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Post by Baltimore Jack on May 10, 2006 23:50:38 GMT -5
I need help from some fellow Mid-Atlantic aficionados on the bookers for Jim Crockett Promotions during the years 1973-1986. I’d love to get as specific as possible on dates as well.
In general, these were the bookers I am clear on:
George Scott – Roughly 1974-1981
Ole Anderson – Roughly 1981-1982
Dory Funk Jr. – Roughly 1982-1983 (Not real sure on this)
Dusty Rhodes 1984 forward (maybe late 1983 as well)
Who was the booker that immediately preceded George Scott? Was it Johnny Weaver?
During some of these years, I’ve been told there were two bookers, one handling the northern part of the territory (Virginia and perhaps eastern North Carolina) and the another for the Southern part of the territory (presumably central and western NC and South Carolina.) Not sure how that worked!
Thanks in advance for any help on the topic of Crockett bookers.
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Post by cwh47 on May 11, 2006 7:53:42 GMT -5
From what I understand,George Becker was the booker
during the sixties in to late 1971 when left JCP.After that it
seems that maybe Johnny Weaver and Rip Hawk shared
the booking duties until George Scott became the booker.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on May 11, 2006 7:58:05 GMT -5
I think that George Scott's run as booker started even before 1974, maybe as early as 1972. In addition, I believe that Dory's run as booker continued into early to mid 1984 when Dusty took over.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on May 11, 2006 8:14:42 GMT -5
I found this on-line at Tony Myers tape trading site...
In 1973, Jim Crockett Jr. talked John Ringley into getting rid of Rip Hawk & Johnny Weaver as the bookers and instead replace them with George Scott. At the time, Ole Anderson and Gene Anderson were working with George's brother, Sandy Scott, and Nelson Royal in Asheville and the town went from doing $1,200 to $8,000, but Ole was making around $700 a week and complaining after only seven months of George Scott's booking and decided to run opposition to him. Gene Anderson was in rough shape in 1977, especially his eyesite. Ole made a call to George Scott (husband on Jean Scott) who still was booking the Carolinas and to give Gene a job in the office.
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Post by cwh47 on May 11, 2006 8:24:55 GMT -5
George Scott returned to JCP in early 1973 and teamed
with brother Sandy for the first time since mid-1970.I believe
that during his absence George Scott was working in Texas.
Big Jim Crockett passed away not long after George Scott came
back.
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Post by cwh47 on May 11, 2006 9:05:46 GMT -5
That is some interesting info you posted there RowdyRoddy.
According to that then George Scott would have become the
booker around Sept.1973 as Ole and Gene left JCP in April 1974,
then returning in early 1975 as the World Tag Team Champions.
I would like to add some numbers here.Thanksgiving night was
traditionally the biggest show of the year for Greensboro.The
1972 show drew 13,200.The 1973 show drew 8,000.Johnny
Weaver and Rip Hawk must have been doing something right.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on May 11, 2006 9:29:13 GMT -5
Could bad weather have caused folks to stay home in November 1973? I know that it snowed in Virginia and North Carolina, I think, on November 24th, 1983 at Starrcade. It impacted the number of folks they got at the closed circuit locations.
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Post by cwh47 on May 11, 2006 10:37:27 GMT -5
No.The weather was okay when I went to the 1973 show.
I live in the foothills about three miles from the VA/NC border.
If it had been snowing I would not have gone.
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Post by dogthuhoops2k on May 11, 2006 15:03:26 GMT -5
Starrcade 83, that night it rained in Norfolk and I am assuming Richmond too. No snow.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on May 11, 2006 16:38:39 GMT -5
I guess it was rain, not snow. My bad.
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Post by bobbyryates on May 11, 2006 18:17:54 GMT -5
it rained all day and night on 11/14/83 here around greensboro.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on May 12, 2006 6:55:12 GMT -5
You mean 11/24, bobbyrates??
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Post by Baltimore Jack on May 12, 2006 11:33:42 GMT -5
Enough of the weather reports, back on topic please...  Noodlepoodle recently had a chance to ask Johnny Weaver about the multiple bookers in the early 80s. Weaver told her at one point during Dory Jr.'s tenure, they had four bookers at one time, including Dory, Ernie Ladd , Gary Hart, and Ole Anderson. Also during this time, Johnny Weaver was booking Toronto and Knoxville for Crockett. Wevaer booked Toronto for years after George Scott left. |
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Post by Baltimore Jack on May 12, 2006 11:44:39 GMT -5
In Ole Anderson's book, he states he believes he was responsible for talking John Ringly into hiring George Scott as booker. (Ringly was Jim Crockett Sr.'s son-in-law and briefly ran the wrestling end of things after Big Jim Sr. died.) Ole had worked with Geroge Scott before and thought he had great ideas. Johnny Weaver and Rip Hawk were apparently both booking for Crockett Promotions at that point.
Ole was pretty complimentary of Weaver and Hawk as bookers, but thought things needed freshening up and lobbied for a change.
Further regarding Weaver and Hawk as bookers, as well as George Becker before them, Blackjack Mulligan mentions in his recent DVD interview that he thought those three guys along with Gene Anderson were some of the most brilliant wrestling minds ever in the business.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on May 12, 2006 13:39:10 GMT -5
Gary Hart was a booker in 1983, I believe.
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