The rest of the decade virtually wiped out the territory system, which had been the standard of America's struggle since the late XNUMXs. His son continued to expand WWF thanks to Hogan's popularity and the concept of Rock'N'Wrestling Connection.
fired him for acting without permission in the movie Rocky III). On January 23, 1984, Hogan won the WWF World Heavyweight Championship by defeating the Iron Sheik at Madison Square Garden. On December 27 of that year, Hulk Hogan reappeared in the company (he had been with the AWA after McMahon Sr. In August 1983, he separated from the NWA. He bought the territory of Southern California (Los Angeles and San Diego) from Gene LeBell, and he bought the Atlanta territory from Jim Barnett. Thus, Capitol disappeared, and the WWF became part of Titan Sports. The plan was for Gorilla Monsoon to stay at the helm of the company, but McMahon Jr. The WWWF acronym changed in 1979 to WWF: World Wrestling Federation. McMahon, son of the promoter, went to work at Capitol as an announcer and commentator, but also promoted events. Although he continued to use the acronym WWWF, McMahon rejoined the NWA during the 1971 convention, held in Mexico. Toots Mondt retired in 1969, selling his shares to McMahon, who divided them between his partner Phil Zacko and wrestlers Gorilla Monsoon and Arnold Skaaland. Rogers returned to New York and was announced as World Wide Wrestling Federation World Heavyweight Champion (long, McMahon he was the most powerful promoter in the United States. In 1963, Capitol didn't acknowledge a Lou Thesz win over Buddy Rogers, who took away the NWA World Heavyweight Championship on January 24 in Toronto. McMahon started a war with the promoters in the area, who numbered more than 20, managing to put them out of business by 1960, which was when Toots Mondt gave up and teamed up with him.
Taking advantage of the fact that Toots Mondt's license as a promoter was suspended for six months, McMahon was able to rent Madison Square Garden to host his first event on November 26, 1956. The first episode aired on January 5, 1956.įor the summer of that year, a Dumont affiliate in New York began broadcasting the Capitol struggles, and fans began to get acquainted with its stars, especially Antonino Rocca. Vince got the Dumont network to broadcast the Capitol Arena events.
Jess McMahon passed away on November 22, 1954, at the age of 74. Your first event as Capitol Wrestling Corporation (the name is due to Capitol, which is in Washington DC) was held on 7 1953 January. In 1952 he bought the Turner Arena from promoter Joe Turner's widow, renaming it Capitol Arena.
His service was in the Coast Guard, remaining at the Wilmington, North Carolina, base until 1945.Īfter the war, McMahon moved to Washington, DC to form a fit company, because Toots Mondt controlled New York. In 1942, during World War II, he was drafted. McMahon had started promoting wrestling in 1935, at age 20, through an office set up by his father on Long Island.