List of outlaw wrestling promotions

This is a list of outlaw wrestling promotions in the United States, sorted by regional area, from the 1940s to 1980s.

Wrestlers who had been blackballed from the sport or were winding down their career often found a home with such promotions.

These groups were often short-lived as NWA promoters would receive top stars from other members to prevent a potential takeover of a territory.

Upon its acrimonious exit from the NWA in summer 1983, the World Wrestling Federation became, in effect, an outlaw promotion.

The collapse of the NWA territory system at the end of the decade, the result of the WWF's national expansion, subsequently saw outlaw promotions being replaced by the emerging independent wrestling circuit in North America.