Jim Cornette on The Honky Tonk Man

[@Maxx_XIII]

I was never a fan of Honky Tonk Man's Elvis impersonator gimmick, but I loved him on the mic, loved him as a heel AND a face, and he tells great stories. I could listen to him shoot for not hours, but DAYS. Underrated performer, and he seems like a really cool guy in person.

[@toddwebb7521]

I've always liked him just because I was good at using his character on NES wrestlemania

[@juliangallegos7627]

Dang I forgot about that game LOL I'mma go back and downloaded some emulators

[@YoureNotReet]

Fair enough 😂

[@IAEMThatIAEM]

worst game ever

[@ellisdtrails420]

Its the fuckin Honky Tonk Man. He's a legend. Hogan and Goldberg each had 2 moves. Legends. Wrestling is so fun to watch for so many different reasons. Wrestling is fuckin awesome. Period.

[@WildBillCox13]

"A good heel should have a beer belly and pipestem arms . . ." --Honkers.

[@7thson555]

Buggy Whip arms

[@WildBillCox13]

@@7thson555 Thanks for the correction.

[@adamrobinette139]

Honky was a tremendous heater back in the 80's, and I appreciate that he's dedicated his life to the business. And he seems like a cool guy. But he blames everyone under the sun for not staying on top. It was the fact that fans lost momentum for the gimmick, and he ceased to draw heat. Fans didn't want to see him get beat up, they just wanted him not to be there. I still remember his last Wrestlemania during his big run. He and Valentine came out in a pink caddy (Driven by DDP) with a huge entrance, did his song which I'm sure was supposed to whip fans into some sort of a frenzy of heat, and there was zero reaction to it. No 'heat'. A burning indifference. Like 'Welp, time for a piss' indifference. It was brutal. Then the Bushwackers attacked them, and the transition to that was so awful that the fans didn't respond at all 'Wait...they're not vendors! That's LUKE...and....BUTCH....the BUSHWACKERS!!!'. When you are a heater, you take up that much time in that big of an event, and the fans wish both the faces and heels would get the hell out of the ring and for the segment to be over with, your gimmick has run it's course. Like it's 30 years later, and HTM still hasn't gotten the memo those WM fans sent him that year. He's still blaming Ric Flair, or whatever, in his 10,000th shoot interview.

[@a.j.hellraiser8993]

Honky tonk man is a pile of crap

[@MichaelWilliams-so1pq]

Yep, these guys forget that our attention span isn't long enough to see the same old same old. I like Honky Tonk in general. Wish him well like I do all of these guys that added a lot to my childhood.

To this day, I still sing Honky Tonk Man of Piledriver. Love the dig at Jake The Snake: I pick a mean guitar I wear a blue suede shoes You oughtta hear me sing The Snakeskin Blues

[@ivanwesley8182]

Blonde Bombers were excellent and the concession stand thing was awesome

[@Journey-of-1000-Miles]

I remember him as honky-tonk Wayne in the stampede days. He has always been a huge pain in the ass! LOL he is a terrific he’ll

[@bonlouis8808]

Should’ve won the tag titles with Valentine. Loved Rhythm n Blues

[@jonathanduplantis1403]

Wtf, really????

[@grabbity]

Best name ever for a tag team that formed from two singles IMO.

[@joemama7163]

You should stop doing drugs.

[@DeeEllEff]

I think the main reason that Valentine didn’t like it was the jet black dye-job they forced on him! Crazy looking.

[@sstrykert]

It had fun potential

[@davidderifield3820]

Seen Wayne Ferris at his comedy show last year. Worth the 15-20 bucks I paid.

[@ReginaldForman]

Hes hilarious off stage so i can only imagine when hes on stage

[@timmylong833]

How did you get all of those bucks in the building?

[@davidderifield3820]

@@timmylong833 very carefully

[@timmylong833]

@@davidderifield3820 interesting, kudos to you for that.

[@Ijustinsultedyou]

No you didn’t

[@eddiewilkinson9794]

Remember Austin Idol painting the black stripe then he was Skunk-Rock Wayne Ferris, good run between those two

[@dmurphy1578]

Great heel. Hated him as a kid. Once I was clued in I loved him.

[@thespaceram2879]

Honky Tonk Man quoting Thank you very much! You are a great audience!

[@ao6536]

Same

[@SuperFunkmachine]

The man was a carpenter and a good one, a steady hand.

[@gurtblack3471]

HTM. Love him for his work when he wrestled and also his shoot interviews. modern fans,who didn’t love his cameo in rumble 2001?

[@darylmixan8170]

Honky was so good! I hated him as a kid and now love his old matches... he would always milk it

[@danbernardi6599]

Hey Jim - - loved the Honky Tonk Man !!

[@StarOasis26]

I love honky tonk. He's the greatest intercontinental champion!

[@OliverGuerrero82]

Please say there’s footage of The Kisser 😂

[@reclusiveperson9409]

HTM man was great on the mic and drawing heat. His in ring work was awful. Then again, most people in the WWF weren’t solid wrestlers back then. WWF wasn’t about in ring quality in the 1980’s.

[@jasonchandler2463]

Damn are you dilusional the in ring quality was it's all time best in the 80s.

[@jasonchandler2463]

@DICK LONG the in ring work of the 80s as well as the angles were at it's all time best the wrestlers even said that,you obviously don't know what your talking about,you don't understand in ring work and the art of it.

[@jasonchandler2463]

@DICK LONG that's not true Bret was one of the best so was dr.d so we're the killer bees mr.perfect so was Paul roma and Jim powers,what you don't seem to understand is that alot of those characters weren't supposed to be great grapplers like Bundy, piper,and various others their characters weren't supposed to be great grapplers but the in ring work was at it's very best you don't understand the art of it all u have to do is watch it and you'll see it unless you can't recognize talent.

[@jpowers55]

@@jasonchandler2463 Really? In the 80s you had Hogan, Warrior and a bunch of big guys and muscle guys who could not wrestle. The ring work was at it's best in the early and mid 2000s when guys like Benoit, Angle, Eddie and Edge were around.

[@Thor-Orion]

@@jpowers55 the 80’s WWF DID have in ring workers who could go, but they were kept in the undercard basically until the Steroid scandal.

[@christopherstark7204]

Thanks for mentioning Tupelo Corny. He is also related to Jimmy Hart

[@osaji922]

I don't know who this is but he looks cool, cocky and bad.

[@CarnalKid]

Really? Looks like a goofy hick to me.

[@TheHibbitydibbity]

@Dorre Notyalc it's hard to tell on the Internet sometimes, but you're joking, right?

[@Chase_H]

@@TheHibbitydibbity Well who the hell is it then?!

[@antoni.guzman]

He’s the greatest intercontinental champ of all times

[@DeeEllEff]

Antoni Guzman To hear him tell it, anyway.

[@piercetapes]

Blonde Bombers were a great tag team

[@rtenny7]

I need to Google and some of the previous Ferris gimmicks,Cornette mentioned......I'm surprised Cornette didn't mention Ferris was part of the Midnight Express at one point..

[@SaleGuy]

HTM needs to make a comeback! He is still in his prime!

[@Makron5]

What? How? He can't wrestle anymore. Who would he manage.

[@brianstone3722]

His prime? Hahahahaha just stop

[@cmm98]

Uh no I don't think he's exactly in shape and the age

[@ReginaldForman]

Come on folks you really didnt get the joke?

[@BadLuckLuke]

Before a rockabilly he was a punk???

[@pusanghalaw]

only saw him in wwf: hated him then, miss him now. then i saw the concession stand brawl - he's now in my top 5.

[@pusanghalaw]

hate to admit it but yes.

[@wilhelmheinrich7502]

I used to have a Honky Tonk Man parody song. “I’m the Honky Tonk Man, I’m big in Japan!?”

[@timlenord1]

Way way way better at shooting than he was at Wrestling

[@petermcfookens]

Honky and Jim would be great on a podcast together

[@toma.4808]

Greatest IC champion of all time.

[@PoorMansInvesting]

Refused to drop to Mach, got PAID to drop to Warrior. Goes to WCW and gets fired for demanding more to drop the TV title. After Hogan, he's most ridiculous person in wrestling.

[@yakamarezlife]

​@@PoorMansInvestingyup only reason he is relevant at all is he's Jerry's cousin

[@DarkScorpionPete98]

Yep.

[@Ken9284]

The Kisser!

[@thejuggernaut5327]

When I was 17, I wanted to see, Jake, Steamboat, Savage, or anyone really, just straight up murder Honky. That’s heat!

[@johnbrink5690]

Never forget Warrior won I C belt open challenge. When his music hit people went crazy the hole 12 seconds. Lol

[@allamericananti-christ666]

Holy shit, does Corny have a book out? The rest of em do. If not, he should. But only if he writes it himself. Thats the only way I'd be interested in it. No one else would do it justice.

[@chrishebditch654]

No sorry he said Buggywhip Arms on that 3hour and 5 hours shoot!

[@matthewgabbard6415]

Oh I get it, “the kisser” I don’t like it.

[@joshpotts8669]

He was also Danny Condrey

[@sugartbube]

Fcuking HEEL HEAT!! Couldn't stand him. He did his job

[@jasondelvaux3036]

Definitely not likeable. Just not a good wrestler at all. But a good heel, I suppose, but mainly because everybody hated him.

[@matrixrevolution2600]

Never was one of my favorite. Never like the gimmick. Never like the look. Hell... I never saw him in my eyes as a real wrestler.

[@jaquesteddyruxpin932]

Wasn't a great technical wrestler? Is there another Honky Tonk Man that I don't know about?

[@GoHerd2001]

"The Greatest Intercontinental Champion of All Time!"

[@kingsports1113]

Bloodboomer Memphis before wwe lol

[@Utubesanarc]

"if your cousin made you come out with your..." Nope💋

[@Panwere36]

Of course HTM (Wayne Feris) does as little as possible.. As much as I like him, he is one of the most overrated singles wrestlers of all time. I will say if he does have heat with Lawler, he has a right.

[@randylewis7116]

Elvis had a 727 honky Tonk man has a 747

[@fatalsniper3413]

What does this even mean?

[@henrylicious]

@@fatalsniper3413 airplanes

[@PaulieD1984]

Never liked the Wanky Tank Man he had that Jeff Jarrett appeal to me

[@RedfishCarolina]

You know I'd have to agree with you here.

[@plainbrownwrapper]

Honky inspired Orange Cassidy lol

[@ZBR_ProXP]

Uhhhhh why

[@chrischar1969]

HE SUCKED THE MOST

[@mikevicchiarelli2369]

Jim fantasizes about the time of the territories when a couple eye raked and chops and a throw outside the ring sold 10 minutes. “Yeah, no”

[@christhornycroft3686]

Another stupid cartoon character in the WWF. I'm sure he was a good technical wrestler, but he never got to show it.

[@LarryStranger]

Everything about honky tonk sucked. From the gimmick to the actual person behind the gimmick, it was all terrible. While I don't trust Eric Bischoff's stories, I get a kick out of him talking about finally firing him.

[@DarkScorpionPete98]

🤡

[@joebrown8503]

I wanna see Kirk Cameron debate Jim Cornette he'd absolutely destroy Cornette

[@grabbity]

Lmao

[@RedfishCarolina]

Listen, I'm about as conservative as they come, have been a Bible believing Christian for the past 20 years. But Kirk Cameron (whom I respect as a brother in Christ) wouldn't stand a popsicle's chance in Michael Moore's hand against Cornette. Cornette made a solid career out of fast talking, ad-lib promo cutting.

[@ferox965]

Corny would eviscerate him verbally.

[@waylonmercy8405]

@@RedfishCarolina religion is a sham. The worst people ive learned of or encountered all hid behind the church lol

[@RedfishCarolina]

@@waylonmercy8405 Your opinion has been duly noted and categorized as the repetitive, unoriginal cliché that it is.