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Fire in the Mountains

The Chronological History of Smoky Mountain Wrestling

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Smoky Mountain Wrestling was considered by many the last of the true territories. Jim Cornette had a vision and produced several years worth of quality entertainment to the Southern wrestling fans. Many guys got their starts in SMW and others got a chance to shine. Tucked into a little corner in East Tennessee near Johnson City, SMW was a home town territory for me. This show will take a chronological look into the history of SMW where each episode we will go through the TV shows sequentially as well as cover all of the big shows of the time period. This will be a show where we take a fond look back at a great, underrated territory from the beginning to the end.

 

Each show we will cover two TV shows or one big card. During the weekly show reviews we'll discuss the matches and angles playing out and overall thoughts on the shows. You can look forward to end of show awards including Match of the Week, Dutch's "Ditty" of the Week, Most 90s Sighting of the Week, and Best Interview of the Week.

 

We will also keep a running tab of the top 10 matches in SMW up to the point we've watched which will be updated on the forums after each show.

 

I will post the link to the show after it is uploaded right here on PWO. So join myself Ricky Whittenburg and my two co-hosts Andy Waddell and Justin Edgell as we dive into the history of Smoky Mountain Wrestling.

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When is this project going to kick off?

 

I've got the entire SMW collection on one of my external hard drives, but I haven't watched any of that stuff since at least the summer of 2013. Now I'm thinking I'll bust it out and try to delve back into it as you move along.

 

This pod should certainly make for a great companion piece to the footage, and I like that it could be an easily accessible gateway to get unfamiliar fans plugged into Smoky Mountain.

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Hey guys thank you for the positive comments regarding our show. I want to give a little inside view into what to kind of expect. We are doing our kickoff show tonight and it will be uploaded tonight or tomorrow on Soundcloud. So the show will be up no later than 9/19 barring a computer failure during our show or something very strange. We do a weekly NASCAR show right now and I've not had any problems so far knock on wood.

 

We'll give our backgrounds a little during this first show. I consider myself a diehard wrestling fan but I'm nowhere NEAR the level of some of you guys on here. Holy christ I only thought I knew alot about wrestling but I've came to realize I am a peon compared to some of the knowledge dropped on the PWO boards. My main focus is to try to bring you the news, stories, interesting facts, etc about the wrestlers and what's going on as we recap the shows. One of my co-hosts Andy Waddell has been my best friend since we were about 10 years old and we are both 35 now. Andy was a big fan of old school NWA and we were huge, gigantic fans during the Monday Night War Era and followed WCW/WWF/ECW as closely as you could follow at that time. Andy, like me, grew up watching Smoky Mountain on Saturday mornings here in the Tri-Cities. Our racing buddy Justin is a big wrestling fan but he's more of the fringe fan. He's a Cincinnati boy so he's never really watched Smoky Mountain and he's not as big into the history of wrestling as I am.

 

This show will be a look into SMW, it's players, etc but it will also be an education for Justin into southern-style wrestling so I know that dynamic will be fun as we go through the shows. I know as he was watching these first two episodes for the first time the other night he was messaging me all throughout his watching and he went from what kind of hokey shit is this to holy shit that Cornette promo was awesome. Wow, Rip Rogers was a fun guy to watch. So it will be an education for him and a refresher for myself and Andy.

 

We strive to have a fun show that will definitely be one that's not boring but will also give hopefully good insights and maybe some things you didn't know. After getting hooked on wrestling podcasts last year by finding Where the Big Boys Play then diving into other great shows like Titans, Exile on Badstreet, Between the Sheets, etc I really got the itch to do a wrestling podcast myself. We'll see how it goes but if nothing else I hope it will be entertaining!

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I'm looking forward to this as I've never watched a full episode of Smokey Mountain Wrestling as a TV show either (footage, sure.Promos, matches, all in pieces. Yes. But a full episode, start to finish? No.) So I'm excited for this.

 

A piece of advice: We have a TON of wrestling savants around these parts, which is AWESOME. But Justin is the key to your entire show. sure, you can give background with your friend Andy, and rate matches, talk about "work/workers," so on and so forth. I'd really appreciate that myself. I need the context for some things, for sure. But Justin is the "fringe fan." Please don't make him feel pressured to BE knowledgeable. I LOVE the idea of someone who just watches the show telling us what they like and don't ,like as a common fan(assuming your not saying, "he was a fringe SMW fan, but this guy reads all the news sites and subs to like 4 paysites/newsletters the last 10 years). If Justin is the common/fringe fan, his best use for someone like me as a listener is to be kept in the dark on what popular thought is about wrestler's work/SMW's angles, the company as a whole as compared to contemporaries like ECW.

 

One of my favorite podcasts I ever produced (Yes, back in 2007-2009 I actually would do pods of my own for random shows I attended, and a few other things) was a live-to-tape post show on ROH's Hammerstein show (May or Aug. '08) with two old friends. They both would watch wrestling periodically, and were old fans, but didn't follow anything but WWE, and were never fans of anything else to the point they follwowed it. I'd say once every 2 years they'd go to ROH with me, and I would ask them questions specific to what they thought of it without the context of the crowd reactions as guides. It was really interesting, especially my friend Tommy, who wasn't as well versed as the other friend (he was not in any internet circles, nor had he ever really seen anything other than WWE, and was very honest about everything.) That could be a real strength to the show, even a "gimmick" for your pal.

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