Jim Cornette on Dark Side Of The Ring's Kanyon Episode 

Yeah, John Cenas never done anything polite or respectful to families, especially children… Definitely isn’t a good wrestler right?

You think Cena was being honest when he said that?

@Dylan Smith Cena was a lot of things but a good wrestler wasn’t one of them….

Chris was my cousin, and I remember me and my brothers and cousins went to a Monday Nitro at Nassau colosseum, and after his match he came up into the stands and sat with us for a few minutes. He was in his regular clothes and a baseball cap. (As if that was going to disguise him. He was TREMENDOUS) when everyone around us realized it was him, they went WILD! I think I was 12 at the time. I don’t think I’ve ever felt cooler in my life. 😂 He was our hero. He brought his two title belts with him on Christmas Eve one year, and my entire family took pictures with it. All us kids literally play wrestled with him ALL night throwing eachother into piles of wrapping paper. He was the kindest soul, and watching this episode was gut wrenching. Just the look on his face when that F$CK Ric Flair said he wasn’t good enough killed me.

@@LadyFalcon17 Great story! Besides the whole Flair being a prick thing. Nice guys finish last, unfortunately.

Imagine the racket swing 🤓

I just wish it looked like Corny...

@@clintoncox5917 yea proportions are off by alot , real cool design though. Makes me wanna see a anime intro with him and the midnight express..then fastforward to present Jim. with him Brian ,Stacy and Harley Quinn XD

Would love to see a whole anime series,based on all his wrestling stories

I miss Travis...

The triad was getting popular, so I guess Kevin Nash and the other WCW writers destroyed their little run. Bigelow mentioned it in a shoot, before he passed.

Thats my best memory of Canyon

That was awesome. When DDP held up that pic of the three it looked like they were doing “speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil”. They were such a good trio, they should’ve had a much longer run

One of the coolest group names in wrestling. Bar none

They were fun. I liked when they did a "Your mother's so fat" joke to Stevie Ray. I think people weren't keen on Diamond Dallas Page's heel turn because he was so great at being a good guy. I got a kick out of tied-up hair-era "Ya love me, ya hate me, you'll never forget me!" DDP with the Jersey Triad.

Positively Kanyon

Those were some of my favorite moments, too.

Those were my favorites too. BANG!! 🙌🏻😂

@@spawnofhumanityscrimes Damn. I mean yeah, but. Damn.😆

Very well said!

Chris “Champagne” Kanyon 🎩❤️

Same lol

I miss Travis but this new guy is growing on me

@@jedediahcoulbourne1791 There are many guys doing those

AGREED

Tge WCW guys couldn't work the WWF style, so the company decided they couldn't work. That's why the alliance went from WCW guys to heel WWF guys.

@@dolandarkxgrandayy6953 “WWF style” Steve Austin vs Bret hart wrestlemania 13 is pro wrestling that would’ve worked in any promotion.

@@dolandarkxgrandayy6953 The problem was they were WCW guys. The only 3 WCW guys really got to Main Event status was Guerrero, Benoit, and Booker T.

@@kevinhousen2791 Don’t forget Jericho and Goldberg were in main events.

I was gonna say he looks like raz al ghul

A little like Destro as well minus the chrome head.

I always thought he was trying to look like Anton Lavey and I just looked up Ming the Merciless because you said that. He's definitely turning into Ming.

@@thegolem9325 When he had hair he definitely looked like a stock movie satanic cult leader, and yeah, he's rocking that Max Von Sydow Ming vibe now.

@@thegolem9325 - I could definitely see him being influenced by Anton LaVey especially since his gimmick is pretty much the human incarnation of Satan.

Your names rhyme, i enjoyed this, that is all. Goodluck to you sir

Bipolar isn't a real thing. Neither is depression. Nobody has Bipolar, ADD , ADHD, or depression. It's a scam to peddle med on the weak minded. Man up, hit the gym 💪 and get a girlfriend 😤

@@jeffmac9642 You try livin with the highs and lows of your chems outta whack and then come tell me bipolar doesnt exist.

@@violinfanatickamraz1403 it’s all in your head. weak minded individuals need not comment here

@@selfishstockton6123 we do hope you don't go through that route .

He thought everybody was going to freak out because he was gay and nobody ever cared, he died for no reason

Well, tbf, only recently have lgbtq people been so accepted. Imagine then adding in the wrestling business full of bigots. His fear was reasonable. That's the real problem. Being lgbtq needs to be accepted like brown eyes or blonde hair; a naturally occurring variation that is much more common than you'd realize.

@@savagecatgt pat Paterson wasn't just gay...he was r#@@@@ men and Vince didn't give a f####

Yes, I agree they should to see what lie he comes up with.

@Sharon Ryan that’s ironic considering his relationship with Pat Patterson and well…HBK back in the 90s

@Sharon Ryan If the episode is anything to go by, he only came out in 2006.

@@JBroughton2 Pot calling the kettle black that was. Vince runs and owns a company full of muscle bound men in tights n he's that kind of man he'd have a man blow him just due to the power he has. I think the HBK lover rumour is true. N how the fuk could he mock Kanyon for being gay when PP was dabbling in young ring boys

Fucking A..Mortis was awesome and the Flatliner is better than the Downward Spiral.

@michael murillo I believe he's saying it shouldn't have ro get to that point. Not that it wasn't justified.

@michael murillo No Im saying that I dont give a shit about mental health or depression you keep your hands to yourself. I actually support his manager doing that. I would suspect Jim to do the same if Stan or Bobby had gotten messed up and tried to kill him.

Kanyon really took his anger out of James Mitchell.

lol "i don't give a shit about the thing that causes you to behave this way, STOP IT!"

Aew

He threw himself on his own sword unnecessarily. Sorry he’s gone, but the shame would not have been as bad as he thought.

Absolutely

By guys lol

That was 1 of my all time favorite hs episodes especially when artie lost a baseball bet to him n artie had to make out with blue iris rip chris

man those were the good ole days of Stern. Artie was funny as hell.

Jon Xina XuX

That was 2003 Cena. I don't think that version would be apologizing to China. But now he's an actor and wants to cover all his bases.

You guys act like everyone is supposed to know Taiwan is a country, this is not a history class. Kanyon was not great.

Cena was in a no win situation, also Americans need to stop acting like they’re perfect.

@@3venflow22 If youre not ignorant, yes.

This. And, as C.M. Punk said, there is one thing that Cena is WAY better at than 99% of other wrestlers - kissing Ol' Vinny Mac's ass...

The Manga is better.

I’m surprised not many people note the similarities to Jim’s colorful suits and it’s uncanny resemblance to Lupin the 3rd.

Yes!! Especially if hot tubs are involved.

Just don't search for the hentai version

If only it actually looked like Corny...

Anime sucks tho

Cornette as Col Stinkmeaner would be great lol. I'm sure he'd like the Boondocks

@@Whasteen 💯

@@Whasteen How does all Japanese animation suck? That's like saying all forms of American animation sucks lmao.

@@SpinosaurusTheProudSocialist Because it’s horrible hand drawn all the same garbage. That’s how.

Too bad

Which is funny because Matt is morally against gay people....

@@jeffreyklima7612 I don't know what Matt's personal stance is but one of the biggest misconceptions a out Christian's is that we hate gay people. We are taught explicitly with no way of misunderstanding that we are to hate the sin but love the person. You don't have to agree with every aspect of someone's life to be able to still love them. You are not a true Christian if you hate anybody for any reason and sadly there are a lot of self professed Christians that just don't get this. Hating people even when they've done you wrong is a deal breaker

@@stephensanders8572 Matt is an evangelical Christian, he's been very open about that. So yes he hates gay people.

@@jeffreyklima7612 Interesting because Kenny is Bi and they come across as very close friends.

The North Korea one was baffling how Scott Norton was so shocked why they hated Americans. It's like dude, your government dropped more bonbs than they did in WWII, incinerating 5 million people, mostly civilians. North Korea was for more progressive than the authoritarian shit hole of South Korea and all that progress in infrastructure was demolished. I'm not American so it just shocked me how little an American could know about that history. Up there as the most stupid I've seen someone be on television.

@@dielawn87 it wasn’t a Korean War documentary lol

@@dielawn87 chill United Nations

I knew about the fact Kanyon was gay, and felt bullied by the Boy George skit, and his sad suicide, but I was unaware of how close he and Mitchell were, that was heartbreaking how much James cared for the guy.

Different episodes serve different purposes though. Evan and Jason were on a podcast recently (this one? I listened to a few in one week tbh) talked about aiming to tell the emotional story between the people behind the star we all know and love and not necessarily a specific event like the North Korea trip or the plane ride from hell.

I just wanna say bro I been subbed to you for years and I love when I come across your comments on a wrestling video haha. Those Nike Dunk Lows Grey Fog colorway that’s coming out🔥

WWE did nothing to him, he sucked

@@OongTheLastAirbender obviously not a wcw fan. Mortis, Raven's flock, Jersey triad, he was alot better than when wwf screwed him

Did WWE do something illegal that we don't know about or did they not see him as anything more than an enhancement wrestler?

Yet wwe does they punish wrestlers all the time for personal reasons and its petty af..vince is a pos human being.

That was a burial.

I do feel bad that Kanyon was hurt by your sign knowing the deeper reason for it. But a teenager carrying a childish sign to a wrestling show isn't anything to feel too guilty about. That was such a casual type of insult back then, and also one that many if not most wrestlers probably got and it wasn't coming from a place of real hate, in your case obviously.

Also, recall that wrestling itself back then included a lot gay-as-the-butt-of-the-joke angles. So it's not like a teen dude watching this stuff can be expected to be more sensitive and conscientious, lol. (Personally, I don't even think all those angles were done with hateful intentions - more cheap and maybe tacky bids for laughs if anything. But that was then, and our culture has moved on a bit from that now.)

Who is the new Artist? I know Travis Heckler is sick or something but I've heard around three or so different artists names but none can make up their minds about who is doing these superb pieces.

@@ProjectH1980 It's all different artists doing their thumbnails right now. You can see which artist does what in the description

@@shawn2641 I like the oldschool 80s wrestling cartoon style but this one is pure Anime which i also like. The worst one was the first Mortis and Mitchell thumbnail, lazy stuff.

@meg7393an I don't know if 60 is all that old.

How is it hilarious?

College educated, he left his career for wrestling. In my opinion, made the best choice.

what animation? i didnt see anything moving

Him and Kidman both.

Also Wrath who was his tag team partner in WCW. Crazy how they pick and choose who to interview smh - Sean C

Yeah Raven and Kanyon were good buddies right? Seems like a lot of the boys who came up around the tristate area hung around each other.

@@KingKhanate1997 that's the impression I had. Couldve sworn I heard Raven speak highly of Kanyon in at least one shoot interview.

Don’t know the validity of it, but I saw in the comments on another video talking about the Kanyon episode that Raven was pissed that he wasn’t included in this episode

Pat Patterson never did anything like that in WWE or anywhere else. Get your facts straight before you go slandering the dead

@@AndyGrazianoNYC 2 minutes online and you will find the interviews and the documents from the court case that was filed. Sorry that the truth offends you but it is what happened.

@@blacknapalm2131 No it isn't. There were cases against Mel Phillips and I think Terry Garvin. Pat was a married man basically at that point.