stan-lane Stories - Cageside Seats
The story of the fake Stan Lane and other fake/imposter wrestling stars
One of the strangest stories to develop over the last week was the report that Stan Lane had died and the discovery that he didn't, but someone pretending to be him did. Well, not by itself. Stuff like this has happened before, and we'll get to it later, but this case has a bunch of odd details...
SMW invading WCW: The version Eric Bischoff didn't want you to see
In 1993, with his good friend Bill Watts running WCW, Jim Cornette decided to work with him to promote Smokey Mountain Wrestling, a territory he had started based out of Knoxville, Tennessee. It started with WCW showing a tape of the Rock 'n' Roll Express beating Cornette's Heavenly Bodies team...
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