World Class Championship Wrestling

These are like tag team, uh, mid-card championships as well.

Ohio Valley Wrestling, Power Pro Wrestling, um, United States Wrestling Association, World Class Wrestling Association.

But then, man, like, you know, the, uh, let's see.

The, the, he, the, the amount of belts this guy, uh, uh, held in his time in the, in the, in the NWA is insane.

Chris grew up with his brothers on a 500-acre ranch.

He grew up working behind the scenes for World Class Championship Wrestling.

At age six, he won his first amateur wrestling match.

Chris had minor involvement in angles in the 1980s, aiding his brothers against the Fabulous Freebirds.

Jack Victory, I didn't know that one.

He was World Class Championship Wrestling Texas and then a guy I've never even heard of, Bill Geromo.

He's like a journeyman kind of jobber kind of guy in Memphis, so he had that thing.

Here we go.

WWF was New York.

And so I landed in, and then I went to Dallas, which was World Class Championship Wrestling.

Started making a name for myself in Dallas.

And, you know, got the attention of Jim Ross in particular.

We got two really great shows tonight.

We got the three of us, and then at 9:00, we've got that WCCW reunion, which should be pretty exciting.

Thoughts on, uh, that show, guys?

guys?Well, I'm still getting over the intro because, uh, Bruce was on camera before.

Yeah.

All right, guys.

I wanna remind everybody at 9:00 we have the WCCW reunion.

We've got James Beard, Bill Colville.

McLemore kept the Bronco Bowl going through October while the Sportatorium situation sorted itself out.

September 23rd, McLemore and Von Erich formed their company, Southwest Sports Incorporated, which was the corporate shell company that would become Big Time Wrestling, and later on, it's gonna become World Class Championship Wrestling.

The North Texas office now had its own name, its own partners, and its own claim on the state's talent.

At the same time, the southern end and the coastal end of the old Texas wrestling agency began to loosen up.

June 24th, 1972, 26,339 fans walked into Texas Stadium to watch two wrestling families contest the heaviest title in wrestling.

The building, Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas.

The promotion, Big Time Wrestling.

The promoter of record, Jack Adkisson.

There's like a mid-Atlantic NWA match going on with Brian Adias wrestling somebody.

And Brian Adias, you would know from all the WCCW stuff, like the Von Erich shit.

uh he was trained by fritz von eric uh down there and everything that's why like that i always like that clip in the movie uh it always felt pretty cool to me even though i never i guess when i used to watch wrestle manias with uh anthony and the hog we used to act like that screaming at the fucking tv but

dude Fuck yeah, 100%.

Not Rip from No Holds Barred.

Which featured Jeep Swenson, who was also in World Class Championship Wrestling.

But listen.

Uh...

It's just a good old fashioned monetary bet.

Nothing, nothing to out of the, uh, uh, Unacceptable yet, yeah.

And then is when we get into, is this 1983 World Class Championship Wrestling, David Von Aert versus Jimmy Garvin, because Casey put his girlfriend on the line.

Now that's, yeah, that's a...

the, the, yeah, that's what I liked about the, the old territories, and I'm gonna date myself because when you watched, when you watched, I'll pick Texas, you know, with the Von Erichs and, and, you know, Iceman King Parsons was down there and The Freebirds were down there and Chris Adams was down there.

You know, if you watch an entire World Class Championship Wrestling hour-long program, you saw one superkick in the entire match and it came from Chris Adams.

And it was Chris Adams.

Yeah.