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Post by TRMcGillicutty on Dec 8, 2007 0:02:52 GMT -5
I'm currently watching Wrestling Gold: Blood, Brawls, and Grudges on the Netflix Home Viewer internet majig, and it's all about SMW. Now I remember reading about SMW in the Apter mags and being intrigued and watching this right now is making me even more interested in the product. So to get to the point, do you guys know where I could get any SMW videos? I would love to see more of this.
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Post by lovingway on Dec 8, 2007 6:36:31 GMT -5
I think there might be one more SMW DVD out there, but I believe Vince owns the rights to it.
Check eBay and tape trading sites for more
I marked hard for SMW (even more so than ECW at first)
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Post by angryfan on Dec 8, 2007 6:42:58 GMT -5
I loved SMW. My God, just look at the talent that came out of there, the work done in the promotion, it was outstanding.
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Post by GaTechGrad on Dec 8, 2007 6:53:53 GMT -5
I used to watch Smoky Mountain Wrestling when I visited Tennessee back in the day. Today the biggest promotions in East Tennessee are United Championship Wrestling and Tennessee Mountain Wrestling (owned by Ronnie Garvin).
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Post by stevierichardsfan on Dec 8, 2007 8:45:25 GMT -5
smw ruled
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Post by Kash Flagg on Dec 8, 2007 8:48:58 GMT -5
Yeah, Vinnie owns the SMW library. I used to have to work the rabbit ears to get the station in that carried it, but fuzzy or no, I loved it.
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Post by hoganmark on Dec 8, 2007 9:01:45 GMT -5
Growing up in East KY in the heart of SMW country, I loved watching it more than WWF. It was always a treat for me to get to watch because it didn't come on until 11:30 pm on Saturday nights (kinda late for a 8/9 year old). My favorite SMW wrestler had to be Bobby Blaze; mainly, because he was a subsitute teacher at my elementary school. It was so cool to have a wrestler as your teacher. He always liked to talk about wrestling and would cut "promos" duirng class. He would even bring in his title belts with him. Needless to say, he didn't have to worry about any boys getting out of line; we were all afraid he would body slam on of us if we acted up.
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Post by cartern923 on Dec 8, 2007 9:29:47 GMT -5
I've seen a few SMW matches, particularly the ones on Foley's DVD, but reading Jericho's book made me want to see a little bit more of the promotion.
However, Jericho was pretty hard on people from KY and TN, so I'm glad I'm not from there or else I might have a little "heat" with Jericho right now.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Dec 8, 2007 9:51:57 GMT -5
Yeah, SMW was definetly the promotion that, in my opinion, died WAY too early into it's existence. They did some brilliant stuff there, even if some of it was a little bizarre. Jim Cornette should never manage the Rock'n'Roll Express, even if it is to take on the Gangstas.
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Post by RingoJ is a Horrible Man on Dec 8, 2007 9:52:59 GMT -5
SMW was awesome.
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Post by lovingway on Dec 8, 2007 11:15:25 GMT -5
What did Jericho say about the fans?
I would just love to see the New Jack promos during that era
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Post by imnotbooked on Dec 8, 2007 12:04:48 GMT -5
I enjoy SMW to an extent, but there is good reason why it died when it did. As much as I love Cornette he is SOOOO stuck in his ways when it comes to promoting wrestling that he just couldn't keep up with what the fans expected as time went on....
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Post by Deleted on Dec 8, 2007 14:03:35 GMT -5
I have a 4 hour TV taping from early 1994, when they started the "cross promotion" with the WWF. Guys like "Made In The USA" Lex Luger and The Undertaker would do promos talking about how they'll be in Harlan, KY or Johnson City, TN. (The WWF would send them, while, - in exchange - get the Heavenly Bodies, Chris Candido and Tammy Fytch.) The announcers in this tape were Bob Caudle and Dutch Mantell.
They had a title called the "Beat The Champ" TV champion. The guy with the title (I never saw an actual belt) would defend against whoever Dutch Mantell drew out of his hat every week. Sometimes it was a "star", sometimes it was a scrub. If you won 5 straight weeks, then you win $1,000 and they would take the title away and crown a new champion.
It was old-school but it was good stuff for those of us who grew up with the 80s NWA shows.
On my tape, "Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony was the lead face (with "Dirty White Girl" Kimberly) and he feuded with "Prime Time" Brian Lee (with Tammy Fytch). The Rock & Roll Express feuded with the Heavenly Bodies. Chris Candido and Tracey Smothers had a series of ladder matches for $1,000 hanging above the ring. (The bag hung so low from that rope, a good Tracey Smothers leap could bring that bag down.)
The Gangstas weren't there yet (on my tape), but when they finally aired some shows on local TV (1995), they had 3 members: New Jack, Mustafa Saed and some quiet guy named D'Lo Brown. Al Snow was tag champs with some unknown named Unibom (he looked like Dave "Evad" Sullivan, but would soon be: an "evil dentist", a "Christmas Creature", a "fake Diesel" and brother of the Undertaker...yes it was Kane).
Look at some tape sites, they may have some copies around. Highly recommended.
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Post by Kash Flagg on Dec 8, 2007 14:56:45 GMT -5
It was great late in SMW's lifespan when they went to war against the USWA. As I was getting both programs at the time, seeing Mark Curtis on Memphis TV as a heel was awesome. We never really got to see Curtis' true potential.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Dec 8, 2007 19:22:26 GMT -5
It's actually staggering to think about the sheer amount of talent that went through that promotion in those 4 years it was around. Jericho, Kane, Lance Storm, Ball Mahoney, Candido and Sunny, New Jack(I'm stretching the definition of the word "Talent" by a gross margin to include him), D'Lo Brown, Al Snow, Cactus Jack, BG James, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2007 12:28:08 GMT -5
Their last "big event" was this:
Event: SuperBowl of Wrestling Date: August 4, 1995 Location: Knoxville, Tennessee Arena: Civic Coliseum Attendence: 5,000
Brian Armstrong pinned D-Lo Brown (8:00).... The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher) defeated Flash Flannagan and Chris Michaels when Mosh pinned Michaels (11:40).... USWA Tag Team Title Match: PG-13 (JC Ice and Wolfie D) defeated Jackie Fulton and Curtis Thompson when JC Ice pinned Fulton to retain the tag team titles.... The Punisher pinned Bob Armstrong (3:40).... MTW Heavyweight Title Match: Al Snow pinned Marty Jannetty (28:32) to win the title.... NWA World Heavyweight Title Match: Dan Severn defeated Bobby Blaze (4:04) via submission to retain the title.... Terry Gordy and Tommy Rich defeated The Mongolian Stomper and Boo Bradley (10:56) when Rich pinned Bradley.... USWA Heavyweight Title Match: Brad Armstrong pinned Billy Jack Haynes (9:32) to win the title.... The Undertaker pinned Unabom (14:46).... Smoky Mountain Wrestling Tag Team Title Match: The Heavenly Bodies (Tom Pritchard and Jimmy Del Rey) defeated Tracey Smothers and Tony Anthony (21:27) when Del Rey pinned Anthony to win the tag team titles.... WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Title Match: Shawn Michaels pinned Buddy Landell (13:42) to retain the Intercontinental title.
At the time, it was quite a show. And wow, just noticed "the wrestler to be known as Kane" and the Undertaker wrestled each other here.
The Headbangers were a USWA product at this time. (Another team who was in the USWA but didn't have a match: a couple of guys named Saturn & Kronus...the Eliminators. I think they had just signed with ECW around the time of this card.)
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Post by kongadave aka Dave Wills on Dec 14, 2007 8:46:16 GMT -5
Try tape trading sites. I loved the first two years especially
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 14, 2007 13:05:06 GMT -5
It got a bit silly towards the end, with Prince Kharis the mummy and stuff. Think part of that had to be blamed on Rick Rubin, the music producer, who helped finance the show. Apparently, Glen Danzig was a silent backer as well, having been brought in by Rubin.
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Post by lildude8218 on Dec 14, 2007 13:15:52 GMT -5
I used to watch SMW on my dad's big dish. I'm guessing it was back in 92 because when they defended the SMW Tag Titles at Superbrawl III I was well aware of the company at that point. I found ECW around the same time or a few months after this.
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Post by Beebs is the Final Girl on Dec 14, 2007 19:41:03 GMT -5
SMW was awesome, saw a few shows in TN and WV around 92. loved watching some of my all time favorites such as Tim Horner. loved the old schoolness of it. Cornette will always be awesome. i will always remember Kevin Sullivan and the Mongolian Stomper fighting up the stairs to...the bathrooms. wtf?! not sure why he liked doing that. in the words of Joe Dirt, what a freak. (sorry for that reference. i be leaving the room now.)
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