Jim Cornette on His Mid South Feud With Bill Watts

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[@charlessedor5901]

I remember watching MidSouth when I was younger (late teens) . Man , I wish wrestling was still like that .

[@frankbonini9128]

There Are Some Independent & International Promotions That Adhere to Mid South/Territory Style Wrestling Here & There

[@brainrunnethout]

"This is either gonna draw or get us all killed."

[@711scotttrain]

10 year old me worshiped mid south wrestling. I despised Jim Cornette (& his mother).. Now I love listening to him & remembering. The shows at the Dome & Municipal Auditorium were lit

[@ddallen6268]

Same here.

[@keithmoran5695]

Some great memories in New Orleans.

[@glorifiedng]

You too??? I really wished I had all my photos from the TV tapings and live shows.... back then, it was much more "realer" than the blatantly fake WWF. I don't know why, but was prob because it was not "over produced." A lot of these guys stopped in through Coushatta to grab a coke or snack at our convenience stores!

[@garrettreed6166]

I used to live for my Saturdays watching Mid South and going to the Municipal Auditorium on Monday nights. And then the Superdome Extravaganzas were lit!! Great memories 😁

[@UncensoredMMA]

Lit ? You're like 40 bro

[@stephenlandry9343]

Cornettes mid south days were pure gold. Best wrestling ever!

[@connordripps2173]

Brian: what were your favorite memories of the feud with Bill Watts? Jim: Ha, the checks. Lol best answer I've heard 😂

[@frankbonini7085]

" ... Were F'N' Enormous!"

[@patlyn1530]

Hated jimmy in the 80s love him now! The man loves wrestling cant argue that

[@slabbusterrtr7690]

Yeah I love to hate him back then so he did his job well 🤣

[@ThomasBahamas]

How I remember Bill Watts: - Mid South - When Dusty Rhodes said in a shoot "When Bill Watts came through the room brother, he came through in the shining LIGHT!"

[@baldwin930]

Actually he was referring to the junk yard dog when the dog first went to work for the cowboy

[@alpollard4784]

I totally remember the spot Cornette is talking about with the Dog throwing them into Watts. Saw them at Barton Coliseum and the crowd went nuts with every single punch by Watts.

[@TonyHookedonVanlife]

Grew up in OKC watching Mid-South. 🙏❤👍

[@jarrelldaniel4199]

Jim and Bill brought realism to it when I watched it as a kid. I always wanted to see what happened with Cornett.

[@jb0609]

Mid South was fucking awesome.

[@georgecooper9075]

Whether I booed a cheered cornet he was always put on a good show Maggie feel like he was getting your

[@thomasjones3508]

Wow! the memories. I watched all of this as kid growing up in Oklahoma. The R-n-R express were rock stars around here during that time.

[@danieljarrelljr5640]

Jim Cornette is worth 100 times his weight in platinum. Thanks for great memories.

[@michaelvolgare4454]

This is how to shoot a angle!!!

[@cecilharmon1832]

That was completely awesome

[@tonyd7601]

Mr Cornett called the angle wrestling 101. I would say it was wrestling post grad. The angle is similar to Memphis but I never remember Jerrett or Eddie Marlon take a beating by a heel tag team. This was major heat. Dundee booked it and Mr Watts and the Midnight with Super Mouth Jim Cornett

[@michaelobrien9689]

Back in the territory days, nothing could beat Mid South.

[@jefferyrandall8030]

CWF was it back then. Dusty Rhodes was THEE MAN!

[@davidlangley1844]

Bill Watts will always be a hero to me

[@philipferrante3717]

& that is how Crockett got the idea to have Cornette to comentate with Jim Ross on some shows

[@generalzod2841]

WWE needs Jim back to help revive their shit shows.

[@MiningForPies]

Solomon Kelsie McQueen they’d have to dig the Warrior up.

[@joshuawaldorf9559]

He burned a lot of bridges.

[@packrat2473655]

Great fkn times. I’ve lived in Tulsa since Leroy mcguirk days … this cake party was beyond killer. I’ve always liked the heels … corny and the express were freakin awesome. We’d cheer for them and people would look sooooooo ugly at us ….hehe Killer just killer memories.

[@johntelmoore4791]

I'm sorry that people of today can't see wrestling in the old glory days of mid south wrestling with Bill Watts and Jim Coronet that was wrestling today's wrestling is not good at all we need Jim Coronet to be involved to bring back promos to make people believe it was real that's wrestling

[@Charles-u3t]

For anyone that really wants to get into Pro Wrestling Jim Cornette is definitely someone you need to watch and learn from because he is one of the greatest that s ever lived in this great sport

[@dr.roberts4508]

Watts did it before with Rock Hunter , Assianan , Angel

[@bobloblaw9791]

Midnight express @2:58

[@Panwere36]

Every single one of the old territories made their own legends. Mid-South, though, was where 90% of the legends that made watching wrestling worth watching in the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s.

[@jonathanrife-rs7sf]

Cornette vs Bill Watts was a great feud !!!

[@tomr3422]

Back then Cornette could sell like no one else.

[@ronaldshank7589]

I'd say he still can! He's got the gift of gab, and he's got a super-sharp mind!

[@kingcook-we7vw]

That slap.. jeez. What a sell!!

[@mikedavis8872]

Let Jim eat 🎂

[@magnificentone4686]

Wow! From $300 a week in Memphis to $4000 to $5000 a week in Mid-South. Bill paid his talent well

[@PunkSlapper123]

They were selling out the Superdome. That is 25,000 people.Most other territories didn't have arenas quite that big.

[@frankbonini9128]

" ... The Checks ... The Checks Were Fucking ENORMOUS! ... " - Jim Cornette

[@jackstraw522]

Such a shame we can’t watch the Last Stampede. But different era 🤷‍♂️

[@GetBenched2010]

Watts was over somewhere other than the AWA?

[@chrischar9428]

Yeah he was a huge star everywhere

[@Gebraldo420]

Mrs. Cornette must have been such a beautiful southern Belle of a woman, full of patience... To have such a mouthy child like lil Jimmy

[@billnolastname5078]

Back in those days we would tie an onion to our belt before we went to see the matches.

[@ryoka7]

they didn't have any white onions, because of the war. The only thing you could get in those was those big yellow ones.

[@zopilote7]

Bill Nolastname It was the style at the time. Now, to get in the matches cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter," you'd say.

[@JumpingJackFlash1989]

This is the best comment thread I've ever seen.

[@billnolastname5078]

Sometimes I'd go see the matches in Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. Anyway, the important thing was I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.

[@mattvaught7470]

why an onion????

[@blacquesjacques7239]

Bill Watts came out retirement often but it was to get his talent over .

[@blacquesjacques7239]

The JYD was awful . Always was . The thing that got him over was Ted Dibiase working heel but mostly that the fans were very happy to have the top guy look like them . Black fans never missed the wrestling in their town and now the champ is black . It was hugely appreciated because he wasn't the token black guy ; He was The Man .

[@blacquesjacques7239]

MidSouth was my home territory . JYD was over but it had a lot less to do with Dylvester Ritter than the bookers and heels . I never really thought that much of his mic skills . He wasn't going to win any public speaking contests . Really it was guys like Ted Dibiase , Michael Hayes and Jim Cornette who talked people into the buildings because of it . Not to mention that Bill Watts was a master of the slow reveal that kept you only the edge of your seat up until the blow off match . When JYD got to NY he didn't have his support team behind him and had to produce on his own against guys who wouldn't put him over much . They were all trying to work with Hogan at A towns not JYD at B towns .

[@rahlohmcdonogh280]

+Thats Nice I was a child back then and never thought of it on a racial basis, was at the first Superdome Extravaganza in July 76.Dick Murdoch was my favorite.Miss those days:(

[@blacquesjacques7239]

+Rahloh McDonogh I just saw a TriState Wrestling video with Murdoch stuffing Ken Patera into a trashcan from 76

[@rahlohmcdonogh280]

Blacques Jacques I am permanently scarred by Ken Patera putting a full nelson on Bill Watts and Watts starting to bleed from the mouth.Patera,Bob Sweetan,and Killer Karl Kox were the most intimidating crew ever.

[@seangoodwin3046]

Corny - only time in history that one of the participants did not know it was a work. If one of the participants doesn't know it's a work, it's not a work.

[@bobbymccartney549]

Jimmy bought the cake

[@AgentZombieMan]

So, yea Jim has a bit of rose-colored glasses on the memories of that slap. I went and looked it up recently, and it goes Mouthing Off > Slap > 0.5 Pause > Cartwheel Sideflip by Cornette. Wasn't exactly Shawn Michaels

[@michelledavidson8190]

No but much better than any RAW episode today.

[@michaelallanrubin2376]

The verbiage wasn't all written you are misinformed

[@jayhood8514]

If professional wrestling was a bride to be.... Jim Cornette would be her husband and Soul Mate

[@dustinbasham393]

Jim sounds stuffy in this one

[@fjccommish]

Jim pretends this was all pre planned. It wasn't. Jim was a jerk at the time. He and the Express attacked Watts. It's all on TV Jim.

[@Souleman561]

lol

[@misterkoundry]

Is that you David Wills?

[@TL2354]

How do you know he was a jerk at the time?

[@wilsoncrocker]

& it was filmed by Mark & Kay Faybh, right?

[@dr.roberts4508]

@@wilsoncrocker and Tom

[@thomasc.5219]

Jim always saying they made wrestling look real but in this story he says they take a punch that sends them doing two flips into the ropes.... okay Jim. Jim has these rose cored glasses, just like alot of people who are fans of only that Era of wrestling. Saying it's when it looked real. Seriously go back and watch them. Even then, that never looked like a real fight. Even the best of the time still had plenty of spots where there is obvious cooperation. I like Jim and his stories. But his hate for wrestling today is just annoying. Which leads me to believe he just does it cause it gets people to listen to him cause people love listening to people talk shit on their favorite things for some reason. So if true, good plan. If not then it's just sad that he spends that much time talking and watching shit he hates.

[@vinylbuff1515]

I love corny but you have a really valid point, anytime he took a bump it was always pretty ridiculous selling lmao, if he acknowledged that his selling was over the top then it would be much better but instead he comes across as out of touch there

[@jf5245]

I'm 999 like

[@samsmith8725]

I Refuse to believe that there are people out there that talk about mid south "Rasalin" angles LMFAO GOD HELP PEOPLE that do 😪💯💩

[@jeremysammons9710]

I refuse to believe that there's people think Vince Russo is a genius writer. God he sucks

[@sllimthg]

Shut up russo

[@Power_Press711]

As opposed to people watching clips of it lol?

[@jb0609]

STFU