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This message was edited by TheBestThereNeverWillBe on March 01st, 2021 22:09 GMT
Wow!! Great find! I didn't know Al Haft was still promoting in 1963, much less in Cleveland running opposition against Buddy Rogers-led cards for McMahon's WWWA..
I didn't know Haft really ever ran Cleveland..at this point it really was an open city, with Capitol, Kohler, Atkins, Martinez, Toots' Pittsburgh and Barnett's & Doyle's AWA all also having a hand, over a two year period, in the city.
Big Time Wrestling is interesting..Sheik didn't buy in and start using that name until '64, was Al Haft involved or backing Sheik in his early years of BTW? Had anyone else used this name in Ohio prior to 1963?
Whats the story behind the chaos in Cleveland after Jack Gansen's death in 1957, before Pedro Martinez moved in for good in 1965. Martinez appears to have ran it for a few years prior and then quit, whats the story there? How did Larry Adkins get enough control to even be in a position to make a deal with McMahon/Toots?
By the looks of the advertised talent, I'd guess Haft was getting talent from the Barnett/Doyle booking office.. Haft and Martinez had heat with each other from the Gansen/Scott issues previously, correct?
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Haft was doing business with Doyle/Barnett, whom Farhat purchased the Detroit territory from, and Sheik was a regular in Haft's territory since the 50s, so I would not be surprised if Haft and Farhat worked together.
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