Smokey Mountian Invaded WCW First! 1993

[chitownace777]

their fans did care!!! SMW rocks!!

[larrystarstruck]

This was truly a well done angle. Cornette's tantrum was great.



[Sluntrox]

Also wasn't that the same time as DDP whipping Brad Armstrong with a fishing rod? I always found it odd Bullet never mentioned anything about that.

[MrMoodyHyadd]

Cornettei s brilliant.

[bennett849]

jim has a big fucking mouth,but he was a good manager...

[WillOwnForFood]

Love the intro when Bill Watts tried not to laugh at Cornette's "killed your ratinngs" joke. 

[sammys70]

It'a a shame the suits at CNN wouldn't leave Watts alone.Behind Jim Crockett Promotions,his mid-south"UWF" was in my opinion the second best wrestling promotion during the 80's.

[bull864]

@sammys70 Don't forget about WCCW in Texas in the early to mid 80's. All three were super though!

[ia74me]

The Watts tenure in WCW, albeit a short one, was a great time to be a wrestling fan. They had talent, heat and angles that made sense. Thanks for posting!!!

[TBirdSCIL]

@ia74me- Yes but he also did stupid shit like ban off the top rope moves.

[ia74me]

@TBirdSCIL True, but when you look at the stupid shit that tries to pass itself for wrestling today, it's not that bad. lol

[Sluntrox]

@ia74me Except the whole racist thing...

[ia74me]

@Sluntrox I don't know about all of that. He's sure done more for blacks than any of the other promoters in any era. Just ask JYD, Butch Reed and a passed-hisiprime Ernie Ladd just to name a few. Atypical behavior from a racist.

[wyattcox]

@slipknot789able That's Dr Tom Prichard...he used to be a great interview - Piper level great.

[slipknot789able]

the guy with the curly hair is that tom pritchard or todd pritchard

[genstud08]

Jane Fonda, that's who I'll sue. Legendary!!

[jcp1977]

How did Ricky and Robert get back together,during that time I never saw it happening?

[danteras23]

Contrary to what a lot of people seem to think, WCW was great before the NWO and before Hulk Hogan. They had some great talent and great shows and great matches. I always liked WCW more than the WWFand the NWA before it.

[45Yankeeclipper]

@danteras23 To be honest WCW was awesome before the NWO Era but I hated when Hogan came in and had that god awful dungneon of Doom feud it looked like a second rate WWE Storyline. He really didn't fit in WCW.

[444Sidney]

@45Yankeeclipper Thank you he only brought money there because of his name but he tried to make WCW cartoon wrestling.

[45Yankeeclipper]

@444Sidney Yeah and because of that guys like Sting had to drop to mid card status and he was getting louder pops that hogan was.

[shrevedude1]

I applaud you for posting this. Nobody seems to know or remember that Smoky Mountain Wrestling invaded WCW in 1993 before it invaded WWF a few months later.

[4thCHANNEL]

@shrevedude1 actually,it was the heavenly bodies that invaded wcw...when smw went to wwf,they had a workin relationship and alot of smw guys got a shot in wwf...much like the talent trade in wwf/uswa

[oldskoolkid78]

i can't imagine worse clothing and hairstyles....WTF

[winfir0]

centerstage a great place to be

[WastedTimeVideos]

Smokey Mountain and WCW had a working agreement for a while,thus the reason Arn Anderson and other WCW stars appeared on Smokey Mountain Wrestling shows.

[MrPotatoesLatkie]

Bill Watts would have been a great heel manager, managing Steve "Dr. Death" Williams. I think Williams would have gotten over great with Bill on the mic for him mostly and, Steve being a "human suplex machine." Heck, I would have made Michael Hayes a manager for Terry Gordy. Both would have been great heels in America during the 1990's.

[ColorsBright]

this promo is oozing Old Spice 

[JeffTheFutureJaros]

Eaton & Lane were in the Heavenly Bodies? What? Where's Jiggalo Jimmy Del Rey?

[TrevorSteven]

@JeffTheFutureJaros

Eaton was never in the Heavenly Bodies. Stan Lane & Tom Pritchard were the original team in 1992-1993, then when Lane got his WWF announcers job and left, Jimmy Del Ray replaced Lane in the team.

[JeffTheFutureJaros]

@TrevorSteven OK, I see, thanks a lot for the info, I was wondering what was up here.

[justinblade14clktwr]

@TrevorSteven Yes Bobby Eaton was a member of the Heavenly Bodies, in Smoky Mountian with Stan Lane and Dr Tom Pritchard, look for a video by poster KabookiX called Who is under the sheet

[johnissoevil]

This wasn't even 2 months before JR went up north to WWE.

[Coldstonechampion]

Cornette a guy who despises anybody that a compete idiot who does not know jack

[munk237]

This is great

[cbpointblank]

LOL @ Cornette taking a page from the Bobby Heenan playbook and calling the fans "humanoids".

[yardlet6]

@cbpointblank Heenan was his biggest influence. Weird because Heennan worked for midwest promotions with a short stop at Georgia.

[shecouldchoke]

J.R.!!!!!

[testacct1a]

ever watch jr now(i try not to)he is a great ventriloquist, you hear him talk , but the lips don't move. balls palsy must be getting worse for that hyprocrite ross

[yardlet6]

@testacct1a Nice.

[fjccommish]

This is pound for pound the wildest feud involving mullets in the history of the sport.

[zybeco]

Stan Lane was rockin the zubaz and white cowboy boots

[NFCEastBeast]

mullets galore!

[MSH786]

@NFCEastBeast It's funny cuz a lot of them still got mullets!

[CLAWS1051]

Ok, does anyone know when Bill Watts made his WCW debut in 1992? Anyone have a video of his first appearance?  I know he left a believe a week or two right before Superbrawl III in February 1993, but wasn't sure what month he took control of WCW?

[Fnoel98356]

@CLAWS1051 I think it was like early 1992, and didn't even last until just the end of '92. I recall Bill Watts saying something about in his autobiography. I just can"t remember the exact date, if it was even mentioned at all.

[LuggNutz09]

Stan Lane is an old ass man

[DaNkinator]

Just gotta ask, wasn't Eaton a babyface in WCW during this time? Yet he's out with Cornette?

[newschoolz]

I heard he was released for a short time in 1993

[RFVideoShoot1998]

Bobby Eaton was released in late 1992 from his contract at WCW and landed a job with Cornette's Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Cornette origianlly wanted to reunite The Midnight Express, but Stan Lane and Tom Prichard were the Heavenly Bodies, managed by Cornette, so he was brought in as a bodyguard for Jim, like Big Bubba was to him in JCP in 1987

[Rayla840]

That's right. In fact, during an interview Arn Anderson did with RF Video in 2000 or 2001, he said him and Eaton were released at the same time. That was when they both appeared in Smokey Mountain and ECW together and feuded

[fjccommish]

Jim Cornette was and is great.

[banner74]

@fjccommish Him,Jimmy Hart,& Bobby Heenan are the top three greatest managers ever,with Heenan as #1 of course.

[fjccommish]

@banner74 Nobody can beat the Weasel. But you're right, that's a solid 1, 2, 3. Classy Freddie Blassie might have an argument for the top 3, however, you pencil neck geek.

[IRON5]

@fjccommish Don't forget Gary Hart

[fjccommish]

@IRON5 He was great too.

[ECOOL76]

Bill Watts sucks. Jim Cornette rules

[CLAWS1051]

This had to be right before Superbrawl III when Bill Watts resigned from WCW.

[bettydaw1970]

its a "muscle pants" bonanza

[NWAfan]

Thanks for the SMW.