NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling
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| Acronym | NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling |
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| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Kingsport, Tennessee |
| Owner(s) | Tony Givens |
| Parent | National Wrestling Alliance |
| Website | nwasmokymountain |
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| Promotion | NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling | |||
| Date | September 7, 2013 | |||
| Venue | National Guard Armory | |||
| City | Rogersville, Tennessee | |||
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| The Finale (2014) | ||||
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| Promotion | NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling | |||
| Date | December 27, 2014 | |||
| Venue | Civic Auditorium | |||
| City | Kingsport, Tennessee | |||
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| The Finale (2015) | ||||
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| Promotion | NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling | |||
| Date | December 19, 2015 | |||
| Venue | Civic Auditorium | |||
| City | Kingsport, Tennessee | |||
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NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling (also known as NWA Smoky Mountain) is an American independent professional wrestling promotion based in Kingsport, Tennessee. The company was established in 2004 and is associated with the National Wrestling Alliance.
The promotion was founded by wrestler Tony Givens in 2004, as the Championship Wrestling Alliance, after breaking away from Southern States Wrestling. That same year, Championship Wrestling TV began airing locally on WCYB-DT2 and was later syndicated nationally on AMG-TV. It held weekly television tapings at the National Guard Armory in Morristown, Tennessee as well as house shows throughout East Tennessee. The promotion joined the National Wrestling Alliance as NWA Smoky Mountain Wrestling in early-2011. The announcement was made by CWA Commissioner Robbie Cassidy on the March 13th TV taping of Championship Wrestling TV in Gray, Tennessee. On July 7, 2012, an unidentified fan attacked Cassidy and Tony Givens at an interpromotional show co-hosted by the Pro Wrestling Federation. The fan was subdued by Cassidy and police escorted him out of the building.
On April 6, 2013, NWA Smoky Mountain drew its biggest crowd to date with 2,017 fans attending a NWA Smoky Mountain TV television taping at Elizabethton High School. In October 2013, Givens attempted to raise $15,000 on Kickstarter.com to improve the production values for NWA Smoky Mountain TV. The appeal raised only $1,485 before the 60-day deadline. The show became available on YouTube the following year.
NWA Smoky Mountain is advertised as a "spiritual successor" of the original Smoky Mountain Wrestling and has used a mix of SMW alumni and younger Southern independent wrestlers since its inception. Among the SMW talent to appear for the promotion include, most notably, Bunkhouse Buck, Eddie Golden, Tom Prichard, Tracy Smothers and Ricky Morton. On January 6, 2014, Morton defeated Chase Owens at an NWA Smoky Mountain show to win the NWA World Junior Heavyweight Championship.
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