Heart of America Sports Attractions

Heart of America
Sports Attractions
AcronymCSW
FoundedJuly 1948
Defunct1989
StyleAmerican wrestling
HeadquartersKansas City, Missouri
Founder(s)Orville Brown
Owner(s)Orville Brown (1948–63)
Bob Geigel (1963–86, 1987–89)
Jim Crockett, Jr. (1986–87)
ParentWWE Libraries (WWE)
SisterSt. Louis Wrestling Club
FormerlyCentral States Wrestling

Heart of America Sports Attractions, Inc., operating as the Midwest Wrestling Association, Central States Wrestling and the World Wrestling Alliance, was an American professional wrestling promotion that ran shows mainly in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa.[1] Due to the promotion's main office and base of operations being in Kansas City, Missouri the territory[2] was often referred to simply as "Kansas City". The promotion existed from July 1948 until it closed in 1989. The territory was one of the original territories of the National Wrestling Alliance with two of the six "founding fathers" of the NWA (Paul "Pinkie" George and Orville Brown) promoting in it.[3]

  1. ^ Kristian Pope & Ray Whebbe (2003). The Encyclopedia of Professional Wrestling: 100 Years of History, Headlines & Hitmakers (2nd ed.). Krause Publications. ISBN 978-0-87349-625-4.
  2. ^ "WrestlingTerritories.png". Freakin' Awesome Network Forums :: Freakin' Awesome Wrestling Forum :: (w)Rest of Wrestling. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
  3. ^ Hornbaker, Tim (2007). National Wrestling Alliance: The Untold Story of the Monopoly that Strangled Pro Wrestling. ECW Press. ISBN 978-1-55022-741-3.