Jim Cornette on Why Paul Heyman Got In Trouble In WCW

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[@thefi5th86]

Paul Heyman the type of guy to steal a mcnugget from his son when he's not looking

[@Unclejack328]

😂😂😂

[@jgrimes5353]

It looks as though he stole one too many 😆

[@NobodyNewsNetwork]

The ONLY comment on the internet that has ever made me actually laugh out loud. Ha!!!!!!!

[@YogsenForfoth]

This is the best comment of all time. 😂

[@jakoclown4175]

I like em already

[@violagreene4643]

Heyman: I was suspended for BS reasons. Cornette: The reason Paul was suspended was because everyone was tired of all of Paul's BS.

[@theatagamer90]

Well he never said WHO'S BS got him suspended.

[@tacotom3492]

Heyman claims he was a stock market wizard but he was really stealing plane ticket/hotel money ?...shocker 🤔😂

[@joeyowens1974]

ConArtists.

[@smarkslowplay3512]

Clown

[@robwilliamson9056]

He’s the type of guy who would step outta the shower to take a piss!

[@bruiser40000]

😂😂😂 what do u expect from a Jjjjuuuuuu

[@jtaco4101]

​@@bruiser40000To be a wizard with the stock market tbh. Lol

[@mercoid]

The Paul Heyman Story, starring Jim Belushi.

[@samclark379]

Shut up and take my money!

[@IsaacBeImont]

It would be a good idea if anyone wanted to work with Belushi. He's a tool.

[@ScarFace5566]

Maybe young Paul. Current Paul gotta be played by Danny Devito!!

[@whome6415]

Jim Cornette was the creative mind behind Animal House. He also told Hulk Hogan that Randy Savage was okay with him doing the elbow drop from the top rope.

[@zenoftupac9096]

Heyman’s China Club story & others that were NY regional in nature were part of the Airline ticket Con. He was telling these stories to Cornette & others to reinforce the idea that he was going back & forth to NY , when he was in fact staying in Atlanta. He made them fantastical in nature as to heighten the chances of independent re-telling by the people he told & thus reinforcing his alleged travel thruout the network of wrestlers/office in the company. Whether people believed his stories or not it worked both ways , no one ever thought or bothered to doubt the mundane details of his stories - only the exciting details. It still did the job of reinforcing “Heyman - NYC” even if people thought he was full of BS. He’s a classic con man thru and thru

[@NateNizzle]

Wow.. Smh.. You can't con a con man.

[@truindividual]

So that's what they mean by Heyman Hustle

[@tacotom3492]

@sneksnekitsasnek so he had a guy to get him out of fraud. Genius

[@sullyb23511]

I can listen to Corny tell stories ALL DAY!

[@curtisgraham657]

Same here!

[@daleva187goligo]

he looks like late 80s jim belushi in that pic

[@johnschmitt6564]

Thats real good

[@victorspell1]

I was gonna type that too lol

[@TheSaltySeaman]

He looks like a young Michael Keaton too, hence the name. He’s named after the Keaton character Jonny Dangerously.

[@thomasc.5219]

@@joere-uploader5766 I have never seen the comparison of Keaton. Belushi yes but I never understood when they say he looked like Batman. Not like it's a big deal, just saying.

[@youngtate3891]

@@thomasc.5219 Same, looks nothing like Keaton to me.

[@Narrate918]

The Heyman/Nicholson story never gets old

[@ryanporzl1990]

I fucking love these Heyman stories. I don't know what's more hilarious: figuring out how to refund the plane tickets or Prichard's story of him calling into a conference call at his parent's house while suspended. Heyman's life is a real life sitcom or comedy where the main protagonist thinks of "get rich quick" schemes.

[@deadaccount7520]

Thats a classic heyman. Just crooked enough added to pretty close to genius intelligence. City version of mr. Heaney from green acres. Wonder if rick james and charlie murphy were at the china club.

[@DeathBringer769]

Speaking of, Heyman also used to work at Studio 54 back in his younger days -- exactly the place most of those crazy Rick James/Charlie Murphy stories took place as told on The Chappelle Show :D

[@lawrence142002]

I mean, what if Paul was telling the truth about that Jack Nicholson story? He is an actual wrestling fan, after all, and he did watch the TBS show because he was a big Flair fan.

[@mikewillette570]

I never get tired of Paul E. stories. lmao

[@ScarFace5566]

The plane ticket schemes didn't end there for Paul E. He used to have the ECW wrestlers say they were flying to see a dying relative in the hospital when ECW would have shows in the mid-west, west coast and southern states. Even though they weren't going to see them, What a Shyster!

[@xxxaragon]

IRWIN, IRWIN!

[@clarknapper3933]

mharris1270

[@clarknapper3933]

I remember Chris Jericho mentioning getting a berivment fare to go to his cousin's funeral from Paul. The cousin? Chris Benoit.

[@daleva187goligo]

that's like that old seinfeld episode, where george and kramer try to pull that one but of course it backfires... the same episode of "you double dipped the chip"

[@keithharper1470]

Clark Napper Jericho does a spot on impersonation of Ron Simmons in that interview

[@johnathanclark79]

And Paul was a booker that couldn’t pay his wrestlers?

[@americasevilgenius]

A Mattie in the House reference...I drank a lot back in the 1990's...I'm convinced that one of the reasons I drank so much back in college was to purge myself of the memory of Mattie in the House. And it worked...until now...

[@americasevilgenius]

I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm...Not...Sorry!!!!! Well...I sure was...

[@thatpart]

Great, fellas. I hadn't remembered this since around 1995. PTSD! :)

[@BzaafiedTheFerocious]

Well Jack Nicholson IS a wrestling fan. In fact I heard he had wanted to induct Ric Flair in the HoF. I imagine him wooing at a restaurant and his response to the patron asking if he just "wooed".

[@handsomebrick]

And even if he wasn't, the story would still make sense, you can imagine Paul at the club drawing attention to himself, Jack Nicholson asks someone "who's that guy" and they tell him "he's Paul E Dangerously, a pro wrestling manager who gets hit with a tennis racket," the rest writes itself.

[@takerdust]

I saw Chyna in the China club

[@l1zrdking]

Jack is a known pro wrestling fan though, Ive read that on more than one occasion.

[@mikelong2756]

Paul cutting a promo on American Airlines 😂

[@k.j.hallingswest5231]

The phone was the best, it changed every T.V. taping. Most of the time it was just a cordless land line hand set.

[@kennethmalone4689]

This has absolutely nothing to do with wrestling but every time I hear a story about Paul's cordless it reminds me that I used to work at a big box store. It got horribly busy at Christmas and I spent so much time running to the phone hanging on one of those poles. I fixed that by plugging in a cordless in its place. Lol

[@meavid]

Paul can’t handle the truth!

[@kshinokevin]

"I Want the Truth !" = Paul E. - (as Tom Cruise / Lt. Daniel K.) a (few) Good Man; "You can't Handle the Truth !" - Jack Nicholson (as Col. Nathan J.)

[@Quirky76]

Let me just say that I went to the China Club back in 2004...and I was not impressed.

[@melbias5046]

by then it just wasnt the same.

[@IronDiva]

It was shit at that point, and a different location

[@Deadpool_64]

Imagine going there in the 80s, wow it would have been wild.

[@madamefeast4824]

2004 would not be an ideal time lol. About 20 years too late

[@HD-mm1iz]

Much respect to Heyman, reading and researching Heyman's history in the business, he's always been someone who wanted to be self made. One of my favorite managers, Bobby The Brain is my all time though lol

[@mikepeterson764]

The story is true. George Burns told me so at the China buffet.

[@ericgilbert56]

Now I'm stuck in a room of people who slightly remember a televised wrestling event that had a camera shot or panned over to Jack Nicholson in the audience....

[@othertalk3313]

Stereotypes don't just come out of nowhere, folks.

[@walterclark3088]

Paul Heyman is a wrestling genius but at times he's unloyal and deceptive.

[@LordSathar]

why he's been able to stick around so long, all showbiz involves a little hustle

[@freedomisslavery6840]

Heyman is literally the Jewish stereotype.

[@Lemme-sniff-ya]

Or the new Yorker stereotype.

[@vallisdaemonumofficial]

Just like 99% of all characters in wrestling are stereotypes? 😅

[@borklazer]

Nicholson is a huge wrestling fan. I kinda believe part of it.

[@mikegeiler2347]

And the best part of this video is Brian bringing up Matty in the House

[@pronkb000]

Cornette did a remarkable impersonation of Paul E. doing an impersonation of Jack Nicholson.

[@no_stick_drummer2735]

I wonder if Paul Heyman had anything to do with CM Punk winning his court case

[@myquest666420]

sneksnekitsasnek stop the anti Semitic shit. Zionists are the problem. Jews are fine.

[@davidqueppet1406]

Marty in The House was a producer of the original ECW. Matt Radico if I remember correctly.

[@makaveli087]

That picture of Heyman with THE BRICK. omg. As unbearable as the *thought* of the sound of Heyman's voice is - That is a gem of media right there.

[@azapro911]

Heyman truly is an evil genius. 😂

[@Pillar5770]

Just listened to Nikita Koloff talk about cashing in plane tickets and collecting the money. Paul Heyman wasn't alone in this practice. WCW set themselves up for failure.

[@princeofcupspoc9073]

The "south" is known for people being more honest, and they think that other people are honest the same way. TBS didn't understand business outside Georgia. Think of it the same way that the entirety of the "south" were bamboozled by an orange orangatan real estate scheister from NY, and put him into office. Too damn trusting.

[@Pillar5770]

@@princeofcupspoc9073 As Nikita explained it, WCW wanted all of their wrestlers to move to Atlanta. Many, including Nikita, refused. WCW kept issuing refundable plane tickets to wrestlers for travel out of Atlanta. Nikita would exchange his tickets to travel out of Charlotte, which was cheaper, and He pocketed the remaining money. Paul Heyman and many others did the same thing. It wasn't honesty on WCW's part, just plain stupidity.

[@magnegrofromx-people4325]

@@princeofcupspoc9073 what people aren’t bamboozled by career politicians?

[@knuke9596]

Scam E. Dangerously why am I not surprised by any of this. lol

[@rumtuckskatter]

Jim Cornette's comment section founded the women's wrestling revolution. Needs more Charlotte Flair though.

[@rashawn2323]

Heyman is just a pure bred hustler

[@henryweiner9581]

Ok if I recall he was suspended by herd probably in 91 had to do with Paul talking with Memphis and the uswa and Eddie Gilbert. Can anyone add on this ?

[@kevp8485]

The ticket scam was pretty clever. I wonder how much Paul made off of that before they figured it out.

[@mrsquishyboots]

4 tickets a month for 4 months plus hotel receipts. 15-20k maybe.

[@michaelautrey6641]

so he was just flat out stealing from the company he worked for.he is lucky he wasnt charged with a crime.

[@AngelSanchez-dw4gs]

And you should to they are stealing from you too haven't you notice. yet there is nothing wrong to steal from some who is stealing from you its called getting even my boy son

[@MadeAlurik]

@@AngelSanchez-dw4gswat

[@Masutora]

The China Club is also where Rick James told Charlie Murphy what the five fingers said to the face.

[@Masutora]

You know when I first started listening to these audio clips, I thought Jim was talking to Paul Heyman... 😅

[@DJ_LP_ViBE]

Wow, I remember Matty in the House.

[@sk8terboi10003]

My name is Paul Heyman and you cant suspend me

[@wyattrussell7496]

I’m getting tired of seeing Cesar on a commercial crying, telling me that going to school for minimum wage saved his life after he lost his home to a hurricane while his wife had cancer.

[@sketchstevens5859]

Honestly ik some guys that do the same with Greyhound

[@thorboysen3318]

Paul "Belushi" Heyman got a lot of "Red Heat" with WCW!

[@shyjames83]

Jack Nicholson has been a HUGE wrestling fan for decades...the story isn’t as far fetched at it may seem

[@rafaelrivera7311]

Does anyone know, what happend with Victor Rivera, Black Gorman and Golliat?

[@thumbsofgod]

Rafael Rivera Email Jim on the show and ask him.

[@melbias5046]

google the names

[@melbias5046]

rivera was something in cailfornia in the mid 70's remember him well he and gordman and goliath

[@terronherring7402]

What a guy

[@cacallis86]

wait Paulie was a ConMAN (no💩) 🤣🤣 he got too greedy

[@joshuaDstarks]

I wouldn’t trust Paul Heyman to tell me the time.

[@herbalist110377]

So Heyman was the one who told James Mitchell that SMW was closing down. Then when Mitchell asked about it, he got fired.

[@sc30002001]

Böbby H. Blänk yes but at the same time Wade Keller printed it out in the magazine or newspaper. So Keller got most of the blame. the timing was spot on.

[@herbalist110377]

If you listen to the interview with James Mitchell, Corny had thought it was Wade Keller, James Mitchell said no, then said "It was someone who once tapped you on the shoulder and said someone had told them to 'watch the racket" or something to that effect.

[@sc30002001]

Böbby H. Blänk yes he said if that rings a bell. Jim told James he's writing a smokey mountain book. I don't know how far he's gotten.

[@kingsqueadly2782]

i remember matty in the house, goddamn he was the worst.

[@davidgerow]

I don’t believe anything that comes out of Paul’s mouth.

[@kpllc4209]

It's just perplexing

[@Stubby1085]

The Jack Nicholson story 😂

[@TheIrishny]

I respect that hustle. Smart.

[@michaelautrey6641]

why couldnt jack nicholson be a wrestling fan?i think it would fit with his character.

[@lemankurtz8950]

So Jack went down to Chinatown then to NYC to the Chinaclub?

[@Ratt2004]

Calling it right now....every single comment below, except for Aaron's, are catfish accounts or spam profiles.

[@jmferr2011]

Lr Adams duh.

[@rumtuckskatter]

Lr Adams - no shit Sherlock

[@revolverbossalot6176]

Lr Adams right after your comment I see two Charlottes and a Sasha...haha

[@nicholasterzick7140]

Exactly

[@DarksaberForce]

What if Paul became WCW booker instead of going to ECW?

[@cameron3578]

DarksaberForce it'd never work

[@SuperDevolution]

Either the 90s would have reached WCW and the WWF a few years earlier than they actually did, or WCW would have gone bankrupt a few years earlier than they actually did. Knowing Paul's reputation with money, probably the latter.

[@davidlewis5312]

I don't see how it would matter. Assuming the same contracts would be signed, the problem would remain. At least some of them. Also NWO might not have happened and if so, what is the spark that lights the fire?

[@PatkaBoy831]

Turner Television didn't like the more adult themes of the 1990s.. Paulie would've been fired for making suggestions about going in that direction long before he would've made it to actually booking the thing. Kevin Nash always said they flopped because WWF was going in the direction that was now acceptable on television.

[@757jlhood]

Why didn't Paul E use that big ass cell phone lol?

[@dionruffin3996]

Even before ECW Paulie was scamming 😂

[@tomsmithson2401]

Yeah And WCW Fired Jim Cornette Before His 90 Days Were Even Up LOL

[@thebrood138]

I buy it. I bet Jack still watches.

[@truindividual]

Aaron Kenney man, can you imagine talking wrestling with him? Bet he got stories for days

[@kennymcbair7323]

Turner An Hooche’ I’d Pay Fifty-Bucks To See Ric Flare Fire someone’ My Liver Just fell-out 😆 this 😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣afternoon ‘ (One More Edit) Cornette on the Cobb

[@sc30002001]

Does anyone have solaflex scam I hope I got that right

[@mrbigdiick2757]

It's in a old video pretty much paul sent videos to everyone he knew and got paid just to send the videos

[@troll-fx2zc]

Can we get a Corny 24/7 channel please

[@LethalBubbles]

based for out expoiting the airline scammers

[@tobiasfarragut292]

Forgot about the Paul E. China club story, shit had laughing in the kitchen eatin a sandwich

[@Metalic1]

What about WWF taking the guys FF miles and use them to buy more tickets!

[@matthewgranahan9759]

At the risk of being Brutally Honest Paul Heyman sounds like a Stereotypical Jewish Individual

[@jeste4187]

Hey, it ain’t hate if it’s truth.

[@mrsquishyboots]

So Heyman stole 15k from wcw?

[@MisterJessel]

Heyman the flim-flam man😂

[@tritchie6272]

Sounds to me like Heyman was a con artist.

[@al56890]

Paul heyman is a legend Wait! I'm not the charlotte flair account

[@CamaroAmx]

mharris1270 basically ECW was owed a lot of money from PPV and Aclaim and those companies figured that if they held off paying ECW long enough, ECW would go out of business and they were right. TNN screwed them over and put out a bad word about ECW to the other networks mostly so the WWE would come on to their network (ECW was kicked off TNN, even though it was one of TNNs highest rated shows, to make room for WWE. Ironically WWE didn’t stay on TNN for very long and it opened the door for TNA and UFC) and there would be very little outside competition. If ECW was paid what they were owed before the bankruptcy, ECW would of at least had broken even and that would given ECW the time to get enough money to stay afloat until a TV could of been reached. But since ECW didn’t get the money owed to them, they had no money and a lot of unpaid bills due. Not sure if the WWE ended up receiving the ECW owed money (which would mean that the WWE made money off the purchase of ECW alone). Basically It was equivalency of holding a steak just out of reach of a starving dog until the dog starved to death and then justifying that you didn’t have to give the dog the steak because the dog would of died anyway.

[@jakehousley3080]

Is that not heyman on the talk show with him

[@CertifiedHuSTLer]

Are u kidding i wish

[@Zebojr2kool]

All the people that Jim Cornett does not like from Vinny route to Paul Heyman to Eric Bischoff the only thing these people have in common is Jim Cornett methinks may have found the problem.Jim you are the problem

[@popachellione6799]

Yeah right 😂

[@walterclark3198]

Lol Heyman would refund his travel tickets and get cash back when working for wcw. Heyman was a hustler.

[@assumptionisthemotherofall9760]

So basically Paul is a good con man!

[@crucifixmegabuster95]

Paul is a true Jew for that one.

[@official_deathcast]

Hahaha. People who aren't from the East Coast will automatically think your bashing them lol.

[@MattSingh1]

Jason Voorheese- I'm not Hindu. And Hindus don't even worship cows you uncultured Neanderthal. Typical white, heterosexual male that's a totally unenlightened knuckle-dragger.

[@michaelzelazny6491]

DoctrineOfMayhem I am eastern European I don't find it offending

[@crucifixmegabuster95]

Matthew Singh-Dosanjh I hope you all realize on the same stone cold in question. He (paul heyman) refers to himself as Jew and how he can make others do the work for him. So all go fuck yourselves.

[@cameronmccarthy6359]

Hustle 101

[@kennethmalone4689]

Paul's a creep even in real life. Lol

[@Ijustinsultedyou]

So is Kenneth Malone Senior

[@liamjohnston5099]

That hardly makes him a creep. He's definitely a con man but calling him a creep is very harsh

[@kennethmalone4689]

@@Ijustinsultedyou yes, he was from time to time. He even admitted as much..

[@kennethmalone4689]

@@liamjohnston5099 I made a statement mocking an individual. The literal definition of creep is one who is "unpleasant." It's entirely subjective in this case as we measure things in degrees from most to least...from the most pleasant to the least pleasant in this case. To me, he's unpleasant. Besides, I was being facicious.

[@ThisCharmingMan1984]

I reckon the life, lies, shenanigans, and scams, of Paul Heyman, would make for a great film; he’s sort of like Ed Wood, crossed with P.T. Barnum. Just about everybody who knows him, understands what a manipulative, lying scheming, bastard he is; yet, the majority of those same people, still seem to like him, no matter how many times he’s lied, or bullshitted them…it’s really quite astounding haha.

[@lukemcinerny8220]

Oy vey

[@brucewhite360]

🤓🎾

[@dustintrips3168]

Paul looks like a young donald trump in that picture LMFAO.

[@Ijustinsultedyou]

He looks like Dustin Trips Senior

[@sheriffofrockridge9095]

He must be Jewish

[@freddyvidz]

I can't stand Paul E. Dangerously

[@Ijustinsultedyou]

And he doesn’t even know you exist

[@freddyvidz]

@@Ijustinsultedyou Nor do I know you exist.

[@Ijustinsultedyou]

freddyvidz exactly.... so nobody gives a shit what you can’t stand

[@daleva187goligo]

heyman, a true jew

[@mad4669]

Heyman really Jewed WCW