Top dead pro wrestling promotions

[codfather]

1. AJW (1968-2005) - first iconic women's promotion.
2. WCW (1988-2001) - more popular than WWE at one point.
   
3. FMW (1989-2002) - first iconic hardcore promotion.
   
4. ECW (1992-2001) - second iconic hardcore promotion.

 

[Foppa21]

GLOW and Juggalo Championship Wrestling not making the cut?

 

[Elzio Dennick]

UWF....southwest
World Class...Texas
AWA....midwest
WWA..Los Angeles
CWA....Memphis
Georgia Championship
Florida Championship
Big Time...NORCAL

There was a time in the 80's...

WWF
WCW
World Class
AWA
UWF

.....my rasslin' viewing.

 

[BAM]

I watched wrestling primary from 1992 to about 2003. Which was childhood through high school, roughly when the Attitude era finished up in the WWF/WWE.

From what I saw, WCW was the best dead org from that time, but by the time I started watching all the territories were dead.

From what little I saw of the territories on replay/archives, the Florida, Georgia, Mid-Atlantic and Mid-South territories had the best product.

 

[heloder]

5. WWE

 

[SaigeVanZant]

5. WWE

 

[Pittie Petey]

AEW

Spoiler

come February

 

[Based God]

FMW (1989-2002) - first iconic hardcore promotion.

FMW is alive

 

[Protegejoe296]

Smoky Mountain kept the spirit of territories alive for a little bit.

 

[Deleted member 449757]

UWFi
BattlArts
PWFG
GLOW
Kingdom

GLOW and Juggalo Championship Wrestling not making the cut?

Wait ... JCW is dead? I didn't know that.

 

[Wariowokecancel]

Smoky Mountain kept the spirit of territories alive for a little bit.

OVW was a good feeder with guys like Cena coming from it.

 

[Pittie Petey]

Smoky Mountain kept the spirit of territories alive for a little bit.

By never turning a profit and failing to realize that times were changing

 

[Francis Rossi]

By never turning a profit and failing to realize that times were changing

As soon as Rick Rubin stopped paying the bills, they went under.

 

[ThunderL1ps]

Smoky Mountain kept the spirit of territories alive for a little bit.

Just because Jim Cornette talks about it doesn't mean it was any good whatsoever.

 

[moonwolf]

lucha underground

 

[Jkillah]

Mid-Atlantic Wrestling/Jim Crocket Promotions
Championship Wrestling from Florida
Ring of Honor - even if this promotion gets brought back, it's been mediocre for years, but was great in its prime.

 

[immyaxl]

1. AJW (1968-2005) - first iconic women's promotion.
2. WCW (1988-2001) - more popular than WWE at one point.
   
3. FMW (1989-2002) - first iconic hardcore promotion.
   
4. ECW (1992-2001) - second iconic hardcore promotion.

I was a kid in the 80's and got to watch the Memphis Territory, Crockett Promotions/Mid Atlantic, Georgia Championship wrestling and early WCW. The 80's was probably the best time in the history of the business for a fan.

 

[HHJ]

What ECW was from '96 - '98 was my favorite time to be a wrestling fan.

I used to go to the Queens/poughkipsee/staten island shows (and once in the ECW arena) all the time in this period.

Once they tried to be bigger than that,and lost the gritty 2 am public access look,it started to decline for me. It wasnt as good. I still watched it til it went off the air but It had already lost alot by then. It was never meant for the mainstream.

 

[BigSexy444]

UWFi
BattlArts
PWFG
GLOW
Kingdom


Wait ... JCW is dead? I didn't know that.

JCW is still around brother. Outlasted ROH

 

[Via Heeto]

Whatever you want to call what I watched when i lived in houston in 84-85 was the best (houston wrestlig? Mid South?). almost every single star was there regularly or at least on occasion. also, it was before the wwf turned them into cartoon characters. butch reed, jim duggan, ted dibiase, terry taylor, magnum ta, hercules hernandez, shawn michaels, dr. death, AL PEREZ, etc