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Busted Open

EXCLUSIVE: Legacy of the Territories - Georgia Championship Wrestling

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Aew, Bully Ray, Sports News, Ring Of Honor, Nxt, News, Tommy Dreamer, Mark Henry, Dave Lagreca, Sports, Professional Wrestling, Leisure, Wwe, Njpw, Wrestling

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

On this exclusive podcast series, Dave LaGreca and Tommy Dreamer bring you “The Legacy of the Territories”, a special look at the history of what built pro wrestling in the US. On this episode, Dave and Tommy focus on one of the most controversial territories in history: Georgia Championship Wrestling, and they'll do it with the man responsible for Black Saturday, Gerald Brisco.

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Dave LaGrecca and ECW legend Tommy Dreamer break down the legacy of the

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territories and delve into Georgia championship wrestling.

0:10.0

Welcome the busted open legacy of the territories. I'm your host Dave LaGrecca

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and I'm with the landlord in the House of Hardcore to Heart and Soul, a professional

0:23.0

wrestling. Tommy Dreamer and Tommy today were diving into maybe one of the most

0:29.0

recognizable territories in the history of pro wrestling, Georgia championship

0:35.0

wrestling. So excited when you told me we're going to bring back this

0:39.0

tales of the territory, if you will. My Saturdays as a child changed the moment

0:47.0

I saw this. My world was little league and hanging out with my friends and going

0:52.0

outside and then once this happened, thank God for the BCR but I could not

0:57.0

get up on Saturday. My cartoons were gone. It was all because of Georgia

1:02.0

championship wrestling. It really, really changed my life. I know it changed

1:07.0

yours and with the advent of cable television. I know we all have millions

1:12.0

of things to watch. So many different options. This was like one of the first

1:18.0

and we're talking about Georgia championship wrestling. You live in New

1:21.0

Jersey. I live in New York and we were able to see this amazing wrestling

1:26.0

territory each and every week and hello hook line and sinker. We both got

1:31.0

bought in. Yeah and it's Georgia championship wrestling but to your point, Tommy,

1:36.0

this show was seen all over the country and beyond because of the Super

1:42.0

Station WTBS when cable TV really emerged. It was probably as I said the most

1:48.0

recognizable territory. There was Paul Jones was the first owner of not

1:54.0

that Paul Jones but Paul Jones was the first owner of Georgia not the

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