Jim Cornette Reviews AEW Dynamite (August 16, 2023)

From Episode 305 of the Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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[@keithdawson4925]

Eddie Kingston looks like the love child of Vince Russo and the Brooklyn Brawler.

[@patrickboian8545]

He looks like he smokes all kinds of things out of pop cans. 😂

[@proxydoesitwrong6331]

Goddamn you I can never get that image outta my head now 😂

[@randallholley7903]

I can't unsee it now, he even says BRO!! alot

[@damiengodden8448]

Jim's exasperated sigh right at the start, lmao.

[@hotbbqruffles]

I dont even watch AEW. I just wait to hear the reviews from Jim which is infinitely better than watching.

[@biggains1]

Its always better to hear Jim's reviews lol watching the show itself, its just chaos, and not even fun chaos. And there is zero flow or continuity between episodes, but listening to a Cornette rant about it is immensely entertaining 😂

[@blinkyjedi7771]

Same

[@lasvegaspilgrim]

Been doing that for years. Only way to "consume" AEW.

[@dmoney7463]

I never seen a single episode of AEW I don’t even kno wat most of da guys look like but I love wrestling so I keep up wit it thru Jim n Brian

[@hhhhhhh5614]

Reviews like this make me wanna see it, but I have learned my lesson

[@blaizecunningham6080]

14:57. I think we all broke there, not just Brian. Jim knows what he did.

[@TheJrRyan]

😂😂😂 HUGE POP.

[@christian6455]

Lmao she did say "Dam Booby"

[@nnis75]

No script is needed either. He just comes up with this shit.

[@christian6455]

@@nnis75 hopefully she don’t see this lmao

[@newageassholes]

Remember Mox is the Ohio jiu jitsu champion.He could make cornette pay for that comment 😂😂

[@witchfinder-gen]

This show made me miss TNA... 2010 Hulkster TNA...

[@seereadnhear]

Damn! That was a nail in the head.

[@juniorkhomari1850]

Nooo! I know it sucked but it couldn't have been that bad

[@ShyP3rson]

Good grief!

[@Sky_Blaze]

2010 is when I officially gave up even trying to watch wrestling had more important things to do like playing blacks ops and knocking up two girls in high school.

[@GraveMemories]

This show made me want to drown myself in my toilet

[@joshuaDstarks]

A Jiminion is something I never thought I’d see.

[@Raheed27]

I always enjoy listening to Jim and Brian reviews of AEW especially if it's a really bad show. Jim never lets me down.

[@ericgaudet497]

“Because I’ve been to the Greensboro coliseum and they don’t have a Hospital in the parking lot!” 😂

[@danielwilliamson1577]

In one episode, AEW managed to turn Jim away from MJF and Jeff Jarrett.

[@johnporter9073]

When Pockets and Useless is the only "match" on the show you know the show is gonna be a humdinger of hysteria.

[@lordpardus7348]

I actually do not mind Wheeler Yuta. He is not bad. Unlike Pockets and Dumb Schmucks he does NOT shit on the business and he is not a spot monkey. Definitely a midcarder, but a solid midcarder. As far as Pockets. He is one of VERY FEW wrestlers to whom I wish a career ending injury.

[@Hypno_BPM]

@@lordpardus7348jeez 😂 , next time you watch a Orange match watch how many times he “fixes his hair” during the match it’s hilarious 😂😂

[@barley96]

I tried to watch after a few of Jim's clips. This wasn't even hilariously bad. This was something else. I am tempted to burn my TV for playing it.

[@silveredgrunion7196]

The whole episode was weird. Shawn michaels being accused of hitting on Diana was alittle out of left field. But overall, Warrior running backstage during his entrance then coming out again for his match with Issac Yankem, and Mankind having a hard hitting opener with Bart Gunn were the highlights for sure. Austin is catching fire and looked good vs Scott Taylor who I remember from the syndication shows, and call me crazy but I like the new rockers! I'm interested to see what happens next week

[@sbz88]

I haven't been able to finish a full episode in weeks. Its just become so awful. After MJF does his thing at the top of the 2nd hour, that's usually when I bail. I like that they always put up the full card on Twitter so fans can decide whether or not they wanna waste their time watching garbage. Also, Jim looks great as a Minion 😂😂😂.

[@1toastedonionbun]

It's like a car wreck, but all involved were the crash test dummies, and a mountain of cocaine.

[@actuallynotsteve]

Talmbout Tony the Snow Man, b?

[@justinmichaels7856]

@1toastedonionbun holy shit man you're the biggest WWE 🥒 rider I ever seen in KZbin chats holy Fuck are you a WWE employee 🤔 must be

[@GraveMemories]

Aew is more of a car wreck than ecw At least ecw was watchable and entertaining

[@LoneLeeGH]

This episode was the nail in the coffin for me. I'm strictly a Collision guy going forward. A bunch of AEW talents I enjoy seeing but the production is so much more smooth on Saturday nights. This was an absolute mess and I find myself skipping more and more guys on Wednesdays lately so I'm finished. Moxley has desensitized me to everything, Excalibur is unbearable, OCs cold title matches of the week are repetitive, the comedy isn't funny, and none of the matches make any sense.

[@KanbaruS4n]

The last Collision episode made me really worried.. that was more like the wednesday show for like 80% of this. Though they did had that happen once before and went back to the "regular" Collision style a week later, so I hope that will be the case again next week

[@VoucherVillian]

​@@KanbaruS4nI agree that collision was so bad, the worst one ever. That idiot with 'the boys' against switchblade I was like wtf

[@P2D_x]

Hey man, Dalton is a legend.

[@KanbaruS4n]

@@VoucherVillian oh god.. that segment put the nail in the coffin for the entire bullet club business for me. Even if they go back to what they did with FTR I doubt II can see them in that same light again

[@Hypno_BPM]

OC’s title run is one of the worst ones i’ve ever seen. Idk why he thinks defending it every week against a random opponent makes sense as opposed to building a feud up and defending it once every month or two. He’s so bad

[@seereadnhear]

The reason why the original "All In" was successful was because it was it was the first of its kind and Tony was not booking it!!

[@EwanCumia]

And Cody had input. That was at least one person in the room who had a clue.

[@seereadnhear]

@@EwanCumia Truth 💣‼️

[@StoneColdSergio]

It's almost as if Tony is booking a terrible show on purpose just so he can hear Jim roast it to bits.

[@Kingmaker33]

You may have figured out the mind of someone Obsessed with a bizarre fetish over 🍊 Cassidy !

[@seereadnhear]

If AEW celebrates a tenth anniversary year I'll be surprised.

[@justinmichaels7856]

Well you a WWE mark so yeah I guess you be

[@QAZ-OMEN]

I think you forget how much money the Kahn has. He will just buy TV time for aew if need be

[@joshuaDstarks]

It’s going to. There is too much money propelling this rocket into the sun.

[@Straker1895]

What's it to you? Is that all you have to worry about in this crazy world. Pathetic.

[@patrickboian8545]

Im curious how the shows gonna go in 5 years. They cant have MJF be champion as long as Bruno. Jerichos more likely than not gonna take a break and go into the wwe hof. They gonna have to have someone just as over as him beat him if they have anyone.

[@WallyHays]

That wasn't a hospital, it was a medical facility.

[@EwanCumia]

Shame it wasn't a hospice.

[@Dale-jr7oj]

Nah that’s a space station

[@disturbedftw1998]

Even for AEW standards or lack there of, this episode of Dynamite was just terrible.

[@Wrasslin4LifeNetwork]

Whoever said “37…in a row?“ 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@DefendYoungstown]

"Yeah, try not to blade yourself walking through the parking lot!" :Mox turns to follow her: "Hey you, get back here!"

[@cwalser544]

Just have Brian play the Hydro Synth for us childishly. 😆

[@randallholley7903]

Wcw 2000s vibe which makes sense because tk is a mark for 90s and 00s wrestling

[@Noobie2k7]

I don't think he is though. If he was he'd have a better idea of what a good wrestling show looks like.

[@VULGARxRM]

I stopped watching Dynamite after I saw the first few episodes of Collision. After listening to this review I had to go back and watch... This is easily the worst episode they've ever done, and a must watch for anyone looking to laugh ironically.

[@garyfeuer1071]

We don't watch AEW but we love listening to Jim dress everyone down who deserves it. I believe as wrestling fans, we are so desperate to get our fill, we are willing to listen to a cosplay wrestling show review, so we can at least hear an intelligent wrestling critique. That's why we listen. We want to hear some form of logical wrestling so desperately, we are willing to go this far for it. Just saying as I lay in bed at Disney reflecting on my life since I can't sleep

[@djfeud1]

I so wanted to be excited for all in but Tony is getting worse and worse. He’s just given up on storylines m. How can you excited for a match thrown together at a weeks notice

[@LeeShields11]

The horse has left the barn with AEW now... They're just a glorified Indy with a spoiled rich kid running the show, and the "wrestlers" running all the way to the bank, laughing their asses off, at how they are fleecing a grown ass man with less awareness about what's going on than anyone with severe learning disabilities. No, sorry. I wholeheartedly apologise to those who have learning disabilities. They are NOT this bad!

[@mustafa2010ism]

I think its basically the fact that they don't need to make money to stay in business. Jim is haemorrhaging himself over the creative but I think they don't care because they don't need to.

[@AllsparkSupremacy]

Honestly, they were ALWAYS a glorified independent. The hope was AEW would evolve past that. Unfortunately....... 🗑️🔥

[@1996mcman]

Haunted houses use real chainsaws constantly (with the chain off;) how did no one at aew not realize this and realize how incredibly easy it is to not use a fake looking ones

[@messey12]

As a Pittsburgh area resident, I'm all about this thumbnail.

[@johnporter9073]

Was the flaming dumpster from around the Pittsburgh area?

[@joshuaDstarks]

My best friend is from Pittsburgh. All her family still there lives in dumpsters.

[@messey12]

@@johnporter9073 yes. It was a floating dumpster, though it wasn't actually on fire. Damn nice artistic touch, though.

[@Bushinyou]

That intro sounds a lot like Duck Hunt on Nintendo before the duck would come out.

[@ichrisho]

That epic starter *sigh* wonderful

[@natrixxvision6997]

9:17 The solution to Orange Cassidy is simple Jim. Turn him heel.

[@patrickboian8545]

These MJF Cole segments be killing me. If only R Truth was there. 😂😂

[@QAZ-OMEN]

Pulling the 247 (I mean aew) belt out of the trash

[@justinmichaels7856]

Naw Truth broke his hips on a crap match on Raw

[@ovionradion9260]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thecolonel3995]

That’s a great take. This is a straight R Truth type joke segment. Which is sad they use Truth that way he still looks fantastic and is way more athletic than 85% of the WWE roster

[@robchuk4136]

My first Dynamite in like 5 months. Hell of thing. That's all I'll say... 😅

[@ivanr6203]

To say the build for all in is underwhelming is an understatement its like Tony saw they sold all the tickets already and said fuck the build

[@gregory3499]

He sold 80k plus and started laughing his ass off that he swindled that many people.

[@Bjaerke]

Poor Brian doesn't know it yet but we will see soon a storyline where House of Bleeech teleports in Tony's house and steals some of his wrestling memorabilita. This will lead to a tag match between House of Bleearch on one side and Tony Khan teaming up with then AEW world champion Orange Cassidy in a stadion stampede human sacrifice cage match. It will end with Tony Khan yelling Kali ma! Kali ma! Kali ma!, ripping out Malacki Black's heart and eat it.

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

Beheaded or Assassinated was two funny lines form Chris! Also I love how their talk about we know each other for 34 years so maybe Chris knew little Kenny Olivier?

[@durden2480]

“If page would’ve chugged a beer he would’ve passed out” 🤣🤣🤣

[@sethputnamsghost]

I swear we are going to hear Corny’s head explode someday.😂🤘

[@madmanwebster94]

Dynamite has dissolved into 99-01 WCW Nitro. Nonsensical booking , weekly half-assed or bad matches , almost no storyline progression and too much carny BS.

[@neilhinkle2462]

during the death match I said outload "I didn't know Russo was booking AEW." The crowd was in shock over that match and not for the better....

[@neilhinkle2462]

out loud*

[@sbz88]

Notice how whenever people talk about AEW All In on Twitter, they mostly talk about the size of the crowd and not the matches themselves. If people in the wrestling media stopped kissing Tony's ass and were more honest about the product, maybe he'd be more inclined to do a better job of booking.

[@cheeseburgerwalrus5538]

I don't even watch wrestling and I could tell this show sucked,tried watching it and had better things to do like taking a dump

[@charleszulas4021]

With this week's show being a mess i really can not wait to hear next week's review and how tony plans to "save" the All Out PPV on a one week build.

[@andisuge]

I want more Tony blitzed out of his mind on live tv.😂😂😂😂😂

[@justinmichaels7856]

Hey he rich and living his dream 😎 look at Vince McMahon women trying to charge him for rape

[@_flyinlion_8995]

“ hi guys”

[@daviddzwonkowski4722]

​@@_flyinlion_8995I am a real boy

[@Dale-jr7oj]

👀

[@jasonvoorhees-wr7iq]

I watched this dynamite and found myself in envy of Stevie Wonder for 2 hours

[@JaculaDudek]

3:36 "was there a match on the program?" lol times 3

[@klawstecno2083]

My prediction: FTR will do a Job at Wembley and Moxley will do what he can to put Nick Gage on the Stadium Stampede match

[@EwanCumia]

Is that felon even allowed to enter the United Kingdom? If he does, I'm sure he'll do like Davey Boy and Anvil, and get high before the show.

[@navarrito96]

Yeah FTR jobbing is okay, as long as it’s a good match. FTR have had a solid protected run. I think it would be the send the fans home happy moment. I would not want FTR to disappear though because they’ve been putting on a clinic.

[@miketee4276]

Jim's review is just as long as Dynamite (without commercials). And it's much better (without LAZY BOOKING)

[@T1214-k9c]

Corny Minion is something i didnt know i needed. Also saw it was some random jobber they had used on Dark as Leather Face

[@dwaynewright9981]

I thought they would stop starting the show with OC after Promo Joe made reference to Groundhog Day. Tony’s determination to force feed this guy is bizarre.

[@gregory3499]

Orange reigns will never stop opening the show.

[@Dale-jr7oj]

Oc is so bad

[@jameseagler3589]

That was the funniest thing ever, there was no smoke at all from the chainsaw which proves it wasn't running at all

[@timbrechopper]

The Hydrasynth always looked fun.

[@Markleadguitar]

5:40 they can't have a Wrestlemania type event. They don't have any Wrestlemania type talent.

[@JD_Power]

19:00 my buddies and I's chosen sound was "SUT!" Sometimes throw in a cactus style "HA-JAH" or "HA-JAH JAH"

[@maskedninja876]

18:53 Mick Foley used to make those sounds all the time with his punches!😂

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

Brian describe Brody King outfit perfectly at 1:15:27!

[@gregory3499]

Orange reigns will probbaly open All In as well.

[@AntisaintNAO]

Therapist: “JiMinion isn’t real he can’t hurt you” JiMinion: 👀

[@Reesrte]

Since AEW feels like TNA on fast forward, can we have the inevitable Hulkster appearance? Let’s just get this company crashed.

[@darylaiken2258]

As much as Punk and friends are doing on Collision, which is very appreciated and needed, Tony Khantana is driving this promotion to ground zero and won't make it to 10 years.

[@Dale-jr7oj]

Booker of the year!

[@polkaputo3226]

lmfao that fuckin intro got me

[@JackFury]

This episode was when you're playing total extreme wrestling and you have penalties for not having enough angles do let the autobooker do it

[@FlexDonovan]

AEW is to wrestling what Michael Bay is to film making. Some people just like explosion, explosion, explosion. Can't do anything about it.

[@PaulNolanofficial]

On a whim I bought a ticked for All In last week. I’m already regretting my decision. What an absolute clusterfuck - I’m going more out of morbid curiosity, to see just how bad it could be, especially as I was also at Night 2 of Wrestlemania this year.

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

Jim saying TNA wouldn’t be this stupidest is kind of funny! He was already done with TNA before 2010!

[@cHriiSzbEe]

AEW in 2019 = The upside of WCW AEW in 2023 = The Downside of WCW

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

Absolutely Correct

[@nielcarpnava]

TNAEWCW actually 🤣

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

@@nielcarpnava Okay that more accurate!

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

I go with how long can said what the fuck in an hour! I missed the first hour because of Big Brother! Then I saw the first hour and I thought I was high while watching it again!

[@Awells89]

1:17:42 The main reason AEW has turned me off in the first place they seemed to be more interested in sticking it to WWE every chance they got and making inside jokes that only the super indy hardcore internet fans will get then actually making a decent WWE alternative.

[@tyronjamison2967]

Facts

[@fabs5211]

Excellent choice on the Hydrasynth, Brian

[@realkb21]

I feel sorry for those who paid to get into wembly without seeing the card...

[@Bjaerke]

I don't. AEW does this all the time. Announce a PPV, start selling tickets immediately with no card and only build the card 2 weeks before the event. People had enough time to learn the pattern.

[@DavidOwen-yv8wz]

I don’t either. Maybe eight hours sitting in the rain watching small, cold, frightened looking men failing to perform pro wrestling in the distance, might teach them a lesson?

[@LDavis-uz6xl]

The big crowd won't be able to save this mediocre card. They can't possibly maintain their energy through this hotshot dumpster fire.

[@decepticonxhunter4850]

I don't. Anyone who pays good money to attend an AEW show deserves what they get.

[@wildkorver568]

This could have been right on the old nwa tna weekly ppv 😂

[@kingslayer2999]

Did Vince Russo book this episode of Dynamite 😂🤣😂

[@kilojayfalcon]

That synth intro caught me way off guard 😂😂

[@eternalmindset]

I record Aew just in case something happens but I rarely watch it. I ended up watching this episode to see if leatherface would be actually on the show… I wanted to see him on it just cuz I look forward to the Cornette breakdown lol😂

[@scottmartin3228]

That leatherface outfit on AEW Dynamite is the exact one they sell at Spirit Halloween.

[@jayb-clay2724]

How many pints of blood did Moxley need? Lol

[@keithyw]

at this stage, i'm debating whether or not Tony Khan is Tommy Wiseau or Neil Breen. i'm leaning more towards Neil Breen just because reportedly Neil Breen actually believes in what he's doing whereas Tommy Wiseau became self-aware of his badness and embraced it. also, while Tony doesn't put himself in his own shows that much, he uses his alter ego OC which effectively is like Neil Breen.

[@Dale-jr7oj]

You’re tearing me apart lisa!!!!

[@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma]

If Russo and Herb Abrams somehow had a kid together that kid would be Tony Khan.

[@megsley]

they've gone full TNA

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

My friends was saw the parking lot brawl match and thought it was cool an guy went through a car! But then ask me why are middle schoolers doing this?

[@spider_hoss]

You know Britt is going to win this belt. I can sense it.

[@blaizecunningham6080]

She doesn't deserve it. I don't know what happened, but Britt baker has fallen off a cliff this last year. She seems worse than most other women on the card, all of a sudden. She's wrestling like Stacey kiebler or Nikki Bella right now. Out of the options, I'd say Toni storm for business or Saraya for the moment, but tbh I don't think Saraya should win it at all. Toni storm is the logical choice, which is probably why they won't do it.

[@spider_hoss]

@@blaizecunningham6080 Britt is the plastic mean girl in the room. She’ll whine and run all over people to get her way. What Jim and Brian said about the Women’s division makes me think this will happen.

[@_justinblizzle]

Well…

[@spider_hoss]

@@_justinblizzle it worked out for the best. There’s still all out coming.

[@_justinblizzle]

@@spider_hoss 😬😅

[@ivan363]

Maybe Kingston is the most iconic line

[@CosmicJoe]

Kenny Omega is a feckless wonder 💭 who’s promos don’t make any sense. Who cares who he wrestles if he won’t get jacked and furious at his enemies are and what they did to him

[@DarionNexus]

"That thumbnail is ridiculous and I love it."

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

Jackson 5 LOL at 31:56!

[@DavidOwen-yv8wz]

RANDYYY!

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

@@DavidOwen-yv8wz LOL RANNY! And no one cared at all! My grandpa told me he and his friends saw that and was like who Randy Jackson?

[@DavidOwen-yv8wz]

Classic!

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

@@DavidOwen-yv8wz Yes it is classic!

[@Sky_Blaze]

Kenny Omega is the worst talker ever whats crazy tho is when he's in njpw cutting a promo in japanese its seems he's way more serious and passionate about it.

[@KC-972]

Where is the analysis of the collision ratings from the 12th?

[@henrygvidonas9573]

They got 59k more than the week before. 78k more than "Rampage" on the previous night. What else do you need to know? Overall "Collision" has been doing better than "Rampage" so far, even though it's in a much less attractive weekend time slot. Eight out of nine weeks, "Collision" has had better ratings. That doesn't mean the show doesn't have problems. No idea what the "Collision" rating for 19 August was and if the moderate rebound from the hammering they took from the NFL and UFC on 05 August continued - "Rampage" had 416K (+18k) on the 18th.

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

I have to watch Big Brother on CBS on Wednesday it much better then! Big Brother is so much better than AEW Dynamite!

[@TheEnzyme94]

It would be funny if all people all looked like Jim Cornette does (on this image) when Tony is taking his "treatment."

[@insignificantaftermathPROJECTS]

ALL IN pretty much feels like a Sunday Night Heat version of Forbidden Door.

[@richardremick1639]

Love hearing Jim Butcher AEW keeps me from watching it 👏🏻

[@FortunateJuice]

This is gonna be a banger.

[@laurenceshelly6932]

I watch the show on a highlight reel and then listen to these guys to help make sense of it all anymore

[@MADGUNSMONSTER]

I amazed that even as much as Jim hates rap, he sure does remember MC Hammer's biggest tagline (Stop... Hammer Time). You never know what you're going to get with Jim & Brian!! #JIMINION

[@lastar106]

The lady attending to Jericho wasn't even touching him.

[@Andrew.J.Markle]

What in the hell was that?! Lmao!

[@farleysmoke5130]

Time travel sound effects once again Top tier!

[@seereadnhear]

Hey,Conan!!!

[@lastdayonearthmysteryman4849]

Can you imagine the AEW Dynamite after All In the go home show for All Out? A week later! It will also be two hours of bullshit angles! Could be even worse?