Question About the Territorial Days

[Walt Cronkite]

The Wrestling Draft made me researching a lot of old timers that I was totally unfamiliar with. I know about how things worked through the territories before Vince McMahon started buying them out, but I'm curious as to what the most popular regions were before then?

WWWF must've been very popular in the NE, Mid-Atlantic in Georgia and the Carolinas, Mid-South around Memphis, WCCW in Texas, AWA in Minnesota, but where else? Florida, NW, California I guess, but I'm not at all knowledgeable as to in which reasons wrestling was most popular.

My follow up question: How did wrestling styles differ? Texas put a larger influence on brawling? Emphasis on grappling in the NE and Minnesota regions? I recognize that we might all be too young to have a grasp on this, but I know some of you guys really know your history, so I thought I'd give it a shot.

[jeffhardyfan52]

Championship wrestling from florida was a big one Mid south wrestling was also big with flair and piper

and a big one that no one gives enough credit to is portland wrestling, and don ownes ran northern calfoina up to seattle but mostly in in oreong at the porland sports arean
many many starts ran through there it survied up tell 1992 i belive in one form or the other

piper even refused to wrestle agains don owens when wwf was going against protland wrestling
piper billy jack haynes dutch savage and the bushwakers oh and raven where the main stars who got ther efirst big breaks in portland
but almost every major star in the wrestling workd in the 70s and 80s went thorugh portland wrestling