The Way It Was
ITH THE TRAGIC passing some three months ago of Jim Crockett Jr., many longtime wrestling fans were suddenly reminded of cherished memories of one of the greatest professional wrestling companies to ever do business. It’s no secret that Jim Crockett Promotions received heavy coverage in the pages of the Stanley Weston family of wrestling magazines—especially during the mid-to-late 1980s, a time when our writers and photographers had been unceremoniously locked out of covering Vince McMahon’s WWF product. But, while necessity made bedfellows of London Publishing and JCP, there is also no denying that the brand of
