Jim Cornette on Promos That Got Him Heat

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[@jamesarnold8333]

He said Babydoll went to get her drivers license and she kept failing the drivers part of the test because she couldn’t get use to being in the front seat of a car.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@robg.3136]

"Ooooooooh!!! Jesus!!"" Brian's reaction made me spit my soda out. 😂😂

[@kael2450]

"Kid, don't talk about the challenger, go do it again"

[@StrongStyleNinja]

Kael2450 IF YOU WILLLL!!

[@JB_1229]

Says the American Dwweeemm.

[@jeffnettleton3858]

Cornette: "Too soon?" Dusty: "Too thoon, bebby...."

[@braddorcas9363]

About as fair as reasonable a way to react about it. Given the time it could have severely triggered some rage out of others.

[@sergioalvarez5949]

I luv it when Jim does his impression of Dusty

[@jamesb1988]

"Kid, don't thalk about the Challenger. Go do it again." -Dusty Rhodes

[@vict4451]

I wish there was video of this promo

[@IRON5]

That challenger joke is funny as hell. 😂

[@sogcitymac7940]

"Ronnie Garvins face went up like the Challenger!" My sides are aching from laughing so hard!

[@justinsayswtf]

Imagining that line followed immediately by the lights going off and the "Bewwwwww" sound effect of everything shutting down had me laughing so hard I teared up!

[@savievere9759]

I started dying and throw in the power shut off sound effects was the icing

[@jaysco5257]

@Kwizera Moses The Challenger was a NASA spacecraft that exploded slight after liftoff killing the entire crew. One of them was a teacher that won a contest to ride on the spacecraft. Her students watched on TV in school as the spaceship plummeted back to Earth

[@fucker661]

@Kwizera Moses because a tragedy + time equals comedy

[@johnwade7963]

@@fucker661 wait.....someone actually had to have someone explain the Challenger tragedy to them? Does no one read a history book anymore?

[@AngelFlores-bq4fd]

I'm a Hispanic guy born in Houston, Texas and I found this hilarious.

[@positively_broad_st3780]

Cornette the Heat Magnet. Good thing he wasn't cutting heel promos in the Fall of 2001...

[@BeeHatGuy]

Head's be exploding like the World Trade

[@vict4451]

Definitely would have had to load the tennis racket.

[@oN3xShOtxkilL]

Jet fuel can’t melt that tennis racket

[@baronvg]

Lol 😂

[@scottwilson3741]

He actually cut an in ring promo on the terrorists in OVW. If he'd sd anything as a manager it'd be comparing the what was going to happen to the opponents to what he'd like to see happen to them. Well, I wouldn't necessarily call what he sd a promo, but he made his feelings about what happened and those responsible clear

[@BudSchnelker]

I don't know if it was from the retake, but Cornette cut a promo in the TBS studios about Ronnie Garvin and said he reminded him of an old school teacher of his. "She had blue eyes and so does Ronnie Garvin. One blew this way, and one blew that way." Schiavone looked soberly at Cornette and intoned, "That's not funny, Jim."

[@vict4451]

"his face went up like the Challenger" I know it's awful but I still laugh at this

[@jabrockobiden9434]

Not awful its funny

[@vict4451]

@@jabrockobiden9434 it is funny and I wish there was video but goddam.

[@StrongStyleNinja]

Corny does the best Dusty impressions.

[@jomama900]

It's good. And I like Corny WAY better than Bruce Pritchard, But Bruce's Dusty impression sounds dead on like Dusty!

[@fucker661]

It's between him and the honky tonk man

[@allenbrown4638]

3:55 Love Corny's impression of the lights going down "BEWWWW" 😂

[@MatthewW713]

"Except for a few riots" lol. Love it

[@maraviyoso8473]

"Ronnie Garvin's face went up like the Challenger!" Somewhere, Jeff Ross is taking notes.

[@lemondishonor7736]

Best promos in the game. Nobody had mic skills like Cornett. Paul Heyman is close but Cornett is the promo King.

[@062Mb]

Paul’s better

[@lemondishonor7736]

@@062Mb respect

[@zlinedavid]

For managers….Heenan was the best. Corny and Paul are 2-3.

[@ricstormwolf]

I wish Dusty was still alive to tell his side of this story 😂😂

[@Dinnerwiththeavilas]

That Ronnie Garvin fireball angle is one of my top 3 angles EVER. I was so mad that he did that to Ronnie. Man I HATED Jim Cornette. As a kid I never understood why my dad loved the heels. Now that know. Lol thats what I loved about wrestling in the 80s. It was SO believable. You deserve to be in the HOF. I grew up in L.A.

[@KRISTINARZ040579]

I didn’t like the Midnight Express until Stan Lane came in and replaced Dennis Condrey.

[@MrTonytate5501]

Oh my God! That Dusty Rhodes impression!! LOL

[@subgrappling805]

I could listen to Corny read the phone book or a menu and enjoy every moment.

[@whobitmyname]

In Dusty's voice.

[@whobitmyname]

In Dusty's voice.

[@davidgerow]

I hated watching Jim back in the day, now I love to listen to Jim tell stories.

[@Mr_Marketable]

I'm guessing for the time he was talking about Hakeem Olajuwon

[@haljordan777]

@Jay ReMine Nobody knew about Robert Horry or Sam Cassel at the time because they hadn't been drafted by the NBA yet.

[@wescollins2981]

@@haljordan777 🤣

[@robschumann9665]

Didn’t a player from Nigeria with a really weird name like Yammy or Yommy, (something like that) get drafted by the Nets the same year as Hakeem? I could be wrong and might be thinking of baseball. It was 30 years ago after all.

[@Mr-cr5xg]

@@robschumann9665 this is funny lol ,so yomi is weird while it's so easy to spell Schumann.Noted

[@TheTrueNateHustle]

@@Mr-cr5xg it's a joke not a dick, dont take it so hard.

[@chrislaverick]

Oh for those days again

[@toma.4808]

Jim cornette is dressed like Lupin the 3rd in this pic

[@prizm2807]

I'm happy so many people get that reference.

[@thebichocr7659]

Bru...

[@MrKennyWilliams]

Holy shit that IS Green jacket lupin

[@danielbarber2113]

That is a great idea for some fan art! We need more cornette drawn in the style of Lupin III.

[@Blaklyon0]

Fuck.... I can't unsee that, now...

[@dkbarbados4540]

Corny learned more from dusty then Cody did

[@TheeCoachg]

Cornette has such a way with words. He never mentions much formal schooling either which leads me to believe thats just off the dome,wittiness and timing.

[@eddietasker9110]

Jim's Dusty impression is amazing 🤣

[@jcorona984]

3:38 Holy cosmic fireball, Batman.

[@PtolemyJones]

I think Dusty made the right decision. Not sure Corny would be with us today had that gone out..

[@jabrockobiden9434]

Why they tempted fate and fate won

[@seeehorn]

I thought I'd seen or heard about EVERY Jim Cornette old-school promo/story, but never knew about this never-before-seen Challenger promo until I saw it referenced on an Arn Anderson podcast video!! The Challenger tragedy happened in January/1986 and Cornette cut this promo about a year later in early 1987, so he probably thought it was okay to say it as a way to get even more HEEL HEAT on himself. It's good that Dusty shut down the taping and told Cornette to redo the promo. We know that society was WAY more accepting of crude/ruthless humor in 1987, but making off color remarks about the Challenger crossed the line, even a year after it happened. Dusty did the right thing there!!

[@ciphernine7824]

I like Jim's promo from late Feb '87, where he comes out with Bobby & Bubba, dressed like he just returned from Hawaii. He takes off the lei he's wearing and places it around Tony Schiavone's neck, and tells him that it's likely the only "lei" he'll ever get. I'm rather surprised Jim got away with that remark. Was Dusty not there that day?

[@thedude4672]

That joke wouldn't be allowed now, over 30 years after the Challenger blew up!

[@davidfrederick3375]

I agree it was too sick a promo to air BUT I bet VKM would have aired it

[@marco74austin62]

It should be

[@snappy452]

Yeah, that one was rough, but damn funny.

[@VinDaddyCool]

Fuck it I would air it. He was supposed to be out heel at the time and for the simple fact that was very creative I put it on television. And if that meant that I had to pay for it later, worth it

[@michaelhunziker7287]

No jokes are allowed in 2020. Everything and everyone is racist

[@longjohn526]

I remember some comedian got a LOT of heat because he told the following joke about Christa McAuliffe who was the civilian teacher who went up on Challenger What color are Christa McAuliffe's eyes? Blue ...one blue this way and one blue that way .....

[@walsh9080]

There's a similar British joke about Princess Diana: Did you hear Diana was on the radio? And the dashboard and the steering wheel.

[@azapro911]

I feel absolutely terrible for laughing quite loudly at that.

[@wescollins2981]

@Anthony Oliver Parker yes

[@coreysmorgan8488]

Still Tasteless

[@johnseawind9558]

There was a similar joke about Kurt Cobain after he killed himself.

[@whobitmyname]

I want Corny in a one-man play about Dusty and Ernie Ladd.

[@SonnyBubba]

It was a different era. If anyone tried to tell that Mexican story these days there would be boycotts. Back then, it caused more ticket sales, even if it did cause the occasional riot.

[@pacifiedbeaumonte]

No it wouldn't lol

[@ilaye9249]

3:38 Omggg LMAOOO

[@lonniec7603]

Didn't Corny once say that Big Bubba Rodgers was the only man brave enough to strap a chicken to a moped and drive it through Ethiopia?

[@ISLAVERDE29]

Lupin the 3rd!!!

[@mikelong2756]

I woke my old lady up laughing so loud about the doing a job promo 😂

[@SparkyOriginal]

This clip never fails to make me cry laughing!

[@versebuchanan512]

"I got in and out perfectly fine, except one or two riots" is hilarious in concept alone

[@mattbirmingham2321]

re: Manny Fernandez “ what do you say to a Mexican dressed up in a three-piece suit will the defendant please rise?

[@zlinedavid]

🎶🎶”Who said Ronnie Garvin went up like the Challenger…”🎶🎶

[@alvinreeder7203]

"What is Bruce taking over my fucking show now!?" 🤣🤣🤣 I don't know why, but that made me laugh

[@JasMaceExperience]

Oh my God!! LOL..... Brian's reaction was my reaction Lol

[@azapro911]

"Aside from a few riots..."

[@danielmiller1401]

It's been 36 years and that Challenger promo still makes me cringe. I remember that spaceship blowing up on my 4th birthday and that promo. Years later, I couldn't believe that he said that on TV, laughing my ass off, and was saying Oooo Jesus lol.

[@jabrockobiden9434]

Liar

[@patrickwall8517]

Someone once asked Jim why cusses so much. His answer was that he couldn't cuss on TV and now he can.

[@SpiralPoliFemboy]

Corny can get heat just by sitting on his couch and eating a sandwich.

[@spookerredmenace3950]

damn! you so couldn't do the Mexican waiter thing anymore hahahahahaha damn thats gold though!

[@jodyvanliew2514]

Ronnie Garvin went up like the Challenger . lol

[@hellfish1413]

Oh wow . Love those old school stories

[@stokes32]

What episode is this from

[@fifiwoof1969]

3:39 :-O - Brian's gasp here!

[@horatiovaldes6851]

lol. I'm not offended. It's hilarious.

[@geoffa87]

Horatio Valdés context: this was literally right after the challenger happened

[@jrreogreugerugregreger7486]

You shouldn't ever be offended if you're an adult. Don't like something someone said? Change the channel or walk away.

[@SonnyBubba]

Back then, the fans didn’t realize the promoter was yanking their chain. They just saw some obnoxious little runt saying stuff that was getting them pissed off, to the point that they wanted to buy a ticket just to watch him get beat up in the ring. The difference between then a now is that the fans and advertisers all know now that the promoter is telling the heels what to say, so the fans get mad at the promoter and don’t show up to his matches.

[@jonathanjones8738]

It's honestly a great heel line. We need stuff like that nowadays

[@tiolucasoff-roadingcompany2113]

it's wrestling they got to talk s*** to sell tickets and they're just Jim cornette has one of the best all-time he gets a pass I guess

[@blacquesjacques7239]

Heels would be sexist , racist , homophobic etc etc wouldn't they ?

[@drdoomprevails1439]

Plus it was a different time, I remember Piper did a promo about Mr. T and said “Mr. T, the only guy who wears more chains than his ancestors.” And the world didn’t stop and TMZ didn’t cover it...that’s just how heels got heat back then.

[@danmount9462]

bennettmarshall Waldo Von Erich got Wrestling pulled off of Buffalo tv after talking about the Holocaust.

[@terminallumbago6465]

bennettmarshall Yeah there's some stuff that really shouldn't be joked about, like tragic events

[@strothermartin5368]

Do it again!

[@Blaklyon0]

Face went up like the Challenger damn sure did not give any f****

[@brodocbetty4856]

Best NWA match I EVER SAW WAS The Midnight Express vs Ron Garvin and Barry Windham in Phila Civic Center the match was so hot they almost started a riot Cornette was amazing.

[@jimchop8235]

And he criticized trump for saying grab ‘‘em by the p..smh

[@lolriots7107]

Haha fuck I miss the Sam Houston coliseum

[@JWSeltzer1138]

It's weird how the assistant says "you-ston" instead of "Hou-ston"

[@rumtuckskatter]

"But...basically that's right"

[@RIDGEMATIC]

So great

[@braddorcas9363]

Every time I watch corny vids I just want Wendy's.

[@TheGr8254]

Who said Ronny Garvin went up like The Challenger? Everyone knows it's Corny...🤣

[@totallynotalpharius2283]

" I want death threats!"

[@alexiscalderon5291]

Can someone explain what he meant when he said “went up like the challenger” (I’m a new listener)

[@oN3xShOtxkilL]

Space shuttle named “challenger” in 1984 or 1985 was taking off and after 30-40 seconds after the first rockets were coming off, the entire shuttle exploded on CNN, it was a major event much like space shuttle Columbia in 2004 or 2006 Here is the link of the challenger: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5fRp3mkr9hsZ9U

[@kurtvanderbogarde8402]

@@oN3xShOtxkilL It was in early 1986, about a year before the Ronnie Garvin fireball angle

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

Alexis in 1986 the space shuttle Challenger exploding was probably the biggest tragedy in the country since Kennedy was assassinated.

[@fifiwoof1969]

Did Dusty ever do Cornette impressions? Would love to hear clips.

[@Reck46]

No one has made more heat than the iron sheik

[@ldkusa71]

Gee! Compared to Jim Cornette's old "Ronnie Garvin's face went up like the Challenger!" remark, that suicide remark he got in trouble with NWA's management as an announcer on a recent episode of NWA Powerrr sounds so tame. :)

[@JoseMiranda-gj4pq]

That "suicide" remark wasn't anywhere near as bad as everyone made it out to be.

[@crystwhite8701]

Lmfao

[@bradshelton3293]

Is it true u once told new jack to go out cut a promo that make a bunch of Tennessee fans riot and wanna kill him because he decided to cut an oj Simpson promo something to the likeness of way to go oj one down and more to go

[@96mrjones]

Yeah pretty much there's a video that jack and corny squash their shit and talk about smokey mountain

[@geocooley7282]

Anytime he mentioned his mama

[@stevenmccann2891]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@4ArchieLee]

Top five shit talkers of anything

[@chicagotank]

This is why I hated him as a kid, now I listen to his podcast every night

[@charlespage8692]

CORNY = THE BEST

[@kbarrett63]

Is this the retake of the interview?? kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipKniGSbf5h0pqM

[@guitarguy4630]

What's the chsllenger

[@sebastianb.3978]

Space debris

[@karlepaul6632]

Tsk Tsk...Awful...simply awful....(hehe)....For shame...(hehe)....Tacky, that's what it (hehe) is alright! Absolutely (hehe) AW(HEHE)FUL!

[@brucewhite360]

🤓🎾

[@philxxxx6735]

If something is funny it should be told...everybody gets butthurt now over everything....imo make fun of EVERYTHING and if some feelings get hurt then make fun of that too

[@rahowherox1177]

heres a couple from outside usa.... what does n.a.s.a. stand for ... need another seven astronauts .... worst thing about challenger blowing? only 7 americans died.

[@ryansanchez319]

rahowhero X watch out for that edge wouldn't want you to cut yourself

[@rahowherox1177]

ryan sanchez it was acceptable in the 80s

Christa McAuliffe had blue eyes. One blew one direction and the other a different direction.

[@rahowherox1177]

David R humour is in the eye of the beholder.

[@KAD10895]

David R Anyone who puts funny in quotation marks needs to self assess.