Championship Wrestling from Las Vegas

Buffett Sports Promotions, Inc., doing business as Championship Wrestling from Las Vegas, was an American professional wrestling promotion based out of, that ran from 1968 to 1989, and was the namesake of a television program of the same name produced by the promotion. Established and owned by Fred Buffett, who also ran Lake Tahoe Championship Wrestling, a -based promotion that also had a television program, the promotion regularly ran events in the Las Vegas area for close to 20 years.

Founding
In 1965, Fred Buffett, the owner of the Lake Tahoe Championship Wrestling promotion, chose to create a second promotion to take advantage of Las Vegas' booming public image as an entertainment and gambling center.