smoky mountain wrestling

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. 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]. Find the all-conference team for each sport below. Style 4/22 BROWN: We had what was called the Smoky Mountain Flophouse in Morristown, Tenn., close to Cornettes house. Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 4 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. 4/8 Thats not something southern America in 1994 was probably ready for. 9/8 11/8 At Bluegrass Brawl in Pikeville, Ky., Dirty White Boy and I had a Chain Match and a member of the Ku Klux Klan showed up at my merch table. AWA TV. 11/19 CORNETTE: We led up to a World Tag Team Title Match against The Steiner Brothers at SummerSlam. 5/5 6/4 9/3 1 and No. 4/24 LAWLER: There were some backwoods fans, rednecks and coal miners that would come over from Virginia. 8/5 10/14 4/30 1986 1988 . James / The Road Dogg) and D'Lo Brown, but ultimately, like most independents, was not financially successful. Fire On The Mountain 3/4 CORNETTE: Bullet Bob was one of the most important parts of Smoky Mountain from the start. per night. CORNETTE: We ran shows in Marietta, Ga., wed use some of the local promoters guys and there was New Jack. Chris had dual-citizenship. MANTEL: The wrestling business was in transition at the time. [29], After SMW closed, Brad Armstrong declared himself SMW champion and defended the SMW Heavyweight Championship in the United States Wrestling Association. Cornette formed the promotion in October 1991 upon leaving World Championship Wrestling, with Sandy Scott and backed financially by music producer Rick Rubin. They built a lot of heat. 10/22 3/26 The result was a unique Appalachian institution that attracted fans who traveled over the hills on the backs of mules to watch performers like Chris Jericho, Road Dogg, Sunny and a guy called Dirty White Boy. 7/23 In February 1995, however, Candido lost the belt to Ultimate Fighting Championship winner Dan Severn, who as a freelancer decided to become a traveling World Champion, depriving SMW of a basis for World Heavyweight championship matches. 7/16 Nobody really did that back then have wrestlers from all these different promotions come in. 11/14 If Cornette gave up some of the reigns to Sandy Scott or Mark Curtis, they probably could have taken care of some stuff. CORNETTE: The last one to come was young Brian [aka Road Dogg]. They were heartthrobs.. The Dirty White Boy for the SMW Heavyweight Championship. 11/6 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. 7/4 160: Xander Hill, Pisgah, Jaime Vega, North Henderson. 10/21 11/4 6/8 9/19 Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 1 Six Pisgah wrestlers ( Kane Bryson, Cameron King, Xander Hill, Landon Pope, Tytus Bridges and Eli . STORM: I got married literally the day before I moved to Smoky Mountain and my wife ended up renting an apartment in the same apartment complex as Chris and Tammy. Acronym The outdoor festival . 8/11 9/24 Ive seen him destroy rings. 1/29 The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray), Brian Lee vs. Tracy Smothers vs. CORNETTE: Hes an Armstrong. A lot of experience. 3/11 Sunny, New Jack, D-Lo Brown, Lance Storm, Chris Jericho, and more were able to first get noticed due to their time with Cornette. I learned how to perform a basic, good guy interview and get some personality and charisma involved as well. 4/16 6/18 3/6 Rock defeated The Wolfman ARMSTRONG: He worked himself to death. Bluegrass Brawl II 11/19 7/3 The good guy wore the white hat, the bad guy wore the black hat. Jericho asked me if he could go in the ring to practice some stuff. After SMW folded, The Louisville Slugger, Jim Cornette went to work for WWE. 2/12 CORNETTE: All the talent in Smoky Mountain either got their big opportunity later, like Al Snow, Candido or Unabomb, or already had their opportunity, such as The Rock n Roll Express and Bob Armstrong. 4/16 Results Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match. Smoky Mountain Wrestling was short-lived, but made a big impact. 1/21 CORNETTE: At The Night of Legends show in 94, The Heavenly Bodies were coming back from WWE to wrestle [Jericho and Storm]. Fans had rallies for us not to come to town and paid to see us lose. Brian had worked in Memphis and had a lot of potential. SMOTHERS: Sometimes the pressure would get to him and hed just snap. I had a police officer keep an eye on them while I took care of White Boy in the ring. The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) vs. CORNETTE: We had a deal with the CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Va. Jimmy has a temper. 12/31, 1/7 He had people screaming during a Chain Match in Pikeville, Ky., population: 6500. SMW Tribute Page for the history and memories of Smoky Mountain Wrestling!! 3/28 King Of The Mountain Tournament 4/7 7/11 The promotion had a brief association with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), whose flagship promotion Eastern Championship Wrestling had split away in August 1994, leaving the NWA with no World Heavyweight Champion. Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 2 5/7 I wasnt very good at them at the time. 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. Watch Dirty White Boy sneak up on Dutch Mantel in a scrapyard. 4/10 Find the all-conference team for each sport below. 6/7 2/5 5/7 JERICHO: When youre in front of 200 people, theres no need to do a dive over the top rope to the floor. SMW Night Of Legends is a Professional wrestling event of Smoky Mountain Wrestling which was taped on August 5, 1994. CORNETTE: I had to get Lance paperwork to work in America. 7/21 2/27 Sullivan got at him with this spike, and we had to censor it because it was so gross. * Note: The was the first ever Smoky Mountain Wrestling show. He asked, What are you doing May 26? And he showed me a paper for a Klan rally. 1/16 12/12 People were scared of them. 3/19 Cornette formed the promotion in October 1991 upon leaving World Championship Wrestling with Stan Lane, Tim Horner and Sandy Scott. ARMSTRONG: Great, great wrestler. 6/17 8/5 11/20 [3], Cornette had initially envisioned a territory reaching from Kentucky into as far as South Carolina and Georgia. 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. They used to call us the flying squirrels and mean it. 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. It was eye-opening to see that other side of him. 8/13 SMW promoted shows in Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Dad knew what Jim wanted and Jim knew how Dad was going to act out there. 4/17 7/16 Volunteer Slam I We needed buildings and production companies and TV stations so this eccentric music genius could somehow own a wrestling company in Tennessee. 11/5 Fire On The Mountain 1994 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. Christmas Chaos - Day 1 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. 11/25, 5/16 I knew we could get him back in the ring after someone pushed him too hard, which likely would be me. People didnt just want to see them get their @$$es kicked, they didnt want to see them period. CORNETTE: I got a building rent free and made two TV pilots, which ended up being show No. 10/17 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. Under Cornette, it was fresh and exciting. We take a look back on this short-lived territory. All the mom and pop promotions were dropping like flies. 7/18 5/21 And the stories were good in Smoky Mountain. He liked southern territory wrestling, wild stuff, big heat, that type of thing. BROWN: [Smoky Mountain] was like my first year in college. But the southern style that Cornette grew up with and pushed forward with his promotion still lives on to this day. 2/27 [Rubin] would call me at three in the morning, Id hear the latest main event playing the background and wed talk about cool wrestling. 9/3 10/23 CHRIS JERICHO: Jimmy was a great wrestling mind for that area. Established SMOTHERS: That was different. The first Smoky Mountain Heavyweight Champion, "Primetime" Brian Lee, won the championship in a tournament held at Volunteer Slam on May 22, 1992, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He never went out to any bars on the road. The Mountain 7 has released its all-conference teams for the 2022-23 winter sports seasons. 9/4 Thats how full the place is. In hindsight, considering where we were, Jim was right. STORM: I absolutely love Bob Armstrong. 5/1 195: Titus Bridges, Pisgah. Jim CornetteTim HornerStan LaneSandy Scott JERICHO: The thing I really learned a lot about there was interviews. JERICHO: He flew us to Knoxville from Calgary. After years of operating in red ink, Cornette shut the promotion down in December 1995 to work full-time with the WWF. 3/26 First Team: 106: Aydan Mull, Tuscola. CORNETTE: Scott [Armstrong] wrestled under a mask as Dixie Dynamite. 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. 10/28 James / Road Dogg) and D'Lo Brown, but ultimately, like most independents, was not financially successful. Parent Its hard to compete with Vince McMahon and the machine. CORNETTE: Rob Mazzie was 6-foot-8 and 300-something pounds. 4/29 He really did. 6/6 I didnt want to eat very much, because hed push you to your limits. 6/18 [23] Several SMW wrestlers would soon obtain work in the WWF, including Tracy Smothers, The Dirty White Boy, and Boo Bradley. 6/17 This was in sharp contrast to ECW, in which edgy angles, "tweeners" and anti-heroes increasingly took precedence over clearcut heroes and villains. 8/28 7/2 Contents Formation Territorial reach Notable talent ROAD DOGG: Jim Cornette gave me the name The Dark Secret, because it was a dark secret that the Commissioners son was the one under the hood. The OJ car chase had just happened and Rodney King a few years before that, so I came up with The Gangstas from South Central LA. And the kid Chris Jericho he was with wasnt too bad either. 4/2 JIM CORNETTE: In WCW in 1990, The Midnight Express Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane and myself were still there. 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. Volunteer Slam III SMW 1/28 Then he studied under Bill Watts, who had a great wrestling mind. He was tailor-made for the region. We passed this guy who had killed a deer. Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Shahid. 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). 4/23 9/4 Enter Jim Cornette. Jim Cornette 7/22 Smoky Mountain Wrestling 1991-1995. 3/11 Fright Night STORM: Like ECW, Smoky Mountain was too big to be small and too small to be big. It was me, New Jack, Mustafa, Unabomb, Chris Jericho lived there at one point, Balls Mahoney and another kid who was Little Snot Dudley in ECW. Im a country boy, but that was too much. 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. 5/14 The deer was strapped up and he was cutting it open at the gut. ROAD DOGG: I got to travel with my family, do what I love to do and be with the people I love. Wrestling and swimming are determined based on votes from coaches and conference championship results . I pay those lessons forward now. 1986 - 30 Disks . 5/22 And that created a lot of controversy. The winner was Chris Candido, who defended his title mostly at SMW events. Being commissioner, they knocked me out and painted an X on my back. 4/23 10/2 12/9 There was an opening act where a guy came out in a skirt, combat boots, piercings and was spitting on the fans. 6/20 CORNETTE: Tracy Smothers was the epitome of the perfect Smoky Mountain hero. Watch WrestleMania and other WWE Premium Live Events on Flow. 7/1 5/21 132: Kavan Wilson, Smoky Mountain, Mason Maybin, East Henderson. 8/7 8/22 That became The Headbangers. 4/9 CORNETTE: Kanemura came in from Japan to work a show for us in 1993. 1/22 4/9 11/9 4/8 Either the story is good or the story is not good. [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. He talked like one of the people because he was one a plumber from east Tennessee. I thought it would be great if we paired Eddie, this cocky little guy who could talk, with this big enforcer guy that we called Unabomb. He was just taking photographs. Just give it a try, he said. 7/15 8/27 (2) BROWN: My first night, I worked a match with Tracy Smothers in the opener as AC Conner and then in the main event I dressed as one of The Gangstas. CORNETTE: I had made a deal for Eddie Gilbert to come in January 1995 and Dutch had said he had this big guy in Puerto Rico. Knoxville/MorristownTennessee 1/23 7/10 7/14 1/16/23 - HI!, WE'RE STILL IN BUSINESS! Who is after two or three years in the business? And why did it close so quickly? 138: Jacob Ed, West Henderson, William McCoy, Smoky Mountain. 6/5 3/6 He rolled out of the ring and had a weird look on his face. 9/1 10/15 3/5 That memory will always stick with me. That was the genesis. But if there was ever anything wrong with the paychecks, hed make it good. 2/19 10/7 ROAD DOGG: My dad was already getting up there in years and there were a lot of young guys, so he became the commissioner. Cornette eventually signed a working agreement with the World Wrestling Federation to trade talent, manage and serve as an on-air talent for that company. 120: Gunnar Marshall, East Henderson, Cooper Williamson, Tuscola. Smoky Mountain Wrestling held a variety of professional wrestling tournaments between 1992 and 1995 that were competed for by wrestlers that were a part of their roster. 2/11 Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) Play all Shuffle 1 SMW Episode 1 2/1/1992 Old School Rasslin! He was a retired wrestling legend and talked better than anyone on the roster.

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