This week Greetings From Allentown takes its first peek at Jim Crockett Promotions with a look at NWA Worldwide from September 24, 1988!

- An overview of the dying days of JCP, struggling to hang on long enough to be sold to Turner

- The huge issue that the financial problems caused with long term booking

- Dusty Rhodes in late 1988: contender for the most annoying babyface ever

- Who is John Ayers and why is he here, and what happened that might explain a big 1989 storyline in kayfabe

- Complaints about the “squash-promo-squash-promo-repeat” format of the Crockett TVs of the time period

- Dr. Death Steve Williams with a promo for the ages

- The hindsight hilarity of Rick Steiner being bullied

- Ron Simmons: Drug warrior or just a spokesman for D.A.R.E.?

- Celebrating babyface Jim Cornette going all loose cannon and mentioning those who shall not be named

Also:

- Five things from 1984’s The Karate Kid that will enhance your viewing experience

- How the Reagan-Gorbachev thaw in US-Soviet tensions ruined the quality of Russian heels

- Two Bolsheviks references on show about the NWA!

- The NWA music video that included guys who had already quit

- The lengths I went to see a University of Michigan football game in the mid-1990s

- Getting crossed up about Nikita Koloff quitting in 1988, but how could you really tell?

- Law of 1988 JCP promos: Thou shalt mention Dusty Rhodes no matter what

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