Jim Cornette on Smoky Mountain's Super Saturday Night Fever 

cuz they're on the network

@@Clubber-Slang The network has like 10 episodes total of SMW. I don't know why WWE refuses to put all of the classic territory promotions on the network, it's dumb.

@@manuelper look harder I guess. I'm looking at 15 episodes ranked by "most recent" right now and last summer watched like 10 from each year for about 50 total.

Mine too. When he first started the podcast, it felt like he was talking about it twice a month and I understand that you can’t cover one topic but for so much. It’s probably a good idea to leave it as something to come back to a few times a year, but I really don’t care about modern wrestling at all, I love pro wrestling but when I want to watch wrestling I’m going to watch wrestling from the 80s and 90s I don’t care about what is going on today. I love hearing Jim talk about Smoky Mountain wrestling. My brother and I would watch it every Saturday, it would come on after WCW worldwide, where we lived in North Carolina. Back then you didn’t have the Internet, so when it went out of business, it’s not like that it was a major announcement. Where we lived they still had enough shows taped that the two weeks before our Christmas break at school. Smoky mountain was still on. When we got back home in January, I remember that first Saturday where all the sudden Smoky Mountain Wrestling wasnt on anymore and they had replaced it with USWA. Which at that time was basically WWF really Just swapped. The heels or the baby faces and the WWF baby faces were the heels . We didn’t know if all of the sudden Smoky Mountain was still on the air and we just want a kid anymore or what . As much as I love the Monday night war era of both WCW and WWF the older I get I really find myself missing and having fonder memories of wrestling in the first half of the 90s. Mainly WCW Saturday night in Smoky Mountain wrestling.

Yep especially bc he's talking about running a small manageable territory...no corporate conglomerate bullshit. As he explains handshake deals with local business promotions and contracts with the radio and tv stations and boom .. You're got a great territory. Sad this model died (actually got killed). It's the greatest ire of Jim's rants ... Just add Suits...

About like a night race in Bristol, TN lol

D-Lo Brown I presume because of SMW & his affiliation with The Gangstas.

Young D-Lo (and old D-Lo) was a bit chunky.

He sure as hell did, poor D-lo can't get no respect.

He was really big in his SMW days, over 300 lbs

In America most pro sports are sterile, corporate and expensive. College sports on the other hand have lots more history, organic culture, deeper rivalries and a much more ingrained in their communities. The NFL may have the higher quality performance but college football is where the real passion is. I moved to America from England and was blown away not only by how big it is but how much more I enjoyed college over the professional game. It truly is an American phenomenon.

Ky is the same way and we have a good rivalry with UT.

Confirmed! I was raised in Wisconsin and moved to Mississippi. It's totally like that.

I love the NFL but over the last ten to fifteen years, I come to love the college game more. In the South, college football is unlike any other region in the country.

Nowhere was it said this was a huge show.

@@theecharmingbilly this video he called out "I've of our biggest shows"

You realize 1994/1995 wrestling was in a dark era where the best was down quite a bit and you’re comparing it to game changer wrestling of today?

I don't think it's an impossible task, I can't imagine that 98+ percent of it isn't available in various spots. Just have to find it and pick your spots.

There's an entire playlist of episodes on RU-vid.

Poor people want to go to shows too. I'm sure they weren't being fleeced by Smokey Mountain Wrestling lol.

@@theecharmingbilly He literally said they targeted people on the first of the month when their money came in.

He was gone from SMW by then.

Idgaf! Now I won't even listen since you wanna flip out about it! Thanks alot

Because they record on a schedule. It'll be out this week.

This ain't it so step off

go and listen to the podcast, it'll be there before youtube

then you need to take issue with how anything "gangsta" was represented in the 90s.

You have to know your audience. The Gangstas segments are great, but Cornette's said in the past that it was driving people *away* more than it was getting them into arenas to see the faces beat them.

His audiences wanted Southern Wrestling 1970's style. It almost worked out but the business was in the shatter for everyone and he couldn't hang on. He would find even greater success with OVW. At least critically, and in his own creative mind he says that was his best run.