The Crockett Cup Tag Team Wrestling Tournament will be held this Saturday and Sunday June 3-4, 2023, at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds and will feature 24 top teams locking horns over two nights.
“Where history lives, and the future is forged. That’s the National Wrestling Alliance.” – Bobby Fulton
The National Wrestling Alliance will revisit a special piece of history when the organization makes a trip to Winston-Salem, N.C., for the sixth edition of the Crockett Cup.
The event was created in 1986 by the late Jim Crockett Jr. of Jim Crockett Promotions, in honor of Crockett’s father, JCP founder Jim Crockett Sr.
The following twenty three teams have been announced or have qualified for the tournament:
The Midnight Riders (NWA Worlds Heavyweight Champion Tyrus and Chris Adonis)
The Mortons (Ricky Morton and NWA Junior Heavyweight Champion Kerry Morton)
Magnum Muscle (Dak Draper and Mims)
SVGS (Blake Troop and Jax Dane)
Mike Knox and Trevor Murdoch
The Country Gentlemen (AJ Cazana and Anthony Andrews) (NWA United States Tag Team Champions)
The Spectaculars (Brady Pierce and Rush Freeman)
Judais and Max the Impaler
La Rebelión (Bestia 666 and Mecha Wolf) (NWA World Tag Team Champions)
Jinetes del Aire (Myzteziz Jr. and Octagón Jr.) (Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide)
Los Vipers (Arez and Toxin) (Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide)
A Cut Above (NWA World Television Champion Thom Latimer and Rhett Titus)
The Brothers of Funstruction (Yabo the Clown and Ruffo the Clown)
The Fixers (Jay Bradley and Wrecking Ball Legursky)
The Heatseekers (Elliot Russell and Matt Sigmon)
Blunt Force Trauma (Carnage and Damage)
Control Your Narrative (Flip Gordon and Fodder)
Kratos and Odinson
Idolmania Sports Management (Cyon and Jordan Clearwater)
TNT (Terrence and Terrell Hughes)
“Magic” Jake Dumas and Brian Brock
Seeding was announced during a May 18th special YouTube show where it was also announced that the twenty fourth seed would be determined in a four-way tag team match between the following teams:
The Miserably Faithful (Sal Vation and Gaagz the Gymp)
Daisy Kill and Talos
Jeremiah Plunkett and Eric Jackson
The Outrunners (Turbo Floyd and Truth Magnum)
A women’s hardcore team war match will happen pitting all 4 members of Pretty Enpowered (Ella Envy, Roxy, Kenzie and Kylie Paige) against the team of Samantha Starr, La Rosa Negra, and the NWA Women’s World Tag Team Champions M95 (Madi Wrenkowski and Missa Kate)…..Ella Envy, is the daughter of former Page High School baseball coach William Hardin, and Ella Envy is also a former Page High School student…
**********, ++++++++++, $$$$$$$$$$, and ^^^^^^^^^^ parts of this post/article coming in from Mike Mooneyham, at the Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier….CLICK HERE for his full post/article…
**********The original Crockett Cup, initially named the “Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag-Team Tournament,” was a 24-team tourney featuring some of the greatest teams in the world.
Past winners of the prestigious tournament include The Road Warriors (1986), Nikita Koloff and Dusty Rhodes (1987), Sting and Lex Luger (1988) and Jay and Mark Briscoe (2022).**********
++++++++++The modern-day NWA resurrected the tournament, 31 years after the previous event, with the fourth annual Crockett Cup on April 27, 2019, but the follow-up event in 2020 was sidelined by the COVID-19 pandemic.
It would return in 2022 as a two-night event.++++++++++
$$$$$$$$$$ The local promoter for this year’s event at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds is Bobby Fulton(James Hines), and Bobby Fulton knows a thing or two, about tag team wrestling….
Yes, Fulton knows a thing or two about tag-team wrestling. As The Fantastics, Fulton and his partner, Tommy Rogers, were the proverbial “well-oiled machine” inside a wrestling ring, knowing each other’s next move and executing high-flying aerial maneuvers with deft precision.
The two would build upon their success in the popular tournament and return to the Crockett territory in 1988-1989. Their program with Jim Cornette’s Midnight Express would produce some of the greatest tag bouts in the business during that period.
“I remember coming in the first night in Richmond,” says Fulton. “We wrestled them in a non-title match and beat them with their own move (the Rocket Launcher). We would have a lot of great matches with The Midnight Express all over the country.”
“The perfect babyface team” was how Cornette, who managed against The Fantastics on many occasions, aptly described his famous rivals. His Midnight Express’ bouts with Fulton and Rogers were tag-team clinics and considered match of the year candidates, with their work in Crockett Promotions winning feud of the year honors in 1988.$$$$$$$$$$
^^^^^^^^^^ “We are thrilled to bring the Crockett Cup tournament to Winston-Salem, and we can’t wait to see the incredible competition there,” says NWA owner Billy Corgan. “With the help of David Crockett and Bobby Fulton, plus our amazing roster of wrestlers, we aim to make this year’s tournament truly memorable and historic.”
“The winning team of the Crockett Cup is immortalized forever as one of the best tag teams ever in the sport of wrestling,” says David Crockett. “I’m also excited to once again work with Billy Corgan and the NWA team to bring this event to life. The Crockett Cup has a special place in wrestling history, and I’m honored to continue the legacy of my family with this event.” ^^^^^^^^^^
Bobby Fulton tells Mike Mooneyham of the Charleston, South Carolina Post and Courier:
“I’m 62 years old but still as passionate about the business as I was as a 5-year-old boy. I really want to see this event be so successful. I know it’s the Crockett Cup, but I want it to be a celebration, like a family reunion. People from throughout the Mid-Atlantic area will come to Winston-Salem. It will be like a family reunion where we haven’t seen each other in many, many years. We’ll get the opportunity to have that good old feeling. You can’t buy that. It’s like you’re getting ready to see a long-lost cousin that you have thought about and wanted to see. On June 3-4, this is your opportunity.”
“All roads lead to Winston-Salem,” says Fulton. “And Winston-Salem, Greensboro, Charlotte, Charleston, all these towns in North and South Carolina are ready. “It’s going to be two days of nostalgia. We’re also working on bringing some of the older guys in to do meet and greets. That’s why we’ve added a fanfest to the event. I’m really hoping that this is where the nostalgia will meet the future.”
Among the special guests scheduled are Fulton, Ronnie Garvin, Jimmy Garvin, Tully Blanchard, Baby Doll, Bill Dundee and D-Von Dudley.
For more information on the Crockett Cup, to purchase tickets or pre-order the PPV on FITE TV, visit the National Wrestling Alliance website at www.nationalwrestlingalliance.com.
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