circa 1975...and yeah i wonder as well who own's all IWA wrestlings matches....you ever notice how on wwe 24/7 we never see any of starcade or any NWA matches back in the 60's-70's.....all those great wrestling from florida will never make vinnie mac's show....
this was my experience with wrestling.....loved this show, then one night it was gone and replaced with wwwf....watched this, nwa from florida and nwa from L.A.'s olympic auditorium....awesome back then...thanks for posting....wish i could watch all the IWA's shows again...
Is that the same Eddie Einhorn who owned the Chicago White Sox? The description also mentions the old NWF promotion - that group was loosely affiliated with The Sheik in Detroit, as well as the Johnny Powers Cleveland group and Pedro Martinez's Buffalo promotion. They also used wrestlers from Bruno Sammartino's "Studio Wrestling" promotion. They gave Greg ("The Hammer") Valentine his first major push (he was "Johnny Fargo" then, and teamed with Donnie Fargo).
Yes. it's indeed the same Eddie Einhorn... Pedro Martinez was actually the man who promoted the NWF, it ran mainly from Cleveland to Buffalo. The Sheik, Powers & Martinez shared a lot of the same talent, a lot of that talent you can see here in this video!.
@BottomlessJackDaniel They also got guys from Bruno's "Studio Wrestling", like Eric the Red, Johnny DeFazio, John L. Sullivan (aka Luscious Johnny Valiant), Waldo Von Erich & Dominic DeNucci, to name a few. Quite a few NWF jobbers were also regulars on WWWF's "Championship Wrestling" and "All Star Wrestling" TV shows.
This was an early attempt at creating a national wrestling promotion 10 years before Vince McMahon Jr. did it unfortunately it was before the rise of cable and satellite TV which probably explains why it failed at the time.
circa 1975...and yeah i wonder as well who own's all IWA wrestlings matches....you ever notice how on wwe 24/7 we never see any of starcade or any NWA matches back in the 60's-70's.....all those great wrestling from florida will never make vinnie mac's show....
flauretta 6 months ago
this was my experience with wrestling.....loved this show, then one night it was gone and replaced with wwwf....watched this, nwa from florida and nwa from L.A.'s olympic auditorium....awesome back then...thanks for posting....wish i could watch all the IWA's shows again...
flauretta 6 months ago
Did you notice the excitement Tex McKenzie had just drained out of his body right before our eyes at the end? lol
raiders75 7 months ago
Is that the same Eddie Einhorn who owned the Chicago White Sox? The description also mentions the old NWF promotion - that group was loosely affiliated with The Sheik in Detroit, as well as the Johnny Powers Cleveland group and Pedro Martinez's Buffalo promotion. They also used wrestlers from Bruno Sammartino's "Studio Wrestling" promotion. They gave Greg ("The Hammer") Valentine his first major push (he was "Johnny Fargo" then, and teamed with Donnie Fargo).
elc1960 1 year ago
@elc1960
Yes. it's indeed the same Eddie Einhorn... Pedro Martinez was actually the man who promoted the NWF, it ran mainly from Cleveland to Buffalo. The Sheik, Powers & Martinez shared a lot of the same talent, a lot of that talent you can see here in this video!.
BottomlessJackDaniel 10 months ago
@BottomlessJackDaniel They also got guys from Bruno's "Studio Wrestling", like Eric the Red, Johnny DeFazio, John L. Sullivan (aka Luscious Johnny Valiant), Waldo Von Erich & Dominic DeNucci, to name a few. Quite a few NWF jobbers were also regulars on WWWF's "Championship Wrestling" and "All Star Wrestling" TV shows.
elc1960 10 months ago
@BottomlessJackDaniel
The deceased Jack Reynolds was also a staff announcer at WUAB Channel 43 in Cleveland For years!
bhilcu1 9 months ago
@bhilcu1
He sure was...
BottomlessJackDaniel 9 months ago
I feel you Chine...
DerGunzWald 1 year ago
Boy, I am almost in tears watching this; I was barely seven back then: almost thirty years ago.
chine62 1 year ago
Great footage, I did like the roll call of stars too. That is different than anyone else did at the time.
larrystarstruck 1 year ago
This was an early attempt at creating a national wrestling promotion 10 years before Vince McMahon Jr. did it unfortunately it was before the rise of cable and satellite TV which probably explains why it failed at the time.
DotDotkins 1 year ago
Who owns this I.W.A. tape library? hopefully not Vince.
puck30 1 year ago
Holy Shit,I never thought I would ever see this again!!
stupidazhole 1 year ago