Jim Cornette on Maki Itoh & Joshi Fans 

Considering that the only thing he really does with his old man complaining act is help wrestlers get over, I goddamn hope so.

@@LordBilliam Does that actually work?

Their Twitter scrim is hilarious

We will see on monday in the aew women jpn tournament special show.

@@LordBilliam Nobody new is going to watch AEW as a result of this, AEW's audience hasn't grown much past the 750,000 nerds who currently watch it. The only thing will happen is that Jim's audience will have good laugh over the whole thing.

Lol 😆

What is the reference? I laughed because _LOL, Jake Roberts does drugs_ but I don’t know the backstory.

@@Mister_Phafanapolis Corny has talked about it on a couple of episodes, listen to some that focus on Jake, but it is pretty well known that he used to drink his own piss.

@Woden cafe Oh jesus, really?? Thats disgusting 🤢

@@welowee7610 actually that's a thing which a few famous people do.

A scaffold match.

Loser drinks piss match, for the Tokyo princess joshi cup championship

@@averyl6372 if they are going by cliche anime rules than luther would be the old man obsessed with girls panties.

@@SAM-ru4vx They need to resurrect Klondike Bill

@@johnkolko5199 fight pit on nxt is a suitable replacement

Lol

Maki Itoh already uses “Thank you, fuck you.” All she needs is Jim Cornette to say “Bye.”

I'd pay a dollar to see Cornette do the arm spin while managing Yuka Sakazaki and Shoko Nakajima

Itoh is Cornettes illegitimate daughter lmao

We need to show him some hentai shit

Lets not.

@@sarthakrawat7748 yes please. let's send it to him via mail.

@@WolfBetter which one there are many great ones

@@sarthakrawat7748I'm fairly sure Bible Black has an hentai OAV.

Well Jim sort of respected her for that at least.

I'll be honest, these days I'm so desperate for anything that isn't completely bullshit, I'm just happy that she completely commits to her gimmick and fully lives it. At least she doesn't give an interview saying "yeah wrestling's fake and I'm fake by the way" the next day. Hell, the whole "crazy pop idol dropout" gimmick isn't even much goofier than all the American comic book gimmicks WWE has thrown us over the decades. Never seen her wrestle though, so she could easily be the shits in the ring. And OBVIOUSLY her gimmick has no chance in hell of drawing a single pair of eyeballs in America, where no one except anime nerds even have the slightest idea what a "Japanese pop idol" is.

@@wloffblizz Well then you're going to learn something if she wins & faces the American side in the Finals for a title shot!

She knows her audience. Not a pretty audience, but she knows them well. Credit to her for using these "adults" to make a buck off of them. I would never want to spend a minute with these fans, but Maki Itoh is being smart.

@@wloffblizz I mean... Asuka, Shida, Riho, Kairi, and Shirai, are all mega over in the states. and their gimmicks are essentially the same as most Joshi. ESPECIALLY pre-heel Io and Kairi. Asuka and Shida are just more hardcore versions of Joshi gimmicks. Yuka, for as little exposure from being on AEW as she has gotten in like the last year or so, is somewhat popular just from the fact that she's been teaming with Riho or in matches involving Hikaru.

yep

and sasha banks

Or Mandy Rose. You would be surprised how many generals on /pw/ there are for Bliss, Banks, Rose, Asuka and various other joshis.

It's really cringe. Other week I saw a post where they edited a picture of Sasha and AJ Lee to make it seem they were facetiming. Recently saw one where Eddie and Sasha were together in a photo.

@@MaehiyaSOLDIER If the wrestlers doesn't have a alot of fan pages on IG or Twitter then you will know if they're over or not.

True, but the aftermath is also a factor. Since I don't have twitter or any desire to get into joshi, I am not going to bother. I have seen enough of their fans on /pw/ as it is.

@@Hellwolf36 I don’t do Twitter either. I’d rather not.

Lol

Look what he did to the 1 he has

Independent contractor revolution

Come on its not like they will sell tickets again lol

Looks like riho has competition for corny comments.

@@SAM-ru4vx at least Maki has a personality instead of that 2x4 in an idol outfit.

She does have the "it factor". Her backstory is solid and she is actually improving as a worker. I see in her the same universal appeal that I saw in Hana Kimura (live at ROH, prior to her reinvention in Mexico), just more in tune with the gimmick and audience. Not a badass like Kana/Asuka where she'll challenge Minoru Suzuki but she's got a definite upside and appeal. If you think that Jim doesn't know Joshi, he just name dropped Chigusa Nagayo a few episodes back.

At least Maki has some personality and if she gets better in the ring and stops dressing like that, she can do something.

A negative+a negative=nothing

Especially how when he responds to them or detractors, his ass is too old not to know better

The book of "cool guys"?

Awe you think im cool? 😎 The book of "people who can appreciate a quick wit" is more like it.

What did she say

@@DannNotDaniel 3:00

I would like to feed off of Maki.

She can give corny a run for his money. I like her.

Jim can't win a Twitter war with someone who's character is that she's a self hating spoiled gremlin that seeks validation and attention and just so happens to do that in the skin of a japanese pop star. Whatever you throw at her she will just eat up and spit back out. She literally isn't phased by anything. She's gone through enough in her life to know that Jim Cornette isn't a threat, but rather free publicity. Because of Jim, I know Maki now. I never even knew anything about Joshi wrestling. It's crazy that Maki Itoh is tied with Hardcore Holly, Tommy Dreamer and Crash Holly as my favorite wrestler just based on this alone. She's so different and it's refreshing.

you were wrong.

Ratio'd.

He really didn't though. This girls nothing but a joke.

No

@@bleeding4721 Nah he's not a creep

@@ChrisManley1994 gotta love when the other listeners overreach and read more into it than there actually is. I could almost guarantee Corny doesn't care one way or another. Lol

Same.

The talented Travis Heckel!

Su-metal would fuck her up man, after 10 years of doing all those performances and dances just one of her kicks could probably shatter a whole ribcage.

I actually like that one Baby Metal song that used to make the rounds way back, havent heard or seen of them since.

@@johnkolko5199 They have done pretty well for them selves. They have developed a pretty big following over the last few years.

I find it interesting. I'm fascinated by Japanese culture (I'm not a weeb or whatever it's called, I just like it)

@@jonthompson7106 I started out as a weeb, (a person who thinks they know everything about Japan by only watching anime) but I genuinely took a liking to their culture. Mainly their creativity such as in video games, anime/manga, mythology, etc. I'm trying to learn a bit if the language now in hopes of traveling there once the pandemic had loosened up a bit more.

I do, that's very interesting! =D

Either way, Maki and her goons are as mudshow as mudshow gets. Also, the main reason why they wear "sailor" suits is to appease the European/British/Scandinavian crowd of the 1800s during the Meiji Restoration. When you figure out the cultures of various nations, including your native nation's (in my case, the UK's), it's all propaganda and bullshit that was never interesting, smart or good in the first place.

She's right. She's the shits!

His head would literally explode

Jim would be forced to respect anime once someone shows him how much money it makes, especially with America being its second largest market. He'd just say that it doesn't belong in wrestling.

@@GutsofEclipse exactly its not that he wants anime or video games to never exist, its just that those should not relate to pro wrestling

@@subalbiswas1608 Without video games Wrestling would have died years ago.

Botchamania did that and lol those are more over than wrestling

Yes, but their still around, they difference is that in the 80s and 90s you only had women's Japanese brand, whereas in the 00s you had a bunch of them pop up

*AJW

Hope he will review Yuka vs. Mei, too! (aka the cutest match in AEW's young history. Perfect stuff for a Cornette rage.)

@@silviamarquesfankanal1463 Mei vs Maki, Cornette's gonna have a stroke

It's possible they'll still bring her to AEW even if she doesn't win the Japan tourney bracket. Bit of a waste to produce this tournament just to bring only one joshi to America.

@@TAXie-ck7ed they could bring the whole bracket if Omega wants to

And then she’ll lose because being maki is suffering

Right ! She is trolling Jim and he is falling for it hook line and sinker lol

I think he's so used to folks not being serious about it that he misses when someone takes the piss like this

It's doesn't count when it's a stupid gimmick.

@@fayerson not really lol

@@nevermindgaming6848 yes really.

A depressed "teen" and a wanna be idol. Lowkey sounds legit😅

That makes no sense. She is a pop idol and i like her style.

@@dranzerjetli5126 yea but her gimmick is still an anti-idol that's still salty she got fired and constantly brings up she's poor.

@Theft For The Righteous nothing. I didn't say anything was wrong with it. Just stating that her gimmick isn't necessarily an idol, but an anti-idol.

That's because Jake is the true God of Love and Piss, haha

It's amazing how many of these people get famous just off Jim's name.

He's helped her, He secretly loves this stuff existing for new material.

@@DayFul I imagine so lol

@@DayFul it’s not a secret? He says very frequently, that he only reviews this show out of spite and for entertainment. Everyone subscribed to this channel is here because of Jim ripping into somebodies ass one way or another. Fictional or real.

He pretty much put her over as a babyface.

Maki itoh have more charisma and persona than 90 percent of the nxtrash woman's roster lmao

@@IntellectualPen6uin And probably none of the skill

@@Hellwolf36 having character and personality is a skill tho. Wrestling ability matters but characters and charisma are the things that matters the most.

Lol

@@IntellectualPen6uin wwe stays in your head rent free rofl

Wtf lol

He's the guy that's been in more manias than most stars on today's roster. .

Tbh, I never knew who Corny was because I am 19 and started watching WWE in 2008. I only discovered Jim through RU-vid and this show has made me a fan of 80s NWA and WCW in addition to the Territories and WWF. Hopefully I can one day watch a wrestling show in person

@@arnavbhagwat4232 that's cool actually, you must trip out on stories of the old days

I mean, not every wrestling fan is a smark who pays attention to dirt sheets and gives a shit about Cornette or Meltzer or whoever the fuck. Some people just like watching the product. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I don't think that means they're not allowed to claim to be "big fans." But for sure their idea of what's considered "must know" stuff about wrestling is going to be real different from what someone listening to Corny would consider "must know" -- can't disagree with you there. I'm just saying, I don't think that makes them any less of a "fan," fwiw

her gimmick from what ive seen of her is shes a failed pop star who wrestles because she owes a shit ton of money to the japanese mafia or at least thats what she was running with haven't seen her work in the past few years

@@esperanzatyrant142 She got booted from one idol stable and is now with another one. She was trained as an idol, so is savvy to social media, branding, self-promotion, and all that, but she goes in the opposite direction, so to speak, when it comes to the normal idol tactics. She knows what she's saying and doing and is very canny as far as the game goes. Not a big fan of a lot of this kind of thing, but it's nice to see someone doing something new. Well, new by these standards.

@@thelastmotel Her gimmick is that she is basically acting like a member of the original run of the idol group BiS. OG BiS basically created the anti-idol and alt-idol genres in Japan. I know she knows about them because she sang their signature song 'Nerve' in a audition.

Kind of

You have a piss poor idea of genius

@@seikou1762 nah I know others but they just don't hold a candle to them 3.

Concur with KANA & Io but would add Aja Kong, Arisa Nakajima, Bull Nakano, Chigusa Nagayo, Dynamite Kansai, Hazuki, Lioness Asuka, Manami Toyota, Mayu Iwatani, and Megumi Kudo to the list.

They have, but Bushiroad only air their matches on dark matches at Wrestle Kingdom. As someone who browses wrestling boards and /pw/ from time to time, Joshi simps are the worst.

He's gonna drop a nuke on Jacksonville if Riho beats Deeb in the 1st round match next week XD

or he will just fast forward it when he sees Riho.

@@MrRjh63 short and simple. Don't know why people overexaggerate corny's actions.

Dude you think Jim cares? Get real haha

All wrestling fans are toxic. Not one of us is salvageable nor should be off our self medicating.

@@user-jv7gr1jb3r Yeah, wrestling fans are only slightly better off than sonic fans on the social ladder; I'm including myself. lol

You can't even SPELL Myssogogymnistic so stop pretending to know big words

I said the same i swear!

the market is okay. It's just sad to see how far these people go.

God, "weeb", that phrase is more overused to a point that no one who says it actually knows what it means than "boomer". A weeb is someone that is not Japanese who pretends like they are, speaking poorly pronounced Japanese, engaging in stereotypes like wearing kimono everywhere and eating sushi/ramen for every meal, being a general embarrassment to the Japanese people, and hating on everything that doesn't come from Japan. It does not mean someone who enjoys Japanese media, and there should not be a derogatory term for someone who enjoys Japanese media. Otherwise why isn't there a term for the Americans who are obsessed with Ireland and talk in bad Irish accents while drinking and eating beer and corn beef, or Americans who are obsessed with Rome and have literal centurion armor in their house?

@@kidfox3971 You write that while using a japanese reference in your profile pic lol.

@@kidfox3971 Nah, its much more casual now, though I'll grant you that, it's more casual now because it was so overused as an insult in the past. Now it basically just means Anime fan or someone who likes Japan, and most weebs will use it to refer to themselves and others within the subculture.

With how popular anime and manga has gotten in recent years, I’m shocked wrestling hasn’t tried tapping into that market yet in the States.

@@bleeding4721 No, that 90's era is over.

Stardom Pro Wrestling had the best female wrestlers in the world.

I think it would take something like Pockets getting a clean pin on Arn

I love how Jericho, Miro, Kip and Penelope Ford get mad at Jim while Maki just flips him off like some form of demented japanese Steve Austin.

It gets worse...ever seen a waifu tier list😅

Or a harem. And I had friends who partook in that. I have seen enough degeneracy in my life.

Yup

Wait, she spent years in TJP? Like, inside him?😂😂😂😂

@@elberno4243 I guess I deserve that for using initialisms instead of typing out Dramatic Dream Team and Tokyo Joshi Pro.

@@insupportofjunhado I just found it funny. I saw TJP on Impact an hour before. Haha I didn't know the promotion is called that. I thought "Tokyo Joshi Princess" was like "TNT", "Universal" or "King Of The Mountain"... A title, not a brand or promotion Peace

@@elberno4243 Hahaha. I popped for that.

@Ezio Auditore ohhhh so the belt is the TJP TJP championship. (Tokyo Joshi Pro Tokyo Joshi Princess Championship. I guess those Joshis, love them some Manik

Weak men make for a soft society. Sure its great for a few but overall it means society is in decline. Narrow minded people only think "gee golly this is good for me."

Pretty sure Jim likes Asuka. At least he did when she was in NXT.

@@AllieZelda so did most of us, it breaks my heart when she’s forced to scream random Japanese on raw

@@calumneeson20 she was doing random Japanese on NXT as well. She cut a full Japanese promo on Ember Moon for their feud. The main roster simply misuses her.

@@thrillking7228 yeah but that’s in like a heated moment kinda thing, she just shrieks it for no reason on raw, it works really well as like her losing her cool and reverting to her natural language at the end of a promo segment

@@calumneeson20 it broke my heart when I saw Asuka put her head in Kenny Omega’s ass. Instantly lost respect for her when I saw that.

Fucking please, when my dad watched wrestling they had minotaurs, witches, and zombies as wrestlers. Wrestling has always been silly stupid shit, there have just been really great wrestlers/matches amongst all of it.

Kid Fox tru

Um it was already weird. May I remind you of early 90s wcw, or 80s wwf, or even early 2000s wwf when Triple H and Kane feuded over a dead blow up doll. Wrestling has always been weird

@@kidfox3971 You mean Mantaurs, lol.

It’s getting more hellish and occultic

I thought that at first. Then I looked her up. The novelty wears off .

@@kingkold That's the problem with japanese wrestlers: they're just one trick ponies.

I'm sorry, but she is annoying af too when she talks.

@@KeroZ25Z yeah looks that way. Honestly some dudes are just crushing on her.

@@kingkold Simps all around.

This is amazing lol

Its gonna be hilarious.

The reactions will be hilarious

Does he not know that’s her character to be just fucking morbid? 😂

I've seen her matches in Japan. She's actually quite good. She needs a bit more seasoning but she's only 25. By 30 she will be holding the AEW women's title if AEW is still around.

Stans in generals.

paul heyman should

Yea. In an interview, she said she was glad to be fired and didn't find being an actual idol fun. Lord knows what she was asked to do to move up the ladder.

The idol fandom rejected her where the wrestling audience embraced her it's a really good story when you think about it

When you consider that the age of consent is 13 in japan and many idols are that age or maybe a bit lower man that makes your comment all the darker.

@@MrRjh63 I know. I'm very familiar with all of that

@@thrillking7228 I'd watched a video about her not too long ago. midway through Jim's tirade, it registered who he was talking about. yeah, they legit screwed her over.

I would say that's 50% true

@@kingkold it’s 100% true

@@frederickwhite8865 ok pal

Wrestling has been for nerds once the general population knew it was fake back in the 70s.

@@andrebryant5081 Exactly. Casual fans only come back when there’s a star like Hogan, Austin, and The Rock.

Meiko, yes. But Asuka couldn’t whip anyone and I say this as a fan of her. AEW could’ve gone for Meiko before NXT grabbed her but they want to sign these absolute jokes. They even could’ve signed Giulia who is another badass.

@@mitchie2267 ummmm what? Asuka has legit mma experience. If she backfist somebody she would drop them

@@dakaraipatterson2986 She wouldn’t drop Belair

@@mitchie2267 Bianca does not have fighting experience

@@mitchie2267 Giulia's under contract to Stardom, how could they sign her?

no, she looks like a women.

@@jb0609 ah yes a women

Jim could throw corny like a football

Yep

*Kenny Olivier

Well who else do you think it is

Yes

Wrestletalk sellouts

Lol if he does it would surprise me considering how he feels towards video games in general.

@@negritotenfold are they really sell outs? There are ads for every TV show network and every subscription service unless you buy premium...which is even worse than advertising lol.

@@thrillking7228 they get paid by Tony khan

@@negritotenfold Don't you know!? Its all about the AFK Arena 60 Draw challenge now!

Mehh

Charlotte has been awful recently.

wrong

Lol

In his dreams!

Like him or not there's always a few pages from Corny's book you can use to heel it up

@Eostre of the East spongebob fish: "is this how you get your sick kicks"

Nope