Mid 20th Century 1970s and 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s and 2020s James Allen Crockett Jr. (August 10, 1944 – March 3, 2021) was an American professional wrestling promoter.

He and his younger siblings (David, Jackie, and Frances) were largely uninvolved in professional wrestling until their father's death in 1973.

He bought Vince McMahon's Saturday night TV time slot on Superstation WTBS and his business began to flourish.

The following year, he organized the first annual Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup, in which wrestlers from eight NWA regional territories participated in a day-long tag team tournament at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.

Their suspicions increased as Crockett began holding wrestling events in Memphis and Florida without contacting the local NWA promoters.

He eventually purchased promotions based in Oklahoma and Kansas City in the Mid-South territory and began airing his own televised wrestling events, which were syndicated across the United States.

[10] By November 1988, Crockett was near bankruptcy and, through promoter Jim Barnett,[11] sold his company to Ted Turner, who renamed it World Championship Wrestling (WCW).