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Georgia Championship Wrestling was run by Jack and Jerry Brisco, with other partners. The brothers sold their stock to an up and coming wrestling promoter named Vince McMahon, in return for guaranteed job in his rapidly expanding promotion called the WWF.
This was a move that changed the face of regional wrestling and made it a nationwide craze. What followed is something known as ‘Black Saturday’. WWF’s cartoony ‘sports entertainment’ style was rejected by the more gritty Georgia fanbase, who longed for athletic competition.
McMahon, alarmed at the low ratings that his newly acquired company was getting, sold it again to Jim Crockett. When McMahon purchased WCW, he gained tapes of this company too!
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