Gaz-L posted:

I assume Impact mandates Karl and Doc have to work the same number of matches in AEW, so we got a good match from Anderson the week before, we had to suffer this this week.

FullMetalJackoff posted:

Does that make Last 'The Hole' of the show?

El Generico posted:

He's Mancow's stunt boy?

TV Zombie posted:

Praising WWE. K we are in the end times.

https://twitter.com/thejimcornette/status/1421246402064261137?s=21

Ivypls posted:

cornette had a weird bill maher liberal phase years ago which was also when he built up a lot of his good will with the iwc, i think it fooled a lot of people into thinking he wasn't a racist

algebra testes posted:

Rewatching Timeline WWF 1997 and god help me I love it.

Talking about how he had to watch a bunch of Diesel matches to teach Glen Jacobs and he found he only did "Six moves, including the hair flip".

karmicknight posted:

Yeah, I keep hoping he does the "i collect vintage wrestling belts" promo, but it doesn't actually fit the stuff he is doing.

Davros1 posted:

https://twitter.com/GreatBrianLast/status/1442148778266480644?s=20

NutritiousSnack posted:

If Cornette made a genuine, heart felt apology, especially to Omega and the Young Bucks, and backed up that apology with good behavior unlike say a Hogan or other figure, I'd be happy to see him on AEW if he wasn't a booker or doing backstage thing and a heel manager to FTR or Danielson or doing Dark or Rampage commentary.

I just don't think he would ever do so,

TheKingslayer posted:

To be honest, I really wish Cornette would turn a corner just to be a happier person. Being this way even as a constant act can't be good for anyone.

Iamgoofball posted:

i dont know much about wrestling, i prefer football(real football btw), but my new roommate keeps listening to this cornette guy's podcast and it's fuckin terrible

he's also got all this poo poo he put up on the wall


can someone tell me all the details about this cornette guy? all i know from the various poo poo i've overheard from him playing cornette's podcast really loud all day is that 1. he's transphobic and 2. he really hates someone named kenny omega

RocknRollaAyatollah posted:

He literally lived with his mom until she died and still lives in that house. Not saying there's anything bad about taking care of your single parent who needs the help but he's a literal manchild.

Puppy Doll posted:

...I just realized I forgot to change the sickos dialogue.

STONE COLD 64 posted:

instead of being cornpilled the term should be cornballed and touching this thread should yield the same physical reaction as touching a cornballer

Mulaney Power Move posted:

remember how i was bitching about danielson being put on the youtube preshow? guess who agrees!

Mulaney Power Move posted:

It was for a different reason though.

Said if you want to compete with Smackdown then you increase ratings for the tv show. He argued it would have a better rating if Danielson was on it, just bump the girls match. Also a youtube show won't steal smackdown ratings because if a person is still watching smackdown at that point they can just keep watching and do the youtube show later. if smackdown sucks and they decide to watch the youtube live instead they probably would have tuned out anyway.

TheKingslayer posted:

Pretty hosed that Jim implies people into the Joshi scene are some kind of pedo.

Mulaney Power Move posted:

cornette doesn't like women in his sport. stubborn male bias. but everything he said about sable is still correct

coconono posted:

She was certainly paid well for her run through WWF, but idk if she was the draw. I always remembered her as kinda weird lookin esp compared to Sunny or Chyna.

BrigadierSensible posted:

Whilst we know what Jim Cornette thinks about the in-ring and on TV stuff, (too many asians, not enough like it was in the 80s in half empty bingo halls), what are his thoughts on the recent wave of WWE sackings?

davidbix posted:

He was on the WCW booking committee from Summer 1989 through Spring 1990 or thereabouts. When Flair was head booker, he mainly focused on his own programs and left writing the TV to Cornette and Kevin Sullivan. He absolutely deserves credit for the quality of the TV at that time and the ratings turnaround after the disastrous George Scott booking run tanked them. (Most famously, the weekend with Flair-Pillman and Flair/Arn-Rock 'n' Roll Express headlining the evening TBS shows set new TBS wrestling viewership records and drew the highest ratings for those shows—since cable ratings use the network's universe as the denominator—since 1985.) Wrestle War '90 was also the most successful early WCW pay-per-view, IIRC. House shows were not doing well, but it's pre-Zane Bresloff WCW and with hindsight, it's hard to know how much of that was driven by the product as opposed to bad live event promotion. But yes, AEW probably averages more paid fans per show than that run of WCW did.

He was also on the WWF creative time for most of 1996-1997. First it was him, Vince McMahon, and Bruce Prichard, with Bruce eventually taking a detour to Talent Relations and Vince Russo joining the team in his place. He was writing TV for them as things started to turn around, so he deserves some credit there, too.

As SMW goes, a lot of salt needs to be taken with a lot of the attendance figures we have. For the big successful shows, they seem more or less accurate, but for spot shows and lesser-drawing Knoxville and Johnson City shows? They're all over the place and Brian Hildebrand was often padding the figures he sent to the Observer. I forget which one it is, but there's one Johnson City card from 1995 where the figure in the Observer was somewhat respectable, but if you watched the clips on TV, it was VERY obvious that the number was bullshit. I mean it was "we had to reconfigure the arena to make this look presentable on TV" bad.

OVW and ROH I shouldn't have to explain.

In summary? As a member of a team, he's had some success. As the head booker, he hasn't really had much on any kind of consistent basis. For shows that weren't greatly assisted by big, current WWF names, his biggest successes would be Night of Legends (~5,000 fans), a couple other Knoxville shows that drew 3,000-4,000-ish (like the "Bob Armstrong WILL send Jim Cornette out in an ambulance!" show), and some of the Bluegrass Brawl shows in Pikeville, Kentucky. Johnson City never hit an announced 2,000.

STAC Goat posted:

In fairness he says Moxley doesn't actually owe anyone an apology and the promo was great as is. He seems to just think a more traditionally sincere and emotional promo would have been more "endearing." But as a fan of that kind of thing I think it misses the fact that Mox's "go gently caress yourself" energy is definitely what's working these days and plays as sincere as anything else.

If I were try to understand Bully Ray's mind I'd assume he just has a block for "heel heat" as a tool to make a crowd mad so Mox using the same kind of thing and being over as a face is a disconnect for him.

Nea posted:

I might have to check that out at some point. I get the impression Jeff Jarrett doesn't like, horrifically suck as a person or anything, he's just the ultimate carnie. Which, you know! Produces a lot of interesting stories. I had no idea he had a podcast.

Kosmo Gallion posted:

What did Jarrett specifically do to Daffney? I know about her injury and TNA being assholes to her.

quote:

"There's the sexual harassment that I endured in the early days of TNA...I went to management, let them know what was going on and saying 'What do you want me to do about it?" And they asked me to keep my mouth shut, don't rock the boat. Because rocking the boat back then, anytime, it's going to screw things up for everybody. It's going to cause attention, they're going to lose money they're going for...sponserships...etc. So they said 'Let us handle this, and please, just keep your mouth shut.' Okay, fine. I have friends there, I didn't want to blow their only shot."

1glitch0 posted:

Why are they chickens

bebaloorpabopalo posted:

ranting about muslims went so well for you last time, Jim. maybe you can run off another co-host keep it up

beggar posted:

For me the jim cornette experience is 100% visual

edogawa rando posted:

Is he suggesting Jungle Boy is gay or trans or whatever?

Lamuella posted:

See, that actually sounds funny.

bebaloorpabopalo posted:

"You know, as a matter of fact, none of the Asian talents -- Professor Tanaka, Mr. Fuji, Tojo Yamamoto -- anybody in the territory days were as stereotypical and racist and offensive to that particular ethnic group as the way all the companies have these girls acting these days. And can you imagine if they'd been doing the equivalent for the African American talent, or the Hispanic talent. When they had Cryme Tyme literally admitting they were stealing things from people on the street or when they had Eddie Guerrero "He Lies, He Cheats, He Steals", he still didn't talk like a simpleton with brain damage."

Corny's new deflection from accusations of racism every time he talks about a Japanese woman is this, I guess.

beggar posted: