Angelo Poffo’s International Championship Wrestling came to an area that already had its share of wrestling (Ron Fuller’s Southeastern and Crockett’s Mid-Atlantic) and, remarkably, put together a pretty good run from the late 1970s through the early 1980s. I would consider the promotion’s heyday to be from late 1980 through early 1982; this was the period that it was televised in the Tri-City area of Tennessee where I grew up. Since this is the time period I’m familiar with, most of my pieces will be about this period. By this time Fuller had left Knoxville. Before they appeared sporadically on late-night tv and put on live shows in small venues, such as the Central Music and Auction House near my old high school. By late 1980, however, they had taken over for Fuller’s promotion in the northern end of his old Knoxville territory and were putting on weekly shows at the Johnson City Recreation Center. This is where Fuller, and Gulas before him, had put on their weekly shows for this part of their respective territories. While there was definitely heat between the Poffo and Fuller promotions, Crockett seemed to coexist with Poffo just as he had with Fuller. There were periodic Mid-Atlantic cards in Kingsport, and the area seemed capable of supporting two regional promotions. The part of the country where ICW promoted was actually in a borderland of sorts; Ron Fuller, Nick Gulas, Jim Crockett Jr., and Jerry Jarrett ran shows in various parts of ICW’s territory in the 70s and 80’s.