NWA Member: Jim Crockett Admitted to Organization: March 1, 1951 Charlotte Office: 812 Queens Road (1955) Charlotte Office: 1111 E. Morehead Street (-1961-'64-) Phone Number: Edison 2-5394 (1955) Around May 1954, Crockett was having a "little rent difficulty in Anderson, South Carolina," as explained in a letter to Don McIntyre in Atlanta. Crockett explained that "in the event you get an inquiries for wrestlers please ignore it and refer them to me." He expected the rent to go back down once "they miss a few shows" there. The Charlotte office was lumped into the controversy surrounding an alleged threat by the NWA against wrestler Mr. Moto, reportedly stating that he'd be blacklisted if he wrestled for nonmember Johnny Doyle in Los Angeles. It was alleged that NWA President Sam Muchnick made the call himself. Moto, at the time, was in Charlotte wrestling for Crockett, and in a July 3, 1955 letter to Stanley Disney of the Department of Justice, Muchnick wrote that: "In one of the conversations with Crockett, I think I said something like this: 'Jim, is Moto going to work for Doyle?' He answered something on this order: 'I don't think he will wrestle for anyone out there at present as no one is drawing and he cannot make any money wrestling for them. He is coming back east soon.'" Research by Tim Hornbaker January 5, 2011 |
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