Jim Cornette Looks At 1993's Bluegrass Brawl & SuperBrawl
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Being from the Bristol, Tennessee area, I can honestly say that Smokey Mountain Wrestling's Johnson City show that featured WWE's Undertaker as well as The Gangstas and Rock and Roll Express vs. Al Snow and Unabomb is to this day the best live event I have been to. Smokey Mountain was a great promotion, in my opinion.
brian rouse 🎩🎩
My favorite will always be night of legends. And I love the dvd of that one.
brian rouse AGREED, CAMP CORNETTE 4LIFE
brian rouse I’m from Kingsport lol small world
I wish I coulda been alive when smw was around, but I fortunate enough to see nwa70
Love learning about the behind the scenes workings of SMW.
If time machines ever become available. I’m going back and following SMW on the road from start to finish! I’ll do stooge work, shit I’ll job in the opening match! I’ll do whatever!
I live in the se KY area of the territory..stop in at my place..jus refer to this Incase they think you are here for predatorial purposes lol
Hey! 26 years ago now! Too bad wrestling can't be as good as the old days!
Sometimes Nostalgia is a mask for older wrestling, but SMW holds up to this day. Nitri/RAW/Some territorys don't unfortunately. I my opinion anyway.
I was at the Bluegrass Brawl! It was the best live wrestling that I've ever seen.
Me too! I went to all 3 of them. I miss Smoky Mountain Wrestling to this day.
Living in Knoxville, I enjoyed all years, yet 1993 was probably my favorite year of SMW. I was a Junior and Senior in highschool in 93 and 94. I thought Smokey would last forever. If I knew it would end in 95, I would have been at every Knoxville and Morristown card! I think I went to 15 total Knoxville cards!
You're a lucky man Bob, I've have loved to have seen some SMW shows live. In a parallel universe somewhere, Corny was able to hang on for another 6-7 months and his promotion kept on going after wrestling heated up again in 1996.
@@Sh0ckmaster Being from indiana, wish corny took SMW up here. Only way to see SMW talent there was to watch them on memphis mostly during the feud.
@Nathaniel Baxter The only thing I can guess was Indiana was mainly Memphis/Jarrett/Lawler territory and Corny didn't want to step on their toes.
@@maxxdahl6062 was lawler still running any territories by 95-96? I thought he was in WWF by then (aside from that period when he got caught up for his 14yr old mistress, of course)
@@sinicalypse Yeah he was running Memphis until like '97.
This has been so enjoyable for me and has given me such a clear understanding of how a territory ran and survived . Jim is a national treasure .
I wonder how different the pro wrestling world would have been if two things happened: (1) Jim Ross getting the job, power & access to Ted Turner's resources that went to Eric Bischoff & (2) Rick Rude not had his career ending injury.
Eric Bischoff was the best thing that WCW ever did
@@hunterwade9030 Eric Bischoff did accomplish quite a bit. No denial from me. However, would Jim Ross had accomplished just as much with the same amount or resources that Bischoff had. WCW had a great roster before Bischoff. It was more southern style, but had some great pieces in place.
Yes Corny, stayed with it the whole time. Enjoyed as always.
I was 5 years old in 1993. I got to see Survivor Series live in Boston as my first WWF/E event. Awesome to hear Cornette shoot on this year. I love how he breaks all the numbers and expenses and shit down.
I’m from Pikeville and remember the ‘94 Bluegrass Brawl very well! I was a JR in High School. I loved SMW because it was like the old school Crockett territory that I’d grew up on. It was well produced but not “overproduced” like WWF has always been and WCW had become after Turner bought them.
I was a freshman at Sullivan East when SMW was there. I was really disappointed that the crowd was so small.
Chris Booker the fuckers tossed the posters
Well it's East so..
If it had been Viking Hall it probably would've been a huge house for sure 😎
im from and live in that small town of hurley va we are up to 1,000 people now
I have to disagree with Jim's point at the end about 93 and 94 WCW being worse than 91 and 92. I agree that 93 was worse, and was the worst year of Turner ownership until 99-01; but 94 was not that bad. Their business went up in 94, the first third of that year is a smart fan's haven, and the last eight months featured the biggest star of the 80's-90's era in a brand new place. I know Hogan isn't everyone's cup of tea, but getting him to WCW was a major coup.
94 is actually a strong WCW year until November. Basically, the 12 month period between Havoc 93 and Havoc 94 is good.
You can understand why the talent liked Kip Fry but he was disastrous
Listening to Jim's analysis of the cards and how much each house drew shows just how tough it must have been to make money off this. Considering SMW was run in the middle of the tough time years of 1992-1997 it's amazing it lasted as long as it did. Cornette obviously knew what he was doing, just wish it had hung on another year or so. Imagine if SMW had still been running when the wrestling biz picked up again in 1996 :D
Imagine SMW hanging around and getting a major investor after ‘96 when wrestling started spiking. Cornette could have possibly tried to make a serious run at bringing Arn Anderson back and then hitting it big with Ric Flair. We could have saw Bobby Eaton, Stan Lane, Flair & Anderson together and finally witnessed the Midnight Express in the Horsemen.
@@Voysh2Voysh69 yeah cuz I'm sure WCW woulda let SMW use the horsemen gimmick
@@sinicalypse nobody here said they’d call them “The Four Horsemen” on television. Use your brain, bub.
@@Voysh2Voysh69 ok then, how the hell would SMW pay Ric "My Shoes Cost More Than Your House" Flair? Don't get me wrong, its a nice thought, but if WCW wasn't doling out the big bucks you know Slic Ric woulda slid back over to the WWF. Didn't it take him a pretty long time (like 5yrs after it started / he kept getting older) to pop the cherry on TNA?
@@sinicalypse it's all hypothetical of course, but cornet has described a pretty decent offer that Rick Rubin was going to offer to flair, 10 grand and appearance and I think it was only once a month is a hell of a schedule compared to normal. He might have enjoyed the year or two of easier booking
I compare this to all in and it's such a different proposition. Getting people to come back as opposed to putting together a crazy good card. Tricky
Love the inside working info about the wrestling business .....thanks Corny
Ah yes, that classic WCW storyline "Fortress of Solitude for the Midget's Spin the Deal"
I love Jim
I Know the "TroubleMakers" from that Beckley Show.
If the population of council is over 3,000 I’ll eat your hat. Lmao
Great video. Very informative.
"And Horner" is like the antithesis of Artie Lange's "and [Lawrence] Taylor" bit
Know what’s funny? This would be the time to re-up Smokey Mountain if he wanted to run another company. Tons of indies out there, and a lot of the country folk that want Corny’s idea of wrestling
Plus it’s cheaper than ever to actually produce a show. Granted I’m not talking about actually putting a show on itself, but you can hire one young guy to edit the show for you and he can do it fairly inexpensively. You don’t have to sell sponsorships as much necessarily because you can have a pay wall for example. You’re totally right
Jim isn’t going to run a promotion he’s doing well with the podcast and UA-cam he openly admits he makes more money now than ever before
He’s going to give that up to what the younger side of the industry more or less has written him off tried to “canceling”
Im pretty sure Jim doesn’t even like wrestling anymore little bits here and there but the industry as a whole
@@seanodeli7031 Yeah, you are right. I was just thinking he opened Smokey Mountain in the worst of times, and now wrestling is getting pretty hot right now.
We love it when he talks about Beckley!
1:06:05 "September... fuck it... back to school... everybody's pissed"
It's too bad that when I rented SuperBrawl 3, their match wasn't on the videotape
Hearing how Jim had to compete with county fairs kinda blows my mind
This is more proof internet killed wrestling. Cards would be out seeing its just the same things and kill the tour. Plus even in old small towns they have it and will watch tv or youtube then spend $10 on a show.
texasranger9 huh?
Baron Samedi It’s like the wrestling newsletters I’d get when they first came out.It would list the promotions,cities they wrestled in & results & by how.I was like WWF Sacramento Saturday then WWF Phoenix Sunday.Same card,same ppl won by the same method in around the same time as the night before.Hmmmmm
I'm trying to piece together how long Corny was actually with Bobby Eaton. Because they started in Memphis in '84, went to Texas together, Mid South, Crockett, WCW, did SMW together. So about ten straight years they were together most days.
RIP Vader
Incredible as usual
Great stuff.
SANDY SCOTT WAS A BEAST
Weren't Knoxville and Johnson City Jim Crockett Promotions territories as well?
Stephen Mahala yes they were. Jim has stated that they drew 100k dollar house in Johnson city for the great American bash I believe in 1986
No they were not. Knoxville and Johnson city were part of the NWA's East Tennessee territory, Southeastern Championship Wrestling/Continental Championship Wrestling ran by Roy Welch and Buddy Fuller family. When that territory died by the mid to late 1980's, WCW started running shows there. So it was a WCW area, but not Jim Crockett Promotions, as Jim Crockett Promotions did not put on shows in East Tennessee.
I was there... So much fun
Im from pikeville ky and remember those Saturday mornings...hell i was at The Bluegrass Brawl and it was amazing.
Edit: it was a million degrees in there.
Im from Letcher County Kentucky i used to watch and loved SMW
@@DavidLucas-oj6ju it was awesome. We bought my Papaw a ticket once on the condition Dad could search him before we went in. Needless to say he didn't go. He wouldn't go anywhere without that .38!! Lol
@@thatdude-xj4qe i dont blame him for not wanting to car a .38
@@DavidLucas-oj6ju we didnt hold it against too much but he got way into it..it would've been a bad look if he shot Dutch Mantell.
@@thatdude-xj4qe i understand that we got some good people in Pikeville Kentucky as well as good people in Letcher County
I have no clue why this rules so hard, but it does.
Bodies vs R&R stole the show ... I my vote goes to Sting vs Vader strap match
I love how Pro Wrestling thrives around the first of the monthy just like drug sales. #trapcornette
Pizza sales too
yeh gotta love our welfare tax dollars going to spot shows in podunk
@@ryann8680 a much better use of them than what the government usually spends them on
Collett ( cal- let) st rec center Morganton, n.c. lol!!! Good stuff. Smaller venue but we loved our NWA wrestling 😁
I don't remember WCW ever being on WVLT 8
I miss the good old days.
I’m from West Virginia and I’m pretty sure that Jim knows the geography of my state better than I do.
Wow goddamn this should be interesting.
Jim speaking of the Watts WCW era got me thinking. About Watts being too set in his ways although successful to shift to a tv ppv audience in addition to house shows. Bischoff and Watts could of kept competitive with wwf maybe?
I hear 8 dollar ringside and just laugh good god times have changed
Does Jim mention the revenue splits between the comps?
Wonder if Jimmy sold 100% of the SMW to Vince.
he just sold the tapes, now the name.
No Gatlinburg?
Im English but God Damn it I would love a Bit of SMW. Good old fashioned territory wrestling. We got CPW where im from.
Probably have replayed the smw deep dives 4 or 5x each..i live in whitesburg ky about 30 minutes from both hazard and Pikeville. I was 8-11 I think going to Thanksgiving thunder every year it was ran and alot of shows in neon ky..small very hillbilly coal miners and the 1st of the monthers...i wasn't smart until dirty white boy and that group showed up on WWF tv..and this jim cornette..he isn't just a manager coming to little letcher county ky to help the heavenly bodies
Oh shit, it’s Arn Anderson!
In what kind of bizarro world does Arn Anderson team with one of his greatest rivals, the Rock and Roll Express???
Ahhh if only smokey mountain opened up again 😔
Why? Because of Jims way to book?
I like when Jim says look at an Atlas lol. Google maps
I had to stop this video to go find the video of Arn's reveal.
I'm so grateful that when Jimmy Is dead and burning in hell, we will be left with his gift of total knowledge of every spot show take and attendance since 1945...love you, you magnificent bastard
It's a shame how tourism has changed seriville
And now Innovate Wrestling carries on the tradition!
Bake sales?😂😂😂😂
26:00
Football rules East Tennessee high school and college is the truest thing he ever spoke
If you only make $2200 for a show how's Jim gonna pay the bills when he only makes $2000 off of all that?
“We did garbage, but it means something”. I see, so when you did it, it was proper and good but when Heyman did it (to rave reviews I might add) it was putrid and immoral. LOL I love Jim, but damn is he a hypocrite. I mean that with all sincerity. Good Lord
Corny!!!!!!
Fun fact. Bill watts was the basis for the racism lawsuit against WCW that they lost on account of having a vocal racist as match maker in large part, this is Jim cornette biggest idol in wrestling.
Your stealing Jim’s content
This is where he put his podcasts before setting up his UA-cam channel you dunce. He’s not going to let you suck him off for trying to be his white knight either.
Sabu sucked
Then
Now
Forever