Jim Cornette on Virgil's Claims About Sid/Arn & The Creation Of The Barber Gimmick

From Episode 217 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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[@RevolverOcelot2008]

Also by the way Jim and Brian, Virgil would like his royalties from this video

[@brian_b_music]

Virgil even photobombed Travis’ drawing. He’ll be taking his money now😂😂😂

[@calebcrocker2658]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@stevekrueger8386]

Meat sauce doesn't pay for itself you know 😂

[@Tunda2]

Gotta make that fuck money

[@CuzStoneColdSaidSo11]

@@stevekrueger8386 HAHAHAHAHA HILARIOUS BRO!!!

[@JustChrisTM]

I LMFAO as much as Brian when i heard this. Arn & Sid get into a fight w scissors in 1993 in WCW and that's how Brutus came up with the Barber gimmick in the 80s in WWF? 😂😂😂

[@Lord_Bibulous]

That's some Hulk Hogan level bullshit right there.

[@Lord_Bibulous]

@Joshua Sharwood I don't know this is really the first thing I've heard about Virgil saying anything. If there's more I would gladly listen. I like to laugh.

[@MrRabiddogg]

He borrowed the Vaudevillians time machine?

[@Jim-Tuner]

Its true. While he was in WCW, he stole the New Breed's time machine and went back to give Brutus his gimmick.

[@shawngillespie3532]

Vergil is obviously a time traveler, either mentally or physically, this is well documented 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MattKayser]

Hearing these Virgil stories always makes me think of Forrest Gump, where he's just awkwardly inserted into all of these historical moments that he wasn't actually there for.

[@Hypno_BPM]

i guess Arn didn’t have his glock that night

[@AWX_Wrestling]

He couldn't get it through customs.

[@andregreen4358]

Virgil is hilarious, he’s the worst bodyguard in wrestling history. He was always Gm getting his ass whopped while in the nWo

[@garfieldburke2820]

Dude he’s the heel

[@billjames1556]

Virgil wants $30 from you if you listened to this clip.

[@Godzilla1982]

Meatsauce Mafia is taking over!! Big Daddy Breadsticks 4 life.

[@damian_cross]

Both Arn and Sid: **attempt to murder each other multiple times** Also both Arn and Sid: Haha! What silly chaps we were!

[@joshportie]

I think you are conflating wrestling fan versions of the story with what actually they said happened. Only one situation arn stabbed sid. The end.

[@mysonandme8424]

@@joshportie then, sid stabbed arn

[@Matt-cr4vv]

@josh portie they both stabbed each other. Sid went to Arns room with a chair leg, Arn grabbed scissors to defend himself; they both struggled over them and both stabbed each other multiple times. There aren’t any great reliable stories of the full extent of events and how they occurred thanks to everybody being fucked up but pretty consistently you hear that Arn got stabbed like 20+ times and was pretty close to dying in the deal. There’s obviously debate over the scissors and degree of fault but both got stabbed obviously.

[@natebaxter9551]

​@@Matt-cr4vv2 Cold Scorpio seems to give the most reliable teller.

[@nicoloco6569]

Million Dollar Man still owes Virgil money for being his bodyguard. Maybe Virg can get paid, finally. 😉💸

[@DannieRay23]

So Virgil is now running a time traveler gimmick? Neat

[@frankcabanski9409]

What Virgil does now is Kayfabe. He's playing a character.

[@SuperPeterok]

He did it before Michael J. Fox and Future Trunks! They are both being sued by Virgil as we speak.

[@DefendYoungstown]

Virgil is the lead in a reboot of Quantum Leap

[@XombieLejon66]

Tag team with Kushida confirmed

[@StoneColdSergio]

Virgil is that kid on the playground that claims his uncle works for Nintendo

[@ErwalDeeas]

Bravo, sir! Bravo!

[@serotoninsyndrome]

God, did EVERYONE have that one kid in their class? Is this, like, a universal thing? They were always the kid that had a girlfriend that "went to another school" or had the Mortal Kombat arcade game but it was "at their step-dad's house"...

[@travismcdonald6576]

Virgil is still more honest than Bruce Prichard.

[@CuzStoneColdSaidSo11]

Truth

[@jdspreest]

Virgil was also the person who recommended that Abe Lincoln attend the theatre that faithful night.

[@dkupke]

“The show got great reviews!”

[@mcwhorter141mcwhorter8]

Virg says things like this just to keep his name out there , he's working .

[@runnersdialzero1244]

It's kind of his gimmick these days. It's pretty amusing. You can't take him too seriously.

[@Rhebotchguy]

It’s fake Mc. Just go with the flow kid. Must be from uk

[@smarkslowplay3512]

Hulk taught him well

[@tysontomko]

Virgil as a cartoon is amazing

[@patrickholifield9399]

This needs to be on Dark Side of the Ring

[@markfroman738]

With the dark ominous synth wave music?

[@richardbellardino3994]

Wet fart

[@ADAMdinho1]

Virgil is working everyone out there to keep his name fresh, so Vincent can show up & sell tshirts to get the rent money owed to Shane, who owes that money to Soul Train Jones for the numerous meals, who in turn owes that money for car payments to Curly Bill who still has loan shark payments owed to Lucious Brown, who needs to get Mike Jones off his back for the gas money he owes him.

[@georgenoriegajr]

This is an underrated comment that needs more love

[@fightsports66]

The only reason this comment is not going to get 100 likes is because a lot of people will go "a video about Virgil" and not even bother to watch.

[@____K_____989]

This is the best comment I have read in years. Seriously Thank you.

[@InvisibleHotdog]

Virgil was hoping people would confuse him with 2 Cold Scorpio

[@tysontomko]

Vaders shoot about this was really good. He talks about putting a finger in sid to stop his bleeding

[@Godzilla1982]

Yup. He definitely saved Sid's life.

[@diluted8]

Hole was the size of a quarter, and Vader's thumb for perfectly

[@maxxdahl6062]

@Joshua Sharwood Not really, technically Arn brought the scissors into the fight.

[@ThatDoesntWorkForMeBrother]

Virgil: “I think I made Hulk Hogan’s whole career!”

[@Jim-Tuner]

Crack is a h*ll of a drug.....

[@scottjanvrin6938]

I used to see Virgil at sports memorabilia shows in MD in the mid-00's trying to sell autos and figures. There is no way he made money at those cuz hardly anyone ever bought shit from him

[@dwade6322]

When i saw him at Philly comic con around that same time period he was miserable.

[@alligatorshoes8540]

Virgil knows his house's cochroaches on a first name basis

[@Trill_4_Life]

Virgil is going to get that F**k money 🤣🤣- November 13th 2021

[@frankrivera6384]

Virgil is a pain in the ass at signings, would try to force you to have him sign autographs

[@jamirimaj6880]

Virgil also helped create The Fiend with Bray Wyatt backstage, Vince heard some of the supernatural stuff, and gave it to this tall Mark Calaway guy instead

[@ekmad]

Virgil really is living the gimmick of being an insane old man.

[@philanderphillips2309]

It was apparent that Sid Vicious could imagine anything being a weapon in his hands. Safety scissors, check! Broken off table leg, check!! Squeegee, check!!! Funny how he never used the Softball bat he was accustomed to holding......

[@rl318]

This sounds like one of Sid's best matches and it wasn't even in front of an audience.

[@MikeyMike-uu3fe]

Wasn't it a lot better when Virgil NEVER talked on WWF T.V All those years lol.....We took it for granted damn it

[@slamhubwrestling]

Virgil Loves Olive Garden

[@Chaz4543]

I love how people still refer to him as Virgil even though he was Vincent in WCW and he was part of of the hottest stable of all time. Shows how dumb WCW was for diluting the NWO and adding jobbers to it.

[@budster0709]

He may have been Vincent in the NWO, but there he was just another face in the crowd, with very little exposure. You wouldn't notice him unless you had known him as Virgil in the WWF. He had a presence and identity as the Million Dollar Man's bodyguard, and that's what established his fame, such as it was. He will always be Virgil to just about anyone because that's when he was closest to being a star.

[@frankcabanski9409]

He makes fun of Sid, but when Jim was confronted by Santino, who Jim claimed to have verbally and physically backed down, Jim crumpled like a cheap suit.

[@charliefromstarkvillemissi1852]

Virgil has literally become a meme from his completely petty grasp for fame. Nobody EVER cared about him but for a few weeks, and he was nothing special.

[@gi79304]

Virgil tells about the same amount of tall tales as Hogan does

[@Batony]

And that’s a ton

[@ICHIBAN-cz8ih]

Hulk's lies make a ton more sense than Virgil's

[@mikescott8903]

Mike Graham never drew a dime

[@paulweston8408]

OK, we all know Mike Jones wants paid. The one thing that everyone who has ever been in a locker room with him is he is hung like very few. Why don't he just go the Chyna route (rip) to make his cash. Sadly for him I doubt the lines at his table to just sign photos is ever going to be very long. Put something that is very long on display and he could probably double his asking price plus the money filming would pay him. What does anybody else think?

[@mangrove]

If Virgil in this day can make some coin off of this and other tall tales, bless him.

[@djkokolo1787]

Sid is always comfortable swinging something, chair legs, production cameras, squeegees, softball bats

[@markfroman738]

He’s the master and the ruler of the world!

[@Tim85-y2q]

This is a Hogan level fish story.

[@henrikschmidt3964]

So it WAS Arn that introduced the scissors to the fight, but most would agree it was in self-defense. Sid's retelling of the incident is pretty much like Corny described though. I do think he was shocked at how badly things developed.

[@theunknownone5990]

I think Sid left out the part where he hit Arn with the chair leg first.

[@Matt-cr4vv]

I don’t think there’s ever been much debate over Arn introducing the scissors but more so if it was self defense or if he was the aggressor. I don’t think anybody debates that Sid went back to Arns room to instigate either. The primary difference in how Sid tells it is whether he hit Arn with the chair leg. Sid claims that he went to his room with it but that he thought better of things and tossed away the chair leg and that Arn attacked him. Others say that he hit Arn with it and that Arn defended himself. Who knows the truth but both were obviously wrong.

[@Rjensen2]

​@@theunknownone5990 That's because it wasn't true. He had the chair leg but didn't use it. He backed away from the door, Arn opened it and lunged at Sid, stabbing him four times. Sid then stabbed him many more times and kicked the hell out of him.

[@CometVS]

I was at a flea market in bumfuck Ohio and Virgil was there with all his and older WWF memorabilia.

[@mjdub1013]

He's from Pittsburgh. I see him all the time. Have since I was a kid. He's a mess. He needs serious drug an alcohol rehab. Probably some CT scans.

[@brianm2881]

It wouldn't surprise me if you're not joking because there was that famous photo of him just standing in the middle of Grand Central Station in New York, with a stack of 8x10s and a little sign that said "WWE SUPERSTAR VIRGIL", and just kind of waiting for business that probably never came. I'd love to know why Virgil is like that. He's not a druggie as far as I know. I don't think he was ever part of the party scene, really. Probably made decent money while working for WWF, and WCW (being as stupid with money as they were) probably paid him way more than his market value. And I've also read that had a job teaching maths after leaving wrestling, so he may have some qualification there as well. So, I just have to wonder how all of that leads to being so apparently desperate. Maybe he's just a bit touched, mentally, and wants to get anything he possibly can out of his former modest fame.

[@chadzbirdzofficial4631]

Lol was it Rogers? I've seen him there a few times

[@stevet.2647]

His con is he waits for you to come to his table, makes small talk. "What's your name brother" you say it then he signs a photo and says "$50 my man" when you never asked for the autograph. Then he'll be like "alright, $40"

[@mjdub1013]

@@stevet.2647 ya he's pretty fucked up

[@satsubatsu347]

Virgil taught TK Kirkland how to ride a bike.

[@charlesosborn2877]

Met Virgil in a shopping mall in Maryland back in 2004. My friend was running a baseball card show there and my son and me were set up. Virgil hung out with us all day. Nice guy who seemed down to earth and happy to meet people.

[@DWeb0414]

That Dang Virgil He's A Seller Now But Not So Much In The Ring Squared Circle And It Was 2 Cold Scorpio Flash Funk Who Intervened If I'm Not Mistaken

[@dwade6322]

I saw VIRGIL and Stone Cold at Philly Comic Con about 18 yrs ago...VIRGIL was NOT happy about being there .

[@brenthenshaw3585]

The other funny thing about this, besides the Arn/Sid fight being 5 years after the Barber gimmick started, is that the Barber gimmick started about 4 months before Virgil came to the WWF.

[@ian0143]

Virgil makes Hogan look like honest Abe.

[@ValiantWrestling]

Nah, Bollea's still king of b.s.

[@theantone7476]

But...but Harley Race really did set the ring on fire and shook my hand asking for a job, brother

[@georgenoriegajr]

I would listen to a podcast where Virgil inserted himself into wrestling anecdotes like a wrestling Forrest Gump... I mean, who wouldn't want to be regaled by stories from Virgil like the one where he handed Invader the knife that killed Bruiser Brody? Or the one where he advised Vince to sign this Hulk Something-or-other guy out of Minnesota?

[@louiscsanko3673]

The moral of the story is ,[ Don't play with Scissors

[@mattm6580]

Virgil turning on Dibiase was the highlight of the 91 Rumble and maybe of the whole year. It got one of the biggest pops of any angle up to that point and Virgils reaction was perfect. Just sayin.

[@johnhess9443]

For as huge and scary as Sid was, I love that he still grabbed random shit to assault people with.

[@marlondaniels7912]

He ran away from a fight with Brian Pillman and came back with a Squeegee mop.

[@theimmortalcadaver6300]

​@@marlondaniels7912Sid didn't run away dip ass, and there was no mop. Sid said "wait right here", went to his car and grabbed a squeegee, not a squeegee mop

[@rl318]

I hope Virgil is just working people because if he isn't all the years of concussions and cocaine are warping his mind.

[@allanrodriguez7803]

I came back to this after hearing Virgil pass away...what a legend

[@kevindouglas5333]

Congratulations Hulk...You are no longer the biggest liar walking

[@danielburger1775]

Maybe Virgil is spoofing wrestlers who claim to have been somewhere they obviously weren't? Like Steve Austin and Kevin Nash both vlaim to have witnessed the Vader-Orndorff altercation in 1995, despite neither being in WCW at the time. Or people who falsely say that they are the one who told Dwayne Johnson to call himself "The Rock", and speak in the third person. Or the thousand people who all claim 100% that they and they alone brought Hulk Hogan into WCW.

[@Rjensen2]

Austin was still in WCW at the time, and almost certainly would have been at the Worldwide tapings where it happened.

[@danielburger1775]

@Rjensen2 He had already been fired by mail. And before that he was at home. Austin used to say that Brian Pillman phoned him and told him about it. Over time that turned into Austin saying that he was there himself.

[@Rjensen2]

@@danielburger1775 The "firing by mail" is such a b.s. term. It was exactly what the contract stated needed to be done.

[@joshuaDstarks]

Jim’s take on this fight is always doused in so much bias for Arn Anderson it’s practically palpable.

[@luridan]

Yeah, poor Arn getting hot over a conversation about why WCW wasn't drawing the money they thought it should, thus throwing drinks at and threatening Sid with a broken beer bottle. Both were in the wrong, but leaving out details that make Arn look bad in this is BS by Jim. Also, only 2 people know the circumstances when Arn initially stabbed Sid. One being Sid, who says Arn opened the door and stabbed him then and there. The other is Arn, who won't talk about the incident.

[@KClouisville]

@@luridan Yeah, conveniently leaving out the fact Arn threatened Sid with a broken beer bottle is pretty weak. Especially knowing Jim's legendary temper....you think if someone threatened to cut up Jim with a broken beer bottle he wouldn't have grabbed anything he could and came at them later? Sheeeiit.

[@MilMaska]

"He (Virgil) was supposed to come in, take a couple shots and get eliminated. He started hanging around. I said, 'Dude, you gotta go,' and he lit me with a shot, and I was like alright, you (angered me). Now you're going to take some shots." - Kevin Nash

[@PaulieD1984]

I've always wondered why Nash started hitting Virgil with heavy duty bombs

[@JasonJohnContos]

Once again I am considering committing a crime or suing somebody just so I can hire Steven P. New.

[@jpowers55]

We need a dark side of the ring episode about the scissor incident.

[@constablekennedy7705]

Travis Heckel might need to be Careful because ‘Virgil’ will do anything for a Buck and might get Stephen P New to Help him Sue for being used in the Thumbnail … 👀

[@whidoineedthis]

Hell get some fuck money fo sure

[@thegolem9325]

Virgil is just... sad. His social media accounts are full of so much delusional attention-seeking shit it's pathetic. If this is really him and he's not trying to work people he needs to get help.

[@craigc3034]

Think you need to get a sense of humour mate. How can you not know he’s taking the piss 😂

[@Fortniteclipz2014]

@@craigc3034 so are all those autograph signings in empty car parks with no one there a wind up too ? !

[@scrappy93]

Bischoff if I remember told the story and why Sid got fired and why Arn didn't. His story about it was different from what Jim said. Basically he said somebody had to be fired and it seem it was going to be Arn, but Flair saved his job and Sid got fired.

[@luridan]

Yeah, Eric said the people at Turner wanted them both fired too. Also that Arn stirred the pot and instigated most of the situation. Eric's details are also very vague, which is par for the course with him.

[@danw2112]

RIP Virgil

[@louiscsanko3673]

Mr. New is a Wrestling Fan!! He would be my attorney, if I ever get arrested, [ knock on wood

[@lisavee4670]

I don't know if Pullman could have beat Sid...

[@Rjensen2]

Why? Because Sid was bigger? That doesn't guarantee anything.

[@guardian08527]

Very creepy. I was watching a video from Cornette talking about Ole Anderson a few days ago and then Ole died, I just watched this video last night and now we lost Virgil! RIP.

[@clarkkent983]

Who else sing along the Steven P New song with Corny...? 🙋 Every time

[@Rjensen2]

You're probably the only one.

[@jeremywilliams8160]

You can unscrew the top off those gas station squeegees. The handle by itself is a great weight to be a baton. You could def do some damage with it.

[@joeboggio4002]

I loved that AEW used him because it was giving a starving dog a bone. He's so nuts though. Lol.

[@Pogo113]

So the fight in 1991 spawned a gimmick Beefcake started in 1987?

[@Rjensen2]

No, 1993.

[@walterclark3198]

I feel like Virgil is going to make a shirt with this on it and try to sell it for 25 bucks online.

[@imnotsickler]

I never knew it was grooming scissors, always wondered how the incident wasn't more violent considering.

[@max__p1765]

And in the back, you heard the laughter of the Million Dollar Man - and then his music was played 🤣

[@johnnyd6135]

Virgil was there. He time traveled and gave Brutus Beefcake the gimmick and took him back 5 years prior to use it lol

[@Alanthe918mobilemechanic]

Virgil is the same guy who exposed himself on ig then tried to play it off like his lil grand father nuts actually came out his shorts. It’s sad and funny to see what old tv ppl do for attention

[@1983jcheat]

He actually wants credit for creating the Barber gimmick? 😅🤣😂

[@bennylegend7556]

Arn brought the scissors to the fight...

[@leelohaskin7941]

Jim knows this but keeps intentionally omitting that part out, hmm wonder why....

[@tonyjackson4078]

@@leelohaskin7941 he got hit with a huge stick by a guy 6'6 feet tall in an unprovoked attack. It's called defending yourself. He's just lucky Arn left his Glock in the car😂😂😂

[@kevindouglas5333]

I love people pretending to know more than people who were there and know people who were there

[@bennylegend7556]

I may have been slightly & slowly stirring it when I made that comment. Tbh I read it in a local newspaper at the time because the incident happened at a Hotel (no longer there) about 6-7 miles away from here and I was a frequent viewer of WCW Saturday Night which aired very early on Sunday mornings in the UK.

[@luridan]

@KaneMagus Jim, who was not there, says Sid hid behind the door and attacked Arn with the broken chair leg. Col. Robert Parker who was Sid's manager at the time, who was also not there, says Sid faked a handshake then beat Arn with the broken chair leg. Sid, who was there, claims he tossed the broken chair leg down the hallway before Arn opened the door. Arn has gone on record to say he'd never talk about the incident and still hasn't. The only other person that was close to being there at the time was 2 Cold Scorpio, who got there right at the tail end of the fight and helped break it up. Vader and Stone Cold came into it in the aftermath when Sid almost bled out and Vader put his thumb in the wound to stop the bleeding. This whole story is a mess and keeps getting changed by guys, like Jim, that's weren't even there. This is the first time I've heard that Sid hid behind the door and ambush Arn. He also omitted the whole Arn throwing drinks and threatening Sid with a broken beer bottle before this happened because Sid said that old guys like Flair were holding younger talent down, which has been said by multiple guys there were there at the time for that. Also, the police report confirms what Sid was saying to be more accurate in that the chair leg was tossed down the hallway and not used, plus it had no blood on it.

[@jonathanbohm6489]

Virgil is like the boogeyman in OVW he actually thinks he’s a good wrestler just like the boogeyman thought he genuinely was the boogeyman

[@dpcrawford83]

Just the mention of Virgil and Corny starts laughing.

[@budster0709]

Just the mention of Virgil and ANYONE would start laughing. Virgil doesn't have fame, he has infamy. He is, was, and ever will be a punchline. He may be a nice guy as what some people said, but in the wrestling biz, he is jobber royalty.

[@801leggy]

Virgil's IG is troll gold

[@terrybeal2252]

Sounds like Virgil took lying lessons from Hulk Hogan. 😂

[@positively_broad_st3780]

Virgil came up with the Andre the Giant gimmick...

[@MarquisLeary34]

Did Virgil take a lot of head shots in his career? I mean, it would explain this nonsense....

[@CrackCrackCracker]

Virgil makes Hogan look like the most honest and reputable person on the planet.

[@ladistar]

Damn hahaha so true him and hogan are the biggest liars in pro wrestling history

[@frankcabanski9409]

The original barber gimmick was this: "Everyone has some hair. Everyone needs a cut. That costs money money money money moneeeeeeeeeeeee eee eeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

[@phillynott6811]

So does this mean Virgil is now confusing himself with 2 cold Scorpio?

[@Snake-on9eb]

Virgil can come to my sons bah mitzvah for free

[@HisBubbliness]

Mike Jones never ceases to entertain...for the wrong reasons.

[@trafficality]

How do we get Virgil to team up with Marty Janetti?

[@WWJD85]

It's creppy that both Ole and Arn Anderson got stabbed.

[@Rjensen2]

Creepy how?

[@scottclark7592]

virgil thinks he is the forrest gump of wrestling

[@daleharris3809]

This is the kind of lie I would have expected in the Hulk Hogan clip from a couple weeks back

[@stevensingleton6742]

I think Brutus got the barber gimmick before Virgil even debuted.

[@ICHIBAN-cz8ih]

Virgil arrived in late 87 if I'm right

[@derekmathis6245]

What's the chance this person watched a 2 cold scorpio account of the Arn and Sid incident and thought it was Virgil?

[@chrischar9428]

What

[@slyfox2022]

Virgil goin hard trying to stay relevant

[@renafan3333]

No Virgil is legitimately a nutcase! lol

[@AHalevonEric]

Sid tells it in such a way that makes Arn the aggressor.

[@danielburger1775]

Arn was the aggressor. And before that, they were arguing in the bar. Arn hit Sid in the head with a beer bottle. But it was broken up before anything else happened. So, THAT'S why Sid would go to Arn's room. Because Arn smashed him in the head with a beer bottle.

[@Rjensen2]

Arn definitely was. Flair saved his job.

[@ishfaqakram8260]

Vaders account was key in this incident

[@Jim-Tuner]

....and he should be PAID for it

[@ricolewis2949]

2 different DECADES!

[@sickboy703]

I love Virgil. Absolute legend.

[@louiscsanko3673]

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