UWF Crockett Question
By Scott Keith on 26 April 2012
I am asking you this and essentially the site this because I have not seen a response in other Ask like columns:
I have been watching UWF stuff online and I noticed Big Bubba (Ray Traylor) came into the UWF and won their title on April 19, 1987. With that being said Watts sold the UWF to Crockett on April 9, 1987. Did Crockett send Big Bubba to UWF to win the title so that a Crockett guy would have the belt?
I also noticed around that time Magnum TA showing up around that time, too, was that a Crockett decision?
Yup, Crockett bought the UWF and absolutely wanted to populate the show with his own guys. There were big plans for Bubba and it was a pretty darn good way to give him main event experience. That being said, the whole UWF experiment turned pretty quickly into the same thing as all his other acquisitions did, with Crockett short-sightedly stripping the promotion of all the usable talent (Sting, Steiner, Gilbert, Williams) and then sending his job guys down there to replace them. Is it any wonder the UWF died so quickly afterwards?