On this date in 1963, Capitol Wrestling Corporation (CWC) breaks away from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) to form the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF).
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This upset many NWA promoters, including Vince McMahon Sr., who decided to form his own wrestling organization - the WWWF. Rogers was named the first WWWF Champion in April and then lost it a month later to Bruno Sammartino in 60 seconds.
The split was well thought out and cooperative between McMahon and Muchnick. The one fall bullshit was kayfabe. Thesz won a 2/3 rematch soon after, and when WWWF started having title matches they were 1 fall.
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