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Origins of the National Wrestling Alliance The building, the match, the belt. Hotel President in Waterloo, Iowa (2022) PART ONE: WALKING WITH GHOSTS: A VISIT TO THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE NWA The ...

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NOTE: The Mid-Atlantic Gateway has ceased regular publication, but from time to time something new will pop up here that's of historical interest or just of interest to us personally.  FIRST R...

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It is with great sadness that we learned that Ole Anderson has passed away. He was an important part of the core group of main eventers in Mid-Atlantic Wrestling when we became wrestling fans. T...

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  Happy to announce that "FOUR HORSEMEN: A TIMELINE HISTORY " and "CROWN JEWEL: THE NWA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 1959-1973 " are now available in Kindle format on Amazon.  The Horsemen book is ...

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As announced in May, after 23 years, the Mid-Atlantic Gateway has ceased regular publication. We've had a blast along the way, and hope you have, too. OUR PREVIOUS POSTS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR TH...

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One of the great frustrations for wrestling fans interested in wrestling history, especially fans a little older like me, is the lack of focus and context on the early aspects of Ric Flair's wres...

https://www.midatlanticgateway.com/2023/07/last-real-world-champion-hornbaker.html

Please support the George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame (@tnthof) by becoming a lifetime member. Visit http://bit.ly/3Dh7TsC for more information. They just concluded ...

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> Now up on the site: A Year in the Life for Jim Crockett Promotions > in 1971 >  > A comprehensive, data-driven look at one year in the life of a > professional wr...

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WATERLOO, IOWA  The 24th annual George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame (TNTHOF) Induction weekend will take place July 20-22 in Waterloo, IA.   In addition to the award ...

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  Four Horsemen in FULL COLOR HARDCOVER now available at AMAZON.COM Every member! Every version! Every associate! The women! The managers! It's all laid out month by month, year by year,...

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By David Chappell from the Mid-Atlantic Gateway Archives I remember the day well, April 30, 1976, the night of my High School Prom. At that time I was a junior at Patrick Henry High School, abo...

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"I AM A MAJOR LEAGUER.  I AM JUST LIKE NOLAN RYAN; 42 AND TRYIN'  TO TEACH YOU PEOPLE WHAT A TRUE HERO IS TODAY. " by Dick Bourne Mid-Atlantic Gateway We usually don't stray much past...

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By Brack Beasley Mid-Atlantic Gateway Contributor This poster takes us way back to early 1972, February 17th to be exact, and promotes a card held at the Greensboro War Memorial Coliseum. Th...

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THE DAY THE RING DIDN'T SHOW UP IN ASHEVILLE Greenville SC Memories By Don Holbrook, Mid-Atlantic Gateway Contributor Originally published here in March 2017 Back in the mid-1970s when Cro...

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By Dick Bourne Mid-Atlantic Gateway On Monday night May 8, 2000, Ric Flair appeared on WCW Monday Nitro on TNT and brought with him the old NWA World Heavyweight championship belt that he wore...

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Here is a nice "TV Sports" column by Bob Gillespie from the Charleston Post & Courier in 1978 about the high ratings and impact of Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and World Wide Wrestling dur...

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By Dick Bourne Mid-Atlantic Gateway Many of today's fans associate Johnny Weaver's broadcasting career with the Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and NWA Pro Wrestling shows that aired in the...

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by Dick Bourne Mid-Atlantic Gateway While doing research for my book on the history of the Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Championship , I came across an edited audio clip we presented earlier on ou...

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by David Chappell  Mid-Atlantic Gateway By the late summer of 1978, two of the biggest names in professional wrestling, Blackjack Mulligan and Baron von Raschke, had been for the most part go...

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ORIGINAL TITLE: MID-ATLANTIC WRESTLING'S OWN BIG BOSS MAN by David Chappell Mid-Atlantic Gateway When word came out recently about the Big Boss Man, the infamous prison guard from Cobb Cou...

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This guy would know: CLICK HERE TO SEE POST ON TWITTER Long time Mid-Atlantic Wrestling fan and and country music superstar Darius Rucker Hit these links: Wahoo & Rufus beat the A...

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By Brack Beasley Mid-Atlantic Gateway Contributor The spot shows in Jim Crockett Promotions offered some of the more intriguing match-ups that one may not see at a big Coliseum event. An exampl...

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THE AUDIO TAPE LIBRARY: AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE By David Chappell Mid-Atlantic Gateway ARGENTINA APOLLO While November 14, 1970 predates the time period that encompassed Mid-Atlantic Champions...

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  By Dick Bourne Mid-Atlantic Gateway Take a look at the image above and just imagine Klondike Bill’s workbench in his shop behind the office on Briarbend Drive a few days after the Great A...

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Another special thanks to Mike Mooneyham for his great 2015 review of "United States Championship ", our book on the history of the Jim Crockett Promotions version of the U.S. title and the fiv...

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