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"I can't make them believe wrestling is real, but I sure can make them believe I am real."
- Johnny Valentine

Jack Brisco  1941-2010

Jack Brisco Was a Real Wrestling Hero

by Mike Mooneyham

Charleston Post & Courier

Losing Jack Brisco

by Dick Bourne

See these other online reports including Bruce Mitchell of the Torch


POSTER UPDATE

Lexington Circa 1964


Boogie Jam Online

New website for Boogie's Wrestling Camp!


DUSTY RHODES

Plus check out the other career results for Blackjack Mulligan, Wahoo McDaniel, The Anderson Brothers, the Briscos, the Funks, Harley Race, and many more.


Mid-Atlantic Wrestling History

August 1974

by David Chappell

The wrestling world is shocked as long time partners Rip Hawk and Swede Hanson battle each other in the mid-Atlantic area. Plus Sonny King, Johnny Valentine, Wahoo McDaniel, Tiger Conway Jr., Paul Jones and many others.



 


WWE Tribute to Jack Brisco

 

SPANNING THE GLOBE


Welcome to the Gateway!

Special Audio Greetings from

Bob Caudle | Ric Flair | Baron Von Raschke

Rich Landrum | Sandy Scott

Special Video Greetings from

Masked Superstar | Boris Zhukov | Jimmy Valiant | Les Thatcher

Special Photo Greeting to the Gateway: Roddy Piper

 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.  

  Please visit often! If you know others who enjoyed these wonderful days gone by, point them in the direction of our site.

  Thanks, and enjoy!

- Dick Bourne & David Chappell

The Mid-Atlantic Gateway

 

Except where noted, All Content and Website Design

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All Rights Reserved.

 

Site Content: Dick Bourne & David Chappell

 

Special Thanks to Bill Janosik, Mark Eastridge, Eddie  Cheslock, Carroll Hall, Steve Hall, Mike Cline, Dave Millican, Akihiro Iwata, Peggy Lathan and Blake Arledge.

Online Editor: James De Medeiros

 

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, Brad Anderson, Boris Zhukov, Jimmy Valiant, Rich Landrum, and Mr. #1 George South.

 

graphics © 2000-09



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"I can't make them believe wrestling is real, but I sure can make them believe I am real."
- Johnny Valentine

"The Gateway has become not just a website about Mid Atlantic wrestling, it has become a lasting tribute

to the wrestlers and announcers who made Mid Atlantic wrestling."

- Mark Eastridge, March 2008

 

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- Rufus R. "Freight Train" Jones

 

 

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