1/16 8/20 4/22 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. Brawl In The Hall He had about 20 guys there sitting ringside. 7/3 JERICHO: He flew us to Knoxville from Calgary. CWA MEMPHIS. 6/12 After years of operating in red ink, Cornette shut the promotion down in December 1995 to work full-time with the WWF. If Cornette gave up some of the reigns to Sandy Scott or Mark Curtis, they probably could have taken care of some stuff. 5/7 I knew we could get him back in the ring after someone pushed him too hard, which likely would be me. 9/5 9/24 Thats what Cornette did. Bluegrass Brawl II We passed this guy who had killed a deer. 7/10 1/21 7/22 8/7 9/17 Watch Smothers battle Chris Candido in an early Ladder Match. 8/21 CORNETTE: I met [Chris] Candido and his girlfriend, who were teenagers, in New Jersey. Thanksgiving Thunder. The first events and TV tapings were held in October and November 1991. 7/4 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. 4/8 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. 7/3 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. 5/8 8/9 7/10 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. He has a bad temper and sometimes he lets it get the best of him. We take a look back on this short-lived territory. Watch "The King" in Smoky Mountain against Dirty White Boy. People can watch it on Monday night for nothing, so its hard to get people to come out and pay to see you, especially in the towns and smaller venues we were running. Enter Jim Cornette. 5/20 STORM: Like ECW, Smoky Mountain was too big to be small and too small to be big. The reason ECW was so successful is because Paul Heyman had his pulse on what the youth of America felt at the time. 9/11 He talked like one of the people because he was one a plumber from east Tennessee. The good guy wore the white hat, the bad guy wore the black hat. This page is not available in other languages. I had never seen a cut that deep. 11/25, 5/16 I, as The Dark Secret, lost to him so he could take the baby bonnet off. 8/6 5/28 Dad knew what Jim wanted and Jim knew how Dad was going to act out there. Fright Night The Rock n Roll Express and Tracy Smothers could give you an education you cant get in the ring. 8/20 9/4 Watch Cornette go too far in his verbal attacks on the Armstrong family. 11/20 2/13 1/9 1/29 The promotion was based in Knoxville, Tennessee with offices in Morristown, Tennessee. Where else could a good ole country boy from Springfield, Tenn., like Tracy Smothers have people cheer for him? Smoky Mountain Wrestling 1991-1995. Volunteer Slam IV This was in sharp contrast to ECW, in which edgy angles, "tweeners" and anti-heroes increasingly took precedence over clearcut heroes and villains. Hes a die-hard wrestling mark. CORNETTE: Tracy Smothers was the epitome of the perfect Smoky Mountain hero. 9/4 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. 5/21 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. 9/2 It was a great time for me. 5/17 3/4 LAWLER: I went to Knoxville and beat Dirty White Boy for the Smoky Mountain Title as a part of a crossover with the USWA in Memphis. Watch WrestleMania and other WWE Premium Live Events on Flow. 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. 5/6 10/16 9/1 ARMSTRONG: One time, we were out back and we saw, over the hill, came an old mule. 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. 1981 - 39 Disks. 2/6 STORM: I told Jericho that I was talking to Jim Cornette about going to Smoky Mountain. Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 3 Thats Jim in a nutshell. Smoky Mountain Wrestling Current abbreviation: SMW Status: Inactive Location: Morristown, Tennessee, USA Active Time: 1991 - 1995 Details Names: Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1991 - 1995) Abbreviations: SMW Owners: Jim Cornette & Sandy Scott (1994 - 1995) Jim Cornette, Sandy Scott & Tim Horner (1991 - 1994) Popular events: 8/5 9/18 Eventually, he was walking around in a full body cast. The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) for the SMW Tag Team Championship, Chris Candido vs. Tracy Smothers for the vacant NWA World Heavyweight Championship, The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) vs. 1/14 4/1 Results Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match. When you see guys later in a WWE locker room, theres an instant connection that you did time in the territory together. 6/13 4/16 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. 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. SMW - Pro Wrestling The Smoky Mountain Wrestling 1991-1995 The winner was Chris Candido, who defended his title mostly at SMW events. 6/24 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. 12/18 Thats why it was cutting-edge and ahead of its time. 3/19 10/10 7/1 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. STORM: We were always trying to push a little further in the ring and Jim was trying to pull us back. 7/29 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. 4/9 7/7 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. 3/6 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. It was a really big deal and Jericho did more than he should have. Watch The Thrillseekers' amazing video package including riding bumper cars and at a petting zoo. Cornette formed the promotion in October 1991 upon leaving World Championship Wrestling with Stan Lane, Tim Horner and Sandy Scott. Recently, music producer extraordinaire Rick Rubin was a guest on his former employee, Chris Jerichos podcast. 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. Al Snow was working in Ohio and northern Kentucky, so I called him up and Al jumped at the chance. He broke in under Jerry Jarrett, who, at one time, was one of the most creative guys I knew. 8/14 6/11 CORNETTE: Rubin was working with Mick Jagger, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Crowes and Johnny Cash and he got behind on watching the TV shows. 5/13 Pisgah @ Smoky Mountain on Jan 17, 2023 in , NC. The Thugs (Tony Anthony and Tracy Smothers) and a, Robert Gibson and The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) vs. Ricky Morton and The Thugs (Tony Anthony and Tracy Smothers), This page was last edited on 31 January 2023, at 01:59. Popular attractions Heimatmuseum Oberstdorf and Neue Skischule . 7/22 We cut all the expenses that we could cut, but I had pride. Parent Find the all-conference team for each sport below. He worked hard, was smart, but hes just pretty much a control freak. Im a country boy, but that was too much. After SMW folded, The Louisville Slugger, Jim Cornette went to work for WWE. 2/6 2/19 K-Town Showdown 1/15 CORNETTE: We ran shows in Marietta, Ga., wed use some of the local promoters guys and there was New Jack. List of former Smoky Mountain Wrestling personnel, Last edited on 23 November 2022, at 01:50, "The Complete History of Smoky Mountain Wrestling", "The Name on the Marquee: Smoky Mountain Wrestling (2.22.1992)", "Smoky Mountain Fell Victim To Changing Times (Part Two)", Smoky Mountain Wrestling alumni at Cagematch.net, Smoky Mountain Wrestling alumni at OWW.com, Smoky Mountain Wrestling alumni at Wrestlingdata.com, Pro Wrestling Statistics: Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1991 to 1995), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_former_Smoky_Mountain_Wrestling_personnel&oldid=1123310255, Brian Logan / Gabriel Brimstone / The Hornet, Bob Armstrong, Brad Armstrong, Scott Armstrong, Steve Armstrong, Bobby Blaze, Tracey Smothers, and The Rock 'n' Roll Express, Federation of International Thugs and Eliminators, Bruiser Bedlam, Chris Walker, Killer Kyle, and The Funk Brothers, Moondog Rex, Moondog Spot and Moondog Splat, Gen. Jim Cornette, Lt. Bluegrass Brawl I 3/18 Cornette was really . 1994 saw Randy Savage head to Smoky Mountain Wrestling to compete at their Volunteer Slam 3 PPV. 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 ??? 1986 1988 . The Dirty White Boy for the SMW Heavyweight Championship. Fire On The Mountain 1994 He and The Rock n Roll Express together showed how much fun a locker room can be if you dont take yourselves too seriously. Fire on the mountain: The oral history of Smoky Mountain Wrestling facebook twitter During the early 1990s, wrestling was in a state of transition. $159. BROWN: I was scared out of my wits of New Jack. 6/25 6/21 CORNETTE: [Dirty White Boy] was the perfect villain for the territory from the start. 11/13 4/17 Flash Flanagan defeated Thrasher Sgt. 5/29 ARMSTRONG: The guy has more guts than I ever thought. Not wrestling heat. 5/8 [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]. 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.. It was a personality-driven territory. Jim CornetteTim HornerStan LaneSandy Scott CORNETTE: The last one to come was young Brian [aka Road Dogg]. Those Appalachian people are a little bit different than everybody else. Cornette formed the promotion in October 1991 upon leaving World Championship Wrestling, with Sandy Scott and backed financially by music producer Rick Rubin. Now picture a company trying to keep him in their employ. I dont think America in 1994 was ready for it. Hes a creative genius bordering on insanity, which is the best kind of genius.
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