Sunday Bloody Sunday 12/31, 1/7 After SMW folded, The Louisville Slugger, Jim Cornette went to work for WWE. He was such a class act. 10/24 8/27 Several SMW wrestlers would soon obtain work in the WWF, including Tracy Smothers, The Dirty White Boy, and Boo Bradley. 2/6 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. Displaying items 1 to 100 of total 637 items that match the search parameters. $159. He was just taking photographs. They were heartthrobs. 5/27 11/6 12/3 People knew him, he could talk and knew how to work the style. SMOTHERS: In 1993, Dirty White Boy burned the rebel flag in a trash can while I was handcuffed. I started listening to my audience and trying to engage them rather than trying to entertain the fan that I was. ARMSTRONG: You have to show southern fans you know what youre doing and The Mummy made it really hard to do that. Brian Hildebrand was a Smoky Mountain mainstay, occupying such myriad roles as Head of Merchandise, referee (under his alter-ego Mark Curtis) and sound director. 3/25 Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Disney + HotStar. It was more about the moral high ground than the action. BROWN: [Smoky Mountain] was like my first year in college. Mustafa is 6-foot-5 or 6-foot-6, he was impressive as well, but New Jack just had this look about him. 3/3 History and overview [ edit] Formation [ edit] The promotion was based in Knoxville, Tennessee, with offices in Morristown, Tennessee . 7/31 4/7 The palace sits on an island in the middle of the lake and requires a ferry for access. 8/27 (1) It would get scary. 1/23 [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. We were trying to be a little more serious than the colorful world of WWE. 8/22 4/2 SuperBowl of Wrestling 1/28 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. The Thugs (Tony Anthony and Tracy Smothers) for the SMW Tag Team Championship, Robert Gibson and The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) vs. SMW Similar to the promotion in Philadelphia that has now earned mythic status, Cornette and SMW were able to do many of the same things that Happy Heyman was able to pull off in ECW. 8/6 6/13 Results Numbers in parentheses indicate the length of the match. I knew something was wrong. 5/14 Smoky Mountain Wrestling 1991-1995. The winner was Chris Candido, who defended his title mostly at SMW events. JERICHO: Our style was completely insane. 8/28 6/26 The Last Tango In Tennessee 9/18 The SMW Tag Team Championship Tournament was a tournament to crown the first-ever SMW Tag Team Champions. 10/1 11/3 9/7 SMOTHERS: I was there the night Kevin [Sullivan] cut up [W*ING] Kanemura. [23] Several SMW wrestlers would soon obtain work in the WWF, including Tracy Smothers, The Dirty White Boy, and Boo Bradley. What was I gonna do? Cornette formed the promotion in October 1991 upon leaving World Championship Wrestling, with Sandy Scott and backed financially by music producer Rick Rubin. In Kentucky, you get the same reaction with a hiptoss or a slap to the face. STORM: Tracy Smothers was so much fun to be around. Thats Jim in a nutshell. Bob Armstrong, The Armstrong Brothers (Scott Armstrong and Steve Armstrong) and The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) vs. Jim Cornette, The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) vs. October 1991 1980 - 36 Disks. Fans didnt know how to take them. 10/29 When I went to Smoky Mountain, it was totally different than what I remembered Knoxville wrestling being like. The good guy wore the white hat, the bad guy wore the black hat. 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." 5/7 Rasslin' 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. 1/17 7/23 That became The Headbangers. 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 8/19 6/24 3/18 He beat up my dad and put him down on the chairs and went to do a moonsault off the top. STORM: It was the time where I realized that its more about the people in the seats than it is about the people in the ring. 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. The Mummy was cool. I said, I loved The Mummy, too. 4/9 9/6 1/14 Enter Jim Cornette. 3/19 3/5 They had such heat. 285: Eli Frizzell, Pisgah. CORNETTE: Scott [Armstrong] wrestled under a mask as Dixie Dynamite. MANTEL: I used to tell some of the guys in the locker room, The crowd is aggressive towards you because you might be the biggest stars theyll ever meet. Rock stars dont play concerts back in those hills. 1/29 Stay at this 3-star spa hotel in Oberstdorf. Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Shahid. We knew they were going to be stars. Every night he went out there and busted his hump. 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." Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 4 10/9 10/2 8/9 Smokey Mountain Wrestling was a wrestling promotion founded by Jim Cornette, Rick Rubin and others. Knoxville was their biggest market, but its not a big enough market to sustain a wrestling company. 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. Later on, he turned into Jim Cornette the manager. 10/22 It wasnt by accident that he became next in line. 8/6 8/5 STORM: We were brought in for the Sunday Bloody Sunday show, which was Terry Funk vs. Bob Armstrong. 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. Its hard to make your product seem impressive enough when youve got WWE and WCW to compete with. Hotels near Gasthof Alte Schreinerei, Steinsfeld on Tripadvisor: Find traveler reviews, 386 candid photos, and prices for 842 hotels near Gasthof Alte Schreinerei in Steinsfeld, Germany. I had never seen a cut that deep. SMOTHERS: Sometimes the pressure would get to him and hed just snap. 1/22 Then we got The Steiners to come have rematches in Smoky Mountain. He broke in under Jerry Jarrett, who, at one time, was one of the most creative guys I knew. 9/11 6/10 Jim Cornette 3/5 If youre thinking Rubin produced a Fozzy album at some point, youd be wrong. 5/8 The promotion was based in Knoxville, Tennessee with offices in Morristown, Tennessee. 11/6 Both Curtis Comes Home and the 2005 sequel show, held in memory of SMW head referee Mark Curtis are both considered "unofficial" reunion shows. 220: Reese Meadows, North Henderson. 10/22 Unfortunately, four years in, Smokey Mountain had to close its doors in 1995. 3/12 This led to The Rock 'n' Roll Express wrestling The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Stan Lane) at SuperBrawl III in February. CWA MEMPHIS. 11/5 3/19 Being around veterans who had been there, done that, they were willing to share what they had learned. 5/28 8/26 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. Watch a young Al Snow take on Brad Armstrong for the Smoky Mountain Title. 5/8 Flash Flanagan defeated Thrasher Sgt. 4/29 CORNETTE: At The Night of Legends show in 94, The Heavenly Bodies were coming back from WWE to wrestle [Jericho and Storm]. 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. 9/24 I, as The Dark Secret, lost to him so he could take the baby bonnet off. CHRIS JERICHO: Jimmy was a great wrestling mind for that area. [29], After SMW closed, Brad Armstrong declared himself SMW champion and defended the SMW Heavyweight Championship in the United States Wrestling Association. DUTCH MANTEL: Sometimes the best baseball managers are not the greatest players, but they spend their playing days in the dugout watching the manager manage the game. I worked with my dad in a Loser Leaves Town Match dressed up as a ninja.. [Rubin] would call me at three in the morning, Id hear the latest main event playing the background and wed talk about cool wrestling. 7/3 Those Appalachian people are a little bit different than everybody else. I dont think America in 1994 was ready for it. ROAD DOGG: I got to travel with my family, do what I love to do and be with the people I love. 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. I bought a whole package of Peanut Butter crackers and thats all I ate all day. SMOTHERS: That was different. That memory will always stick with me. Smoky Mountain Wrestling was based . (c) refers to the champion (s) heading into the match. 7/10 This is somebody you have to worry about., Watch The Gangstas address The Undertaker from a southern graveyard. The gimmick, among other things, led to the end of the friendship between Cornette and Mark Madden and their ongoing feud to this day, as Madden--who at the time was coming off the heels of getting Bill Watts fired from WCW after informing Hank Aaron of Watts' employment within the Turner Broadcasting System following publications of controversial comments made by Watts--had called the Gangstas gimmick racist.[20][21]. King Of The Mountain Tournament People were scared of them. 1/9 It was pretty crazy. December 1995 People had never seen it before. Big Apple Brawl 8/7 And, for a while, they were successful in doing that. Alumni [ edit] Male wrestlers [ edit] Female wrestlers [ edit] 1/18 When Kanemura came backstage from the ring, I couldnt believe what I saw. 3/29 Find the all-conference team for each sport below. 10/15 Smoky Mountain Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion based in Knoxville, Tennessee from 1991 to 1995. Just give it a try, he said. Learn the amazing story of Smoky Mountains rise and fall from the men who lived it, including an exclusive conversation with Jim Cornette himself, speaking to WWE.com for the first time ever. Founder 7/21 Buddy Landell, The Punisher, Tommy Rich, Terry Gordy, Sgt. Rubin was technically one of Jerichos bosses in wrestling; the producer was a financial backer for the short-lived regional promotion - Smokey Mountain Wrestling. I was trying to think about wrestling in a positive way, and I had noticed that every time we ran the Civic Coliseum in Knoxville, the crowd would really like it. Smoky Mountain was a big tag team territory and Cornette asked if wed be willing to come in as a team. 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Al Snow was working in Ohio and northern Kentucky, so I called him up and Al jumped at the chance. 12/29 Thats why it was cutting-edge and ahead of its time. 8/21 I didnt want it to get to a point where I owed talent money.. There were about nine guys living in this house. 8/19 I had a police officer keep an eye on them while I took care of White Boy in the ring. But if there was ever anything wrong with the paychecks, hed make it good. 12/18 Cornette, a traditionalist, catered to fans that Mick Foley described as "old-time fanswho still believed in good guys and bad guys, and to whom cheating was still reason to get upset." 10/12 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,. 3/20 4/1 12/5 JIM CORNETTE: In WCW in 1990, The Midnight Express Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane and myself were still there. 3/11 How did it gain national attention? 3/26 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.. I was just by myself and The Rock n Roll Express came in to go against The Bodies, but Jim needed a good guy to go against Dirty White Boy. ROAD DOGG: Once my skills were improving and could carry the Armstrong name, I started wrestling as Brian Armstrong and tagging with my brothers. The gardens and a portion of the palace were completed before Ludwig II's mysterious death. 6/19 3/12 8/7 4/23 Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 4 6/13 106 113 120 126 132 138 145 152 160 170 182 195 220 285 . 10/15 4/20 11/4 6/19 People didnt just want to see them get their @$$es kicked, they didnt want to see them period. I wanted Brad Armstrong in that spot from the start, but hes one of the only ones I couldnt get from WCW. 6/24 4/29 Smoky Mountain Wrestling was very much southern rasslin. They take their rasslin very seriously. 9,102 likes. We got lost in the mountains, came back and he was giving the meat to kids. STORM: I told Jericho that I was talking to Jim Cornette about going to Smoky Mountain. 7/11 When we finally had a wrestling match together, it sold out Knoxville Civic Center. 8/28 4/17 5/13 ARMSTRONG: He worked himself to death. 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]. It probably never should have happened, considering Chris broke his arm earlier that afternoon and needed surgery. Owned by the trio of Sweet Stan Lane, Sandy Scott, and Jim Cornette, SMW was very much an analogue to ECW the same way that its promoter is and was an analogue to Paul Heyman. 9/30 Show me what you got. I guess he liked what he saw because I started working for the company two weeks later. CORNETTE: I met Rick Rubin through Cat Collins, a DJ friend of mine that had worked for Rubin at American Recordings. He started with us and was there when we closed. CORNETTE: We ran shows in Marietta, Ga., wed use some of the local promoters guys and there was New Jack. Other names that helped in the founding of this promotion were: The money bag behind the whole thing was Rick Rubin, who is a well-known wrestling fan and music producer. 3/11 And that created a lot of controversy. [3], Cornette had initially envisioned a territory reaching from Kentucky into as far as South Carolina and Georgia. Its hard to compete with Vince McMahon and the machine. 1/22 I looked at his arm and there was a dent where one bone was supposed to be and he could bend his forearm in the middle. 5/14 BROWN: I was scared out of my wits of New Jack. The Steiner Brothers (Rick Steiner and Scott Steiner), The Bruise Brothers (Ron Bruise and Don Bruise) vs. I said, Now theres a gimmick. These two guys with tattoos had been The Masked Spiders in New Jersey. Watch a Tammy Sytch manage Brian Lee in a Coal Miner's Glove Match. Popular attractions Heimatmuseum Oberstdorf and Neue Skischule . He never went out to any bars on the road. Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) was Jim Cornette 's own Professional Wrestling promotion based in Knoxville, TN, running from October 1991 through December 1995. 8/14 Of course, 90% of the shows were in small little towns and rec centers and community clubs. Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region. I liked Lee with Candido a lot more than I liked Lee as a hero. 3/5 10/13 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). 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. 7/31 Brian Hildebrand was a Smoky Mountain mainstay, occupying such myriad roles as Head of Merchandise, referee (under his alter ego Mark Curtis) and sound director. Wrestling and swimming are determined based on votes from coaches and conference championship results. 2/12 6/25 It was special. CORNETTE: Rob Mazzie was 6-foot-8 and 300-something pounds. The first events and TV tapings were held in October and November 1991. 9/3 4/16 We wanted to get away from sports-entertainment.. Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 4 182: Landon Pope, Pisgah. 5/29 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. 5/28 11/13 12/10 WWE now owns the SMW video library. JERICHO: When youre in front of 200 people, theres no need to do a dive over the top rope to the floor. The signal up in those mountains went 100 miles in almost any direction. 11/12 Youre not going to see that in Madison Square Garden, I can assure you. 7/12 8/5 6/12 He liked southern territory wrestling, wild stuff, big heat, that type of thing. WCW was struggling with management issues, WWE was moving away from Hulkamanias golden age and the glory days of ECW were still years away. 8/18 9/23 Smokey Mountain Wrestling was a wrestling promotion founded by Jim Cornette, Rick Rubin and others. 5/1 4/8 3/21 2/27 His talent was great, but the fans didnt know exactly how to take him. Thanksgiving Thunder. 7/2 What Smoky Mountain was trying to do was to find that market. We got to the point where we were too small to be big, but too big to be small. 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. 2/5 12/11 He had a good match, was a great kid, came to eat ribs with us and I liked the way he carried himself. 7/2 11/20 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. When you see guys later in a WWE locker room, theres an instant connection that you did time in the territory together. He talked like one of the people because he was one a plumber from east Tennessee. 3/25 11/26 5/22 Tracey worked so darn hard. From 1920 to last week. She was still in school, and stayed in school at UT while she was working for me. 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. SMW event tours also included high school gyms and fairs in cities throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. Bluegrass Brawl III 3/17 It was real life, We hate you, go away, dont be here heat. 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 . We were far away from breaking even and it wasnt getting any better. Cornette said, Kid, you got eight minutes. BROWN: We had what was called the Smoky Mountain Flophouse in Morristown, Tenn., close to Cornettes house. 6/12 Contents 1 History and overview 1.1 Formation 1.2 Territorial reach It was a great time for me. 138: Jacob Ed, West Henderson, William McCoy, Smoky Mountain. Volunteer Slam II I learned how to perform a basic, good guy interview and get some personality and charisma involved as well. I had wrestled in Knoxville many times before, but it had been a while since Id been back. 7/9 7/7 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. 7/4 11/12 My wife and I became really great friends with them. 3/26 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. 10/29 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.
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