Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 26: Mid-Atlantic 1975 with John Hitchcock

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Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 26: Mid-Atlantic 1975 with John Hitchcock

Our Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings podcast focuses in on a by-gone era of regional booking offices of wrestling talent in historic towns and legendary buildings around the world.

Tony Richards

Oct 08, 2025

Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 26, we go to Jim Crockett Promotions Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling in the year 1975.

My new Mid-Atlantic analyst and commentator is the John Hitchcock. John was a fan in the Carolinas starting in the 1960s and became a regular at the Greensboro Coliseum for some of the most legendary cards of all time. In today’s episode, John relates (as best he can) what it was like to actually see the great Johnny Valentine, one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all time and how Valentine actually put “the stare” on his one night. His story about his conversation with Wahoo McDaniel about what it was like to work against Valentine. The change from a tag team territory to a singles-driven territory with the arrival of Dan Jardine as The Super Destroyer. The plane crash with Valentine, Flair, Woods, Bruggers and David Crockett, plus the aftermath and how booker George Scott and the Crockett team dealt with the loss of its biggest star. All that and more this week as we flashback to Mid-Atlantic 1975!

This week’s episode of Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel Presents: Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings Episode 25 should be in your inbox this morning if you are a subscriber here at the Pro Wrestling Time Tunnel!

Here’s the archive of our podcast episodes so far:

Personalities, Territories, Towns & Buildings:

Episode 1: 5/10/2025: Steven Johnson, Jim Londos: The Golden Greek of Professional Wrestling

Episode 2: 5/14/2025 Herb Simmons: St. Louis, Missouri Wrestling HOF

Episode 3: 5/17/2025: Scott Teal: Raisin Cain: From The Inferno to The Great Mephisto

Episode 4: 5/21/2025: Bobby Simmons: Georgia Territory Spring 1975

Episode 5: 5/24/2025: Brian Ferguson, Verne Gagne: Inside and Outside the Ropes

Episode 6: 5/28/2025: Jerry Oates: Kansas City Territory Spring 1975

Episode 7: 5/31/25: Evan Ginzburg: Blackboards, Wrestling Rings & Movie Sets

Episode 8: 6/4/2025: Tim Dills: Tennessee Territory April & May 1975

Episode 9: 6/11/2025: Greg Klein: Texas May 1975

Episode 10: 6/18/2025: Michael Norris: Gulf Coast Wrestling The History of the Territory & Spring of 1975