George Scott: Best Booker of all time?

[phinney]

Out of every wrestling booker ever, I think its hard to beat Scott. Of course this is from what i've seen! What was scott's best booking year? Some could say others but I think 1976, that Flair-Wahoo feud was something else.

[bobbyryates]

he was. and only ole comes close.

[phinney]

I rank MACW bookers in this order

Scott
Rhodes
Funk
Anderson

All were great though

[gwlee7]

Dusty booked a good year maybe year and a half tops. I have just been going throughwatching tapes from the 85 - 87 timeframe and he couldn't pull it back together after Magnum got hurt. It seems like Dusty panicked and started thinking the only way the pormotion was going to make it was if he put himself into everything. This made JCP worse not better. He killed off more angles by putting himself in them.l

[bobbyryates]

yeah, it's like everything had to have a shock value to it to be good. that may work, but things like that seem to have very short lives before the need for another shock. hm...sounds like an addiction.

[phinney]

hey im starting to get into the Johnny Valentine days of MACW, from what i've heard and read, seems great. Scott was brilliant! Dusty was great but panicked, Funk was solid and consistent, and ole was good as well.

[Baltimore Jack]

Scott told better stories, but Dusty did have that flare for the dramatic (if you'll pardon the pun.)

Scott is the clear number one. From what I've read about other areas, Dusty's best booking was in Florida and Ole's best booking was in Georgia. Scott booked other places as well, but his best work, without a doubt, was in the Mid-Atlantic.

[justahamandegger]

I didn't see MACW when George Scott was booker, but from what I have read about him tells me this.

George Scott knew good wrestling talent. He was a very good recruiter, bringing in new and big name talent. He also was not afraid to try something new. like when he helped change MACW from an emphasis to tag team wrestling to single wrestling. He also helped Vince jr. get the WWF going in the direction Vince wanted to go.

[VR]

Scott was the best booker JCP ever had, period. The story always had a beggining, middle, and end. It also spun off into different programs without probs.

I do believe that all bookers can become stale and that's why it's important to spin the wheel. Runnels booked some hot shot angles 85-86, but burned out by 87. Not that it was the worst, but it was a far cry from the best.

I always enjoyed Watts style. He overlooked everything while rotating bookers in Mid-South Sports. They understood what Watts wanted and executed.

In closing it's all one big link, and taste for the individual preference.

Roy Shires
Dory Funk Sr.
Eddie Graham
George Scott
Bill Watts

etc...

VR

[ssteward]

I've heard some stories about Scott that doesn't make me think highly of his booking.

I believe Cornette said he is the one who tried to get rid of the Midnight Express in 1989 when he returned to the book. He got rid of the Fantastics as well after making them tone down their style according to Bobby Fulton.

[VR]

While Scott may have been a part of booking errors in 1989 he displayed very little flaws before 1982. We have to remember what WCW inc. was and became.

I also feel that Scott may have been behind on the times as far as the new era of buisness practice by that point, when dealing with a national company approaching the 1990's. No different then Watts in 1992.

It should never take away from their respective track records in "their" day. As far as im concerned Scott was the best JCP had period. The company was fundamentaly sound in the mid-to-late 70's and early 80's. In no way does that take away of 1983 or 1985-86.

VR

[bobbyryates]

yeah, it's hard comparison to the '70's to '89. real hard. there's also a difference to being a booker for a wrestling promotion (MACW), than it is being just an employee of a comglomeration (TBS).

[superworker]

Dusty shouldnt even be mentioned in the same sentence as George Scott....except this one.
IMO!