Jim Cornette on Dave Meltzer Picking A Fight With Brian Last On Twitter 

I once bumped into the Young Bucks. I wasn't paying attention and just walked into one of them and knocked him down. Dave gave it four stars.

Well technically if you wanna go with ratings, TNA was a more successful start up than AEW has ever been.

"Digging in your heels every week to convince yourself you're right is a bad look." Meltzer's been doing that for YEARS...

Dave is just acting like any other AEW fan. They take it so personal.

Dave claims to have all these interesting 'best friends' yet he'll spend a random weekend arguing w/ egg accounts on twitter.

He did it to me exact same thing on twitter i was attacked for days lmao except i did dig in my heels

Brian always defends him too. Dave has lost his mind.

The great artwork screams........" I'm not going to be IGNORED Jim"!

What Dave and AEW fans need to know and understand this. Although extremely unlikely now at this point sadly. If Vince and the WWE suddenly strike gold and get back to any reminence of what they could be AEW wouldn't stand a chance

Seriously, what is Dave's issue!?

Brian is absolutely right though. I'm a fan of a lot of AEW's talent, and modern wresting overall (sometimes the spotfest gets to be too much or a match goes too long, but overall I enjoy the modern wrestling style). However, anyone with eyes can see an amateur is putting together Dynamite on a weekly basis. Segments run over each other, there's terrible attempted comedy, talent and feuds just run into one another, things don't make sense. I want AEW to succeed, but at times they make it hard on themselves, and fanboys like Dave who make it insufferable and drive people away when they bring up valid criticism of the product do more harm than good.

Idc what nobody says, Smackdown & NXT had a more consistently good show over AEW all 2020, it’s just NXT didn’t always have the ratings to agree

Dave gives you an automatic 10 stars if you shoot on someone in the ring.

What David really needs isn't athletic greens, it's a magic spoon to sweeten his disposition

What’s so wrong with an employee defending his company?

Jim....You're killing me. If you take a poll of people that like to..... and asking them if they like the taste of.....Only Cornette. I'M DYIN" 🤣😂🤣

Brian is spot on with his opinion! I like some of the matches and wrestlers they dont particularly like but he’s correct about the booking and writing

"You have to learn when to pick your spots" says the guy who defends the hotshotting of the product for the past two decades.

I was watching this back & forth between them as it was happening. I just couldn't figure out who was being the better heel.

Ol Uncle Dave would give the Sucks & Twinkletoes 7⭐s for just them sitting at a table playing twiddly winks outside the Tokyo Dome... Imagine the gesticulating during the game of Twinkletoes. 🤣

Dave's backed up. But it isn't in his colon.

Finaly even Last is learning truth about Meltzer

"It amazes me how poorly written and booked that show is, every week." Says almost everyone every dynamite, still.

I wanna see Jim and Brian vs Meltzer and Russo in a cage match

AEW first few shows sold out but they couldn’t sell out and gave away free tickets before the pandemic. AEW debuted 1.4 million viewers and now averaging around 800-850 viewers a 40% drop. We all have opinions but numbers don’t lie and before AEW fansboys comment Dave and Alvarez talks constantly about WWE declining viewership.

"Mozart didn't have fuckin records" - I lost it.

Let’s see how popular AEW really is, put them on Fridays against Smackdown and see how quickly their ratings drop. They get to compete against what is essentially a C show like ECW was from 2006-2010. They have zero mainstream appeal and will never come close to RAW or Smackdown. Hell I don’t know if they even match TNA from 2009-2013 in ratings.

End every conversation with a snake oil pitch.

Oooh, this is gonna be a good one.

This is equivalent to a broadcaster thinking he knows better then a player. Jim Cornette has had multiple wrestling matches over his career. WTF has Dave done beside write gossip wrestling news letters🙄

Block toxic people. Not worth your time.

I wonder what Matt Striker thinks about impact and how it's booked now that he works for them I mean I totally agree when it comes to shows it all depends on what you like

AEW has never been put together property . The show is all over the place .

Uncle Dave the "cool uncle"

The dynamic dude uncle dave lol...ok where's the aew reviews and nxt reviews lol

I can respect that AEW has its fans, and some of them will defend it ferociously. But yeah TNA in its prime was putting it to raw. AEW is just the big fish in the small pond against NXT, if they want to be taken seriously they need to expand. They also seem to forget Jim and Brian also shit over wwes product also so it's not a targeted attack. I've fallen off both shows mostly.

Keep in mind the jaguars are the worst franchise in the NFL literally If I was Trevor Lawrence I would pull an Eli Manning

My guess is that Dave hates WWE so much, that to him, any attack against AEW is a defense of WWE

This is why twitter is bad. Social media is like a cancer that gets worse every day. Years ago, before twitter, or facebook people had to actually talk to one another on the phone or in person. They couldn't just come in to your house uninvited like they do now with the internet. Unfortunately the way we communicate has changed and now more and more we are becoming more reliant on social media. Unfortunately most people are too dumb to have a platform like twitter. Dave Metzler is one of those people!

DAVE WAS wrong for giving Tony the booker of the year, it should had gone to Dana, who made Impossible fights possible and gave us classics after classic. The rest was good and understanding choices.

Meltzer is afraid to attack _the master of roasting,_ Jim Cornette.

If you say AEW into a bathroom mirror 3 times, Dave Meltzer magically appears.

Meltzer, like most people these days, presents his opinion as fact. I stopped listening to him a long time ago.

We definitely need an omnibus of the Cornette/Meltzer relationship degeneration.

Dave wants to be Kenny Omegas golden lover.

Funny how Dave doesn't apply the "you shouldn't criticize them because they make a lot of money" standard when covering the WWE, huh?

I gave AEW a shot a couple of months back but I just couldn't watch it anymore. I couldn't tell who the faces or heels were. If it was WWE programming it would be crucified. The only thing that makes AEW different is that Vince doesn't own it. That all.

"Digging in your heels every week to convince yourself your right is a bad look" Look into a mirror and take your own advice Dave 😂

Dave Meltzer is like an expert swimmer who never got in the pool.

I will give you Dave Meltzer in a nutshell. Bret vs Owen, Bret vs Austin, Michaels vs Taker, Angle vs Benoit, Benoit vs HHH vs HBK, HBK vs Angle, Bret vs Shawn, Rock vs Austin all got a lower rating than Gargano vs Cole. That is so stupid.

Dave Meltzer has always been a condescending guy. Its just now after years he is being found out now by friends & foe alike. Everyone is finding him out. He has also lost his mind on all things wrestling related.

I have to say, Brian really earned my respect here by firing back at Meltzer. Perfect comeback! Well said.

He’s now degraded to the point where he can’t handle someone not liking a show he likes. That’s behavior you grow out of around age 9.

I seldom pay attention to Meltzer, and am not overly concerned with what kind of wrestling he enjoys and praises. It's strange how willing he is to sacrifice whatever dignity and credibility he has defending AEW on Twitter like a mother bear.

The whole thing sounds so childish. Get off Twitter.

Dave Meltzer has became a huge self mark.

Good thing ole Conrad is around to swing from Meltzers nuts. Every sentence is “ Meltzer went on to give it x stars”.

Me and Jim laughed at the same time when Brian said he's not going to sleep until Meltzer replies back lol

I agree with Brian, all the current product is terrible. Set the bar pretty low and Dave eats it up. A bad look is stonewashed jeans in 2021.

anyone: “the elite aren’t tha-“ *a wild Dave meltzer appears*

I don't get the big deal with Dave Metzler's opinion being held so high, the guy is just a glorified fan that writes newsletters. Since when did he become the gatekeeper of what's good and bad wrestling

30/35 years ago when the wrestling business was closed it took a lot of work and real reporting to run down what was going on behind the scenes Meltzer was one of the few true journalists writing about wrestling. He hasn't been a true journalist for a very long time. He's turned into a wanna be "influencer". Dave's opinion on wrestling is the word of God and how dare you differ from his opinion of what good wrestling is.

The Bucks are the most overrated wrestling team I’ve ever seen since they’re bland and not believable

Seems pretty obvious AEW is paying Dave to speak positively about the promotion. I guess every once has price for the Billion Dollar Fan.

I've never followed Meltzer closely but from what everyone says he sounds like the definition of a narcissist (might have spelled that wrong though).

When Cornette was saying that down deep people don't change, it really hit so close with me. My Grandmother who was the best person I ever knew, used to say "People don't change, and if they do, they become worse."

Meltzer has CTE despite never taking a bump in his life... Poor Guy.

The Kardashians are on TV for F*** sake! God Jim please don’t ever change this podcast is golden 😂

The "Dynamic Dude" Dave Meltzer is back at it again Ladies and Gentlemen.

Dave and Jericho are in a competition to see who can kill their legacy the most

Brian has nailed the start up conversation! It's like saying One Direction are the best debut band ever and ignoring the fact they were backed up by X Factor and Simon Cowell

Guys like Dave have always been a problem in the world. You know the one gentleman, that asshole in the room who is so deep into his own shit that he cannot, repeat, CANNOT see the other side of the argument worth a good god damn.

Meltzer, a case of the pot calling the kettle black

20 min Meltzer rant? Got my popcorn ready this is gonna be good...

Dave Meltzer has truly lost the plot

I smoke a lot of weed, and still loathe AEW.

I dont agree with some of Corny's criticisms. Sometimes I think he's absolutely wrong......but he is so entertaining to listen to that I'll just sit back and laugh at his rants

I like how brutal Jim is 😂 people he’s known for 35 years will be dropped in a heart beat if they like twinkle toes and excrement on commentary.

why even bother with Meltzheimer anymore. He's so past respectable retirement I feel bad just trying listening to the guy. It's like like, you know, um, like, sad, andandand, yeah, so that's the story..

"There's never been a start up that's had this success" Yeah, because it was never backed by a billionaire's son. What's considered success anyways? Are they making significant profits? I doubt it otherwise we would hear them brag about it but instead they point to other things to define their 'success'.

I think I know what’s wrong with Meltzer. He started out writing about badasses who looked down on him and now he’s writing about children who think he’s some kind of genius

Meltzer tried his hand covering MMA. Epic fail . Unlistenable. Just stuttered and said "you know" a hundred times.

I remember some random guy on Twitter tweeted that he had AEW on and Orange Cassidy came on the TV while he was in the bathroom and his girlfriend saw OC and started laughing at how bush league the OC and the show looked and how he had to turn off the show in embarrassment. Dave finds the tweet (which he wasn't tagged on) and derides the guy for 'making up the story.' This wasn't the Dave Meltzer I grew up reading. This is the Dave Meltzer that the old Dave Meltzer would take to task for being such a fanboy. And it made it clear that this Dave Meltzer has skins in the game when it come to AEW.

In other words Dave is the ghost Head booker and he takes offense to people who criticizes a company that exist as a tribute to what he thinks wrestling should be.

It's like he's the roadie for a band and you better not knock his friends because they're his inside to being cool

Uncle Dave is senile lol, you can have a bad product that's still successful. Just look at McDonalds.

Give it time because when there own audience starts to realize AEW has glaring issues...that’s when AEW will go down hill

I'm gonna absolutely dread seeing this senile "hey there fellow kids" old fart Meltzer in the next season of Dark Side of the Ring. Also, did anyone else see the clip posted on DSotR's Twitter page of Jericho doing narration again? One thing I have to give him props for is his narration work. He can't sing and his politics are abysmal, but Jericho is an awesome narrator. Glad he's back.

Why would Meltzer do this? To stalk people on Twitter that have a different opinion? Isn’t he supposed to be an objective journalist? Good God. Leave it alone Meltzer.

Brian saying he has read every issue of _The Observer_ isn’t the flex he thinks it is.

I laugh at what Jim Cornette says around 4:52-4:55 because I first heard the phrase "Go piss up a rope." sometime in the mid-1990's because my dad said it up somebody & I was like "What does that mean?...".

Dude.....Jim Cornette is imo the best wrestling mind alive. He and JR

The best thing about reading Dave's articles is that you don't have to hear him speak for 40 minutes straight. The dude contradicts himself and is so self absorbed with his own bullcrap he can't see that he may be wrong. "It's OK to do hokey stuff because it works for the small crowds, by the way Japanese outlaw wrestling has none of that and that's why it's the best ever" He then compared wrestling to watching a movie and that people know it's fake like movies. Ok, Well if you go see Freddy Krueger and expect a horror show but he's all of a sudden in a drama it's not intrinsic to the character it makes for a crappy movie that devalues the character which is the same as the bullcrap wrestling Dave loves so much.

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RIP The Great Butch Reed.

Meltzer is a jacked-up, California, version of Vince Russo who's a journalist and thinks of himself as "one of the boys." Russo is a New York, pot-smoking, version of Meltzer who wrote television. There are key differences between both guys, but there are many similarities.

I just have to say that Smackdown is better than AEW, TNA and RAW combined..that is alll.

What’s funny is that Brian gives AEW some credit 😂😂😂

And the dislike is probably from Tuna Meltzer himself.

Dave Meltzer and the modern wrestling industry, especially AEW and the indies but WWE, Impact, etc. as well, are stuck in a feedback loop. I think Brian’s right, Dave has always loved the modern high spot style above everything else but almost nobody was doing it when he started out, certainly not in the US mainstream. But starting in the 90’s, with workers like Michaels and Jericho and the WCW Cruiserweights, wrestling started to inch towards what Meltzer liked. Those matches were more exciting than what people had seen before, so fans loved them, and Dave rated them highly, and so people who were fans back then decided that since Dave’s critical appraisal aligned with their personal opinion, that meant if he liked something it was objectively good. Those kids would grow up to be the modern generation of wrestling, and this is key. When Dave started out, wrestlers and the majority of fans either didn’t know or didn’t care who he was, but now most of the wrestlers and a huge chunk of the fans follow him religiously. So wrestlers like the Young Bucks pander to Dave so he’ll give them publicity, Dave showers them with praise, fans decide that this must be what wrestling is if Dave likes it, and other wrestlers decide that if that’s what fans want and Dave says it’s good, then that’s what they have to do as well. AEW is what Dave has always wished wrestling could be but he’s been too afraid to say so until now, because what he wanted was so outside the mainstream he’d lose credibility. Now that the mainstream has finally come to him he’s afraid of it going away and he lashes out at anyone who mildly criticises it, because if AEW goes down, which doesn’t look very likely right now, WWE will revert to form and the industry will follow them, and we’ll be back to the lumbering heavyweights and squash matches of the late 80s. People complain that WWE is written for an audience of one, and it is and it’s a huge problem. But AEW is written for an audience of two, and one of those two believes whatever the other one tells him.