Jim Cornette on His Experiences With Vince McMahon 

“I was tired. I wanted to eat. Turn the air conditioning up and watch TV in my underwear.” - That hits home.

I love Corny's idea of a good time after a long day: pizza and tv and air conditioning, without socializing.

I’m just imagining the board trying to force Vince out like the Norman Osborn scene from Spider-Man; *DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH I’VE SACRIFICED PAL* ??!!

“Imagine if she was a paralegal?AUUUGH” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

"when he tore his quads and couldn't stand, there were little hints" the only time he sells is when he physically can't hide it 😂

He certainly changed over the years. I feel the Vince we know now began when WWE went public in 1999. From that point on WWE was no longer a Wrestling Promotion but a Corporation that delves in Wrestling.

I think when he defeated WCW and took the company public things changed a bit because of growth. The Benoit incident is where he completely lost trust in everyone because of the way his decision making started to change, started to really play it safe and creatively boring deliberately. The Benoit incident made Vince look completely bad, he survived it but it completely changed him

Vince shows up in a few weeks with a mustache, "My name is Vincenzo Eduardo McMahon, i'm the younger brother of Mr McMahon and the new permanent chairman of the WWE".

“Not recognizing who certain people are” Excellent question Sheldon

Oh man. Ignoring all that's been said and done, what wouldn't I give to go back in time to just be an observer in one of those writing meetings at Vince's house.

'...don't be going over the fucking Sears catalog...' 😂🤣😅

5:22-5:26 I live for Brian's Vince impression. Holy s**t ... 🤣🤣🤣

I firmly believe if Linda didn’t come back from the office and spring Jim and co. Vince would keep writing with them for 24 straight hours.

5:23 "imagine if she was a paralegal" I was screaming 😂 that Vince voice

"If you're gonna fantasize about Sable wearing something, at least pull out the main event shit! Don't be going through the Sears Catalogue." Jim Cornette-2022 Words to live by.

The bed pan bump is coming back to haunt Vince.

I think an important factor in the difference between Jim's experience with Vince and later stories is the change in the industry during that period. Jim left at a time when the Monday Night Wars were still ongoing, but shortly after that Vince won, and for the two decades since he has basically been untouchable - he was essentially the entire industry for all that time, and also became a billionaire. That amount of money and power can corrupt, and there's an escalation in Vince's behaviour that tracks with his increase in power and decrease in accountability, nobody's holding him to account because there's no way of holding him to account, he's the CEO of an entire industry and has the numbers of kings and presidents in his phone, it's no wonder he thought he was untouchable, he fucking was! Gradually a board of directors is established and the company goes public, but it's too little too late in terms of reigning in Vince's exploitation of that power, as long as the NDAs keep being signed and paid he will keep thinking he can do whatever he wants and nobody will touch him, and if he'd kept paying Janel Grant he'd probably still be CEO. Decades of unfettered freedom and power warped Vince's mind past the point where Jim would recognise him, and that warped perspective led him to believe that he could fuck over this woman and refuse to pay her, and to hell with the NDA, he still thought he was untouchable because he's Vince McMahon and has been untouchable for decades, and he didn't (or couldn't) recognise that he wasn't untouchable any more. Ultimately, Vince screwed Vince.

Lol according to Jim. Vince was like Mr. Belding from Saved By The Bell.

I always thought it was Legion of Doom in the bar and Vince took the Doomsday Device.

Like Jim said once before wrestling companies shouldn’t ever go public. I’m my opinion that’s where Vince really fucked up.

Maybe jim only met the vince, who was struggling to survive. In the 90s he had to deal with scandals and the rise of WCW. He was just focused on his company

5:10-5:26 Corny is a man after my own tastes, and Brian's Vince impression DESTROYS me every time!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

If this gets Vince his heat back, he might as well go with it. One last run as Mr. McMahon. #NoChanceInHell

Listening to this now, with the current scandal still ongoing, has been absolutely wild.

You know Vince paid that $3 million so she wouldn't tell the world the steroids turned his balls into raisins.

If Vince is removed from WWE, I guarantee you Conrad Thompson will drive to Connecticut to do a podcast.

My Wife's father was acting the same way and died 2 months later.. He started doing teenager/young adult stuff out of nowhere... It was weird..

5:09 YO! Cornette a Real one for saying that!!!!!

Could the era Vince was on his "good" behavior was when he was under the microscope right after the steroid trial, gambling rules, etc anything bad would have killed his image during these investigations and trials and losing would have costed him the business? Then when he wasn't in the investigations microscope he began to act out

LOL! at Jim's after show ritual of eating pizza in his underwear. He's a curious fellow.

Gotta love how Vince has always said he doesn't like rich people, and yet he behaves like a typical rich person!🤣

It's great hearing the old road stories from wrestlers on RU-vid but how cool would it be to sit with Jim and hear his stories the guy should right a book.

Forgetting stuff at his age is perfectly normal. Most old people are very forgetful.

JC being real as usual

Vince’s private area on the plane was at the emergency exit….because of the implication…

I dunno about anyone else...But i’ve been a WWE Fan since 1986...It kinda sucks seeing Vince getting old..really...you see it in his face these days so much...he still looks good but I miss the Vince on commentary from 85 until 97..That’s all

So they can "force him out" but he still owns it and can book the show. What exactly are they taking from him?

What's really ironic is I'm trying to listen to this but someones gardener with a leaf blower nearby is drowning it out

Another reason is the success of the Mr McMahon character. Definitely one of the best characters ever created but sometimes maybe Vince constantly confuses fantasy with reality. Hence him living in his own bubble and calling it the WWE Universe. On the bright side, we're finally going to see the back of John Laurinitis for good.

Vince isn't used to being told no and doesn't like being told no. Very dangerous in itself before adding power and money.

Vince getting hit with the Doomsday Device at the strip club is the funniest fucking thing I've ever heard

Hahahaha Brian's impressions are gold.

Brian’s impression of Vince is just unreal! 😂😂😂 I can’t stop laughing

Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!😎🐐🐐

Listening to this end of Jan. 2024 and… wow. Yah, stuff was DEFINITELY different than when Corny was there.

Only corny can spend 17 minutes saying “Vince and I weren’t that close, we were just co-workers.”

Interesting to listen to this in january 2024

Last hates Vince. Vince must not of hired him.

Jim doesn't understand psychopathic tendencies.

I hope a cognative test will be harder than Man, Woman, Person, Camera, TV.

Even with people.. Who really hate WWE product right now, But.. They are from 80's or 90's generation. It's sad to see what happened to Vince right now. Without this man, There's no our childhood memories and fantastic wrestling moment. I know, the past is the past.. But ya..it's kinda sad to see this man like this, is he gonna survive this one ?

I think he has changed and a lot of it has to do with both going public and him maybe taking a few too many shots to the head. Up until he went public, he was working towards a goal and that helps keep you focused more, you don't do anything that will mess that up. Once wwe went public and bought WCW and ECW, the challenge was over - he more or less owned wrestling and now was exceedingly rich because of it. Plus everyone was talking about what a genius he was, what a great business man he was, etc - don't tell me that didn't blow up his ego. But he also got into the ring more and did more extreme stuff and if he doesn't tell people he is hurt, how much damage could be done? I mean they kept Danielson out of the ring for years over concussions, Vince isn't known for taking time off. So I think you have a guy whose now so wealthy, whose ego is pumped up so high and maybe not thinking quite at 100% anymore thinking "I'm Vince McMahon, I can do anything" and he does.

These Saturday uploads have been right on time lol

“Imagine if she was a Paralegal!”

I kinda got the Sable love she was like a younger hotter Linda that was Vince type

Respect to the stock holder whho held kayfabe in such a high esteem ! :)

5:09 “If you’re gonna fantasize… least pull out the main event sh!t…” -I LOVE JIM’S DELIVERY 😂🤣👙

Jim & Bryan, I haven’t told you today, so here goes ….. Love ya both! 🇨🇦

Hey, wtf did Brian mean at the end, about "who's the gutsy podcaster that's gonna get David Shultz on now?" ???

Bret Hart has a story about smoking weed with Vince and Owen and others in Flair's motel room.

Vince lost his way once WWE went public, and he was lost forever after the Benoit deal where he didn't want to take chances anymore.

Crazy Couple of Weeks in Professional Wrestling and I’m just Wondering how Many NDA’s Vince McMahon & Pat Patterson got those Ring Boys to Sign?!…. 👀

Do you think that people are still “nice” or at least not disparaging towards Vince, because they still might be hoping for another payday some sort of way in the future? Also, does Vince always keep a “fall-guy” near him, like a Kevin Dunn or Johnny Ace, so incase something like this happens that he can always have a back up plan to pin it on? Very similar to how mob bosses are well insulated??? Any thoughts anybody?

Forcing Vince out was like how the Jedi try to force Palpatine out Its treason then, pal...AAARGH!

"I'm hurt, I'm injured, I've done something wrong." Love how Cornette slipped that in.

I can't believe Vince stepped down...

05:11 damn good taste old fella.

I have heard a LOT of stories about about Vince barely sleeping/ if at all. Given his age if he’s often been going without sleep it’s quite possible he’s suffering some form of mental deterioration? I hope not but you combine that with chair shots and bumps in his older years… anyway just musing/ hoping that’s not the case.

He definitely would have been in peak business mindset around the time corny was there since those where the days he was trying to be number 1. Then it was to maintain that position. But even Vince can't keep that competitive mindset when there is no competition and he had monopoly over everything and that's probably when boredom set in and then these things creep up

Johnny was the ACE in the Hole. Tag team buddies! At least it was a woman not a guy!

One thing history has taught us since the beginning of time no matter how invincible someone might seem eventually they make a fatal mistake that causes their downfall and Vince might be on the doorstep of learning that lesson.

I picture Vince like Mr Belding from Saved By The Bell.

White cotton Panties ugghhhhhh😭🤣😭🤣😭 funniest shit ever🤞🏿

I smell a big Mr MacMahon comeback on the way. This recent shyt was released in an effort to create a lil corporate heat for himself 💯

Yooo who makes these thumbnails!?!? 😂😂😂 Whoever draws Cornette must be having their time of their life

Vince seems like the type who would easily compartmentalize

"He just holds their head." Fuckin Corny. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I don't know anything about anything, but the concussion thing is not something I have ever thought about

Vince became Mr McMahon he became the gimmick….or it was Mr McMahon who played Vince for years

Fabulous Moolah 2: Genetic Boogaloo

This is funny since the HR director of my employer looks like Vince McMahon.

Corny lyin' like carpet 🤣😂🤣

Ohhh sable is hot pal !!!

The image should have been Cornette in his underwear with a slice of pizza in his hand in front of a TV with the AC cranked up.

Cornette has said this about Vince is that "Working with Vince was like develpoing a twitch trying to figure him out" and I believe him. Anybody who has worked with Vince knows what they're gonna expect from him. Vince had all these crazy bat$h!t insane ideas, sometimes they make it onto TV or get shot down. I think the reason why everyone has had an in between relationship with Vince (love-hate) in my estimation is probably because they love his ideas at times, but hate how they get treated. Take Jim Ross for great example, why he got treated the way he got treated by Vince, I have no idea, but JR didn't deserve that at all, but at least in AEW he's getting the respect he rightfully deserves instead of being treated like $h!t

Power Money Respect is all he wants

5:05 White cotton panties🤣🤣🤣 Hell naw... That's how you know Mr McMahon was born in the 1900s😅😅😅 I won't expect him to say anything else that his age🧓

Any possibility that the few matches Vince had had a detrimental effect on his mind?

It wouldn't surprise me if these allegations were true we are talking about Vince McMahon

I believe you Jim cornette but screw Vince McMahon

if hes forced out, he damned well better return under a mask

What I find funny is Corny trashes wrestlers for “exposing the business” but isn’t explosively negative on Vince for literally getting on national television and saying this is all a performance and none of this is real on numerous occasions. I guess we have different opinions on what exposing the business is.

Vince never outta hind mind, thought you said he took Road Warriors finish in a bar/topless outfit?! Or let Brett/Anvil put their finisher on him. Pretty sure you've mentioned a couple examples in past where VM was clearly beyond what's considered to be "moderation." Hell, we're all human and unfortunate things are certainly possible. How many NDA's does VM have out there?!

Maybe he has CTE...👀

Corny kills me

4:37

2 things. People change. And maybe you just didnt know him as well as you thought you did.

AEW fans having a field day.

Vince has an evil twin!

Jim gets it. After a long day I just want to eat alone in a climate controlled room, too.