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Post by phinney on Dec 27, 2004 16:53:26 GMT -5
How much money did JCP make (as in net gain) in their heyday. Lets say from 1976-1980 or so, how much money did JCP make in a year. Average net gain? Was it in the millions? Did they make more than most other territories in the NWA?
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Post by rdoldschool on Dec 27, 2004 18:58:40 GMT -5
lol is that question for the accountant who else would know that answer
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Post by phinney on Dec 27, 2004 22:33:57 GMT -5
lol is that question for the accountant who else would know that answer I dont need an exact answer, it is just a general idea of their status. |
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Post by Flair81 on Dec 28, 2004 14:25:16 GMT -5
I've always wondered how much they may have
"losted" on some house shows. They where running
shows every night plus afternoon shows on weekends.
Weekly towns like Greenville must have had a steady
following. Look at some match results from the 70's.
Some weeks a town like that may have gotten a good
card and sold out. Then again, other weeks they got a weak card. I'd say they broke even. Bigger shows
in Greensboro and Charlotte must have done well.
It was the spot shows held in small towns in high
school gyms and national guard armory's that I wonder about. How could they make money on a crowd of
200 people? I wonder this with Indy shows today.
The idea behind spot shows was to get the product
out there anywhere they had TV to promote it.
Just to get the rings set up in all those towns took a lot
of workers.
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Post by phinney on Dec 28, 2004 17:18:07 GMT -5
Flair mentions that him and blackjack mulligan, the feud was a "million dollar" deal for JCP as well as the Flair and Steamboat feud
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Post by davemoore on Jan 8, 2005 7:33:38 GMT -5
towns like Greenville must have had a steady following. All I can say for certain is that The Spartanburg Auditorium was packed every saturday night |
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Post by VR on Jan 12, 2005 13:49:31 GMT -5
From the time JCP really made it's initial push(mid/late70's) until the disaster that was Starrcade 87 JCP was second to only Titan in terms of dollars in North America. Other company's such as the AWA for example had a short boom, World-Class had theirs, and Mid-South as well. But Jim Crockett and MA was the power player in the NWA by the early 1980's and his vision was to unify the banner. JC also payed well, which introduced and kept top talent coming through. When you combine the prior with the most loyal fanbase in the buisness you are bound to make dollars. JC also wanted cuts off the gates of other territory's Flair was defending in, much like SM did many years before in St. Louis.
VR
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