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A combination of a poor line up, sub-standard venue, lack of talent and holding the show on a Thursday night led to a show on October 3, 1996, drawing the smallest crowd in the history of Memphis wrestling: just 372 fans, paying $1,800, to the Big One Flea Market. The future of the promotion was being questioned, following the previous week's ...
Volunteer Slam was a professional wrestling supercard event produced by the American professional wrestling promotion Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW). Volunteer Slam was the first major supercard produced by SMW on May 20, 1992, which featured a tournament to crown the inaugural SMW Heavyweight Champion.
The most successful of these were Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1991–1995) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (1992–2001). SMW's Superbowl of Wrestling , headlined by Shawn Michaels vs. Buddy Landel for the WWF Intercontinental Championship , was the biggest drawing show of 1995 with 5,000 fans in attendance.
Smoky Mountain Wrestling was a professional wrestling promotion based in Knoxville, Tennessee from 1991 to 1995. Former employees in SMW consisted of professional wrestlers , managers , play-by-play and color commentators , announcers , interviewers and referees .
Situated in an area where the Foothills of the Great Smokies give way to the Tennessee Valley, Sevierville has long acted as a nexus between Knoxville to the north and the Appalachian towns in the mountains to the south. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is located approximately ten miles south of Sevierville.
The SMW Heavyweight Championship was the top heavyweight championship in Smoky Mountain Wrestling. It existed from 1992 until 1995 when SMW folded. It existed from 1992 until 1995 when SMW folded. "Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony and Brad Armstrong were tied at the most reigns at three.
The locomotive continued service with the Southern until being retired in 1942 when the Smoky Mountain Railroad purchased No. 107, retaining its number, in order to handle increased traffic during its "boom days", brought about by the construction of the TVA Douglas Dam Project on the French Broad River near Sevierville. The SMRR hauled ...
Though it was still the Portland television market's highest-rated locally produced show, Portland Wrestling was canceled in December 1991 after airing every week for 38 years. [14] It was the longest-running non-news program on American television at the time of its cancellation and the third-longest-tenured U.S. program overall behind Meet ...