Jim Cornette Looks At Spring Of 1994 / Wrestlemania X

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[@joel642]

I don't know if I'm the only one, but I put on a different cornette deep dive barely audible, to help me fall asleep each night.

[@JackB733]

I have spent more time listening to Cornette during this quarantine than I have anyone else

[@isaihvega9928]

Helll yess lol

[@emperorsgrandads]

Me too. Actually stumbled across him while watching old wrestling videos. Now I'm hooked!

[@nickcapella2440]

That’s it. You’re banned from using the hand lotion.

[@trevorhyde3139]

Yep pretty good stuff

[@mazukakai]

Me too. Good old Louisville boy

[@SuperMutant2099]

I was at Wrestlemania 10. Second Row behind the trio in white shirts spelling out WWF. My dad was with me. 25 years almost to the day was back in MSG for Supercard of honor. I could only think of my dad and wish he was here again.

[@chris6789100]

Great memory, thanks for sharing.

[@mightyknight]

That's a nice memory. What was your recollection of the ladder match?

[@SuperMutant2099]

@@mightyknight Sadly don't remember much from match being there. Most I remember from the show. Wondering what happen to crush. Wishing Owen would join Bret after winning title

[@alberts1985]

Should mouth love

[@wiseguy3675]

What I remember most about Jim at Wrestlemania X was when he called Todd Pettingill, Tod Petting Zoo. I thought that was hilarious.

[@mikegibson5812]

2020 was good for one thing - it introduced me to Jim Cornette. God bless this man.

[@boosh90]

Same here

[@SeamHead33]

Except Jim mocks God and those who believe in Him

[@Voysh2Voysh69]

“Introduced” you? You didn’t know who Cornette was before 2020? Are you not a wrestling fan?

[@set1237]

@@SeamHead33 lol

[@tinfoilhat3268]

@@SeamHead33 he's also a Democrat and apparently enjoys too much mayonnaise. No one's perfect

[@notchinham316]

Give Cornette some credit, he _did_ technically main-event a Wrestlemania. For the title. In MSG.

[@SIXTHREEONEFOURTHREENIONEOOSEV]

kooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll

[@TheBC313]

he was the best part of that match. when he pulled Piper out of the ring and Piper just slugged him lol

[@bigwaggle]

U

[@theungreatkahli]

TheBC313 he took a great bump for that. Cornette should've won the title for most ridiculous outfit at Mania that night.

[@AmericanWrathchild]

No. He didn't. Shut up.

[@chrisscanlan4666]

Can you imagine being the poor son of a gun who towed Corny's car when he showed up at the tow lot? The promos being cut must have been legendary.

[@user-eg4ft4cf9c]

That's what he gets for being stupid

[@pumpkinsdontcry]

Smokey mountain was before its time. It's sad that ppl are marking out for Smokey 27 years too late

[@theungreatkahli]

I know. I'm actually one of the people who liked it as a kid and would watch it

[@bdr113080]

Dub same here, for some reason it was on the air in Raleigh on one of the independent channels, It and USWA both came on this channel. But sadly I remember, and I’m sure you remember this back then just because you and I liked it, if ur friends were like mine not all of the wrestling fans I knew liked SMW. Even back then there were fans that would only watch wrestling if it wasn’t WWF or WCW. I think 25 years later people like it because they missed that style of wrestling which was pretty much the wCW/southern style of wrestling. You weren’t going to get the “you said 4 flat tires but I only said I had A flat tire” angle in WWF but we got in both WCW and SMW.

[@DruTubeyt]

Smokey mountain was before my time but I definetly enjoy it for what it was

[@ythinman2277]

Dru_da_gabngstar mm. Mm. M

[@ythinman2277]

Dub hhbkbbhhhhhh

[@TheGodinme88]

Lenoir!!!! My hometown!! I remember those Smoky Mountain days!!! My dad worked security for the promotion. Awesome times!!!!

[@scottmiller3025]

This(all of Jim's wrestling commentaries) is honestly one of the very few things I can listen to without a background to back it up...

[@tj2nasty4ya83]

Who u telling if been hooked on this shit.. I knew corny was good but dam in my Vince voice "this is such good shit"

[@tommymclaughlin3203]

Love this, The Experience, and The Drive Thru..Jim you rock!!

[@falsehero2001]

"Corney, I don't know." Well, even Jim can't stay mad at old Terry for too long.

[@TheGameFreak000]

I cackled at that line.

[@alostlonewolf]

the oxygen mask to rouse him from the sleeper was brilliant

[@SpaceGhost92]

Sally Wolf That’s fantastic old school wrasslin. Corny knows the business.

[@theungreatkahli]

LMAO

[@GangstaSparkleFairy]

I think its great. But if anyone else did that, Cornette would shit a brick and rant on them for fifteen minutes at least.

[@bitteroldman]

@@GangstaSparkleFairy Corny has said repeatedly that he wants wrestling to make sense and reviving someone who has been choked out by giving them oxygen makes perfect sense, regardless of who's doing the spot.

[@GangstaSparkleFairy]

@@bitteroldman No, it doesnt make sense to haul a oxygen mask into the room and resuscitate someone who was just put out with a sleeper during a match, while the opponents back is turned, and they shoot up like you hit them with adrenaline. That only makes sense if you have an IQ of 10. It would be better if you just admited that sometimes people are hypocrites. But you can't do that, because you are a bitter old man.

[@connor7036]

It's a miracle that Jim didn't have a stroke, heart attack, or aneurysm just by booking Smoky Mountain and going to the WWF tapings, just because booking Smoky Mountain AND going to the WWF tapings is a bit much, but at the same time, WWF was short on talent as they were until the late 90's where business popped.

[@someparts]

There is nothing better than Terry Funk's voice.

[@Thor-Orion]

Smokey Mountain was actually the best promotion in the states for entire years of the 90’s. People say weird shit like “WCW and WWF were 1&2 at different times and ECW was the third major promotion.” ECW only ever lost money. WCW had 3 years of profitability in it’s entire history under Turner ownership. WWF was doing similar houses to SMW in the early 90’s for the most part as businesses was down. SMW was never worse than the third place promotion and for very long stretches Smokey was 2. And then on occasion for little stretches SMW was the best of all four.

[@violagreene4643]

Well,you know what they say, "you'll never leave Harlan alive".

[@harleydavidson9466]

This isn't the first time I've listened. In a huge follower of both podcasts... I have to admit, I like it better on KZbin. Just wrestling... The way I like it...

[@slgraham3777]

Ok ok I’ll ll l

[@kinginthenorth1437]

Jim Cornette: It's amazing I made it through this period without having a breakdown. Also Jim Cornette: And that's when I had a breakdown in a Dairy Queen drive-thru still talked about 25 years later.

[@connordripps1480]

Because as he stated in the video that post producing Smoky Mountain Wrestling TV's, all the days and nights working etc and also the sponsors they had didn't show up for the Hyden Kentucky show.

[@Dave-rf1zj]

Guys like Tracey Smothers, Brad Armstrong, The Heavenly Bodies (Prichard/Del Ray) and Dirty White Boy Tony Anthony had came around 10 years prior in the territory days, they would have been so much bigger. Underrated right there.

[@primetime8833]

I can't believe that Corny actually thought "no standing" meant that people couldn't stand there.

[@craigperry3779]

I didn't live though the 80's and I really don't have any first hand experience of what hairstyles were popular at the time. I did live through the 90's though and there is no way the 80's had more mullets than the 90's. Somehow the 90's fly under the mullet radar and they seem to get associated with the 80's. The whole WWF roster in the mid 90's all the way down to the refs had mullets.

[@GangstaSparkleFairy]

I agree with that, I think the 90's mullets are more pronounced, know what I mean? The back was longer and the sides and front alot shorter. The 80's was like, feathered and layered all around...not sure which is more comical/sad.

[@moffjerjerrod1579]

No matter what decade it is, hockey has the most mullets. Even more than the wrestlers in the same last few decades.

[@bigdrew565]

@@moffjerjerrod1579 Jaromir Jagr is proof fucking positive of that.

[@ojmcclanahan689]

I was at that show in Hurley, Virginia. Grew up about 20 miles from there.

[@derekfisher8571]

Wow. I've lived in Charleston, WV my whole life, and I had to look up where the hell Red Jacket, WV is 😂

[@MoonLightWright]

Amazing stories from Corny

[@Bojack727]

27:20. Props to Vince McMahon . Say whatever you want about the man: But he sent his guys down to work in the Smokey Mountain Wrestling promotion, and payed for them, even if it was so that Jim and he could make a statement about the quality of WCW at the time- Vince is always *all in* when it comes to this sort of thing.

[@timf7413]

There are a lot of stories like that. For all of his faults and eccentricities, there are aspects of Vince that do make him seem like a genuinely good guy. Even Cornette who hates Vince's vision of wrestling seems to not think bad of him as a person.

[@tj2nasty4ya83]

He did it with ecw n Heyman also..

[@ICHIBAN-cz8ih]

@@tj2nasty4ya83 1000 bucks a week or something like that

[@everettgarrett4858]

@MemphoWrasslin1 maybe he did it as a Thank You to Og JJ for coming up with the concept for raw

[@everettgarrett4858]

I heard Jim on one of his podcast talk about him being basicly the ideal man for raw he didn't have anything to do with naming it though. I always wondered if Vince worked Jerry with the story of if he went to the joint Jerry was going to run things. This was around the time Watts was about to be canned and wcw was looking for someone to run it and cut cost which Eric did at first in 93 till summer 94 then he got a cubby for Hogan which made him turn into a slut with uncle Ted's money. Jerry could have ran it better then Erectile Bicthchop.

[@matthillegas3099]

"No Standing" has nothing to do with standing up. It means you can't stop your car there to unload or wait for someone. I'm pretty sure every "No Standing" zone is also a "No Parking" zone.

[@eyalsabag1772]

He who makes kittens put snakes in the grass- great line from corny after yoko win over lex

[@joelmalone7922]

I think Corny stole this line from the great Ian Anderson, who wrote it as a lyric in Bungle in the Jungle. It could be a complete coincidence as I've no idea what kind of music he likes. Anybody have any idea?

[@KingOfWinter]

I remember seeing the Moon Dogs wrestle at an event in Memphis in the early 90s. I was really young then so when I got older I always thought I’d seen junkyard dog and just remembered the name wrong lol. The funny thing is I think the moon dogs wrestled junkyard dog so I did see him either way

[@jesusshuttlesworth8972]

I love listening to Jim Cornette, I just started listening about 3 months ago and immediately I was hooked and now I listen to the old podcasts as well as his new podcasts whenever I can.

[@user-eg4ft4cf9c]

No standing so we can't stand there. 😂😂😂

[@ayakoholic]

Now I need to make a meme from Amadeus with Corny as Salieri listening to New Jack as Mozart cutting a promo for the first time and maybe like six people in the whole world will get it

[@Turnip1981]

I haven't watched or cared about wrestling in 20 years but Jim is one hell of a story teller. Maybe that's why he was such a successful manager, because he can MAKE you care.

[@freewilliam93]

I think the thing to come out of this is theres a richard nixon civic center somewhere in kentuckey.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Not at all surprised it's in Kensucky.

[@revans100591]

We shouldn't be surprised they love him, Regan, both Bush's, and Trump and think Mitch McConnell is God.

[@timmy2231]

In one episode he talks about Hurley, VA there public school has confederate flags on the front door to this day in 2019

[@stephenfrancis7217]

Love me some corny

[@duvalcounty5861]

Especially Tom

[@DamnitDave87]

"Jesus Christ I could do something with him"😭🤣

[@joshhefner8179]

The Bruise Brothers vs The Public Enemy was on that same ECW show Terry Funk was on.

[@FLITT]

Sunday Bloody Sunday... Imagine a wrestling company in Ireland putting on a show called 11 9/11 or Bombing Boston Bombing

[@johnnyblack3676]

shut up

[@FLITT]

@@johnnyblack3676 Wednesday nights you like to stay up late? 😂 Go post some more videos of you playing pretend wrestler in a video game ya simpleton.

[@michaelriley8879]

Growing up here in KY, the moondogs on USWA were terrifying.

[@timf7413]

Some of their Smokey Mountain stuff is hard to watch. Even in some of the crazier hardcore promotions (which aren't really my thing) I don't think I've seen any wrestlers that seemingly have less regard for their opponents' well-being, but I guess it's what got them over.

[@GangstaSparkleFairy]

Yessssss Mike! I loved the USWA, watched it here in bowling Green KY as a kid. Good stuff.

[@gnelms24]

Great deep dive. The next deep dive should be August 1994.

[@theungreatkahli]

YES!!!

[@ethanbenfield2285]

Hickory and Lenoir NC got smokey mountain shows? Im from there (born in 98 tho) and we NEVER get wrestling shows. That would be awesome.

[@theungreatkahli]

LOL Hillbilly airport in Knoxville. It's worse leaving out of Chattanooga where the ghetto ass plane is making popping sounds right after we takeoff!!!

[@jstats13]

"You'll never leave Harlan alive" to quote an old song

[@emfs9522]

We are standing by a sign that says no standing, which we shouldnt be doing. Hahah

[@tarvinblankenshipgfaerlestrst]

Any1 going through the Cornette archives in 24 ?? or am I the only 1 ??

[@JohnnyScumbagg]

Dude the bodydonnas were one of the worst tag teams ever

[@mox19380]

i wish there was surveillance footage of corny at that hotel front desk...

[@Mr601s]

Weird as hell to hear about Dungannon and Hurley from the great Jim Cornette.

[@bdr113080]

Vince only told Jim that WWF would pay their guys that appeared on the SMW show. According to Sean Waltman it was like going to do an autograph signing , meaning “you work for WWF so u go do this thing” there was no extra pay for doing that particular SMW show.

[@FreneticZetetic]

If the guys are under contract they get paid wherever Vince sends them.

[@justinsanto2458]

Anyone know what the Terry Gordy "incident" was?

[@chitownace777]

Justin Santo He was on crack bad & some pills & he had to get put on the plane in a wheelchair.His heart stopped either before they flew or in mid flight & Terry Funk I think started his heart.Terry was in a coma a long time & suffered Brain damage similar to Mike Von Erich.He recovered but wasn’t the same along the lines of Mike Von Erich

[@babbyfacerevocation2740]

Jimmy Cornett for president 2024.

[@Thor-Orion]

I agree with him ripping those tickets up. I literally said “you’re going to have to pay the impound fee, but fuck those four tickets!

[@connordripps1480]

What strikes me as odd is that when Jim mentions the infamous Hyden Kentucky Dairy Queen incident, Brian Last is like 'oh yeah I know what it's famous for' and then a second later he says 'that part I didn't know'. For someone who remembers almost everything with Smoky Mountain Wrestling doesn't remember the Hyden Kentucky Dairy Queen incident. Sounds like he didn't see the video.

[@connordripps1480]

@Theo Ryder ah gotcha.

[@stephensullivan1879]

Thanks for brightening up parts of my life at this time with your love of wrestling cornette....in Any other sport entertainment...because it's all entertainment..the man with the most knowledge gets hella respect and accolades....bert sugar bob Costas whoever the fuck knows football lol i cant think right now ...why not corny

[@Doug41160]

I love listening to jim recalling the events and stories of the old promotions. He has an excellent memory. Now if he would shut his yap about politics and stick to wrestling!

[@bobsappsjockstrap]

play in traffic trumpy

[@Doug41160]

@@bobsappsjockstrap move out of your mama's basement

[@bobsappsjockstrap]

@@Doug41160 lose some weight doug

[@CrackzTV]

@@bobsappsjockstrap rabid low IQ liberal, I wish you really understood how things stand.

[@Hercules718]

Xerox machine...Corny : my zeerrox machine. LoL we love you Corny. You are a genius. Thanks for being unique and giving sooo very much to Pro Wrestling !

[@futuregohan4837]

This Was The First WrestleMania I Believe Not To Feature Undertaker In Any Capacity Whatsoever

[@JamesMMcCann]

You mean other than the first 6 that he wasn't on?

[@kingkold]

37:40 lol

[@bruce7630]

two bad him going off at the hotel desk wasn't recorded haha

[@TairyHesticles]

Two desks?

[@duvalcounty5861]

2?

[@mikehicks304]

Red Jacket population of 7 lmao

[@jtaco4101]

Lol i love this. I refuse to believe as well traveled as jim is he didnt know about weekend vs weekday parking in downtown areas of big cities.

[@billwe5772]

as someone that moved from the midwest to the northeast i promise you i didn't know any of these law/rules.

[@efng21]

Bobby Blaze was the shits. A spray painted sidewalk had more charisma than Blaze did

[@MoonLightWright]

Jim Cornette's memory is fucking amazing. I know that he has his calendar that will read from, but there is tons of stuff that he talks about that isn't in that book.

[@mikeperry7335]

furnus and lafont were criminally under used in the wwf

[@chitownace777]

Mike Perry most ppl were

[@MrDivalover1]

@mike perry no doubt I remember watching them in my middle school days in 1996-97 they were in wm13 #1 contender match then team Canada vs team usa 97 survivor series. then were gone after one yr. they would made good wwf tag team champs in 1997.

[@theungreatkahli]

All they could really do was work with Owen and Bulldog. I don't think many others could do their style of matches.

[@MrT571]

Vince wasn't a fan.

[@SuperToombs]

Jim, If you have never been towed or seen people towed, then you have never hung out in Columbus Ohio...they tow you quicker than shit.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

My biggest take-away from this is that New Jack can actually wrestle.

[@revans100591]

He was always a pretty good wrestler but that was overshadowed by Paul Heyman having him do stupid shit in the name of being extreme.

[@docholliday1112]

Good promo too

[@jjk7322]

Coach Curt's Wrestling Line! I remember that! lol

[@thomaspavelko9412]

Jimmy, dont you know no one leaves Harlan alive?

[@Parallelocam]

Even Cornette forgot Festus was Luke Gallows. LOL

[@jiminyjillickers5243]

Not the same guy. Gallows was only 10 at the time. Cornette is talking about Hillbilly Festus.

[@likenem]

34:00 New Jack's Discovery

[@noahb6846]

Jimmy del ray looks weird with that handle bar moustache no disrespect to Mr del ray but still

[@theungreatkahli]

YEAH. RIP GIGOLO

[@duvalcounty5861]

Yeah and Tom looks like a Dick with Hair on top of it

[@tj2nasty4ya83]

Kinda looks like buddy Murphy in the thumbnail

[@tj2nasty4ya83]

@@duvalcounty5861 looks like Chuck Palumbo lol

[@chrischar9428]

Not handlebar

[@frankiebflat5728]

Great

[@Lemonhead86]

Well Dunn was god awful.

[@octopodesrex]

....Chew Chew.

[@scottlupo7733]

Love he never seems to call him Tony Anthony. Always Dirty White Boy

[@mcomiskey7]

Is it true what they say about Horner & Special needs kids?

[@fatalsniper3413]

What do they say? Mr. Ironman

[@charlieoutback1798]

Is it a rule that you have to have mullets or in the process of going bald for the 80's & 90's. How insecure can u be when your selling out MSG, that's how you know Bruno (tough hiding in the mountains during ww2) America tuurned him I to his image, Hogen with the fucking bandana, dude look at John Travolta, you won't look like Bruno where it literally looks like someone stapled dog hair on him. Imagine Jordan in a msg playoff game with Bruno's rug or hogens bandana

[@jupiternetwork]

39:02

[@benreese7602]

Doug furnas was a APF powerlifting champ not worlds strongest man that's two different sports but he was a great in the sport of powerlifting!

[@chrischar9428]

Don't understand wrestling eh

[@davey3884]

Who tf doesn't know you can't park in a "no standing" zone lmao. The fact that there were no cars parked there should of been a tip off..

[@crashintonickdm]

Ahh ,March 94. Kurt cobains last dance with his demons

[@jasonkessler7321]

I was going down the comments waiting to see that.

[@falseshepherd-490]

Courtney Love?

[@robetbdickinson3408]

Kurt got home a little after midnight on saturday moring, then went into Cali Dewits room and fired him again! Cali told kurt he couldnt fire him because Courtney hired him. Thats when the argument got heated. Kurt then kicked Cali out of the house. Cali left and went to his friends house. Kurt went and bought shot gun shells at 7am hence why he told grey cab drive he needed bullets because of intruders and why the shot gun was only loaded with three shells. sometime very late staurday night early sunday morning kurt was overpowered by 2 men, they injected him and he died inside the home. They moved his body to the greenhouse later they then cleaned the house hence why dylan told grant "wow ive never seen this house this clean. Courtney called tom grant sunday morning putting her alibi in motion

[@TheJDough1]

You can feel the passion Cornette has for wrestling. I would have loved to have worked with him during this time. I feel like it would have been a master class in all things wrestling

[@Bsfnelz20]

Wow Vince McMahon really love Jim

[@lestercross5123]

Couldn't get past that god awful theme song tbh

[@tafttheraft5314]

Cornette talks shit on ECW and hardcore wrestling, which is fine, because he's right about some things, but did he ever stop to think that maybe the reason that SMW show did so well is because he had a Deathmatch, Cage match and Chain match all on the same card?

[@edwardfarnsworth5915]

A lot of people would agree with you, and there are many promotions built around hardcore wrestling. But I think Jim would say the reason it drew is because he had built the storyline to that point and hadn't burnt out the gimmick.

[@amirpourghoureiyan1637]

a texas deathmatch in those days isn't the same at all as the garbage matches in hardcore wrestling, it's supposed to be a last man standing match that cannot be stopped by time limit (a match till death).

[@jeffreyloskoskill4901]

Jake is not only the best technical wrestler of all time. He could tie Bret Hart in a knot on his worst day! On top of that he's reliable, dependable, honest, and he is such a gracious and humble man he spends so much time with all his fans and all the kids who want a picture, a handshake or a hug. A true gentleman. We should all hope and aspire to be half the man that Mr. Roberts is. He is a hero and inspiration to all ages. A true class act from top to bottom. Hip,Hip, Hooray! Hip,Hip,Hooray! Hip,Hip, Hooray! Here's to you Jake The Snake. The greatest wrestler in recorded human history.

[@guardianofchaosBD]

Corny!!!!!

[@dkbarbados4540]

I love ya corney but Everytime you wanna shit on bray.. think about the fact that you& your favorite Jerry Lawler booked A mummy.. IDC what y'all say.... No way it's better lol.. don't even get me started on Dr.Frank

[@kevinbudzisch3811]

The incredible anthropology similarly bless because fan singly man with a wretched dogsled. dependent, brawny kick

[@Ryw316]

Seventh.

[@jbellflower83]

Ur pic looks like amuro and char had a child together

[@jbellflower83]

Ur pic looks like amuro and char had a child together.

[@lezliealabaster7425]

Jim please stop eating animals.