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"I can't make them believe wrestling is real, but I sure can make them believe I am real."
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AUGUST 1978

by David Chappell

A brutal month for Blackjack Mulligan as he both turns back bounty hunters and also challenges Ric Flair for the U.S. title.

Plus Tony Atlas, Paul Jones, Greg Valentine, Baron Von Raschke, Ken Patera and many more.

An additional newspaper clipping supporting Paul Jones' Mid-Atlantic title win over Johnny Valentine in March of 1975 has been discovered and added to our article supporting recognizing this title change. The Gateway is one of the only wrestling resources that recognizes the Jones/Valentine switch. Check out this 2006 article if you haven't already done so in the past, and let us know what you think!


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A List of NWA title defenses in the Mid-Atlantic area for 1970-1975

(And more years will be added soon!)


NWA Champions During the Mid-Atlantic Period 1973-1986

NWA Title Defenses in the Mid-Atlantic


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The "Nature Boy" Ric Flair poses for the Mid-Atlantic Gateway holding Blackjack Mulligan's book "True Lies and Alibis", on sale now at www.blackjackmulligan.net

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Rich Landrum | Sandy Scott

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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 1974-1986, 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 quarter-by-quarter, year-by-year.  

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Talk about legends...

Tim Woods, Lou Thesz, Reggie Parks, Wahoo McDaniel, and Nelson Royal at a Mid-Atlantic Wrestling convention in Charlotte, 1999.

(Photo by Peggy Lathan)


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