I have never been a fan of Cornette's other booking but decided to give pic related a chance since I don't like hating on something without having actually seen it and holy shit this is some hokey southern wrasslin' kino. I just got past Bluegrass Brawl 1993 and the Night Stalker is a fucking beast along with peak redneck babyface Tracy Smothers using the Confederate flag as a weapon. Cornette also does his best promos work ever in his feud with the Armstrong family. Does it all go downhill from here? It took a year for things to really pick up
I think they stay solid throughout. They just ran out of money cause they literally ran out of the poorest part of the country when wrestling was ice cold.
>>21478553SMW was a fucking joke. The fact people try to lump Jim Cornette in with Vince, Bischoff, and Heyman as one of the best bookers of the 90s is insane. SMW did shows for a few hundred retards in high school gyms in Kentucky. He wasn't remotely in the same ballpark as ECW, let alone WWF or WCW. It's all revisionist history and made up nonsense.
>>21478553You are the point where it was the best it would get>>21479643Who ever said it was competing with WWF or WCW? It was a small territory promotion.
>>21479643When you book Hardcore Holly as a blonde babyface with hair you know he is the best booker of the 90's
>>21479643>He wasn't remotely in the same ballpark as ECW, let alone WWF or WCW. considering smw outdrew wcw in the same territories and made more money than ecw (and didn't have to scam or jew anyone out of money) i'd say it was
>>21480218That part. SMW maybe could have ridden the late 90s boom if Jim rejected Christian principles and kept telling all the boys the check was in the mail.
>>21479643>Doing a best wrestlers in their 30s list for 1993>Steiner Brothers? Hmmm, I don’t know they were in Japan at the time>PG-13?! FUCK YEAH THEY’RE ON THE LIST! Jim is a moron.
>>21480263PG-13 were great, shut up.
>>21480271This.
>>21480263that's one of the only things i don't really like about him, his utter boomer mentality towards japan post 80s (and mexico).i guess it's a trade off for having such an encyclopaedic knowledge of american wrestling.
Cornettefags have Jim's dick so far up their asses it's unreal.No one ever watched or cared about this shit. If Jim found himself a billionaire to bankroll him and recreate this waste of a pro-wrestling company, it would flounder and fail just as hard today. Corny worked you filthy marks into thinking he knows what the fuck he's talking about when he really doesn't.Those are the biggest facts in all this so commence the coping and seething because you know I'm right.
>>21478553I had no idea smokey mountain was so big its in 6 states
>>21480296again, considering he out drew wcw in the same areas, it's clear smw had an audience and he was doing something right.
>>21480302Outdrawing pre-peak WCW really doesn't mean anything though.
>>21480317yes it does it meant that a guy who in your words would fail no matter what, was doing better than the big media owned promotion with a roster of stars
>>21478553Reminder Cornette was totally cool with Grizzly Smith raping kids and joked about it until the DSotR episode came out and he tried to pretend he never knew
>>21480341That would be like outdoing AEW today though. Just because you outdo AEW doesn't mean you're actually doing the best wrestling ever. End of the day, SMW still didn't make enough money to survive, which is what it all boils down to.
>>21480352if a small indie promotion could draw 700k+ on tv and draw thousands to shows, then yes they'd be a massive success.>End of the day, SMW still didn't make enough money to survive, which is what it all boils down to.neither did any promotion not named wwe
>>21480369Deleted my other response. I was being way more dickish than I intend to be.Cornette did a good job. But I don't know that outperforming WCW in local venues translates to outperforming WCW on a national scale, given there are very different factors at play.
>>21480369>neither did any promotion not named wweI don’t think people really get this. Since the death of the territories wrestling outside of the wwe has either been a vanity project or money laundering. There’s not a lot of money to be made in this space and most wrestling is just finding a money mark. That said I think aew could be profitable if they were more selective about who they actually give contracts to and cut production costs by moving into a studio for tv tapings instead of moving their shit all around the country for half filled arenas.
>>21480348> Cornette was totally cool with Grizzly Smith raping kids and joked about itNo he wasn't and no he didn't
>>21480296Rick Rubin bankrolled SMW
>>21480296>Corny worked you filthy marks into thinking he knows what the fuck he's talking about when he really doesn't.ok meltzer
>>21480673correct, it was the WCW timeline where he referred to an underage girl that confirmed rapist Art Barr was molesting in a stairwell as 'some fuckin rat.'
>>21481984>You don't like Cornette so that means you must like MeltzerI swear, pro-wrestling has the most retarded fanbase imaginable.
>>21480330Based and kino
>>21482003That he did. I think he thought it was statutory until Brian Last corrected him that it was, in fact, just full on rape.
>>21479643>best bookers of the 90sthere wasn't that many other bookers, anon. Bischoff was a booker,huh?
