Jim Cornette Falls From Scaffold

[jsc094020]

Lame. Not worth the pop.

[TravisDrago]

crazy to think he would have done less damage to himself if he landed flat

[TheMichaelsierra]

caught him like a boss

[Bystander81]

This match was the easiest payoff the Road Warriors ever got.

[MrBizzmarky76]

The Midnights had a ton of scaffold matches but they were usually around 12-15 feet high. This was for a ppv and the Crocketts wanted a huge one so this was around 22' feet up.

[vids2002]

HORRIBLE landing. My knees hurt watching this

[crassyfrake]

I understand that Cornette has messed up knees to this day because of this...I don't doubt it that was brutal!

[sk407]

Jimmy, you're hurt!

[Silks]

@sk407  Oh I love the way you sell

[SOULECKZ]

"jimmy?...help.. he's ganna need some help.." lol (that's my mankind impression after givin jr. the claw.)

[Jarda98]

Jim is so great at piledriving invisible men

[godanselmo]

@Jarda98 epic piledriver

[markpain98]

good god!!!

[TheMrwrestlingnerd]

bubba.....CARRY MY GODDAM ASS NOW!!!

[RaphaelDeLaGhetto87]

Now THAT is falling like a sack of potatoes.

[1WhoMee1]

that had to hurt. he could have really f'up his knees/spine.

[newfrickinshow]

@1WhoMee1

It did. Tore up the cartilage and muscles in his knees.

[chasrusso]

@1WhoMee1 I think he did blow both his knees out doing this.

[gtrfurby]

@chasrusso he did

[Silks]

@chasrusso I think he blew out just one. But it was destroyed.

[zippypop34]

hahaha epic landing skillsz

[UIWWildthing]

Jim talked about this in a few shoot interviews. Big Bubba was supposed to have caught him on the way down, and missed, causing Jim to tear pretty much everything in his right knee. At first Bubba didn't pick him up because he though Jim was shooting, and playing it off, until Jim yellled at him "pick my ass up right now" (Which you can barely make out)

[jpowers55]

@UIWWildthing Jim said on the Road Warriors DVD he blew his acl in both knees.

[UIWWildthing]

@jpowers55 I haven't seen that one yet, it was worse that I thought then.

[OLee82]

@UIWWildthing But why did he even go up there and try to hang from that platform?

[UIWWildthing]

@OLee82 He was "chased" up there and the idea was he was going to be "dropped" off the scaffold. Bubba was supposed to catch him, but obviously missed.

[MattMonk]

At least Jimmy got the pop.

[andycf87]

people 4get how hardcore southern wrasslin' was back in the day

[JohnACorp782]

@andycf87 One scaffold match doesn't make hardcore...

[TheShaw91310]

@JohnACorp782 They had WAY more than one. They wrestled practically every day of the week. Plus they had storytelling and psychology and actually drew heat. People would try to KILL Cornette, legit. So trust me, this is pretty hardcore.

[JohnACorp782]

@TheShaw91310 Far from it...

[lankyj91]

And they cheered, excellent.

[exe2517]

is there any grudge between Jim and Dusty Rhodes, because all of this was Dusty's idea

[niteholler]

@MrWWETNAFANBOY he squashed them like bugs!!

[draconian45]

Holy shit I know that hurt.

[WWEEEEE7777777716901]

He broke his ass

[Gabagool]

@MrWWETNAFANBOY "My right knee! The right knee!" right before they roll him out of the ring.

[vAmpyr616]

he couldnt have fallen more awkwardly

[InstantClassicCDPunk]

I believe the mother fuckers were on fire or somethin

[TheWickedGamer]

I remember Jim Cornette talked about this in Botchamania

[Tubewings]

You may not like James E. Cornette, but you've got to give him credit for doing a crazy stunt like that for the fans.

[jaryd12345]

@Tubewings I love Cornette!

[ReReRio]

Big Bubba was suppose to catch him.

[wrestlesite]

I remember him saying in an interview that he broke both legs

[KingKenny527]

Why the fuck was there a scaffold above the ring?

[FreeBirdKai]

@KingKenny527 it was a skywalker match... (scaffold match)

[jww112093]

@KingKenny527 It was a scaffold match, they built up the rivalry between the Midnight Express (Bobby Eaton & Dennis Condrey) & The Road Warriors, or L.O.D as some people like to call them, and it started when The Road Warriors went to Japan and Hawk breaks his leg, but before that, it showed a "vignette" of L.O.D throwing pumpkins off a scaffold. They got the match because James E. Cornette couldn't interfere because he's afraid of heights.

[ajax420336]

@KingKenny527 The arena was being repainted. Poor scheduling by the venue.