Championship Wrestling
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Championship Wrestling was a short lived professional wrestling promotion. Championship Wrestling aired weekly every Saturday morning on WMC-TV, with the first show airing on January 19, 2002. The promotion taped its first two television tapings at Harrah's Casino in Tunica, MS - seemingly known as American Championship Wrestling - although it was never referred to by that name at the show.
They soon ran further tapings mainly from the Dyersburg Entertainment Center in Dyersburg, TN. Through the months they held other shows in Batesville, MS, Memphis, TN, Selmer, TN, Somerville, TN, and other places.
Towards the middle of the year, Jimmy Hart interrupted the usual show Championship Wrestling format of new weekly matches with "The Hart Takeover" instead showing classic and old wrestling footage held in Memphis from years gone by.
By October 2002 there was still no sign of new Championship Wrestling footage and they had now moved on to show various World Wrestling Federation archive material that featured Jerry Lawler in different matches, whilst promoting new Championship Wrestling TV tapings happening in the weeks to come.
A few of these tapings eventually aired on TV in late November 2002, but by then it was announced that Championship Wrestling's contract with WMC-TV 5 had expired and was not to be renewed. The final episode aired on the channel on December 14, 2002, bringing to an end many continual years of wrestling on Memphis television on the channel.
However, a new promotion from the people at Championship Wrestling called Memphis Wrestling soon started on May 17, 2003, running traditional in-house studio wrestling in Memphis from the UPN30 television station. The new promotion featured many of the same wrestlers.
