Funny thing is, I simply asked why he booked Shawn at that event considering how much he hates him. He goes on a 32 min history lesson about the entire show. I love Jim.
As he said earlier, Shawn wasn't the prima-donna he became later (eg. a Vader head-kicking, Montreal title-snatching, smile losing whiner who wanted it all his own way and would kick up a childish stink otherwise). Love him or hate him, you still can't knock his matches, old or new. I always remember his older WWE appearances when he mellowed out, such as the awesome Ric Flair retirement match at WM XXIV, followed by the classic Undertaker matches, and a lot stuff from way before that.
Goddamn! I love the passion and knowledge Jim brings, and this is just an offhand recounting. I love the specificity and honesty, breaking down the spreadsheet. Fascinating. I hope this show will be made available in DVD/streaming someday soon 💚
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Damn Jim, you wanted Jeff Jarrett and got HBK? That’s like expecting McDonalds and getting a filet. Even in 95 Edit: I triggered the marks! There is absolutely no reason for this comment to have almost 60 replies 😂😂
Buddy Landel "my own worst enemy promo" is easily one of wrestlings best promo (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TfCpjgcnLfs.html) R.I.P. Buddy. More content like this over aew review any day.
Thanks Corny for teaching the $#!+stain smarks the proper way to book a program... well in advance, with a logical set-up and, equally important, a logical payoff... and with a just enough wiggle room to cover the unforeseen swerves. On top of that, a way to showcase some of your talent to help launch them to the next level. That's Pro Wrestling the way its supposed to be done!
That Hooters waitress idea is actually a brilliant idea. A male dominated sport with Hooters girls bringing you stuff so you don't have to? Yeah, sign me up.
Ill still never forget the story about Lawler taking a crap whilst Bret and Shawn fought outside the cubicle, " History has not recorded if the king wiped first before he told Vince "
He was preaching at the time. Marty Jannetty said that he got all religious on him. He caught Buddy doing something not religious (didn't say what it was), and told him that he was "taking a break".
@@Will_kid_cortez How many attempts until they finally read it? It's getting harder now that they're over 200,000 subscribers. Did you send them every week? A day before? I know they tape the Drive-Thru on Mondays (Brian mentioned an email from a day before) and the Experience on Thursdays (Jim mentioned something about the date).
@@davidleewrath6919 I actually think its where you send it. Mine was 1 time maybe it was the subject I had. I did it on JC website instead of the drive thru email or Twitter
This is such an interesting crossroads of Northern and Southern wrestling. 1995 is when I started to consistently watch wrestling, but I was a youth and had no idea this kind of stuff was happening outside of WWF. I would love to see pre-Nation D’Lo in action.
The thing I love about Smoky Mountain wrestling besides how good it is, is that every show is available on RU-vid. I think it’s the only promotion where every syndicated television show is here on RU-vid and even a few of the big shows I don’t think all of the big shows are on RU-vid but I think quite a few of them are. I’ve ordered some of the big shows on DVD from Jim Cornett and it’s cool because he signs all of them and he writes a little message to you when he does. I’m not going to say, smoky mountain wrestling had the biggest stars like at the time they were running the big stars in the business were Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Diesel, Sting, HBK, Vader, Razor Ramon, Randy Savage, Ricky Steamboat, Yokozuna, Lex Luger etc. a couple of those guys would come in and do a match at the big shows, but as far as weak to weak and month-to-month, they didn’t have any of those guys…… but no one will ever be able to convince me that if you ask the question in the first half of the 90s which wrestling promotion did the best with what they had it’s easily Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Jim did the very best he could do with the roster he had where in 1995 I think both WCW and WWF all had a ton of talent but the way everyone was being booked was terrible. I don’t think it’s Kevin Nas’s fault for what was going on in WWF at the time I blame Vince for how he was booking Kevin Nash. I blame Eric Bishop for not understanding that. Yes now that you have Hogan integrate him into your roster, but Eric could not do that in a way without burying the WCW roster. All the heels basically just took churns jobbing to Hogan and our top baby faces were now just reduced to Hulk Hogan sidekicks. It made WCW look like the minor leagues. But what Jim did with the talent he had in Smoky Mountain wrestling I don’t think Eric Bishop, or Vince McMahon would’ve been able to do better. It’s great there are so many wrestlers that did work other promotions like Tracy Smothers and Chris Candido. Yep those guys worked WWF, WCW and ECW, but their best run and I would even throw Al Snow in this category too, their best run was in smoky mountain. When those guys were just allowed to be themselves and cut their own promo and go out there and show the fans what they could do they shined there. None of them ever really got a chance to do that anywhere else they worked. I know Chris had a better run in ECW than he did WWF or WCWAnd he was in the triple threat faction but when you go look at what he did in ECW I think he had a better run in Smokey Mountain. Watching Delo Brown like you had mentioned was a lot of fun, so many great wrestlers that were in WWF or WCW or ECW during the Monday night wars got their start in smoky mountain wrestling. I really don’t think Smoky Mountain gets the credit it deserves.
Shawns best attire turning baby face in a incredible match with Double JJ. Back when the workers belt actually meant something especially the white leather IC. Miss those days of wrestling
@@almightycinder yeah, I'm aware of that. I never heard him say that Bob Orton Jr was on the superbowl of wrestling event, especially wrestling. Night of legends was a separate event.
Smokey Mountain Wrestling was the last great territory!! ECW was not Wrestling, it was guys jumping off balconies, guys killing finishing moves like piledrivers, superplexes and it took a half dozen chairshots and going through about 3 tables. I wouldn't have been surptised for New Jack to pull out a 45 magnum shoots Taz who kicks out!!!! Imho ecw was not Wrestling.
Awesome show such good shit. D lo brown vs armstrong good match!!! Headbangers match,marty vs al snow classic match, unabomber, vs taker, bullet bob vs punisher good match,Dan s vs bobby blaze good match, billy jack haynes vsbrad armstrong.thugs vs body's bloody match, ,shawn vs buddy l buddy lost lol Seems like it was a full crowd too
The "print money" bit is hugely relevant to arts/entertainment in general. Back in the day, if you had a decent style and could play your instrument, you could be a working musician. Now you have to already be well-off to get anywhere because the barriers to success are financial.
Yes, He wrestled four matches. He lost to Ahmed Johnson at In Your House, defeated Bob Holly on Raw, defeated Matt Hardy and wrestled Bret Hart in a WWF World Heavyweight Championship match shown on Mania. Landel suffered a serious injury outside of the arena, slipping on ice and tearing his right quadriceps and it ended his run.
WWE not putting up this show, which I remember seeing as a kid, is a shame. I remember the video package Jim and SMW put together for Undertaker vs Unabomb (Glen Jacobs, A.K.A. Kane) where they used "Don't Fear The Reaper." I been trying to find that vignette everywhere. #threecountcommentaries
He was preaching at the time. Marty Jannetty said that he got all religious on him. He caught Buddy doing something not religious (didn't say what it was), and told him that he was "taking a break".
Hearing the plane ticket prices, I'm curious why Shawn's was so much, especially in 1995 (reference: I flew round-trip between Baltimore and Honolulu, with a stop in St. Louis, for $777 in summer 2001). Last minute booking? Cross-country flight? He couldn't have been going first class yet.
He was out of the business for nearly 4 years. Jerry Jarrett got him out of retirement. Jerry Jarrett was working as a consultant for WCW and told Billy Jack that he was going to be booker in WCW, and he was bringing him into WCW. That ended up not happening. I think he said that to bring him into USWA.
What a great way to introduce a new wrestler that your planning on giving a big push. Let them go to a place like SMW for a couple months then bring in the IC Champion to face him where everyone thinks its going to be a squash and then have him actually win the title. That would be awesome. He would look like the quintessential underdog. Even if it was NXT. I was hoping they were going to do that with Bron Breakker when he challenged Seth Rollins not long ago.
The closest I could have seen Nash wrestling against who was his size in SMW was Glen Jacobs, but even then he was still very green and had no story to tell with Kevin - unless he let his mouth piece do the talking smack for him to get him to wrestle his monster, Jacobs, and of course I'm talking about Al Snow who was great on the mic and could cause a riot if he was given the chance to. However, even then I think that would have hurt Jacobs' career if that match happened. Shawn was the better choice against Buddy because they were both veterans by this point, could work a match without breaking a sweat, and Jim even knew that he was money to be made when used right. He could hate him, but he separates business from how he feels about some of the guys like Shawn...who was a real piece of garbage by this point, and for many years after, too. It was the right choice in my opinion and they worked together really well and I think they should have been given longer of a feud because Buddy was cleaner by then and more serious about his career and still a young guy, too. He should have been given a run with the championship and it would have been a great story line. He was a little out of shape, but six month of training would have put him back to his optimal shape he was in during the mid 80's when he looked like a million bucks. He was a great wrestler and knew how to control the fans just by taunting them with a smirk, or a batter of the eye. He was that good! Yeah, Shawn was okay too I won't take that away from him, but Buddy was more deserving to be higher in the cards and not used as a jobber afterwards. That was not right, he could have given so much more if given the opportunity.
To be honest I don’t have a problem with michaels having a problem with the amount of blood in the ring. Seriously this was in a time when AIDS was the most terrifying thing on earth, and frankly it’s not an unreasonable complaint.
You still have absolutely no idea what you are talking about even after Jim gave 3 perfectly reasonable explanations to you 😂 You're a modern gymnastics fan in a nutshell. Goof.
ECW should get a dark side of the ring episode, but only If they could get Paul Heyman, even though he’d just bullshit the whole episode he’d make it entertaining
Jim really doesn’t like Kevin Nash. I love Jim but I’m also a big fan of Kevin. I think Kevin and buddy would’ve had a good match. Kevin isn’t near as bad as Jim put him out there to be. I’m not saying Kevin is one of the greatest all time and Kevin has told or he’s not the greatest technical prowess. But if you put him with someone that knows how to have a good match like Shawn Michaels, Bret Hart, and the undertaker, he had great matches with all of the skies it’s not like Nash was Sid. Yes Sid was over but he couldn’t have a good night. Nash prove did you give him a good dancer
It didnt risk ECW's money it risk the boys money, it destroyed a lot of guys finances, they lost houses and families. ECW didnt piss away its own money
It wasn’t about pushing Marty over Sabu, but rather what the fan base in the territory would want to see. Sabu wrestled here in the Memphis end for a couple of months in 91 and no one really cared
Very unnecessary burial up Kevin Nash before the five minute mark. Nash's baby face gimmick post title win made him a dull champion (roman reigns&john cena...&shawn michaels); but Nash was still over like crazy. If he came out badass tweener, which was always his over gimmick, then paired with a good to great worker he could have goof heavyweight matches. How people shit on nash's mobility yet adore Andre the Giant is the damnedest thing. If you go back to 1995, MATTER OF FACT, novemeber 95 Nash had the best match of his career dropping the title to Bret hart. Much better than his HBK matches (hbk was trying to bury him.). Nash always had good matches with bret. But thats for the tv audience. For the house shows? Nash was fantastic for house shows in 1995. He was much more of a worker in 1995 than the later days of WCW. Bruce Prichard and cornette have a hatred for kevin nash that culminates in these burials, like Nash was the lowest drawing champion and that nash couldnt work in the ring. Undertaker is a unique guy. Kane is there without the charisma. Most the big rasslin guys worked 7 to 8 minute matches. Hogan was another one. The thing that made big guys like taker, Hogan and andre (there are way more names obviously cant think of EVERYONE) so over was their presense mixed with the charisma they brought to the ring. Nash 100% had the charisma. The in ring work rate is meaningless when it comes to box office. If your undercard has work horses in every other match, fans want to see a short match with their champ hit their finish and 1,2,3. All the top guys of WWF attest to that. Vince wanted Bret and Shawn because his circle believed in the ric flair philosophy , but flair had the promos and charisma far more than anything he did in the ring. What was flair's style in the rjng? Sell sell sell sell chickenshit, heel, sell cheat, sell, cheat... Win. What did bret and shawn do? What did Hogan do? Same shit. They got people emotional selling. But good matches didnt mean box office. Which is why shawn and bret couldn't carry a company with an abysmal undercard. Nor could nash. The undercard in wwf 95 is the most overlooked element to WWF's post steroid hurdles. People rather bury Hart Michaels and Nash, instead of the abysmal booking and awful characters that made up that era wwf. They brought back warrior to crickets. Wcw brought in hogan to crickets. Your card can have 1/3 shit matches and 1/3 shit roster. But it cant be Mabel vs Nash maineventing a show with garbage men and hockey players leading them in
Lol a Nash fan. People respect Andre because he protected the business. Nash helped expose it and pulled lazy crap like not wanting to wrestle a match with Randy Savage at a house show because there weren't enough people in the crowd.
@MemphoWrasslin1 watch one of their matches when Andre still had his wheels. It wasn't about the match quality or work rate. Meltzer hadn't programmed everyone to overanalyze in ring work. Andre was hurt, but he still had a lot of cache in the business. If he wanted to beat Hogan he would have, but he put Hogan over to help legitimize him as a main draw for more years to come. It was about the psychology. I get really sad everytime I see Andre take that body slam because I know he was hurting really badly there, but he did it for the business and Vince Mcmahon. Dude has my respect for life.
While I, personally, was a fan of Nash and even his run as Diesel and even though he did have, in my opinion, good matches with Bret and other guys too, WWF ruined the Diesel character when they turned him into a cheesy babyface as what made him cool was the more serious bodyguard character. Nash was a big guy and I felt that most of the time his work in WWF was good, he seemed to try his best at least. When he went to WCW he seemed to get lazy and his matches were mostly boring - but even in WCW he was involved in some good matches to be fair, it just seemed like some nights he couldn't be bothered. When he seemed to care enough and if he was working with a friend or someone he respected he was a good big man in the ring definitely but on an average night, with someone he wasn't friends with, he was just a big man going through the motions and not especially trying to have a great match, just doing what needs to be done to get the match over with. I don't think Diesel was over too much during his babyface WWF World Championship run to be honest, I think he was most over when he was in the NWO in WCW.
@@daviddexter4945 absolutely ruined him with the face run. Diesel was red hot in 96 prior to the WCW return because he was booked as the bad ass tweener that directly upon his departure, Austin was filled that role, and hall and nash were tweeners on WCW