DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Show: What's so special about 1983?
By F4W Staff | @WONF4W | Mar 1, 2023 3:45 pm1983 was one of the most important years in the history of professional wrestling.
Here's some examples:
- The building of the WWF national expansion
- The fall of the territories
- The eventual birth of the major yearly event
- Hulkamania
- The fall of Jimmy Snuka
- The success of Mid-South Wrestling
- The best year of Southeastern Wrestling
- An era of flux for Memphis
- The red-hot Von Erichs vs. Freebirds war in World Class
- The 1980s peak and beginnings of the fall of the AWA
- The massive shows in Mexico
- The birth of the IWGP title in Japan
There's a lot to talk about.
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