Episode 214: The Last Months of Jim Crockett Promotions
Jim Cornette Experience
Arcadian Vanguard
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2018
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
This week on the Experience, Jim takes a deep dive into the final months of Jim Crockett promotions. This extended look includes Jim giving the results, attendances and gates of all shows leading into the sale to Turner Broadcasting. Was Dusty a bad booker? Did Dusty & Flair hate each other? Could Crockett have stayed in business? Find out this week!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again, everybody, and welcome to another exciting episode of the Jim Cornette Experience. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm still Jim Cornette, so far, things are going well, but today, a special show for |
| 0:28.2 | all you wrestling nerds out there. We're going to not only talk about January 1989, as we promise |
| 0:35.6 | last week, but in effect, the year that led up to it. How did Crockett handle the fact that he knew |
| 0:42.1 | all of a sudden he was in a hole? How did Dusty respond with his booking? All these things and more |
| 0:48.4 | explored with the ultimate wrestling savant. That's a nice word for nerd in this usage. Ladies |
| 0:55.7 | gentlemen, he's the Hawaiian Brian, the podcasting lion, the King of the Arcadian Vanguard podcasting |
| 1:01.4 | network. He's the post office playboy, Mr. co-host to you, the great Brian last. Although hot Jim, |
| 1:07.3 | I'd pleasure to be here once again, so far, things are going well. I thought you were the ultimate |
| 1:12.1 | wrestling nerd until I realized you were pitching to me when you said that in the intro. Well, |
| 1:17.1 | maybe I could be the fake, like they had the fake ultimate warrior. I could be the fake ultimate |
| 1:21.3 | wrestling nerd. And I don't even know if that open captured the flavor of what we're going to do |
| 1:27.9 | today. But as I started to do it, I realized, well, this is hard to encapsulate in just a small blurb, |
| 1:35.0 | a tease, a cold open, if you will. But we're really going to dig deep into it. And we're going to |
| 1:40.5 | talk about a couple of other things also. But at first, we don't want to start off on a down note, |
| 1:47.1 | but a lot of people have heard on Twitter over the last few days, it happened this past weekend. |
| 1:52.2 | And a lot of people that have been following the show for quite some time know that |
| 1:57.1 | Maul Bowlin, Starmaker Bowlin's mother, her name was Marie. So Maul actually wasn't even a |
| 2:03.1 | stretch and an abbreviation there. But she passed away this past weekend. I think she was 78. |
| 2:10.6 | And of course, not only when that news came out, everybody was asking about it. If Kenny had |
| 2:16.0 | talked, we'll talk about that in a second. But some people wanted to, because long time listeners, |
| 2:22.2 | the show know that Kenny Bowlin has a colorful family. And they have a lot of colorful stories. |
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