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| From the CBC History website. (Link) |
What an amazing photo found on the Capitol Broadcasting Company's history website. (
http://history.capitolbroadcasting.com/) Seen here is longtime WRAL sports personality
Nick Pond interviewing former world boxing champion
Joe Louis at ringside during a taping of
"Championship Wrestling" at WRAL TV studios in Raleigh NC. Pond hosted the Raleigh-only version of WRAL's wrestling broadcast for nearly a decade. (Bob Caudle hosted the syndicated version of the same show which was known as
"All-Star Wrestling". This was in the years before the name of the show was changed to
"Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling.")
Joe Louis did many spots for
Jim Crockett Promotions as a special guest referee in bouts all across the territory around the years 1967-1968.
Wish we knew who the wrestlers were in the ring, standing in the "bad guys" corner awaiting their match.
