Thats not something southern America in 1994 was probably ready for. Contents 1 History and overview 1.1 Formation 1.2 Territorial reach 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. 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. 4/16 SMW (Wrestling) - TV Tropes Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 2 The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) for the SMW Tag Team Championship, The Dynamic Duo (Al Snow and Unabomb) vs. 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. 7/24 Era, SMW did exactly what it needed to do. His talent was great, but the fans didnt know exactly how to take him. 9/16 I dont know how they got home. 7/22 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. Watch Dirty White Boy sneak up on Dutch Mantel in a scrapyard. Contents Formation Territorial reach Notable talent 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. There were a lot sliced tires and keyed cars. Location 10/28 3/17 6/25 BROWN: Balls Mahoney had just gotten hired to be Boo Bradley in Smoky Mountain, but he didnt have a drivers license, so he was asking around for someone to drive him from New Jersey to Knoxville, Tenn. We drove all night and he said in exchange for driving him down he would talk to Cornette about giving me a match. 5/21 He knew how to work the people, because he was a southern boy and catered to that crowd. 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. Cornette established the promotion after having cut ties with WCW, with initial financial backing from Record Producer Rick Rubin. What was I gonna do? 10/12 . We needed buildings and production companies and TV stations so this eccentric music genius could somehow own a wrestling company in Tennessee. 1994 saw Randy Savage head to Smoky Mountain Wrestling to compete at their Volunteer Slam 3 PPV. Smokies things to do in spring include Dollywood and Bigfoot festivals 5/10 SMOTHERS: Some of the best matches Ive ever had were with Chris. 3/4 BROWN: Straight heat. CORNETTE: We led up to a World Tag Team Title Match against The Steiner Brothers at SummerSlam. Chris Walker defeated Richard Slinger Doug Furnas defeated Killer Kyle (8:46) He started with us and was there when we closed. The Mummy was cool. I said, I loved The Mummy, too. 7/10 It was pretty crazy. Not meant to be an exact copy, but this is basically the Palace of Versailles of Bavaria. The last SMW show was held on November 26, 1995 in Cookeville, Tennessee, and featured the entire SMW roster attacking Jim Cornette, who was then pinned by referee Mark Curtis. Every night he went out there and busted his hump. 7/8 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. I wasnt very good at them at the time. King Of The Mountain Tournament 9/23 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." 11/11 ARMSTRONG: I was getting on up in age. 2/11 It probably never should have happened, considering Chris broke his arm earlier that afternoon and needed surgery. Four years later, it was gone. 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. 10 Things Fans Need To Know About Smoky Mountain Wrestling - TheSportster 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. 3/25 Smoky Mountain Wrestling: All Episodes - Trakt Former employees in SMW consisted of professional wrestlers, managers, play-by-play and color commentators, announcers, interviewers and referees . 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. They had such heat. The promotion featured a number of wrestlers who were regulars in the Southeastern wrestling scene the Heavenly Bodies, Stan Lane and Tom Prichard and later Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray. 3/5 Smoky Mountain Wrestling 1991-1995 - Facebook ARMSTRONG: I was commissioner, so Jimmy and I were always at each others throats. 6/24 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. I think he was the longest tenured roster member. Smoky Mountain Wrestling - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia Tales From The Territories - Smoky Mountain Wrestling - YouTube They rode their mule to the wrestling matches. 11/19 2/19 Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 4 From 1992 until the promotion's end in 1995, Chris Candido wrestled for Jim Cornette 's Tennessee-based outfit Smoky Mountain Wrestling. 11/6 Eventually, he was walking around in a full body cast. 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Bluegrass Brawl II Rock, and The Dynamic Duo, This page was last edited on 23 November 2022, at 01:50. When we finally had a wrestling match together, it sold out Knoxville Civic Center. 12/25, 1/8 Several SMW wrestlers would soon obtain work in the WWF, including Tracy Smothers, The Dirty White Boy, and Boo Bradley. Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) Promotions Database - CAGEMATCH 182: Landon Pope, Pisgah. 5/29 11/26 There was one caveat - he wasnt going to continuously invest in the product (and lose money). It was a really big deal and Jericho did more than he should have. 1/21 1980 - 36 Disks. 12/2 Buddy Landel for the WWF Intercontinental Championship, The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) vs. 1981 - 39 Disks. Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 3 4/22 1/15 JERICHO: He would micro-manage it. We got to the point where we were too small to be big, but too big to be small. I knew something was wrong. [9] The Heavenly Bodies (Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) then faced The Steiner Brothers for the WWF Tag Team Championship at SummerSlam 1993,[10][11] and then defeating The Rock 'n' Roll Express at Survivor Series 1993 for the SMW Tag Team Championship.[12][13]. After years of operating in red ink, Cornette shut the promotion down in December 1995 to work full-time with the WWF. Nobody really did that back then have wrestlers from all these different promotions come in. They were either already established stars or were guys that went on to become stars. 3/18 Jim Cornette | Pro Wrestling | Fandom Where else could a good ole country boy from Springfield, Tenn., like Tracy Smothers have people cheer for him? Former employees in SMW consisted of professional wrestlers, managers, play-by-play and color commentators, announcers, interviewers and referees. Youre in those Appalachian Mountains. Anything you wanted Dirty White Boy to do, he was there to do. We wanted to get away from sports-entertainment.. K-Town Showdown 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. 10/13 7/18 5/15 1/16 6/19 Rick Rubin on Wrestling, How Roddy Piper Turned the Beasties Bad All-WNC wrestling 2023: Top high school wrestlers from Western NC Matches from these shows were first shown in February 1992. Hes a creative genius bordering on insanity, which is the best kind of genius. 4/3 STORM: We were brought in for the Sunday Bloody Sunday show, which was Terry Funk vs. Bob Armstrong. They had been bugging me to come down to Smoky Mountain, so I said, Youve gotta wear dresses. You couldve heard a pin drop. That was a crossover time in wrestling where WWE and WCW were getting ready to go head-to-head and a lot of the regional promotions had folded. If youre thinking Rubin produced a Fozzy album at some point, youd be wrong. 11/21 The first Smoky Mountain Tag Team Champions were crowned in a tournament final on April 23, 1992, in Harrogate, Tennessee, when The Heavenly Bodies defeated The Fantastics. Fans didnt know how to take them. 3/27 Bluegrass Brawl I Cornette formed the promotion in October 1991 upon leaving World Championship Wrestling, with Sandy Scott and backed financially by music producer Rick Rubin. CORNETTE: Brian Lee was playing the part of Brad Armstrong. Later, Mark Curtis came running up to me saying, Jericho went to the hospital. I spent all of 1991 going back and forth to California to talk with Rick. Cornette said, Kid, you got eight minutes. The way he spoke, it was just like, Wow. CORNETTE: We would get VHS tapes from wrestlers who wanted to come to Smoky Mountain. BOB ARMSTRONG: Cornette was a fan club president of mine when I was in Memphis. I got this tape from a guy called Lance Storm who I saw leaping from the top rope and cutting these great dropkicks. Either the story is good or the story is not good. World Wrestling Entertainment The promotion was backed financially by music producer Rick Rubin. Six Pisgah wrestlers ( Kane Bryson, Cameron King, Xander Hill, Landon Pope, Tytus Bridges and Eli . He faced off against Bruiser Bedlam, someone with multiple title reigns in multiple promotions, though he never made it big in WWE. MANTEL: Jimmy has a short fuse. 9/8 Sullivan got at him with this spike, and we had to censor it because it was so gross. Mustafa couldnt say sooey if the hogs had him, but looked like he could break you in half. 3/5 4/29 7/2 8/20 SMW Night Of Legends is a Professional wrestling event of Smoky Mountain Wrestling which was taped on August 5, 1994. 4/17 Christmas Chaos - Day 2 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). 7/17 2/18 MANTEL: What held Smoky Mountain back was their markets were too small. The good guy wore the white hat, the bad guy wore the black hat. 4/9 5/8 Though the promotion was highly thought of, it struggled to get a profitable television deal, and operated throughout a wrestling recession that would not end until 1997. JERICHO: Our style was completely insane. . The company honored the traditional wrestling sensibilities Cornette came up with, and continued to espouse long after, with a focus on realistic action featuring legitimate tough guys. 11/12 10/15 Brian had worked in Memphis and had a lot of potential. Smoky Mountain Wrestling Results - The Official Wrestling Museum With this upheaval also came the near-overnight disappearance of the territorial era when local stars and fanbases migrated to the increasingly global organizations of WCW and WWE. Jericho asked me if he could go in the ring to practice some stuff. 10/9 11/7 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. 10/14 8/7 9/1 He beat up my dad and put him down on the chairs and went to do a moonsault off the top. 1 and No. 12/1 8/7 Night Of Legends 8/18 STORM: Chris worked every single night like it was WrestleMania. 6/20 The promotion was based in Knoxville, Tennessee with offices in Morristown, Tennessee. He and The Rock n Roll Express together showed how much fun a locker room can be if you dont take yourselves too seriously. 7/15 8/11 But when Jimmys on his game, hes very intense and wants it done right. 8/12 The Dirty White Boy for the SMW Heavyweight Championship. 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. 5/5 3/11 Hes a die-hard wrestling mark. Enjoy free breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking. My wife and I became really great friends with them. Results Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match. CORNETTE: Until April 1995, we were doing fairly well. What Smoky Mountain was trying to do was to find that market. Youre not going to see that in Madison Square Garden, I can assure you. 2/5 Smokey Mountain Wrestling was a wrestling promotion founded by Jim Cornette, Rick Rubin and others. Cornette was really . WWE now owns the SMW video library. Smoky Mountain was a big tag team territory and Cornette asked if wed be willing to come in as a team. 5/8 Fire on the mountain: The oral history of Smoky Mountain Wrestling - WWE 4/23 2/13 The winner was Chris Candido, who defended his title mostly at SMW events. Prince Kharis - Online World of Wrestling Not wrestling heat. 4/22 Knoxville was their biggest market, but its not a big enough market to sustain a wrestling company. 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. CORNETTE: Scott [Armstrong] wrestled under a mask as Dixie Dynamite. Visit Heini-Klopfer Ski Jump Chairlift in Oberstdorf | Expedia The deer was strapped up and he was cutting it open at the gut. DLO BROWN: [Cornette] was a good character and a good entertainer, but he also knew TV stations, syndication, how to book venues and how to promote. 2/19 Smoky Mountain Wrestling | Pro Wrestling | Fandom Rasslin' SMW event tours also included high school gyms and fairs in cities throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. 7/1 2/25 Sunday Bloody Sunday 4/14 I couldnt believe it. The promotion featured a number of wrestlers who were regulars in the south eastern wrestling scene and was the birthplace of the Heavenly Bodies, Stan Lane and Tom Prichard and later Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray. He was just taking photographs. Parent Watch every Premium Live Event and get unlimited access to WWE's premium content - available to you anywhere, anytime, on any device. [29], After SMW closed, Brad Armstrong declared himself SMW champion and defended the SMW Heavyweight Championship in the United States Wrestling Association. 7/8 8/28 10/14 SMOTHERS: He carried a pistol on him at that time. 8/11 They were close to 60-years-old at the time and he was doing moonsaults off the top into those chairs. The hero is going to be very much Clark Kent, straight and honest. 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. 10/8 7/17 4/24 10/17 The Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane and Tom Prichard) vs. Cornette was able to broker deals with both WCW and WWE, bringing talent like the highly understood Heavenly Bodies to both promotions to get a big look. [2] The first Smoky Mountain Tag Team Champions were crowned in a tournament final at a TV taping on April 23, 1992, in Harrogate, Tennessee, when The Heavenly Bodies defeated The Fantastics; the match would air on May 9, 1992. STORM: Jericho made the show and just had a plastic splint on his arm. Here are the Mountain 7 conference teams from winter sports in 2022-23 STORM: I told Jericho that I was talking to Jim Cornette about going to Smoky Mountain. Its simple as that. As the founder of Def Jam Records and producer of practically half of every album produced over the last forty years or so, Rick Rubin is also just like the rest of us mere mortals.
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