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Post by cwh47 on May 8, 2006 14:15:27 GMT -5
 This photo of David Finley (Crockett) is from 1972. |
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Post by rlb147 on May 8, 2006 14:21:02 GMT -5
BETTER AT RINGSIDE.
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Post by cwh47 on May 8, 2006 14:50:39 GMT -5
Yes.I will have to agree with you on that rlb147.
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Post by Baltimore Jack on May 8, 2006 22:11:10 GMT -5
Wrestling Memories keeps coming up with some amazing photographs!
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Post by bluedevil71 on May 8, 2006 22:30:51 GMT -5
I know I saw another photo of him in the ring, but that's a great shot. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by cwh47 on May 9, 2006 5:51:27 GMT -5
Thanks guys.We enjoy sharing those old photos because we
love the history of Jim Crockett Promotions,especially the sixties
and seventies.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on May 9, 2006 7:41:10 GMT -5
I followed JCP in the 1980s and had no idea that David Crockett wrestled back in 1972.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on May 9, 2006 9:14:37 GMT -5
I was born in 1973 and started watching wrestling in 1980 (Georgia, WWF, etc.). Thank goodness for cable TV in October 1980 as it gave me the opportunity to see The Freebirds, Ted Dibiase, Tommy Rich, and all the superstars on the Superstation.
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Post by bluedevil71 on May 9, 2006 9:33:52 GMT -5
Lucky you, RowdyRoddy. We didn't get TBS in the Northern Piedmont of Va., until '85.
Sorry, back on topic about David Crockett, now.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on May 9, 2006 11:54:41 GMT -5
I got WWWF on WWOR (now UPN) out of NYC in 1979. While that was OK (Backlund, Patterson, Putski, Santana, Dibiase, DeNucci, Duncam, etc.), I really enjoyed watching Georgia Championship Wrestling in October 1980 when we got cable. By 1982, I was able to get Southwest (Joe Blanchard) Championship Wrestling on USA Networks and World Class (Fritz Von Erich) Championship Wrestling on UHF. By 1985/1986, we were able to get other NWA regional promotions on UHF.
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Post by noodlepoodle on May 9, 2006 13:31:42 GMT -5
I remember sitting in Spartanburg waiting on this "new wrestler", David Finley, to come to the ring. Needless to say, I was so surprised and shocked to see it was David Crockett. He wrestled Killer Karl Kox that night and Kox put the brainbuster on David, and they had to carry him out. LOL. I never saw him wrestle again! I have so many good memories of Spartanburg.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on May 9, 2006 14:21:54 GMT -5
Did they carry him out on a stretcher?
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Post by bluedevil71 on May 9, 2006 14:46:15 GMT -5
Maybe somebody else knows more about this story, if it's fact or not, but I always heard that one of the reasons, if not the main reason that David Crockett wrestled was part of a deal with his father, Jim Sr., when he turned over control of the company to David and Jim Jr., that one of them had to wrestle.
Was that the case? What kind of training did David have?
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Post by noodlepoodle on May 9, 2006 14:54:15 GMT -5
No, not on a stretcher - the ref and some other wrestler carried him back.
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Post by RowdyRoddy on May 9, 2006 15:23:01 GMT -5
I know that Vince Jr always wanted to wrestle in his 20s and 30s back in the 1970s, but his Dad would not let him.
I thought that Jim Sr passed away in 1973. When did he surrender the company to his sons?
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