Breaking Kayfabe #06 | Jim Cornette (D1+D2)

[@gayrambo4529]

I hope Jim gets that podcast off the ground. Sounds like a winner.

[@lennyclinton5672]

If you had only a million dollars riding on that you’d be a billionaire!

[@REALianbrown]

@gayrambo4529 you sound like a guy in his parent’s basement watching AEW, rooting on the young bucks and eating hot pockets

[@VancouverInvestor]

Lol...long as he leaves Trump out of it.

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

​@@VancouverInvestorYOU MEAN THE IDIOT THAT JUST FIRED A 4 STAR GENERAL FOR A FOX HOST TO BE THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE??? MR. BRAINWORM RUNS HEALTH!!!! YOU TRUMPER ARE FOOLS AND KILLED THIS COUNTRY....IDIOT.

[@gayrambo4529]

@@REALianbrown you sound like you've got an extra chromosomes floating around in your genetic material.

[@LastoftheInfamousWinos]

In his Book, Sean talks about how this was the exception to the rule on how this show was gonna go. Just a pure uncut promo on how pissed he was on TNA and ROH at the time

[@mecha2001]

it's my favorite Cornette shoot. but WWF Timeline 1997 is up there too. 1 and 1a. lol anything involving Russo is gold

[@mirage5566]

It's gold for an interviewer anyway, he got the long form answer to what happened in both places. Anything else he wondered about, he could cover in a new interview anyway.

[@ljaproductions07]

@@mecha2001 oh my word, timeline 97 is tremendous, the Kevin dunn promo he cuts is tremendous 🤣

[@mecha2001]

@@ljaproductions07 the one where he was going to beat the fuck out of him in the production meeting? absolutely brilliant. LOL I still maintain that WWF 1997 was a highly underrated period with the company. WCW never appealed to me.

[@dreddscott3873]

​@@ljaproductions07just because we have wrestlers *bucky beaver noises* wearing wrestling tights *bucky beaver noises* in a wrestling ring *bucky beaver noises*

[@gavinharvey7634]

I could listen to Cornette all day

[@shaynewest8757]

Bum licker

[@DarthDesolous]

Jim Cornette is the “F”ing GOAT of Pro Wrestling. He can tell you the COMPLETE history of the sport. His on screen personality is very entertaining. I remember when I first saw Jim Cornett and The Midnight Express on WTBS at 6:05 PM on Saturday and sometimes Sunday night at 8:05 PM. His segments were by far the best segments on the show. He could sling and talk shit all day long about the wrestlers they are feuding with. When he fell off that scaffold at Starcade, I looked at my father and said that was real. He really broke his leg. And my father‘s telling me oh it’s just a part of the show. Fast-forward 20 years after that and come to find out I was right he did get severely hurt by falling off that scaffold. But he played it off well. Out of everybody that’s involved in Pro Wrestling Jim is the only person I would love to sit down and buy dinner and talk psychology in the Pro Wrestling business. If I had enough money like Tony Kahn, I would open up a Wrestling promotion and I would give Jim Cornett any amount of money he wanted to run , right, and produce the entire show. I would give him the keys to the kingdom and say whatever you needed I’ll get for you. I would also tell him that it will be rare that I even stick my nose into their business when it comes to writing in producing the show. I would be that “ silent owner” when it came to the power of the pin in the hiring of firing of wrestlers. I would leave that in his hands. I doubt he would do it, but money does talk. He would be the only one that I would want to have the pin in the book. If you wanted to bring in people to help him fine with me whatever he would want. But he had the last word and that word would rule. I know some people are gonna read this and have some controversy on what I said and that’s fine. It’s their opinion.

[@coywarrior71]

No, he’s a dude that likes to watch men sleep with his wife. He’s a cuck!

[@xndrwolf]

For sure. Corny is as much of a national treasure as anyone else in the business of professional wrestling. He lives it, he breathes it, his passion for all things wrestling is truly top tier. Not to mention he’s just as funny as most comics.

[@captaincat4361]

@@DarthDesolous as much as I disagree with his political and religious opinions, I thought the same. Either buy TNA or the NWA and give him an unlimited checkbook. I personally want to see wrestling as a fight between two competitors not a damn ballet or gymnastics show.

[@PigeonChingChongChun]

Wow, I wish there was three more hours of this. :)

[@kerpal321]

well there is jims youtube channel, tons of hours of jim talking about wrestling there

[@ljaproductions07]

1:39:32 Is a large part of why I love Jim Cornette, the promos and rants are just tremendous 😂 every episode he was guaranteed one, still my favourite part of this whole interview 😂 Sean trying his hardest not to laugh makes it funnier

[@takerdust]

I like how Jim had a constant involvement with internet wrestling media since 1997 but he still acts like internet technology is almost brand new to him.

[@SamoIsKing]

Jim Cornettes career feels like a rib at this point. Midnight Express peak in WCW just as Jim Herd comes in, he goes to the WWF during the New Gen which is the second worst period in WWF history, he opens Smokey Mountain when the business as a whole is at its lowest ebb (at that point), he’s in the WWF until Russo shows up, then he joins OVW not long before Lauranitis takes over from JR, then Russo follows him to TNA then he has all this shit to deal with in ROH.

[@mecha2001]

ROH was just because they wouldn't listen to him lol Sinclair gave ROH some money to operate but were too corporate garbage to get out of their own way. I never thought of it before but it's kind of the same thing that killed WCW.

[@ThisWeekInStupid]

@@mecha2001 no there was the Merch weasel who was alloud to overrule jim on hiring Adam Pearce as an on air gm because he yelled at him once, thats when jim quit. he said that guy was always being given decision making power and leaving with the boys checks.

[@mecha2001]

@@ThisWeekInStupid the whole thing was incredible

[@KrAkHeN87]

No shit lol... if bad luck in business was gold Jim would be beating most the world at this point lol... but it's okay... he still has the most successful wrestling podcast of all time for years now... I listen to it everyday... personal shit aside... he's one of the most competent and intelligent men to ever be a part of the business... You'll never take that from him

[@cancelculture9953]

It’s almost like you receive the energy you put out into the world.

[@howieodell3257]

he is so right about wcw as well and management

[@TheCanucks4eva]

Sean: "Hi Jim, how are you?" *27 mins later Jim: "so to sum up, doing well Sean."

[@alberts1985]

Cornette’s haters are here in the comments. Thanks for putting this out

[@0tt0z]

It's funny. They get so worked up.

[@KrAkHeN87]

Lol the best part is that this interview is a re-upload from over a decade ago... I saw a comment where someone said "hope his podcast takes off someday" and I'm just like... yeah... it did... number 1 wrestling podcast of all time lmao... I listen to him everytime I go cruising lol

[@MiningForPies]

@@KrAkHeN87you need to turn on your sarcasm detector

[@aerodynamicsalamander]

@@KrAkHeN87 i saw that comment. It was a sarcastic comment, because his podcast is doing great. And was just an idea back then. Like when someone sees a picture of young Michael Jordan with a basketball and says “I hope this kid continues. Hope his career goes great”

[@SonOvLaw]

Just leave this up from here on out

[@billepperson2662]

9:54 "Why should I make myself mad in my own home?" If only more people thought this way

[@SlimSlashie]

This ""Greg the office boy" sounds like he'd kill any business he's involved in.

[@tallesmagno201]

Ironically he got fired for embezzlement.

[@Connor-k5g]

@@tallesmagno201 That was Ross Abrams that got fired for embezzlement.

[@SlimSlashie]

@@Connor-k5g Ross, is this "Ross the merchandise weasel?" LOL Corny and his names. I wish he'd have gotten jail too. But after watching this whole show, ROH seems rather forgiving...

[@Lionwolf84]

its the f-ing circus line always cracks me up

[@thumbscrews]

What do you want us to do? Book a dancing fucking bear?!

[@ljaproductions07]

Same here, always brings me to tears of joy, when this first came out I had that line as my text message tone 😂

[@riffsandwich9541]

Thank you for this. I love it.

[@johnst3296]

1:09:00 no, you weren't nuts, you were too far ahead of your time. This is exactly what everyone is either now doing or wanting to do if they are too small: protect their content and deliver it direct to the customer over the top.

[@bdr113080]

I was just listening to the Bruce Pritchard podcast and they were reading Vince Russo‘s book and I died laughing because he was talking about the time he got Howard Stern rat pack in the summer of 1998 to join the oddities now keep in mind this is like 15 years After this happens so Vince Russo knows how big or how small the rat pack with the oddities were to WWE fans. This guy still wrote in his book something like “ everyone was laughing at me and Paul Behr even said that by booking these people he had just slapped one of the boys in the mouth, but no one could see that the rat pack with the oddities was going to change WWE history forever.” How clueless can you be when your big creative idea was to take Howard Stern’s creative idea and just put it on your show and then, unless it gets brought up to a fan like I had completely forgot about them until I was listening to that podcast so it’s pretty much been completely forgotten and it was a terrible idea and this guy still wrote in his book that it was the thing that changed WWE forever for the better. Every now and then you meet someone who ate chips and you run across them on the Internet and they sit there and they try their best to make this argument that Vince Russo was brilliant and most of these people don’t know what they’re talking about. They just hate Jim Cornett because , they go to sleep at night thinking about blowing Kenny Omega’s dick. But they’ll sit there and try to make this argument that Vince Russo was a great book or creative person with the only place. He had any success with WWE and it’s not like he was booking full angles. Like he didn’t book the undertaker versus Kane . He just came up with the spot on Monday night raw where Kane choke slams him through the announcers table. So in that environment, where he was on a team of creative people where it was he, Vince McMahon, Pat Patterson, Jim Cornette in Bruce Pritchard that’s when he was successful but look at the other people that were around him. I’m not saying they’re perfect people. I’m not saying they haven’t done stupid shit, but all of those men are very good at wrestling. So without the rest of that creative team, how good did he do in the other companies like WCW and TNA? He flat on his face.

[@BadselS]

Their theme song was fire though

[@aerodynamicsalamander]

Well said, all true. Russo is responsible for WWF’s midcard being shit.

[@ReapFamily]

Thank you for uploading this piece of wrestling history.

[@xoynialedmc]

The beginning/ preface makes me think of "this has been formatted to fit your screen" lol

[@kekohokko7213]

Great interview, thank you.

[@jmilb10053]

I know someone else has probably said this, but can Sean get Office Boy and Shitstain together for an interview?

[@KCVault]

Attempts have been made

[@powerwashingkingnj]

Can’t wait

[@powerwashingkingnj]

I wish you can get another interview with him. He is the best interviews.

[@gerricdouglas7836]

Cornette is speaking the gospel on wrestling right now. Love this guy. Wrestling from the old days was way better.

[@mjdf122]

NWA/JCP/WCW 1983-2001 good years were 1983-1993 1996-1999

[@KAZ3EM]

The 70's porn music in the beginning is hilarious!😂😂😂

[@joshhefner8179]

Almost sounds like HHH and Dusty got a hold of Jim's ideas for the PC and NXT even though they used Full Sail for NXT until 2020.

[@tallesmagno201]

Because OVW provided the WWE roster for 10years so the idea clearly works and they just used it. It wasn't revolutionary, it was just how the teritories worked.

[@Chris.3791]

*I’m not sure whom Cornette detests more, Vince Russo or Donald Trump.*

[@unusualaquariumecosystems5805]

When was the interview done?

[@brunnob3]

1:39:36 this here is proof that the Experience needs to be a VIDEOCAST

[@indymudshow]

I'm really shocked they haven't added video. Every other big time cast does video now. So they're behind when it comes to that. I'd love to see him wad up his aew notes and throw them 😂

[@tobiaswilliamson00]

2:24:25 When the s*** goes down, everyone needs a Cornette to solve their problems

[@Jeffrey-v5s]

This is probably the best shoot interview ive ever heard. And jim had to had set some kind of world record for speaking without taking a breath.

[@ltdn]

"Dancing bear" LOL...

[@chadleywilliams4724]

Its so weird to me seeing corny talk after years of listening to his podcasts

[@JustinFREAKIN]

"I'm talking to a guy about a podcast". I hope he's great!

[@takerdust]

Sean decade ago: "Wrestling gonna come back". Sorry Sean, but AEW is a parody, WWE Universe is Holiday on Ice, TNA's a zombie, and the new NWA never really took off.

[@Biffo316]

Blame Billy Corrán for the NWA crashing and burning. He didnt have a clue when he bought TNA or whatever happened there, and he's got even less of a clue now.

[@fifiwoof1969]

When was this recorded?

[@rodzor]

2013

[@fifiwoof1969]

@rodzor thank you.

[@martinjeynes2419]

2014

[@lunisic]

Prob before u were into wrestling

[@fifiwoof1969]

@@lunisic and when did I get into wrestling?

[@CeemPlay]

This guy lives & breaths pizza, sprite & double cheeseburgers

[@AxeDharme]

Double cheese, double mayo, extra onion motherfuhhhhccckkkeerrrrr

[@Jeffrey-v5s]

He only gets a cheeseburger if Stacey doesn't eat them all.😅

[@theronquishow5837]

Hell yeah

[@markahicksii]

2:09 jim cornette happy dance lol😂

[@jmhproductions7335]

Lol, he said ruined economy.. -2024 economy sends its regards.

[@megavolnutt4629]

Fun fact: According to the youtube ask function, the word Jim says the most in this video is goddamn lol. I would have bet the pony on fuck

[@xndrwolf]

Well wouldn’t you know who won the pony?! 😂

[@KittyKatMan93]

It can't be said enough how much better of a host Sean Oliver is than Brian Last

[@kevinkelly1529]

Very true! Although B. Last has a fantastic knowledge of rassling history.

[@CLuvTV]

I don't even know who that is

[@MattSingh1]

@@CLuvTV *Confessing your own ignorant doesn't discredit Last. It only highlights how clueless you are.*

[@CLuvTV]

@@MattSingh1 Well if you don't know the atomic weight of Cobalt then that doesn't mean you are ignorant or clueless..... there are just certain things we don't know

[@tallesmagno201]

And after the burn of ROH, he would do it again with NWA Powerrr and we all know how that went, mainly thanks to David Lagana stooging him out instead of just bleeping what he said (of course Jim should know better) and the whole thing went to shit. They cant take away Series 1 though, I loved that shit as an old school fan.

[@captaincat4361]

After Jim left, it went downhill quickly

[@joshhefner8179]

Before NWA Powerrr Jim came back with MLW until that went bad because of others.

[@jaikrewl]

Oh hell yeah!

[@tysontomko]

Love how this is uploaded and reupped every few months for maximum clicks

[@DKM977]

That's what happens when people stop buying DVDs

[@davidstronach3261]

Damn no wonder Ring of Honor Wrestling is in the state its in now I am glad AEW owns it yeah its crappy wrestling but still at least no more production nightmares of dealing with Syndicate television wow.

[@chaosnexxus9255]

1:09, worker's handshake

[@valdoalmeida6866]

What year is this???

[@xndrwolf]

💪🏼

[@ms.felonystrutter2472]

To the host, stop interrupting Corny, just stfu and let him cook. You will get where you want to go.

[@jacobegleston9806]

Idk how much of what JC says is the truth objectively, but he does a damn good job of convincing you that ppl are idiots 😂

[@mikerophone235]

As much as i enjoy listening too, and agree with a lot of what JC says/thinks, he's clearly wrong about Kevin Steen (Owens).

[@MFD00MTR33]

He might not be wrong about Steen. Owens is slightly different from the way he knew him. More in shape and much less of a headache to deal with. Doubt he's pulling the things he used to in ROH now in WWE. Just like how Generico and Sami Zayn are different characters played by the same guy. They changed going to the WWE and are amazing now. Even Jim gives them credit for their work recently.

[@captaincat4361]

Also, this is 11 years old, Kevin has changed a lot.

[@kevinpiacente3456]

Everyone realize Jim can’t handle any person who doesn’t live in 1960-1980 wrestling

[@dddking9284]

What a stupid thought to have he does like new wrestlers but comes from a different time

[@ReallyBigBrother]

Wrestlemania 41 Cornette Vs Trump

[@aspetty]

That would turn into a shoot so quickly

[@tigernorm713]

Special guest referee..... Vince Russo

[@fifiwoof1969]

​@@tigernorm713the first one to get knocked out - BIGLY and Stone Cold Steve Austin to run in as substitute referee and stun Drumpf HARD!

[@nash3timemvp]

​@tigernorm713 Batista comes in to save Cornette only to be met with a Undertaker choke slam.

[@DevilsSplitPersonality]

I definitely would pay to see that.

[@dustin6528]

8:51 what a bat 💩 crazy statement

[@howieodell3257]

they killed the Carni - portion of wrestling ! people could not allow the surprise , they had to know to kill the surprise. smg

[@Ratmann8436]

Jim has been wearing the same glasses since 1983.

[@VincentK.McMahon]

Yes, it’s called a prescription. Some might change their lenses over time, but many keep the same throughout their life.

[@samtipton9402]

U GOTTA LUV CORNY😂😂😂😂

[@themidnightaristocrat]

Every time I see an upload here I have to check to see if they've died lmao

[@michaeltelling4953]

Classic Cornette!!

[@gw593]

Jim’s views on religion and politics is laughable. Should stick to wrestling..

[@Crash88]

I'm with Jim, Russo's voice is worse to me than the teachers nails on the chalkboard. He finally banned me on Twitter before it became "X", only took me almost 2 years of telling him how much of a piece of shit he really is. When someone flat out refuses to accept any blame form anything THEY'VE done in their whole lives their a POS.

[@CeemPlay]

Hello little Corny I know ye don't know me

[@Tim_Dunkin]

I know this is an old interview & I kinda like Cornette h/e he has to get over this thought wrestling is suppose to be like 1965. If his way was so right why hasn't he been able to have a successful promotion. I watch old a** wrestling & that 💩 worked quite frankly bc ppl were fk'n simple minded & didn't have 💩 else to do or watch.

[@DoubleA6869]

Still watching 😂

[@The123dsd]

Oh boy

[@gamingalien2965]

What a put on accent Sean has here, 🤔

[@JONNYSORENSEN_AU]

"Wrestlin will come back" 2024 is here and it just fucked this channel in the behind. Was it consensusl or a work?

[@supercrownjosie7732]

I wonder what Corny thinks of Bill Maher now lmfao

[@heavysystemsinc.]

Guessing correctly with no insight isn't the same as being Nostradamus.

[@sizethirteennikes]

4 years of Trump ensures 4 more years of epic Cornette rants 😂

[@jamesrossi1132]

I think jim needs a tds pill

[@michaeldawson4995]

Unfortunately, Trump will have him arrested and have him solitary confinement within a year

[@michaeldawson4995]

lol, I love how KZbin deleted my previous post. Trump is going to put his critics in jail. The first amendment is dead.

[@kevinpiacente3456]

Hey Jim 40% Hispanic vote 25% black men vote You have no idea what politics is about

[@sanchez501]

2:26:10 😂

[@seanmcclure]

The worst ending in the world for Jim would be if God exists. Russo is a Christian would likely go to heaven, and Jim would burn in hell for eternity. Vince Russo would have a permanent victory over him that he could never get back. What I’m saying is that Jim should probably convert to Christianity now so they can continue the feud in heaven.

[@herzkine]

Russo is a Fake murican " Christian".

[@fatguypa]

Part of being in heaven is having Russo free wrestling

[@joshuaedwards6692]

Good thing none of us have to worry about that.

[@matthewsmith5374]

Idk I think god is still sending Russo to hell for some of his storylines. They were pretty bad.

[@JB-xh5mc]

​@@matthewsmith5374 Or for his Bitch Slap pitch

[@PiCheZvara]

I'm at 49:10. Jim is kinda right about how breaking kayfabe hurt the business, but he is also wrong. Reason? You still see fans getting engaged in the storylines and characters, just look at the live reactions. There is a big segment of "smart" fans, which is heard especially online, just like IDK Star Wars nerds. But there is a large amount of fans who simply are just fans, you see them online too, people who just comment on WWE YT channel stuff like "I love Randy Orion". And as we are becoming more closed off from each other post COVID, who knows, many fans will maybe even kinda forget about what is kayfabe more and more. And the irony is Jim's online followers are exclusively these smart fans.

[@kerpal321]

breaking kayfabe allowed wrestling to reach its greatest heights, once vince mcmahon admitted that wrestling was entertainment it allowed for even more over the top storylines which the fans loved even more, but in jims opinion it also caused the business to quickly crash and burn out soon after

[@PiCheZvara]

@@kerpal321 Yes, but you still have fans totally eating this shit up. I was at a WWE event live this year and two teenagers were next to me and the girl was SO genuinely invested in Sami, Becky, etc. and so genuinely invested in hating the bad guys. real fandom still exists. maybe these people are aware this is just "sports theater", but they simply like it and get invested in it.

[@MaxxCoyote]

@@PiCheZvara Sure, but there are less of them then, way less of them, then back in the classic days.

[@takerdust]

Knowing much of what happens behind the scenes in wrestling is like watching the Making-of Documentary of a film before watching it.

[@PiCheZvara]

@@takerdust that would be true only if you watched all the wrestling documentaries prior to start watching wrestling. interviews like the one with Cornette here are watched only by long time fans, literally no one else will watch it or even knows it exists.

[@newersify]

That may say it all, from the lips of our most recent guest on the series that seeks to get inside the people of the wrestling business. "most recent" When was this filmed? Recently?

[@vinnie245]

like 2013, shortly after he left ROH anyway.

[@newersify]

@@vinnie245 Thank you very much good sir, I guess this is a direct reupload, video description and all. 🤷‍♂

[@nathanshaffer5105]

Cornette comes off to me as being a day late and a dollar short and he sees Russo come in and just take over.

[@SigmaChicken09]

28:27

[@seanbonella]

I'm delighted Trump got in 🤣🤣🤣🤣😉 There's an omnibus Corny can do and like it 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@michaeldawson4995]

You won’t be so happy next year when you lose everything

[@SlimSlashie]

9 minutes in, Sean is 100% in the wrong and JIM apologized. Unreal. Sean you need to check your privilege and humble yourself when you're wrong.

[@erikhubner6576]

"I'm not the one who's been fired from every place I've been, so..." Kevin Steen

[@MaxxCoyote]

Neither is Cornette. Because, you know, he hasn't been fired from every place he's worked.

[@benjambreeg]

When did Cornette get fired by wwf? He walked out on his own terms

[@xoynialedmc]

Frankly Jim easily could have quit long before he got fired many times

[@MaxxCoyote]

@xoynialedmc And by many, it's a grand total of twice.

[@Therealflushingceez]

King Corny!!!!.. #cornylast2028

[@xoynialedmc]

No way

[@coywarrior71]

Didn’t this guy let big show sleep with his wife while he watched!? I don’t understand why people respect his opinions on anything!

[@xndrwolf]

Why would that taint his opinions? People are allowed to have colorful, consensual lives within the bedroom!

[@davec.3129]

Trump won Cornette

[@brunnob3]

Rejoice, Corny! Dave Chappelle AND wrestling made a comeback 🎉 . . . Unfortunately, so did Trump 😅

[@frankfillos]

hi jim how you feel about trump steamrolling over scamalla

[@strnglhld]

Trump is already putting neocons in his cabinet, it rules

[@greglozano64]

Blah. Blah. Blah. Only one question. But he can't listen to know one else.

[@michaeldawson4995]

Know? Lol

[@xoynialedmc]

Maybe he's trying to learn about "one else"

[@davey3884]

I agree with most of Jim's wrestling opinions, but when it comes to anything else he's so petty and such a narcissist, its embarrassing. He's not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.

[@vinnie245]

He is fucking clueless with anything outside of wrestling, but then what do you expect when someones literal entire life is wrestling...

[@walterbradthau9525]

Im gonna break kayfabe right now. HEY JIM, TRUMP WON! SUCK IT.

[@Oldskoolwraastlin77]

🤡

[@fifiwoof1969]

@walterbradthau9525 Project 2025 is coming your way - SUCK IT! After they finish coming for others they'll come for you - he's already got your vote so he doesn't need you any more. YOU are as disposable as the rest of us and he will use his powers to go after his enemies. If you haven't personally been invited by him to the oval office then in his eyes you're pond scum. For all the loyalty he receives from pond scum like you he shows NONE, just ask Michael Cohen etc. I'm MORE than happy for you to personally find this out the hard way. ENJOY!

[@0tt0z]

Rent free.

[@walterbradthau9525]

@@0tt0z 😢

[@Joker-gi1wz]

TRUMP 2024

[@2plus2doesnotequal53]

Project 2025 here we come!

[@Oldskoolwraastlin77]

Have you ever read a book? Like ever?

[@Oldskoolwraastlin77]

I didnt think so.... 🤡

[@heavysystemsinc.]

@@2plus2doesnotequal53 SLUGS FOR SALT! SLUGS FOR SALT! WE SLUGS WANT THE SALT! BRING IT!

[@Steve-fd1py]

Proof even if this is old that Jim was a mark for himself and thinks 1400 people in a gym in 1988 some how is relevant was stupid it’s all about TV revenue if at the time of this taping he knew better he was just taking a pay check working Mr. Oliver .

[@michaeldawson4995]

Lol, I can tell you’ve never been in the business. 1400 at a house show was a nice little pay day as a wrestler.

[@samwhite414]

I’ve never liked listening to Cornys grip about religion because being an atheist and believing you’re just gonna become worm food when you’re dead makes no sense to me. That being said, aside from that he had a brilliant mind for wrestling. At least if you’re more of a fan of the of old days/kayfabe wrestling. The stuff they do now just doesn’t interest me. Why take the time to watch if there’s no believable storylines instead of them just going out and playing in the ring with no story behind it

[@Millwall77]

Why does being atheist not making sense to you?

[@redfruit1968]

Atheism makes a lot more sense than the belief that there's some sky daddy who cares about you but will send you to hell if you don't fellate him enough.

[@captaincat4361]

Agreed 💯

[@Toxicsludgewrestlingarchive]

Russos booking is way better than today. At the end of the day wrestling is a tv show.

[@RandomGuyCDN]

Wrestling is just a male soap opera but if you cant get immersed in the show and they start doing a lot of crazy shit to kill that immersion then it makes for a shitty tv show. you wanna be a superhero go try and make it in hollywood. No one gonna believe a stick man can actually stand a chance in a fight against a muscle man that could easily snap them in half

[@Toxicsludgewrestlingarchive]

@ yep i agree. That’s basically what wwe is.

[@captaincat4361]

The few times I have heard Russo talk lately, his takes have been a lot better, it's like he matured from his crash TV days.

[@xndrwolf]

Thank you for posting this 🥹. Somehow never saw this one