195: Titus Bridges, Pisgah. 10/29 3/3 11/12 The Dirty White Boy for the SMW Heavyweight Championship, The Armstrong Family (Bob Armstrong, Scott Armstrong and Steve Armstrong) vs. Jim Cornette and The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard & Jimmy Del Rey), Tracy Smothers vs. Brian Lee for the SMW Heavyweight Championship, The Armstrong Family (Bob Armstrong, Scott Armstrong and Steve Armstrong) vs. Jim Cornette and The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray). Smokey Mountain was the exact opposite of that, so even at the time, as a teenager, it felt like watching wrestling that my parents might have liked. The Mountain 7 has released its all-conference teams for the 2022-23 winter sports seasons. From 1992 until the promotion's end in 1995, Chris Candido wrestled for Jim Cornette 's Tennessee-based outfit Smoky Mountain Wrestling. 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. All-WNC wrestling 2023: Top high school wrestlers from Western NC 5/22 1/21 10/21 The Moondogs, The Dirty White Boy and The Dirty White Girl vs. Brian Lee and Tammy Fytch, The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) vs. 6/25 5/22 4/30 Alumni [ edit] Male wrestlers [ edit] Female wrestlers [ edit] Rick Rubin's Wrestling: A Look At Smoky Mountain Wrestling - TheSportster Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 3 I had wrestled in Knoxville many times before, but it had been a while since Id been back. Event history He had all the rebel gear on, and the son had it on, too. AWA TV. JERICHO: The thing I really learned a lot about there was interviews. 7/1 4/1 CORNETTE: We got Knoxville straight off the bat on the Fox station on Sunday mornings, and we also got WCYB, which was the NBC affiliate in the Tri-Cities Bristol, Kingsport, Johnson City. Displaying items 1 to 100 of total 637 items that match the search parameters. Cornette established the promotion after having cut ties with WCW, with initial financial backing from Record Producer Rick Rubin. 5/19 CORNETTE: Bruce Prichard from WWE called me and asked if The Heavenly Bodies and I wanted to come for a few shows. 6/4 5/6 I knew something was wrong. 1/22 10/7 138: Jacob Ed, West Henderson, William McCoy, Smoky Mountain. 3/6 ARMSTRONG: Tracy actually pinned a bear and the guy who owned the bear came to me the next day and said, Please tell Tracy to take it easy on my bear. He was a fantastic wrestler. 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,. WWE now owns the SMW video library. Fans had rallies for us not to come to town and paid to see us lose. Find the all-conference team for each sport below. To some of them, it wasnt just entertainment. I learned how to perform a basic, good guy interview and get some personality and charisma involved as well. He rolled out of the ring and had a weird look on his face. 6/10 6/3 2/27 9/24 Contents 1 History and overview 1.1 Formation 1.2 Territorial reach 4/23 Watch The Thrillseekers' amazing video package including riding bumper cars and at a petting zoo. They had such heat. 2/26 And its an art that can be lost. SMW event tours also included high school gyms and fairs in cities throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. Warren went 22-3 at 185 pounds with a win at the Smoky . 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. 10/2 October 1991 5/28 THE 10 CLOSEST Hotels to Gasthof Alte Schreinerei, Steinsfeld - Tripadvisor We used those shows to go to stations to sell a wrestling TV show. 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. 11/7 4/22 During the bout, Bruiser got off to a slow start, as would be expected considering Savage's stature. I spent all of 1991 going back and forth to California to talk with Rick. SMOTHERS: Some of the best matches Ive ever had were with Chris. ROAD DOGG: My dad was already getting up there in years and there were a lot of young guys, so he became the commissioner. He knew those people so well, what they wanted and when they needed it. History and overview [ edit] Formation [ edit] CORNETTE: Hes an Armstrong. CHRIS JERICHO: Jimmy was a great wrestling mind for that area. 1/21 CORNETTE: Rob Mazzie was 6-foot-8 and 300-something pounds. CORNETTE:This woman in Barbourville, Ky, grabbed Tammy [Sytch] and dragged her on the gym floor by her hair and wrists, determined to drag her out of the back of the building. 2/11 5/1 Both Curtis Comes Home and the 2005 sequel show, held in memory of SMW head referee Mark Curtis are both considered "unofficial" reunion shows. Fire on the mountain: The oral history of Smoky Mountain Wrestling facebook twitter During the early 1990s, wrestling was in a state of transition. 7/8 But Cornette wanted to have a hand in everything. Though they did eventually run events over that large of a region, including a few shows at the Cobb County Civic Center in Marietta, Georgia, the promotion's biggest towns included Knoxville, Tennessee, and Johnson City, Tennessee. 6/17 10/7 Learning when to do things, why to do them and getting the crowd to react the way you want. It was sold out with like 5,000 people. When he looked to start his own promotion he met Rick Rubin and got the funding to start SMW. 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. He became a serious student of the business. 5/21 Watch Smothers battle Chris Candido in an early Ladder Match. Several SMW wrestlers would soon obtain work in the WWF, including Tracy Smothers, The Dirty White Boy, and Boo Bradley. For everyone who has paid a lick of attention to Jim Cornette over the past decade or two then you already know how bombastic the guy is. If youre thinking Rubin produced a Fozzy album at some point, youd be wrong. 7/24 220: Reese Meadows, North Henderson. 10/28 5/7 Former employees in SMW consisted of professional wrestlers, managers, play-by-play and color commentators, announcers, interviewers and referees . I had a police officer keep an eye on them while I took care of White Boy in the ring. Watch Dirty White Boy sneak up on Dutch Mantel in a scrapyard. 6/19 4/29 We were working so fast and doing all these high spots. 10/14 3/13 BROWN: Ill never forget the whole buildup when The Undertaker came down for a couple of shows and we were going to wrestle in a Six-Man Tag Team Match. In 1993, Smoky Mountain Wrestling signed deals with the World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation to showcase their wrestlers on the larger companies' shows. 5/22 SMOTHERS: In 1993, Dirty White Boy burned the rebel flag in a trash can while I was handcuffed. They were carrying WWEs Superstars, so they aired us from 11:00 to noon and aired Superstars from noon to 1:00 and asked people to vote for which program to keep. 8/28 Smoky Mountain Wrestling 1991-1995. Smoky Mountain Wrestling - Wikipedia 10/7 10/23 12/12 2/12 7/8 He was used as a star of yesteryear that still had it in him and had the crowd on the edge of their seats the whole time. 9/5 3/25 Flash Flanagan defeated Thrasher Sgt. Tennessee, Kentucky and all those places that we used to go to, he really knew what people wanted to see there and he was really smart with it. 9/19 The basketball teams are voted on by league coaches. The Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane and Tom Prichard) vs. 2/19 The Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane and Tom Prichard) and Jim Cornette for the SMW Tag Team Championship, Bobby Eaton and The Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane and Tom Prichard) vs. Arn Anderson and The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) vs. Dutch Mantell and The Stud Stable (Robert Fuller and Jimmy Golden), Brian Lee, The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) and The Stud Stable (Robert Fuller and Jimmy Golden) vs. Kevin Sullivan, The Tazmaniac, Killer Kyle and The Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane and Tom Prichard), Tracy Smothers vs. 5/27 Being around veterans who had been there, done that, they were willing to share what they had learned. Pisgah Smoky Mountain. They voted for ours, but WWE stayed on the air anyway. 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]. Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 3 They were heartthrobs. I knew we could get him back in the ring after someone pushed him too hard, which likely would be me. Christmas Chaos - Day 2 We did the match and it had a crazy emotion to it.We were wrestling against WWE Superstars and founding members of Smoky Mountain Wrestling. ARMSTRONG: You have to show southern fans you know what youre doing and The Mummy made it really hard to do that. They take their rasslin very seriously. Owner . Like many territories in a post Vince McMahon Jr. He really did. 9/22 The promotion was based in Knoxville, Tennessee with offices in Morristown, Tennessee. He was tailor-made for the region. Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 4 12/3 Results Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match. The promotion was based in Knoxville, Tennessee, with offices in Morristown, Tennessee. [4][5][6][7], In 1993, Smoky Mountain Wrestling signed deals with World Championship Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation to showcase their wrestlers on the larger companies' shows. 7/18 They can all wrestle. We put baby powder on him so if he was dropkicked, dust would fly out. During the late eighties, as wrestling got more cartoonish, Rubin did what any fan with money would do - he forked over some money to Cornette to start a traditional territory like the ones they both had grown up with. These were people that would get involved. Cornette formed the promotion in October 1991 upon leaving World Championship Wrestling, with Sandy Scott and backed financially by music producer Rick Rubin. BROWN: I was scared out of my wits of New Jack. In the same night, I went from being me to being DLo. He broke in under Jerry Jarrett, who, at one time, was one of the most creative guys I knew. We cut all the expenses that we could cut, but I had pride. 3/11 Summer Blast 4/17 I think he was the longest tenured roster member. Watch Cornette go too far in his verbal attacks on the Armstrong family. SMW Thanksgiving Thunder 1995 | Pro Wrestling | Fandom He always sat in the crowd. After years of operating in red ink, and the loss of financial backing from Rubin, Cornette shut the promotion down in December 1995 to work full-time with the WWF. 3/20 What Smoky Mountain was trying to do was to find that market. 7/4 In 1974, The Mummy was fantastic, but I was 12 and times have changed. But Rick wanted a mummy. 10/21 6/8 He had a good match, was a great kid, came to eat ribs with us and I liked the way he carried himself. 3/26 BOB ARMSTRONG: Cornette was a fan club president of mine when I was in Memphis. 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. 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) SMW also featured a number of younger wrestlers who had not yet made their mark on a national stage, including Bob Holly, New Jack, Al Snow, Balls Mahoney, Chris Jericho, Glenn Jacobs (then known as Unabomb, later better known under the ring name Kane), Lance Storm, Chris Candido, Tammy Lynn Sytch, Brian Girard James (B.G. Watch a young Al Snow take on Brad Armstrong for the Smoky Mountain Title. Wrestling and swimming are determined based on votes from coaches and conference championship results. Tales From The Territories - Smoky Mountain Wrestling - Full Episode 12/30 Original Wrestling Documentaries 62.6K subscribers Subscribe 4K 429K views 5 years ago #TalesFromTheTerritories Follow. Watch WrestleMania and other WWE Premium Live Events on Flow. 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 ??? 11/27 I dont think America in 1994 was ready for it. What made this small, regional organization so memorable? 9/11 2/27 Just give it a try, he said. 2/21 The reason ECW was so successful is because Paul Heyman had his pulse on what the youth of America felt at the time. 1/9 4/21 11/13 5/14 6/24 Volunteer Slam III 8/12 9/8 I liked Lee with Candido a lot more than I liked Lee as a hero. 4/2 Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 1 11/20 The promotion was based in Knoxville, Tennessee, with offices in Morristown, Tennessee. Bankrolled by an LA-based music genius who produced Eminems latest album, the fiery Louisville Slugger founded Smoky Mountain Wrestling as a throwback to what he believed to be the lost art of southern-style rasslin. People knew my friend Cat Collins and were asking, Whos that bum hanging around with Cat? I drove him to Nashville to produce the Johnny Cash album and I got to eat lunch with Johnny Cash. ARMSTRONG: I was getting on up in age. Unfortunately, four years in, Smokey Mountain had to close its doors in 1995. He was just taking photographs. Fire On The Mountain 285: Eli Frizzell, Pisgah. 1/29 It would get scary. 7/17 Bob Caudle, who was the play-by-play announcer on the TV program, would also proclaim at the beginning of each show that Smoky Mountain Wrestling was "professional wrestling the way it used to be, and the way you like it." This page is not available in other languages. 6/19 11/5 11/6 It was a good chance to get promoted on national television, but I was afraid that if I showed up, people would think I was leaving Knoxville and it would hurt shows, so Bruce got Vince to agree that we could mention Smoky Mountain on WWE TV. Thats not something southern America in 1994 was probably ready for. Watch "The King" in Smoky Mountain against Dirty White Boy. SMW - Pro Wrestling The Smoky Mountain Wrestling 1991-1995 Hotels near Residenzschloss Oettingen Hotels near Der Marktplatz - Oettingen in Bayern Hotels near Stadtmauer und Holzgraben Hotels near Knigsturm Hotels near Heimatmuseum Oettingen in Bayern Hotels near Evangelische Pfarrkirche St. Jakob Hotels near Das Rathaus - Oettingen in Bayern Hotels near Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Sebastian Hotels near Vlkerkundemuseum im Residenzschloss Hotels . 4/8 Big Apple Brawl Im a country boy, but that was too much. Enter Jim Cornette. [8] This led to The Rock 'n' Roll Express wrestling The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Stan Lane) at SuperBrawl III in February 1993. STORM: We were brought in for the Sunday Bloody Sunday show, which was Terry Funk vs. Bob Armstrong. 2/25 8/27 (1) 8/27 The Dirty White Boy for the SMW Heavyweight Championship, The Dirty White Boy vs. Bruiser Bedlam and Jim Cornette, Bambi and The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) vs. Tammy Fytch, Chris Candido and Brian Lee, The Dirty White Boy vs. Chris Candido for the SMW Heavyweight Championship, Bob Armstrong, Tracy Smothers and Road Warrior Hawk vs. Bruiser Bedlam and The Funk Brothers (Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk), The Dirty White Boy, Tracy Smothers and The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) vs. Boo Bradley, Bruiser Bedlam and The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa), The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa) vs. Legends like the Rock And Roll Express extended their runs as well as perennial Journeyman like Tony Anthony, one of the regions hottest heels - The Dirty White Boy (WWE fans would know him as the Plumber, TL Hopper). Volunteer Slam I He has even stated on several podcasts that he to his day watches eight hours of wrestling a week (Dont hold that against him, the man has a job and cant sit on the couch ALL day to watch). We trained together, sat by the pool, went to dinner, went to the movies. 10/2 [29], After SMW closed, Brad Armstrong declared himself SMW champion and defended the SMW Heavyweight Championship in the United States Wrestling Association. 10/16 It didnt mean anything for the average Smoky Mountain Wrestling fan, but it was the tape traders that were the ones watching this stuff because they knew who Kanemura was. SMOTHERS: Sometimes the pressure would get to him and hed just snap. [28], The Carolina Cup Tag Team Tournament was a one-night single elimination tournament held at the Grady Cole Center on August 13, 1995. It was a match made in heaven. Former employees in SMW consisted of professional wrestlers, managers, play-by-play and color commentators, announcers, interviewers and referees.

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