Host Steve Stack with Dory Funk, Sr. on the set of Championship Wrestling from Amarillo, TX in 1971.
The Funks taped their television show Saturday afternoon in the studios of KVII channel 7 in Amarillo (later moving the tapings to KDFA channel 10 in the mid-1970s). Wrestling had been taped at KVII going back to the early 1960s when Funk Sr. was in partnership with legendary Amarillo promoter Doc Sarpolis.
The ring announcer at those tapings was Shelton Key and Stanley Blackburn was their commissioner.
We miss those simple days of territory wrestling from the small, intimate TV studios.
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- Thanks to Tim Hornbaker and Larry Statser for additional info.
Edited with additional info August 29, 2020.
