Jim Cornette on Don Callis Being Attacked After TripleMania In Tijuana

From Episode 491 of the Jim Cornette Experience
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[@TheManOfTheHourEveryHour]

That wasn't just any fan, that was El Hijo Del Fotographo!!!

[@Am0ment0fB]

This is the most absurd comment I've ever heard. Here have a 🍪. Ha.

[@SpiralPoliFemboy]

My Grandma loved his dad!

[@Am0ment0fB]

​@@SpiralPoliFemboyI heard your grandfather loved El hijo de Fagtazmo. Ha.

[@manuelper]

Here, take a +1

[@JMG_86]

I do believe he does go by the official name of El Hijo Del Rando ...

[@ghostface216]

Countdown to Kenny and Uncle Dave blaming Corny listeners.

[@joegreene7619]

It was El Hijo Del Toxic Cornetto

[@cnb3552]

"Yeah you know... you know he has a big following in the Mesoamerican region. He says these things to be shocking...yeah... you know he does a version of the podcast in Spanish"

[@joshuakessler6818]

Can't forget about Matt.

[@Melo_Soul]

"Toxic Zombies" 🧟‍♂️ 🤣💀

[@QuickManEXE]

Any time i ever see or am involved in any kind of altercation from now on, i'm going to shout "Konnan".

[@planexshifter]

Absurdly hilarious. I love it.

[@positively_broad_st3780]

It's the new "Worldstar!"

[@MooreXplorer]

You're fng hilarious.. I'm taking that😂😂😂

[@TriplomatX]

Shout out to K-Dogg, such great press for the Mexican nWo LAX legend.

[@theandroidsoldier000]

This was funny as shit. KONNAN!

[@scrappy93]

Yeah Yeah Yeah.

[@StormTroopaKoopa]

I hope the crowd gets a "Konnan! Konnan!" chant going for ole Donnie at the next show.

[@FaysalIsGoated]

The way he yelled “Konnan!” kills me😂 5:00 5:18 10:22 11:04 11:13 11:21 12:38 12:46 18:31

[@TriplomatX]

If I had a cellphone, that would be my ringtone for my text messages. lol, with the no's including.

[@PepsiPlunge182]

This is going to be the new Punk shouting "lariaaaat, Kojima!"😅😂

[@exiaR2x78]

Its so funny 😆😆

[@jasonfisher3823]

10:22

[@adamvillinbonneville4839]

I used to have Zandig Jesus has my ring tone but Botchamaina sound board needs to come back

[@bradburke8232]

1 of the 50 people in Mexico who "it's still real to" just happens to be a wrestling photographer. What are the odds...

[@bigbrother1137]

It's still real to me DAMNIT!!

[@NorthernD_C]

Jim nearly killed me while driving with this line 😂😂 “Glenda the good witch would get knifed in Mexico”💀💀💀

[@_justinblizzle]

Bro! I’m brushing my teeth and almost fell over laughing the damn toothbrush damn near stabbed me in the back of throat 😂 fxckin Jim I had to rewind that part once I got my bearings 😭

[@madbrowniac7871]

It is reminiscent of Johnny Carson's oneliner about how "This Audience would lob a hand grenade at Bambi's Mother!"😂🤣😂🎤🦌🤱🎾📺 B.W.

[@0.Kenshin]

@@madbrowniac7871 So classic.

[@huffmanelitetraining]

I enjoyed Don Callis' work in ECW and WWE as Cyrus the Virus and the Jackyll. Then all these years later as a commentator in NJPW and now a manager in AEW. But poor dude has had a rough time lately with the forehead getting busted open and now getting attacked in Mexico. It seems to work perfectly as part of his gimmick and is ironically funny as hell

[@Kas58223]

His work in ECW as Cyrus the Virus the head guy of TNN trying to censor what ECW does was instant heat guy could talk and enjoyed the stuff with Gertner

[@KOHoxton]

I actually had no idea who this guy was until NJPW, was too young to really remember ECW at the time. Even though i watched the shit with my uncles lol.

[@mikewilson858]

Oh shit I had no idea he was Cyrus. Cyrus was great. I haven’t seen to much of Don, I’ve just been watching AEW for a year so Kenny was out of action most of the time I was watching till now.

[@huffmanelitetraining]

@@Kas58223 yep that was classic!!!

[@Jackholiday1025]

Wait Cyrus the virus is the character from con air 😂😂😂

[@InsignificantNick]

"They don't know that some guy's gonna go into business for himself!" KONNAN! 😂

[@daniel79tj]

the photographer does a legit leg sweep and takes Don back. It looked like he was trying to separate the fight more than attack anybody.

[@samowens3]

Exactly because he was supposedly a security guard in real life not working the event. He was invited wasn’t smart to it probably wasn’t a fan of wrestling just their to hang out with his buddy working the event. So he was supposedly just trying to break it up . I give him this the guy knew what he was doing he took down Don and was restraining him with out trying to hurt him . But I could be wrong but I heard that story from 2 different sources of people that was their and saw the clip .

[@BB-ed4om]

What fight? It’s all staged.

[@BB-ed4om]

@@samowens3who in 2023 doesn’t know this? Uncontacted tribes are the only people I can think of who don’t know about this kind of thing.

[@mlaws11291]

@@BB-ed4omfrom what I understand they still believe kayfabe down in Mexico

[@Robby_C]

@@BB-ed4om Bro... you clearly didn't see the clip... the guy legit tried to take down Don and stop him, as if he was just some mark rushing the talent.

[@timothy4664]

I said it on twitter, i am amazed in 2023 that people are still unaware that wrestling is scripted. Yes, its Mexico but Tijuana is by no means some rural villiage.

[@TheNotSure]

Marks gonna mark out.

[@talon12020]

Even if you know it's scripted that doesn't mean you recognize everyone involved in some lame angle at a press conference in Mexico.

[@insupportofjunhado]

Bless them for missing it. Telling everyone who will listen and those actively trying to ignore you that it's all fake and reminding them constantly was probably wrestling's biggest mistake, except for when Pfefer, Mansfield, Sayama and McMahon Jr. were deliberately trying to sabotage other promoters anyway. In most media, breaking the fourth wall is a rarity, in pro wrestling it's every other show. The mark fans who didn't put a lot of thought into how it works or didn't even know it was a work were where the money was. Literary critics don't drive book sales. Film critics aren't the ones filling up the movie theaters. Coaches don't pack the stands at the ball game. But that's what professional wrestling has done to itself, forced insider knowledge on all it could. Hence there are hundreds of money making football teams in just the USA from high school to summer programs to college to professional leagues but there are about five lucrative wrestling promotions on the entire goddam planet!

[@TriplomatX]

another problem is kayfabe is still real in Mexico & there fans who believe in the wrestling & Kenny's well receieved down here, the guy idn't know Don, went into business trying to help Kenny from a "drunken gringo".

[@TheMistaRich]

I recently saw Callis at All In London and was shouting "KONNAN" at him and I wasn't the only one lol 😂

[@getschwifty9531]

Fucking awesome 😂

[@KevinNoonkester-qq4ys]

I was at the Baltimore show as a kid. My dad turned to me and said “that’s not part of the show”. We still talk about it to this day. Will always be a great memory.

[@williamgregory1848]

“Hey Don, who’s your favorite talk show host?” Don: “CONAN!”

[@MichaelSmith-fq6hz]

What’s your favorite Arnold Schwarzenegger role? “Conan!”

[@wilcee238]

Who’s your favorite author? “Conan!”

[@shaggnastic69]

Connan is conehead ! Ahaha

[@MooreXplorer]

Konnan!!! Needs to be a clip in all of itself 😂😂😂

[@manuelper]

What makes the story funnier is that of course Bryan Alvarez misreports the story, ha ha! That's so perfect.

[@nabillahlabat5570]

Can you tell me what he originally said?

[@ZeroShaneBob]

It's what journalism is all about. If you break the story first you get the most views, even if you don't have all the facts of the situation.

[@phoenixmodellingphotography]

Are you trolling? If it happened then tell everyone else what you're on about

[@daveborder7751]

Funniest thing is the security had no idea who Callis was.

[@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth]

@@nabillahlabat5570 No, he hasn't made up a story to back up his so called "facts" yet, so he can't tell you.

[@kylek9684]

no lmao whenever something goes wrong in life I'm just gonna yell "Konan"

[@brookswilliams5239]

😂😂😂😂

[@J12_99]

“Konnan!” When cornette is narrating in the beginning that shit had me in tears 😂😂 Edit: I just rewatched it and after the first konnan, you can hear konnan say “welcome to TJ” 💀

[@TriplomatX]

That's my though, typing this in TJ, after hearing the attack happened at the arena I watched my first baseball game where the cameras in between innings would shoot wild & loca chicas to get the fans rowdy & keep them in the game, I can't help but laugh my ass off & feel the same as Konnan, "That's TJ".

[@ozziegreene8108]

When I heard Konnan by Callis, I lost it.

[@ryandavis4448]

I'd absolutely work this if I'm AEW...have Callus come out on stage in a neckbrace and wheelchair, 😂

[@djrancho2232]

He must've heard Don Phallus theme song and then became enraged

[@chroniclesofnigeria1358]

I was gonna comment about Callis music being torture until Cornys dancing bear reference 😂

[@botindeldiablo]

Nobody talks how Callis pushed the photographer just before he gets grab from behind? Either the guy got hot or didnt knew Callis was in the whole event.

[@aceloco817]

Both. 😂

[@TheStunscsa]

If Chris and Don start a new heel group, Don can change his name to Derek, and Chris can change his name to Conan.

[@SomiariTobin]

The best parts of that video is Konan yelling at the reporter and Kenny poorly selling the attack

[@ogmundprime6534]

This dude really just called Triplemania a "Dog and Pony show"? If that's the case then SMW was a traveling flea circus. 😂

[@mikekling7144]

Old school heat still exists

[@WyattHolliday]

I thought Don was great in Impact, but the events surrounding him lately have been hilarious.

[@jasonjimerson7046]

The story that I heard was that this "photographer" was really a disgruntled ex-security guard who was going into business for himself.

[@sullyb23511]

Can't wait until I hear Konnan's side of this. Then again, if a lawsuit is on the way, then he's gonna keep his mouth shut

[@toddtaylor6506]

It's such a weird situation. Why were they having a press conference circled up in the middle of a field?

[@CollegeBallYouknow]

Mexico

[@daveborder7751]

Where else would an outlaw mudshow have a presser?

[@matthewrock4725]

​@@daveborder7751can't really call triplemania an outlaw mud show bro lol.

[@augustushaynes1311]

@@matthewrock4725right? I watched the show and there were some solid matches too IMO. Furthermore, although I can’t stand Twinkletoes, I was impressed by Vikingo.

[@natebaxter9551]

Were they in location at the stadium?

[@superintelligentapefromthe121]

As someone who grew up in San Diego, TJ is sure as hell in Mexico, Jim.

[@ec5018]

i just cant when jim calls takeshita take a shit lol

[@Fuzzie_Dunlop968]

Don Callis looks like Earthworm Jim in a suit.

[@wh2577]

If we apply Bill Watts rules, Callis should be fired for losing a fight to a civilian

[@jacemacfie1475]

He’s a manager not a wrestler

[@reubenelite]

​@@jacemacfie1475exactly

[@vicvinegar2405]

I knew as soon as Tijuana left Corny’s lips he would reference the donkey 🤣

[@getschwifty9531]

😂

[@legendbucwild]

Jim's still the best heel in the business...... before this, I never thought I'd be laughing hysterically over a wrestling personality getting real-life attacked.

[@fhb3]

"Don Phallus"... Corny has NO chill, even when somebody else in the business gets attacked. None especially where Don Phallus is concerned. And we love Jim Cornette for it.

[@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth]

But say one word out of line about cm junk and God help you, right?

[@mudshowmark2143]

The only person who is wrong 75% of the time but still fun to listen to.

[@natebaxter9551]

​@@mudshowmark21431. He's not wrong. 2. He's been attacked plenty of times. It was a part of the business.

[@maxxdahl6062]

@@mudshowmark2143 AKA: "Doesn't agree with me 75% of the time, even though I spent zero minutes in the business."

[@ZeusTheTornado]

​@@maxxdahl6062Ad verecundiam

[@anonamatron]

Poor Don Phallus

[@kyle87436]

He did it for Rikishi, he did it for the Rock.

[@veegob5287]

I bet money, the guy had no idea who Callis was. 😂

[@TriplomatX]

When you don't look like a star enough to get a photographer on someone working a wrestling angle. That's so sad that Callis was taken out by some outsider. But Kudos for Kenny because the guy must have known him enough to think he's getting beaten up by some "drunken gringo" to help "The Cleaner".

[@chroniclesofnigeria1358]

I wish Travis included a Lil Harry Potter lightning bolt scar where Don's cut up

[@willjohnboy]

Did anyone hear about booker t accepting a corney vs russo style challenge from ryback 😂

[@wilcee238]

WHAT?! Can’t wait!

[@willjohnboy]

​@@wilcee238tried 3 times to direct you to the video just search for it

[@darkstars-torpedoes-of-truth]

Booker T withdrew the invitation.

[@imfreviews]

K100 is going to be SO funny this week.

[@TheManOfTheHourEveryHour]

It'll just be Disco Kermitting all over Konnan's mic time even tho he doesn't watch Triple A 😭😭😭

[@manuelper]

@@TheManOfTheHourEveryHour DI is going to be conflicted because him and Don have been 'feuding' for years.

[@john_blues]

Only if Disco shuts up.

[@natebaxter9551]

​@@aewisalreadydead88that would be fantastic. If AEW were smart, they'd work this into an angle, but I don't trust anyone there to actually make it entertaining..

[@artvandelayRFC]

The wrestling world is unique 😂😂😂 KONNAN!!! KONNAN!!!

[@williammitchell4417]

It's funny that Dutch just talked about this in Puerto Rico. We as the Cult know about Corny's stories of Memphis or mid South. But yeah this is Bizarroworld stuff

[@drpiv]

Kenny should have used his dextrucity

[@reubenelite]

*angry ultimate warrior noises*

[@chroniclesofnigeria1358]

Of course, Jim would have knowledge of the Dancing Bear, probably trying to get Stacy invited. 😂😂😂😂

[@alexs7670]

Man thats a blast from the past. Definitely the innovators of cfnm outside of japan.

[@ValREcO]

….kOnNAN! 😂😂😂 the way he yelled it.

[@TheManInTheLongBlackCoat]

The photographer tried to get himself over at the expense of the boys.

[@jonpike9502]

That scar on Don's forehead looks absolutely fucking ridiculously hilarious 😂

[@wilcee238]

Calling most of the wrestlers at AEW “talent” is like calling most of the menu at Taco Bell “food”.

[@redred1952]

Like calling this comment original

[@deathproofpony]

Cry more.

[@wilcee238]

@deathproofpony Cry less

[@wilcee238]

@redred1952 More like calling you intelligent.

[@redred1952]

@@wilcee238 Hey I'm not the one that came up with this copy/paste bull shit you take that award buddy

[@richardcoreno]

Book It: Don Callis and Konnan v Fan I and Psicosis II.

[@DudeinGA]

Why do I feel like almost everything with Don Callis is made up or bullshit (especially with his story about Kenny Omega's uncle being some wrestler named The Golden Sheik)?

[@DudeinGA]

@@nero48 Either that or the DLC version of the original Sheik. The person exists but I can't tell of any records of him from wrestling sites online having actually wrestled.

[@scrappy93]

"No no no" "Yeah, yeah, yeah" lol

[@andrefromelpasotexas3236]

Don was callin for Konnan like as if he was the help 😂

[@tobygreen4257]

You guys don’t often use samples and drops but you need to use the “Konnan”

[@Will_kid_cortez]

That audio is hilarious lol reminds me of something you would see in oz

[@megsley]

it was real funny seeing people on Facebook internet scolding the guy for daring to put his hands on a wrestling talent 😂

[@scrappy93]

I'm laughing that this mark still thinks it's real.

[@scattonm]

Cornette commentating on the wrestling business is the gift that keeps on giving

[@vnsenvy]

Wrestling Observer gave the photographer v. Callis 3 3/4 stars

[@SuperPeterok]

I wish Jim had seen triplemania it was hilarious. That Jack Cartwheel, Mr. Iguana, Las Toxicas and Niño Hamburgesa were just something else

[@kurtisbased183]

don callis is a goofy

[@tmoss89]

Big time

[@yusufgazi7]

Don Phallus

[@bearface86]

Omg the donkey !!!!!!!

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

Corny is getting manhandled by the donkey 🤣

[@Ryan01224]

it was a security guard who thought don was just a random guy attacking kenny

[@sullyb23511]

Fuck, the thumbnail! God dang, Travis is a genius!!!

[@Anand-xs9ii]

I heard the guy was probably a security as well & didn't know what was happening & thought a real fight was going on 😅

[@LCFC81]

Looking forward to the updated Botchamania intro.

[@mudshowmark2143]

Don is a great manager, best by far in AEW and only second to Heyman right now in the world.

[@walterclark3198]

They must of saw how Don callis segments with Chris Jericho on dynamite and became enraged and rabid.

[@26.2MilesOutsidePartsUnknown]

That's the problem with people in Mexico they think all this stuff is real its embarrassing 🤦‍♂️, I being Mexican myself can't stand this.

[@MichaelSmith-fq6hz]

I just have one thing to add: Konnan!

[@McGomezAddams]

KONNAN!!!

[@twinkletoes5704]

Konnan! 😂 still one of the greatest reviews from Jim and Brian 😂😂

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

I swore it was a work. It wasn't like they were amongst the fans. It looked like no fans were around. Im very suspicious of it.

[@brandonfields613]

9:50 what I have to tell myself every day at work

[@vnsenvy]

Squaring off in tonight's triple threat Who Can Call Konan Better match: Charles Nelson Reilly, Jerry Lewis, and Don Callis.

[@JUnitGaming]

New Fact- TJ photographer's are tougher than any aew manager

[@JDotWill]

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy

[@achook9474]

Don Callis is the greatest Heel in wrestling today.

[@rollingthunder8223]

He only heel

[@frank-bmtz]

So this was the origin of “CONAN!”

[@justinbush4482]

This thumbnail 😂😂😂

[@Cam-zv1jq]

I don't even need to listen to know he's gonna be racist about mexico an how unruly they are "DOWN THEIR"!!Or how they dont have rules!!All the Mexican wrestlers know an feelthis way!!

[@jdspreest]

Hey! Thanks for the shoutout to my hometown, Corny! San Juan Capistrano! By the way, San Juan Capistrano is in South Orange County lol

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

How does Corny know about the Donkey? 🤔🤣

[@thebarrebaby3818]

Lucky that guy didn’t have a knife

[@mudshowmark2143]

Triplemania was great fun until they made it three different shows at different parts of year.

[@jasongarner3109]

AGGGHHHHHH WHERE IS THE BIG HUGE CUT SCAR/URETHRA ON PHALLUS's FOREHEAD?? What a missed opportunity.

[@insupportofjunhado]

They found a guy who wasn't smart and didn't use it! That's almost as big a missed opportunity as AEW itself.

[@itscarlyj]

Someone give Don, Stephen P New's phone number. I think Don's got a good chance to make $50 off this.

[@HAL1138]

Am I the only one who has no clue what the hell “TripleMania” is?

[@ivancamacho9581]

TripleMania is AAA's WrestleMania. They used to make 1 per year but even before WWE doing two nights, AAA does 3 one night shows in 3 different cities: Monterrey, Tijuana, and Ciudad de Mexico

[@aaron.6923]

Yes

[@RichardRietdijk]

The US has wrestlemania, Japan has Wrestle Kingdom, Mexico has Triplemania.

[@WrexFX]

I keep coming back to watch this clip and hear "Konnan!!"

[@pablowoods9886]

no no no no! KONNAN!

[@time4sumaksion203]

He yelled konnan like ric flair yelled hogan back in the day 🤣

[@Am0ment0fB]

I think the photographer yelled "69 me Don!” Ha.

[@royalty843]

It was weird all around...never heard of a concussed ear drum

[@BJORNArtist]

"there are no donkies working for AAA" There were however a few horse's asses. Swim walk.

[@samowens3]

That not what I heard . It wasn’t a photograph it was friend of the security that wasn’t smarten up . The guy was supposedly a security guard too but not for that event . He didn’t know according to reports about wrestling a work so he took Don down and if you watch people are telling him to let Don go basically that it was supposed to happen. But the guy supposedly wasn’t a photographer or wrestling fan at all so he didn’t know . He just thought as security guard as I stated not working for the event that he was breaking up a real attack. I could be wrong but that the way it was reported on by the media that was their . Again I could be wrong but I watched the clip and that was the way it was explained. Although he did have a camera it wasn’t because he was a reporter he was just a friend of one event’s security that was invited their .

[@johnnytakisawa]

The hell is he taken pictures for!?

[@Cowboybebop2009]

I'm surprised we didn't hear "No mames Wey!" on this sound byte 😅