David Crockett on developing Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling
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- Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024
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Nothing like going to the Richmond coliseum on Friday nights as a kid watching real wrestling! Smoke filled buildings!
Monday nights in Greenville, SC
Saturday nights in Greensboro NC. There would be a smoke haze around the ring from all the smokers. The original Starcade was awesome but the 3rd one to me was the best one. Half in Greensboro and half the show in Atlanta. We could see Atlanta's matches on big screens around the ring. Magnum TA faced Tully Blanchard in an I quit match. The Russians lost to the Rock n Roll express in a world tag title match. Dusty won the world title.
I fondly remember your promotion because it represents part of my childhood.
I am from the Lynchburg/Roanoke area of Virginia. Specifically Bedford. I grew up with Mid Atlantic originally being on WSET in Lynchburg late at night. It later moved to WSLS in Roanoke every Saturday morning.
I remember going to the Lynchburg City Armory, and watching all the stars, of Jim Crockett Promotion's NWA wrestling. The likes of Ric Flair, Roddy Piper, to many to name them all... Found memories for sure...
JCP was one of, if not the best territories of all time. The fact that it morphed into a much larger company instead of being immediately swallowed up by McMahon, like every other territory in the 1980s speaks volumes about JCP's greatness.
You provided the best wrestling action, more titles then any organizations can't duplicate.
And some great special matches that WWE will not perform.
My early years were watching WWWF in Pittsburgh, Pa. In the early 70s.
However, once I discovered Mid Atlantic in the early 80s that was it. Mid Atlantic had the best writers, promos, they had me believing it was real.
I loved Crockett Promotions.
The best writers? They didnt have writers back then.
@@ram0666 OK, just yet best promos
I was lucky to have the double memories grew up watching WWWF with Bruno and Superstar the Valiant brothers than one day turned on tv and saw the Rock n Roll wrestling the Russians the entire hour and was hooked again.
Wrestling was just better back in the 70s and 80s PERIOD!
Tony & David were my Favorite ALL-TIME ANNOUNCING DUO. 2nd Favorite David & Bob Caudle!
Love watching the old stuff.
The reason we still remember is we miss it.
We remember because the product was great, and that's what a lot of us grew up with.
That’s all I watch on the Network is JCP/Mid Atlantic.
I really missed Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling/WCW. You can actually point to the downfall of the popularity of wrestling and really the quality in wrestling after WCW went away. WWE stop trying.
I was always a bigger fan of WCW because I grew up in the Carolinas and started watching wrestling in the 80s as a kid in WCW was really like the team for us. I didn’t start watching WWF full-time until like I had been watching WCW for four or five years. It wasn’t until Ric Flair went to WWF that myself, my friends and parents included started watching WWF but I watched WWF all through the 90s and I really liked it, but I noticed in 2001 when WCW went away they just weren’t trying like they were.
I love and respect for David and Tony , I think they’re good people and I can’t think enough for the work they put into the wrestling business because they help provide some great entertainment for a couple decades for some of us. But as much as I love and respect them, I do kind of have to call bullshit on the AEW stuff lol I’m surprised Conrad didn’t roll his eyes when they started talking about “ as far as AEW blows WWE out of the water when I look at one company and then I look AEW then I look at WWE. It’s a no-brainer who’s gonna win this”. OK I’m not really a fan of either but one thing everybody has always kind of agreed on was even when WWE was just terrible at certain times their production was always top-notch. Even Eric Bischoff has stated on more than one occasion that WWE had a better produced show. Even the nights when WCW had a better show the production as far as camera, angles, lighting, pyrotechnics, microphones, making sure none of the moves that were missed in the ring WWE for all of their faults and believe me I’m not a WWE fan at all, but for all of their faults, their production has never really been an issue.
Meanwhile, on AEW, their highest rated show in the last year was a grainy security camera footage of a WWE wrestler assaulting an AEW wrestler .
But like I said, I love and respect Tony and David and can’t thank them enough. God do I miss Southern wrestling.
David the Crocketts the kings of wrestling at the old Asheville city auditorium and then the civic center I live in Marion
it was just that good
I'm lived through Crockett promotion yrs and have fond memories and respect for David Crockett for not wanting to sell off family business that his dad started... Unfortunately I can't agree that AEW production values are better then WWE because nobody beats their production...Also unfortunately their really not wrestling company but more just an entertainment show...They don't use word wrestling on their telecast and don't call their performers Wrestlers..AEW is a wrestling company...Shiavone was good in his time in Crockett promotions but now on AEW his become a ridiculous annoying person...
I have heard that MidAlanta Champion Wrestling is starting back up again will it be back on TV again?
Because it was a time when wrestling looked real. That's what wrestling fans want back.
I shot down Conrad's comment at fiirst, but upon further reflection, I have to agree with him. My first exposure to wrestling was 1979, Mid-South, and from there I had WCCW and later JCP and AWA. The WWF was there, too, but always seemed too cartoonish. And I really only fondly remember wrestling up to the very early 90s, and that is only WCW. But I have also gone back and seen some of the stuff from the 70s before my time, and it is better than I have seen in anything after the early 90s.
We remember because it meant something to US!
The fact that Crockett thinks the production values of AEW are superior to WWE, proves why he didn't last in wrestling and McMahon did.
Wrestling now absolutely sucks....the early to mid 80's were incredible.
David Crockett and Tony Schiavone were a great team.
There is no substance whatsoever to the wrestling shows on television now.
Serious/work wrestling is dead and maybe forever. Kayfabe and not outting the business had a lot to do with how good it was in the old days. Guys had to work the territories in the old days and be believable and they stayed in their character. People always knew wrestling was a work yrs ago but the best angles then got you to believe.
It sure does suck and i get a kick how they put AEW over in this video ,knowing full well that its awful but shows the respect towards Tony.
KAYFABE WAS HOT!
Rick Rude!
I'm glad for the WWE Network because the only wrestling I watch is the old school wrestling. I love the 80's and early 90's wrestling. Wrestling had more realism back then. Today it's fake as can be with all the scripts and fancy moves in the ring. Back then, some of those promos were pretty believable. Listen to Ole Anderson cut a promo. The dude doesn't get enough credit for how great he was on the mic. But what made him good and many others is that they didn't have to follow a script. They said what they wanted and it was far more believable. And pay attention to wrestling matches today. It's so corny how choreographed they look. They have to be with all those high flying fancy moves, but it's so fake watching these guys stand there pretending they're dazed while waiting for the other wrestler to do a 360 summersault back spin twist twirl reverse flip on top of him. Today's wrestling focuses WAY too much on the theatrics. It has become too much like a male soap opera instead of two guys simply wanting to beat each other up.
Tony why laugh at Henry Marcus? If they would have listen to him y'all still be in business after all these years!
What was it? Having thee greatest performer in wrestling history had a lot to do with it.
Because you never shit on your fans like Vince did. You treated us like family too.
Sorry but modern pro wrestling is unwatchable garbage. Thank God for UFC. And....there is nostalgia for Crockett wrestling because if it wasn't the best wrestling promotion ever it is certainly close to it. I've watched countless hours of all the different wrestling promotions and JCP was superior to all of them. And I grew up in NYC watching my hero Bob Backlund in the WWWF (I got cable in 87 & Worldwide was on WPIX). Crocketts NWA was everything pro wrestling should be. The Dusty & Friends vs 4 Horsemen fued was the greatest feud of all time. Thank you David. Thank you Crockett family. Thank you Tony.