Jim Cornette talks to Bruce Prichard about The Kliq & The Curtain Call 

4:00 Dufuq!! Dufuq!!

I've seen that picture several times and always think Shawn is Stephanie.

"the fuck, the fuuuuck" 😆

Notice how WWF went to new heights when The Kliq where no more.

I know Cornette might disagree with me on this, but in hindsight, the Curtain Call was the best thing that could have ever happened to the WWF at that time. Hall and Nash jumped to WCW, formed the NWO with Hogan and as a result, they gave Vince legitimate competition for the first time in what seemed like forever. Stone Cold Steve Austin ended up winning King of the Ring that year as a result of Triple H being punished for his involvement in the Curtain Call, thus giving us one of the two biggest stars(the other being The Rock) in the business of that era. Even though Nitro and Raw had been on the air for some time at this point, this is what really set the Monday Night Wars into motion and allowed both programs to take off.

Dufuq!?!?! Dufuq!?!?! 😂😂😂

Man I need a few seasons of a Netflix show about the history of WWE. WWE can’t be involved though

.30... you can hear pritchard flicking his lighter to spark his bowl

I can’t imagine a group of “men” calling themselves “the cliq“

Forever old school

Brother Love iSooo agreeable here!

I wonder if Vince what do his southern hillbilly impersonation the same way Andy Kaufman did his I think that would be hilarious !!!!!,💯🤔🤔💯😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Makes you wonder why Sean Waltman(1-2-3 Kid,Syxx,X-Pac)wasn't out there.

There really needs to be a Dark Side of the Ring episode about this.

Vince is the one who exposed the business in the first place in front of some legislation assembly over not paying sports taxes or something. I remember it was all over the news papers at that time.

2:20 he forgot about MAX MOON! FROM THE MOON!

Moving Nash out was the best thing the WWE did

Vince and Michaels were sleeping together. That's why Vince put up with it.

They danced around the Shawn and Vince thing so much it hints that there was a thing

Dark side of the ring curtain call

I knew about the kliq back before the curtain call and still can't understand why people sing its praises

First time Bruce Pritchard has an opinion

I think they should join Jim cornette and Pritchard together to make one podcast they are perfect together.

awesome thanks you guys

I started watching wrestling when I was about 8 years old (1987) and instantly loved it… there was never a point where I believed it was real. Just like I knew Luke Skywalker wasn’t real, Thundercats, He-Man and G.I.Joe weren’t real and Freddy Krueger wasn’t real. I still loved all of it. But how could anyone think Hulking up was real? How can you think a guy can’t stop himself from running into the ropes? Or you can get punched 10 times in the face but that does nothing… but a leg drop puts a guy away? It’s hard to believe so many people thought wrestling was real down south in the territory days🤔

Huh. I wonder if Vince really did say “In business you have to eat shit and like the taste of it!” Because in light of recent revelations about his… proclivities, that’s a bit worrisome.

Kevin Nash said Vince was cool with it so I've heard.

I'm an old Jim Cornette fan from years and years and years back but that being said it's easy for him to say. I'm sure there were days Vince wanted to fire the whole bunch of them but he knew the day that happened the next week they would all be in WCW and he'd be f*cked. Can you imagine Shawn Michaels instead of being Mr Wrestlemania being Mr Starcade? Kevin Nash and Scott Hall getting there five years earlier? Eventually WCW would have f*cked that up like they f*cked everything up but the shape WWE was in at the time even with them they would have ran Vince out of business with them.

3:59 WAIT WHO

The Kilq were a bunch of corn balls. 😆 what is this band camp ?

So Vince gave the big pay day to these guys so Vince can say he never screwed them. Hall refuses to work with Goldust, both hall and Nash both lied to Vince saying they were staying but still Jumped to WCW. But Bret Hart says he's will drop the belt to anyone except Shawn because of the multiple occasions of disrespect on Shawn's end and somehow that was viewed as best for business??? Hbk taking his ball and going home saying he lost his smile?? When Austin quit the WWE did a smear campaign on him... Definitely some Gaygay stuff going on between Vince and the boys club... Hawk & Animal where right...

I have to say this, The Elite in AEW (Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks) are the modern version of The Kliq in the sense that they are the inmates running the asylum. Obviously not the same star power or whatever, but just them running things and acting like they're dominant. Tony Khan is oblivious just like Vince was oblivious. Once the Kliq ceased, WWF went on to become awesome. I don't know what it will take for The Elite to stop their garbage, but they need their power stripped.

Vince's team: Jim Ross, Jim Cornette, Bruce Pritchard (some of) Vince's biggest stars: Steve Austin, Ernie Ladd, The Undertaker, JBL, Booker T Cornette: "THIS GUY JUST HATES SOUTHERNERS! WHAT BIAS! WE'RE NOT ALL HILLBILLIES!" Of all the things to hate on Vince for....

03:35-04:05 lol

I know this is years after this clip was recorded but I think some of what and who Vince put up with over the years makes more sense to me after hearing him do an interview with Pat McAfee. In that interview he said that he personally enjoys confrontation and going at each other so in a weird way that most every other human who has lived would never understand it’s possible that he genuinely may have enjoyed all the bullshit the Kliq pulled during those days. Not only is he almost legendary for all the times he’s found a way to interact with people you thought would never happen - even people who said everything under the Sun bad about him at times - but he says that he actually enjoys the battle of it. And in that context, as wild as it really is for a normal human to try to comprehend, it helps explain a lot of things that he would put up with that never made sense to deal with in the past without knowing that fact. And of course we have heard from Bruce and JR that Vince saw a part of himself in Shawn and admired that even if everybody else absolutely despised it.

If Jim Cornette is honestly so naive he believes the curtain call exposed the business then it'll be extremely easy for his wife to convince him that the 4 hours she spends away from home every night is "driving lessons"

Lol 4:03

The kliq was the worst thing that has happened to the wrestling business

Which episode of the JCE was this?

3:59

Why the fuck didn't Scott Hall not wanna work with Goldust???

Jim Cornette is such a man child lol I agree with him on the curtain call but it taking things way too seriously when you start wishing cancer on someone and all the other silliness he spouts. He is surprised that Triple H married Vinces daughter because of his involvement in the curtain call lol Theres more to life than 'not exposing the busniess'.

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Vince and Pat were fuckin Shawn simple as that... He wasn't nicknamed the heart throb he was nicknamed the BOY TOY. Let that sink in a min.

I love you Jim but just get over this ,Vince exposed the business first,when I saw this I thought this was great, if I remember correctly the narrative leading up to PPV was good friends better enemies, no offensive but only in south did they ever believe wrestling was real ,I understood what I was watching and still loved it , big fan but you need to get over the fact that the business is exposed.

300th like!

There's a reason why wwe to this day is number 1

Bruce is boring

I love Cornette, but he dogs McMahon too damn much and doesn't think about the big picture. No other promoter would put up with the amount of bullshit that Vince does. Ok. Likely true. How many of them competed after Vince took pro wrestling mainstream? How many of them made money anywhere in the realm of what Vince made? WWF blew up the territories and ate up the other rinky dink wrestling promotions who weren't looking to the future. Furthermore, most of those old promoters literally treated their promotions and the wrestling territories like a pyramid scheme circus. Vince treated it like an expanding business. Obviously Cornette is jealous of Vince's ridiculous success. But venting in this way just makes him look like an ignorant, bitter tool lol

I'd have to assume anyone other than a little kid believing it was real probably didn't Graduate High School!!!😂😂😂

From what I hear, Shawn reminded Vince of a young him and that's why he put up with Shawn, it's also why Shawn acted the way he did, he knew Vince wasn't gonna do shyt

Doesn't this sound like what is happening in AEW with The Young Bucks?