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Monday Week 1 March - 1987

Drew Phillips takes over as Head Booker of Jim Crockett Promotions in a move that stuns industry insiders. A relative newcomer to the industry has been given the keys to the kingdom of the proudest surviving NWA Territory in its attempt to rise above Cult status and secure a future for itself in a world increasingly dominated by the WWF.

Jim Crockett Promotions currently has $1,000,000 in the bank.

I know that one of my first goals as Head Booker will be to bring in a new color commentator, as David Crockett is crap, so I immediately set out to do that before even looking at the rest of my roster.

I send out an offer to negotiate with Rich Landrum, former voice of Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling. Capable commentator as well as announcer.

My first order of business is to attend a meeting with my creative team and review their thoughts on my roster.

Interestingly, my creative team gives me 5 names of folks I might consider going after of folks who will be future stars: Keiji Mutoh, Mark Callous, Sting, Sid Vicious, Headhunter A.

I decide to see who else is out there and available on a high level to add some potential star power. I won't bore you with all the names until we see who comes back and is interested in talking.

Tomorrow: My roster is already +25 employees, so it's time for some rationalizing (even if there are a lot of guys on pay-per-appearance contracts).

Tuesday Week 1 - March 1987

Championship Wrestling from Florida sells out to Jim Crockett Promotions

Working Agreements
New working agreements signed with the following promotions:
Stampede Wrestling Calgaary (yes!!)
Pacific Northwest Wrestling (meh)


Rejected by the following:
World Wrestling Association
World Class Wrestling Association (damn!!)

Business Goals
Jim Crockett Jr. calls me in to discuss his business goals.

Goal #1: Over the next 24 months JCP must not fall below cult size at any point.
Goal #2: After 32 months, JCP must not have fallen below #4 in promotion size
Goal #3: Dusty Rhodes must have reached at least B momentum after 18 months
Goal #4: Ric Flair must be kept above C+ overall popularity for the next 20 months
Goal #5: Dick Murdoch must have reached at least B momentum after 18 months
Goal #6: You cannot hire or extend the contract of any wrestler who has less than a C- in Basics
Goal #7: You can’t hire any wrestler who is classed as a Luchador


Roster Rationalizing
Rationalizing based primarily on Performance, then Camera, then Microphone work, then wrestling talent

Terminated
Mike Graham
George South
Bill & Randy Mulkey
Teijo Khan
The Warlord
Denny Brown (stripped of NWA Jr. Heavyweight Title and terminated)
Ed Gantner (will drop the NWA Florida Heavyweight Title to Koloff after a short fued in a Loser-Leaves-Town match)


My undercard workers are now face-heavy, so I'll have to work on that as well. I anticipate my upper-card workers being heel-heavy, so there will be opportunity to adjust all of that moving forward.

I'm heavy on Midcarders, but they're all on PPA deals and I have some decent performing talent there, as well as a couple tag teams that I want to keep as jobbers, so I'm thinking I'll run a bit heavier there. Also heavy on Upper Midcarders and Main Eventers, but there's some quality Tag Teams in there inflating the numbers (Rock n Roll Express, Midnight Express, Road Warriors).

Friday Week 1 - March 1987The following new signings are presented to the JCP Creative team for evaluation and storyline planning:

Sting
Ted DiBiase
Curt Hennig
Shawn Michaels
Beulah McGillicutty (hey who can resist an ex-Penthouse Pet model/manager)
Sunshine

Neither DiBiase nor Hennig make textbook faces, but I'll likely be relying on them to beef up that side of the roster - I can see them in a stable together, perhaps along with the Stinger.

Also, I was ecstatic to present to the Creative team at Jim Crockett Promotions the one, the only, Bret “The Hitman” Hart. Hart will immediately slot in as my #2 guy in the promotion and my top babyface, ahead of Dusty Rhodes and all the rest of the babyfaces. Formerly on an Exclusive P.P.A. with the WWF, Hart has broken his WWF deal in order to take a Pay-Per-Appearance deal with us at JCP.