Jim Cornette on Working with WCW in 1993 and Eric Bischoff

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[@retronerdlife4292]

After a stressful day, i just put it on jim cornette and let his calming voice serenade me into a blissful deep sleep.

[@themachodudeanimations6458]

That's what I'm doing right now 🤣

[@johnasbury3856]

Old Jimmy C baby. Old school and traditional to the core. True Legend.

[@kca49]

"It was balled up and pulled straight out of his ass." lol.

[@chriscornelius2518]

Watts tried to push his son, Eric Watts. Preferential treatment happens all the time, but that was ridiculous.

[@chriscornelius2518]

Alexander Weisberg yep exactly.

[@professor-josh]

Oh, it's Alice. Made me jump a little lol.

[@suchiuomizu]

Easy to forget about her, if you go long enough without watching the really old videos.

[@montecarlo4294]

True story about Eric Bischoff. He started working in the a.w.a. office in 1987. Their regular tv interviewer/host got arrested for dwi. Verne Gagne put Bischoff on tv as the host on 2 hours notice, mostly because he was wearing a suit jacket. And..the rest is history. The luck that that clown had

[@kamfisher1714]

You’re delusional

[@toma.4808]

By then nobody was really watching awa. Their talent was gone and they had less than half an audience attending, Eric wasn't doing any major harm, the awa was already a sinking ship

[@brandonhyden6484]

Got to love Cornys passion , love , brain for wrestling . He is truly a tresure 2 wrestling fans

[@gabrielshupe8927]

Seen a WCW house show in Bristol Va Tn in 1993

[@YogsenForfoth]

It’s hilarious how much more successful Jim’s podcast is compared to Bischoff’s. It’s not even close. 😂

[@blairjayson]

But Jim, how do you really feel about Eric Bischoff?

[@brucewhite360]

I see that type of comment almost in every video. Is that some type of inside joke? I mean Jim tells exactly how he really feels.

[@connor7177]

@@brucewhite360 It's always been an inside joke with people. It's like "oh Jim's beating around the bush or beating around a dead horse and not telling how he feels" when clearly you can hear the hate and disdain in Jim's voice about how much he hates Russo, Bischoff and Mark Madden etc. People need to need to understand that #1 Jim doesn't hold back about how he feels about the people I just mentioned, #2 the sarcasm is pretty much out of control in whatever Jim Cornette video I watch. It's bullshit.

[@ccmanize]

I wonder if Cornette will speak all this shit to Bischoff in person at the HOF this week?

[@jeffreyriley8742]

Bill Watts banned moves off the top rope and that was a major, major mistake while it lasted.

[@stormydavis8546]

They actually had an ANGLE for that, but never went through with it.

[@markgolden9104]

The purpose was for heels to try to get away with doing it behind the referee's back. It's storytelling and psychology, something rarely used today.

[@chrischar9428]

@MemphoWrasslin1 great for 1973 not 1993

[@chrischar9428]

@MemphoWrasslin1 rough years until flair and savage

[@michaelcoffey498]

interesting stuff.

[@rowdycmoore]

So is "the fat guy in Pittsburgh" the sportswriter that was doing a story on Watts and sent Hank Aaron (who was working for Turner at the time since Turner owned the Braves baseball team) a fax in Feb. 1993 that revealed Watts had said some pretty racist things in an interview with the "Pro Wrestling Torch" newsletter? Corny trying to minimize the fact that Watts would have gotten fired anyway even if he hadn't been frustrated with what TBS did and didn't allow him to do?

[@Connor-ki8zv]

To summarize who it was, it was Mark Madden. The guy who sucked up to Eric Bischoff to get the job he wanted.

[@gogosolar21]

in a way, this show's how clever Bishoff really is. lol!

[@erronblack1]

I wonder what he would say if one was to tell Jim here that a couple of years from now he and Bisch would be yucking it up on a WWE program. Goes to show that holding grudges over minor wrestling quibbles is a bad idea.

[@bostonbrian2652]

Hey money talks...I'd spend one day a week talking to my ex bitch if the moneys right.

[@brett919]

Til Bischoff shared a hatred of Russo.

[@jordandoughty1970]

Brett Moore haha was just thinking the same

[@Timmyk5150]

Gee, 609 Bitchoff got the NWO idea from Smoky Mountain before the New Japan/UWFi angle???? Say it ain't so!!!! 😂😂😂

[@arnabmukhopadhyay7078]

I laugh at some of the clowns in the comment section knocking Watts for pushing his son hard...Remind me again, how much money Garrett Bischoff ever drew in ratio to the amount invested on him(including and not limited to main eventing ppvs and being booked against established stars while he himself was as green as the dollar bills he never drew)?

[@chrischar9428]

When was he in wcw

[@MrMojoman1976]

Who is the woman interviewing him?

[@Andysnyc]

Andrew Harrell Alice Headley, original co-host of "The Jim Cornette Experience". "The Great" Brian Last of the "605 Super podcast" is now the current co-host.

[@RagingCookie127]

AsnycnowRadio What actually happened to make Alice quit? I heard she got upset over something

[@connordripps1480]

@@RagingCookie127 it was over a Muslim rant Jim did and I guess Alice didn't like it and she as they say took her ball and went home.

[@seanbonella]

easily offended woman, theres a rarity

[@jamminjohn]

I wish I could meet people as gullible as Bischoff did.

[@TheHypnoManNation]

We all do...

[@jeremybayne5895]

why is an opera singer on grass?

[@bostonbrian2652]

Lol..I didn't see the pic your reffering to! I thought u was actually setting up a joke to be told!! I laughed so damn hard....oh shit

[@FreneticZetetic]

1993 had a handful of great matches, but on the whole was a shit year for pro wrestling all around IMO.

[@FreneticZetetic]

1995 was absolutely the worst year for all promotions. I have a soft spot for 1991-1994, though. Shit time but some amazing athletes, angles, and the match quality was through the roof (despite the cartoony gimmicks).

[@Methodius93]

@@FreneticZetetic 1995 in AJPW was great.

[@Timmyk5150]

@Harvey McElroy the best match of 1993, IMHO was in AJPW with Kenta Kobashi vs. Stan Hansen.

[@danielboom72]

You're all correct. 93, 94, 95 were dark days

[@jesuszamora6949]

Wait, Corny thought WWE Network wouldn't work?

[@CarlMarxPunk]

Everyone in their mother's were shitting on the network when it came out.

[@brandonhyden6484]

Facts , i was excited about it because of the library but people who worked in the busniess were worriee because p.p.v's went 2 9.99 a month , vince seen how low ppv numbers were dipping to and felt that having his guarenteed 10 $ a month from his subscribers was better then low sales at 30.00 a piece. No one knew how great NXT would become with Triple h running the creative aspect of it , it was a big investment and huge gamble that paid off and will continue to pay off for a long time. With NXT now like a old school Teritory for Flordia area that is no longer original content provuded to the network , as Vince got paid a huge sum of cash to make it a USA NETWORK ORIGINAL , I WONDER WHAT THEY WILL DO OTHER THEN PROMOTE NXT U.K. AS THERE NEXT DEVOLPMENTAL TERRITORY , I HOPE AL SNOW GETS PAID LOTS OF MONEY FOR O.V.W. AND IT HAVING LOCAL T.V., HOPEFULLY IT CAN BE PRODUCED BY WWE NETWORK AS THERE NEXT ENHANCEMENT TALENT TERRITORY , LOUISVILLE , CINCINNATI AND OTHER MAJOR CITIES IN THE MID WEST WHERE YOU CAN RUN GOOD HOUSES FOR SHOWS IF THEY TAKE THE TIME 2 BUILD IT RIGHT WITH THERE ELITE TOP DEVOLPMENTAL GUYS GETTING THERE START THERE. IT WOULD BE AWESOME TO SEE THEM DO THAT OR BUY SOMETHING LIKE R.O.H. OR AAA , OR WORK OUT A DEAL WITH NEW JAPAN TO BUY INTO THE PROMOTION AND INTRODUCE THE WWE AUDIENCE TO THE BEST WRESTLING OUTSIDE OF THE USA. NEW JAPAN WOULD HAVE 2 GIVE VINCE A VERY GOOD DEAL TO PRODUCE AND EXPOSE THERE PRODUCT TO HIS CUSTOMERS , BUT I BELIEVE VINCE IS ABOUT TO MAKE A REAL POWER PLAY TO HAVE AS MUCH CONTENT ON THE NETWORK AS HE CAN , THE NETWORK HAS TO EVOLVE WITH NXT NOW A USA TV PRODUCTION . I BELIEVE HE IS GOING TO KILL AEW BEFORE IT MAKES IT 5 YEARS , THE FIRST STEP TO MERGING THESE INDY PROMOTIONS VINCE IS ALREADY INTERESTED AND TALKING ABOUT BUYING THE FITE NETWORK WITCH IS WHERE A LOT OF TV AND PPV FOR INDY PROMOTIONS IS BROADCASTED AS FITE OWNS A LARGE PERCENTAGE OF WHATEVER CONTENT HAS BEEN PRODUCED OR BROADCASTED BY THERE NETWORK ( A LOT MORE WRESTLING VINCE WOULD HAVE A CONTROLING INTEREST IN AND INDY SHOWS AND PPV'S HE COULD ADD AS CONTENT TO HIS LIBRARY AS A NEW CATAGORY OF INDY SHOWS HE WOULD HAVE THE RIGHTS 2 SHOW TO HIS NETWORK SUBSCRIBERS

[@bradenharris8718]

@@brandonhyden6484 your comment started sane than quickly went insane with all caps lol

[@alonsolopez3541]

Turner wanted to move on from bill watts who had an old school but too regional they wanted to go national and beyond and Eric was young energetic

[@fishin4bass2002]

Lmao looking back at this you realize that Cornette is all talk. The very next year he meets Bischoff and doesn’t do shit to him. Then he starts complementing him and acts nice to Eric. This was all on a WWE show called table of three. Cornette said he would never speak to Bischoff and has talked so much shit about him yet ends up agreeing to doing a show on WWE network with him. This proves that no matter how much shit or how many threats Cornette makes he is all talk.

[@frederickwhite8865]

That show is heavily edited. I’m sure he did start off complimenting him lol

[@brucewhite360]

🎾🤓

[@EnforcerX71]

Cornette can back Watts all he likes here, but the fact remains that Watts had pissed off most of the locker room by this point, and that they just needed an excuse to get rid of him, the likes of Scott Steiner almost whupped his ass for example. As for the company going "back in the shitter" regardless of how you feel about him, Bischoff's fresh approach (for WCW that is, he got a lot of his ideas from Vince's tactics in the 80s) was good for WCW for a while, Watts has almost drove it into the ground with his out of, touch backwards way of doing things, not to mention his pushing of his untalented son Eric.

[@jeremiahbutler294]

EnforcerX71 so you know more than Jim who was fucking there???? putz

[@EnforcerX71]

First of all, Jim wasn't there as he's admitted, everything he knows comes from Watts himself, secondly, watch interviews with other guys who were actually there like Scott Steiner, Harley Race & Arn Anderson, the Watts era of WCW is one of the darkest eras in that company's history, for example, he pissed off the majority of the roster by cutting their pay,, removing catering from backstage, not letting anyone leave the arena until every match was done. He re-introduced a ton of archaic practices that had no place in the era.

[@jeremiahbutler294]

EnforcerX71 Watts ran great business in Louisiana and other places and had the best BLACK wrestlers in the area, JYD Ron Simmons, Butch Reed....and his no leaping off the top rope had no business in that era unless you were a heel. if there are more rules then as a heel it takes less to get heat.

[@jeremiahbutler294]

EnforcerX71 Eric Watts was just your average vanilla babyface with the booker's same last name

[@jeremiahbutler294]

EnforcerX71 And not only did Bischoff kill WCW/NWA/GCW He killed the ENTIRE FUCKING BUSINESS! Between Bischoff and VKM the business doesn't stand a fucking chance and we'll see nothing but shitty matches and waaaaaaay too much bad comedy and other annoying shit so fuck them both.

[@highlanderdad630]

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[@78bcat]

Why Cornette takes business so personally, I'll never understand. So Bischoff got a job others wanted and when he got that job he disagreed with a deal made by a predecessor and no longer had interest in working together? That's a reason to hate him 20 years later...or because he didn't share your vision of wrestling?

[@MT-hz8qp]

78bcat that is his life all that he loves like someone who loves sport team and wants to fucking die for that team

[@stormydavis8546]

78bcat thanks for admitting that you are CLUELESS about the real business.

[@capitalrappsdprince]

He didn't deserve the job. The fact he would even apply knowing how little he actually knew shows how how much of a egotistical douche he really is.

[@joshuapickel3271]

Jim Con-nette. A legend in his own mind. Funny how he is always in the right, even when he is misinformed.

[@YogsenForfoth]

It’s hilarious that you think your opinion matters. He’s forgotten more shit about the business than you or I could ever collectively learn in our lifetimes combined.

[@seanbonella]

grow up karen