Posted August 5, 201312 yr comment_5554904 Something that came across my mind during the 'Death of the territory' thread. Discounting those who owned the promotion, what wrestlers were synonymous with various territories? I don't think anyone worked for one territory and nobody else, even Lawler made the rounds, but I'm just wondering what wrestlers were more or less married to one place, to the point of when thinking of that promotion their name always springs to mind. The ones I've thought off offhand. Memphis: Bill Dundee, Phil Hickerson, and Eddie Gilbert. Mid South: Dr. Death
August 5, 201312 yr comment_5554905 Von Erichs - World Class Bruno Sammartino - WWWF Must....resist.....urge...to mention...oh what the hell: Bulldog Bob Brown = Central States, at least in KS (Harley in KC).
August 5, 201312 yr comment_5554906 A few of gimmies: Buddy Rose - Portland Bock - AWA The Andersons - Georgia Ted DiBiase - Mid South
August 5, 201312 yr comment_5554907 Steamer in JCP....he worked one MSG show, one Omni show, and a couple of CWF shows but besides AJPW tours he worked for JCP from 1977-85 exclusively.
August 6, 201312 yr comment_5554948 Steamer in JCP....he worked one MSG show, one Omni show, and a couple of CWF shows but besides AJPW tours he worked for JCP from 1977-85 exclusively. He also worked a WCCW show once I thought. It doesn't change your point or anything.
August 6, 201312 yr comment_5554962 One thing I'd like to know more about is the relationships between the NWA affiliates during the 1970s. Were some offices closer with each other than others? For example, take Ole and Gene Anderson, they seemed to oscillate between JCP and GCW almost exclusively. There are a lot of guys who went back and forth between Georgia and Florida too. I guess this might be partly a practicality of the geography, but were those three offices closer with each other, for example, than any of them were with say the Texas office? Just wondering really.
August 6, 201312 yr comment_5554964 WWC had all of the locals: Colon, the Invaders, Chicky. You could even say Abdullah.
August 6, 201312 yr comment_5554966 GCW & CWF were very close probably the closest knit of all the territories together. JCP & GCW was pretty tight as well and GCW was tight with Mid-South as Watts was booking both at the same time for a while there.
August 6, 201312 yr comment_5554967 And that was on loan from WWF Thanks. I wasn't sure about my timeline.
August 6, 201312 yr comment_5554999 Bock - AWA Verne and Greg too, for that matter. Would you throw Billy Robinson in that AWA group as well?
August 6, 201312 yr comment_5555022 Bock - AWA Verne and Greg too, for that matter. Would you throw Billy Robinson in that AWA group as well? I probably would, but a think a lot of people would think "Japan" as much as the AWA, since so much of what we have seen in terms of big matches of his come from there.
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