Jim Cornette on The Yokozuna Documentary on WWE Network 

He was right.

Sayonara

And that WAS the magic of wrestling Too bad it is shit nowadays

@@MRGTOLS1 me and my buddy keep saying how we wish they would go back to having jobbers. Split the roster up, have two separate shows and give guys chunks of time off to stay healthy and fresh. Meanwhile you have the stars on program getting built up squashing job guys and the only time they really face other stars is in the actual main events and ppvs. Sadly WWE and most modern wrestling has become a formula where they dont even need stars, just plug and play with any given body available. No long term build ups needed or any coherent story arcs for that matter. Its more a rarity now these days you have an arc that stays coherent.

@@loggerbomb I’ve been saying the same thing! There was nothing like when they introduced a new wrestler against a jobber and they absolutely wash them! Enhancement talent never got the respect they should, some of the bumps they’d take were devastating.

Lmao

Mark Henry said that he was one of Yoko's gofers and he'd get Yoko buckets of chicken.

They discovered the wonder of Bojangles...

@@positively_broad_st3780 Popeye's and Publix are better.

Nia probably had a bucket of kfc before her match

That must have been so hard for Yoko cause he couldn't use the bathroom. I guess he made sure to get it all out before flying.

There a story where they curtain off some of backseat with blankets on a plane as he was desperate to go toilet

@@JGD185 same problem with Andre. Just different spectrum. Yoko too wide, Andre too tall

@@JGD185 He just shat between the seats.

@@JGD185 I had a chance to fly on a plane once with Konishiki, who at his prime as a sumo wrestler was 600 pounds. I thought the same thing! No way was he going to the latrine.

Rikishi blows things up bigger than they were. "I couldn't pay my heating bill." He was a WWE wrestler. Where was the money going? Pretty sketchy.

@@81rbutler Firstly, he was a WWF wrestler, there were no guaranteed contracts prior to Hall and Nash nWo times and even well after with Vince. When Yoko was a headliner, Jr. Fatu went through a bunch of crap gimmicks, a step above a jobber. Business was also down and the top guys made max $400K, Razor always pushed Bret to demand money. Those were top guys, imagine being a low-midcarder with road expenses like motels/gas/car rentals. Yeah, I doubt Kish was kayfabing tears to push a WWE network doc.

@@81rbutler WWF was not making money until, winter 97. Top guys was barley making money . Rinkishi was on. B level tours. And , was barley on PPV that was were money was at time. House shows , and merch was down during new generation era.

@@chadog900 Scott Hall needs blame his buddy for not drawing as champ

@@erickennedy5993 I guess you could say, the top guys didn't have the, hops, for it..

Agreed. I love all the backstage footage.

100 percent agree, but the products been so poor for such a long time, what are they going to be doing documentaries on in 10 years.

@@retroshane8844 think of it this way - it’s 2021 and they just made an excellent documentary about just one guy who wrestled for the WWE from mid 92 to late 96, so we have plenty of material to work with lol

​@@CarloisBuriedAlive Haha that's true, but they won't have much to pick from 2006 onwards lol.

They'll release a documentary titled, "Who Was Kizarny?"

This is why I prefer hearing the old wrestling stories to the AEW and WWE reviews.

Still a few fucks and shits but its always appropriately placed

It's the main reason I watch his stuff at this point

@@robinblake5054 Cause he is talking stuff he actually knows. Jim admits to not keeping up with both AEW and WWE(Not to mention that he skips certain wrestlers in the first place), leaving him out of context on a lot of stuff. Jim the historian is great. Jim the modern critic isn't worth giving attention to.

I love Corny the historian. That’s why I keep coming back.

Yokozuna clearly had depression where other wrestlers turned to pain killers or infidelity he turned to food for comfort. That was truly a sad moment. In the end there's only so much [his uncle] you can give and if the person doesn't want help there's nothing you can ultimately do -- it's his life.

@@Blackfeet So true. Addiction is a bitch and it can manifest in many different ways. Food addiction has to be one of the cruelest ways because if you're a pill head (like I once was), you can just stop taking pills, but food, you can't avoid that.

@Shawn Stuckey Clark Roman Reigns Dad is Sika.

@Shawn Stuckey Clark Ohhh ok

Damn, that had me actually laughing out loud... good one.

Thank you, sir!

😂

Amazing

I wish I could like this twice.

That was in 2000? That's odd cause wasn't Rikishi in the midcard with 2 Cool or feuding with Austin then? He had to be making good money at that point

@@JGD185 Rikishi had told the story about Yoko helping him and his family on Livewire in 2000.

@@joere-uploader5766 Yeah Rikishi mentioned in the Doco it was when Yoko got his monster push in 92/93 when Kish was in the head shrinkers. Yoko main evented 2 Wrestlemanias so he would have been paid very well especially the one with Hogan.

that's insane, and to think yokozuna is not the heaviest wrestler ever

@Jordan Willett agree 10000% ....dumb comment by a newbie

@Jordan Willett He didn't suck.

@Jordan Willett Yeah he was.

Remember umaga cost Vince mcmahon his hair of course umaga got buried.

It’s sad/crazy to see that he’s been holding that guilt inside for twenty years now

@@CarloisBuriedAlive oh snap i had imagined he died back in the late 90's

That made me sad because its not Sika's fault. Rodney was a grown man responsible for his own actions.

That was sad, you can see hes broken from it.

Don't think wwe does DVD anymore because they have the wwe network

I’d really like that

He was WWF Champion; so, he fulfilled his potential.

@@bradpaton3927 He died at 34. He could have gone on a LOT longer had he got his weight under control.

@@bradpaton3927 wow. He won it, then lost it straight away to Hogan. Then wins it again and does basically nothing with it.

Someone made a point that while WWE didn't actually cause Yoko's food addiction. It certainly didn't curb it. Possible part of the reason it got so bad was this idea that the company made him a major star and promoted him as an attraction specifically because he was so heavy. And maybe in his mind, if Yokozuna got physically smaller, he wouldn't be Yokozuna anymore.

@@XombieLejon66 they did try to curb his eating. They sent him home to go to a weight loss clinic & it didn't help at all. But sure, blame WWE for him not losing weight cuz personal accountability doesn't exist anymore.

@@youngtate3891 I'm not saying WWE didnt try to help him later on nor that Yoko shouldnt bear any responsibility, I'm saying the idea of being massively overweight = successful gimmick and major star may have been part of his thinking process.

@@youngtate3891 i'm pretty sure wwe are to blame for everything bad in the world, so, maybe just accept it ok?

Well, Mister Clancy, they accepted millions in Saudi Arabian blood money; so, it fits.

LMFAO!

TBH it was pitiful seeing footage of him working those outlaw mud shows with 20 people in the bleachers considering he main evented two consecutive Wrestlemanias.

@@thekidfromiowa yes, guy had an addiction that took its toll on every aspect of his life and he just couldn’t stop, sad to see

Totally agree, Captain. Those network production guys and gals do such an amazing job.

In your defense, that cat landed wrong and really messed up her neck.

Agree amazing stuff.

The documentaries would be even better if Bruce Pritchard wasn't chiming in too much

@@CraigSmithII I think he did well. They just didn’t have cornette to commentate.

Current wwe suck but docs and video packages are great

@Eric John Schwab, & that's the sad state of affairs for Vince's company, is that the quality of the booking & current direction of the talent is piss poor whereas the documentaries are great.

WWE cares more ~ the pasThan the present and the future and they rub their audiences faces in iToo. That's why Seth Rollins told Braun Strowman in the Men's 2021 Royal Rumble match that Edge & Christian aren'The future.

Absolutely. If he had stayed the same size as he was during his debut, even if he was already large, I'd like to imagine he would still be alive.

@@RyanPelley1 his athleticism at that size, just outstanding

Imagine what he could have been doing at 250 lbs, he would have been moving like Shawn Michaels

I think The Icons series is going to be there answer to that series.

Wonder if Vince has seen any episodes of dark side of the Ring

Sounds like the kind if ‘rumor’ somebody made up to make a guy look like less of an asshole.

@run 187, the Samoan's are all awesome people.

How's he doing now?

@@gator9339 probably still shittin

@@gator9339 not notice how he said " I had " lol 😆

We do have Keith Lee

Yoko looked better at 500lbs than Jericho looks at *insert current weight here*

Hell, I wish I had Yokozuna's cardio.

@@Lazy-Monkey me too

Yoko vs Bret was the best match of Wrestlemania 9 .

@@Sp3ar. lmao

Man....Yoko was unstoppable to me as a kid. I damn near cried when Bret beat him...it was like a dream. It felt like he never lost

That was the Royal Rumble where Savage tried to pin him, for some strange reason.

He was so graceful 4 his size

It would have required a lot of alignment changes but do you think a Cliq vs. Bone Street Crew feud would have been a good idea for an onscreen angle?

The worked gr8

Yeah i peeped that too they do it all the time if Jim is positive Brian will be the hard man for the episode

Brian doesn’t like Bruce because when Bruce was on the show years ago Brian tried to call him out on Bruce’s Bullshit and Bruce was a bit of a dick to Brian.

Brian hates Bruce for some reason despite never meeting him from what i can tell.

Brain hates Bruce because Bruce is a brown noser.

Mideon was/is Dennis Knight

Just jealous you gotta be a real scumbag to make it up in the wrestling business.

That's Mr. Great Last to you.

I live in San Francisco turkey 🦃 tails are always on Samoan plates it's true

@@robertspivey8446 The 1st I heard about turkey tails was on JR's podcast. I wouldn't mind trying them though

Yoko should have beat Bret and they should have built the rest of the year on those two feuding. Instead we got egomaniac Hogan, who didn't want to put anyone over, went to Japan, mocked the title while he was there, and then lost to Yoko in the same kind of bullshit finish that resulted in him winning it in the first place.

Agree, but ending a WrestleMania with a heel cheating to win kind of puts a downer on the event. You think Vince was going to send people home unhappy in Las Vegas? Hogan got a huge pop, fans went home happy. The fact that Yoko got over on Hogan just a few weeks later elevated him even more.

Rodney was a great human being.

That is… An amazing story bro… Has anybody contacted you about the movie rights to it yet or are you planning to do it on your own?

@@evilsWa you got a try out.

It humanizes him.

Yeah cause Yoko could actually work

No the one that he mentioned that it has literally the highest rating for untrue material being spewed out is the one he was referring to…

Jim Cornette most certainly wouldn't have meant those two networks,

@@evilsWa don't bother trying to convince these brainwashed cretins

@Marc Carran yep.

@@evilsWa Yeah, okay.

Yeah, because CNN and MSNBC are any better. It's by FAR worse and they are all shit. Jim is one of those "I'm on the good guy team" imbeciles. Without even being able to explain the difference. Too lazy to research anything and instead gets his cliff notes from probably low IQ Brian right off their websites. It's baffling.

@@itsyourenotyour9101 All the news outlets indie to mainstream all are bad in different ways and have their different biases and good points, I agree. And you’re right that Jim Cornette is a partisan and I’d call him a Bill Maher type liberal. But Fox News is still especially bad. He’s not wrong in what and how he said that.

@@cjaquilino nah MSNBC is way worse than FOX News. Some lib want to drone strike U.S. citizens. www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thepostmillennial.com/watch-msnbc-expert-casually-suggests-killing-american-citizens-with-drone-strikes

@@skipbayless557 Commentators on all news outlets regularly call for going to war, military interventions, and endorse, downplay, or ignore drone strikes against civilians or their deaths, US citizen or not. MSNBC isn’t an exception there. John Bolton was a commentator on Fox hired by Trump. Here’s Bolton not giving a fuck about civilian deaths in Iraq: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/john-bolton-iraq-war-civilian-deaths-mehdi-hasan-interview-b1041508.html Bolton was so trigger happy Donald Trump now just thinks he’s a war hawk nut and regrets hiring him: www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-threatens-bolton-bombs-judge-rejects-block-book-1018141/ Back to the MSNBC commentator. Nicole Wallace is an establishment conservative type who worked for George W. Bush and John McCain. How is she that exceptional compared to Bolton or any other commentators. Again, all these media companies have this revolving door of commentators from the government who’ve in and out of that job advocate for all kinds of fucked up policies. That’s not a way Fox News isn’t as bad as MSNBC. I hate MSNBC and CNN. But for different reason than I hate Fox. But there are specifically ways each are bad and yet Jim is still right about how Fox is bad. I regret wading into this because I feel this is just a “No, Fox isn’t bad. CNN and MSNBC are!” type discussion. I have no interest in defending them. Again there’s all bad but in different ways and yet there are ways each of them are particularly bad by my measure and I’ll leave it at that.

Lol all y’all batshit crazy fir voting for trump so there is that and Jim has enough balls to call out corrupt as Fox News and the stupid repubs

Winner

Nauru leading the world with 61% obesity. Tonga is the 7th obese country. But they really are like the same thing.

Corned beef is big with islanders...and KFC of course.

@@itsyourenotyour9101 Yeah Tonga/Nauru it's all the same Polynesian people.

And here I thought Texas or Florida was the most obese place on Earth. Deep fried butter would reinforce that thought.

ouch....but you’re right

When your a yes man to a narcissist that's kinda easy.

Prichard has had failure follow him around but managed to hold his job because he kisses arse. I don't know if anyone really calls that success.

@@williamwest9204 I mean ppl make that same argument about Brian in regards to Jim. I dont agree, but just because somebody is the right hand or foot soldier doesnt make them a “yes man”

Brian Last had a top level GI Joe territory in the late 80s tho

If yoko rikishi and meng got together in 2001 they would of been a great heel trio

@@rudymenchacaa9970, I completely agree with that.

Sign up for wwe network it's free for a month and cancel after you watch the documentary.

Addiction, it's a hell of a thing..

Nutritionists will tell you that food should be considered mbedicine

@@pooddescrewch8718 "Our pizzas are nutritious and delicious." Owen Hart

Just the fact that all of them are gone breaks my heart..

@@davidjgg I'm glad Vader seemed to have a full life and pro wrestling career. Not as sure about Bigelow. I just wish Yoke got his full career in. He was only 33 when he passed on, more life ahead of him, more family time. More pro wrestling to give to the world. Just imagine, he was a 2x WWF World Champ before 30, that's AMAZING. And pro wrestlers hit their best years later on in their 30-40's. If only he won his battle. There were prime Yoko years ahead of him.

There probably was a reason for his food addiction that was never discovered that yoko was covering up. Makes you think about what yoko was covering up

Actually you can