TIMELINE Wrestling | Jim Cornette | 1989-1990

Dive into the captivating world of wrestling through the lens of Jim Cornette during the transformative years of 1989 and 1990. This episode stitches together the chronicles of Cornette's dynamic involvement in WCW, shedding light on the highs, lows, and uproars that made these years unforgettable in the wrestling realm. From feuds that shook the core of WCW to behind-the-scenes antics, the journey through the timeline that saw Cornette leaving indelible marks in wrestling history. Join us as we unravel the narrative of wrestling’s enigmatic personality, Jim Cornette, and relive the moments that shaped the landscape of WCW during this pivotal era.
00:00 TIMELINE Wrestling | Jim Cornette | 1989-1990
02:00 WCW January 1st 1989
19:36 WCW January 3rd 1989
24:48 WCW January 21st 1989
28:15 WCW February 4th 1989
31:36 WCW February 4th 1989_
34:44 WCW February 10th 1989
36:58 WCW February 15th 1989
44:19 WCW February 20th 1989
48:02 WCW February 20th 1989_
58:05 WCW February 25th 1989
59:37 WCW March 4th 1989
01:00:54 WCW March 18th 1989
01:05:56 WCW March 18th 1989_
01:07:06 WCW March 20th 1989
01:12:14 WCW March 31st 1989
01:20:29 WCW April 1st 1989
01:33:06 WCW April 22nd 1989
01:35:06 WCW May 6th 1989
01:36:45 WCW May 7th 1989
01:41:01 WCW May 13th 1989
01:44:08 WCW May 20th 1989
01:45:28 WCW June 14th 1989
01:59:4 WCW July 23rd 1989
02:07:39 WCW August 4th 1989
02:09:53 WCW August 5th 1989
02:22:13 WCW September 12th 1989
02:24:14 WCW September 14th 1989
02:27:42 WCW September 23rd 1989
02:29:19 WCW October 6th 1989
02:33:27 WCW October 14th 1989
02:35:06 WCW October 21st 1989
02:36:16 WCW October 28th 1989
02:39:25 WCW November 15th 1989
02:43:56 WCW December 3rd 1989
02:46:47 WCW December 9th 1989
02:49:19 WCW December 13th 1989
02:51:48 WCW December 15th 1989
02:53:49 WCW December 16th 1989
02:56:15 WCW December 30th 1989
03:13:05 WCW 1990 INTRODUCTION
03:15:24 WCW January 6th 1990
03:17:23 WCW January 7th 1990
03:20:34 WCW January 12th 1990
03:22:52 WCW January 13th 1990
03:25:14 WCW February 1st 1990
03:34:36 WCW February 6th 1990
03:50:17 WCW February 17th 1990
03:58:16 WCW February 25th 1990
04:07:18 WCW March 10th 1990
04:16:41 WCW March 23rd 1990
04:19:12 WCW March 24th 1990
04:20:34 WCW March 31st 1990
04:23:36 WCW April 6th 1990
04:33:22 WCW April 28th 1990
04:37:25 WCW May 5th 1990
04:46:25 WCW May 6th 1990
04:52:25 WCW May 7th 1990
04:54:14 WCW May 12th 1990
04:57:41 WCW May 14th 1990
04:59:57 WCW May 19th 1990
05:11:26 WCW May 25th 1990
05:14:41 WCW June 6th 1990
05:20:23 WCW June 13th 1990
05:22:03 WCW June 18th 1990
05:26:20 WCW June 20th 1990
05:28:21 WCW July 7th 1990
05:36:34 WCW July 11th 1990
05:38:54 WCW August 4th 1990
05:40:26 WCW August 24th 1990
05:45:48 WCW September 5th 1990
05:51:03 WCW September 10th 1990
05:54:53 WCW September 29th 1990
05:58:31 WCW October 1st 1990
06:03:58 WCW October 27th 1990
06:10:55 WCW October 30th 1990
06:15:12 WCW November 20th 1990
06:17:00 WCW December 12th 1990
06:20:16 WCW December 16th 1990
06:21:22 WCW December 20th 1990

[@benrocky100]

This video + podcast omnibus = Merry Christmas indeed.

[@GaiaMisery]

Thanks for more Jim. Playing WWE 2k23 with all old wrestlers while listening to hours of Jim , happy new year🎉🎉

[@mames1238]

Still playing No Mercy

[@Mikefantasia22]

Castle Cornette is a wrestling fans dream. Jim has so much incredible memorabilia

[@alexello1189]

“Dashing through the snow, get out the fucking way, road warriors here they come, taters all the way HA HA HA”

[@seanbonella]

😊

[@ronstallcup]

I have the DVDs and still watched the whole video...

[@dschool86]

This is a must ❤

[@KaosandRiot]

I would pay hundreds to just sit and listen to him talk wrestling culture and history. He should do a tour, especially in the south!!!

[@gazomg4life]

is the audio out of sync for others ?

[@KHayes666]

yes

[@danmagnuson8889]

Yes

[@TheGrayDawn]

Yup!

[@rodzor]

💯 😒 and they want to use this to entice us to sign up for a membership? Come on now KC.

[@Solid_Jackson]

Ni

[@DropkickNation]

The Freebirds/Midnight Express story with Doc fucking up Jimmy Garvin is still among my favorite moments of KC. 😂

[@mercedesgonzalez1658]

Jimmy Garvin.

[@DropkickNation]

@@mercedesgonzalez1658 WTF? Why did I write Ronny? lol Thx.

[@Pensfan5919]

Same here. It might actually be my favorite Cornette story, and that's saying a lot, considering the drive-thru.

[@rickylucas6503]

it is an amazing story and makes me appreciate doc even more.

[@KHayes666]

@@DropkickNation lol Williams would have broke the chair over Ronnie's head and Ronnie would have just said "That all you got?" haha

[@lindseysummers5351]

6:10:56 I Quit!! Best of all the segments, and that's really saying something!!

[@daveschannel747]

Thx Sean, that was a great trip down memory lane! Merry Xmas

[@asoncalledvoonch2210]

* Christmas, not Xmas

[@asoncalledvoonch2210]

It's Christmas. Not Xmas. Stop being Christophobic.

[@Biffo316]

"I haven't seen such loyalty since Korea" might be the greatest line I've ever heard 😂😂

[@walterclark3198]

The road warrior's stabbing Dusty Rhodes in the eye with a spike was insane. The crowd turned savage and were visibly shaken and angry. Ppl love Dusty Rhodes. Great angle.

[@seanmcclure]

Six freaking hours of a walking encyclopedia of wrestling knowledge. I’m all in. Always.

[@patrickperalta59]

I've been a fan of Jim Cornette since I started watching wrestling in 1983 and his manager days and love listening to his stories on wrestling.

[@D00MTR33]

I have watched these shoots many times over, on KC vault and on here. I still enjoy them at least 2-3 times a year. Sean and Jim together make magic.

[@Kas58223]

Never grow tired of Jim Cornette telling these stories he works so well with Sean

[@thenationofpeacock3309]

My absolute favorite timeline

[@bb-gc2tx]

this and nash wwf 1995 are the greatest shoots in shoot interview history.

[@seanbonella]

Not Nash ​@@bb-gc2tx

[@_RK3_]

@@bb-gc2tx Cornette 1997 is pretty good too

[@skylite21]

This may be the best thing KC ever produced

[@itisijeeemus4036]

I appreciate the posting of these. That being said I don’t know if the audio not synching up is my phone, the app or the video itself and it hurts my head for some reason.

[@KCVault]

It’s a KZbin problem. They’re re processing the video.

[@thekornreeper]

It’s still out of sync

[@lilstinker1949]

@@KCVaultstill out of sync

[@X2Magneto]

Love that you bundled his WCW timelines.❤

[@KHayes666]

I was joking with my wife "I paid top dollar for these on day 1 and here they are free on YT together 7 years later" 🤣

[@buyah2k]

Christmas time with Cornette!

[@Kev33943]

Christmas time with Santa Corny.... 🎾🐐

[@Greeneggsz]

The Christmas Jim Cornette action figure

[@Kev33943]

The Featherbottoms will hook us right up with the Santa Corny action figure

[@richevans609]

Jim celebrates Christmas?

[@richardclark7224]

Yes

[@ashleyporter9547]

5:01:40 Robocop always cracks me up. "What?"

[@nichhodge8503]

I’ve seen Starrcade 1990 reviewed by the wrestling channel Wrestle Me on KZbin (Wrestle Me is my favourite wrestling channel) and I recommend watching it as the card is so bad it’s funny and the Wrestle Me guys doing their commentary are brilliant as they’re so funny as their English got a great sense of humour and do it better than any American wrestling KZbinr. Don’t get me wrong there are some good American KZbinrs who have their funny moments but when it comes to comedy Americans just aren’t very funny like the Germans and I’ve heard Germans try to be funny (I mean in German comedy clubs not American comedy clubs speaking English), it’s just the English are the best at comedy, actually all British are very funny and more so than Americans it’s just the English are still the funniest out of the British. I remember seeing Starrcade 90 as WCW was on German satellite tv back in the day (thought the PPVs we didn’t have to pay for we got them for free just like the WWF PPVs but WWF was on the English channels only and in English but then again so was WCW 😂)

[@JoshBruin77]

Nobody has ever done a better online wrestling interview than Sean.

[@BruceMichaelFilms]

You should produce more timelines. The podcast with Nash is okay, but you guys talk about wrestling for like 10 minutes per 2 hour show.

[@ColossalFISH]

" I was in the Hunchback meeting" lol never gets old.

[@ViolinMustard-jo3hp]

The character Jim Cornette, is real life Jim Cornette.

[@smackdat3518]

I don't care if the audio and video were synced or not thanks for 7 hours of corny and KC

[@audiosurfarchive]

Where is it most egregious for you, I'm having a hard time telling what people are talking about and it doesn't seem much more than 150ms.

[@NJones-ru4hu]

Audio is not synched to the video!

[@christopherjamesboudoir]

I'm only two hours into this video and it makes me think. What would the mid and late 90s have been like if WCW had competent management through these years. Would we have gotten the Monday Night Wars? Would we have gotten Stone Cold and the Rock? Would there have been the NWO? Would there have been solid competition for years to come?

[@KHayes666]

By February of 1990 they were getting close to WWF ratings if not neck and neck. Had Flair, Kevin, Jim and talent like Sting, The Midnights and Luger went to Jack Pietrich and said "get Herd the hell out of here" and Jack listened, they might have had a chance. I hate to say it but a guy like Eric Bischoff who, love him or hate him, brought in the cruiserweights, jump started the nWo and (like Kip Frye) didn't penny pinch like Herd, Ole & Watts, might have taken WCW in 1991 beyond where WWF was when their ratings started to dip after the 80s hangover kicked in.

[@myownpersonalopinion4541]

I'm having my Xmas with jim cornette best Xmas ever

[@synthsolutionmusic]

You'd think they get the audio and video to sync properly

[@KCVault]

It’s a KZbin problem. They’re re processing the video.

[@Carelock]

We don’t care, just keep the Corny coming! One of the few who doesn’t try to work a shoot.

[@mr.itches3165]

@@KCVault It's been a month and it's still out of sync.

[@SteelyDanzig]

​@@KCVaultmust take a long time to reprocess the video I guess

[@CopMorty]

Don't bring the issue up to Corny.. he will just blame Trump 😅😅

[@CJTBasketball]

Best mouthpiece in the business! JC!

[@wingerding]

Lol most wrestlers giving out a receipt means a stiff bump, with Cornette it means the 50 volume encyclopaedias coming out!

[@Tcjsmythe]

6+ hours of Corny=AWESOME!.....

[@CadChamberlain]

Cornette can literally go for hours on wrestling and not get bored or lose focus. Incredible.

[@benrocky100]

Merry Christmas

[@audiosurfarchive]

Oh no the footage is outta sync! Good thing this is an audio focused project and it has no effect to me. I'd much rather use my imagination and visualize than scrutinize a 6 hour vid being a bit outta sync. This isnt Mr. Robot, Mad Men or The Wire.. it isnt a huge impact to the message/effect Cornie laying down. Great stuff y'all.

[@stephencatchdudeknight4623]

Corny’s knowledge is fantastic

[@ljaproductions07]

1:11:52 don glass, what a rant haha 4:14:10 jim cornette impersonating jim barnett, brilliant, 4:44:12 the jim herd story that has me in stitches

[@intense_pickle]

This is two videos in a row with audio lag...This time on my phone. What's going on?

[@KCVault]

It’s a KZbin problem. They’re re processing the video.

[@intense_pickle]

@@KCVault oh wow i didnt expect you guys to answer directly...to be honnest i was expecting to get dumped on by randos. Thanks!

[@audiosurfarchive]

WHY does it matter with how much nothing is going on visually? It seems like 200ms of lag? Not the biggest deal.

[@walterclark3198]

Wrestling history with Cornette. This is quality entertainment.

[@sizethirteennikes]

The GOD of Professional Wrestling JIM CORNETTE

[@trollheyman2703]

Almost 7 hours of cornette talking wrestling, oh thank you sweet baby jeebus.

[@edwells4769]

Wish he'd stick to history since it's so much more interesting g. Unfortunately, the clickbait rips and trolling on modern wrestling get more clicks.

[@Jacob-2796]

@@edwells4769they are pretty funny though

[@edwells4769]

@@Jacob-2796 meh, I get it and its what gets Corny the most clicks but the product is laughable by itself and needs no commentary. I don't care about it enough to watch, I definitely don't care enough to listen

[@richardclark7224]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@OfficialFingazMC]

I want Cornette to come round for Christmas dinner (in England) just so he can cut a promo on everything lol.

[@nickchivers9029]

WELL WOULDNT YOU KNOW WHO WON THE TURKEY

[@mikem10481]

Stan, give me your keys!! Why? I'm fucking going home! What? I'm done! Hold on, I'll go with you! If there was a way to quit a job, I would do it the Midnight Express way! 🤣

[@JusCuz410]

6:00:00 Altoona

[@wingerding]

Great video but the music in between clips gets a little grating after a few hours.

[@HaywoodVapeReviews]

Jim Cornette is a god.

[@kevinfitz8516]

When was this recorded!

[@mikthemik69]

Why doesn't the audio sync up? Cmon guys

[@KCVault]

It’s a KZbin problem. They’re re processing the video.

[@mikthemik69]

@@KCVault gotcha, we expect the world from you, Sean!

[@CT9905.]

Jim is a Wealth of wrestling information and knowledge!

[@bojakai2102]

Jim Cornette needs to do color commentary

[@jonesfoxx2241]

.................. I'm listening to this in Goose Creek, SC.

[@aresinsaneus]

Who has done more shows for KC Jim Cornette or Kevin Nash

[@seanbonella]

Jim before Nash jumped on

[@RyanS881]

Honky Tonk Man deserves a mention

[@Connor-ki8zv]

​​@@seanbonella in my opinion, Cornette is much better at doing these things because Sean could get a lot of information from Cornette, with Nash, it's just rambling on and on and on, it's like "Jesus Christ Kev, get to the point why don't ya?"

[@nikkiLee-hf6gx]

Seka was known for datin celebs. Sam Kinison, Dulf Lungred, John Laurinaitis, Matt Dillon, B illy Idol, and others.

[@2thPlace]

Jimmy deserves his own biopic man.

[@CarlCumby]

So is the audio and video out of sync on all 6.5 hours?

[@krisfaris6182]

The first 12:15 or so is fine, the rest is out of sync

[@KCVault]

It’s a KZbin problem. They’re re processing the video.

[@damron32720]

Gotta Love Jim C 👍

[@jwzero]

Bless you 🙏🏿 wrestling gods give us Cornette

[@richardclark7224]

Okay here we go love me some Jim. Cornett.

[@johnst3296]

Is There a 7 hour one of these detailing smoky mountain?

[@Connor-ki8zv]

Unfortunately no.

[@nohbuddy1]

5:36:27 Tommy Rich was only 34! Crazy how times change

[@Robert217-]

Thanks for all the laughs Jim Love you Man

[@thedoctor3528]

Already watched this on separate episodes with wwf timelines

[@adamsBASSCOVERS]

1:53:52

[@normangrimm4581]

The Steiner Brothers went over The Road Warriors by pin at Starrcade 89

[@joeycheersm8]

2:09:27

[@Bishopbosco]

Cornette's Dusty impression is impeccable!

[@Connor-ki8zv]

I think almost everyone in the business could do the Dusty talk.

[@gothard5]

Back in the days of Kabuki and Muta, the mist was cool. nowadays, it’s just stupid. I just don’t understand why the WWE thinks every japanese superstar sprays mists. At least Asuka stopped doing that stuff thank goodness.

[@nichhodge8503]

The Midnight Express’s theme is still my favourite theme song alongside Triple H’s The Game theme all though if it wasn’t sung by Mötorhead it wouldn’t be as good as Lemmy’s vocals bring that Jim Johnson song to life (The Game theme was written by WWE’s former music guy Jim Johnson not Mötorhead. Jim wrote the song and Triple H kept saying to him while doing the song “can’t you get it to sound more like Mötorhead?” And after a while Jim said “why don’t you just ask Mötorhead if they’ll do the song?” And Triple H said “really I never knew we could do that”)

[@Connor-ki8zv]

Wait, so Triple H never knew he could ask Motorhead if they could do his theme? What an idiot.

[@wingerding]

​@@Connor-ki8zv maybe he considered that they wanted something made completely in company to avoid legal issues/rights and what not. Just like Vince would always change incoming new wrestlers gimmicks so that he could always claim responsible for their success and prevent them from walking away with their gimmicks to a rival company.

[@Connor-ki8zv]

@@wingerding ah. Fair point.

[@truemendicant1669]

Please fix the audio sync. I love these videos, but they're unwatchable this way.

[@rowdy1467]

6:11:49 Cornette face lol

[@markknoxx7164]

This guys life needs to be a movie 🎥

[@audiosurfarchive]

He'd like you to think that, it's a lot more boring I reckon as Cornie can spin a yarn so big it'd be a damn State Fair exhibition without any prompt or effort. I do think a definitive wrestling television, maybe in the vein of Mad Men, that focuses on historical elements as well as character drama would be better.

[@isaac8657]

5:27:39

[@bb-gc2tx]

great wrestling historian but that doesnt change the fact this man is insane 😂 he also has the ultimate signs of TDS like shoe horning in trumps name any chance he gets when it makes zero sense

[@wingerding]

I feel like for a democrat he isn't that bad

[@JONNYSORENSEN_AU]

Hello friends...

[@bentheman1980]

pet peeve ... for me it was always THE WWF but just WCW (no the). THE World Wrestling Federation (ie The Federation) but not THE World Champion Wrestling (cause, what THE are we talking about here?). Always drove me nuts when Hogen said "in the WCW". Which for the record means since it changed to WWE ...no mo THE for you.

[@MasteroftheDDT]

I have the same peeve as a pet. Wen Bret did the steel plate deal with Greenberg and go's; "hey bischoff and THE wcw...I quit". Brutal end 2 a classic moment.

[@bentheman1980]

@@MasteroftheDDT yes 100% you actually were able to tell who was an ex wwf wrestler cause they were the worst culprits.

[@patrickperalta59]

I remember early in his career in WCW Mark Calaway said in a interview he was told by Ole Anderson "get yourself another job no one is going to pay to see you wrestle. months later Mark Calaway was in WWE became the Undertaker and rest is history fans loved him and payed to see him...proving Ole Anderson wrong. 🤣🤣🤣

[@KHayes666]

Ole was right and wrong at the same time. Nobody paid to see "Mean" Mark Callous same way as "Stunning" Steve Austin and Jean Paul Lesveque weren't going to main event pay-per-views. But The Undertaker, Stone Cold and Triple H with the right gimmicks proved they could do it.

[@wingerding]

It's impossible to not make mistakes over a long career.

[@johnathanashleyOCSO]

Cornette is a gem in wrestling.

[@budgibson185]

Yes!! More corny 🎄🎉

[@kevinnash8897]

What’s crazy aew is doing the black scorpion rip-off in 2023-2024 😂😂😂😂

[@Connor-ki8zv]

Yeah but AEW did it worse than WCW. Reason for it is cause Adam Cole revealed himself as the "Devil" when in reality it would have made more sense if it was MJF. Adam Cole being the Devil had no logic, thought, or purpose behind it.

[@colinashley3571]

Leave it to Jim to take 6 hours to recap one year 😂😂😂

[@kevinmosdef753]

Considering there’s 8760 hours in a year that’s not too shabby😂 😂😂

[@InvisibleHotdog]

2 years, based off questions from Sean

[@KHayes666]

2 years, but I'd rather get intricate details & facts then some of these old timers going "um, yeah, I think that's what happened" when they clearly don't have a clue what Sean had written down

[@boscopit]

Goose Creek, SC is a real place. I lived there as kid when my dad was in the Navy. Total dump.

[@ericdravenX00X]

Jim has Great Dusty impression..

[@jeffers1985]

Do love corny vids like these. Would be great if you can do some more stuff together and get Nash involved

[@seanbonella]

Nope

[@jeffers1985]

@@seanbonella any reason why no?

[@wingerding]

Because Nash sucked and is very bland

[@Johnny_Fox_Show]

6 and a half hours of Jim Cornette talking about early WCW that's the easiest sell of all time for me lol

[@gothard5]

It is now 2024 and Jim Herd is still alive at 91 years of age.

[@KHayes666]

Know what the scary part is? Jim Herd was only around from the end of 88 to the end of 91. His three year reign of error is still talked about to this day on what NOT to do as a wrestling promoter

[@briancrawford69]

Cornette say goose Creek, SC like it's some backwater hick town, it's a suburb of Charleston lol

[@mezzaros5534]

Maybe at the time he was passing through it was a backwater hick town :)

[@raczkaruffino1882]

Fix audio or just take down

[@bradpeterson7957]

🎾 👌

[@CadChamberlain]

Crockett surprising Randy Rhodes with a 'loser leaves NWA' match that he loses just because he didnt like him is hilarious

[@KHayes666]

I know Jimmy's dead now but I wish I could ask what the hell was wrong with Randy Rose lol

[@dmac3183]

Wcw had a referee Lee Scott, anybody know if it was George Scotts son Byron that Jim mentions? Only reason i ask is before Lee Scott refed he was a jobber that took a ridiculous powerbomb from Sid and pretty sure Steiners beat the shit out of him pretty bad.

[@isaac8657]

2:09:35 dying😭😭

[@seanbonella]

The sync is off

[@KCVault]

It’s a KZbin problem. They’re re processing the video.

[@BradinSiouxCity]

BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI

[@brodywise4750]

Be better if the audio and video weren’t out of sync

[@KCVault]

We agree. It’s a KZbin problem. They’re re processing the video.

[@MP-jo1qs]

Jim Cornette is like the Three Eyed Raven of wrestling

[@rudyrusso711]

Cornette is a National Treasure! 💯 💯 💯