Smoky Mountain Wrestling: Buddy Landell vs Shawn Michaels (1995)

the 'Nature Boy' Buddy Landell challenges Shawn Michaels for the WWF Intercontinental Championship at a 1995 Smoky Mountain Wrestling event. Sorry, it's joined in progress to showcase Jim Cornette's promos.

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Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Buddy Landell
• Nature Boy
• WWF
• WWE
• SMW
• Intercontinental Title
• Jim Cornette
• Tommy Rich

[KittColby]

Unreal. "General" Jim Cornette? Shawn Michaels, as a WWF star, wrestling and defending the Intercontinental title in a match for Smoky Mountain Wrestling? What an awesome find.

It was cool to see Shawn Michaels and Al Snow go at it there at the end too.

[InternationalObjects]

@KittColby Additional trivia: The Punisher later would join WWF as "Bull Buchanan."

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[JonathanVonErich]

@hairbandfan Sorry but Buddy Landell never deserved to beat a top star like HBK. Landell was great, he was very talented, however he blew everything up because of alcohol and drugs abuse. Landell would have been one of the top stars of the 80s, sadly HE destroyed his career and he never recovered from it. It would have been stupid for the WWF to let Landell win when HBK was one of the Top face of the company. Landell is not in HBK's class, not even close.

[bigdaddyreynolds]

he should have worn a D.A.R.E shirt during this promo lol.. ohh how i miss the glory days of wrestling.. how do we go from promos like this to crap like the anonymous RAW general manager?? thank god for youtube or kids growing up today would never know what good wrestling was all about!!

[xraycat30]

Is that interviewer a young Mahmoud Amidinijad before he became the Iranian dictator?

[KittColby]

@InternationalObjects That's cool. I thought that looked like him, but I also thought it was just a coincidence. Thanks for posting. It was a rare treat.

[TombstoneInc]

Also Brad Armstrong was a heavyweight champ? WOW now i know it was SMW, but i mean they had a relationship with the WWF. Brad was a world champ, wow amazing. I think he was ripped off in wcw, he should have had a better career, he was one of the most underated actually guys who could wrestle, hell he had a classic with Ric Flair. Brad should have held the united states title. AT LEAST the TV title.

[TombstoneInc]

Thats mark curtis, RIP. From WCW?? Wow he looks different with that long hair. I didnt have any idea he was in SMW.

[TombstoneInc]

WTF, HBK wrestled in SMW??? No freakin way, he is too big of a star to be there. I know they had a relationship with SMW and USWA, but i didnt know the big time guys went there. THIS WHAT WHAT WRESTLING IS MISSING, why cant Vince McMahon but aside his feeling, to better help the business and maybe approach ROH and have a working relationship with some of the best young independent guys in the world. HBK dont look right in that ring either, too small.

[tytheeman20]

Shawn is so sexy

[JonathanVonErich]

@NWAfan I agree about Landell beating HBK via interference in a non-title match, it would have been a good idea.

Since 2000 I have probably seen at least 100 regional events live. Here in the province of Quebec we have a lot of independant promotions so I have seen a lot of regional matches, sometimes involving "stars" who came here to Quebec ( Christopher Daniels, Kevin Nash etc. ) and I agree that these "stars" should try to push the local wrestlers and get them over. :)

[NWAfan]

@DUBtheTIGER Listen it should have been no belt on the line and Micheals do a job. It would have helped SMW and not hurt Micheals career at all. How much regional wrestling from the 70's to ealry 90's have you watche dlive?