it. But it is a cool one. Whitey Caldwell and Ron Wright's feud lit that territory on fire. Caldwell was a mega babyface in that territory. And he looked and was a normal guy. Ron Wright was such a hated heel there that fans had set his small airplane on fire that he used to fly from town to town to save time. Now that is HEEL HEAT!
Hey thanks I appreciate that, and YES its on the list.
Freddy Krueger!
Lawler = Legend
IWGP recently RIPPED OFF the Lunch Box Belt design...for their TV Belt
Andy Kaufman > James Elsworth
Chicken Salad
Do CMLL
Talk about being greedy Jerry Lawler was the USWA champ 25 times imagine that
Im sorry, can you talk a little faster?
continental was knoxville based and at first called south east wrestling. this video is all wrong.
Fat Harold Wrong Continental dude. That one was in East Tennessee where Whitey Caldwell was the chief babyface and Ron Wright as the top heel. You are refferring to Continental Wrestling Federation/Continental Championship Wrestling/Southeastern Championship Wrestling/Gulf Coast Wrestling that was owned by a handful of different owners during its existence from 1954-1990, specifically the Fuller Family during various periods. He is referring to Continental Wrestling Association that operated primarily out of West Tennessee (Memphis), Kentucky and Northern Alabama owned by Jerry Jarrett and Jerry Lawler. Thing is the Continental you are referring to was a pretty obscure territory that either only hardcore fans have heard of or older fans that are from East Tennesse that know that territory. But those fans have generally heard of the CWA also. The "Memphis Territory" was only known as the CWA for about 10 years, otherwise it had other names but again fans that know CWF/CCW/Southeastern/Gulf coast territory have generally heard of it.
continental was owned by the Fullers you have the wrong information on here.
your thinking of a completely different promotion en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Wrestling_Association
The Continental he is referring to in the video is the CWA (Continental Wrestling Association) which was a territory that primarily operated in West Tennessee and Kentucky, as well as Northern Alabama that was owned by Jerry Jarrett & Jerry Lawler. The Continental you are referring to owned by the Fullers was Continental Wrestling Federation/Continental Championship Wrestling/Southeastern Championship Wrestling/Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling (It was known under each name at various times). That territory operated out of Alabama and East Tennessee primarily and was owned by Roy Welch and Buddy Fuller from 1954-1959, Lee Fields from 1960-1978, Ron Fuller from 1974-1980 and 1985-1988, and David Woods from 1988-1990. This "Continental" territory is the one you are thinking of ran by the Fuller Family.
Thanks for clearing that up. I remember watching Memphis on tv with Lawler, Dundee, and a super skinny young Jeff Jarrett, but don't remember it called Continental at all. To me,Continental Wrestling was Knoxville around 86-90 ...Bullet Bob Armstrong, the Stud Stable, Dirty White Boy, Doug Furnace, Buddy Landel, Adrian Street and Wild Cat Wendall Cooley. Would be awesome if you did a doc about them
Nick Gulas
Liked the video, but you are talking too fast. Take a break sometime, my heads all dizzy.
Chicken salad.
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The promotion had some success but also lots of faults.
I'm glad you're making quality videos and not clickbaits. Never lose hope brother!