before running Boston Arena and Boston Garden under the "Big Time Wrestling" banner. Santos worked with a number of wrestling promoters during this period including a brief partnership with Quinn and Johnny Doyle. When Doyle left the U.S. with Jim Barnett to start World Championship Wrestling in Australia, Jack Pfefer was brought in as a booker. Frankie Scarpa was the promotion's main attraction, however, Santos built a small group of his own stars by the early-1960s including The Boston Bruiser, Bull Montana, Gypsy Joe Jesse James and Alma Mills. The promotion also started one of the first-ever wrestling camps in the country where many of these BTW mainstays were trained. Using two or three crews of wrestlers, Big Time Wrestling put on shows six nights a week during the summer months. These included midget and women's wrestlers, and even a 300-pound "wrestling bear" called Black Ozzie. For most of its existence, BTW did not have a studio wrestling show. It did, however, manage to get occasional television coverage into Boston via WMUR-TV (Channel 9) from Manchester, New Hampshire and in Providence, Rhode Island on WLNE-TV (Channel 6). The promotion recognized Edouard Carpentier as its world champion based on his 1957 victory over then NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz in Chicago, Illinois. The NWA had acknowledged Carpentier as champion until Eddie Quinn left the organization later that year. Through the belt was returned to Thesz, the decision was challenged by several NWA members who continued billing Carpentier as a world champion for several years. This eventually resulted in the creation of the Minneapolis and Los Angeles versions of the world title. Santos' decision to continue supporting Carpentier gave Big Time Wrestling the opportunity to "own" their own world champion, however, this would put Santos at odds with other promoters in the Northeast United States. His biggest rivals, Vince McMahon Sr. and Toots Mondt, would eventually break away from the NWA and create their own world championship three years later. In April 1961, Bearcat Wright defeated Killer Kowalski for the BTW Heavyweight Championship in Boston, becoming one of the first African-Americans to win a major singles title during the Territory-era. In addition to the "traveling champion", the promotion also established several regional titles including the BTW United States Heavyweight Championship (1959–1974), BTW Women's World Championship (1959–1970) and BTW World Tag Team Championship (1960–1964) Early Boston promotional wars At the start of