The highlight of FanWeek '95 for me was the Saturday picnic in a beautiful Tennessee state park, in which some 50+ rabid pro wrestling fans mingled with the top "heels" (bad guys) of SMW, including Jim Cornette, the Heavenly Bodies, Buddy Landell, Al Snow, Unabom, the HeadBangers, and D-Lo Brown, as well as referee Mark Curtis and announcer Tommy Noe. After the picnic, it was off to a raucous house show in Barbourville, KY, where I got an excellent look at wrestling the way it used to be, and the way I like it!!
D-Lo Brown (center) discusses matters of great importance with HeadBangers Mosh and Thrasher
(yep, that's them; much hairier than they are now)
Al Snow (in tank-top) has a laugh with (or possibly at) Pro Wrestling Illustrated Senior Editor
Bill "Wonderful Willie" Apter (the Paul Shaffer lookalike in the green t-shirt)
Unabom feels the wrath of Wonderful Willie's figure-four leglock; fortunately,
Al "Kim Chee" Snow made the save with a BIG stick
Holding court before the faithful: (l to r) Jim Cornette, Mark Curtis (in cap), Al Snow, and Tommy Noe
D-Lo Brown gives camper Masanori Horie grief over his t-shirt
(it says, "You Wear Your 'X' And I'll Wear Mine")
Al Snow works the kinks out of Jim Cornette's achin' back
(either that, or they anticipated Val Venis three years in the future)
(HEY JIM & AL--I'M JUST KIDDING!!!!!)
The SMW FanWeek '95 picnic came to a blazing conclusion as Jimmy Del Ray (out of picture)
took it upon himself to light a fire under Marty Gorman
Wolfie D of PG-13 flips off of the turnbuckle towards Robert Gibson, while J.C. Ice
verbally flips off the fans and Gibson's partner Bobby Blaze and referee Mark Curtis look on
Al Snow flexes after a tag-team loss with his partner, Unabom, to the Thugs
(Tracy Smothers & Dirty White Boy).
(Put a mustache on him, and he'd look like Eddy Guerrero, wouldn't he?)
Jimmy Del Ray takes to the air against Tracy Smothers
in a red-hot tag-team battle between the Heavenly Bodies and the Thugs
SMW King Of The Mountain, Morristown, TN--August 13, 1994
SMW Super Bowl Of Wrestling, Knoxville, TN with Pre-Show Meet & Greet--August 4, 1995
SMW vs. USWA, Louisville, KY--August 6, 1995
SMW house show, Marion, VA--August 7, 1995
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