Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament

The Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament (also known simply as the Crockett Cup) is a professional wrestling event produced every April by the professional wrestling promotion, National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The event features a tag team professional wrestling tournament with the Crockett Cup awarded to the winning tag team.
==Event history==
The Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament was created by Jim Crockett Jr. of Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) in honor of Crockett's father, JCP founder Jim Crockett Sr. The tournament format was single-elimination with a promoted prize of $1 million (U.S.) awarded to the winning team. JCP held the event every April in 1986, 1987, and 1988 before selling the company to Ted Turner (via TBS) in November 1988.
In July 2017, the Crockett Foundation, with Classic Pro Wrestling, held a spin-off version called the Crockett Foundation Cup Tag Team Tournament in New Kent, Virginia. Bobby Fulton, The Barbarian, and The Rock 'n' Roll Express were previous tournament wrestlers that took part in the event. The Geordie Bulldogs (Mark Denny and Sean Denny) were the tournament champions.
On October 1, 2017, William Patrick Corgan's purchase of the NWA (via his company Lightning One, Inc.) was finalized. In addition to ending its operation as a governing body, the NWA vacated all titles, except for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and the NWA World Women's Championship, and all licenses with previously-affiliated promotions expired. From that point on, NWA gradually became a singular wrestling promotion.
In October 2018, during the NWA 70th Anniversary Show, it was announced that the Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament, now simply called the Crockett Cup, would be returning in April 2019. Thirty-one years after the previous event, the fourth annual Crockett Cup was held on April 27, 2019.
In June 2019, the inaugural event from 1986 was uploaded to the WWE Network.
In January 2020, during NWA's Hard Times pay-per-view, it was announced the Crockett Cup would be returning again in April 2020, thus confirming the Crockett Cup as an annual event held by the NWA. On February 18th the NWA announced the date of April 19th for when the Cup will be held and they announced the venue would be the Gateway Center Arena in College Park, Georgia. The event would be canceled due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic.
==Tournament winners==
*1986: The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk)
*1987: The Super Powers (Nikita Koloff and Dusty Rhodes)
*1988: Sting and Lex Luger
*2019: Villain Enterprises (Brody King and PCO)
*2022: The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe)
*2023: Mike Knox and Trevor Murdoch
==Dates and venues==
Event	Date 	City 	Venue 	Main Event
1986 	April 19, 1986	New Orleans, Louisiana 	Louisiana Superdome 	Crockett Cup Tournament Final: The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk) vs. Ronnie Garvin and Magnum T.A.
1987 	April 10, 1987	Baltimore Maryland 	Baltimore Arena 	Ole Anderson vs. Big Bubba in a Last man standing steel cage match
1987 	April 11, 1987	Baltimore Maryland 	Baltimore Arena 	Crockett Cup Tournament Final: The Super Powers (Nikita Koloff and Dusty Rhodes) vs. Tully Blanchard and Lex Luger
1988 	April 22, 1988	Greenville, South Carolina 	Greenville Memorial Auditorium 	Crockett Cup Tournament Second Round: The Sheepherders (Butch Miller and Luke Williams) (w/ Rip Morgan) vs. The Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane) (w/ Jim Cornette)
1988 	April 23, 1988	Greensboro, North Carolina 	Greensboro Coliseum 	Crockett Cup Tournament Final: Sting and Lex Luger vs. Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard
2019 	April 27, 2019	Concord, North Carolina 	Cabarrus Arena 	Nick Aldis (c) vs. Marty Scurll for the NWA Worlds Heavyweight Championship
2022 	March 19, 2022	Nashville, Tennessee 	Fairgrounds Nashville 	Crockett Cup Tournament Quarter Final: The Commonwealth Connection (Doug Williams & Harry Smith) vs. Gold Rushhh (Jordan Clearwater & Marshe Rockett)
2022 	March 20, 2022	Nashville, Tennessee 	Fairgrounds Nashville 	Matt Cardona vs. Nick Aldis for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship
2023 	June 3, 2023 	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Annex	Crockett Cup Tournament Second Round: La Rebelión (Bestia 666 & Mecha Wolf) vs. Flippin' Psychos (Flip Gordon & Fodder)
2023 	June 4, 2023 	Winston-Salem, North Carolina	Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Annex	Crockett Cup Tournament Final: Blunt Force Trauma (Carnage & Damage) vs. Mike Knox & Trevor Murdoch
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