He was paying. STORM: Tracy Smothers was so much fun to be around. It was real life, We hate you, go away, dont be here heat. Last updated by Sean Sweeny on April 28, 2014 Title History Career Highlights 1993: Rob Mayze wrestled as "Prince Kharis" in Jim Cornette 's Smokey Mountain Wrestling managed by Daryl Van Horn .. November 26, 1993 - Thanksgiving Thunder: Pince Kharis (debut) defeated Tim Horner with the sleeperhold.. 1/14 Smoky Mountain was a big tag team territory and Cornette asked if wed be willing to come in as a team. Thats Jim in a nutshell. The Gangstas (New Jack & Mustafa), Jim Cornette and The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) vs. D-Lo Brown and The Gangstas (New Jack & Mustafa), Tracy Smothers and The Undertaker vs. D-Lo Brown and The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa), Bob Armstrong, Tracy Smothers and The Undertaker vs. D-Lo Brown and The Gangstas (New Jack and Mustafa), The Dynamic Duo (Al Snow and Unabomb) vs. 9/25 ROAD DOGG: We worked high school gyms in small towns, but they were always packed and they were always the best fans. STORM: Like ECW, Smoky Mountain was too big to be small and too small to be big. 3/29 4/17 Owner 9/24 10/7 It wasnt by accident that he became next in line. 7/1 SuperBowl of Wrestling 6/4 2/13 I live 500 miles away from Knoxville, but wed go up and stay until the matches were over and then drive home. 1/18 Watch Smothers battle Chris Candido in an early Ladder Match. 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. Watch the big Steiner Brothers vs. Heavenly Bodies match at SummerSlam 1993. SMOTHERS: Sometimes the pressure would get to him and hed just snap. Its hard to compete with Vince McMahon and the machine. 4/30 11/20 LANCE STORM: It was clean-cut. 11/20 2/18 CORNETTE: Rob Mazzie was 6-foot-8 and 300-something pounds. I had wrestled in Knoxville many times before, but it had been a while since Id been back. This is somebody you have to worry about., Watch The Gangstas address The Undertaker from a southern graveyard. 7/12 9/3 Enter Jim Cornette. Contents Formation Territorial reach Notable talent 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. 10/21 ARMSTRONG: I was getting on up in age. Rock defeated The Wolfman 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. This led to The Rock 'n' Roll Express wrestling The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Stan Lane) at SuperBrawl III in February. 6/5 7/27 I had a police officer keep an eye on them while I took care of White Boy in the ring. Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region Overview News and Rumors History Events Event Statistics Results Titles All-Time Roster Matchguide Win/Loss Records Feuds Promos Tournaments Rivalries Ratings Comments Year: All-Time Roster Displaying items 1 to 104 of total 104 items that match the search parameters. BROWN: I was scared out of my wits of New Jack. Brawl In The Hall Alumni [ edit] Male wrestlers [ edit] Female wrestlers [ edit] Wrestling and swimming are determined based on votes from coaches and conference championship results . Raw results, April 24, 2023: Bad Bunny challenged Damian Priest to a Street Fight at WWE Backlash in Puerto Rico! It was an invaluable experience. 138: Jacob Ed, West Henderson, William McCoy, Smoky Mountain. 1/9 Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Shahid. The Mountain 7 has released its all-conference teams for the 2022-23 winter sports seasons. 10/14 He faced off against Bruiser Bedlam, someone with multiple title reigns in multiple promotions, though he never made it big in WWE. Chris had dual-citizenship. [26], The King of Kentucky Tournament was a one-night single elimination tournament held in Hazard, Kentucky on June 24, 1993. 2/5 I didnt want it to get to a point where I owed talent money.. Sunday Bloody Sunday 3/12 SMOTHERS: In 1993, Dirty White Boy burned the rebel flag in a trash can while I was handcuffed. Smoky Mountain was, however, the birthplace of the controversial "Gangstas" gimmick, where black wrestlers New Jack and Mustafa would cut promos about activist Medgar Evers, use fried chicken and watermelons as props and win matches as a result of a two count (rather than the conventional three count), which the Gangstas (kayfabe) insisted on due to Affirmative Action. 6/17 11/19 5/4 12/25, 1/8 5/8 160: Xander Hill, Pisgah, Jaime Vega, North Henderson. 8/21 Both Curtis Comes Home and the 2005 sequel show, held in memory of SMW head referee Mark Curtis are both considered "unofficial" reunion shows. 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. Volunteer Slam III The Dirty White Boy for the SMW Heavyweight Championship. 3/27 Non-Televised Smoky Mountain House Shows . CORNETTE: I met Rick Rubin through Cat Collins, a DJ friend of mine that had worked for Rubin at American Recordings. 11/11 Thats how full the place is. 5/10 [8] This led to The Rock 'n' Roll Express wrestling The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Stan Lane) at SuperBrawl III in February 1993. 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. 6/11 7/2 . Location STORM: It was one of the most amazing matches Ive ever been involved in, in that it never should have been that good. The signal up in those mountains went 100 miles in almost any direction. 9,102 likes. People didnt just want to see them get their @$$es kicked, they didnt want to see them period. He really did. 1/16 Sign up for BINGE to watch. 4/23 We trained together, sat by the pool, went to dinner, went to the movies. 3/19 4/10 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. 4/2 He had people screaming during a Chain Match in Pikeville, Ky., population: 6500. Volunteer Slam I 11/6 Pisgah @ Smoky Mountain . 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 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. There was an opening act where a guy came out in a skirt, combat boots, piercings and was spitting on the fans. 11/5 3/19 4/22 The palace sits on an island in the middle of the lake and requires a ferry for access. I didnt want it to get to a point where I owed talent money. 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. 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. 2/13 Christmas Chaos - Day 3 Cornette, Lane, and Scott had five years to try and earn the music maven some money. We got to the point where we were too small to be big, but too big to be small. He became a serious student of the business. 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." 1/21 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. 9/16 5/8 12/29 Pro Wrestling is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Warren went 22-3 at 185 pounds with a win at the Smoky . 3/26 11/13 Rick Rubin on loving pro wrestling, learning from Ric Flair and how "Rowdy" Roddy Piper turned the Beastie Boys Bad. After SMW folded, The Louisville Slugger, Jim Cornette went to work for WWE. 8/12 Stay at this 3-star spa hotel in Oberstdorf. Watch every Premium Live Event and get unlimited access to WWE's premium content - available to you anywhere, anytime, on any device. 11/10 9/27 1981 - 39 Disks. Rubin was technically one of Jerichos bosses in wrestling; the producer was a financial backer for the short-lived regional promotion - Smokey Mountain Wrestling. 10/10 And why did it close so quickly? Its a camaraderie thats not relevant exclusively to Smoky Mountain. 8.8/10 Excellent! They were close to 60-years-old at the time and he was doing moonsaults off the top into those chairs. 5/17 People had never seen it before. They can all wrestle. That really raised my opinion of him right there, when he did that. 7/17 2/6 ROAD DOGG: I wanted nothing more than to go there and wrestle because my family was there. Im a country boy, but that was too much. ROAD DOGG: Brian Lee was a great wrestler, a big good-looking guy and had a lot of talent. The winner was Chris Candido, who defended his title mostly at SMW events. 10/9 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. I bought a whole package of Peanut Butter crackers and thats all I ate all day. ARMSTRONG: One time, we were out back and we saw, over the hill, came an old mule. 4/22 [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]. 5/3 Related: 5 AEW Stars That Jim Cornette Hates (& 5 He Actually Likes). It was obvious that he was saying as long as we broke even, we could do whatever we wanted. 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]. 12/10 Day 3: Herrenchiemsee Palace. In 1974, The Mummy was fantastic, but I was 12 and times have changed. But Rick wanted a mummy. 12/3 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. Rasslin' 9/4 Matches from these shows were first shown in February 1992. [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. 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. 8/7 Nobody really did that back then have wrestlers from all these different promotions come in. 2/5 Learning when to do things, why to do them and getting the crowd to react the way you want. That memory will always stick with me. 9/11 8/27 (2) 3/18 It probably never should have happened, considering Chris broke his arm earlier that afternoon and needed surgery. 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. 9/2 Wrestling was not popular in America. Knoxville/MorristownTennessee Jimmy did it all. 8/28 And, for a while, they were successful in doing that. Sunday Bloody Sunday II The promotion was based in Knoxville, Tennessee, with offices in Morristown, Tennessee. 3/12 They used to call us the flying squirrels and mean it. 9/16 1/29 The promotion was backed financially by music producer Rick Rubin. The most important thing about wrestling is know your audience and Cornette really knew that southern area. Fire On The Mountain Contents 1 History and overview 1.1 Formation 1.2 Territorial reach If youre thinking Rubin produced a Fozzy album at some point, youd be wrong. He was tailor-made for the region. CORNETTE: We had a deal with the CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Va. 3/5 6/1 6/12 They were either already established stars or were guys that went on to become stars. Not wrestling heat. LAWLER: There were some backwoods fans, rednecks and coal miners that would come over from Virginia. 2/5 7/4 182: Landon Pope, Pisgah. 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. 12/24 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. Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 3 Pisgah Smoky Mountain. But Cornette wanted to have a hand in everything. 11/14 1986 1988 . 7/3 Six Pisgah wrestlers ( Kane Bryson, Cameron King, Xander Hill, Landon Pope, Tytus Bridges and Eli . Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 3 But we knew they were going to be stars. 1/21 MANTEL: The business had morphed. 11/6 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. 5/28 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. 6/21 Its simple as that. Big Apple Brawl It was a match made in heaven. 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. He beat up my dad and put him down on the chairs and went to do a moonsault off the top. 9/23 126: Damon Landreth, West Henderson, Matthew Mehaffey, Pisgah. 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). 12/11 Bluegrass Brawl I Christmas Chaos - Day 1 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. BROWN: [Smoky Mountain] was like my first year in college. The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) vs. [Rubin] would call me at three in the morning, Id hear the latest main event playing the background and wed talk about cool wrestling. Smoky Mountain was, however, the birthplace of the controversial "Gangstas" gimmick, where black wrestlers New Jack and Mustafa would cut promos about activist Medgar Evers, while also using fried chicken and watermelon as props. 1986 - 30 Disks . From 1992 until the promotion's end in 1995, Chris Candido wrestled for Jim Cornette 's Tennessee-based outfit Smoky Mountain Wrestling. It was exciting to be just getting out of the military and getting my start in wrestling. 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. 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. Thanksgiving Thunder - Day 2 6/18 We got lost in the mountains, came back and he was giving the meat to kids. This page is not available in other languages. 7/10 SMW To some of them, it wasnt just entertainment. Christmas Chaos - Day 2 The SMW Tag Team Championship Tournament was a tournament to crown the first-ever SMW Tag Team Champions. 2/6 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). SMW promoted shows in Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Watch the infamous and controversial Prince Kharis in action. 7/23 MANTEL: The style was what they now call old school. Telling a story doesnt have an era. 6/17 During the early 1990s, wrestling was in a state of transition. That became The Headbangers. 5/6 11/4 He wasnt able to sit and enjoy his wrestling company. I liked Lee with Candido a lot more than I liked Lee as a hero. 1/28 We wanted to get away from sports-entertainment.. In addition to making occasional appearances on the independent circuit in Georgia and Alabama, Armstrong acted as the commissioner of Smoky Mountain Wrestling and worked backstage with Southeast Championship Wrestling and the Continental Wrestling Federation. . I dont know how they got home. Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region. 2/26 7/31 It was a good chance to get promoted on national television, but I was afraid that if I showed up, people would think I was leaving Knoxville and it would hurt shows, so Bruce got Vince to agree that we could mention Smoky Mountain on WWE TV. It lasted almost five years and Ill never forget it. Fire On The Mountain 1994 He rolled out of the ring and had a weird look on his face. Add to history Add to collection Add to watchlist Recommend this 3/21 He could talk like crazy. He always sat in the crowd. She was a huge cornfed farmwoman and Brian Lee was trying to save Tammy without hurting her. 7/2 10/7 The Rock n Roll Express and Tracy Smothers could give you an education you cant get in the ring. He was legitimate. 3/6 1/16/23 - HI!, WE'RE STILL IN BUSINESS! The Undertaker walked out and Im like, Wow, oh my God, Im about the wrestle The Undertaker. You can feel the people breathing. 6/18 4/17 7/1 3/18 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. 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. 6/24 It took a while to get ingratiated into the style of being slowed down. 6/10 Watch Dirty White Boy sneak up on Dutch Mantel in a scrapyard. World Wrestling Entertainment Smoky Mountain Wrestling 1991-1995. CWA MEMPHIS. Knoxville was their biggest market, but its not a big enough market to sustain a wrestling company. 11/5 3/13 We take a look back on this short-lived territory. 7/17 2/20 I think he was the longest tenured roster member. Now picture a company trying to keep him in their employ. 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. AWA TV. 11/13 7/18 Summer Blast 7/30 MANTEL: Up there in eastern Kentucky and northern Virginia, youre back in the hills, buddy. 2/25 5/27 4/3 JERICHO: Our style was completely insane. (c) refers to the champion (s) heading into the match. 6/19 First Team: 106: Aydan Mull, Tuscola. 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. He wrote an article called Bobs Brigade, and thats when I first became aware of him. 11/26 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. (c) refers to the champion (s) heading into the match. 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. We were far away from breaking even and it wasnt getting any better. My dad moved and Terry just ate the chairs. 8/22 8/5 9/18 9/25 And the kid Chris Jericho he was with wasnt too bad either. 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. 11/8 Tales From The Territories - Smoky Mountain Wrestling - Full Episode 12/30 Original Wrestling Documentaries 62.6K subscribers Subscribe 4K 429K views 5 years ago #TalesFromTheTerritories Follow. 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. ARMSTRONG: He worked himself to death. It was my proving grounds and learning period. 10/16 8/9 Brad has his old Badstreet costume from WCW, which we turned inside out, put on Brian and called him The Dark Secret. Acronym I dont think America in 1994 was ready for it. 8/12 The basketball teams are voted on by league coaches. 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. 2/12 If he was seven-foot and 300 pounds, hed kill 20 people. He never went out to any bars on the road. 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. 1/22 He was such a class act. 12/3 Fire on the mountain: The oral history of Smoky Mountain Wrestling facebook twitter During the early 1990s, wrestling was in a state of transition. 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. He unmasked himself when I called him out for being ashamed of his father. CORNETTE: I got a building rent free and made two TV pilots, which ended up being show No. 8/21 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. Where else could a good ole country boy from Springfield, Tenn., like Tracy Smothers have people cheer for him? 7/16 The next spring, I beat him in a cage with a tennis racquet and sent him to the hospital and Scott came back with Steve, his other son, and then we did this big Lumberjack Match. They voted for ours, but WWE stayed on the air anyway. 7/8 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. The previous champion Shane Douglas had infamously "threw down" the NWA title in favor of the ECW World Heavyweight Championship after defeating 2 Cold Scorpio at the NWA World Title Tournament three months earlier. 4/29 It presented a great product for a particular region in the world and gave a place for many to work and hone their craft when there was only a few big promotions to earn a living in. The Thanksgiving Thunder 1995 was a Professional wrestling event of Smoky Mountain Wrestling which was taped on November 23, 1995. 6/25 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. 7/3 There was one caveat - he wasnt going to continuously invest in the product (and lose money). Find the all-conference team for each sport below. 4/22 7/9 It was pretty crazy. SMW event tours also included high school gyms and fairs in cities throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. Style 3/25 10/1 6/25 Smoky Mountain Wrestling was very much southern rasslin. 5/13 What was I gonna do? The Heavenly Bodies (Stan Lane and Tom Prichard) vs. 12/4 STORM: Jericho made the show and just had a plastic splint on his arm. Watch a young Al Snow take on Brad Armstrong for the Smoky Mountain Title. ROAD DOGG: My dad was already getting up there in years and there were a lot of young guys, so he became the commissioner. He and The Rock n Roll Express together showed how much fun a locker room can be if you dont take yourselves too seriously. 9/17 12/1 SMW - Pro Wrestling The Smoky Mountain Wrestling 1991-1995 The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson) for the SMW Tag Team Championship, The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) vs. Tom Horner and Robert Gibson for the SMW Tag Team Championship, The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Prichard and Jimmy Del Ray) vs. Tracy Smothers and Robert Gibson for the SMW Tag Team Championship, Jake Roberts vs. Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1991-1995) A firm believer in "old-school" territorial wrestling, Cornette began the Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) promotion in 1991. Cornette established the promotion after having cut ties with WCW, with initial financial backing from Record Producer Rick Rubin. ROAD DOGG: I got to travel with my family, do what I love to do and be with the people I love. What Smoky Mountain was trying to do was to find that market. Watch "The King" in Smoky Mountain against Dirty White Boy. 10/12 285: Eli Frizzell, Pisgah. CORNETTE: Bullet Bob was one of the most important parts of Smoky Mountain from the start. He started with us and was there when we closed. 8/13 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. Parent Cornette took all he learned growing up on Memphis TV and brought his own southern-style to the masses of the region. 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. 6/6 5/22 1/22 Visit Sony LIV to sign in or sign up and enjoy WWE's premium content. I worked with my dad in a Loser Leaves Town Match dressed up as a ninja.. 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. 4/8 I couldnt believe it. The last SMW show was held on November 26, 1995 in Cookeville, Tennessee (though it had been announced on SMW TV's November 25, 1995 episode that upcoming shows were to be held at the Collett Street Rec Center in Morganton, North Carolina on December 1, 1995, and at Cloudland High School in Roan Mountain, Tennessee the following night), and featured the entire SMW roster attacking Jim Cornette, who was then pinned by referee Mark Curtis. 4/15
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