In 1974, The Mummy was fantastic, but I was 12 and times have changed. But Rick wanted a mummy. My wife and I became really great friends with them. One of the Largest collections of Wrestling footage. 3/11 4/8 And the kid Chris Jericho he was with wasnt too bad either. I liked Lee with Candido a lot more than I liked Lee as a hero. Volunteer Slam III 9/3 Mustafa is 6-foot-5 or 6-foot-6, he was impressive as well, but New Jack just had this look about him. 4/30 182: Landon Pope, Pisgah. STORM: Chris worked every single night like it was WrestleMania. Chris had dual-citizenship. The day-long Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Festival will be 10 a.m.-6 p.m. May 6 at the Townsend Visitors Center, 7906 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway, after the Bigfoot 5K race at 9 a.m. Night Of Legends 10/9 10/9 Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) - YouTube Smoky Mountain Wrestling | Pro Wrestling | Fandom 5/29 Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 4 It was a personality-driven territory. He had people screaming during a Chain Match in Pikeville, Ky., population: 6500. Having my sons with me, it was a great family experience and one of the greatest experiences of my life. [23] Several SMW wrestlers would soon obtain work in the WWF, including Tracy Smothers, The Dirty White Boy, and Boo Bradley. It probably never should have happened, considering Chris broke his arm earlier that afternoon and needed surgery. Owned by the trio of Sweet Stan Lane, Sandy Scott, and Jim Cornette, SMW was very much an analogue to ECW the same way that its promoter is and was an analogue to Paul Heyman. The SMW Tag Team Championship Tournament was a tournament to crown the first-ever SMW Tag Team Champions. 5/29 7/22 2/13 That became The Headbangers. SMOTHERS: It was originally going to be Steve [Armstrong] and I together to work a program with The Heavenly Bodies, but Steve got a job with WWE. 8/28 SMW promoted shows in Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region Overview News and Rumors History Events Event Statistics Results Titles All-Time Roster Matchguide Win/Loss Records Feuds Promos Tournaments Rivalries Ratings Comments Year: All-Time Roster Displaying items 1 to 104 of total 104 items that match the search parameters. He faced off against Bruiser Bedlam, someone with multiple title reigns in multiple promotions, though he never made it big in WWE. We were running 15 towns a month from three strong TV tapings, but we couldnt get into the Asheville or Lexington markets or get a better timeslot in Chattanooga. They could get pretty rowdy. 3/25 Tracey worked so darn hard. Either the story is good or the story is not good. Smoky Mountain Wrestling was an organization staging professional wrestling in the Appalachian area of the United States from October 1991 to December 1995, when it was run by Jim Cornette. 10/10 And that created a lot of controversy. I took the nickname of a high school friend. 2/20 7/2 Non-Televised Smoky Mountain House Shows . There, he functioned as both a singles competitor and a tag team specialist, capturing pretty much every title one could win in the company save for the Heavyweight Championship. Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event, your favorite shows, new movies, live sports, and more. A 10-man tournament was held in Cherry Hill, New Jersey in November, featuring many SMW wrestlers; the participants were Tracy Smothers, Devon Storm, Eddie Gilbert, Johnny Gunn, Chris Candido, Al Snow, Dirty White Boy, Jerry Lawler, Lou Perez, and Osamu Nishimura. 12/17 4/17 That memory will always stick with me. CORNETTE: At The Night of Legends show in 94, The Heavenly Bodies were coming back from WWE to wrestle [Jericho and Storm]. Related: 9 Wrestlers We Forgot Were Managed By Jim Cornette. 3/20 Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 3 3/25 He was legitimate. 7/8 Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 1 5 Things Jim Cornette Gets Right About Modern Wrestling (And 5 He's Wrong About), Jim Cornette, SMW was very much an analogue to ECW the same way that its promoter is and was an analogue to Paul Heyman, Jim Cornette over the past decade or two then you already know how bombastic the guy is, 9 Wrestlers We Forgot Were Managed By Jim Cornette, 5 AEW Stars That Jim Cornette Hates (& 5 He Actually Likes), a guy who sometimes feels some on his roster are too southern,. 1994 saw Randy Savage head to Smoky Mountain Wrestling to compete at their Volunteer Slam 3 PPV. ARMSTRONG: They were completely different. Every night he went out there and busted his hump. We trained together, sat by the pool, went to dinner, went to the movies. Super Saturday Night Fever He asked, What are you doing May 26? And he showed me a paper for a Klan rally. People didnt just want to see them get their @$$es kicked, they didnt want to see them period. 6/25 7/2 7/9 Like many territories in a post Vince McMahon Jr. 6/1 If you're thinking Rubin produced a Fozzy album at some point, you'd be wrong. 10/29 I worked with my dad in a Loser Leaves Town Match dressed up as a ninja.. American professional wrestling promotion, NWA World Heavyweight Championship Tournament (1994), List of former Smoky Mountain Wrestling personnel, SMW "Beat The Champ" Television Championship, SMW United States Junior Heavyweight Championship, List of independent wrestling promotions in the United States, "Smokey Mountain Wrestling > Ring Results > 1991-92", "Smokey Mountain Wrestling > Ring Results > 1993", "Smokey Mountain Wrestling > Ring Results > 1994", "Smokey Mountain Wrestling > Ring Results > 1995", "A Look Back at Smoky Mountain Wrestling", "Nostalgia Review: WCW SuperBrawl III; Sting vs. Vader Strap Match, Hollywood Blondes, Barry Windham vs. The promotion was based in Knoxville, Tennessee, with offices in Morristown, Tennessee. Fright Night 10/14 8/28 Jim Cornette Cornette established the promotion after having cut ties with WCW, with initial financial backing from Record Producer Rick Rubin. [Rubin] would call me at three in the morning, Id hear the latest main event playing the background and wed talk about cool wrestling. WWE now owns the SMW video library. 6/18 Where else could a good ole country boy from Springfield, Tenn., like Tracy Smothers have people cheer for him? [6][7][22] In February 1995, however, Candido lost the belt to Ultimate Fighting Championship winner Dan Severn,[22] who as a freelancer decided to become a traveling World Champion, depriving SMW of a basis for World Heavyweight championship matches. Location List of former Smoky Mountain Wrestling personnel - Wikipedia 11/20 Im a country boy, but that was too much. [26], The King of Kentucky Tournament was a one-night single elimination tournament held in Hazard, Kentucky on June 24, 1993. The hero is going to be very much Clark Kent, straight and honest. 7/3 MANTEL: Cornette started at about 14 or 15-years-old taking pictures. It presented a great product for a particular region in the world and gave a place for many to work and hone their craft when there was only a few big promotions to earn a living in. MANTEL: The wrestling business was in transition at the time. 4/22 9/4 It was special. They built a lot of heat. Pisgah @ Smoky Mountain on Jan 17, 2023 in , NC. Even though those guys were very white meat and clich, I learned from Bob Armstrong, Dirty White Boy, Tracy Smothers and The Rock n Roll Express. 1/23 Overview; News and Rumors; History; Events; Event Statistics; Results; Titles; All-Time Roster; Matchguide; Win/Loss Records; Feuds; Promos; Tournaments; Rivalries; Ratings; Comments; Events. 9/24 9/4 12/3 [27], The NWA World Heavyweight Championship Tournament was a one-night single elimination tournament held in Cherry Hill, New Jersey on November 19, 1994, to decide a new NWA World Heavyweight Champion. Smoky Mountain Wrestling was based . I didnt want it to get to a point where I owed talent money.. Smoky Mountain Wrestling 1991-1995 - Facebook 4/30 11/5 It was a really big deal and Jericho did more than he should have. Smokey Mountain Wrestling was a wrestling promotion founded by Jim Cornette, Rick Rubin and others. 3/18 11/25, 5/16 During the bout, Bruiser got off to a slow start, as would be expected considering Savage's stature. Fans had rallies for us not to come to town and paid to see us lose. 5/7 Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 3 10/21 (c) refers to the champion (s) heading into the match. 8/20 Stay at this 3-star spa hotel in Oberstdorf. This article originally appeared on Asheville Citizen Times: Here are the Mountain 7 conference teams from winter sports in 2022-23, Here are the 2022-23 All-WNC boys basketball teams, player of the year and coach of the year, Here are the 2022-23 All-WNC girls basketball teams, player of the year and coach of the year, All-WNC wrestling 2023: Kage Williams' perfect season highlights another strong year, Here are the Mountain 7 conference teams from winter sports in 2022-23. 6/13 1/9 12/3 1 and No. It was a match made in heaven. Thats what Cornette did. 5/14 5/6 Raw results, April 24, 2023: Bad Bunny challenged Damian Priest to a Street Fight at WWE Backlash in Puerto Rico! They rode their mule to the wrestling matches. Watch Smoky Mountains biggest moments| Watch Smoky Mountains biggest stars in action, We needed buildings and production companies and TV stations so this eccentric music genius could somehow own a wrestling company in Tennessee.. Rubin was technically one of Jerichos bosses in wrestling; the producer was a financial backer for the short-lived regional promotion - Smokey Mountain Wrestling. IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, SMW Beat the Champ Television Championship, SMW United States Junior Heavyweight Championship, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Ive seen him destroy rings. Both Curtis Comes Home and the 2005 sequel show, held in memory of SMW head referee Mark Curtis are both considered "unofficial" reunion shows. 6/5 Sign up for Peacock to watch. We take a look back on this short-lived territory. People had never seen it before. The Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane and Tom Prichard) vs. 5/5 Show me what you got. I guess he liked what he saw because I started working for the company two weeks later. Kevin opened that guy to the bone. LAWLER: There were some backwoods fans, rednecks and coal miners that would come over from Virginia. They can all wrestle. It was Marilyn Manson before he got famous. 8/6 11/13 Smoky Mountain Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion that held events in the Appalachian area of the United States from October 1991 to December 1995, when it was run by Jim Cornette. Two kids were on the mule, they rode up, got off, slapped him on the ass, and he went back over the hill and the kids came to the wrestling match. In Kentucky, you get the same reaction with a hiptoss or a slap to the face. 1/9 10/23 5/5 The Official Wrestling Museum Non Profit Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) Results Promoting the Areas of: Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, The Carolinas Promoter: Jim Cornette 7/91 in ??? SMW (Wrestling) - TV Tropes Rick Rubin's Wrestling: A Look At Smoky Mountain Wrestling - TheSportster He was such a class act. 9/4 8/7 Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 4 Smoky Mountain Wrestling is a little-known wrestling promotion that was founded in 1991 by Jim Cornette who had, at the time, just left WCW. Youre in those Appalachian Mountains. I got this tape from a guy called Lance Storm who I saw leaping from the top rope and cutting these great dropkicks. 7/1 Last updated by Sean Sweeny on April 28, 2014 Title History Career Highlights 1993: Rob Mayze wrestled as "Prince Kharis" in Jim Cornette 's Smokey Mountain Wrestling managed by Daryl Van Horn .. November 26, 1993 - Thanksgiving Thunder: Pince Kharis (debut) defeated Tim Horner with the sleeperhold.. [14] The Heavenly Bodies, managed by Jim Cornette, were featured heavily throughout the years as they worked storyline feuds with The Rock 'n' Roll Express, The Fantastics and The Armstrong Family (especially Bob Armstrong)[14] SMW also featured a number of younger wrestlers who had not yet made their mark on a national stage, including Bob Holly,[15] New Jack, Al Snow,[16] Balls Mahoney, Chris Jericho,[17] Glenn Jacobs (then known as Unabomb, later better known under the ring name Kane),[18] Lance Storm,[17] Chris Candido,[19] Tammy Lynn Sytch,[19] Brian Girard James (B.G. 10/1 10/2 ROAD DOGG: Brian Lee was a great wrestler, a big good-looking guy and had a lot of talent. Its a camaraderie thats not relevant exclusively to Smoky Mountain. Matches from these shows were first shown in February 1992. What was I gonna do? 5/21 10/7 From what I understand, Jim paid really well. Volunteer Slam IV 9,102 likes. He had about 20 guys there sitting ringside. Bluegrass Brawl II ARMSTRONG: You never knew what he was going to do next and I always had to be on my best. 1/22 CORNETTE: We ran shows in Marietta, Ga., wed use some of the local promoters guys and there was New Jack. Smoky Mountain Wrestling Results - The Official Wrestling Museum SMOTHERS: In 1993, Dirty White Boy burned the rebel flag in a trash can while I was handcuffed. He broke in under Jerry Jarrett, who, at one time, was one of the most creative guys I knew. 6/17 Both Curtis Comes Home and the 2005 sequel show, held in memory of SMW head referee Mark Curtis are considered "unofficial" reunion shows.[24][25]. The palace sits on an island in the middle of the lake and requires a ferry for access. 5/19 Add to history Add to collection Add to watchlist Recommend this Displaying items 1 to 100 of total 637 items that match the search parameters. 6/2 CHRIS JERICHO: Jimmy was a great wrestling mind for that area. 9/18 However in April 1995, The Rock 'n' Roll Express won the NWA World Tag Team Championship for the fifth time, giving SMW a handful of World Tag Team championship matches. 3/4 12/25, 1/8 3/28 Smoky Mountain was, however, the birthplace of the controversial "Gangstas" gimmick, where black wrestlers New Jack and Mustafa would cut promos about activist Medgar Evers, while also using fried chicken and watermelon as props. They had such heat. Flash Flanagan defeated Thrasher Sgt. 160: Xander Hill, Pisgah, Jaime Vega, North Henderson. 7/14 Former employees in SMW consisted of professional wrestlers, managers, play-by-play and color commentators, announcers, interviewers and referees . Smoky Mountain was, however, the birthplace of the controversial "Gangstas" gimmick, where black wrestlers New Jack and Mustafa would cut promos about activist Medgar Evers, use fried chicken and watermelons as props and win matches as a result of a two count (rather than the conventional three count), which the Gangstas (kayfabe) insisted on due to Affirmative Action. I was just by myself and The Rock n Roll Express came in to go against The Bodies, but Jim needed a good guy to go against Dirty White Boy. Ever since WWE became a national promotion in the 1980s, wrestling promotions have risen to present themselves as alternatives to Vince McMahon's pro wrestling empire, if not direct competition. ROAD DOGG: I wanted nothing more than to go there and wrestle because my family was there. CORNETTE: We had a deal with the CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Va. The early 1990s saw Jim Cornette launch his own wrestling promotion, Smoky Mountain Wrestling. 6/25 It was pretty crazy. MANTEL: The business had morphed. 5/15 12/4 We take a look back on this short-lived territory. 11/6 The promotion was based in Knoxville, Tennessee with offices in Morristown, Tennessee. ALL-WNC BOYS BASKETBALL: Here are the 2022-23 All-WNC boys basketball teams, player of the year and coach of the year, ALL-WNC GIRLS BASKETBALL Here are the 2022-23 All-WNC girls basketball teams, player of the year and coach of the year, ALL-WNC WRESTLING: All-WNC wrestling 2023: Kage Williams' perfect season highlights another strong year, Player of the Year: Jackson Lyda, West Henderson, Coach of the Year: Brandon Brooks, West Henderson, First Team: Lukas Kachilo (West Henderson), Truitt Manuel (West Henderson), Grant Putnam (West Henderson), Cal Drake (Franklin), Max McClure (Franklin), Parker Cabe (Franklin), Kehler Lamb (Franklin), Bryson Rowe (North Henderson), Noah Pierce (North Henderson), Micah Pierce (North Henderson), Josh Heiny (North Henderson), Caiden Brewer (East Henderson), Reece Alverson (East Henderson), Caiden Robinson (Pisgah), Sawyer Belue (Pisgah), Jett Benson (Tuscola), Co-Player of the Year: Chloe Burch and Dot Mills, Pisgah, Coach of the Year: Brandon Holloway, Pisgah, First Team: Cayce Lovelace (Pisgah), Whitney Boone (Pisgah), Maddie Rhea (Pisgah), Tori Ensley (Franklin), Cali Queen (Franklin), Avery Moffit (Franklin), Roselyn McCollum (Franklin), Jaza Wilson (West Henderson), Jania Wilson (West Henderson), Ava Heffner (West Henderson), Kayden Lyda (West Henderson), Greenlee Flynn (Smoky Mountain), Xalia Spencer (Smoky Mountain), Lexi Gunter (North Henderson), Amy Rhymer (North Henderson), Karsen Cherry (Tuscola), Kaylee Foushee (East Henderson), Wrestler of the Year: Kane Bryson, Pisgah, Coach of the Year: Erik Wilson, Smoky Mountain.
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