CORNETTE SAID THE DUMBEST SHIT IN THE INTERVIEW....HE SAID SCOTT HALL LEFT FOR A BIG CONTRACT IN WCW BUT BEFORE HE SAID THAT HE SAID THE WWF MADE HIM A HOUSE HOLD MAN AND A BIG STAR BUT THAN HE SAID HE COULD PUT 3 ASSES IN A SEAT TOO WATCH HIS MATCH...NOW IF U CAN'T DO THAT IN THE PLACE THAT SUPPOSEDLY MADE U A BIG STAR (RAZOR RAMON) WHY WOULDN'T YOU LEAVE? SMH IDK WHY HE EVEN SAID THAT
The irony is that this promo actually helped the nWo/Bischoff gimmick because what Cornette said about them suited their storyline perfectly. Watching that just made me wish Cornette was in WCW at the time in the role that JJ Dillon had. Perhaps more people would have actually cheered for WCW instead of the nWo.
I agree with him about the state of wrestling in 1998. When people say the Attitude Era was the best do they not remember all the horrible shit the WWF had going on in between the Austin/Rock/Mankind stuff?
Yeah Jim Ross has to agree. They both worked together during the 80's @ Mid-South. The battle of the Express teams? Jake in the orange? Both of them know what "wrestling" was and should be. Long Live Kayefabe!!!
@CaribDevist I think it might be because Mick Foley worked for Jim Cornette in Smokey Mountain Wrestling as Cactus Jack during the early 90s when he was starting to make a name for himself and that he respects Mick for his ability to work an audience and his attitude outside of the ring.
I remember this. when he said he's bringing back tradition, he brought the NWA on Raw with The New Midnight Express, Jeff Jarrett as the NWA champion and I think Dan Severn too
Though Cornette's comments were actually very legit during that time, the only thing I thought upon hearing this(also clicking back and fourth between Nitro and RAW) was the WWF's vast frustration and attempts at damage control over the ratings gap. For the wrestling history uninformed, there was a time when there were two Monday Night wrestling shows, there was no such thing as Cena, and a company called wCw was destroying the WWF on a weekly basis for almost two years.
I wish he could've did that same exact shoot in 2011 and in 2012... Everything he pointed out in his rants is EXACTLY what the wrestling business has deteriorated into today. Smh...
well the roles have reversed people who like wrestling are on the internet now. lol man people on the internet during that time must have been trolls. thumbs up if you agree.
@StanKingston420 he actually likes cena for "his work ethic" which he saw in OVW. but i would say that he might knock cena's gimmick which is horrendous and wish he'd wrestle a bit more like jim knows he can.
ECW legends are second to none. Terry Funk, Cactus Jack, Tommy Dreamer, Sabu, Shane Douglas, New Jack, Rob Van Dam, Sandman, Taz, Dudley Boyz, Raven, Mikey Whipreck, Jerry Lynn, Rhino. Fuck Jim Cornett, ECW was the shit.
He called Bischoff a mark! Ouch! For those who have been in the business for any stretch as I was, even a short time, you all know how big an insult that is! For those who are not schooled on the language, a "mark" is technically a fan, and that's not a bad thing to be called, but it has its negative meanings too. One is a fan that thinks he knows the business and knows nothing, and the other is a one in the business who is still a fanboy and needs to grow up and be a pro about this!
Cornette's crying is so stupid, complaining about the fact that guys are over and popular and he doesn't like it. You know who had a vision like Cornette has: Verne Gagne - and all that happened to him was he had the biggest draw in the business and a chance to build his promotion around him, but because he wasn't a great "wrestler" he didn't. People who are stuck in the past never see the future - and that is the problem Cornette has. The Business passed him by.
@EldestSauce HHH, it was a finger poke of doom style match, but Hunter and Shawn were really funny at doing it, bad wrestling match but it was really entertaining. It was for the European Title
@eatmedrinkme420 Bret Hart is the true wrestling legend, not Cactus. All he could do was throw chairs around and fight in brawl matches. Bret had actual WRESTLING ability, what it's supposed to be about
The second one sounds a lot like an angle - he's never to my knowledge been a big anti-Northern guy, at least not sounding as silly as he did bringing it up.
Great pair of rants by Jim Cornette about the state of pro wrestling at that time. I wish they cut off the remaining seconds so we don't have to listen to that idiot Jerry Lawler squawking like an obnoxious parrot for its crackers.
Wow, Jim Cornette has been angry for a long-ass time. I'm glad that he's now the executive producer for Ring of Honor, though. He can push wrestlers who deserve to be pushed like Davey Richards.
It's good to know that even during the era itself there were guys who didn't buy into all that Attitude crap that was going on at the time. His last promo essentially sums up how I feel about the so-called "Golden age of wrestling" in the late 90s.
@wmn09001 From a wresting standpoint, Tennessee was way ahead of Connecticut, but the TN indies didnt have the money or marketing skills, which is why they went under.
But I wanna see flying donkeys! Wrestling in 1998 sucked? I guess since this is before the Royal Rumble and the rise of Stone Cold he could say that, still the Attitude era had already begun so BLASPHEMY!!
I like that he says Hall is the best wrestler of all the nWo guys. His second rant is spectacularly accurate. As Daniel Tosh said, Arn Anderson would be the most well known wrestler if everybody cared about technical ability.
Jim Cornette: "I don't care what you wrestling fans are thinking and I don't care that you watch DX and that I can get my salary because it succeed, I want the shows to have what I want to see and that I will be the only fan left, because I am a crazy, slapping, murder-threating jerk who don't seems to get that it's not the 70s! I'm Jim Cornette, and that's my egomaniacal opinion!".
There is one thing I disagree with, and that is him ragging on WCW for having Eric Bischoff's name in the credits. WCW never denied he was still VP of WCW. They booked it where he was financing the NWO with Ted DiBiase while using his position in WCW to keep them in the mix for titles and big money.
@Porterjoh Jim was a manager and commentator who also did work in WWF Creative. At one point, as part of an NWA Invasion he led, he cut some worked shoots that slammed the aspects of pro wrestling that he hated. Amusingly, fans cheered these promos (even though Jim was heel), and Russo didn't understand why (cause he doesn't understand wrestling). Eventually he got tired of butting heads with Creative, and after doing a few more on-screen things, he left and became lead booker/part owner of OVW.
Great era of wrestling.The whole cross promotional slagging off between WWE/WCW/ECW was awesome when all three promotions were on fire and wrestling was doing great buisness.
I know it stripped but damn jim is right to this day I want a wrestle match that will sell to me everybody knows it fake but aleast sell the matches like they were,doing in the 80s and 90s I love wrestle but how can you sell a match with these fucked up gimmics if two to four men or women had okay matches no matter who win or lost I respect those people who put work in not just showing up.(HA)
well to be honest with out marketing where would the wrestlers get their money to perform every night?yea i would like to see wrestling more than talking and storyline but this is a new age and money is just about everything.Cornette says a lot of true things but yet he has to realize that times change and that putting your body on the line every week cost a lot and there's a wider fan base than back in his day
As far as guys like nwo or Hogan or whatever. Hey if they bring in the ratings and sell the tickets good for them. There are a lot of guys the big companies tried to shove down peoples throats and never got over so to say they are only main eventers cause the boss likes them is not true. 2nd WWE won't even let the commentators or people associated with WWE use the world wrestler or wrestling. They are ashamed of being in there own business. No wonder UFC is destroying them.
Respect the hell out of Cornette, but 1998 was when wrestling started to get it's highest ratings ever. So what he didn't want to see, everyone else did. Sorry, but money talks. The rant on CT vs TN was ridiculous too. Then move back. Oh yeah. Get a shovel and man up.
Vince was doing alot of "Cross-Promotion" with other companies at this time. One example is when he had ECW come out on RAW. I think this led up to Cornette bringing in the NWA guys. I don't know the full story on it, but Ted Turner bought the original NWA, turned it into WCW, and at this time was beating Vince in the ratings. But someone at this time had restarted the NWA, (probably stood for something else) and was pushing it as the original company.
@JamminBassist If I remember right, after this promo, Cornette started bringing NWA wrestlers onto RAW. One of them was Dan "The Beast" Severn from UFC. They tried to do a program of Severn vs. Shamrock, but that fell apart. If you watch the build up to Austin winning his 1st World Title, right before that Royal Rumble, he came out and stunned everyone who would be in the Rumble. One of them was Jeff Jarret. If you look close, JJ is wearing a title when stunned. That title was the new NWA belt.
@tonshaad1230 It's pretty much ripping off the attitude of ECW, which, God forbid, had ACTUAL wrestling. Sure, maybe it had a good number of matches with brutality, blood, guts and gore, but they also had talent from other countries (Mysterio, Tajiri for example) which showed ECW that they knew people wanted wrestling, not a soap opera.
Cornette Completely shot down the product of WWF. And the things he was saying was true.... Attitude era had no wrestling just... stupid storylines with no wrestling.
Let it be known Jim Cornette aint never lied it's 2011 & it's mad rare if I watch a wrestling show & actually see any wrestling the first thing that comes to my mind was the series of matches between Beer $ vs. Motor City Machine Guns & that while ago.
The sad /funny part is this applies to todays wrestling more than anything . WWE is not wrestling its A Sitcom , they do everything to shy away from the fact thatthey are a wrestling compnay. Now atleast in the attitude era there was some exciting stuff going on now violence edgyness etc.but now , its a kids show with no wrestling at all. they throw the title around like its nothing . id rather see Daniel bryan vs. cm punk in he main event at wrestlemania than Miz , come on this is a joke.
@R9T1 To be fair, the Attitude Era wasn't any better; even in McMahon's introductory address to the Attitude Era, he emphasized the "Entertainment" part of it. People like to say things like "I miss the Attitude Era, when the WWF was still about professional wrestling." If you really look at it, WWE hasn't been about pro wrestling since Bob Backlund lost the belt. Hulkamania was what marked the end of WWF the wrestling promotion, and the birth of WWF the Sports Entertainment company.
@Sanguiluna You present a valid point here ,the allure of the attitude era was entertainment rather than the wrestling aspect much like it is today, the only difference being the target age .Attitude era to me was better as it pushed the envelope .Ive been watching wrestling since about 97 when the Monday night wars were around but recently have acquired a taste for the in ring action rather than the"sports entertainment" factor . I appreciate wrestling skills way more than i did previously
Arn and Flair had their time. During 97 and 98 was the time of Hall and Nash. Just like now it's the time of Cena and possibly Orton. That's just how it is.
What's hilarious is in Vince's mind he probably thought this was going to come across as a heel promo by Cornette (much like he thought Joey Styles' shoot promo in 2006 would be a heel promo) yet the crowd gave the man a standing ovation. Thirteen years later and Vince STILL hasn't figured out what the problem is. Genius my ass...
I remember when they did this, the plan was to got Cornette over as a heel whos stuck in the 80's and when he did these promos the fans popped like fuck, because what he was saying was true!!
LOL on nash. I remember hearing a few years back when Cornette was talking about nash's 6 moves and Said that tunning his hands through his hair was one of them hehehehehehe I like nash, I think he's a funny guy and great personalit. but he was never a great Wrestler
I love Jim Cornette, but I also love the irony at 4:50, basically talking down to people on the Internet, since that's the people he's catering to these days.
But, for the sake of this, I'm Jim Cornette, and this is my face.
I wonder who he could possibly be refering to when he talks about obnoxious yankees from new york spending all their time looking for ideas from the internet at WWF headquarters?
@newfrickinshow I watched the clip where Jim tells how he slapped santino, still funny as hell, when he told he shit himself while shouting at Santino i thought I would choke on my coffee. LOL!!!
ecw HAD GOOD WRESTLERS
diplo33 1 hour ago
CORNETTE SAID THE DUMBEST SHIT IN THE INTERVIEW....HE SAID SCOTT HALL LEFT FOR A BIG CONTRACT IN WCW BUT BEFORE HE SAID THAT HE SAID THE WWF MADE HIM A HOUSE HOLD MAN AND A BIG STAR BUT THAN HE SAID HE COULD PUT 3 ASSES IN A SEAT TOO WATCH HIS MATCH...NOW IF U CAN'T DO THAT IN THE PLACE THAT SUPPOSEDLY MADE U A BIG STAR (RAZOR RAMON) WHY WOULDN'T YOU LEAVE? SMH IDK WHY HE EVEN SAID THAT
diplo33 1 hour ago
Soooo Rob Van Dam/Jerry Lynn wasn't wrestling . . . ?
NathanArnoldCharging 2 hours ago
The irony is that this promo actually helped the nWo/Bischoff gimmick because what Cornette said about them suited their storyline perfectly. Watching that just made me wish Cornette was in WCW at the time in the role that JJ Dillon had. Perhaps more people would have actually cheered for WCW instead of the nWo.
mwronYT 8 hours ago
Cornette is a fucking legend. TNA made a huge mistake letting him go.
pantallica963 2 days ago
6 moves....
John Cena is the new Nash!
pantallica963 2 days ago
he got xpacs ass on this one
THEFRANCHISE817 3 days ago
almost as good as "grinds my gears" by peter griffin
mondaywar 4 days ago
fuck the attitude era (1998) NWO kick ya'll asses!
diplo33 6 days ago
@diplo33 Butthurt because your oh so precious company got bought out?
StephenRWWE 6 days ago
@StephenRWWE ain't my company! ted turner's shit...bischoff should have stayed running that place and not vince russo weird ass!
diplo33 1 hour ago
and cornette can eat a dick cuz WCW was kicking there ass in ratings!
diplo33 6 days ago
i love arn anderson, flair, and the horseman! task master....damn thats real shit! real talent
diplo33 6 days ago
this shit will incite a motherfucker...im mad as hell at 1998 wrestling now! FUCK 1998!!!!...ASSHOLES
UnseenEntityMetal 1 week ago
this man should really consider going on reality tv shows.....
narddog92 1 week ago
"Can I get an Amen" -Lawler-
Hell yeah, you can get an Amen, Jerry.
RichMaxwell 1 week ago
I agree with him about the state of wrestling in 1998. When people say the Attitude Era was the best do they not remember all the horrible shit the WWF had going on in between the Austin/Rock/Mankind stuff?
TheSeveredArm 2 weeks ago
but how do you REALLY feel, Corny?
TJRatfink 2 weeks ago
Jim Cornette is always great. xD
austinfailz 2 weeks ago
dude if i was bischoff id be hangin with the nwo n spending ted turners money too shittttt
purelh 2 weeks ago
i use to hate Jim as a manager when i was a kid, when he managed owen, vader and yoko, lol he did his job well... now i appreciate him.
EastBeastTV 2 weeks ago
Yeah Jim Ross has to agree. They both worked together during the 80's @ Mid-South. The battle of the Express teams? Jake in the orange? Both of them know what "wrestling" was and should be. Long Live Kayefabe!!!
Kilmaar 2 weeks ago
I'm not sure how his praise for Mick Foley can be reconciled with his professed distaste for hardcore wrestling going mainstream.
CaribDevist 1 month ago
@CaribDevist I think it might be because Mick Foley worked for Jim Cornette in Smokey Mountain Wrestling as Cactus Jack during the early 90s when he was starting to make a name for himself and that he respects Mick for his ability to work an audience and his attitude outside of the ring.
AlecStanley 2 weeks ago
thats how i feel about wwe today
502BEATZ 1 month ago 2
Jim Cornette vs flying donkeys, Summerslam 2012.
korbaz21 1 month ago
@MrSherlockHolmez2 are you sure about that? Every wrestling fan I knew at the time enjoyed it.
Ghouse666 1 month ago
Bah Humbug!!! XD
liltd87 1 month ago
LOL at Jerry Lawler marking out at the end!
ShadesAtKnight 1 month ago
If I ever own a wresting promotion, Jim Cornette is on top of my hire list.
texasguy10209 1 month ago
LMAO at 5:32--5:38, funniest but most honest part
KingYoungRouse21 1 month ago
Smartest thing he said: Tennessee > Connecticut
ScottAlmighty 1 month ago
I remember this. when he said he's bringing back tradition, he brought the NWA on Raw with The New Midnight Express, Jeff Jarrett as the NWA champion and I think Dan Severn too
dgnx69 1 month ago
Though Cornette's comments were actually very legit during that time, the only thing I thought upon hearing this(also clicking back and fourth between Nitro and RAW) was the WWF's vast frustration and attempts at damage control over the ratings gap. For the wrestling history uninformed, there was a time when there were two Monday Night wrestling shows, there was no such thing as Cena, and a company called wCw was destroying the WWF on a weekly basis for almost two years.
PhantomGhost25 2 months ago
@PhantomGhost25 Exactly. Nothing but the truth right there
Swype87 1 month ago
I wish he could've did that same exact shoot in 2011 and in 2012... Everything he pointed out in his rants is EXACTLY what the wrestling business has deteriorated into today. Smh...
Mr707BAYAREA 2 months ago 3
@Mr707BAYAREA you're an idiot
ipresnell 1 month ago
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@Mr707BAYAREA you're an idiot
ipresnell 1 month ago
Cornettes tha BOSS!.
RoyalSatanas 2 months ago in playlist More videos from CopyRightHater2006
well the roles have reversed people who like wrestling are on the internet now. lol man people on the internet during that time must have been trolls. thumbs up if you agree.
jimboslice711 2 months ago
Interesting its been 13 years and WWE still dosen't understand sad that the internet figured it out before bitch-off and Vince did
dewilder11 2 months ago
Its interesting what he said about Nash..To me Nash is a smart business man.
77danigga 2 months ago
fuck this company
marekk92 2 months ago
And now, true to his word, he's in ROH, helping to bring us WRESTLING!
Long live Jim Cornette.
MrPowderedToastMan 2 months ago 15
Jim Cornette For President
nrlrocks2 2 months ago
James E. Cornette needs to Shoot on John Cena and Rip him a new fucking Asshole! Shoot on Triple big nose H again.
StanKingston420 2 months ago
@StanKingston420 he actually likes cena for "his work ethic" which he saw in OVW. but i would say that he might knock cena's gimmick which is horrendous and wish he'd wrestle a bit more like jim knows he can.
LMLR187 2 months ago in playlist Jim Cornette
so ric flair isn't trying to act like a young man?
77danigga 3 months ago
@77danigga This video is over 10 years old... back then he definately wasn't doing as much blow and trying to be a teenager again.
Thepaddster 2 months ago
@marktisgod I wonder what Cornette thinks of wrestling today?
leroy592 3 months ago
ECW legends are second to none. Terry Funk, Cactus Jack, Tommy Dreamer, Sabu, Shane Douglas, New Jack, Rob Van Dam, Sandman, Taz, Dudley Boyz, Raven, Mikey Whipreck, Jerry Lynn, Rhino. Fuck Jim Cornett, ECW was the shit.
taz198666 3 months ago
@taz198666 all fucking smackheads
immortal750 2 months ago
He called Bischoff a mark! Ouch! For those who have been in the business for any stretch as I was, even a short time, you all know how big an insult that is! For those who are not schooled on the language, a "mark" is technically a fan, and that's not a bad thing to be called, but it has its negative meanings too. One is a fan that thinks he knows the business and knows nothing, and the other is a one in the business who is still a fanboy and needs to grow up and be a pro about this!
paladin313 4 months ago
haha.. Nice upload. I'm a gen x-er and remember Cornette from WCW and Memphis wrestling.
MrMoodyHyadd 4 months ago
Cornette's crying is so stupid, complaining about the fact that guys are over and popular and he doesn't like it. You know who had a vision like Cornette has: Verne Gagne - and all that happened to him was he had the biggest draw in the business and a chance to build his promotion around him, but because he wasn't a great "wrestler" he didn't. People who are stuck in the past never see the future - and that is the problem Cornette has. The Business passed him by.
bwashinski 4 months ago
who was shawn michaels facing?
EldestSauce 4 months ago
@EldestSauce HHH, it was a finger poke of doom style match, but Hunter and Shawn were really funny at doing it, bad wrestling match but it was really entertaining. It was for the European Title
nicedreams 4 months ago
this guy is mad.....LOL
anthony19727 4 months ago
CORNETTE SMASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BrayGoesTV 4 months ago
Jim Cornette=Legend
jhall024 4 months ago 4
I've yet to see me first flying donkey in WWE :/
WrestlingBC12 4 months ago
@WrestlingBC12 Don't give Vince McMahon any ideas. If he can bring out the Gobbledygooker for Survivor Series, he would bring out a flying donkey.
bellefeu 3 weeks ago
Boy did he dish the truth about that no talent Kevin Nash or what? Jim Cornette = on the $
TheLuscious 5 months ago in playlist Wrestling Worked Shoot Promos
Cactus Jack is a true wrestling legend.
eatmedrinkme420 5 months ago 2
@eatmedrinkme420 Bret Hart is the true wrestling legend, not Cactus. All he could do was throw chairs around and fight in brawl matches. Bret had actual WRESTLING ability, what it's supposed to be about
takushi98 4 months ago
The second one sounds a lot like an angle - he's never to my knowledge been a big anti-Northern guy, at least not sounding as silly as he did bringing it up.
MantonioBanderas 5 months ago
lol i cant believe he does this rant without cursing
MrJlow713 5 months ago 5
@MrJlow713 A true testiment to fantastic mic skills
AJ36sXe 5 months ago 2
Great pair of rants by Jim Cornette about the state of pro wrestling at that time. I wish they cut off the remaining seconds so we don't have to listen to that idiot Jerry Lawler squawking like an obnoxious parrot for its crackers.
Lurvy1963 5 months ago
Hey im a Jim Cornette Guy
onedark300 5 months ago
flying donkeys lol
ffreplica515 5 months ago
Why!? more on that later.
qmccar85 5 months ago 5
I could listen to this man for hours at a time.
Medication102 5 months ago 45
all that shit about CT is true lol. i go there from RI a lot.
kamdawg00 5 months ago
Wow, Jim Cornette has been angry for a long-ass time. I'm glad that he's now the executive producer for Ring of Honor, though. He can push wrestlers who deserve to be pushed like Davey Richards.
Tycho86 5 months ago 4
It's good to know that even during the era itself there were guys who didn't buy into all that Attitude crap that was going on at the time. His last promo essentially sums up how I feel about the so-called "Golden age of wrestling" in the late 90s.
Sanguiluna 5 months ago
John Cena and Hornswoggle disliked the video
EgyMax1987 5 months ago
Jim Cornette 13 Years Ago-Now we have CM Punk!
xxWrestleClopediaxx 6 months ago
like this if you just watched the timeline in WWF 1997 and came here lol
furikuri915 6 months ago in playlist Jim Cornette 3
@ARB082 Ha!
OofmanRulz 6 months ago
At 4:57 He's talking about Vince Russo
XavierXDN72892 6 months ago
Brutal and hilarious
jmd620 6 months ago
This ain't widescreen, this is just stretched fullscreen...it's like TCM and AMC. No competition!
maxpower789z 6 months ago
Cornette surely must be out of his mind when he said that Tennessee is better than Connecticut....
wmn09001 6 months ago
@wmn09001 From a wresting standpoint, Tennessee was way ahead of Connecticut, but the TN indies didnt have the money or marketing skills, which is why they went under.
bendavis83 6 months ago
@wmn09001 it is
kamdawg00 5 months ago
But I wanna see flying donkeys! Wrestling in 1998 sucked? I guess since this is before the Royal Rumble and the rise of Stone Cold he could say that, still the Attitude era had already begun so BLASPHEMY!!
NMbarrassment 6 months ago
I like that he says Hall is the best wrestler of all the nWo guys. His second rant is spectacularly accurate. As Daniel Tosh said, Arn Anderson would be the most well known wrestler if everybody cared about technical ability.
krazyzark 7 months ago
Jim Cornette: "I don't care what you wrestling fans are thinking and I don't care that you watch DX and that I can get my salary because it succeed, I want the shows to have what I want to see and that I will be the only fan left, because I am a crazy, slapping, murder-threating jerk who don't seems to get that it's not the 70s! I'm Jim Cornette, and that's my egomaniacal opinion!".
MrYosihait 7 months ago
6:15
Should have been followed by the Angry Video Game Nerd saying:
"Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy..Everybody!
Happy Holidays and if you have a problem with Happy Holidays then Happy shut the fuck up."
SolidMike84 7 months ago
There is one thing I disagree with, and that is him ragging on WCW for having Eric Bischoff's name in the credits. WCW never denied he was still VP of WCW. They booked it where he was financing the NWO with Ted DiBiase while using his position in WCW to keep them in the mix for titles and big money.
CombatSportFan 7 months ago
The first promo is more or less Vince giving Nash, Hall, Waltman and Bischoff (WCW) the finger, through the medium of Jim Cornette.
In my opinion.
mmscott9 7 months ago
What caused this? Was it just a random rant or was there a reason behind it?
Porterjoh 7 months ago
@Porterjoh Jim was a manager and commentator who also did work in WWF Creative. At one point, as part of an NWA Invasion he led, he cut some worked shoots that slammed the aspects of pro wrestling that he hated. Amusingly, fans cheered these promos (even though Jim was heel), and Russo didn't understand why (cause he doesn't understand wrestling). Eventually he got tired of butting heads with Creative, and after doing a few more on-screen things, he left and became lead booker/part owner of OVW.
Sith8491138 7 months ago 2
wrestling is dead and he predicted it here.
SuperDeluxe80 7 months ago
greatest fucking rant of all time! lol
vinWo316 7 months ago
"He's got 6 moves, no mobility" Is he talking about Nash or Cena?
OofmanRulz 8 months ago 33
@OofmanRulz Nash, this was from 1997.
2011mrkingofkings 8 months ago
@2011mrkingofkings Yeah, I got that. But only having 6 moves sounds like a certain current WWE champ.
OofmanRulz 8 months ago 2
@OofmanRulz Nash because Cena only has 5 moves
TruthinWWE 1 month ago
@OofmanRulz Cena has 7 and that's if you count the shoulder block twice
thomatude 1 month ago
@OofmanRulz Well at least cena doesn't tear a quad when he's runs lol
ReeseAwesome 1 month ago
Great era of wrestling.The whole cross promotional slagging off between WWE/WCW/ECW was awesome when all three promotions were on fire and wrestling was doing great buisness.
Pulpedtoafiction31 8 months ago
@Shadowssj6 In terms of popularity and exposure, absolutely. They definitely have a more stable business model and responsible management though.
theDyingWhale 8 months ago
over a decade later and it is still that way. the only difference is that now its WWE/TNA/ROH instead of WWF/WCW/ECW.
FullMetalEva69 9 months ago
@FullMetalEva69 You can't really compare ECW and ROH. For one thing, ROH wrestlers are actually getting paid.
theDyingWhale 8 months ago 3
@theDyingWhale I lol'd heartily.
SETHBOB424 8 months ago
I know it stripped but damn jim is right to this day I want a wrestle match that will sell to me everybody knows it fake but aleast sell the matches like they were,doing in the 80s and 90s I love wrestle but how can you sell a match with these fucked up gimmics if two to four men or women had okay matches no matter who win or lost I respect those people who put work in not just showing up.(HA)
kenrickeason 9 months ago
well to be honest with out marketing where would the wrestlers get their money to perform every night?yea i would like to see wrestling more than talking and storyline but this is a new age and money is just about everything.Cornette says a lot of true things but yet he has to realize that times change and that putting your body on the line every week cost a lot and there's a wider fan base than back in his day
ThaTruth223 9 months ago
so what was the point of Mr. Mcmahon letting jim Cornette do his rants?
ramiabdo2 9 months ago
@ramiabdo2 so the crowds would not cheer dx
36dopman 6 months ago
As far as guys like nwo or Hogan or whatever. Hey if they bring in the ratings and sell the tickets good for them. There are a lot of guys the big companies tried to shove down peoples throats and never got over so to say they are only main eventers cause the boss likes them is not true. 2nd WWE won't even let the commentators or people associated with WWE use the world wrestler or wrestling. They are ashamed of being in there own business. No wonder UFC is destroying them.
UltMitSinner78 9 months ago
Despite Hulk Hogan getting paid a lot by WCW he was right when he said "It was the largest ATM you ever saw"
ishotu747 9 months ago 2
This was a work shoot for Cornette to bring the NWA back to the spotlight in their failed 1998 invasion of the WWF......
Neomac316 9 months ago
0:36
Cornette saying SWEEEET might be the best thing ever. Phone, meet text notification tone.
JabbaTheAmerican 9 months ago
Respect the hell out of Cornette, but 1998 was when wrestling started to get it's highest ratings ever. So what he didn't want to see, everyone else did. Sorry, but money talks. The rant on CT vs TN was ridiculous too. Then move back. Oh yeah. Get a shovel and man up.
kylerlng 9 months ago
Vince was doing alot of "Cross-Promotion" with other companies at this time. One example is when he had ECW come out on RAW. I think this led up to Cornette bringing in the NWA guys. I don't know the full story on it, but Ted Turner bought the original NWA, turned it into WCW, and at this time was beating Vince in the ratings. But someone at this time had restarted the NWA, (probably stood for something else) and was pushing it as the original company.
JamminBassist 9 months ago
@JamminBassist If I remember right, after this promo, Cornette started bringing NWA wrestlers onto RAW. One of them was Dan "The Beast" Severn from UFC. They tried to do a program of Severn vs. Shamrock, but that fell apart. If you watch the build up to Austin winning his 1st World Title, right before that Royal Rumble, he came out and stunned everyone who would be in the Rumble. One of them was Jeff Jarret. If you look close, JJ is wearing a title when stunned. That title was the new NWA belt.
JamminBassist 9 months ago
THe birth of "Attitude era" was stupid and a slap to the face of PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING.
tonshaad1230 9 months ago
@tonshaad1230 It's pretty much ripping off the attitude of ECW, which, God forbid, had ACTUAL wrestling. Sure, maybe it had a good number of matches with brutality, blood, guts and gore, but they also had talent from other countries (Mysterio, Tajiri for example) which showed ECW that they knew people wanted wrestling, not a soap opera.
KissMeImPunk 9 months ago
Cornette Completely shot down the product of WWF. And the things he was saying was true.... Attitude era had no wrestling just... stupid storylines with no wrestling.
tonshaad1230 9 months ago
WOW CORNETTE PREDICTED WRESTLEINGS DOWNTURN BECAUSE OF THE BREAKING OF KAYFABE AND WRESTLEINGS COMPLACENCY IN IT'S SUCESS ABOUT 5 YEARS IN ADVANCE
MrAnonimak 9 months ago 2
This promo > Cena's career
JoeLaTurkeyIII 10 months ago 30
More on that later!!!! xD
rissipenv 10 months ago
ilike corrnet for the most part but seriously, Ric failr ? he was NEVER good EVER
codyjobe 10 months ago
@codyjobe you're an idiot...
britishhedgehog 10 months ago 2
i wouldn't mind seeing flying donkeys, just sayin'
doozer001 10 months ago
This applies so much to TNA now.
7LucasCabrera71 10 months ago
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
libertyemil 11 months ago
Traffic jams at 4am? Does Mama Cornette know that you're out so late?
xcellken1 11 months ago
the beginning of Jim cornette becoming becoming official the voice of the wrestling Business
tyfighter0710 11 months ago
Let it be known Jim Cornette aint never lied it's 2011 & it's mad rare if I watch a wrestling show & actually see any wrestling the first thing that comes to my mind was the series of matches between Beer $ vs. Motor City Machine Guns & that while ago.
kingp05 11 months ago
@kingp05 and in tna a lot of good matches look like shit because the endings are booked so shitty
liveandletrock864 11 months ago
THANK YOU Jim Cornette for calling out the Attitude Era for being what it really was: a slap in the face of professional wrestling.
Sanguiluna 11 months ago
The sad /funny part is this applies to todays wrestling more than anything . WWE is not wrestling its A Sitcom , they do everything to shy away from the fact thatthey are a wrestling compnay. Now atleast in the attitude era there was some exciting stuff going on now violence edgyness etc.but now , its a kids show with no wrestling at all. they throw the title around like its nothing . id rather see Daniel bryan vs. cm punk in he main event at wrestlemania than Miz , come on this is a joke.
R9T1 11 months ago
@R9T1 To be fair, the Attitude Era wasn't any better; even in McMahon's introductory address to the Attitude Era, he emphasized the "Entertainment" part of it. People like to say things like "I miss the Attitude Era, when the WWF was still about professional wrestling." If you really look at it, WWE hasn't been about pro wrestling since Bob Backlund lost the belt. Hulkamania was what marked the end of WWF the wrestling promotion, and the birth of WWF the Sports Entertainment company.
Sanguiluna 11 months ago
@Sanguiluna You present a valid point here ,the allure of the attitude era was entertainment rather than the wrestling aspect much like it is today, the only difference being the target age .Attitude era to me was better as it pushed the envelope .Ive been watching wrestling since about 97 when the Monday night wars were around but recently have acquired a taste for the in ring action rather than the"sports entertainment" factor . I appreciate wrestling skills way more than i did previously
R9T1 11 months ago
Arn and Flair had their time. During 97 and 98 was the time of Hall and Nash. Just like now it's the time of Cena and possibly Orton. That's just how it is.
Macca1969 11 months ago
how was he suppose to get over as a heel when all he spoke was the truth, listen to that crowd at the end!
420goonie 11 months ago
What's hilarious is in Vince's mind he probably thought this was going to come across as a heel promo by Cornette (much like he thought Joey Styles' shoot promo in 2006 would be a heel promo) yet the crowd gave the man a standing ovation. Thirteen years later and Vince STILL hasn't figured out what the problem is. Genius my ass...
CombatSportFan 11 months ago
dixie carter needs to watch this
jimpsyd 11 months ago
@jimpsyd she does, but she rather listens to Hogan and Bischoff
amarieoflothlorien 11 months ago
God bless Jim Cornette.
2redaces 1 year ago
most truthful promo ive seen
BlountDucks9 1 year ago
I remember when they did this, the plan was to got Cornette over as a heel whos stuck in the 80's and when he did these promos the fans popped like fuck, because what he was saying was true!!
UltimateSenshi 1 year ago
Man, Jim Cornette is now my favorite non-wrestling personality to ever come out of any company. But he never should've slapped Santino.
DinnerOfSquadalah 1 year ago
LOL on nash. I remember hearing a few years back when Cornette was talking about nash's 6 moves and Said that tunning his hands through his hair was one of them hehehehehehe I like nash, I think he's a funny guy and great personalit. but he was never a great Wrestler
thadarryl 1 year ago
I love Jim Cornette, but I also love the irony at 4:50, basically talking down to people on the Internet, since that's the people he's catering to these days.
But, for the sake of this, I'm Jim Cornette, and this is my face.
Ianvo 1 year ago 4
Jim keeps it real 24/7
xTheJuLio 1 year ago
"Game show host wannabe"
Well, Bischoff did look like John Davidson back in the day.
johnissoevil 1 year ago
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damn he was killing them
hectorthafin 1 year ago
The state of wrestling in 1998 stunk? Where is Wrestling? You mean 2011? :/
wwedude1987 1 year ago
Fuck this company
slayerking88 1 year ago 48
@slayerking88 which one? lol WWF/WWE, WCW, ECW, TNA, OVW, PPW AWA????
rob31698 1 year ago
Im Jim Cornette and this is my face
Kongwalker 1 year ago
Well he was wrong about one thing. The future state of wrestling in 1998 was probably the best in WWF/E's history.
umk23 1 year ago
I wonder who he could possibly be refering to when he talks about obnoxious yankees from new york spending all their time looking for ideas from the internet at WWF headquarters?
gazz12345a 1 year ago
@gazz12345a I think hes refering to Vince Russo
oussam123 1 year ago
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Is JC talking about Kevi Dunn in the 2nd promo? I think so
ufcrulez582 1 year ago
Is JC talking about Kevi Dunn in the 2nd promo? I think so
ufcrulez582 1 year ago
Love some Jimmy Cornette!
the1andonlyzack 1 year ago
Marty Jannety should be champ! lol
pladampa 1 year ago
Wow, if he shooted like that on 1997/1998 .. imagine Jim Cornette in 2010
7LucasCabrera71 1 year ago 5
@7LucasCabrera71 look up cornette's commentary on who slamming who.
LMLR187 1 year ago
man after hearin this i wonder how cornette survived in tna wit kevin nash
Dud512 1 year ago
did vince fire him after this rant?
thedude19766 1 year ago
@thedude19766
No, he didn't fire Cornette until JC slapped Santino Marella a dozen times or so.
newfrickinshow 1 year ago
@newfrickinshow 16 times
amarieoflothlorien 11 months ago
@amarieoflothlorien wasn't sure of the exact number hence the 'or so' addition to my post.
newfrickinshow 11 months ago
@newfrickinshow I watched the clip where Jim tells how he slapped santino, still funny as hell, when he told he shit himself while shouting at Santino i thought I would choke on my coffee. LOL!!!
amarieoflothlorien 11 months ago
@thedude19766: nope years later in July 2005 because of slapping santino marella for breaking character and laughing at wrestler The Boogeyman.
CopyRightHater2006 1 year ago 22