 the world wrestling council (wwc) is one of puerto rico's three main professional wrestling promotions, the other ones being the now inactive international wrestling association, and the entertainment wrestling organization (ewo). wwc produces wwc superestrellas de la lucha libre weekly wrestling tv show. == history == === capitol sports promotions === thumb|the two versions of the capitol sports promotions logo. capitol sports promotions, with carlos colÃ³n, victor jovica and gorilla monsoon as promoters/co-owners of the organization, was a member of the national wrestling alliance (nwa) until late 1988, when gorilla monsoon left. the company then went bankrupt (as confirmed by victor quiÃ±ones in an interview with prwrestling.com) following this, thomas collado became the owner in 1976, before carlos colon and victor jovica. capitol sports promotions gained fame in puerto rican homes soon after their tv show, super estrellas de la lucha libre, went on-air every weekend on channel 4, wapa-tv. the taped show is still aired on weekends (both saturday and sunday for two hours until march 2008 when it was reduced to one hour on both saturdays and sundays due to declining ratings). from 1973 to 1980 it aired on channel 11 ( "telecadena perez perry", then on "teleonce" after the before mentioned went off the air), on channel 7 on sunday evenings at 6pm and on "telemundo" on saturday mornings at 10am. capitol sports promotions began touring all over the island, and with the golden era of boxing in puerto rico limited only to ponce and the metropolitan area of puerto rico, capitol sports promotions took their shows to many, inner country towns where people were not used to seeing live in-ring sports events. as a result, capitol's shows usually filled the smaller town arenas. early stars, apart from colon, included barrabas, el tigre perez, hugo savinovich, gorilla monsoon, huracan castillo and others. famous wrestling tag-teams included los super medicos, los invaders and others. many american stars came to puerto rico to wrestle for capitol sports promotions during the late 1970s and early 1980s. such were the cases of randy savage, ric flair, bruiser brody, dory funk, jr., dutch mantell and others. in 1983, rickin sanchez had taken over as capitol's main promoter, as well as becomin
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