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BACK IN THE SADDLE

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MID-ATLANTIC GRAPPLIN' GREATS!

Mid-Atlantic Grapplin' Greats has just republished their excellent four part series titled "Les Thatcher Speaks Out on Burning Issues" about a classic angle and feud with the Infernos back in 1967. Don't miss this from one of the best 60s/70s Mid-Atlantic history blogs out there.

Mike Cline - Mid-Atlantic Grapplin' Greats


Somebody Take The Money!


Roddy Piper visits old stomping grounds Norfolk and Hampton VA!

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Updated with additional photos!


Classic Venues Update:

Strawberry Hill

by David Chappell

including newspaper ads and photographs

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More Info & Photos for the Richmond Arena


April 1979!

Ric Flair - Dino Bravo - Paul Jones - Baron Von Raschke - Ernie Ladd - Ricky Steamboat - Harley Race - Paul Orndorf - Jimmy Snuka - and many more!

Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Almanac

Then click on April 1979!



Ric Flair in the peacock robe that was later destroyed by Blackjack Mulligan in the famous "Hat & Robe" angle on Mid-Atlantic TV in 1978.

Relive "The Legend of the Hat & Robe"


 


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 Long time wrestling fans in the Carolinas and Virginia know well that Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling was one of the great regional wrestling territories in the history of the sport.

This web-site is a tribute to the performers and athletes that made Jim Crockett Promotions the magic place that it was in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Mid-Atlantic Gateway site will cover Mid-Atlantic Wrestling from late 1973-1986, basically the period of time that the Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship was recognized. (For more on our decision to focus on this time frame, click here.) We want the site to be the definitive resource on the World Wide Web for information and reference on Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling. As the years go by, we will continue to build the Mid-Atlantic Almanac, a collection of comprehensive reference documents on the area that we will build month-by-month, year-by-year.  

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Thanks also to those within the business who have been so supportive of our efforts here, especially Bill Eadie, Johnny Weaver, Bob Caudle, Brad Armstrong, Les Thatcher, Blackjack Mulligan, Brad Anderson, Tommy Young, Boris Zhukov, Jimmy Valiant, Rich Landrum, Ted Allen, and Mr. #1 George South.

 

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