Crockett Cup 1986

The First Annual Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament, also referred to as Crockett Cup (1986), was held on April 19, 1986. The tournament featured 24 tag teams. The concept of the Crockett Cup was a single elimination tag team tournament, with the storyline prize of $1,000,000.00 given to the winning team along with a large trophy. The tournament was won by The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk), as they defeated Ron Garvin and Magnum TA in the finals to win the tournament.
==Production==
===Background===
In early 1986, the professional wrestling promotion Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) announced that they were hosting a 2-show, 24-team tag team tournament with teams from various National Wrestling Alliance territories. The Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament (commonly known simply as the "Crockett Cup"), named in honor of JCP owner Jim Crockett Jr.'s father, "Big Jim" Crockett Sr. and the The Crockett Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Crockett Sr. in 1933. The first Crockett Cup was held in New Orleans, Louisiana in collaboration with Bill Watts' Universal Wrestling Federation who normally promoted shows in New Orleans. The 24 team event was split over two shows, held at the Superdome, split between one show in the afternoon and another in the evening.
Each show featured one non-tournament match beyond the Crockett Cup tournament. The afternoon show drew 3,500 people, for a box office take of approximately $40,000, while the evening show sold 13,000 tickets for a total of $180,000. The two shows were not shown as part of JCP's weekly television shows, nor broadcast on Closed-circuit television at the time. The events were recorded, since JCP would later release the 1986 Crockett Cup as a commercial VHS videotape, featuring all tournament matches edited down due to time constraints.
===Storylines===
The 1986 Crockett Cup shows featured a total of 25 professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers involved in pre-existing scripted feuds, plots and storylines. Wrestlers are portrayed as either heels (those that portray the "bad guys"), faces (the "good guy" characters) or tweeners (characters that is neither clearly a heel or a face) as they follow a series of tension-building events, which culminated in a wrestling match or series of matches as determined by the promotion.
==Event==
===Tournament participants===
Team 	From 	Notes
Four Horsemen (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard) 	JCP 	First-round bye; Blanchard held the NWA National Heavyweight Championship, Anderson held the NWA World Television Championship.
Giant Baba and Tiger Mask 	AJPW 	First-round bye
The Barbarian and Baron von Raschke 	JCP 	 
The Batten Twins (Bart Batten and Brad Batten) 	CSW 	The most recent Central States Tag Team Champions
Black Bart and Jimmy Garvin 	JCP 	Black Bart was the NWA Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Champion
Dino Bravo and Rick Martel 	Lutte	First-round bye
Bill Dundee and Buddy Landel 	CWA 	 
The Fabulous One (Steve Keirn and Stan Lane) 	CWF 	 
The Fantastics (Bobby Fulton and Tommy Rogers) 	UWF 	UWF Tag Team Champions
Manny Fernandez and Jimmy Valiant 	JCP 	 
Ron Garvin and Magnum T.A. 	JCP 	First-round bye; Magnum held the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship
Los Guerreros (Chavo and Hector Guerrero) 	CWF 	 
Sam Houston and Nelson Royal 	UWF 	 
The Italian Stallion and Koko Ware 	UWF 	 
Bobby Jaggers and Mike Miller 	PNW 	 
Wahoo McDaniel and Mark Youngblood 	JCP 	 
The Midnight Express (Dennis Condrey and Bobby Eaton) 	JCP 	First-round bye; NWA World Tag Team Champions
D.J. Peterson and Brett Wayne 	UWF 	 
The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk) 	JCP 	First-round bye
The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Robert Gibson and Ricky Morton)	JCP 	First-round bye
The Russian Team (Ivan and Nikita Koloff) 	JCP 	First-round bye
Buzz Sawyer and Rick Steiner 	UWF 	 
The Sheepherders (Butch Miller and Luke Williams) 	UWF 	 
Terry Taylor and Steve Williams 	UWF 	Williams was originally scheduled to team up with Ted Dibiase but Dibiase was injured at the time of the tournament
==Aftermath==
On June 20, 2019 the tournament was added to the WWE Network as a Hidden Gem.
==Results==
===Non-tournament matches===
*Jim Duggan defeated Dick Slater to retain the Mid-South North American Heavyweight Championship 
*Ric Flair defeated Dusty Rhodes by disqualification to retain the NWA World Heavyweight Championship 
===Tournament brackets===
==External links==
* on WWE Network
* at CAGEMATCH.net
Category:Jim Crockett Promotions events
Category:National Wrestling Alliance events
Category:Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup Tag Team Tournament
Category:1986 events