The first ever mixed tag team match on national TV?

[kdhvernon]

Ali Baba and the 40 Thiefs

[RadioKAOS99709]

The IWA attempted to create a national brand based more on television exposure than on working the towns, a concept more like the pro wrestling of today than of 1975. It didn't help that many of their workers were blackballed from mainstream territories. Bill Watts wrote in his autobiography that Wilson was run off from Georgia over his drug problems, which were preventing him from becoming a bigger star. He had already begun his campaign of exposing the business by the time he worked here.

[RadioKAOS99709]

As for the match being the first mixed match on national TV? This was probably the first wrestling program seen in more than just a local market or through regional syndication dating back to the 1950s. There were quite a handful of national wrestling programs then, both on network television and through syndication. Might take some digging to get an exact answer to your question, but more than likely yes.

[RadioKAOS99709]

Because it fell on the wrong side of wrestling history when it came time for the WWE and for wrestling websites to repackage and sell you that history, the IWA hasn't really gotten its due. Eddie Einhorn, part-owner of the Chicago White Sox, came up with the idea of a national wrestling promotion nearly a decade before Vince McMahon did. These shows definitely utilized much higher production values than what wrestling normally used at the time, once again many years before McMahon.

[rcajun91405]

To continue, the one in white had blond hair. When she and her partner won, he carried her around the ring on one of his shoulders. I can't remember his name but he took on Baron Von Raschke in an european type match in Monroe, LA. Would love to find that one.

[rcajun91405]

First, let me say that I think that Kay Casey is fine as all get out. I know these clips are from the 70's/60's but just love the villian in her. I only know of one other clip she is in on this site and I had to look for it since I saw it on a TV program years ago and taped it. Also, Sheila Reeves only comes up with this clip. Does anyone know of any others that she is in? Secondly, there was a Mid South Mixed Tag match where one girl wore white and the other work black and was skinny.

[TopAgentWind]

Wow, no one told me Meathead from All in the Family was a professional referee.

[verde11954]

The winner in this match was Sheila Reeves, Jim Wilson is the Big Chicken.

[michaelw2681]

I know Sheila Reeves she is actually kin to me. I love her to death

[angiererwin]

@michaelw2681 Thanks for the comment about my mom she is beautiful in this video

[penetrator55]

thats my dad ali baba he retired in 91 and this is the first match ive seen him in thnx

[BIGCHILL3993]

The "Barber" Jack Reynolds on the mike!!

[ChevroletFan]

mixed tag team wrestling is good

[DGarcia879]

big jim recently died of cancer early this month, RIP Big JIm Wilson

[54spiritedwill54]

Kay Casey is awesome in this clip!

[MeAndMyRC]

So far, I think this is the only Jim Wilson match!

[leosal7]

Wow, What a classic!! I really enjoyed watching Sheila Reeves vs Ali Baba!! Does anybody have the Mexican bad-girl;"The Fabulous Mula"?!:}

[randelmessner]

Based on the hair styles and the quality of film, this appears to me to be from the 1970's. I know that I saw mixed tag team wrestling on TV in the 1960's.

[tnx79]

This promotion was in the mnid 1970s I want to say 1975 or 1976. They broadcast their matches on Channel 9 in NYC and held a fantastic card in Roosevelt Stadium iN Jersey City, NJ In the days before the Internewt, you read about wrestlers outside your home promotion inmagazines. This promotion brought wrestlers we'd only read about.

[xms32]

I think the key word here is 'National' tv exposure, meaning it was broadcast in more areas of the country than just your hometown.

[bighustle]

the ref looks like the guy from all in the family

[HurricaneMarine]

Fuck Sheila is from my hometown.

[ramsam]

ali baba is a coward.

[dweezil41]

Was this before Georgia Championship Wrestling?

[rosecand]

Kay Casey is awesome in this clip!

[hooptie93]

Hey Julius do you have anymore womens wrestling from ICW, especially the classic stuff?

[ftsckss]

Hey Julius. Do you have anymore Jim Wilson matches?

Thanks!!!

[paulykats71]

Can someone tell me the history of the ICW? Where was it taped? Where did it air? What years was it on?

[MichNWA]

IWA was an outlaw promotion that ran opposite NWA Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling (Jim Crockett Promotions) throughout the Carolinas. They were around from 1975-1977.

[Lfdjake91]

This is not ICW. This is the IWA.

[Julius121081]

Can anyone tell me that this was the first ever Mixed Tag Team Match on National TV?