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The Mid-Atlantic Gateway wants to hear about when Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling ran spot shows in your home town high school gym or smaller arena in Virginia or the Carolinas. Send your memories to David Chappell at DChapp3571@aol.com  and they will be included in future installments of “Hitting The Spot.”


HITTING THE SPOT - Visiting Smaller Mid-Atlantic Venues In The Mid-Atlantic Area

While Virginia was blessed to be home to some of the best wrestling in the world during the Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling era, the great cards were not confined to the Commonwealth’s larger cities and their corresponding bigger venues. Make no mistake, the Richmond Coliseum, the Hampton Coliseum, the Norfolk Scope and the Roanoke Civic Center all housed their share of spectacular Mid-Atlantic events, but great Mid-Atlantic events were also routinely put on in smaller places.

The term “spot show” was used within the wrestling industry to characterize sporadic cards that were held in outlying areas. These spot shows served a number of purposes, all of them good. Perhaps most importantly, it allowed fans who didn’t live close to a major city the opportunity to conveniently see a Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling card in their neighborhood. Often times, these local cards were sponsored in part by local civic groups, whereby the locality was benefitted by Jim Crockett Promotions coming to town.

Even to those fans who routinely went to Mid-Atlantic cards in Virginia’s big cities and big arenas, it was a nice change of pace to travel to a spot show in a smaller venue, like a high school gym or a high school football field, to see the action really up close and personal. And to the credit of the wrestlers, the effort put forth in a Jim Crockett Promotions card at a high school gym was every bit as intense as a card at a major Coliseum.

So, this series will be a tribute to the small towns and buildings that were stops on the Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling spot show tour. Buckle up, and let’s hit the road and enjoy the ride as we look at Mid-Atlantic wrestling in the Mid-Atlantic area’s hinterlands.        -David Chappell

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The Mid-Atlantic Gateway wants to hear about when Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling ran spot shows in your home town high school gym or smaller arena in Virginia or the Carolinas. Send your memories to David Chappell at DChapp3571@aol.com  and they will be included in future installments of “Hitting The Spot.”

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