July 11, 201114 yr Author comment_5476554 It's the first episode of SMW! SMW doesn't have an official backdrop yet, just a white sheet. Cornette lays out the SMW mission, talks about how WCW buried the Midnights and how corporations have destroyed wrestling in a quick, yet really good promo.
July 12, 201114 yr comment_5476563 It's the first episode of SMW! SMW doesn't have an official backdrop yet, just a white sheet. Cornette lays out the SMW mission, talks about how WCW buried the Midnights and how corporations have destroyed wrestling in a quick, yet really good promo.Get used to this promo, you'll hear different versions of the same promo throughout the year on SMW TV. Also, I wonder if they got the white sheet from the background from Cornette's closet...
August 8, 201114 yr comment_5478997 Good promo. Wow seeing Cornette here and after watching a lot of SMW, Cornette really aged running his promotion for 3 1/2 years.
May 8, 201213 yr comment_5502118 Good promo, but kinda ridiculous when he talks about how wrestling as turned into a complete circus. Meanwhile, WCW was just at its all time best with the Dangerous Alliance and tons of good wrestling on TV. From day one, you get the same feel as ECW : we are the real deal. But infact, the first episode of SMW looked like a summer of 1990 episode of WCW TV, which is not a compliment.
September 3, 201213 yr comment_5513897 Awesome promo from Cornette, that's pretty much a total shoot.
February 15, 201312 yr comment_5535518 Corny gets the ball rolling in SMW talking about the big promotions turning wrestling into a joke and highlighting tag team wrestling as a feature from day one.
July 7, 201312 yr comment_5550176 Cornette shoots on the Big Two, in pretty effective fashion. Prince Kharis is a long, long way away.
August 15, 201510 yr comment_5692039 Good promo, but kinda ridiculous when he talks about how wrestling as turned into a complete circus. Meanwhile, WCW was just at its all time best with the Dangerous Alliance and tons of good wrestling on TV. From day one, you get the same feel as ECW : we are the real deal. But infact, the first episode of SMW looked like a summer of 1990 episode of WCW TV, which is not a compliment. I thought this exact thing when watching the show last night and how easily it could have been mistaken for an episode of World Championship Wrestling from 1990 (the arena, the jobbers (Cazana, Horowitz, Kyle), Dutch Mantel, Robert Gibson etc). Fantasic interview by Cornette and the highlight of the debut episode. I liked his line about the big promotions turned wrestling into a circus and sideshow, so he turned his back on them. Talks about how these days its all about how many dolls you can sell at Toys 'R' Us and how juiced up on steroids you are. Without naming them, sets the story for the Heavenly Bodies to debut in a few weeks.
December 16, 20159 yr comment_5716184 This was the best of both worlds for Corny; he could fire the crowd up and pave the way for the Bodies' debut and still get his shots in at the WWF and WCW at the same time. I really liked most of what I saw on Will's SMW set, but '92 was kind of underrepresented, so I'm excited to see how it all started for the promotion. Nice to see Bob Caudle again; this may sound weird for longtime JCP watchers, but I think he really did a lot of his best work here, especially with Dutch Mantel as his color man.
March 20, 20187 yr comment_5836624 Looking forward to seeing what SMW becomes. Corny gives a great mission statement despite (as mentioned above) WCW's turnaround with the DA. A southern wrestling promotion based on tag team wrestling with a focus on the actual in-ring sounds pretty awesome to me. I did like how he accomplished that and still heeled himself with the fans.
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