Former Dallas wrestling promoter Jerry Jarrett dies

TENNESSEE, USA — Longtime wrestling promoter, booker and former skilled wrestler Jerry Jarrett, who promoted wrestling within the Dallas-Fort Worth space for years, has died Tuesday on the age of 80. 

The National Wrestling Alliance confirmed Jarrett’s demise in a tweet on Tuesday afternoon. 

Jarrett was most well-known for selling and serving to e book the Continental Wrestling Association, a Memphis-based wrestling promotion he based in 1977. CWA, which Jarret operated alongside wrestling legent Jerry “The King” Lawler, was recognized for drawing big, raucous crowds on a weekly foundation on the Mid-South Coliseum. 

By 1988, Jarrett was additionally part-owner of World Class Championship Wrestling, the Dallas-based wrestling promotion based by Fritz Von Erich in 1966, which noticed the well-known Von Erich household draw hundreds of followers to Sportatorium each week. 

In 1989, Jarrett and Fritz Von Erich co-founded the United States Wrestling Association, a promotion which ran in each the Memphis space and the Dallas-Fort Worth space. That promotion additionally entered right into a expertise change program with the World Wrestling Federation, serving to develop expertise resembling Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Brian “Grandmaster Sexay” Christopher.

Though USWA ceased operations in 1997, Jarrett stayed lively within the wrestling enterprise by way of the early 2000s, serving to discovered Total Nonstop Action Wrestling along with his son, the skilled wrestler Jeff Jarrett, in 2002. He stayed with the promotion till 2005, when he stepped away from the enterprise. 

Jarrett was voted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame in 2018. 

The reason for Jarrett’s demise has not but been launched.