Jim Cornette on The Fabulous Moolah & The Wrestlemania Controversy 

As Jerry Lawler once said Moolah was the waitress at the last supper.

Has Moolah ever not looked like a senior citizen?

She pimped out her wrestlers for good booking , she took 50% of their pay plus charged them rent when they trained and stayed on her compound to name a few things. She always looked elderly her entire life, because the hatred and greed sucked the youth out of her.

Legend has it when colombus discovered America, Moolah was there collecting her pension.

Legends say that Fabulous Moolah wrestled in the same territory that Abe Lincoln did, and at the same time.

The guitar shot from Jeff Jarrett was probably one of the best things of the late 90's.

Luna Vachon said that Moolah was a pimp and an awful person.

I don't think many people remember how over Wendy Richter was in the early 80s. She was basically the female Hulk Hogan. The WWE could have done so much more with her. But Moolah squashed it.

Sherri Martel got away from Moolah.

Mugging dudes is bad, but pimping out unsuspecting people is worse. But can we get more on that chick who cut her off her own arm. Now that's a story we wanna hear!

Its crazy the contrast between the duo of Moolah and Mae Young. Mae Young is beloved by literally everyone and nobody has a bad thing to say about her early pioneering and future contributions. Meanwhile with Moolah...

This is the first time I ever heard Jim cornette afraid to be blunt about what he's talking about

This pretty much explains why Moolah is garbage to a T.

Gotta give May credit for taking that power bomb into the table though...

“Elephant Boy and his Slave Girl!”. That pretty much summarizes everything good AND bad about pro wrestling. It’s the kind of thing serious wrestling fans love and can laugh about while being the kind of shit they would never want non-fans to know because it totally backs up the idea that pro wrestling is stupid.

I always appreciated that Bubba Ray put his legs up to protect the girls when they took power bombs from him. The guys - you’re SOL dude! 😂

Legend says that Moolah went to school before there was history

I grew up 1 street over from Moolah Drive. I remember seeing her and Mae all the time riding around in a 80s big body cadillac. Got an autograph 8x10 of both of them. Moolah loved buying lottery tickets from the Shell gas station on the corner.

Mae Young sounds like a great person with zero accusations against her, unlike the line for Moolah.

I could honestly listen to jim for hours he's such a font of knowledge on the wrestling business like him or not.

When Brian said “This segment of the drive thru is brought you by Snickers” I fucking lost it lol 😂

Moolah personally held back women's wrestling for 40 years. Go watch her wrestle Wendi Richter. This wasnt chain or spot wrestling we see from women today, and that kind of style became popular only AFTER Moolah wasnt controlling almost all women's wrestling anymore. Moolah sucked, her style sucked, and she herself was an awful human being.

She's like mom from futurama

Moolah looked like the old broad who you would see bartending at some small town country bowling alley.

We always struggle to fathom the concept that people who were always polite, nice and generally good to us, could be bad people. Jim is no different to the rest of us when it comes to situations like that.

I'm usually on JC's side, but he's trying to sugarcoat things while pretty much confirming everything that has been said about moolah. C'mon, Jim! As one of the few people in the business that has a working moral compass, you more than anyone know that there are some things that you just don't defend. Stories like this are why I'm glad i didn't become a wrestler

“I’ve never heard of drugging wrestlers against their will...” lol

Funny how this pops up on my recommended after Jim has been accused of the same thing😂😂

The Snickers stab in the back was wonderful.

In regards to kindly old Moolah. I always saw that as sarcasm. It was just known the woman was a thug.

So basicly all the rumors are true, but jim didnt wana expose the business.

I heard things of her over the year's . All I remember is seeing her at the Town ship auditorium in Columbia, South Carolina on a few occasions. People are who they are , or are groomed to be who they are

I like Jim and honestly think he treading lightly because if you really dig into the old days the wrestling business was really dirty and if you listen to some people from Vince Sr days they spoke of the business as it was borderline an organized crime racket. As in if you put on an event in someone else's territory mfs would show up in the promoters office with pipes and bats and put the fucking boots to you and demand a piece of the gate.

I'm starting to see that in wrestling everyone is a con man or a carnival worker or at least have the morals of them.

Also, she pimped out her trainees n ruins lives for her benefit but she drew so all is forgiven, love you Jim but this is horrible

Who's here after the dark side of the ring episode

God I hope may young isn’t terrible. She seemed so sweet

Moolah was basically not talented herself but she booked herself that way

I've been waiting for this one.

He's a weasel for defending her actions.He's got no shame nor sense it would seem.

True Story: Moolah made a man out of Eugene.

I wanna say Bruce Prichard said in his podcast that Vince did know and switched to Sensational Sherrie's trained women. It's been a while since I've heard the story, but it was the first time I heard of any wrong doing from Moolah.

Oh please. Stephanie knew and didn’t care like her daddy

So everyone knows, Verne gagne when he trained Ric Flair wanted him to sign a contract being 20% of his earnings for the next 5 years back to him for training him that was a regular practice back in the day. The trainers didn't charge you ahead of time for training you had to pay them back later when she started wrestling they got a certain percentage of your income.

Moolah - literally worse than New Jack. All we know about New Jack is that he stabbed a few dudes and gave a few receipts and says he's done a lot more than that (but he's a wrestler so obviously it's a work) - Moolah destroyed the lives and careers of people with potential and passion for the business. People who stepped into the ring with New Jack were already fucked to be in that situation to begin with and let's put things in context, New Jack isn't even the 100th wrestler to stab some dudes in the ring and not even in the top 500 for beatings. He's just the only wrestler to actually make that part of the business his gimmick - that's the Cornette magic rubbing off on him I guess.

Lol, "Tiny Tokyo, or whatever the fuck..."

Cornette is full of it. He's tripping over himself to not address the numerous allegations against Moolah. He knows she was horrible.

Moolah was the Female Vince McMahon. She was a powerful force in wresting in general. She "owned" the female wrestling scene. She actually "bought / purchased" the concept / promotion of female wrestling. Basically, she owned the "patent" of female wrestling at the time.

I'd love to see Moolah vs Shayna Bayzer lol...

Goddamnit what episode is this

Hey, Jim. come on...Snickers are fantastic. Those peanut butter ones are addictive.

I’m a huge Cornette fan but he doesn’t do himself any favors by laughing so much at these horrible claims against Moolah. These are serious accusations that are a black eye on pro wrestling. Doesn’t matter what time period. He should have addressed this a little more serious. His knowledge on the subject is great, but his attitude is a little awkward to hear.

I see a Fabulous Moolah movie in the future.

(3:33) lol it's called a "Mickey"

So Cornette is apologetic to Moolah for being a pimp and a slave driver, but considers Kenny Omega the antichrist because he skipped out on an ROH date. Jim's got issues.

She took on the Vince persona. She sold her stars out at bottom basement prices.

The way this ends is amazing lol

She was a horrible wrestler and person,

Well I'd strongly suggest everyone go find and listen to the interviews with girls who where booked by her.....alot of the top ones explain the situation and slam the door on a lot of the lies, they aren't easy to find but if your going to trash a human being you should make sure and know who your trashing

This is like #Metoo and Hollywood. Every one knew what was going on and didn’t care and/or aided and abetted it and now wanna act pure and outraged

who is the co host ?

I've actually heard of "Fillin the blank" . She got around a fair bit. Lol

Cornette is full of it, he knows the truth about Moolah. lol

Moolah was basically the wrestling version of the Dixie Mafia's Louise Hathcock. She just didn't have a Buford Pusser around to blow her brains out. Ironically, Buford was a pro wrestler.

this is why we shouldn't censor history.

I didn't know that much about her history until the dark side of the ring episode

So Mae Young did the Badger Game as both the bait and the muscle. There's a woman doing it for herself.

VKM didn't know about Moolah? He sure knew to pick her to screw over Wendy Richter...

It's crazy but the 50s women wrestling in general is a closet fetish. Maybe even more than S&M . 50s women wrestling the queen is Betty Page.

I actually looked forward to her wresting on the WWF card in the 70's. But I was still a kid.

Binge watching/listening to this during my covid 19 house arrest

very amazing insightful informative historical society theme possible sad revealing pro wrestling fan business story

I love Jim, but that was pathetic to hear him twinkletoeing through that piece !

This has been 4 years ago damn!

Mae Young was the Cardi B of her time

Half of this audio is Jim stopping and stuttering.

El Virus Nagras cut her own arm off to get of of a wrecked car?!?! That is hardcore!

Cornett has been a god damn savage for years

Why Were Wrestlers Like Vicki Williams Or Sue Green Or Joyce Grable Never Given A Title Run!

You didn't mess with the moo!

If you suffer don't make others do the same it is crime...

Moolah still working ya

What's the Italian Stallion story he alludes to here

That feel when you think you're knowledgeable about wrestling and you listen to a Corney segment and get reminded you aren't 😢

Snot Grass?

The Fabulous Moolah was not so fabulous. First of all besides not being a nice person to many she was not even a good wrestler at all! All she did for the most part was pull hair. Moolah had no good wrestling moves to speak of and had no wrestling skills at all! Moolah was woman's wrestling champion all those years because she was women's wrestling and refused to share the title with anyone else.

I can listen too Cornette anytime . I blinge listen lol

27:50 wtf

Would she be a big money draw in the 2000s?

Lol they all start out as little beavers but over time they end up being very big beavers

Having had an appendectomy I couldn't imagine the pain of having to take bumps shortly after surgery. There does seem something off about judging people by today's standards, especially when the person isn't around defend themselves, but Jimmy was fair tbh.

So the difference between Moolah and other promoters was?

Mae was 74 in 1997

Could Cornette say something about referees complitliy oversaleing and lating wrestlers look weak by a slow count

Cornette defends Pat Patterson too. He's a devilish person. Sick

Rumor has it Moolah was a midwife for mother Mary…

I only got to see Moolah at the tail end of her regular in- ring career (the Rock & Wrestling Connection) & honestly I never got her popularity as an attraction. Great heel character & could cut good promos. Played the "bitch" well, but Gail Kim she was not. Hell, she wasn't Aja Kong, Dump Matsumoto or YOSHIKO either. Do I believe the stories concerning her exploiting & screwing over her crew? Yeah, but Corney's accurate that a LOT of people in the business, male & female, did too. Doesn't make it right, but that came w/the territory at that time. Now, I DO hear people say Mae Young was nice & treated her colleagues w/ respect, in addition to being legitimately tough (taking a Bubba Ray table bomb at 90? I would NOT like to have done a shootfight w/her!). When the bad press hit the Moolah battle royal, WWE could've dodged complete embarrassment by sticking HER name on it! Hell, they could've thrown Wendy Richter's name on it as an apology for the "Spider Lady" screwjob!

I knew Corbett was going to oddly start to justify this shit somehow

Jack Witschi's

I love Mae. Lol