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Jim Crockett; Birth name: James Allen Crockett: Born June 2, 1908 Bristol, Virginia, U.S. Died: April 1, 1973 (aged 64) Cause of death: Heart Attack [1] Spouse(s) Elizabeth Eversole (his death) Children: Frances Crockett Ringley (born 1940) James Allen Crockett Jr. (1944–2021) David Finley Crockett (born 1946)
Born to Jim Crockett Sr. and Elizabeth (Eversole) Crockett, Jim Jr. graduated from Myers Park High School in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1960. He and his younger siblings (David, Jackie, and Frances) were largely uninvolved in professional wrestling until their father's death in 1973. The elder Crockett had been a promoter of wrestling and ...
Jim Crockett (1909–1973) was a promoter of live events including professional wrestling, music concerts, plays, minor league baseball, and ice hockey. In 1931, he founded his own professional wrestling promotion, Jim Crockett Promotions. [1] Crockett built JCP as a regional promotion centred on the Carolinas and Virginia. [5]
Caudle continued to host the flagship program which was renamed NWA Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling in 1973 (after the death of Jim Crockett, Sr.). Caudle had many "sidekicks" over the years including David Crockett and Johnny Weaver. In 1986, his show changed its name to NWA Pro Wrestling. In 1988, Jim Ross joined the show.
The team originally formed on July 9, 1987, in Jim Crockett Promotions, defeating Dick Murdoch and Eddie Gilbert.They would wrestle six times together, all against Gilbert and Murdoch, winning every match but the last one, which Gilbert and Murdoch won, before disbanding. [1]
Jim Cornette 1980s Thomas Couch † Tommy Rogers 1988 [46] James Crockett Jr. † Jim Crockett Jr. David Crockett (wrestling) David Crockett James Crockett † Jim Crockett 1940s-1973 William Cruickshanks: Bill Dundee 1985–1987 [47] Roland Daniels † Elijah Akeem Leroy Brown 1981–1982 1984 [48] Barry Darsow: Krusher Khruschev 1984–1986 ...
From 1964 to 1966, Fargo began regularly appearing with the Charlotte, North Carolina–based Jim Crockett Promotions, where his regular opponents included Joe Tomasso. He made occasional further in-ring appearances with Jim Crockett Promotions throughout the late-1960s and early-1970s, [ 12 ] but by the mid-1960s had largely transitioned to ...
David Sheldon (July 20, 1953 – November 25, 2007) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Angel of Death. [1] [2]Sheldon wrestled in various North American regional promotions during the 1980s and early 1990s including Stampede Wrestling, World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) (as the bodyguard of The Freebirds) and ...