Jim Cornette on A Typical Week In World Class 

Yes. Jim Cornette stories and Bill Burr rants

I use lance storm

Holy Shit!! I do too!

If you're a mark I guess lol. Epecially the mark saying "Holy Shit!! I do!"

I use Jerry Jarrett and Corny.

Funny...but I think Marc Lowrance was a pretty good announcer regardless.

@@billymc2681 I dug Lowrance as well. His voice and style fit that territory and their style of wrestling.

@Joey G it's Brian's though.

I’m the other person who wondered

Jason Demakis lmao...phone book. I agree

Jason Demakis Me too!!!!!

Jason Demakis me three!

Grew up on Memphis wresting and my friends all gave me crap for liking Corny lol

Jason Demakis #agree100percent 😉🤣👍🏻👍🏻 25:25 mark had me laughing like a loon! 🤣🤣

Jason Garfield Bardy that may be the first time a "fun fact" was actually that.

"Kids watched Charles Karault hit on their mothers." What the fuck??!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

I remember in Atlanta during the early-mid 80s was on Channel 46 on Sunday mornings.

Yes, WCCW got me interested in wrestling. Very fond memories

I'll say, on behalf of Marc Lowrance (who, admittedly started out REaaally dry and infifferenct sounding--and was always a very understated announcer): he did get better, especially when things would get out of hand and he'd do his righteous indignation thing. "Enough. Cut to commercial. Enough of this."

Oh yeah :)

@@NevrSilent when Marc got mad, you knew it was serious. I really liked his announcing..

In Texas you typically didn't drive, you flew with Southwest Airlines, the late Gary Hart talked about that in his final interview.

I grew up going to those shows at the Sportatorium. I remember the smell that place had as soon as you walked in. But everyone was great. The Von Eric's were super nice and even wrestled with me in the ring once. I was 10 years old. Mike especially was nice.

Living in Dallas in the 80’s was amazing. Friday nights at the Sportatorium were the best

Yeah, rub it in why don't you! I grew up in New York, so all I ever got was WWF television. Back in the 80's, the WWF pretended that they were the only wrestling promotion in the country, and if you were a niave young kid like myself, then you actually believed them! When main event talent came in from other promotions, guys like Harley Race and Kerry Von Eric, Vince would give them a new name like "King" Harley Race and the Texas Tornado! They were never figured into the main event either, so they bounced around, fighting mid-card guys, but never actually challenged for the WWF championship. That's cause Vince and Hogan didn't want to mess with their formula of having Hogan fight a monster heel in the main event of a pay-per-view! As bad as it was to give these established stars from other territories, new names and gimmicks; and as bad as it was for the WWF to NEVER use any of the stars from other territories in a main event match for the WWF championship, it still wasn't the worst thing that they'd do to them! The worst thing they did to the boys like Kerry when they came to the WWF was to never mention any of their accomplishments from the other territories! They would introduce the wrestlers like they were a big deal, they'd say, "Oh my God, that's Kerry Von Eric, the Texas Tornado!" But then they'd never follow that up with any of the wrestlers accolades so to fans like me who didn't even know about other wrestling territories, they were just another mid-card guy, and not meant to be taken seriously. I think that's the worst thing the WWF did to the stars of other promotions whenever they came to the WWF. That's why I'm jealous of the people who grew up in other states and who got to know about all of the territories and all of the different stars in those territories. When guys came in from other territories they were treated with respect, and their accomplishments from all of the different places that they worked were mentioned to show the fans who might not know that this new wrestler who just came into the territory is a big deal. It was just such a better way of doing things than Vince's way. Vince pretended like he was the only wrestling promotion in the country and pretended like none of the other territories even existed!

​@WrongStanceProductions I missed out on that. I lived about 3 hours away, and I knew better to ask my mom to take me. She hated wrestling because I was always hogging the TV watching it. Thankfully, she would let me watch.

​@@jamesteegardner2273You're right!! That used to really irritate me. 😂😂

Gary Hart was NOT the Saint he painted himself as

Don't fuck with Texas, Ding Dang Wong.

"Peter Gazer I'm going to mess with Texas like I the way I the i messed with your mom" - Joseph Kim

Mother Nature disagreed.

Your statement sounds pointless at the end, what were u trying say

That’s about $160 today, just accounting for inflation, not purchasing power. Won’t get rich, but it’s a livable amount.

Oh god, I was watching a match on the WccW DVD one time, and whoever the announcer was, I do not recall him saying his name, called a piledriver. A simple, classic piledriver with no bells or whistles. He called it "some kind of inverted belly to belly suplex."

Yeah, YOUR stories aren't nearly as interesting as Cornettes are, Mr. HellBilly 🧐

@@timbow1356 and I’m sure that you have no story miss bow

@@hellbillywv5724Now you've done it

I've heard they weren't really that bad considering both territories were basically shoestring budgets anyway. That and it also depended on who you are too.

@dbag0584 I would rassle for that!

The business was totally driven on what type of draw you were. So if you were on top you could make what today would be a 250-300k living even in a small territory like Dallas or Memphis.

@@jonnybrotten1290 that's a great line! Always enjoy seeing your comments on Cornette's videos. Keep kickin' 👍

dperfect28 That's very interesting.

What a time to live.

Best part

Those would be awesome matches man wish we that product instead of todays product

BRET HART VS KERRY VON ERICH MY FAVORITE THE HITMAN ❤VS . MY 3RD FAVORITE/IF NOT TOP FIVE FAV TEXAS TORNADO 🌪 Got the HART FOUNDATION LOGO TATTOO ON MY HAND

Dusty Rhodes in his prime vs Owen Hart. Think of the psychology.

WCCW was raking in cash at the time, but most of it was going to the Von Erichs.

The business was rotten on payoffs back then. Damn shame wrestling was great back then.

damn 4 real?

Man I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an orange ring honestly

An orange ring is stranger than Jim Coronette being stripped, powdered, diapered, and spanked?

The current state of wrestling is out of touch with the history of the business

I dont see Wrestling anywhere today, just mud shows and sports entertainment thats worse than the cheapest netflix series.

No idea, but I remember watching it with my family in indiana and ohio. I loved it.

I didn’t get to see it until ESPN started showing it.

I know I'm super late to this party, but the answer is: WCCW innovated the way Wrestling TV production is done. They were the first to use not just the static camera but also multiple handhelds that would get right up in the action. If you watch the WCCW documentary you can hear them talk about all the things that the production team brought into wrestling that never had been done before.

@@theubie this!...... They even beamed the show to Israel, of all places......so the Von Erichs reach was truly International!

Tiffany Carter ...a Jim herd week is good listen. It will be full of laughs just from his ideas.

That would be a typical Mid Atlantic week

Tiffany Carter Kerry Von Erich would have been the one Von Erich that could have pulled off being a heel.

While other wrestlers were making low-level stripper money at best, the Von Erichs were doing very well, and raked in most of the money that WCCW was accruing. They also routinely missed appearances at some of the outposts Cornette mentions, whether it was due to their respective drug addictions or just lack of motivation. I would guess that the Von Erich family was more or less satisfied with how things were going, at least until their near-bankruptcy when they brought in Jerry Jarrett to turn things around.

Yep. So basically, Crockett got screwed by Watts twice. The purchase of the UWF, and Watts wanting the Midnight Express to go to World Class.

Al Snow does a great one on WWE. Very real, not the rosy picture everyone envisions. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A8tCwiOWS2U.html

he may have also worked in memphis

I liked the dignity and professionalism he brought. Nowdays, most announcers just sound to me like a couple of screaming 12-year-olds who just drank a two-liter of Mountain Dew. But Lowrance treated wrestling with a somber formality that conveyed authenticity and importance. He may not have been the BEST ringside announcer, but he was far from the worst, and criminally underrated.

Language.

Pmsl, "we're gonna destroy the establishment, looks like I lost, vote for establishment" - Bernie Sanders 2016/2020

pinko Cronkite.