included Ric Flair, Harley Race, "Cowboy" Bob Orton, Dick the Bruiser, Bruiser Brody, Gene Kiniski, Lou Thesz, Dory Funk, Jr. and Ted DiBiase. WWF tapings held at the Chase KPLR ended its relationship with the St. Louis Wrestling Club in September 1983 and ended that version of Wrestling at the Chase. The station made a deal by which the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) would produce its wrestling-related programming. On December 27, 1983 and January 16, 1984, the WWF held TV tapings at the Chase Park Plaza that were turned into several episodes of Wrestling at the Chase, which began airing in 1984. The first of these shows featured the first WWF appearance of Gene Okerlund and Hulk Hogan's first WWF match in his second stint with the promotion, after his departure from the American Wrestling Association. In February 1984, tapings for Wrestling at the Chase shifted to Kiel Auditorium. The WWF returned to the Chase Park Plaza for a final taping at 11am on Saturday, September 29, 1984. This taping followed a Friday night live event at St. Louis' Kiel Auditorium. The last airing of the program with original local content was on October 21, 1984. After a shift to syndicated WWF material, the program was canceled in 1985. Legacy Wrestling at the Chase was consistently one of the highest rated television shows in St. Louis. Among St. Louis-based shows, it was third behind the local news and St. Louis Cardinals baseball games. The show often had over 100,000 viewers per episode. It is considered one of the pro wrestling industry's most historic programs. As of 2009, 12 volumes of the program have been released for sale. In 2005, Larry Matysik's book, Wrestling at the Chase: The Inside Story of Sam Muchnick and the Legends of Professional Wrestling, was published by ECW Press. Content from Wrestling at the Chase became available on the Global Wrestling Network on October 10, 2017. Revival In July 2021 National Wrestling Alliance President Billy Corgan announced that the NWA would return to The Chase Park Plaza for a four-night series of events at the end of August 2021. The events included an all-female Pay Per View event entitled 'NWA EmPowerrr', produced by Mickie James, following her departure from WWE, as well as the NWA 73rd Anniversary Show, to be headlined by an NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship match between champion Nick Aldis and Trevor Murdoch, as