Check Into Cash Chairman and CEO Allan Jones credits the sport of wrestling for much of his success. "Unlike football, basketball, and baseball, wrestling is an individual achievement sport. Two wrestlers take to the mat and only one walks off the victor," said Jones. "It takes determination, discipline, and character to come out ahead in wrestling. I have seen it first hand as a driving force in building character and discipline in my former classmates who are doctors, entrepreneurs, and government leaders today." He attended Middle Tennessee State University after high school but left in 1973 at age 20 to help his father (William A. "Bill" Jones) stabilize the family's small business, the Credit Bureau of Cleveland in Tennessee. He purchased the business from his father in 1977 and developed it to become the largest credit bureau database in the state. In the 1980s Jones purchased the Credit Bureau of Murfreesboro from the Merchants Association and automated it to become part of the biggest credit bureau database in the country. Jones donated more than $1.3 million for the state-of-the-art Jones Wrestling Center at Cleveland High School in Tennessee and was the sole funder for the project. He was also the sole funder of the wrestling center at Cleveland's crosstown rival Bradley Central High School. In 2006, Jones started a 6-year plan to make the Cleveland High School wrestling team a state powerhouse. The goal was to rejuvenate the Kids Club, middle school, and high school programs. The plan was designed so that the 2006 sixth grade wrestlers would be state champions by the time they were high school seniors in 2013, which would be the conclusion of the 6-year plan. The results could be seen in 2013 State Duals Finals, where Cleveland blew out 2nd place Wilson Central 78-4, setting an all-time TSSAA scoring record for the most one-sided match in Tennessee championship history. Cleveland High School won state championships in 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Prior to the implementation of the six-year plan, Bradley Central High School had served as a long-respected state powerhouse and had beaten Cleveland in competition for 19 consecutive years. Jones noted that the Cleveland and Bradley wrestling programs are consistently ranked No. 1 and 2 in Tennessee and for the last 10 years have run roughshod over every other team - with up-and-coming Walker Valley not far behind. Jones has donated over $500,000 to the University of Tennessee wrestling program and has raised over $100,000 for the University of Tennessee Chattanooga athletics.