Jim Cornette on Dixie Carter & TNA

[@danielburger1775]

Kurt Angle has said that when he was TNA World Heavyweight Champion, he was walking through an airport, with the belt in his bag, and some wrestling fans recognized him. They asked him when he was coming back to wrestling. Because TNA was never promoted or advertized in any proper way.

[@richardsmith9615]

LOL

[@alexandru5369]

Haha yeah RVD mentioned a similar situation.

[@dkupke]

They should have changed their name to Impact Wrestling as soon as they got that studio deal with Universal and started begging them to mention the impact zone in the ads for the park

[@donkiddick966]

I heard a few stories about TNA's lack of promoting that people had no idea TNA were running a show were they lived until after the show had finished. Someone said they seen a TNA truck driving in their hometown, and thought they were passing through to the next city even though they ran an event in that town 😂

[@karlsylvain]

probably a casual fan. i am in montreal canada and i knew about tna. especially during the early Jarett years

[@chewydewok]

Dixie Carter is a perfect example of listening to the wrong people and running the company into the ground.

[@ahmeddemha6112]

Don’t think it was the “wrong” people that talked her out of selling the company in 2005.

[@matthewmagda4971]

Tony Khan take note.

[@EirinYagokoro]

Sounds like AEW in 2022

[@zemm9003]

She is an idiot and a dishonest person.

[@jamesteegardner2273]

Nah, the "perfect" example was that Bud Light VP. She did in seconds what took Dixie years.

[@rl318]

Paul Heyman would have lived rent-free in one of Dixie's properties and had access to her credit cards.

[@christianraines3032]

😂😂

[@johnselwitz5362]

I would have been all for that! Say what you want about Heyman, but if it was him as head booker instead of Russo, he would have put together some awesome shows with the roster TNA had at the time.

[@curtiswilliams5223]

Stil owes whatever ECW alumni is alive today

[@ReactwithRespect-i5i]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@thekingofkingsrp]

That would have been interesting.

[@connor7177]

The main problem with TNA was when Dixie lied to the executives at Spike TV about Russo's involvement in the company.

[@obredaanps3]

Man I miss those early days of TNA. They were chaotic and awful at times but Angle's debut and showdown with Samoa Joe is still one of my favorite moments in Wrestling. They actually made me believe Joe/Angle were going to kill each other in the ring.

[@dovahduke4566]

Lol that headbutt made me believe it

[@christopheriverson7103]

And they would have if they had been left to their own devices....

[@Facade953]

TNA was the best from 2005-2009. Christian Cage and Kurt Angle put them on the map!

[@MBM1117727]

Nah from 2004 to 2006

[@MrBassOutdoors]

Uhhhh sting?

[@alexcole4838]

@@MrBassOutdoors Sting wasn’t a big deal. He’d been in TNA for years by the time Angle came along and other than his signing maybe allowing Jeff to sell some business people on the company he wasn’t making a difference. He was slowing down after not being the most impressive worker to begin with and his physique had deteriorated. Even when Sting finally got in shape for his match against Jarrett at Bound for Glory he ended up wrestling in a T-shirt again within 6 months. The AEW fans on Reddit might worship the guy but the truth is the only times Sting drew money were when he was wrestling a prime Ric Flair and when he first started doing the crow gimmick and hadn’t actually wrestled a match with it yet. By the mid-2000’s he was an out of shape old man in a company filled with far more interesting talents and who wouldn’t even turn heel when he was being added to an all-heel veteran group.

[@MBM1117727]

@@alexcole4838 Actually Sting had only been in TNA for about 9 months when Angle arrived, discounting 2 matches in 2003.

[@constablekennedy7705]

Exactly Bro but they Squandered it very Rapidly ……

[@ryanregan00]

To add to Dixie’s complete failure of running TNA: Spike TV told her explicitly they did not want Vince Russo anywhere near tv. Dixie reassured them that Russo is not writing nor involved with the company. Well that wasn’t entirely true. See Dixie kept Russo on the payroll, kept him running tv, and lied to Spike TV about his status with the company. Well heads rolled when Spike found out she lied and they also refused to renew their tv deal with TNA. So if you were wondering why TNA was no longer on Spike, that is why.

[@dkupke]

Spike even offered to help TNA find a new home network and she refused. They ended up buried in the most obscure channels in all of cable for it.

[@ryanregan00]

@@dkupke wasnt that Destination America?! How the not-so-mighty have fallen. Dixie is too stupid for her own good. She could have sold to multiple entities but she was too stupid to see the writing on the wall.

[@johnselwitz5362]

@@dkupkeDixie was either sleeping with Russo or she truly is one of the stupidest idiots in professional wrestling to jeopardize the entire company as well as the jobs of everyone who worked at TNA by continuing to secretly employ one of the biggest cancers to ever exist in the business. Maybe it’s a little of both. I have no other explanation for why she would continue to employ a man who helped speed up the demise of a billionaire’s wrestling company, with his only positive contributions being that two year run in the WWF to usher in the Attitude Era, and I don’t even give him a lot of credit for that. As Corny has said, it was McMahon filtering out the 2 good ideas from the 98 bad ones Russo would spew out, and having the two biggest stars ever in Steve Austin and The Rock go out on camera and execute those ideas to perfection.

[@R.A.M.10]

Dixie screwed Dixie....and everybody else. Literally.

[@Pogo113]

The TNA roster they had anywhere between 2004-2009, Paul Heyman would conquer the world with that roster and her money.

[@4zafinc]

Heyman said that the amount they lost at the time when ECW went down, TNA used to lose it pretty much every month

[@treebudz]

Paul Heyman would have made TNA a legit threat with that roster if WWE wasn’t giving him a pile of money in the midst of the ECW reboot. ECW creative influence with Carter’s budget would have been legendary.

[@andymatzner4891]

That Code Academy spot was the highlight! Could not stop laughing!!

[@rjhisle1973]

Yes, that was an awesome spot. I didn't know it was a spot at first because it sounded so insulting.

[@Stoneman180190]

6:40-6:47 Corny’s impression of Vince McMahon was amazing.

[@davsavchav]

Paul Heyman does the best one, the one he did on Talk Is Jericho after Wrestlemania 30.

[@timthegem]

He also nailed the analogy of Putin winning Pretendsident Trump over with a few cheap, flattering comments.

[@TheSYPHERIA]

@@timthegem Are you really that dumb? You're really vapid enough to say that during the Ukraine war that's happening right now because of Biden's absolute failure in Afghanistan?? President Trump is the only President of the 21st Century who deterred Puting from taking land and using military action. BUSH, OBAMA, and BIDEN all were played by Putin and he invaded and took land under ALL OF THEM EXCEPT TRUMP. He really played Trump like a fiddle hu?

[@jasonwahl3512]

Bruce Pritchard does a great Vince impersonation

[@OzzyOscy]

*Of all the impressions to make the generic* _"that impression of X was amazing!"_ *comment on, you chose this one?*

[@CPCGamer]

During the Last Rites match at Destination X, the crowd started chanting Fire Russo. Dixie Carter reportedly said that if she ever heard that chant again, then SOMEONE was going to get fired for it. Not Russo though.

[@obsoleteworlds]

Yeah, I remember this ridiculous threat. I'll fire some random worker out of spite because I don't like what the fans are chanting. Good grief that made no sense.

[@78bcat]

Here's where you have to bust through the wrestling bubble. Russo is a moron...but Dixie knew, like everybody, that Corny and others were leaking to Meltzer, which in turn created the "Fire Russo" And had I been Dixie, I'd have a similar reaction. If the debates/arguments behind closed doors are being leaked to a gossip columnist, which gets back to my customers who are now protesting...I'd be furious. Dixie maybe/maybe not knew that Russo was an asskisser, Maybe/maybe not knew he only was only 1/12 on good ideas, but she certainly saw Corny as the guy who played clumsy politics, trying to create a fan revolt. And that is why Corny lost to Russo...again

[@danielburger1775]

@@obsoleteworlds Or fire the person who actually came up with the bs idea. Imagine if something stupid at your place of work, that you were not responsible for, happens. And then a bunch of incels start chanting for you to be fired. How would you like that?

[@numanamjad95]

Hulk Hogan didn’t kill TNA. Dixie Carter did

[@freedomisslavery6840]

But Russo was writing the product when it was getting 1.5-2 million viewers each week, so I'm not sure what you and Jim are talking about?

[@brandonperkins176]

TNA was something and great at one time, but now, it's a shell of its former self. We had Christian Cage, Team 3D, Jeff Hardy, Sting, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Christopher Daniels, etc. Now the roster has been dried up and sank like a ship.

[@teecakes]

well they had Christian Cage win the Impact title a few months back even though he's with AEW. Now that Joe and Jeff Hardy and Sting are with AEW too, that seems to be trying to pick up where Jeff Jarrett's vision stopped

[@brandonperkins176]

It will be a story of reviving TNA back to greatness and if it happens, AEW definitely will be the one to give it life much like it did with ROH

[@christopheriverson7103]

Bobby roode, James storm, Frankie kazarian, the young bucks, raven, rhyno in his prime, Scott Steiner, Booker t, Kurt angle, bram, Samuel shaw, rvd, motor city machine guns, British invasion, Matt Hardy, ric flair, Matt Morgan.... yes even Matt Morgan....

[@bury_the_elite65294]

@@brandonperkins176 are you f_kin' serious? AEW has done sweet FA with ROH, when they should be using it as their NXT. All Friends Wrestling is only alive because of Shahid Khan's money. Tony Kan't couldn't book diarrhoea in a curry-house toilet. And the EVP's are flat-out useless.

[@vinceraven1501]

Never forget when Jericho was supposedly TNA bound.. They pushed his music video with Fozzy & announced him coming soon, but, he never appeared.. 🤣

[@philbuttler3427]

Travis' drawing of Dixie Carter is one of the funniest he manages to capture her dumbshit karen energy perfectly.

[@williammitchell4417]

The Arteest 😎

[@Will_kid_cortez]

I'm enjoying this tna talk. Need more of it lol

[@markfroman738]

Very refreshing

[@jamirimaj6880]

Here ya go kzbin.info/www/bejne/eYfLYa13qKyLZ5o

[@DoubleCrossRanch]

Only one way to get more, write in some TNA questions brother!

[@drml8224]

If he stops doing the reaction channel to current wrestling he will lose 200K subscription of kids

[@drewspods]

@@drml8224 It makes sense to do current & past content. Theres only so much old stuff you can talk about. Jim has actually already talked a ton about TNA already. A mix of both is best. And I don't think he'd lose anybody. He's funny regardless of what he's talking about... AEW fans aren't really listening to him, its his fans that would be listening to him regardless.

[@MilkmanC]

Omg Travis hit the lazy eye spot on LMFAO

[@corwinbrown2643]

And Dixie is laughing all the way to the bank!

[@MilkmanC]

@@corwinbrown2643 Are you a Dixie fan?

[@corwinbrown2643]

@@MilkmanC Ain't that obvious, just like it's obvious that you aren't.

[@MilkmanC]

@@corwinbrown2643 I didn’t know she had any lol 😂 It was just a joke honestly I don’t care about her like that. Apologies if I offended your AUNT ECiii burner account!!

[@johnjones8888]

Now if only he can get Aubrey's cross eyes down.......

[@williamthomas5215]

I’ll tell you how good that build was for that first Angle-Joe match. Joe literally has been absolute garbage in terms of story, build, and work since that year. Even in WWE he wasn’t good but he was so revered and so awesome at the time that he’s been able to coast off that time period for his whole career. That’s how powerful that build and that run was to him and his career.

[@randyk_18]

Joe's work hasn't been garbage at all, you're delusional.

[@ahmeddemha6112]

The difference between 2007 Joe and the Joe that came up to the main roster in 2015 was age, body wasn’t as banged up and at least the prior to him losing to Angle he was booked as credible threat it’s everything after where TNA fucked Joe to hell.

[@RandalfElVikingo]

The only negative about that build was sticking Jarrett in there.

[@tonyjackson4078]

I'll give Tony Kahn this. He's not nearly as clueless as Dixie. He's got his issues, but Dixie was just doing whatever asskisser told her was good business.

[@Punkinlunk]

I don’t get the TK hate lol. Like people hate him because he books to make his fans happy?

[@Jukeboxster]

​@@Punkinlunk making his loyal fanbase happy is a good thing, but anything can be overdone. If you cater exclusively to one type of fan, then you can't bring in any other type of fan. That's why AEW's growth has slowed down so much after they did so well in the beginning, you can't simultaenously grow the company while appealing to one type of fan.

[@JT7Blu]

They both seem to be the same amount of cluelessness as Tony doesn't seem like he takes criticism well from anybody.

[@GBrimstone]

The only difference I see is.. tony can throw money at his problems and rebound.. dixie couldn't on top of the fact that the wwe kinda gives them talent to really build around

[@Tittymaster]

@@GBrimstone And back in the day, WWE still had a somewhat strong product with big ratings, that newcomers had to compete with.

[@darksideon]

Their downfall was trying to go h2h with the WWE, because before that they were steadily gaining momentum. TNA was more fun to watch than AEW, and sometimes had better storylines than the WWE.

[@rob9241]

Their downfall was not going h2h with WWE, it was building the show around Hogan, Bichoff then later Dixie. The ignored and buried the TNA guys that were lifting TNA to the highest heights TNA was able to reach.

[@kalen2465]

When Tna started doing things like Eric Young with a superman gimmick. Sharkboy had a stone cold Steve Austin knock off gimmick. That horrible Sarah Palin knock off gimmick aka the Governor. Oh and the Hulk Hogan/ main event mafia bullshit. This is what turned me off to TNA.

[@samoanjoseph1457]

More fun than AEW? That's a bit of stretch to me. They had their moments, I admit. These days you almost KNOW who is going to AEW, and it's great to see them on TV again. With TNA I didn't always know who would show up, but even when they did, I don't recall the reaction being so great. Maybe the bad just stands out in my mind. Whenever someone mentions TNA, I immediately think of Tito Ortiz walking out to no reaction, not paying AJ what he was worth, letting Joe walk away, Daniels begging them to make sense, Lance saying they ignored his advice. Which is not fair, but it happened, and when it did, I thought, "These people don't know what they're doing anymore. Or they do and don't care." I'll admit since I stopped watching, there were some improvements. But that's the key, I'd stopped watching, due to lack of interest and their failure to stay on a consistent network. Bad as WWE can get I never had trouble finding them.

[@rob9241]

@@samoanjoseph1457 Angle versus Anderson. AJ Style and Joe. Beer Money. Remember there was an uprising of TNA just before Hogan arrived and crapped on everything.

[@Tittymaster]

@@samoanjoseph1457 The things you mentioned all happened towards the end post-2010 though, you should take a look at what X-Division, Tag Teams and Knockouts were able to put on the table during 2005-2009, not just in regards to standalone talent (which nobody can't deny was great), but also how the bookers (like Scott D'Amore, Jeff Jarrett, and Dusty in 2005) were able to weave a believable, immersive environment of competition, showmanship and storytelling in between them (which e.g. Tony Khan's AEW wasn't able to accomplish to this day, despite having a roster filled with lots of great workers).

[@philliesphan334]

Everything Dutch Mantell was behind aged so well

[@pleaseshutup7053]

He even made Jack swagger interesting

[@ashtrayminer330]

Electrified Steel Cage Match? the Worst Match in 2007 and the second most tragic thing to happen to the wrestling world that year.

[@davidburke7777]

He booked the electrified steel cage match. Jim won’t tell you that because it makes his friend of multiple decades look bad

[@philliesphan334]

@@ashtrayminer330 than why did the crowd chant "Fire Russo"? Dutch is responsible for the sports based Joe vs Angle feud, making Christian a main eventer, Gail Kim vs Awesome Kong, etc.

[@ashtrayminer330]

@@philliesphan334 The crowd chanted "Fire Russo" because Russo sucks. The fans don't book the matches. Electrified steel cage sounds so stupid that the crowd assumed that Russo came up with it, and they were already sick of him before the PPV started. It was Dirty Dutch's match, he booked and agented it. He talks about somewhat frequently. You're free to believe that everything he booked was flawless, it not though. Even Dutch doesn't think so.

[@ThaRealWorld]

I just fixed dinner, looking for a good video to sit down with & this gem pops up. I needed this 👍🏼

[@vb69499]

What was for dinner?

[@theevilascotcompany9255]

@@vb69499 Fettuccine Alfredo from Pastamania.

[@Relvamon]

Likewise, cooked and heated up lunch and three new videos popped up here...perfect start to the day

[@ThaRealWorld]

@@vb69499 A pepperoni & ham sandwich, chips, and some of the kids snacks I stole 😂

[@bretth4988]

Yes when nothings on TV, nothing on You Tube there is always a Jim Cornette rant to listen to.

[@alexandru5369]

Angle actually mentioned in an interview that Dixie was way overzealous about TNA competing with WWE i.e. TNA should've accepted the fact they were always going too be 2nd fiddle to WWE

[@kob456]

Every wrestling company's goal should be #1, and to be #1 you will have to compete with the #1 company. She had the right state of mind but with poor execution.

[@GBrimstone]

@@kob456 you don't dive in the deep end before you know how to swim and she couldn't. You don't become a professor without a degree. You don't jump out of a plane without a chute

[@kob456]

@@GBrimstone I don't know if your examples are equivalent to what happened. She hired the right personnel to do the job. She just didn't provide the structure. TNA had all of the superstars to compete. She just didn't spend money consistently like TK to be able to utilize the personnel to get the most out of them. If DIxie was committed and went live every week on the road with the stars they had, who knows how their Monday show could've turned out.

[@kellijones6481]

@@kob456 I’m sorry but Hogan, Bischoff, and Shitstain was not the “right personnel”

[@kob456]

@@kellijones6481 All of them have had prior success on the big stage in one of the most successful prowrestling periods. If you're someone like Dixie that doesn't know much about prowrestling, then looking at the resume of Bischoff, Hogan, and Russo would make them candidates for a job involving prowrestling. I think it could've worked; however, the issue was not them. The issue was Dixie wasn't willing to go al ln with spending money advertising, marketing, going live, and going on the road. You can't have the personnel that IMPACT had and the talent they had and just produce shows from a soundstage. That was the main issue.

[@johnnyd6135]

TNA went downhill for me probably after 2010 but it was still a decent show to watch. I would take that easily over modern pro wrestling nowadays.

[@iamdb1990]

Dixie's fingers all being the same length is freaky lol

[@goodday2760]

@@gsesquire3441 No one cares about workrate. The best artist is by definition the one who draws the most money. There's no such thing as 'good' art. It's all made up.

[@goodday2760]

@@gsesquire3441 Looks like Stalintube detected you trying to evade their dictatorship. I can only see your reply from notifications.

[@OzzyOscy]

*_I'll have you know Dixie is one of the nicest women Kevin Nash has ever come across._*

[@MilMaska]

"Somehow she thought, Russo would be a benefit to her wrestling company" - Jim Cornette

[@kellijones6481]

Nobody will ever be able to convince me that Dixie wasn’t sleeping with Russo or at least SOMETHING was going on behind the scenes that was never made public knowledge. She got TNA kicked off Spike TV and nearly put the entire company out of business because of continuing to secretly employ that complete fucking idiot.

[@xShoTime83x]

And 16 years later, we're back to having Joe's only friend being a lead pipe.

[@TihetrisWeathersby]

TNA was my favorite promotion from 2005-9 and again for 2013 and 2018 - present, It pisses me off how bad they screwed up

[@quentelhill5074]

There great now scott and don and gail turned that company around

[@corwinbrown2643]

You still ain't over it I see.

[@NeroBorgata26]

Impact is starting to turn heads again they’ve been building up their roster since 2020…

[@seananthony7494]

Same I loved TNA during it’s Spike TV days, through it’s ups and downs it was a fun alternative that felt different from WWE.

[@seananthony7494]

@@NeroBorgata26 I thought they were underrated when they had EC3 & Broken Matt Hardy and a great knockouts division.

[@662chillin]

If it is a video involving JC, TNA, Dixie and Russo, I'm gonna watch it These are the rules lol

[@stevenstark6104]

I remember attending a tna event in mobile AL back in 2015. There may have been 200 people there. No prior advertising

[@canedust]

The ad spots are always a highlight, thanks Jim

[@Enterthedarkness23]

So the key takeaway is Vince Russo is a POS snake and Dixie Carter is an airhead owner that both nearly killed off a promotion but enough damage was done to stump the growth/potential that TNA ever had.

[@jessepaiz6356]

This was the program where Russo skipped the slow build of Angle snapping. On Sunday, Angle was a slight heel. On Thursday, he Ankle locking Joe's gf.

[@Courageous91]

Biggest drawing PPV in TNA was after this. Lockdown where, ironically, Kurt and Joe were the main event for the World title. Never had a bigger drawing show like that again

[@dredwine11]

Live gate but not PPV buys.

[@wilcee238]

Thank the lord Dixie never hooked up with Shawn Michaels; their kid would have eyes lazier than Orange Cassidy.

[@corwinbrown2643]

Yeah but they are rich and as they say when you're rich you always look good.

[@DillyDilly13]

@@corwinbrown2643 Lol dude, you can’t unfuck eyes. Unless they take it out and make it glass.

[@corwinbrown2643]

@@DillyDilly13 That don't change a damn thing about what i said.

[@michaelacampora1020]

Kid would look like Crazy Eyes in Mr. Deeds

[@BuckyDStickman]

There are waay too many hideous politicians/solcilites to get away with saying "rich people always look good".

[@roosterfontaine]

I only watched TNA a little bit back in the mid 2000s. Until a few years ago, whenever I'd hear the name Dixie Carter, I'd always think, "the lady from Designing Women??"

[@Snakeman612]

"I bet she probably has a couple of skills, But can't learn em in school" LMMFAO GOD I LOVE CORNY

[@DillyDilly13]

TNA in 2006-2008 was goated shit. I loved flipping between DX vs McMahons and Abyss vs Rhino.

[@TheTalk23]

Well in all fairness to the tna knockouts. They really don't need make up to look hot. Dixie definitely needed make up.

[@silveredgrunion7196]

I met dixie once. I met Jim cornette once. I've met alot of people. I like this. :)

[@PancakeInu]

The art even includes the lazy eye.

[@WSK9002]

I recall Awesome Kong looking at someone sideways in her own words, when someone told her she had to leave because Dixie was coming into the makeup trailer to have her makeup done, lol.

[@Luke.S2099]

Lmao, that thumbnail though 😂

[@mikejones4830]

Its funny how people make fun of IMPACT but praise Paul Heyman and ECW. Heymann act like it was ECW against everyone else, yet bankruptcy proceedings showed VKM was paying Heyman. He didn't pay his employees and then left them and then showed up on WWE TV as a commentator. Tommy Dreamer was so hurt by ECW he was going to show up to a WWE PPV shoot Heyman and then shoot himself. Love her or not Dixie Carter didn't run off and show up on WWE TV nor was getting paid by WWE under the table. AEW hasn't even got the ratings nor organic growth that prime TNA did. And before you say ratings are different now because of streaming, data shows otherwise. Wrestling has been doing a downward spiral ever since WCW closed. 2.2 million wrestling fans left and never returned.

[@TRoller927]

11:24 I'm pretty sure Kurt said that he was going to kill Jeff and he could have. So Dixie probably didn't have a choice there but to send Jeff home for his own safety.

[@dvsmike]

The worse thing she did was taking over and stuffing Jarrett to the side. He was making it profitable and Bob Carter bowed to his daughter.

[@markconner8664]

Raven’s early days were the best TNA had to offer.

[@markconner8664]

@@italianmiltyfriedman6264 Not everyone got the pleasure of seeing Raven’s ECW run in the mid 90s. You missed out. WCW & WWF misfired big time.

[@FIXTREME]

I'm getting real tired of the revisionist history that Dixie Carter and everyone else were some great bosses that weren't at all idiots and/or manipulators who simply got the short end of the stick Edit: This comment is directed towards the My World podcast

[@mikeawesome9212]

BAHAHAHA!! Made Dixie look so cross-eyed. That's almost as funny as the drawings of referee Aubrey.

[@dmalak4509]

I despise Dixie for ruining TNA. It was a solid alternative to WWE.

[@adriancarlos9155]

However, it gave us NWA

[@milfbangaable]

Bubba Ray Dudley destroying her through a table was the best TNA moment ever.

[@kob456]

If it wasn't for Dixie, there would be no TNA for her to "ruin" in the first place. Blame Jarrett for sleeping with his top star's ex wife. The downfall started with him not being able to keep his hands off of another top guy's woman.

[@JT7Blu]

@@kob456 exactly! TNA had it's up and downs, good and bad, for a solid 15 years, but none of that would have ever happen if Dixie (and her parents) didn't invest/buy the company.

[@Tittymaster]

@@JT7Blu Well, Jerry Jarrett was in talks with Russian mobsters who were interested in investing (who wanted to see Oleg Prudius/Vlad Kozlov on TV), after HealthSouth went down. As wacky as that would've been, not having Dixie on board would've improved the whole operation by default, in every department.

[@ashtrayminer330]

Man that Original Angle vs Joe match was amazing. They really should of have Joe win the IWGP in first match, he would've went from Indie Darling to TNA's biggest homegrown talent. Joe's potential was so wasted in TNA he really could have been a proper World Champion especially as a heel.

[@Stoneman180190]

Thanks to Vince Russo

[@alimozet3757]

Dixie Carter we want you back in TNA

[@FrankC71]

The key to a promotions success is to put the belt on a new comer, Samoa Joe at that time, then feed the champ, the way Vince did Hogan same with Flair with Crockett, bring in Angle to lose, then bring in ex WWE stars to lose to the champ

[@kgstc21]

Then he gets over huge and so does the company. It should work that way, but look at Hangman's run. I still love him, but he doesn't feel any bigger now than prior to beating Kenny for the belt

[@FrankC71]

@@kgstc21 I don't watch todays product, it is too damn sad. Corporate Wrestling like Corporate Music never works

[@rob9241]

The key to a promotion’s success is to put a belt on someone worthy that raised the ratings and not overstuff the program with just clueless storylines. TNA focused too much on Jeff J, too much on Hogan and too much on Dixie instead of AJ, Joe and Kurt. And even then not to ignore the other wrestlers.

[@FrankC71]

@@rob9241 Any promotion relying on ex WWE Dancers is Doomed

[@chilliwraslin2510]

10:30 "one of those cute white people names" 😆

[@gonzalogca4907]

I wish Jim Cornette and Velvet Sky would do a podcast together just burying Dixie Carter for hours...

[@pleaseshutup7053]

What’s believer sky beef

[@corwinbrown2643]

What the hell could Cornette say that's new? The fact that you still want to hear say the same crap over and over again says it all about you.

[@kob456]

Velvet Sky?

[@Tittymaster]

@@pleaseshutup7053 Dixie's Wikipedia article cites Velvet as following: "Former TNA wrestler Velvet Sky said that Carter "ruined it for all of us"[48] in 2020 and, in 2021, described her as a "vile person"[49] Sky also stated that Spike TV cancelled Impact Wrestling after they got tired "of Carter's shit".[50]".

[@pleaseshutup7053]

@@Tittymaster sounds like velvet sky was just and then boys would rather sleep and hang out with Dixie over her

[@Transitfan93]

Perfect artwork by Travis Heckel to give her the lazy eye

[@rajakghosh6602]

Dixie still thinks, despite so many people's reservation about Vince Russo and his WCW history that he is good for business.

[@allenglass3461]

And you losers think Jim is good for businesses. He’s in the same boat as Russo. On podcasts and outcast from actual wrestling.

[@wilcee238]

@Allen Glass Cool story lady. Cornette chooses to stay home, podcast, and sell collectibles. Moving on.

[@andrew8168]

@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? I think he was only fired once. That still means he is batting 1000 for being fired bu WWE.

[@Rjensen2]

@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? Russo never had success.

[@Weirzy]

@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? When it comes to wrestling I would 100% trust Corny every time besides all of Russo's ideas in WWF had to be approved by Vince.

[@christopherhinca]

thanks Vince Russo for putting Dixie on TV so the Dudley's can put her through a table

[@connor7177]

Did Russo really tell Bubba/Bully Ray that or you just saying that lol

[@aaronsheldon7315]

I have actually heard jr say that the only reason he didn’t join was because they wouldn’t let him fire some people

[@gregharper6382]

If JR can deal with AEW he could’ve dealt with Dixie lol and TNA

[@CombatTalkRadio]

FYI: The missed opp that was Angle/Joe is nearly the same as the missed opp that was Angle/Taz, fresh off ECW One Night Stand. That feud would have drawn a LOT if done better than it was.

[@richardcoreno]

Billy Corgan was the only honest person of the lot -- the rest were carny bumpkins.

[@nicksoapdish157]

At 7:18, Jim Cornette dropping truth bombs!

[@RobertoTheOriginalManFromTheA]

TNA legacy is a company that had some great talent but because of who running the show or booking it...it went 1 step forward & 2 steps back...Often in a big way..

[@mikesweeney5619]

you know wha's REALLY sad? the fact that her name is "Dixie Carter",and that she could be mistaken for the actress from "Designing Women",who was actually a better person than the owner of TNA........lol :P

[@Matthew-LAMF]

TNA's best years were when shitstain wasn't booking (obviously). When they were on Fox sports and Scott D'amore was head of creative, TNA was doing really well.

[@FecalMatador]

As someone who wasn’t the biggest TNA fan, I felt like the best years were the Spike years with the six sided ring

[@Matthew-LAMF]

@@FecalMatador they were still good up until they ended the six sided ring. Another big blunder imo. They went to shit once Hogan & Bischoff were in charge.

[@rajakghosh6602]

Jim had a lot to say about Dixie Carter and how she mismanaged the TNA business.

[@gullyblanchard5750]

Ya don't say...

[@jpistolas]

@@gullyblanchard5750 Hell, I think I've heard this exact same make up story 3 times.

[@Handle_Needs_3_Or_More_Charact]

@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? They were moderately successful despite Russo, because of the other bookers.

[@gullyblanchard5750]

@Weed And Wrestling you do realize Smoky Mountain was mostly a developmental territory right? That almost as stupid as people from AEW bragging about beating NXT.

[@corwinbrown2643]

@@gullyblanchard5750 And you realize that Smoky Mountain wrestling wasn't always a developmental if they really ever were and TNA was originally a Indy that grew into the number two wrestling company.

[@dkupke]

As a sign of how little TNA knew about advertising and promotion; they went out of their way to land a deal for one of their women to pose for Playboy at a time when it’s numbers had fallen drastically from their 90’s highs, and once they got it she ended up being knocked from the actual publication in favor of Marge Simpson (yes, seriously!) and got an online shoot instead.at the same time amici Foley put in appearances on The Daily Show when it was at the height of its popularity-and they never mentioned it once. I’d have advertised TF out of it and would have begged Jon Stewart to appear in the impact zone.

[@mynameisjeff830]

Should have never removed D'Amore away from the booking for Russo. Good thing D'Amore is now back in control of booking in Impact

[@pmfg11]

Yeah they are doing much better with Amore booking 😂

[@jmthehologram]

@@pmfg11 the damage was already done.

[@Superman5000The]

Jim: "I don't think JR would've had the patience to put her over" -remembers the last 3 years of AEW commentary with JR behind the desk" Yeah, that checks out LMAO

[@78bcat]

This is where Brian HAS to push back. JR was chief bootlicker of Watts and Herd, while competing with Bruce for Vince's ass, and now competes with for real estate on TK's bony ass. This whole discussion should be about the politics of business...and Brian should challenge Corny. He lost to Russo twice. And the Dixie's dumb just doesn't play because he lost with Vince too. The area that would be interesting is we all know next to maybe only Bret, Ric, and JR, Corny was Meltzer's GOAT source...and that Corny not being trustworthy/reliable is a big part of those defeats. Maybe Russo was a dunce...but at least he pissed outside the tent, while Corny pissed in.

[@jmthehologram]

Even the biggest aew hater needs to admit that compared to Dixie, Tony Khan looks like the best wrestling mind of all time

[@kob456]

@@jmthehologram No, he doesn't. TK is spending an insane amount of money signing tons of wrestlers to not use them and buying up promotions with no fanbase left

[@jmthehologram]

@@kob456 I'm going to repeat myself and space it out for slow folk like you who can't read. | Compared. To. Dixie. | He. Looks. Like. A. Wrestling. Genius |. Understood? Or do you want it in French?

[@michaelhuntley9103]

The taking pictures with the fans with the title thing is 100% true. My brother went to Bound for Glory in Irvine in 2009 or 2010 and he sent me a picture of him with Dixie and the title over his shoulder. I couldn’t believe it.

[@corwinbrown2643]

Yeah she loved the fans , so sue her? lol

[@goodday2760]

Wow, that really triggers me. Hopefully she at least had her face mask on and was rationing her toilet paper.

[@connordripps2173]

@@goodday2760 that was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before all this COVID shit happened or was even a thing.

[@goodday2760]

@@connordripps2173 Learn to read between the lines.

[@liquidsnake6879]

@@corwinbrown2643 Sure but why does the belt need to be involved?

[@90tommytee]

TNA really had a chance to give WWE a run for their money, JJ being dismissed was the beginning of the end.

[@nathanielclark529]

Cornette we need you to come by Chillicothe,Oh where Bobby Fulton has been putting on great shows with Big Time Wrestling!!!

[@sr7312]

Where do they run? And how often?

[@SalsBrain]

I'm becoming more and more convinced that Vince Russo is/was on Vinny Macs payroll to go to different feds and destroy them. You can't mess up that many decent/ good things on purpose, can you?

[@corwinbrown2643]

TNA had their highest ratings and most exciting show with Vince Russo booking. How you think that's ruining a show is beyond me?

[@SalsBrain]

@@corwinbrown2643 Didn't he book Samoa Joe being kidnapped by ninjas? Didn't he also murder Scott Steiner in an off-screen segment. Constant heel turns, gimmick matches, naming stuff insanely weird things. Messing up Bash at the Beach storyline with Hogan. Booking himself like the mark he is, bro. It was all evident in the "Fire Russo" chants that were constant. I can name more but I'll see if that's enough for you

[@corwinbrown2643]

@@SalsBrain And the casual fans loved that shit.

[@SGMayuriKurotsuchi]

Poor Brian Last is going to go bald from all the hair he inevitably pulls out every time Jim goes off the rails during the sponsored ads. He can practically hear him typing out the apology to the sponsors as Jim goes deeper and deeper down whatever rabbit hole he's chosen to go down for that particular ad.

[@morpheusmatrix9207]

Cornette ads are gold

[@azapro911]

"I know that many of you are not happy with the decisions I've made lately."

[@marcelmoreau2733]

In a recently updated youshoot,Divie flat out denied ever having thought about or talking to Heyman to bring him to TNA. I think it was shott around 2012 or so. Made excuses for Russo as well.

[@adda6064]

Great birthday gift, thank you Corny.

[@maturanita]

@Adda many happy returns!

[@Briansgate]

I'm thinking everybody will be cross-eyed if Travis has his way.

[@Chimichimichi]

Was Dixie a wrestling fan or did her dad just buy the company and give it to her?

[@leviathan2515]

she was a fan of being idolized

[@Jefso1404]

Both

[@bash8387]

@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? Lol so true

[@Saint3188]

She just wanted tom sleep with all her childhood idols.

[@goodday2760]

@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? Mark Madden recently revealed that Tony Khan invited Ric Flair to his birthday party, but then reversed the invitation and is now blocking him from his birthday party, because of allegations on Dark Side of the Ring. Tony Khan has also banned Hulk Hogan from AEW events for saying the N word.

[@Fernando_Tatis_Jr_propaganda]

Rip Randy from Savage Garage 😔

[@AJ-xv7oh]

TNA was easily the best wrestling company in the world between 2005 - 2009.

[@Rowebot]

That code academy promo was gold

[@Josh_J91]

You can slag off Russo all you want Jim... but kurt Angle said he was the best writer he ever worked with.

[@nickhughes8179]

Was Kurt loaded with Percs when he said that??

[@misterelom]

Jim's Codecademy promos are becoming legendary.😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@AshMundo]

The lazy eye lol

[@BoxChevyCaprice22]

Great artwork. Dixie’s eyes are spot on

[@jibangkurbaishya221]

Everyone Thinks That Samoa Joe And Kurt Angle Were The Face TNA Back Then But Actually AJ Styles Was The Face Of TNA From The Beginning, AJ Was Literally Mr.TNA. AJ Styles Was The John Cena Of TNA...

[@Bang0ut824]

Idk why people always think Joe was the face, besides his first 3yrs he was booked like shit and lost almost all of his feuds

[@madbrowniac7871]

Thank You, Jibangkur! They Booked him beautifully from Day One. The classic TNA Company man ended up rebellious and justifiably resentful to the core. A short while later a lifetime of hard thrilling work paid off for A.J. Styles and he rocked a very appreciative WWE crowd at the 2016 Royal Rumble! Very darn well deserved.🤔🎤🤼‍♂️B.W.

[@johnnygrind77]

I love that Travis gave her the derp eyes HAHA!

[@toma.4808]

I've never worked with Dixie, I don't know her personally, I have met her a couple of times .she's a very nice lady. The thing I noticed about her; she's naive and oblivious. And yes..she loves compliments. Never seen a smile so blinding

[@sandison77]

No advertising was true. My town house show arena had 8000 seat of 10k arena available plus floor seats of the hockey arena. I only knew it was in town because I drove by arena while the tna trucks in lot. $15 seats then was moved up to front since they had maybe 500 people. fans who bought front row seats were upset bc they could of spent $15. not good all around

[@dquanissavage6287]

Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!😎🐐🐐

[@thewheelchairgamer3441]

Maybe Dixie and Russo were doing some hanky panky lol

[@corwinbrown2643]

That is so damn sexist , anytime you idiots don't like a woman she has to be screwing some dude? Grow the hell up! Lord knows Jim Cornette still hasn't grown up, he's living his momma's boy gimmick.

[@BuckyDStickman]

You're giving Russo *waaay* too much credit: Russo married his first fling. 🙄

[@KaNCeRmm4life]

also my research says it did 35000 buys which is consistent for 2006 Tna ppv buys and is double that of years prior, so actually, to stay at your average buys for the year smack in the middle of a 5 week period of ppvs every Sunday, that's pretty damn respectable

[@ShawnMega]

Blaming Russo for the second ppv buy rate is unfair.

[@fjccommish]

Russo talks about WWF days as if Jim were a dinosaur with backwards ideas. Jim's ideas are solid wrestling - those ideas always work. Vince's hot shot crap works for a short time, and then it fizzles. Good talent trained in the territories did well by ignoring Russo's crap writing.

[@davidburke7777]

Strange how Jim’s “solid wrestling” ideas didn’t work out when he owned his own company or booked for anyone else

[@z2ei]

@@davidburke7777 And yet he won Booker of the Year three different times, and OVW produced the talent that would keep the WWF/E going for the next decade plus.

[@davidburke7777]

@@z2ei Getting booker of the year from Meltzer who Jim was feeding info to during that time and selling out school gyms with OVW isn't as great a rebuttal as you think

[@goodday2760]

When you say the line about hotshotting then you're basically outing yourself as being part of a dinosaur bubble. The energy that is conserved by a company doesn't come from the investment put into a story. It comes from momentum with the audience. Sure, WWE continues to have a big audience while constantly holding itself back. But that's because of the passionate fans, and what you're left with is a dissatisfied audience that fills arenas just to boo the top guys. They're there in spite of conservatism, not because of it. Everything in life is a hotshot. Ric Flair was a hotshot. He may have done the same thing over and over, but he did it all over the world in front of people who hadn't seen it before every time. You can't save new ideas on the top shelf when the vast majority of fans aren't paying attention to what's being done right now. If they are, it's bevause you have passionate fans who don't represent the average person.

[@goodday2760]

@@z2ei OVW produced Batista and Lesnar, but it also produced Cena and Orton. One step forwards, and two giant leaps back. Half the reason Batista's popular is because he spent his career next to Boreton - anyone would easily look great in comparison.

[@tokesalotta1521]

Cornette talks like he's so smart, but then he repeats political nonsense like the Putin/Trump stuff. Shows how he's the one who easilt manipulated

[@R.Clark91]

At the time of writing this I haven’t listened to this it but I already know this is gonna be epic to listen to haha

[@jovanss2361]

Prime Angle vs Prime Joe, I gotta get to watching that match, don't believe I've seen it

[@78bcat]

Here's the thing: If I lost a political/philosophical battle to Vince Russo...a goddamn moron...not once, but twice...it would be time for a come to Jesus moment. Corny has all the excuses with Dixie...and Vince....and it all depends on us buying that everybody else is crazy and Corny is the sane one. But both of them listened to Russo and Corny...and picked Russo. That Corny won't change is why his opinions are purely entertainment.

[@goodday2760]

@@gsesquire3441 Reread his post.