Big Time Wrestling to become their top heel. The newly revived promotion was short-lived and the Santos brothers closed down Big Time Wrestling in 1975. Gene Santos left the business and returned to Florida. Tony Santos Jr. was hired as the WWWF's main road agent for the state of Maine and parts of Massachusetts, and later worked with Killer Kowalski's International Wrestling Federation and Angelo Savoldi's International Championship Wrestling during the 1980s. Sheldon Goldberg, founder of New England Championship Wrestling, has said that the feud between Ford and Santos was among the most important periods of Boston wrestling history. According to Jim Cornette, Big Time Wrestling was one of the first-ever "outlaw" wrestling promotions in the United States. In 2011, wrestling historian Tom Burke inducted the Santos family into the New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame. Charlotte and Richard Santos, the children of Tony Santos Sr., accepted the award on the family's behalf. Revival In 2006, Richard Byrne started his own version of Big Time Wrestling based in Reading, Massachusetts. He had previously wrestled for Tony Santos during the 1970s. Endorsed by the Santos family, it is promoted as official revival of the original promotion. Alumni Championships Current Defunct References Further reading External links Pro-Wrestling in Northeast U.S. at WrestlingScout Big Time Wrestling at Cagematch.net Big Time Wrestling at Wrestlingdata.com American companies established in 1960 Companies based in Boston Entertainment companies established in 1960 Entertainment companies disestablished in 1975 Independent professional wrestling promotions based in Massachusetts 1960 establishments in Massachusetts 1975 disestablishments in Massachusetts