Heart of America Sports Attractions, also known as the Midwest Wrestling Association, Central States Wrestling and the World Wrestling Alliance, was an American
professional wrestling
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promotion that ran shows mainly in
Kansas
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,
Missouri
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,
Nebraska
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and
Iowa
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.
Due to the promotion's main office and base of operations being in
Kansas City, Missouri the territory
was often referred to simply as "Kansas City". The promotion existed from July 1948 until it closed in 1988. 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
Paul "Pinkie" George (born Paul Lloyd Georgeacopoulos; January 22, 1905 – November 1, 1993) was an American professional wrestl