George Scott

George Scott was a Canadian professional wrestler booker and promoter From the 1950s until the 1970s he and his younger brother Sandy competed as The Flying Scotts in North American regional promotions including the National Wrestling Alliance particularly the Midwest and MidAtlantic territories as well as successful stints in the American Wrestling Association Maple Leaf Wrestling and Stampede Wrestling Scott was also the longtime head booker for the Jim Crockett Promotions working under promoter Jim Crockett Jr during the 1970s and with Vince McMahon during the World Wrestling Federations national expansion during the early 1980s He helped organize many of the early PPV events such as WrestleMania I and WrestleMania 2 as well as the early cards for the WWFs weekly television shows Saturday Nights Main Event Prime Time Wrestling and Superstars of Wrestling On the Steve Austin Show Unleashed Podcast Scott was credited by Ric Flair as the person who came up with the idea that to reverse the Figurefour leglock the opponent would simply turn over onto their stomach