Jim Cornette on Leaving The NWA/WCW In 1990

From Episode 364 of the Jim Cornette Experience
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[@mrbooth7]

"Jim's really not happy with the direction of the Wrestling business in general at the moment" The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@livefreeordiehardkor]

I remember when he left WCW and started smoking mountain wrestling. I never missed an episode of Smokey mountain wrestling.

[@juansanchez209]

@Tiger It essentially felt like a late 70s/early 80s promotion except in the early 90s. Cornette is a traditionalist and he set up SMW for other traditionalists who were no longer satisfied with the increasingly “sports entertainment” (for lack of a better term) presentation of the WWF and WCW. If you like that previously mentioned era of wrestling, you’ll LOVE SMW. If you don’t like that era, then SMW isn’t for you.

[@nathanielbaxter8044]

@Tiger do yourself a favor and watch. You'll see a lot of names you know early in their careers.

[@t-spiders1035]

Yeah, you and like 5 other people.

[@gregorylevi1826]

You were very fortunate, I wanted to watch SMW so badly but it was never shown in Illinois

[@maxxdahl6062]

@@t-spiders1035 Says the person who probably likes AEW. lol

[@DMS-pq8]

Makes me nostalgic for call-in radio shows

[@jordan_8329]

I miss when people called in to music radio stations, talked to the dj on the air, and had their requested song played. My local rock station seems like it has about 7 or 8 playlists it switches between and I hear the same songs around the same time way too often.

[@Mdoodatt]

@@jordan_8329 it's not just your local rock station. That's pretty much the format for every corporate radio station regardless of genre or location.

[@DMS-pq8]

@@jordan_8329 Now most so-called local radio is nothing more the syndicated shows

[@Cre8Lounge]

They still exist

[@Vagajammer]

Damn, that thumbnail! Jim looks like Jerichovid!

[@jadoc3767]

It can't be him, he's not having a struggling red face as he tries to hold his stomach in to look "ripped".

[@liamnguyen2819]

Damn, even back then in 1990 when I could barely even walk, Jim was still in the business contributing to this great sport we all love. Man is a legend 🙌🙌🙏🙏

[@andrewisjesus]

Sport. Lol

[@welowee7610]

@Andrew Mann you got problem with that words man?

[@liamnguyen2819]

@@alexythimia23 Well today's modern wrestling is certainly theater cause it's so phony. But when wrestling is so good and believable as it should be, respectively it's called a sport.

[@liamnguyen2819]

Or rather I could of mentioned the term "business" if anything as well.

[@nathanwilliams2346]

It's crazy how that was only 30 years ago but sounds like old radio baseball games with Babe Ruth playing.

[@MilMaska]

"I was fanta sizing in the car about it. Almost got a h a rd o n" - Jim Cornette

[@jonathanturbide2232]

We've Herd enough! 🍕😂

[@dh1040]

Well done. Your comment stands out from the Herd.

[@thomass789]

Well we've all Herd that working for Herd wasn't exactly a slice 🍕 of heaven.

[@gregorylevi1826]

@@thomass789 😂🤣

[@gregorylevi1826]

LMAO! 😂🤣

[@JP-xr3mu]

I pissed myself a little bit. 😂

[@ScammerPayback]

Jim Jericho in this Thumb?!?!?!

[@oN3xShOtxkilL]

Kenny Bolin in disguise

[@six12it47]

Having to work with Herd will do that to a man xD

[@Batony]

I was way too young to remember this time period, but find it fascinating. Thank goodness for guys like Cornette, Pritchard, Ross and the WWE network.

[@jcaceres516]

Pritchard is one the biggest bull shitters there are. Dont believe his stories

[@ShowtimeDr]

F Pritchard

[@TL2354]

@@jcaceres516 Prichard

[@TL2354]

@@jcaceres516 Prichard

[@TL2354]

@@ShowtimeDr Prichard

[@mrg8581]

I wish it could be 1990 again. Wrestling was so much better back then.

[@osaji922]

WWE maybe. By that point the territories were dead. Wasn't 1990 really bad for WCW?

[@MrJjburgess11]

@@osaji922 I think 1990-1995 were tough times for WCW.

[@petebagwell6666]

@@osaji922 as a fan who watched wcw and wwf in the 90s, wcw got good in the attitude era, it was like watching a great musician crash and burn, it was fucking crazy and even the bad shit was watchable like a car crash in slow motion

[@mrg8581]

@@osaji922 Both the WWF and WCW were in decline by 1990. But I miss those days just the same. 😕. That being said. WCW had Ric Flair, Sting, Lex Luger and the Steiner Brothers wrestling for them in 1990.

[@mrg8581]

@@petebagwell6666 I agree.

[@gillies9]

That picture has Jim going to see Dr. Nowzardan in Houston.

[@hezamachine]

Bobby Eaton was released by WCW in 1993 and had short run in SMW.

[@DefLeppardVanHalen]

@NW 45 Yes, he was. He remained under contract until March 2000, right before the Eric Bischoff-Vince Russo regime kicked in.

[@anthonychobotdoespopcultur7762]

1990 was a turnaround for wrestling

[@jvharbin8337]

Corny the curmudgeon over there shouting "30 years ago!!!" Got me in stitches😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@michaelmarino7391]

I thought Sting was the longest wrestler signed uninterrupted under the Turner regime from 1988 when they bought JCP until 2001 when WCW was bought by Vince.

[@dend1]

Literally 4 am right now. The thumbnail is too real

[@wigglewilson9030]

Whens Travis getting his own personal section for thumbnail art, in The Smithsonian Museum?

[@RockSmith-rl9qr]

They really love talking about this subject don't they

[@NobletheSavage]

That graphic though 😂

[@Mister_Phafanapolis]

"This is PROOF that Cornette always has been a Fed shill!" - angry AEW fan bois

[@anthonychobotdoespopcultur7762]

I was 7 years old at the time

[@jonathanwaters2624]

Join the Dark Order.

[@SonofTexas1836]

30 years ago! Same tune!

[@hiimtoilet.iflushthings.2182]

Teh clock on teh wall says 4. Is that what time Jim goes to bed?

[@ADAMdinho1]

Steve Beverley sounds like Ted Bundy. Scary.

[@BIGACORN]

So wait going by the interview clip, that guy insinuated that Cornette didn't like where wrestling was going in 1990?, understandable. Hasn't he also said before that he regrets certain stuff he helped the creative team with in WWF?

[@insupportofjunhado]

Yes, he said he participated in certain things to entertain Vince McMahon that never should have made it to television by sometimes did. He also said, when pressed by McMahon, that he came up with the finish to the Montreal screw job based on a double cross that happened in the same building fifty years prior. He said he didn't think McMahon would go through with it and that they should have just done a disqualification, but ended up leaving the building when he saw they were indeed going to do a double cross. Granted, the "screw job" wasn't his fault per se. Triple H also said there should have been a double cross.

[@durden2480]

Ya herd me?

[@damightybenstein]

0:22 I thought it was Patre-ON, not Patre-IN...

[@JMFabiano]

Steve Beverly went from the wrestling journalism to game show journalism.

[@tylerflemming7059]

This sounds like "it exposed the business"

[@t0ybandit154]

Can't wait to hear him what he has to say about Alexa Bliss asuka BS or even if he will call out WWE for their shit

[@jcaceres516]

He doesnt watch.. Unless someone sends him a clip

[@t0ybandit154]

@@jcaceres516 no he watches trust me he just don't want to call them out even though they copy aew every week

[@2ColdScoprio]

I don’t get it. Why would you not like the Midnight Express?! 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@jonathanturbide2232]

Maybe Sweet Stan slept with Herd's wife? 😂

[@nathanielbaxter8044]

@@jonathanturbide2232 entirely possible.

[@gregorylevi1826]

@@jonathanturbide2232 LMAO! 😂🤣

[@javierdelgado3915]

IF YOU NEED TO SSUUUUUUUEEEEEEE

[@xGodofAcidx]

An Out-law Mud Show or twooooo

[@brandonizaguirre2963]

@@xGodofAcidx He'll sue their @$$

[@williameger349]

These are the episodes I like... "sea stories". Pro wrestling today is a joke. I stopped watching after Vince bought everything and made the poor decision to NOT implement salutory neglect.

[@dkbarbados4540]

Corny has A trait I have the upmost respect for in humans.. good,bad or ugly... He's consistent

[@Timmyk5150]

Eaton's contract was up in May of 1991 and WOULDN'T YOU KNOW WHO WON THE PONY!!!!! They put the TV Title on him beating Arn, lol. And the heel who took it off him?????? Some good looking blond muscular kid with hand me down indy trunks who "Stunningly" like Bobby, WCW didn't really do anything with.

[@tylerflemming7059]

Jim Cornette in fighting with the rest of the bookers???? what a shock....

[@charliebuck831]

Who needs actual wrestling when you can put on such an entertaining show as RAW was tonight

[@wilee.coyote5227]

What....? Mannn, quit playin'... RAW is trash now... RAW has been cooked....!! You must be a millennial... Keeping faith alive for wrestling huh....? Pray about it...

[@Andrew-wt1oq]

@@wilee.coyote5227 Millenials hate this shit too.. we grew up with Stone Cold, The Rock, Real Kane, and Taker etc.. just because some snot sniffing shit bag likes it don't conclude all of them do.

[@fuzzluvver69]

Raw was utterly sh1te last night. There literally hasn't been a good episode of Raw since it went to 3 hours. Not a single one.

[@btipton6899]

#sarcasm

[@wilee.coyote5227]

@@Andrew-wt1oq , my bad... I stand corrected... ✌

[@YorrB]

Corny gained some weight. Did he eat JeriCovid? 😂

[@spookerredmenace3950]

wow his voice is so high pitch lol

[@TheNoirAlien]

Hey Jim, talk your s***!

[@jeffreyklima7612]

Get some new topics. You've answered this 100 times now

[@tracebase0065]

get your trains out, jim

[@stevemiller1345]

Hey! This story again!

[@fucker661]

Damn

[@VILLAIN-Andrew-Suede]

Where’s the drive thru

[@mrpedantic]

Tuesday.

[@anthonyharris4234]

Boooo

[@Dakatari]

Lol even back in heyday of wrestling Jim still wasn't happy

[@damightybenstein]

Hell, even when he was running Smoky Mountain Wrestling, he wasn't happy at times. But then again, it was probably karma being a bitch to him when he had to deal with Tim Horner.

[@Cre8Lounge]

Why do they say "independents"?

[@1offoriginal]

Jim cornette on how wrestling hasn't been good in 30 years.... Also he hates everything

[@scrappy93]

"Gained 60 pounds" lol

[@juansanchez209]

Jim Herd is a misunderstood genius. I’ll take Herd over Watts any day!

[@jcags]

How so? He was an asshole like most southern bookers but he was good at booking.

[@piperar2014]

That's funny because like 1/3 of Vince's roster was Mid South UWF talent. JYD, Jake Roberts, Ted Dibiase, One Man Gang, Hacksaw Duggan, Sheepherders, Hercules just off the top of my head.

[@juansanchez209]

@@piperar2014 Vince got the best talent from the AWA IMO

[@ajwhite3758]

Meeeee

[@emfs9522]

Johns voice is awful

[@carloslozada470]

Cornette is stuck in 86

[@welowee7610]

He Still live Happily in his castle, so whats your point

[@carloslozada470]

@@welowee7610 point is Cornette is never gonna say anything good about today's wrestling so I'm always gonna say he stuck in 86

[@aissamfyodor5672]

@@carloslozada470 i mean , nothin good's happenin in today's wrestlin , alot of poor plots and less actual wrestlin

[@wadewilson1312]

2016 era wrestlers suck at promos

[@SteelSunday]

@@carloslozada470 he praised Walter vs Dragunov

[@cunteater3466]

❤Gold ❤