Jim Cornette on The Nasty Boys & 1990 WCW Tag Teams

[@kaijusoshingeki7214]

The Nasty Boys were the human versions of Bebop and Rocksteady.

[@nealfeldpausch715]

😄 never though of this.... But right on !

[@cryospiral]

@@nealfeldpausch715 same here!

[@olvacron22]

Exactly

[@teresabarrera6855]

👏👏👏

[@jenisia3600]

This should be the top comment

[@jeffreyriley8742]

It paid for the Nastys that Brian Knobbs was one of Hulk Hogan's best friends.

[@uncannycerebro]

I think he was also Dusty son in law right or related to him by marriage somehow?

[@chadk890]

@@uncannycerebro It was Sags

[@Trill_4_Life]

@@uncannycerebro Sags is Dusty’s brother in law not son in law- December 21st 2020

[@thebugledaily6805]

Jim, use your platform to call out that accursed arachnid Spider-man!

[@thebugledaily6805]

@Cee Wil to the entire city!

[@seanceystephens6512]

Parker!

[@BenDowdy]

What are your thoughts on Daredevil?

[@jeffreyloskoskill4901]

You left uncle Joe out of the obituary!

[@charlessaints]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 . . . you serious ?

[@metalcoffie]

I liked the Nasty Boys as a kid. They reminded me of the gang Bobcat Goldthwait was in the early Police Academy movies.

[@83RockaRolla]

Same here!!!

[@-JAVY-]

Those movies were great lol

[@snubby4624]

Him screaming at the door to open it will always be one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

[@drsleep4519]

Bebop And Rock Steady Of Wrestling

[@Shaggzila]

Saggs looks just like Butt-Head's dad from Beavis and Butt-Head do America! Funny as shit!

[@foleynj86]

The Nasty Boys vs Steiner Brothers match at Halloween Havoc is a very underrated match. They and Harlem Heat were probably the two best tag teams for WCW in the mid 90s.

[@durden2480]

They loved working together. Rick Steiner can confirm it

[@foleynj86]

@@durden2480 Who? Harlem Heat and the Nasty Boys or the Steiners and the Nasty Boys?

[@philiphowell6336]

I know most people thought they were shit but I have a soft spot for the Nastys, liked their characters and the were big and believable-ish as pretty tough guys (pretty sure Sags was handy in a fight) plus they were even WWF tag champs once and WCW tag champs 3 times.

[@WilDBeestMF]

The characters were pretty cool for the time, but it didn't age super well. If they kept evolving and didn't get complacent as they got older, imagine what a 2023 Nasties would be like.

[@DrePants44]

Nasty Boys were the first wrestlers I remember hating enough to not want them on tv

[@royalty843]

Same they made me so disgusted as a kid lol

[@joshuabrown5123]

Agreed. I remember watching them on the AWA TV shows and not liking them then.

[@Bearwolf13]

The Nasty Boys vs Max Payne and Cactus Jack was BRUTAL lol... That shovel shot Cactus takes at the end of that still looks full of evil intent lol...

[@Beer_Baron_]

That match was awesome! Years ahead of where was the biz was at the time. Best match I’ve ever seen the Nasty’s in.

[@chadk890]

Great match!

[@SonOfMuta]

Why would the SOUTHERN Boys be distracted by a CONFEDERATE general?

[@CoolCATs2814]

Good question. Maybe they should've had them too busy saluting to concentrate on the match or something. Ripping off the uniform of a Union general would've made more sense.

[@michaelmarino7391]

Mick Foley said they were the stiffest guys he ever loved working with.

[@dirtmcgirt8269]

He had some awesome fukn brawls w/ em that's for sure. Didnt mind the Nasty Boys at all.

[@justinonymous1995]

Ew

[@NotMyName78]

Auhhh, what did just type?!?

[@chadhoganlive]

Jim's confederate suit story is classic, "Don't rip it Jim." Jim: rips it lmao!

[@johnnyd6135]

I remember the Nasty Boyz epic WWF theme song of being this drumbeat that kept repeating itself forever lol I liked watching the Nasty Boyz when Bobby Heenan was on commentary. He made some hilarious jokes/comments about them. Otherwise I was kinda eh with them. I remember shaking my head when Hogan brought them into TNA...glad they didn't last long lol

[@ii9714]

Hogan does what's best for business brother

[@olvacron22]

Both teams where crazy but I can't lie. I loved the alley fights between the nasty boys and public enemy.

[@stinger5127]

1996 WCW at it's finest! I was definitely entertained by those matches as well

[@ThatDoesntWorkForMeBrother]

Imagine the matchups the Nasty Boys would’ve had with the Dudley Boyz, the Gangstaz, and APA.

[@dickmarx1298]

That would have been amazing

[@KokNoker]

We did get Dudleys v Nasties in TNA if that's any consultation.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Nasty Boys vs Dudley Boys vs Steiners vs Demolition vs Powers of Pain vs Road Warriors vs APA.

[@muscledoggs566]

@@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812 I would have loved seeing either Hawk or Rick Steiner put Bradshaw in his place.

[@joshbouman1654]

If the Nastys wrestled Faarooq and Bradshaw I reckon we would've gotten another classic Acolytes worked-shoot squash, like that time they killed Public Enemy.

[@MrBeckenhimself]

I loved the Nasty Boys. Their Street Fight matches were brutal and fun to watch.

[@dirtmcgirt8269]

Same man.

[@nateemond197]

As a kid I would try and send my sisters to pity city. 25 years later they are still traumatized

[@jesterr7133]

Lol. They probably should've told Corny to tear the outfit up, and maybe he would've taken care of it.

[@AJH3518]

Stevie rays story about nasty boys and Matt Damon is hilarious

[@PremierTraveler]

Jerry Sags once got fined $10,000 by Vince for farting near Miss Elizabeth at an airport. Only those guys could be guilty of a crime like that 😁

[@YokozunaNumber1]

Maybe that's why Lanny eluded to the Nasties when he was asked about Randy locking her in a closet.

[@LoganSewell83]

"Do you want to take a shower with Brian Knobbs? I do not want to take a shower with Brian Knobbs?"

[@chadk890]

Nastys vs Steiners at Havoc tore the house down

[@mr.speyside5240]

I loved The Nasty Boys. They were awesome!

[@AwayGoalRule]

I remember when the Nasty Boys got stabbed by some local yokels after a house show in Peoria, IL when they were in WWF. Lived their gimmick I guess.

[@WWJD85]

Looks like corny's about to get a pit stop

[@seanceystephens6512]

😂

[@Hilversumborn]

Regal sold those amazingly.

[@AcesPlace22]

Welcome to Pity city!!! Love brian and Jerry

[@MilMaska]

"We are gonna nastysize ya" - Nasty Boyz

[@animegamesmoviesandotherst3037]

Love the Nasty Boys not the best technical wrestlers but man their look, they came off as tuff street punks. Also at this time no one looked like them either. Yeah they were only good with some tag teams most that were hard hitting or did not mind working stiff. Like LOD, Harlem Heat, Steiner Brothers, I could even see them if they had stayed in okay shap working with in the late 90s and early 2000s the Dudley Boyz, the APA doing hard hitting blody matches only seen in the NWA. Matches that would have made the matches the Dudley Boyz had with the Hardy Boys and Edge and Christian look like schoo yard tiffs.

[@14spokenwords]

Brian Knobbs was best friends with Hulk Hogan and Jerry Saggs was supposed to be in the NFL and they chose the WWF or something like that lol... they beat the Hart Foundation that was a good match and you knew that the hitman was going on a singles run after that.... they tried the Neidhardt / hitman blame game but it wasn't playing out like that

[@brianconnelly1238]

The Nasty Boys were an awesome tag team, they seemingly never get the credit they deserve, they were excellent

[@wiscounter]

Jim kind of answered a question that I sent in about Ricky Romero and Southwestern wrestling. Ricky was probably before his time, and he didn't work with the Youngbloods much. I met Ricky Romero just before he died. He was attending a Mudshow at the Sheriff's Posse building in Belen New Mexico. His grandson Ricky Romero III was wrestling that night.

[@joeymontanye1338]

Nasty Boyz I liked in Showdown legends of wrestling on ps2 and in WWF and WCW coolest tag team kind looks almost they came from a street thug posse gang from 80s movies of RoboCop 3 and Double Dragon.

[@randolphdefreese7874]

always wondered how they became friends with Hogan?two guys from jersey and a florida beach bum,opposites atract i guess.

[@themedianman9712]

I thought of these two as the heel Bushwhackers.

[@dubiouscaesar3709]

Well the Bushwhackers were great heels themselves in the territory days, the Sheepherders, rough house heels, always getting colour.

[@lawrence142002]

Weirdly, Shawn Michaels of all people LOVED working with the Nasty Boys. He said that he and Marty had some of their best AWA matches with them.

[@burtjackson5261]

I wonder who Jim thinks was the best wrestler from each era?

[@HellhammerSS]

Beavis and Butthead grown up

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

On steroids

[@davey3884]

Rich/Morton vs Midnight Express actually wasn't the first match they teamed, they worked with the Freebirds on a couple house shows prior to the PPV

[@scoonman]

LOL @ Cornette bringing back the torn up uniform and saying “we had a little trouble“

[@jamesgray8542]

R Chris from Liverpool,good question brother

[@snubby4624]

Calm down calm down

[@ufsfounder1]

You haven't lived. Till you have seen Ricky Romero tossing tortillas out to the ringside crowd. At the Albuquerque Civic auditorium.

[@Patrick-ud3vu]

Would of loved to have seen The Steiners vs Young Bucks! Closet thing we'll ever get to that is early 90's jobber matches.

[@Patrick-ud3vu]

@Marshal Kim Jong Un I can't even imagine how stiff those Steiner liners would be!!

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

the bucks would never make it to the ring. as soon as the bucks opened their mouths trying to tell scott or rick how to work the match, they'd be stuffed in a trashcan and rolled outside the arena.

[@chrisbrown2899]

There were a lot of teams that worked stiff around that time; The Road Warriors, The Steiners, Doom. I bet it was a bit snug wrestling The Natural Disasters. The Nasty Boys don't deserve a bad reputation for it, they were really no stiffer than those teams.

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

yeah, that' was how guys wrestled back then. those three teams you mentioned are actually praised for how stiff they were, so why do the nasty boys get a bad wrap for it?

[@hawksfan5]

@@theghostofthomasjenkins9643 The difference is the Nasty Boys were stiff out of a lack of talent. The other teams you mentioned had tons of talent and worked stiff because they were legit badasses.

[@chrisgoffe5048]

..the Beverly Brothers

[@kingrama2727]

I met Brian Knobbs at the Wagon Wheel Flea Market in Florida. He seemed like a cool dude, i talked to him for about 20 minutes..

[@Beer_Baron_]

Was he drunk?

[@kingrama2727]

@@Beer_Baron_ no

[@jcedars4784]

Saw the Nastys in Lake Charles Louisiana in late 90s. Dont remember an inch of there match but when we went to meet wrestlers after the show they somehow managed to have a sleep of beautiful women on their arms with champagne bottles

[@coreynihart3883]

Asked about the Nasty boys and he spends 4 minutes talking about the southern boys. Stay focused on the question Jim.

[@Kas58223]

Stiff in the ring the nasty boys no you don’t say I love to see them try that to Haku and the Barbarian

[@AJ-xv7oh]

They were stiff with the Steiner's and every single other team. Why would they not be stiff with Haku? Stop trying to sound cool spouting nonsense you've seen on other videos.

[@SpaceGhost92]

@Marvel Comics I bet he enjoyed the paycheck much more than legit combat sports athletes. With twice the shelf life

[@brianchapman8531]

@Marvel Comics Yeah because combat sports paid so well in the 80s and 90s.

[@piperar2014]

@@AJ-xv7oh said the guy trying to sound cool spouting nonsense.

[@SterlingWillis-q3y]

I WATCHED W.C.W. DURING THIS TIME, LOVED IT 😍 🥰

[@lavarbukowski578]

Morton and Rich....now there's a pair.

[@chrisgoffe5048]

..one of the greatest tag teams ever ..so underrated

[@RK-rf8rc]

Decent gimmick and theme in WWF. Only have a soft spot for them because they were on the first WWF video I ever bought back in the early 90s

[@Tim85-y2q]

Seems like a fair amount of people in the business have claimed the Nasties crossed the line between "stiff" and "reckless", including some wrestlers who were known to be pretty rough themselves.

[@kpllc4209]

This was when Ole was booking and he was bringing new cheap talent in but would not sign any contracts.

[@guyrussellmonk421]

Love the artwork

[@Ghiaccio-x1j]

Corny taking the pit stop lol! Funny artwork

[@matthillegas3099]

Pitty City!

[@scottwilliams2889]

Is this Bubba? It’s Scott from Pelletier.

[@RedfishCarolina]

I hated both the Nastys and Public Enemy and not the good kind of heat either. I turned the fucking channel when either one of them came on

[@madddoggnogood1491]

I loved the Nasty Boys growing up... Only behind the stieners and Rockers....in the early 90s for me

[@JohnSmith-lp1kd]

Then beating the hart foundation was bullshit! Yes I was 8 at the time lol

[@CJBrowninLV]

Nasty Boys - they weren't as bad as Public Enemy (they had the mullets done right!)😅

[@bigcstevens187]

Typical corny, asked about one tag team then ends up telling a story that had nothing to do with the team he was asked about lol

[@dickmarx1298]

I noticed that too. 90% of the dialogue had nothing to do with the actual topic

[@colirwin4046]

Whatever, or whoever any subject starts out as, it always ends up about him, whether it's relevant or not.

[@FallicIdol]

Never liked them.

[@ii9714]

I second that

[@babayagaslobbedaknobba]

The only time I liked the Nasty Boys was when they were in Nashville.

[@chrisjamesr77]

Tag team wrestling seems to be kind of an "up and down" thing to me, for whatever reason. Whether it's due to the quality of tag teams at a particular time, or just the promoters of whatever company having varying levels of interest in it, I don't know, but it seems like you can always point to different times or eras in a company and say either "oh, tag teams were hot then" or "they weren't so good then." Personally I think tag teams should always be emphasized, because in my opinion a well-booked tag team match is one thing that always works.

[@banesbox]

They didn't do it for me. They we're just big goofy guys with average in ring talent. They couldn't move like the Big Boss Man or Vader or Bam Bam, they sucked.

[@chadk890]

Their better than any team in WWE or AEW.

[@limitlessrhodes9826]

Jim Cornette is a human slash / encyclopedia.

[@WilDBeestMF]

Like all old books, his pages are a little dusty lol

[@deejayguppy6087]

​@@WilDBeestMF Not all old books' knowledge is useless. Might need some addenda or modifications or updates or dusting off, but there's some useful knowledge there.

[@WilDBeestMF]

@@deejayguppy6087 Never said useless, I said dusty.

[@deejayguppy6087]

@@WilDBeestMF True. True. My mistake, Wil. All dusty pages need a good blow, and the knowledge within will come to light.

[@georgemaranville3305]

Nasty’s got a dose of their own medicine with a stiff guitar shot from Maxx Payne in a tag match with Payne and Cactus. Maxx being a legit amateur didn’t take to their stiffness well and showed it

[@kevinbbadd]

Nasty boys terrorized him and beat him down.

[@matthewsmith2308]

Freebirds wrestled the Native American tag team not the Southern Boys

[@dougcollier259]

How do I get a question to Cornette and Brian.

[@jcaceres516]

😂 he says it at the beginning of every question

[@deejayguppy6087]

Be named Charlie, and/or be from Starkville, Mississippi.

[@theghostofthomasjenkins9643]

the nasty boys were a pretty decent tag team. i don't get the hate for them. they weren't top tier, but they could work with anyone.

[@TheMagnificentMongoSlade]

I hated the Nasty Boys. I appreciate them more now but I'm still not a big fan.

[@CoolCATs2814]

At the time, I never got the appeal either. They stunk in every match they were in.

[@TheMagnificentMongoSlade]

@Marshal Kim Jong Un one of them is besties with the Hulkster, no surprise there

[@j.w.s.toland931]

Nasty Boyz were scared of Ken Shamrock and cheap-shotted him. Boo.

[@lasselippert3892]

If Shamrock wanted a fair fight, he should have challenged them to step in the ring with him. Not kicked in their hotel door like a complete nutbag

[@ii9714]

True

[@jamestracey2006]

@@lasselippert3892 so it’s ok for TNB to behave like they did? 2 big bullies who weren’t man enough to handle Shamrock individually, and cheapshotted him - a fair fight would have left TNB in bits!

[@lasselippert3892]

James McDonald If TNB had been the ones who came looking for fight, I would 100% agree with you. But they weren’t, so I don’t. Sags and Knobbs were childhood friends. If one is in trouble, of course the other is gonna jump in. You are probably correct in your prediction of your own fantasy booking “Shamrock vs Sags - The Ultimate Fair Fight”. But it really doesnt matter. As I said, Shamrock went looking for a streetfight, and thats what he got. Honestly, he’s lucky Sags didnt travel with a gun. As far as the Nasty Boys’ general attitude and behavior goes, There is little doubt that they were a couple of completely obnoxious a**holes.

[@crazycarper3780]

The nastys are in my top 10 tag team! 1,The Steiners bro's 2,The Dudleys boys 3,The Road warriors 4,The Eliminators 5,The Nasty boys 6,The Outsiders 7,The freebirds 8,The new age outlaws 9, Rvd & Sabu 10, The brisco's

[@crazycarper3780]

@Marshal Kim Jong Un I liked earthquake and typhoon but not when they went together! But was a good sight seeing them 2 big monsters together.

[@ebransc09]

Conquistadores omitted???

[@stevehogan9958]

Number 10: Jack and Jerry or Jay and Mark?

[@crazycarper3780]

@@stevehogan9958 any one you want mate both good

[@crazycarper3780]

@@ebransc09 la resistance better than them

[@despicablemonster]

can i ask why in the pic you're hairline is in the shape of an octagon?

[@pythonbyte]

not heard Jim mention the Midnight Express before, color my interest piqued.

[@Joeywatts1500]

Tommy rich went to school with my dad

[@Dakatari]

Being friends of Hulk Hogan definitely helped the careers of the Nasty Boys in WCW and WWE /WWF

[@deejayguppy6087]

Yeah, it worked for them, Brother!

[@moriordan85]

Not til much later did that help them. They were AWA and WWF tag team champs before they hit it off with Hulk in their 2nd WCW run. The Nasty Boys and Hulk linked up in Hulk's WCW run not during their WWF run and certainly not in their AWA run. So they were very well established and in the back 9 of their career by the time Hulk started to help them.

[@dannyfonseca8275]

Liked when they were WWF tag champions in 1991

[@chadk890]

Good match with the Hart Foundation

[@jeffreyloskoskill4901]

General Cornette!

[@forumcelebritypodcast]

not a big nasty boys guy

[@teresabarrera6855]

Still not as bad as Demolition

[@jeffmac9642]

Ax and Smash were awesome. What was wrong with Demolition? Smash and Crush fizzled out but otherwise I don't get it

[@soovain]

Corny, is the frog jacket story kid allegedly pulled on you true?

[@devingoodson7213]

I loved the Nasty Boys in the 90s, they seemed like the most careless, ruthless, idiotic assholes that had no business in wrestling but Hell it worked. They were heels with heat and got a few title runs out of it.

[@MikeHunt45]

So you hired someone else's property and destroyed it because feelings? Weird flex but OK

[@jordan_8329]

Between Ole's goofy booking and personality conflicts with Jim Herd, Corny had had enough. WCW blew money on goofy stuff all the time so yeah in Jim's mind he was thinking they're making us lose to a makeshift tag team and the team we are about to feud with is also losing so F it, here's your stupid rented outfit.

[@dirtmcgirt8269]

@@jordan_8329 Shame too, because theres some good stuff & talent in 90 WCW outside of Herd's obsession w/ weird ass gimmicks & Ole's suspect booking.

[@maxxdahl6062]

@@dirtmcgirt8269 Which is odd, Ole was a pretty damn good booker in Georgia.

[@dirtmcgirt8269]

@@maxxdahl6062 Fair point. IDK what his deal was then. But man. Now I'm thinking back to 90 WCW and all the good stuff that happened. Flair vs Pillman, Luger vs Flair, the Flair/Woman storyline, Windham's return, Luger's turn, Sting getting his big win, Horsemen's turn on Sting, I'm missing a bunch of other stuff too.

[@maxxdahl6062]

@@dirtmcgirt8269 Ole was also the reason Georgia expanded into ohio too after Sheik's territory died. He realized they were getting just as much fanmail from ohio as they were Georgia so expanded there with the Sheiks blessing.

[@bryanblankenship3627]

I get so aggravated when listen to stories like this. Do you know who is to blame for the shitty wrestling we get anymore? It's the previous generation of "stars" that tell stories like this. Bragging about costing the company money then in other interviews talks about how wcw was run into the ground by guys that couldn't book. Sounds to me that the company went under due to assholes that really didn't care about the wrestling business just wanted money.

[@wolfgangfrost8043]

Saying, "I feel nothing about The Nasty Boys because I'm not attracted to anything about their look or character" would sound a bit fruity out of context, but that's just early 90's wrestling storylines I guess...

[@ennbee2051]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3-qoXmYfplmo7s Fresh outta the oven boiz. Get it whilst it's hot.

[@kanekanekaneable]

Fan of the podcast but this was very same old same old

[@robfinlay8058]

The Nasty Boys are arguably the greatest tag team of all time.

[@despicablemonster]

I love how every single story of Jim leaving a promotion on his own terms are complete bullshit lol has tons of videos talking about why he left diff companies n shit yet wen he talks about it it's all him he left cus he saw the "writing" on the wall lmaooo you should of seen the writing on the wall before signing your name under a tna contract since you know it all

[@jovanss2361]

The Nasty Boys sucked.. just a team that used weapons to try and make it a decent match.. also in terrible shape and terrible look

[@MrE-89]

Podcasts suck, no matter who does them.

[@ledzeppelinfan1001]

Your attention span is ass I see