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Universal Wrestling Federation (Bill Watts)
The
Universal Wrestling Federation
was owner
Bill Watts
' attempt at taking his
Mid-South Wrestling
promotion to a
national
level in 1986. The attempt failed and in 1987, Watts sold the promotion to
Jim Crockett Promotions
and it became part of what would later be known as
World Championship Wrestling
. The promotion had started out as an
NWA Territory
known as
NWA Tri-State
founded by
Leroy McGuirk
in the 1950s. Tri-State promoted in
Oklahoma
,
Arkansas
, Louisiana and
Mississippi
, the same area that Watts's Mid-South wrestling ran in before attempting to go national. In 1990,
Herb Abrams
started
an unrelated wrestling promotion
with the same name.
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