Jim Cornette on Halloween Wrestling 

Vince dressed as the prisoner I believe in 1995. It was a year after he won the trial and I'll never forget Lawler saying "That's a nice costume McMahon, too bad it took you a year to wear it!" McMahon had this mean stare at Lawler after that 😆

Remember JR dressed up as a sailor next to Taz….. good times

The whole ring looked like a Reese's cup made me crack up 😂

I started watching wrestling around this time. The orange ring and black/orange ropes from Havoc 90 hold a special place in my heart.

That 1989 Havoc was the only PPV that I ever bought.

I just watched HH ‘90 on peacock yesterday: Jim Ross was Al Capone Paul heyman was Dracula Tony Schiavone was they phantom of the opera There were no costumes in the HH 89

18:34 The Mummy was Ron Wright… but the Yet-Tayyyy was Ron Reis.

Kevin Nash as Oz coming to the ring with mask on & Kevin Sullivan as wizard as well

I liked Halloween Havoc. They dressed up in costumes but I never saw it as hokey. Then again I was like 9. 👻

Halloween and wrestling will always go hand in hand for me.

16:39 Lawler didn't have a Michael Myers… but he had a Leatherface!

I believe it may have been Tony, not Jim, dressed as the Phantom of the Opera.

Happy Halloween everybody!

“Kid who eats an apple for Halloween deserves what he gets.” 😂🤣😂🤣 “What find of NARC are they!”😂😂😂 That is hysterical

"Heel mummy" isn't a term I thought I'd ever hear....lol

As I’m listening to this on Halloween…🎊🎉🍾 HAPPY 15th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY to the Cornettes, Stacey and Jim..and here’s to another 15 years and more🎊🎉🍾💯

At Halloween Havoc 90 Jim Ross was dressed as Al Capone and Paul Heyman was a vampire

Happy anniversary, Mr. and Mrs. Cornette. Hope it makes it to a centennial.

In wrestling: Punch bowl = getting dumped on someone's head. Cake is going into someone's face. Trophy is getting smashed.

I enjoyed those Halloween specials during the Ruthless Aggression Era. Stephanie McMahon dressed as a witch, John Cena rapping for the first time, and the all so memorable Monster Mash Battle Royal. The WWE really knew how to put on entertaining holiday shows back then.

The apple thing is a conspiracy by big candy to eliminate fruit from the trick or treat game.

If the stuff going on in Memphis went on today they'd so get sued by the movie studios.

I remember that Saturday's Night Main Event. Piper made up bowling balls and wrapped them up like candy apples. As a kid I thought it was funny. Hell, as an adult I still think it is funny.

They didn't mention that the Samoan Swat Team (managed by Paul E Dangerously Heyman) had the Halloween theme as their entrance music.

Vince was the prisoner, his cellmate was Nailz

I remember seeing Gorilla Monsoon dressed up as Brother Love on Prime Time Wrestling one year.

Road Warriors vs. Hunchback An unbeatable team against a team that couldn't be pinned = Still be wrestling 30 years later!

Nice artwork by Travis of Jim, Vince and Hannibal!

Halloween, the only day of the year cosplay wrestling is (somewhat) acceptable

Damn Jim just out here wishing death on kids who ate an apple on Halloween. I hated when someone gave out pennies or bags of mini pretzels. Those were the worst people imaginable. In South Philly the Italian Mob houses always handed out dollar bills or full size candy bars.

Now I need to search for this Saturday Night Main Event because I have to see Iron Sheik as Batman and Roddy Piper giving out bowling balls. My favorite holiday thing is when Mick Foley and Debra tried to have Thanksgiving dinner and everybody ended up having a food fight including JR.

Bishop was the phantom of the Opera

Wait... you telling me that Jerry Lawler loved Freddy Kruger and Jason Voorhees but hated Michael Myers? WTF, King?

Whoever put David Schultz, the Prime Minister of Kayfabe, in a Riddler outfit, smh.

I hate being here before the interesting comments

Went out trick or treating last night. Someone gave my son coughdrops instead of candy. Happy Anniversary JC & SC!!

I remember when Spivey, Sid, Norman the Lunatic kicked the Ding-Dongs asses, pulled off their masks, never seen again.

A very happy 15th marriage anniversary to the king and queen of Castle Cornette, and a happy Halloween to Jim, Stacey, and all the fine members of the cult of Cornette!

Big pop for Reesey cup !! Epic Jim.

Apples were the first thing that got banned as Halloween treats back in the '70's. Every year there was news stories about apples with straight pins, razor blades or sewing needles pushed into them being given out. Might have just been myths but it was also the end of fruit and home baked goodies as Halloween treats.

People forget Lawler didn't just have Lord Humungous, or even "original" monsters like Kamala, but he also had "regular" monsters like Bam Bam Bigelo. Lot's of variety in Memphis. Some of those originals, like Kamala, actually had longevity too.

🎉i loved the nostalgic feel of hearing jim cornette talk about my favorite wrestling experience as a kid with wcw halloween havoc. 😊thanks for the memories

Cornette comes onto this show and explains why Vince KILLED the Territories...by introducing fun elements. Wrestlers can dress up like commies, strippers, rock stars etc 360 days out of the year but by God how dare someone dress up for Halloween! Don't wanna mock the business!

I have The Ding Dongs baseball card!

I remember getting things like tooth brushes and little bibles for Halloween instead of candy. Those people probably ended up getting their houses tp’d or egged.

Rainsville AL! Thanks Jim for mentioning the venue near my childhood hometown where I got to experience my first professional wrestling shows I think there were 6 appearances there by the NWA/WCW crew from February 1990, May 1990, November 1990, March 1991, April 1991, and finally January 1992 the last one held there (reason I know is I got to go to all of them and still have most of my old ticket stubs and a couple souvenirs that I saved in an old trunk that's at my mom's somewhere put up) and I got to see TV tapings of the Power Hour and The Main Event and Worldwide shows from that time 1990 to 1992 ( I was between 12 and 14 years old at that time and those were amazing performances and it was still true old school wrestling then and even in person which is the hardest to convince a live audience of a gimmick or believe in real "heat" between the two competitors but these guys were consumate professionals and it was worth every penny of the price of admission) but anyway thanks for the shout-out Corny!

I was 8-10 years old during that Halloween Havoc area. It was SOOOOO cool!

Happy anniversary

Happy anniversary Jim and Stacy. 🎉

My favorite holiday oriented wrestling angle was Michael Hayes dressed as Santa. It seems like he played Santa the entire night just to sneak attack and beat the shit out of mike von Erich well into the card.

I popped for "without a hood" lol. Jesus Corny...

I had an EEG on the same machine as Jake the Snake like a week after he was there. I was so excited, I thought maybe I'd find one of his chest hairs, but, yeah, it's a hospital, they clean off the table. No hat.

Gobbelty Gooker should go over to AEW and face MFJ and Moxley

Happy Anniversary Stacy and Jim Cornette

Jim Herd logic: "They're the SOUTHERN Boys so we're going to have you dress up as a Confederate General to antagonize them". Surely, Jim should have dressed as a Union General.

Jim's probably referring to Rooster Griffin (not John Wayne's Rooster Cogburn of the movies), whom I saw on Bruiser's tv's in the mid-1980s. The Rooster grappled and also managed, but he couldn't have weighed more than 170 pounds. And everyone remembers Kenny Dillinger, who also worked in the WWA, from the early 70s in the tag team The Chain Gang.

"Without a hood now".........lmfao

Ahhhhh, said “CHAOS” again! Thank You CORNY for the consistent “props” & putting me “over”!

I'm debating on whether to go to Raw tonight. They have 26 dollar tickets available

Hey Mr C and Stacey, happy anniversary to you both

Harold Lloyd knew how to take a bump.

My dad handed out Apples for Halloween in the early 70s and some of the kids smashed them on the sidewalk

Happy annniversary Jim and Stacy

Maybe Tony khan will dress as a canned ham

The Ding-Dongs!

Lol Spider-Man was a job guy.

TK going to dress up as CM Punk.

Happy Halloween, Jim and Brian!

i was about to say couldnt you get a submission on the hunchbacks? but he immediately answered it

Raw had a Halloween gimmick match.

I can’t find any pics or videos of Vince in the prison costume. Someone help 😩

I remember Colossus of Death. He held Lawler in a full Nelson whilst Kaufman punched him in the face.

Happy Anniversary Jim and Stacy 🎃😈🖤💀🦇👻

Halloween is probably the most fitting holiday that can mix with professional wrestling if done right. Over the top, adults and kids equally acting an ass, it's perfect. Christmas is unavoidable and always cringe. It will always be done whether it's 3 weeks or 3 days before the actual day but Halloween, aside from Havoc PPV's, typically only gets into wrestling if it falls on the day of like it did for Raw this year.

Happy Halloween to everyone in the cult!

The Hunchbacks? You can't be serious lol

Why hasn't the Yeti been brought up? Didn't that happen at a Halloween Havock? That was so fng bad.

Happy Halloween Jim and Brian

I find professional wrestling to be very boring, I haven't paid much attention for the last 30 years, but I find Jim Cornette very entertaining when he talks about it

Wendy for her Chewbacca costume!

AEW could do a DC characters themed night, given they have a deal with Discovery Warner.

WCW really was something, wasn't it? Muta fascinated me as a kid in the pre-internet era.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

Don’t let gene know about the KISS thing, he’ll go after lawler for residuals

No mention of The Missing Link?? George The Animal Steel?? Youuuuuuuuuuuuuu. Slurp. Mr Fugi?? The best Halloween parties. Amateurs!

So when is Jim gonna dress up as FDR and ride in Stacey’s LaSalle?

"They promised us nightmares after this show and Im going to" - Jim Cornette

Well I know who I want to see as the next Batman

Happy haunted anniversary to Jim and Stacey. I don't really go in for the luminous plastic junk side of halloween (although I am a lifelong aficionado of junk b-movies and whatnot). However ... I don't begrudge others celebrating it in their own way and I think that house show trick-or-treat caper, for all Jim and Brian's delinquent cynicism, to lay something like that on for the kids is a true touch of class. And any wrestlers who begrudged participating need a kick up the class.

15:00 Lawler never did Michael myeres because there wasn’t a Michael Myeres mask. It’s William Shatner Star Trek mask painted white. Don Post one I believe. But Halloween wasn’t as franchised as much as it is today or it was just easier to use the hockey mask

Reese’s!!! It’s Reese’s not reesies! Did people that call it Reesies just land on this planet?

it will be flippy shit n super kicks.

The apple part tho 🤣🤣. Bryan trying to put the apple over 😂😂😂 Happy Anniversary to the Cornettes.

I think the only real use of a Halloween "introduction" that worked was WCW's Halloween Phantom. At the time no one had expected it to be Rick Rude but when he showed it was obvious to everyone and it worked. The reveal was actually a real star reveal not just a popcorn fart.

I was Macho Man in 1996 & Sting in 1997 when I was little. And Eric Bischoff at a Nitro party 😆😂

since fans are "smart" now, why no one has done a "Heel-oween" show is beyond me, people prefer heels now anyway (when they do it right, anyway)

Raw in 1995

Congratulations Jim & Stacey!

Ik this is stupid but when did 6ft become normal height lmaoo

It’s be waayyyyy funnier if Tony Kahn dressed as powerhouse Hobbs…… is blackface ok if your Pakistani)