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Florida Championship Wrestling. Acrónimo: FCW: Tipo: lucha: Género: Lucha libre profesional Entretenimiento deportivo: Fundación: 2007: Fundador: Steve Keirn: Disolución: 2012: Sede central: Tampa, Florida: Área de operación: Nacional: Deporte: lucha libre profesional: Propietario: WWE: Sitio web: FCWwrestling.info
Florida Championship Wrestling; Company type: Private: Industry: Professional wrestling: Founded: June 26, 2007: Founder: Steve Keirn: Defunct: August 14, 2012: Fate: Relaunched into NXT: Successor: NXT (WWE brand) Headquarters: Tampa, Florida, U.S. Owner: Steve Keirn
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Founding
The original owner and promoter was "Cowboy" Clarence Preston Luttrall, a former journeyman heel wrestler who once fought a widely publicized boxing match, resulting from a wrestling angle, with a forty-something Jack Dempsey. It worked but Cowboy took a severe beating. Cowboy opened the office in 1949, and Eddie Graham bought into the promotion in 1961, then took over completely in 1971, because of health reasons with Cowboy. The office was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance during...
Notable stars
The promotion thrived with stars such as NWA champions Lou Thesz and Gene Kiniski, Graham, Bobby Shane, Robert Lee Schoenberger, Don Curtis, Sam Steamboat, The Magnificent Muraco (Don Muraco), the Great Malenko (Larry Simon), Johnny Valentine, Hiro Matsuda, Bob Orton Sr. and later Bob Orton Jr., Joe Scarpa (later known as Chief Jay Strongbow), Wahoo McDaniel, the Funks (Terry and Dory Jr.), the Briscos (Jack and Jerry), Buddy Colt (Ron Read), Dusty Rhodes, Blackjack Mulligan, Bruiser Brody, K...
After Eddie Graham's suicide
When Eddie Graham committed suicide in January 1985, due to a combination of personal and business problems, responsibility for the office went to Hiro Matsuda and Duke Keomuka, both of whom bought in during the 1960s. The other remaining owners were Mike Graham, Eddie's brother Skip Gossett, Dusty Rhodes and Buddy Colt. The promotion continued losing money and merged with Jim Crockett Promotions in February 1987. Most of the stars had gone to Jim Crockett Promotions or the WWF by that point....
In late 1988 during the acquisition of Jim Crockett Promotions the duo of Mike Graham and Steve Keirn were attempting to revive the dormant CWF territory. Once Dusty departed from WCW they reached out to him, and ultimately partnered to launch the new Professional Wrestling Federation in February 1989. Rhodes had larger visions for the fledgling re...
CWF filmed and later taped its weekly TV wrestling show at the famed Sportatorium at 106 N. Albany in Tampa, Fla., which was in reality a small television studio with seating for a live audience of about 100 people (1/40th of the seating capacity of its Dallas counterpart), with the wrestling office and gym in the same building. Arena footage was a...
General 1. "Regional Territories: CWF". KayfabeMemories.com. 2. Hornbaker, Tim (2007). National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly That Strangled Professional Wrestling. Toronto: ECW Press. ISBN 978-1554902743. 3. Hornbaker, Tim (2018). Death of the Territories: Expansion, Betrayal and the War that Changed Pro Wrestling Forever. T...
The NWA Florida Heavyweight Championship was a major title in Championship Wrestling from Florida and is now the major title in NWA Florida Wrestling Alliance. It started in 1937 and was abandoned in 1949. It was picked back up in 1966 by CWF and lasted until 1987 when the company was purchased by Jim Crockett Promotions.
No.ChampionChampionship Change(date)Championship Change(event)1John GrandovitchSeptember 7, 1934CWF Show2Bruce NolanAugust 21, 1935CWF Show3Bill SledgeOctober 16, 1935CWF Show—March 18, 1936—Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) is a Professional wrestling promotion based on the former independent, Championship Wrestling from Florida promotion, which operated from 1961 until 1987. From 2008 to 2012, the promotion served as the official developmental territory for WWE .
De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre. Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) fue una promoción de lucha libre profesional ubicada en Tampa, Florida. Era el territorio de desarrollo de nuevos luchadores que aún no estaban listos para debutar en la WWE, la empresa mayor.
Florida Championship Wrestling. Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) was based on Championship Wrestling from Florida. FCW served as WWE's developmental facility from 2008 until WWE dropped the name "Florida Championship Wrestling" for its own NXT brand name. FCW ran from 2008 to August 15, 2012.
