25th Annual SSW Christmas Star Wars

 

Southern States Wrestling 26th annual Christmas Star Wars Friday December 26th 7:30 p.m. Armed Forces Reserve Center 399 highway 11w Mount Carmel Tennessee. Just One Mile West of Kingsport.

An All-Star card of fun, excitement, and action for the entire family!

We will be collecting non-perishable food items and warm clothing (socks, underwear, gloves, knit hats, slightly new or used jackets/coats) for Hunger First of Kingsport to help those in our community the need a hand up.

Special thanks to our advertising partner Dalton Direct Carpets and Flooring of Kingsport.

Podcast and Merchandise updates

Outlaws to Independents, my podcast that I do with Jon Boucher is now on Apple Podcasts and all of their secondary carriers. So you can now get us on just about any app or format you use for podcast. Here is a list of just some of the ways you can listen to us. 

Also don't forget you can get the podcast two days early and ad free at patreon.com/kingofkingsport Also, on the patreon you get exclusive podcast that are not heard anywhere else. 

I am very happy to announce that coming very soon there will be a line of Outlaws to Independents, Souther States Wrestling, and Beau James t shirts. This is a partnership with Tee KO. I will have links and more info very soon. 

You can check them out now https://teekostore.com/

I'm now a part of Filsinger Games' Legend of Wrestling game!

 I'm now a part of Filsinger Games' Legend of Wrestling game! My card debuted in July. I have a limited number of cards that I will be happy to sign for you. You can get yours with PayPal on the right hand side of the page for only $12 (includes shipping) inside the USA. 

Tragos Thesz Hall of Fame in Waterloo Iowa

 

During the Hall of Fame weekend July 17-19 in Waterloo, IA . I was asked to speak and give a history lesson on East Tennessee Wrestling. Thanks for everyone who was a part of it. I have been asked to come back and speak again next year July 9-11. I hope to see you there!

Southern States Wrestling 34th Anniversary Spectacular Feb 28 in Mount Carmel, TN

Here is a look at our Legacy as we head into our 34th Anniversary. This was the opening to Southern States Wrestling Legacy episode 100. A look at our rich history and legacy.

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A night 34 Years in the making! Dalton Direct Carpets and Flooring of Kingsport presents The Southern States Wrestling 34th Anniversary Spectacular. Friday February 28th 7:30 pm at The Armed Forces Reserve Center 399 hwy 11w Mount Carmel, TN. Just one mile west of Kingsport. 

Already signed

Southern States Title - Special Ref Beau James

Murphy Costigan defends vs. Chase Emery

Southern States Tag Titles

Miss Serenity's Syndicate (Lawrence and Trey Chaos)

vs.

The Faction (Jeff Baker and Jeff Connelly)

w/ a surprise valet

Marty Clay returns to battle Mike Mann

Legacy Title

Wild Bill battles P.D. Hogg

plus, in action Travis Lee, C.J. Knight, Santiago and more!

We will also be inducting the 2025 class of The East Tennessee Hall of Fame. 

I was a guest on other Podcasts this week.

I was once again a guest on The Winter Palace with my buddy Mark Coale

You can listen here The Winter Palace #138

We discuss Beau’s start in the business as a teenager, as it is currently Southern States Wrestling’s 44th anniversary month.  We hear about going from behind-the-scenes gofer to referee to running his own promotion while still in high school.  Did the kids in school know about Beau’s “after school job?” And since SSW was just getting started in the early 1990s, we talk about what relationship if any he had with Smoky Mountain Wrestling, which started up in Knoxville around the same time.  How did Beau get along with Jim Cornette at the time?  Did they peacefully co-exist or did things go sour, like another promoter in the area at the time, Terry Landell? 

After that, there’s a long discussion about wrestling footage?  Beau talks about of the tapes he acquired when East Tennessee wrestling super fan Kenny Short passed away last year and what newfound footage was on some of those tapes.  This leads to a chat about “holy grail” footage that may or may exist and what would we most love to find out actually exists. And then we talk about the wrestlers who were known to be tape collectors during their career and what other wrestlers might have had footage squirreled away that we do not know exists. 

We also talk about Beau’s upcoming talk in July at the Thesz/Tragos Wrestling Hall of Fame about East Tennessee wrestling and what artifacts he may be bringing with him to Waterloo this summer. Plus, some random chat about the recently deceased Ed Wiskowski, traffic in East Tennessee and just how amazing it is that just how few travel-related fatalities there were during the territory era, given just how many wrestlers were driving thousands of miles a week at high rates of speed before every place in the country had Interstate roads.

I made my first appearance on The Shinning Wizards Podcast this week. You can listen to the full episode by clicking the link Shinning Wizards #729 or watch my segment below. 

Outlaws to Independents podcast

We are three episodes into 2025. If you have not been listening, what are you waiting on? 

Listen now by clicking the link Outlaws to Independents