2/13 Fans didnt know how to take them. 1986 1988 . 1/16/23 - HI!, WE'RE STILL IN BUSINESS! 8/9 I asked him if he wanted to be a mummy and he drove to South Carolina so we could make the suit out of giant rolls of gauze and tape. 7/3 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. And its an art that can be lost. So that was the idea behind Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Now picture a company trying to keep him in their employ. We put baby powder on him so if he was dropkicked, dust would fly out. I hit him with a pair of brass knux and he had to leave town. All-WNC wrestling 2023: Top high school wrestlers from Western NC 1/9 2/13 Unfortunately, four years in, Smokey Mountain had to close its doors in 1995. My wife and I became really great friends with them. When you see guys later in a WWE locker room, theres an instant connection that you did time in the territory together. 2/26 They built a lot of heat. 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. 8/7 To some of them, it wasnt just entertainment. Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1991-1995) A firm believer in "old-school" territorial wrestling, Cornette began the Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) promotion in 1991. 3/15 Of course, 90% of the shows were in small little towns and rec centers and community clubs. 4/22 LANCE STORM: It was clean-cut. Fire On The Mountain 1994 Smoky Mountain Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion based in Knoxville, Tennessee from 1991 to 1995. 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. 7/9 7/29 He was paying. Later on, he turned into Jim Cornette the manager. Tracey worked so darn hard. Pisgah @ Smoky Mountain - Wrestling Event - FloWrestling 8/7 9/16 Six Pisgah wrestlers ( Kane Bryson, Cameron King, Xander Hill, Landon Pope, Tytus Bridges and Eli . During the bout, Bruiser got off to a slow start, as would be expected considering Savage's stature. Sunday Bloody Sunday II 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. [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 eye-opening to see that other side of him. STORM: Like ECW, Smoky Mountain was too big to be small and too small to be big. Cornette took all he learned growing up on Memphis TV and brought his own southern-style to the masses of the region. 10/23 1/28 10/22 CORNETTE: Nobody knew what the hell we were doing because we werent talking with any wrestlers. CORNETTE: [Dirty White Boy] was the perfect villain for the territory from the start. Rick Rubin was a big wrestling fan and he had just made like $100 million from CBS Records. Cornette was really . 9/1 SMW event tours also included high school gyms and fairs in cities throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. Knoxville was their biggest market, but its not a big enough market to sustain a wrestling company. 1/23 6/13 10/14 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. Chris Walker defeated Richard Slinger Doug Furnas defeated Killer Kyle (8:46) SMOTHERS: In 1993, Dirty White Boy burned the rebel flag in a trash can while I was handcuffed. It was a really big deal and Jericho did more than he should have. 5/22 4/24 That was the genesis. 7/22 6/3 2/19 STORM: Chris was trying to do a Shooting Star Press, bailed on it and landed as if he was trying to do a dropkick off the top rope. [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. 7/15 7/2 Al Snow was working in Ohio and northern Kentucky, so I called him up and Al jumped at the chance. [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. 7/31 Christmas Chaos - Day 3, 1/8 Who is after two or three years in the business? 3/18 7/9 3/18 5/5 He liked southern territory wrestling, wild stuff, big heat, that type of thing. 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. JIM CORNETTE: In WCW in 1990, The Midnight Express Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane and myself were still there. He wined and dined us to impress us with the biggest show they had and we were just super excited about it. STORM: Jericho was still going back and forth to Mexico and Japan, so he was going 100 miles an hour in one territory and 10 in the other. 8/6 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. Sullivan got at him with this spike, and we had to censor it because it was so gross. 6/18 The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) for the SMW Tag Team Championship, The Dynamic Duo (Al Snow and Unabomb) vs. 3/6 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. 4/1 7/1 Popular attractions Heimatmuseum Oberstdorf and Neue Skischule . Established 9/8 It was real life, We hate you, go away, dont be here heat. 9/12 6/5 Fire on the mountain: The oral history of Smoky Mountain Wrestling - WWE 8/28 12/11 7/29 Show me what you got. I guess he liked what he saw because I started working for the company two weeks later. We take a look back on this short-lived territory. 9/6 12/18 2/20 ARMSTRONG: He worked himself to death. 2. BROWN: Straight heat. It was a match made in heaven. 11/26 (24 reviews) "Room and hotel were not as described. Summer Blast 4/8 10/7 There was an opening act where a guy came out in a skirt, combat boots, piercings and was spitting on the fans. WCW was struggling with management issues, WWE was moving away from Hulkamania's golden age and the glory days of ECW were still years away. 3/19 9/24 4/17 8/7 The deer was strapped up and he was cutting it open at the gut. They were either already established stars or were guys that went on to become stars. 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.. 6/4 11/6 . People didnt just want to see them get their @$$es kicked, they didnt want to see them period. 10/8 5/5 MANTEL: The wrestling business was in transition at the time. Mustafa couldnt say sooey if the hogs had him, but looked like he could break you in half. [23] Several SMW wrestlers would soon obtain work in the WWF, including Tracy Smothers, The Dirty White Boy, and Boo Bradley. He started with us and was there when we closed. 12/29 Its hard to compete with Vince McMahon and the machine. WWE now owns the SMW video library. 8/28 He was so knowledgeable, dedicated and determined. 2/21 6/10 Smoky Mountain Wrestling was based . STORM: Tracy Smothers was so much fun to be around. Fright Night It was sold out with like 5,000 people. That became The Headbangers. SMW (Wrestling) - TV Tropes 11/27 The winner was Chris Candido, who defended his title mostly at SMW events. 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. 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. 4/16 6/12 And why did it close so quickly? Jim Cornette 6/4 ROAD DOGG: I wrestled the late, great Chris Candido in a Baby Bonnet Match where he had lost and had to wear a baby bonnet until he won another match. 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). 2/4 The reason ECW was so successful is because Paul Heyman had his pulse on what the youth of America felt at the time. He always sat in the crowd. CORNETTE: DLo Brown was a CPA, had a good job, but he quit and moved to Knoxville to be in the wrestling business. [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]. They could get pretty rowdy. Owner Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 4 Find the all-conference team for each sport below. Christmas Chaos - Day 2 ARMSTRONG: Great, great wrestler. 5/28 Cornette had initially envisioned a territory reaching from Kentucky into as far as South Carolina and Georgia. 7/9 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. Christmas Chaos - Day 1 We cut all the expenses that we could cut, but I had pride. ARMSTRONG: It was really bad. ARMSTRONG: One time, we were out back and we saw, over the hill, came an old mule. Wrestling and swimming are determined based on votes from coaches and conference championship results. I knew we could get him back in the ring after someone pushed him too hard, which likely would be me. Where else could a good ole country boy from Springfield, Tenn., like Tracy Smothers have people cheer for him? 2/25 10/7 These were people that would get involved. Super Saturday Night Fever I dont know how they got home. If Cornette gave up some of the reigns to Sandy Scott or Mark Curtis, they probably could have taken care of some stuff. After years of operating in red ink, Cornette shut the promotion down in December 1995 to work full-time with the WWF. Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 1 9,102 likes. He had a good match, was a great kid, came to eat ribs with us and I liked the way he carried himself. Here are a few things fans should know about Jim Cornette's promotion. What Smoky Mountain was trying to do was to find that market. 8/19 11/5 3/21 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. Four years later, it was gone. I worked with my dad in a Loser Leaves Town Match dressed up as a ninja.. 3/25 12/10 Being around veterans who had been there, done that, they were willing to share what they had learned. Fire on the mountain: The oral history of Smoky Mountain Wrestling facebook twitter During the early 1990s, wrestling was in a state of transition. 10/10 Location 9/24 Fire On The Mountain Youre not going to see that in Madison Square Garden, I can assure you. 10/8 6/25 5/6 Not meant to be an exact copy, but this is basically the Palace of Versailles of Bavaria. 7/4 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. 2/19 He has a bad temper and sometimes he lets it get the best of him. 10/9 Watch the big Steiner Brothers vs. Heavenly Bodies match at SummerSlam 1993. Watch a young Al Snow take on Brad Armstrong for the Smoky Mountain Title. Its hard to make your product seem impressive enough when youve got WWE and WCW to compete with. 9/11 Speichackerstrasse 2, Oberstdorf, 87561. 2/11 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 never went out to any bars on the road. He was just taking photographs. Jim Cornette | Pro Wrestling | Fandom 6/12 9/10 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). One time, before I took the hood off, I worked with my dad in a Loser Leaves Town Match dressed up as a ninja. 10/15 7/3 Here are the Mountain 7 conference teams from winter sports in 2022-23 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. Former employees in SMW consisted of professional wrestlers, managers, play-by-play and color commentators, announcers, interviewers and referees . 10/17 JERICHO: When youre in front of 200 people, theres no need to do a dive over the top rope to the floor. 9/17 Wrestling was not popular in America. I think he was the longest tenured roster member. Smoky Mountain Wrestling was short-lived, but made a big impact. 12/2 8/25 When he looked to start his own promotion he met Rick Rubin and got the funding to start SMW. This page is not available in other languages. 220: Reese Meadows, North Henderson. 9/16 The Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane and Tom Prichard) for the SMW Tag Team Championship, The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) vs. Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 3 CORNETTE: In one of my late night phone calls with Rubin, he said, I think we ought to have a mummy. 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. ARMSTRONG: I was commissioner, so Jimmy and I were always at each others throats. I didnt want it to get to a point where I owed talent money. Sunny, New Jack, D-Lo Brown, Lance Storm, Chris Jericho, and more were able to first get noticed due to their time with Cornette. ROAD DOGG: Terry Funk stacked about 40 chairs in the middle of the ring. If he was seven-foot and 300 pounds, hed kill 20 people. 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. He was tailor-made for the region. The promotion was based in Knoxville, Tennessee, with offices in Morristown, Tennessee. 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November 26, 1993 - Thanksgiving Thunder: Pince Kharis (debut) defeated Tim Horner with the sleeperhold.. ROAD DOGG: Once my skills were improving and could carry the Armstrong name, I started wrestling as Brian Armstrong and tagging with my brothers. 12/11 He was the best performer of the three of them, so I made him their posse member. He was green and learning, but when he switched to a villain, teamed with Chris Candido and was managed by Tammy, he did a lot better work. Anything you wanted Dirty White Boy to do, he was there to do. 10/7 [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. 5/6 8/27 (2) 10/24 6/11 Recently, music producer extraordinaire Rick Rubin was a guest on his former employee, Chris Jerichos podcast. 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. It doesnt matter what kind of match I prefer, I have to deliver the kind of match that the people who bought the tickets want. It was held between March 12 and April 23, 1992; the finals of the tournament was originally scheduled for Volunteer Slam on May 22 in Knoxville, but the teams that made the finals, The Fantastics and The Heavenly Bodies, decided to have the tournament final on the April 23, 1992 TV taping, which aired on May 9. Pisgah @ Smoky Mountain . The signal up in those mountains went 100 miles in almost any direction. 2/6 Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event and the worlds best TV and movies. 2/26 Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event, your favorite shows, new movies, live sports, and more. Cornette formed the promotion in October 1991 upon leaving World Championship Wrestling, with Sandy Scott and backed financially by music producer Rick Rubin. 9/22 4/24 3/29 Rasslin' 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. 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. . 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. Rock defeated The Wolfman 7/14 6/24 Its simple as that. Ive seen him destroy rings. 5/21 4/21 1/14 SMW event tours also included high school gyms and fairs in cities throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. 10/13 7/8 6/4 5/15 Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 3 We were trying to be a little more serious than the colorful world of WWE. CORNETTE: I had to get Lance paperwork to work in America. Just give it a try, he said. He had about 20 guys there sitting ringside. 9/18 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. [1] The first events and TV tapings were held in October and November 1991. List of former Smoky Mountain Wrestling personnel - Wikipedia Fans had rallies for us not to come to town and paid to see us lose. 10/21 Rubin was technically one of Jerichos bosses in wrestling; the producer was a financial backer for the short-lived regional promotion - Smokey Mountain Wrestling. 4/9 They used to call us the flying squirrels and mean it. 8/27 (1) Warren went 22-3 at 185 pounds with a win at the Smoky . 4/2 I knew something was wrong. CORNETTE: I got a building rent free and made two TV pilots, which ended up being show No. 6/8 6/26 7/3 12/12 Smoky Mountain Wrestling - Wikipedia
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