[1992-12-19-SMW-TV] Tracy Smothers profile

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Tracy Smothers is in, and finally, SMW has the top babyface it has needed.

[Tim Evans]

After watching the Smothers set and ECW set, it's just weird seeing Smothers as a babyface. This was pretty good though.

[shoe]

I loved this profile piece. Kinda surprised how much they pushed how good he was at golf. I'm guessing he was pretty damn good.

[PeteF3]

A Tracey Smothers profile and music video set to "All I Can Do Is Write About It" by Lynyrd Skynyrd. We run down Tracey's amateur credentials, which all seem authentic. This is fairly cool even if it sometimes come off more as a dating video than a wrestling promo.

[WingedEagle]

Clips of Smothers in and out of the ring, on a boat, etc. Good job painting him as a babyface. Today this same thing would make for a great heel. We get photos of him as a kid, talking about his youth athletics. Solid start.

[GSR]

Tracey Smother has been an outstanding athlete all his life; he played football, baseball, wrestling and golf at school, was an All-District football star two years in a row, was his baseball team's leading hitter and was the winner of the No. 1 Man award on his golfing team. He attended Carson Uni College on a double football and wrestling scholarship, where he lettered in football. Since becoming a professional wrestler he has won several regional titles and with his partner Steve Armstrong won the US tag team titles, now as a singles he is gunning for a shot at the SMW title. An avid camper and golfer he enjoys horse back riding, basketball and softball and his motto is 'American by birth, Southern by the grace of God'.

 

I thought this was a good little piece and clearly positions Smothers as the top face in the company. Although very reminiscent of the one they did for Tim Horner in the first few weeks of the promotion, this was far superior and more effective than that.

[garretta]

For the record, it's Carson-Newman College.

 

Anyway, Magnum said that this piece seemed more effective to him that the one that they did on Tim Horner. That's because there was a lot more to hang their hat on with Tracy. Outside of his UWF tag title run with Brad Armstrong, what had Horner ever really done in wrestling? Everybody knew the Southern Boys/Young Pistols from their days in WCW, and Tracy's first promo talking about how he'd strayed from his Southern roots but was coming back to SMW to find them again is a whole lot more effective when it comes to making top babyfaces than showing someone doing a cover song in a recording studio, like they did with Horner. Not only is Tracy better than Horner, but they can push him without having to stray too far from wrestling and/or athletic accomplishments.

 

It seems like he takes over the top babyface spot and feuds with Tony right off the bat. It'll be interesting to see what happens to Horner as a result. Does he settle into the two slot behind Tracy or does he get totally lost in the shuffle? Quite frankly, I'm not even sure that there's enough to work with to make him a credible number two face. He might be better off as a Memphis midcarder at this point.