For decades, the National Wrestling Alliance was the most ... of 2018 Eddie Graham was already a top star in the 1960s when he headed to the NWA’s Florida territory. A bout between him and ...
The second largest was on July 29, 1960, in Comiskey Park against ... the most significant figures in pro wrestling history, Lou Thesz. By the time the NWA formed 1948, Thesz was already a world ...
Winning a world championship in any promotion is a huge honor. But these wrestlers who held world titles outside WWE had no ...
He won numerous regional NWA championships in the 1960s and early 1970s ... held a controlling interest in the Georgia Championship Wrestling territory in the early 1980s -- sold their majority ...
McMahon's Capitol Wrestling promotion, and their rivalries with the likes of Miguel Perez and the Bastien Brothers were some of the fiercest the east coast had ever seen. In 1960, Eddie Graham ...
WWE had once been a member of the NWA during the organization's glory years in the 60s, 70s, and early 80s, before later breaking away under Vince McMahon and becoming the dominant wrestling company.