Jim Ross shoots on Jim Cornette's heat in Mid South Wrestling

[@tmage23]

I will never tire of people imitating Jim Cornette.

[@SLURM187]

Specifically Jim Ross impersonating him

[@AngelMartinez-fl7vg]

Agree 100%

[@MrRasnowman]

Yeah agreed

[@Jim-Tuner]

Part of why Cornette got such heat was the character. Mid-south was a "man's man" territory generally and the big-mouth little guy talking smack to guys like Bill Watts was something that didn't happen.

[@sullyb23511]

The way Watts always called him "sissy" was telling.

[@pooddescrewch8718]

@@sullyb23511 People used to chant " Faggot " at Corny

[@pooddescrewch8718]

@@sullyb23511 The Cajuns called him a " Catain" pronounced CAH-tanh . Which means Mama's boy , panty waist etc ..

[@G3rnsback]

First wrestling show I ever went to was in the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, WV back in the late 80s. I was 10 years old. I barely remember any of the matches. But I vividly remember standing by the ramp during the Midnight Express's entrance, leaning over the barricade, and slapping Jim on the shoulder as he walked past. He spun around and put a glare on me that could have frozen a forest fire. Then my dad had to explain to my grandma why we couldn't wait around after the show so she could kill him for scaring her grandson. Man, I miss southern wrestling.

[@yardhatch2629]

Think I was at the same show. Was about the same age. Remember Lugar and Flair was the main event. Sting was there and I think road warriors and iron sheik was there too.

[@MrWolfTickets]

😂😂 awesome

[@simonl1135]

That's a cool memory, man! Of course, while Corny has become super vigilant and ready to either flight or fight (and he would go to town on the rednecks with his actually loaded tennis rocked), he would never do more to a kid than giving a scary heely look :D. And I mean, how could he otherwise.

[@jmtx.]

Really hated Cornette. He’s that good.

[@neellabar7160]

JR & cornette are criminally underrated as a commentary team. They weren’t paired together long enough to gain the notoriety they deserved. It was a huge Herd-era mistake not keeping them together ... could’ve been WCW’s Gorilla & Brain.

[@0therun1t21]

They're definitely my favorite combination, they were funny as hell!

[@jesseslack2089]

@@0therun1t21 I would love to have Paul E Ross Lawler and Cornette commentating at the same time.

[@MrAnthimos112]

Well to be fair to Jim Herd (never thought I'd say that) he did want to make Cornette a permanent ringside color man. But he wanted to do that by breaking up the Midnight and retiring Jim as a manager, which everybody on the booking committee at the time thought was insane. Flair was certainly against it and proposed instead that the Midnight join the horsemen, taking Arn and Tullys place after the went to WWF. It almost happened too. If you look I am sure you will find clips of Jim talking about it on youtube.

[@TheRustedShackleford]

Whether you like him or not, I don't know that there is anyone in the wrestling business as entertaining as Cornette.

[@412StepUp]

I think cornette is a shitty human being, but he is entertaining I’ll admit that.

[@mr.mirchenstein6549]

Faces, heels & real nuclear HEAT 🔥🔥...feels like a lost art in today's wrestling product....unless you listen to Jim Cornette's podcast 🤓🎙

[@SonnyBubba]

You can’t get nuclear heat if the fans know it’s an act. And that sums up 70’s and 80’s wrestling and it’s fans.

[@matthillegas3099]

I love Cornette, but JR's impression of him is great.

[@brianobey4368]

The Cornball

[@Kevin-cy4qn]

U HAVE GOT to hear Bruce Pritchard's Corny impression! Gut busting funny though is his Dusty Rhodes!

[@lonnynix9362]

When I was a kid Cornette was my favorite, he was funny as hell. I liked the Express with Condry, but the Fabs were the best team to me, then when Stan Lane joined them that was it, Midnight Express, to me, was the best team in wrestling, to this day. And Cornette was the main reason why because of what he would say.

[@benjaminclark4030]

Stories about Jim Cornette heat are always the most entertaining heat.

[@lokey6515]

JR had Coach Ed’s voice down perfect with his “Geaux Tigers” 🐅 Lol

[@Alanthe918mobilemechanic]

As a retired ranger from Tulsa I miss mid south lol. Back when wraslin was wraslin

[@deadaccount7520]

Well I know of at least one household that despised the man. lol. Honestly my most hated heel...would have been a tie between him and Flair. Just a next level heat magnet. I suspect he is still using that ability. lol. We need a vote to decide who has the best corny impression JR or Bruce.

[@timothywelch2999]

Bruce

[@creoleDJ]

Someone needs to get Vince Russo & all his supporters/fans/marks and put them in a time machine; send them to early 80's era Mid South, Memphis, SE Championship, and World Class territories; put them in the stands and let them experience all these territory episodes. THEN maybe they'll see why Cornette & others feel so passionate about the business

[@toddkurzbard]

My ALL-TIME FAVORITE Corny commentary moment, was when he was doing commentary for a match with a jobber named Tommy Angel. At one point, he breaks in with a line from the Connie Francis song, "Johnny Angel", and sings, "Tommmyyyyyy Annngelll, how I lovvveee hiiimmmmmm...".

[@DaNIGHTz]

Life before the internet. Jim "its still real to me damn it" Cornette was great at getting heat. He was the fat nerd no one was scared of. He talked tough because he had some tough friends. Its easy to get heat in that role. But as a teen, ill admit. Jim made me want to get a tennis racket just to load it up. A bat was to obvious. He was one of the great managers on the mic.

[@michaelallanrubin2376]

It is very real, contrary to popular opinion

[@Millwall77]

@@jamie.777 So tell us how you really feel 🤣

[@PilgrimPiper]

Nothing like attending a Live Mid-South card in 1984 at Lafayette Municipal Auditorium. You had to be there. Great memories. Peace to all of you

[@jasonking4753]

Cornette is my favorite heel manager of all time, I was born in 94 so I missed almost everything. But once I went back and watched everything that once was, I realized he was easily one of the most hated men in the business. His ability to piss off a crowd is unlike anyone else

[@Dermos05]

2 of my favourite people in the business JR and JC. Even better when they are reminiscing about story's involving each other.

[@Dakatari]

Jim Cornette is one of the best at drawing heat from the fans

[@ohlord3650]

Wrestling was surreal back in the day. Compare it to the cartoon show that only a tiny niche audience that prefers the overly produced worked show watches today.

[@SonnyBubba]

JR learned to do commentary with a heel color analyst a couple years before that. 1986, the year MidSouth rebranded itself the UWF, it was JR with Michael “Freebird” Hayes.

[@theophrastusbombastus1359]

5 blocks of ads on a 15 min video. Wow

[@craigcoates5585]

Corney had so much heat and in so many tight spots I'm really surprised he didn't ever get seriously hurt by a crazed fan.

[@mr.mirchenstein6549]

Back in the days where if a wrestler got his ass kicked by a fan or a random person, they were fired!

[@kjdenton6248]

Cornette was awesome u just wanted to ring his neck! Love his knowledge of wrestling! I am from the Evansville area and grew up on Lawler Dundee Jimmy Hart and the first family of wrestling!

[@derekrushe]

GUYS, IT'S 2020, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO NEED TO HAVE DIGITAL POPS THROUGHOUT YOUR VIDEO. IT COMPLETELY TAKES AWAY FROM THE LISTENING ENJOYMENT. IF YOU NEED HELP REMOVING THEM PRIOR TO POSTING, I CAN HELP YOU OR ADVISE YOU ON WHY YOU'RE GETTING THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE.

[@quincee3376]

Pardon my ignorance but what are " digital pops" sorry, i just want to know??

[@derekrushe]

@@quincee3376 You hear it throughout the video. Small sounds that sounds like a pop or a crack

[@metallicbigtoe3949]

I didnt hear that until I read your comment, now I can't fuckin unhear it ! Thanks....🤣

[@strawhataddison]

As a Tulsa native I would like to thank JR for calling us refined... He's wrong... but I still thank him.

[@daveconleyportfolio5192]

This one made me laugh, because I remembered Cornette talking about the two worst towns: Tulsa and Houma, Louisiana. And sure enough, JR went right to Tulsa and Louisiana.

[@dr.roberts4508]

Little Rock, Ark Barton coliseum KARK -T.V Ch.4 Mid South Wrestling. Saturday morning 10 A M.

[@stephenlandry9343]

I grew up in New Orleans have been here almost all my life. Loved the mid south wrestling. Yes it was and still is the dirty deep south!

[@pooddescrewch8718]

The gnarliest places in South Louisiana were Loranger , Houma , Thibodaux and Lake Charles .

[@pooddescrewch8718]

The Gnarliest Bar was The Light House ( aka The Fight House ) in Alexandria

[@alexandersimpson8777]

Cornette was hot, but so was Skandar Akbar and Michael Hayes.

[@markdp1983]

Get Corny back to the locker room in order to allow Bill Watts to beat the shit out of the unruly fan! great stuff.

[@theodorerooseveltsantlers270]

I always love JR's impersonations of Jim Barnett and Jim Cornette.

[@FUGP72]

INTERNATIONAL object, JR. Not foreign.

[@gammasmash1924]

The good old days; when heels were heels and men were men.

[@sullyb23511]

You know what? I think that Kevin Nash said it the best: people think that Cornette is a pussy because of the way that he talks, high pitched and what not, but he'll fight ya'. Might get his ass kicked, but he'll fight ya'.

[@flch95]

Maybe Paul E Dangerously with the 80s cell phone lol.

[@simonl1135]

"Hey look, my momma bought me some wrestlers! Boy am I gonna have fun!" yeah, Corny was great at this (and still is).

[@TPRES_74]

I know that guy that attacked JR screamed like a bitch and jumped around like a kangaroo after his arm broke. I bet he stopped watching Wrestling all together after that. That Cop was playing Whac- a-mole 😂😂.

[@pooddescrewch8718]

I always rank Cornette as a close secons to Bobby Heenan basically because he had less success with singles wrestlers than did Bobby Heenan . To me , he was a member of , not just the manager of , The Midnight Express . In other words The Midnite Express was a trio .

[@luclachance4859]

Bobby Heenan, Jimmy Hart...Eddie Creatchman had so much heat in Quebec that he caused riots! Bur Corny's my favorite!

[@pooddescrewch8718]

Lafayette , here

[@PilgrimPiper]

Lafayette Municipal Auditorium ! Great Memories !

[@setadriftonfishandchips]

Great Corny impression, almost as good as your Terry Funk

[@dpwtruck30]

I believe that was the same night that Bill Watts had Grizzly Smith hold the guy against the wall and then smashed him. Then stood on his head with both of his shoes.

[@steveschmidt4063]

JR was a masker😂😂😂

[@dudeistmonkmatthew9550]

Jeff Jarrett with Cornette as his manager would start riots

[@henrick_the_lover]

Watching Jim on Saturday morning Memphis Wrestling was awesome. He was so hated.

[@chrisxavier3147]

Love these 2

[@UseByDate-Expired]

I remember how they played up Cornette's character as being bought in by his mother. The times they said his mamma's money got him there , and Cornett played it so well. It was great work and the fans in Memphis wanted Cornettet to get hammered as much as whoever he brought in.

[@TheLordcyrus]

Mid south was when i cut my teeth on wrestling as a kid. Man I miss the good old days.

[@johnrayboutang6974]

Man jr does a great cornette imitation

[@drewgamezzz8482]

@5:00 JR’s Corny impression is spot on amd maybe even better than Bruce as far as being close to his voice. I mean don’t get me wrong, Bruce’s is good, but it’s just more over exaggerated lol.

[@MatthewW713]

JRs Cornette is always great!

[@NoTimeAllTime]

How does everyone have the same Cornette impression, how does it only kinda sound like cornette, and how is it always insanely funny?

[@benaskrensintellect332]

conrad sucks. hes the redban of wwe podcasts but wants to be all on screen and in thumbnails adding nothing smh. dude just produce. ur ads b4 and after r as long as some of the clips of the actual attraction thats more than enough of u being in the video as it is.

[@johndingman2350]

Corney was my favorite

[@stephanielaurenbounds4958]

An international object!! Lol!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@justintorkelson3160]

Do people in Ireland ever eat Mexican food it's the best

[@Cajunman1977-k3f]

Saban whooped Ed's ass

[@MrMusicalgenius121]

The way Jim speaks about the police breaking somebody’s arm with such normality makes me realise why America is in the position it’s in lol

[@JosephSAMUELJonesMommyTammTamm]

I'm sure that liberal drivel made sense to u.

[@frankpeavy4538]

A lot more arm breaking would solve cities and neighborhoods being looted and burned

[@f.t.p.offroadforgingthepat2775]

Yeah when he said they turned their backs because they loved his money 💰 and let Bill watts beat the hell out of a guy instead of doing their Jobs and taking him to Jail

[@Jim-Tuner]

You had to understand the other side of what was normal then. They were literally protecting the wrestlers lives. Especially in Lousiana, there was no shortage of knives and razors in those crowds and those crowds believed wrestling was totally real. If you were dumb enough to try to break through the police to assault the wrestlers, the police were not going to hold back. It was no game in those days. When wrestling became middle-class and for the family, the crowds changed and it was alot less dangerous. But there are still places where you can get beat up by the police if you are looking for that. Go to a downmarket strip club and mess with the girls in the club. Go to a "fighting" bar and make trouble. There are always rules and if you break the rules, the police will still f you up.

[@deucefloyd9858]

At the time they were off-duty acting as security guards, not police.

[@bubblesthemonkey6615]

5:07

[@STINCTEAM702]

🎾🎾🎾🎾

[@steveschmidt4063]

JR selling the flu...🤣🤣

[@Yourmomsakingsfan]

Lololol selling the masks...huge hell turn for 2024