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	Jim Crockett Promotions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jim Crockett Promotions was the name of a professional wrestling promotion owned by Jim Crockett, Jr.
		The older Crockett was an early member of the NWA, and his territory covered Virginia, North and South Carolina.
		A tag team tournament was held for three years among the NWA promotions to honor the late Jim Crockett.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Crockett_Promotions (1002 words)

	Professional wrestling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When professional wrestling moved to increasingly fixed around the early 1900's there was still strong push for most of the century promote professional wrestling as being a legitimate this movement is where the concept of kayfabe originated from.
		However as the century progessed promoters spent time focusing on believable sports action and time presenting it as a "sports entertainment" For a brief time comedian Andy Kaufman began wrestling women during his act was the self-proclaimed "Inter-gender Wrestling Champion of World".
		In fact a distinction between McMahon and competitors like Jim Crockett Promotions (the fore-runner to WCW) or the American Wrestling Association was the carnival atmosphere created by promoter's gimmicks and angles.
	www.freeglossary.com /Professional_wrestler (1910 words)

	World Championship Wrestling Encyclopedia Article @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This promotion, owned primarily by Jack Brisco and Gerald Brisco and booked by Ole Anderson, was the first NWA territory to gain cable TV access.
		Bischoff, originally brought in as a secondary commentator behind Jim Ross after the AWA became defunct, was desperate to give WCW a new direction and impressed Turner's top brass with his confrontational tactics and business-savvy.
		They next targeted WWF announcer Jim Ross with a tasteless parody character called 'Oklahoma', who was played onscreen by Ferrera (Ross had been suffering from Bell's palsy, and the character lampooned his resultant facial defects).
	www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/World_Championship_Wrestling (4568 words)

	All Good Things Must Come To An End (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The promotion was forced to use these wrestlers, for better or worse, in prominent positions when just a few years earlier these wrestlers would have had to toil in the lower part of the card.
		As JCP stepped in, it was clear that Scott Hall had flopped as the lead babyface both in the ring and at the gate.
		Jim Crockett Promotions was had for decades covered Carolinas and Virginia during the 1970s and 1980s under the banner of Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling.
	www.cwfarchives.com /articles/goodthings.php (5472 words)

	pro wrestling usa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This loose alliance of promoters from across America was to serve to act as a national federation.
		Jim Crockett Promotions would expand nationally by itself, and eventually (after a sale to Ted Turner become World Championship Wrestling.
		By this time, the WWF had firmly been established as a national federation, and Jim Crockett Promotions had bought out many NWA territories and also gone national, and was being sold to Ted Turner as WCW.
	www.pro-wrestling-power.com /pro-wrestling-usa.html (715 words)

	Wikipedia: WCW
		WCW, or World Championship Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion that existed from 1988 to 2001.
		It was purchased by Turner in 1988 from then NWA President Jim Crockett, which were several different NWA territories, after Vince McMahon refused to sell Turner the WWF.
		The WCW slowly slid into a period of decline, blamed both on the fact that Kevin Nash was writing the scripts, the tremendous popularity of Attitude era WWF, and the seeming inability for the federation to promote any wrestlers under 40 years old.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/w/wc/wcw.html (920 words)

	Obsessed With Wrestling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jim Crockett formed a working relationship with Frank Tunney's Maple Leaf Wrestling in Toronto, Canada..
		Jim Crockett's vision was to create a united NWA banner by purchasing, or merging all of it's member territories..
		With a total of six NWA territories under Jim Crockett Promotions, and Crockett's position as NWA President, wrestling fans were convinced that the Jim Crockett Promotions was the NWA.
	www.obsessedwithwrestling.com /promotions/jcp.html (407 words)

	RSPW FAQ & Resource Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Crockett would later also insist that he supply the wrestlers for the top half of the card for any show on which Ric Flair appeared.
		Crockett bought out the Florida territory in February 1987, and a few months later took control of Bill Watts' UWF (formerly Mid-South and which was not part of the N.W.A.).
		There was controversy again when promoter Jim Crockett, who did not like the choice for champion and, according to some, was upset that he would not be able to control the champion as he did in the 1980's refused to recognize tournament winner Chris Candido as the N.W.A. Champion.
	www.cob.montevallo.edu /CarrJ/2.html (7339 words)

	End of an era on TBS: Crockett, Flair and 'The Clashes'
		With a timeslot on TBS, Jim Crockett Promotions, up until then a regional promotion based out of the Mid Atlantic region of the U.S., now had the cable exposure and the depth in roster talent to tour nationwide and challenge McMahon and the WWF on the national stage.
		Jim Crockett Promotions started to expand outside its Mid Atlantic base and started running in new markets all over the country.
		It provided countless hours of programming each year for TBS and with the possibility of Crockett going bankrupt and shutting down the company, Turner's sole motivation for buying Crockett Promotions was to ensure that wrestling would be a programming staple on his network for years to come.
	www.nflcflfutures.com /SlamWrestlingFeatures/tbs2-can.html (2020 words)

	WrestleView.com - WCW - World Championship Wrestling FAQ
		In late 1988 Crockett was in desperate need of money to stay alive so instead of folding the company Jim Crockett sold it to WTBS.
		So to promote Beach Blast 1993 WCW was given a one million dollar budget to make a short commercial for the event.
		The television title then was scrapped for a short while until Hacksaw Jim Duggan "found" the title in the trash on a February 2000 edition of Saturday Night and was made the champion and only defended it on WCW Saturday Night.
	www.wrestleview.com /info/faq/wcw.shtml (1348 words)

	The rec.sport.pro-wrestling FAQ: What are the origins of WCW? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Throughout the 1970's and early 1980's, Jim Crockett Promotions operated as Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, and was a member of the National Wrestling Alliance.
		Crockett purchased the NWA St. Louis group in mid-1986, and NWA Florida in February 1987.
		By November 1988, Jim Crockett was near bankrupt due to poor business decisions, and was forced to sell Jim Crockett Promotions to Turner Broadcasting.
	www.theearlyevening.com /faqomatic/cache/105.html (279 words)

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		Crockett promotions had been the promotion most widely associated with the NWA.
		With this exposure, combined with controlling power over the NWA title, Crockett was able to strong arm the other member promotions into complying with his requests.
		In 1992 and 1993, a number of promoters applied for membership in the NWA and some were accepted.
	www.faqs.org /ftp/faqs/pro-wrestling/faq/part1 (3985 words)

	World Championship Wrestling - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first promotion in the United States to use the WCW name was Georgia Championship Wrestling.
		In 1987, Crockett's buying spree continued, with the purchase of Florida Championship Wrestling, and the Universal Wrestling Federation (which covered Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana), which was not an NWA member.
		To preserve the inexpensive programming provided by professional wrestling, Jim Crockett Promotions was purchased outright by Turner on November 21, 1988.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/WCW (5687 words)

	ipedia.com: Professional wrestling Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Any pretence to be a sporting competition was dropped in the late 1990s, when Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation began describing its events as "sports entertainment," coincident with a formal change of moniker to World Wrestling Entertainment.
		Of course, even this "rule" is subject to modification, depending on current storylines or rules within the promotion.
		Jim Crockett Promotions (Georgia, North and South Carolina)
	www.ipedia.com /professional_wrestling.html (1632 words)

	My Proj. Ren. Web Page
		Jesse McMahon was a wrestling promoter in the northeast.
		Jim Crockett promotions is most commonly associated with the NWA.
		Jim Crockett was forced to sell his company to Ted Turner.
	www.albany.edu /~as3561 (2354 words)

	The History of WCW, Part I
		Crockett tried to run a national promotion but was plagued by misfortunes - bad booking decisions, the loss of Magnum TA in a car accident, acquisition costs of several other wrestling promotions, and the guaranteed contracts all combined to put the promotion on thin ice financially.
		The promotion sided with Flair, and Jim Crockett Promotions became the Turner owned World Championship Wrestling promotion in November 1988.
		Meanwhile, Jim Herd was acquiring a lot of talent for the promotion.
	www.ddtdigest.com /features/histor01.htm (964 words)

	-- Rajah.com -- Beauty in Wrestling: There Can Be Only Two (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		If you had a promotion in one area and another company tried to have a show in your backyard, they were asking for trouble.
		At the time, JCP and the NWA were practically one in the same, as JCP was the largest part of the massive Alliance.
		The old WCW United States Championship, as mentioned before, was once the NWA United States Championship created by Jim Crockett, so to say it had some NWA history to it while in WCW had at least some validity.
	www.rajahwwf.com /base/2004/296 (2093 words)

	Bill Alphonso Shoot Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Getting back to the original question, they knew they hit it big when they had 16 guys on the roster, angles that would last a year, and the only visiting wrestlers they’d use would be the world champion but people were beating down their doors trying to get into the territory.
		Going to work for Crockett- Everyone went to Mid-Atlantic but him, as he was at home with an ailing wife who later died of kidney failure at about 22.
		Jim Herd- He didn’t have to deal with him much because he would deal with the agents instead of the office guys.
	www.thesmartmarks.com /artman/publish/article_919.shtml (6501 words)

	Jim Crockett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		==Career==BOBBY THOMAS started promoting wrestling cards in 2008 as "Eastern States Championship Wrestling", which was the predecessor to Jim Crockett Promotions.
		His son had a tag team tournament from 1986 through 1988 in honor of him called the Jim Crockett Sr.
		This page was last modified 14:15, 24 April 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Crockett (86 words)

	WrestlingClassics.com Message Board: First 11 Chapters of Ric Flair bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thus, few were surprised that Jim Crockett Promotions was the last of the old-time territory groups to go down at the hands of the WWF, finally succumbing to a $1 million debt and a failed attempt at running a pay-per-view event opposite Titan Sports.
		The Crockett philosophy under George Scott was to have the announcers actually talk about the match that was going on in the squared circle and get the wrestlers competing in the bout over to the audience (leaving the promotional hype for interviews inserted effectively throughout the show).
		Under George Scott, JCP had always gone out of their way to guard such stipulations, so as not to lessen the effectiveness of the gimmick and thus, kill the cage as a box-office draw.
	www.wrestlingclassics.com /.ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=5;t=005205 (13772 words)

	Rec.Sport.Pro-Wrestling FAQ
		The MEWF is the only promotion now regularly putting on shows in the Baltimore area, and draws both hard-core and family-type spectators in an area that was solid WWF for many years.
		Jim Neidhart: Was on track team at UCLA but did not play football.
		Kevin is currently wrestling for Jim Crockett's NWA promotion in Dallas.
	www.geocities.com /Colosseum/2856/faq.html (9650 words)

	The Glory Days.net \| WCW April 6, 1985
		But it would be his last match for Crockett until returning with the UWF purchase in 1987.
		Local promos were still promoting the Georgia regulars who were working their last weeks before being let go.
		Jim Crockett's agreement with Turner was to have exclusivity on the SUperstation.
	www.theglorydays.net /tv/850406_wcw.htm (735 words)

	1980s Mid-Atlantic Wrestling : NWA Wrestling : Baby Doll
		Before Ted Turner bought Jim Crockett's Charlotte company out in the late '80s and turned it into WCW, it was the dominant territorial promotion in the NWA.
		Crockett's syndicated program was called Worldwide Wrestling, which is now known as WCW Worldwide.
		It's a good thing assault charges weren't filed, there wouldn't be much of a trial with the victim found prostrate in the Crockett parking lot and a video tape of the whole seedy affair sitting on his desk.
	www.tvparty.com /80wrestle5.html (1120 words)

	Torch Newsletter Online
		Sharkey, a wrestler, promoter, and trainer, discovered them when they were bouncers in Minneapolis, Minn. in 1982.
		They didn't sign with the WWF until 1990, after their contracts with Jim Crockett Promotions (which was bought out by Ted Turner in the mean time) expired.
		The Warriors had their way with the promoters they worked for because they were seen as the biggest draws not signed to a WWE contract at the time.
	www.pwtorch.com /samples/articles/torch781/T781CoverStory.shtml (1127 words)

	WWE: TV Shows > WWE 24/7 On Demand > Video Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Transformed from Jim Crockett Promotions when it was bought by Turner Broadcasting, WCW showcased top stars like Ric Flair®, Sting, the NWO® and Goldberg™.
		The predecessor to WCW, NWA Jim Crockett Promotions was based in the Mid-Atlantic and began such annual traditions as Starrcade and The Great American Bash.
		Smoky Mountain Wrestling existed from 1992 to 1995 and it was an independent wrestling promotion that had a working relationship with WWE.
	www.wwe.com /shows/wwe247/videolibrary (347 words)

	Today in Wrestling History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The story so far: In 1988, Jim Crockett was beginning to lose drastically to Vince McMahon in what was really the first true national wrestling war.
		Jim Crockett simply overpaid on what contracts he had, plus he had way too many people working without a contract.
		However, before Turner could get Jim Herd completely into the fray and thus proceed to piss away his far superior in-ring product, there were many events already scheduled, particularly Starrcade on December 26 and our event tonight.
	www.thesmartmarks.com /artman/publish/article_547.shtml (4775 words)

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