The NWA Incidents That Killed The Company

[@Ibmyselfman]

Jim told a bad starvation joke, and NWA didn't edit it out of a pre-taped show. BIG mistake on NWA's part.

[@stevenmillan9220]

I'm sure that Jim was very super vocal backstage about his progressive liberal politics,something that conservative Infowars fan Billy Corgan wouldn't put up with as Jim sorely needs to get himself a MeidasTouch/Keith Olbermann/Steve Schmidt/Michael Cohen style progressive podcast since Jim's endless AEW bashing is so tiresome.

[@BeeHatGuy]

​@@stevenmillan9220AEW should try making a good product so he won't have to rip into it so much

[@MatthewLittle]

Cornette could've just apologized for it but took his ball home instead.

[@MADGUNSMONSTER]

If Tyrus is your World Champion, then your company has serious issues.

[@diegooregon4481]

it sure is an issue

[@johnnydropkicks]

If you listen to Tyrus speak for too long, then your brain will have serious issues. 🙂

[@TheMC1102]

The title will make people think this is ANOTHER video about the segment where Father James Mitchell snorted bolivian marching powder.

[@kidz4p509]

Yeah, Top10Wrestling should’ve at least typed something.

[@EnforcerX71]

Or Colombian Candy.

[@unwarranteddesign806]

It's a crime that WWE has relegated Nick Aldis to only a GM role given that he's 38 and can still work.

[@ThePlotToBlowUpTheEiffelTower]

I don't think Nick wants to wrestle tbh. He found a job that pays good and that doesn't require him to be as physical anymore. I'd take it too

[@MrKingkz]

I wanted him to be in the rumble would have been a bit of fun

[@stevenmillan9220]

It wouldn't surprise me that now that Alexa Bliss is back,that the WWE/NXT recruits Kamille(after his AEW days ended) to be Lilly(replete with the Tom Savini/Jason Baker make-up) since Kamille has both the physique and bodily height to portray Lilly.

[@adamcarr8120]

​@@ThePlotToBlowUpTheEiffelTower He did say in an interview with CVV that he felt he had more to give in ring and he wouldn't be satisfied if his in ring career was over. I'm still expecting him to have some kind of Mania match at some point. I hope so at least.

[@bigshambowski]

Kind of shocked you left out the Samhain incident. That cost them a TV deal.

[@miltbottleboy]

I understand the joke...but it was so risky. And I'm sure scared sponsors

[@devinhudson]

Coming from a black man from arkansas.Jim Cornettes joke wasn't racist it was a fat joke about Trevor Murdock which was funny btw.

[@Tucj-zh1dy]

It wasn't funny, it wasn't offensive. You have the comedy of a brick if you thought it was funny

[@devinhudson]

@Tucj-zh1dy well it was funny maybe you've got the humor of a brick.

[@FiveGates]

It wasn't a fat joke either, but a joke about how intimidating Murdoch is, but the stereotypical connection between black people and fried chicken made it very easy to misconstrue as racist.

[@definegaming640]

No real black person ever says "Coming from a black".

[@corybraun2072]

@@Tucj-zh1dy i give your joke a 0/10

[@efraimgarcia7876]

Kind of surprised you left the Samhain incident out.

[@johnsw224]

That Cornette joke just sounded like an old man joke. Wasn't that funny, but i don't see what the big deal was

[@DKCG0113]

Because some people who cry the loudest about other people being racist are actually the racist ones. They have a superiority complex and project their racism on others.

[@ZeroCrystal]

It's because some people will NEVER not find something, anything, to whine and bitch about.

[@zanzibar2280]

I really really really really don’t see it too.. he was just rhyming

[@devinhudson]

I agree

[@danpoutsma1351]

He's been telling that joke since the 80s when it was actually socially relevant (starving people in Ethiopia was a big story). Nobody made a thing about it for 30-something years, but now all the ultra sensitive SJWs suddenly hear Ethiopia and fried chicken in the same sentence, so it must be racist and I must be offended by it.

[@The_Hero113]

Four: Losing the CW deal after the sugar burger spot.

[@Absolute_white]

I quit the second they fired Cornette. I was loving it too.

[@Will_kid_cortez]

Pretty sure you weren't the only one lol

[@RemoWilliams1227]

​@@Will_kid_cortezno he was not

[@hib6076]

Trevor Murdoch getting hate for his title win is wrong tbf. He's the perfect everyday workhorse for the NWA's brand

[@1onlyme120]

Hey did you know that there’s a legit NWA reality TV show on Peacock? It’s called “Billy Corgan’s adventures in carnyland” 😂 not kidding, highly recommend

[@georgewilliams4258]

I think that one of the big mistakes NWA has made was going off KZbin to Twitter not everyone subscribed to Twitter where pretty much everyone has KZbin

[@craigs121]

I would also add that KZbin is far and away more widely available on pretty much every major device you can think of, owing to KZbin being a video streaming platform, whereas X/Twitter is not available on every device, due to it being a social networking site/app, primarily.

[@jamesthompson3023]

Jim cornett told a bad taste joke he had nothing to do with how bad it is now

[@vigoroushero8623]

He was actually referencing a South Park joke if I'm not mistaken.

[@DKCG0113]

It was a joke about being tough enough to keep a bucket of food in a country full of starving people. He said fried chicken and guilty race baiters went after him.

[@movingstone4910]

​@@DKCG0113 Idk how to tell you this, but an old white man can be racist

[@danpoutsma1351]

​@@vigoroushero8623He's been telling that joke since the 80s when the starvation epidemic in Ethiopia was a big story. Instead of Trevor Murdock, he used his then bodyguard Big Bubba Rogers, aka Big Boss Man, as the guy tough enough to do what he said

[@hib6076]

​@DKCG0113 a joke about starving people in severe poverty is still in poor taste though. But ultimately it's the NWA's fault for not editing it out of the show when it's pre-taped

[@coreyhendricks9490]

Cool video as always Tom 💯, do more of NWA

[@maxcady360]

I wish Cornette's bad joke was the only thing that went wrong with the NWA.

[@Mayydayy86]

I for one look forward to the "Downward Line Thumbnail" on each new video.

[@traigongames]

Nick was always an amazing worker and always stayed loyal to the companies he worked for the only time he had to leave is when he had falling outs a good example of this is TNA

[@KingOfThe850]

I went to the nwa show in Dothan Alabama in December. And i bought tickets to the Hard Times show in March. I personally enjoy it

[@VisuallyImpairedGamer1987]

I'll grant you that Trevor Murdoch was not on the same level as Nick Aldis, but Trevor deserves his due. He genuinely exudes the oldschool NWA spirit, and I for one was happy that he got a run with the 10 pounds of gold!

[@sebrey2245]

It was literally a quote from an old South Park episode about a starving Ethiopian boy named starvin Marvin that the boys sponsor. So it wasn’t even something Cornette came up with himself. You can argue it’s an outdated joke, but it was a reference to something in pop culture.

[@dvd2909]

I don't see any problem with Cornete commentary😮

[@wweminehead]

Please just remember that these are the views and opinions of 1 man just like Dave Meltzer.

[@GapMediaoz]

Thankyou for giving us more nwa, please don't stop 😊

[@felipeh6012]

Tbh. the story that led to Aldis losing to Murdoch was amazing, which kinda compensates for the loss. But then all the Tyrus shit is just unexcusable, not only on a wrestling pov, but also a commercial (too political) and aesthetical perspective. I believe that, at one point, Corgan just wanted to "stick it" to wrestling fans and was going through the "all publicity is good publicity" route. Corgan did the rise and fall of NWA again in 5 years lmao

[@JayTube2017]

Love your videos

[@veegob5287]

I tend to push play on NW/ once a month, and then immediately think “It’s still 💩”. Now every episode: Gags the gimp, the Magician Jake Dumbass, Mims, Blunt Force Trauma, etc just prove it won’t change.

[@johnnydropkicks]

How can something have ”killed the company” if the company it still exists?

[@user-hm4tt9hy5f]

I do agree with what you said but there's a few other issues too. 1. Powerrr moving to Fite TV from KZbin. This hurt viewership because instead of watching for free, now you have to pay per episode of tv. Nothing was added to the product but now we had to pay. 2. Changing the product. Billy Corgan didn't like it being called a "Throwback" and kept changing the format of the show. The throwback was what made it stand out. Now it looks like a glorified indy show. 3. Tyrus Allegations. Not only was Tyrus not a great champion, he's had multiple allegations against him over the years. 4. Billy not trying to keep people. He had a stacked roster when Powerrr started. EC3 and Matt Cardona are about the only names that have been on NWA TV recently

[@criticalsting]

Another factor in aldis leaving was corgan disrespecting mickie james after the Empowerrr show

[@thecolonel3995]

Cornette used that joke about Big Bubba in the 80s

[@dreval9646]

I’m so confused watching this like isn’t that the dancing Dino guy from wwe like is this before or after? The timeline is in SHAMBLES!

[@ShinRyojin]

Corgan really did try to gaslight people into thinking an overweight, out of shape, immobile dude who is also a shit person was world championship material. Corgan lost so much credibility.

[@Oneulchikinmukgeosseoyo]

also the fact that it hasn't been the same let alone good since the 80s/90s lol that sure didn't help

[@bobmarshall8527]

When NWA Powerrr first aired it was the best wrestling show around at the time

[@delavega989]

It'd be great to see more new talent brought up from their territory system

[@CarlosColon-m7i]

Tyrus was the worst nwa champion ever

[@rmack3720]

A shame. NWA Powerr was my alternative at the time.

[@ningboy3274]

Drink every time Top 10 says NWA

[@joshyfox99]

The issue with cornette joke can have two sides a race joke about black people wanting fried chicken or a joke about starving people..Jim’s got a history of being negative about black wrestlers a clip calling one the N word.. If it’s a South Park joke why is it on a wrestling show..if someone from wwe or aew said it they’d get hatred to just that Jim said it.

[@danpoutsma1351]

He clarified that it was a starvation joke. He's been telling it since the 80s, actually, long before South Park. The starvation epidemic in Ethiopia was a big story back then. The problem nowadays is that people are just looking to be offended by something, or anything, and will get triggered by hearing certain words without understanding or wanting to understand the context of the situation in how they're being used They hear fried chicken and Ethiopia so it must be racist joke against black people. Yet how many people were up in arms that he was making fun of starvation or starving people? It shows you where most people's minds are there days. .

[@joshyfox99]

@ either way the joke would have been taken badly as making a starvation joke about people who were dying from it isn’t good either, it’s not that people are too easily offended now it’s that they understand certain jokes shouldn’t be said on a wrestling show that isn’t about that sort of comedy…would it be okay for Micheal Cole to make a joke in the same lines? Maybe Tony schivoni could.. jokes like that don’t really belong on a wrestling show he could have used any other analogy but went with a starvation joke.

[@danpoutsma1351]

@joshyfox99 He's been saying that joke on TV for literally over 30 years without any issues until some sensitive soul or souls decided they and everyone else should be offended by it. But at the end of the day, it was pre-taped, and it was ultimately the NWA's fault for not having the foresight to say " this line might not go over so well in today's climate Jim, so we're going to take it out" . Instead, they didn't do that and threw him under the bus before issuing an apology.

[@joshyfox99]

@ it was allowed 30 years ago but a lot of awful things have been allowed for that time span don’t make it right but I fully agree it’s on NWA for keeping it in if they took it out or had him do a do over it would have been fine.

[@thomasfriday1]

Funny how fried chicken is associated with Black people when 1) Popeyes is a white cartoon character 2) When I think of fried chicken I think of a WHITE man from Kentucky (Coronel Sanders) 3) Who's made more money from fried chicken? White people or Black people...😮

[@danmount9462]

Bet you they hire Patrick Clarke.

[@risboturbide9396]

Murdoch as the NWA champ was a very bad move. Also, losing Ricky Starks to AEW was a huge blow.

[@miltbottleboy]

eli drake was too

[@DKCG0113]

Murdoch wasn't in SVR 2008. He was in 2009, though.

[@BappoSopapo]

A company in the shit with jim cornette in his lines, must be a shock

[@MikeSmith-hm5sz]

Let's be fair The NWA had lost all of there prestige long before they put the title on Tyrus in fact look up all of the title holders in the decade before Tyrus won the belt it isn't a who who of Top Superstar

[@danpoutsma1351]

What was left of the NWA should've let Turner buy the name in the late 80/early 90s after he took over Jim Crockett Promotions Ever since the split with WCW, they've struggled to stay relevant for the past 30 plus years now. At least WCW or WWF would've given it a proper burial. Instead, it's died and been resurrected more times than Jason Voorhees.

[@larryhammer5183]

Lets be honest! Tyrus got the belt as a prop to use on Gutfeld on FOX! Billy thinking that 3 million viewers a night might bleed a few towards his product!

[@GLJosh]

Just imagine if WPC was able to get TNA?

[@tonyibraham5931]

The joke Cornette made was cleared up in his podcast recently. So you don't research enough

[@teamtim87]

Thank God Corgan didn't buy TNA.

[@CurtGullin]

yes more nwa ...... there you get an subscription

[@BlueLighteningGojo]

I stopped watching NWA after they fired Jim. I'm all for freedom of speech.

[@nigelflood7074]

100% its down to losing Nick Aldis , making Mudoch the next in line was a slap in the face to Nick. IMHO they should of put the belt on Matt Cardona after Nick.

[@johnny333X2]

Popped big for that Cornette line. Try laughing at jokes, sensitive dorks😂

[@AmazedBunion]

the cornette comment was not a big deal. weirdos cry about everything.

[@gllst5938]

The Cornette joke wasn’t “out of pocket”, it was completely in Cornettes wheelhouse. Nothing about it should have been offensive to anyone but Trevor Murdoch. Which is who it was designed to insult. That’s it, that’s all. My opinion is that trigger happy young fans who have brain rot don’t know how to spot “racism” if their life depended on it. They have grown up in a virtue signaling world and thus are a product of their environment. It was a dumb reaction to a goofy joke. Cornette is the last guy to make a racist joke. Those who disagree have never listened to him and his opinions. Jim doesn’t always get it right but he’s got a sturdy and good moral base. As long as your name isn’t Vince Russo, you’re fine.

[@AmazedBunion]

people forget these are people playing gimmicks ffs. he's used that joke for nearly 40 years AS A HEEL.

[@theblackratexplores]

If you're offended by what Cornette said : Get a life!!

[@wallyc8344]

Tyrus Being very open on a lot of political view is a bad mix o have it here top guy. I know a lot of people are not going to like that but it's true

[@Ronald-hk6fk]

Aldis was boooooring AF! Id rather have porcupines attached to my eyes

[@rileyanthony]

EC3 isn't much better

[@miltbottleboy]

He is a bigger name than Murdoch or Tyrus IMHO.

[@CornBreadtm1]

Jim's joke is funny. It's literally a South Park style joke. One of, if not Jim's favorite show. I've been watching South Park since it first aired. It's just a Starving Marvin reference. I'm black, I didn't go on twitter and complain about South Park when they made the joke when I was a kid. I just went to school and laughed about it with all of my friends. Because it's funny. If your show dies because someone made a South Park joke, then your show was bad to begin with. Because South Park is one of the most popular shows in the world. And isn't bad.

[@danpoutsma1351]

He's actually been telling that joke since the 80s, long before South Park .Used it on NWA TV in the 80s and even WWF in the 90s.

[@ThaShowStopper]

My G Aldis was the perfect champion for NWA! I love the way he carried himself He would always hold the belt with such respect like it was his baby! Now Slim boy Tyrus didn't bring 1 pair of new eyes to NWA! Not 1! Dude is a joke! Just look at this slob😆

[@pudd66]

Corigan is the tony kahn of bookers...

[@MatthewLittle]

And yet the NWA is still around, @Top10Wrestling. Still beating the dead horse there, huh?