| Continental Championship Wrestling | |
| | Details | | Acronym | CCW | | Established | 1950s | | Style | Rasslin' | | Location | Knoxville, Tennessee Dothan, Alabama | | Founder(s) | Buddy Fuller | | Owner(s) | Buddy Fuller (1950s-1960s)
Lee Fields (1960s-1978)
Ron Fuller Knoxville (1974-1980, 1985-1990) Dothan (1978-1988)
David Woods (1988-1990) | | Parent | Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling | | Sister | Continental Wrestling Federation | | Formerly | Southeastern Championship Wrestling | Continental Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion based out of Knoxville, Tennessee and Dothan, Alabama, managed by Ron Fuller between 1985 until 1988 where Fuller sold the promotion and it changed name to the Continental Wrestling Federation. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Rasslin is a term that refers to a Southern style of pro wrestling. ...
Nickname: Location within the U.S. State of Tennessee. ...
Dothan is a city located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. ...
Former professional wrestler and older brother of Robert Fuller (Col. ...
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Nickname: Location within the U.S. State of Tennessee. ...
Dothan is a city located in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. ...
Former professional wrestler and older brother of Robert Fuller (Col. ...
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Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...
History
The roots of CCW stretches back as far as the late 1950s where Ron Fuller’s father Buddy Fuller began promoting wrestling in the Gulf Coast region of Alabama and North East Florida under the name Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling. In the 1960s, GCCW expanded its territory to include Mississippi and became an National Wrestling Alliance Territory officially known as “NWA Gulf Coast”. During the 1970s, the Alabama area became divided into 3 parts under different promoters: National Wrestling Alliance logo The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) is the largest governing body for a group of independent professional wrestling promotions and sanctions various NWA championships. ...
National Wrestling Alliance territories are a group of smaller independent professional wrestling promotions that use the NWA name or claim some affiliation with the former governing body, however many of these promotions do not have a strong claim to the original National Wrestling Alliance that existed in the 1940s...
- Northern Alabama area of Birmingham, Birmingham, Huntsville, Florence, and Gadsden: Promoted by Nick Gulas as part of the NWA Mid-America promotion that also ran Memphis (see CWA for more).
- The area around Montgomery, Al: Promoted by Billy Golden (Father of Jimmy Golden, a relative of the Fuller/Welch family)
- The Dothan – Mobile area, Southeast Alabama to Southwest Alabama and Northwest Florida from Panama City to Pensacola: Booked by Lee Fields under the GCCW banner.
In 1974, Ron Fuller opened up Southeastern Championship Wrestling based out of Knoxville, Tennessee where he focused mainly on the east Tennessee area. In 1977, Ron Fuller took over the territory his father had originally founded when GCCW folded and Fuller expanded the SECW to run in the Southern Alabama, Northern Florida area as well as the Eastern Tennessee territory, this was initially labelled ”the Southern Division” of the SECW treating them as two separate entities. In 1980, Fuller sold off the east Tennessee area to focus on developing his father’s old territory. In 1985, Fuller decided that it was time to reach beyond the Southern Alabama/Northern Florida area and began to run cards in Tennessee again, with the expansion came a name change to Continental Championship Wrestling. The area that CCW was a part of was the area not exposed to World Class Championship Wrestling.[1] Nick Gulas was a legendary Pro Wrestling Promoter in the south who started the careers of stars such as Tojo Yamamoto, Jackie Fargo & Jerry The King Lawler in the 60s & 70s, The Bounty Hunters w/ Jimmy Kent and the Interns w/ Dr. Ken Ramey in the 70s...
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In 1988, local TV station owner David Woods bought the controlling interest in the promotion from Ron Fuller,[2] and he renamed it Continental Wrestling Federation. Woods began to employ money saving methods that eventually cost the company a chance at success.[3] Woods also stopped working with the NWA and instead began working with the American Wrestling Association instead. With their main business partner (AWA) closing its doors in 1990 and the expansion of both the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling, by 1990 the CWF closed down as well, putting an end to a promotion that had history since the 1950s. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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Roster For list of wrestlers who appeared in GCCW, SECW, CCW and the CWF please see CCW Roster. This is a list of professional wrestlers and personalities that performed in the different incarnations of the Continental Championship Wrestling over the years : 1950s – 1978 Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling (GCCW) 1978 – 1985 Southeast Championship Wrestling (SECW) 1985 – 1988 Continental Championship Wrestling (CCW) 1988 – 1990 Continental Wrestling Federation (CWF) They are...
Titles
GCCW The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Championship is the primary professional wrestling title in the National Wrestling Alliance. ...
The NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship was a secondary title in the National Wrestling Alliance that was for the lighter wrestlers. ...
The Mid-America version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship existed from 1957 until 1977. ...
The NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship or Gulf Coast Heavyweight Championship was one of two regional championship titles, a southern and northern division, which was established in 1978 until its merge with the northern division in 1980. ...
The NWA Southern Junior Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling title for lighter wrestlers, board-controlled by the National Wrestling Alliance since December 1999. ...
The NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship was the main tag team championship in Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling or NWA Gulf Coast. ...
The NWA Gulf Coast Heavyweight Championship was the primary singles championship for Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling or NWA Gulf Coast as it was also know. ...
The NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship was the main tag team championship in Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling or NWA Gulf Coast. ...
NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship The NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship that has seen time in several National Wrestling Alliance territories. ...
The NWA Tennessee Tag Team Championship was a secondary tag team title promoted as the name indeicates mainly in the Tennessee region from 1967 until 1977, first by Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling from 1967 to 1974 then by its successor Southeast Championship Wrestling from 1974 to 1977 when it...
SECW and CCW The National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) World Heavyweight Championship is the primary professional wrestling title in the National Wrestling Alliance. ...
The AWA World Heavyweight Championship belt. ...
The NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship was a secondary title in the National Wrestling Alliance that was for the lighter wrestlers. ...
The NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship or Gulf Coast Heavyweight Championship was one of two regional championship titles, a southern and northern division, which was established in 1978 until its merge with the northern division in 1980. ...
The NWA Southeastern Heavyweight Championship or Gulf Coast Heavyweight Championship was one of two regional championship titles, a southern and northern division, which was established in 1978 until its merge with the northern division in 1980. ...
The NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship was the main tag team championship in Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling or NWA Gulf Coast. ...
NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship The NWA Alabama Heavyweight Championship is a professional wrestling championship that has seen time in several National Wrestling Alliance territories. ...
The NWA Tennessee Tag Team Championship was a secondary tag team title promoted as the name indeicates mainly in the Tennessee region from 1967 until 1977, first by Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling from 1967 to 1974 then by its successor Southeast Championship Wrestling from 1974 to 1977 when it...
CWF The AWA World Heavyweight Championship belt. ...
The NWA Continental Heavyweight Championship was a major title in the National Wrestling Alliances Alabama territory called Southeastern Championship Wrestling. ...
Notes - ^ Foley, Mick. Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (p.151)
- ^ Foley, Mick. Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (p.152)
- ^ Foley, Mick. Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks (p.152-153)
References - Mick Foley (2000). Have A Nice Day: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks. HarperCollins, 511. ISBN 0061031011.
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