The Jim Cornette Incidents 

He's someone who is, quite honestly, the definition of polarizing. Many know him more than Hulk Hogan at this point due to how his "character" is

@@adamd5849 Best part about is it's not a "character". He's being honest.

@@ojmcclanahan689 oh no. It's a character that people try to use as a way to justify their bs, and he knows it

Plus he can talk like no one else

@@adamd5849 It's not a character. He's said many times that it's not a character and he makes fun of the people who thinks it is a character. He literally does not give a fuck about what anyone thinks. He's going to give his honest take on thinks and anyone who doesn't like it can go piss up a rope.

I think he says some of the things he said because it’s easy to get heat out of it

Same. I'll take him over Vince Russo any day.

@@rtmachine2019 Corny had always known how to get heat. One of the best ever.

I may not agree on everything he does, or what he says. But he at least he has also a great wrestling mind. He really cares about it genuinly. I despise the way Russo thinks about wrestling.

I'm not a big fan jim cornette never was at the beginning but i respect his knowledge in the business tho .

Jim loves pro wrestling and hates people that he believes are disrespect it

@@SomeoneInTheInternet-mk6ku The other guy said it better

@@SomeoneInTheInternet-mk6ku his blind hatred of some people make this apparent.

@@SomeoneInTheInternet-mk6ku L

Or that he perceives that disrespect it.

Exactly, its a starvation joke, nothing to do with race. If he wanted to be racist he would have said Crenshaw not Ethiopia ffs 🙄

Yea but there's famine/hunger in more places than Africa u kno

@@greasy2007any of them more famous than Ethiopia? Youre the problem

Leftists, bro. They're the real fascists and the gravest danger this world faces.

Bro, any and all wrestling fans are stuck in a particular era. Only a hand full of you guys are watching the current product. Most people have no idea who the top guys even are.

Agreed. I believe that wrestling won’t reach the heights of the attitude era because of the UFC and mma. Jim has disagreed with the take.

@@ryanmussell739 UFC is dying bro. Its very much on the decline in PPV buys and cultural impact.

He dislikes a lot of my favourite time in wrestling (Attitude era) but that doesn't mean I don't find him entertaining or enjoy his storytelling from the old days.

@@LongLiveRockAnRoll hates the attitude era? He openly admits that Steve Austin is the greatest draw of all time

Oh yes, Vince Russo.

Cornette always seems to be the exception to all of his own rules when he dressed up as a knockoff ninja turtle to do some comedy wrestling and expects ppl to forget that it ever happened. And meanwhile, he wants to eternally hold on to his hatred for Kenny Omega and Takeshita because of what their work in DDT. Cornette may be smart, but he's an extremely huge hypocrite.

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Cult of Corny is well aware of his faults.It's his wrestling mind,quick wit and not give a s@# t attitude.Personally I loathe his politics,doesn't stop me from listening and being entertained.Comes down to entertainment really

@@Jd-ho3zz Totally agree bud it's not like we agree with everything he says it's just such a laugh, lightens up my day hehee

@@Jd-ho3zz he's helped expand my insult repertoire and vocabulary.

Praising "passion" or "knowledge" is a cop-out. Alex Jones is "passionate" about his work, and any "knowledge" Cornette has is a moot point, since he uses it so pointlessly.

@@quesoblanco444 What's your beef with him?

Totally agree. Hilarious 😆

@Matt M your opinion ..I’m not saying he can’t be outlandish

Unfortunately he keeps forgetting his glasses.

I thought the chicken joke was funny personally.

@@ryansparrow5762 It was.

Cornette is God!

If you agree with everything someone says, you might as well not even be an individual.

@@slayer-22 terms of service? 😂

@@MedroffYT I meant an individual lol

Why would you ever agree with every single thing someone says?

“I can’t tell if you’re joking or not.” - The Broker, Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

I like his podcasts and opinions on wrestling but cmon now. Corny don’t give af when speaking his mind and it’s easy for people to dislike him for it. He’s had opinions even I don’t agree with. “Gah damn motherfuckr! Ima kill him!”

I don’t hate Cornette. Pretty easy to just avoid him if you don’t like him. Masochists would “hate” him and still consume his content.

Are you a fellow member of the cult of meat with extra cheese?

@@brandonwooster7663 Are you an idiot? He's clearly being sarcastic.

Very passionate

""Principled"" Ha. Yeah. The backstabbing, abusive shithead, with delusions of grandeur and a cult of morons who parrot his every word. Sure.

Wait till the hardly brothers and twinkle toes fanboy marks read your comment 😂😂😂😂😂

@@nigel1823Twinkle toes”

Kinda stuck in a certain era with what he thinks is good, but I'm glad to see he does enjoy some things still. I might only agree with him half the time, but he's definitely entertaining as hell.

The 80s were chock full of Ethiopian famine jokes, they were as common as Michael Jackson jokes. I particularly remember a neighbor boy telling one about a booger being a meal. I don't remember the actual joke, just that the punchline was about a booger being a meal for 5 Ethiopians. I think there was an ad campaign, probably connected with the We Are the World USA for Africa famine relief, for whatever reason everyone got obsessed with African famine for a while. It was often used to get kids to eat their vegetables, "starving kids in Africa would love those peas," that sort of thing. Anyway, it's not that we have a problem with offensive humor, certain groups are just off limits now. It's a kind of privilege and it's unfortunate.

I agree that Jim's historical knowledge is excellent... but he doesn't express his opinions in a proper manner.... and thus gets himself in trouble.

He never calls out Vince

@@micahjohnsonboxing6409 he blames Vince for ending the territories

@@micahjohnsonboxing6409 he calls out VKM a lot especially for ruining the territories and ruining the competition back then that made it a better product

@@pleaseshutup7053 That's not really a call out, he constantly talks about Tony's dad but doesn't talk about Vince getting his company from his daddy.

That’s literally why most people like Jim Cornett though 🤷‍♂️✅ it’s because he’s so psychotically loyal to traditional wrestling culture lol 😂 Cornett is a Ying Yang the parts of Jim that are bad is because of the good and the parts of Jim that are good is because of the bad lol ☯️

I know it’s you Russo, you aren’t fooling anyone

Lol, no. Jim Cornette had his chance to prove himself when he ran Smokey Mountain Wrestling and ran it into the ground with stupid gimmicks like the Boogey Man and himself dressing up as a ninja turtle. He literally booked that company out of business, and nearly did the same with Ring of Honor.

@@dangerousdays2052 Smokey Mountain was good enough to have a working relationship with WWF at the time. But whatever….I’ll admit he did not fit in ROH, but dude….Cornette knows wrestling like no other. He has always been one of my favs, from the JCP days with the Midnight Express.

Jim would probably call you an Ass for suggesting Heaven exists tbh

@@dangerousdays2052 His booking was on point, you need another excuse to disalike him.

@@dxcpt Wrong. His booking was so bad he put SMW out of business. That's all the proof anyone needs.

Omg I love you rom can’t wait for the rumble🙏

MJF

Thats MJF

Why do we have to care what Russo thinks? Let that clown have his little 💩 takes.

Becomes more wrong as time goes on.

Please provide an example

His history with promotions like ROH and TNA says otherwise.

His entire fundamental take on wrestling is wrong. Because he takes it seriously. It is people play-fighting in their underwear for pity's sake. I work in a court. I deal with the worst things humanity is capable of all day. All the things you can't even type in a RU-vid comments section. THAT is serious. And then, when I come home, I am expected to take people play-fighting in their pants seriously too? Really? Anyone who does needs to grow up and get their priorities in order. He said a man should be killed for disagreeing with him about people play-fighting in their underwear. Good grief.

@@VelvetMetrolink If you take it as people play fighting in underwear then maybe you're just not a wrestling fan lol. If you're willing to degrade what it is so easily, I think its pretty apparent that you don't give a shit about wrestling in any meaningful capacity. I suggest you watch indie wrestling where pizza guys are doing backflips or whatever. Most people want a product that's presented seriously.

Podcast is perfect for him where controversial opinions fly

to be fair, in a lot of cases jims takes on the current womens wrestling we get arent even wrong. people are just that pussified and seek things to be mad about. we dont need that much womens wrestling on TV when there is a massive gap between the female stars and the others theyd like us to think are stars. Bianca vs Alexa at RR 2023 is a good example of the gap between the division. give us more rhea, becky, bianca, char and less mid tier work rates. i wont deny it tho jim does have moments where hes to stuck in the Bill Watts booking of wrestling but when he does break segments down into what they could be vs what we got the could be 9 times out of 10 sounds more believable which is missing from todays wrestling.

Jim’s problem is he has a yes man who agrees with him. He needs someone to pull him back

@Paul Hensley Are you referring to his dimwitted sidekick Brian Last Resort?

@@StarrPower2232 the guy who’s on his podcast

One thing that's annoying is his hatred for the Ultimate Warrior. Corny says little to nothing negative about some total slimebags who have worked in the industry (e.g. Buck Zumhoff who the WWE used as a jobber after he became a convicted sex offender), but can't stop bashing Warrior who as far as I know never did anything morally wrong and was loved by his family.

@@ryanjacobson2508 agreed Warrior had issues I believe and some beefs But he patched it up

Just watched a vid where Jim goes over his opinions on Sable, and to sum them up: - She couldn't do anything except look good and was a backstage pain (Okay, sure) - She's a plastic bimbo and her fans are manchildren (Uh..) - Sunny was more attractive and if you disagree you're stupid (???) He absolutely cannot handle the fact that she was making money and bringing in views in her prime lmao

@@ryanjacobson2508 Warrior wasn't a very nice guy. Quick Google search is easy. He was quite frankly, a jackass.

Yes. He has an irrational hatred of republicans..😂 I tend to skip his unhinged political rants. But he's entitled to his opinion just like we all are.

I love that people actually think that and refuse to believe that he's just being honest.

*Remembers the time he pointed a gun at Brock Lesnar* Rrrrright, character...

@@wardenunknown If a 300lb steroid meathead took liberties with my wife and injured her in ring, I'd have filled him with holes. He's lucky Corny only threatened to, plus, the incident taught Brock that people he thinks he can fuck with could just shoot him instead of fight him, because of his size, strength, freak athleticism, and amateur wrestling status. Who wants to fight Brock?? A smaller threatened person would turn to a weapon.

@@nickhughes8179 Cool, the point still stands that Jim isn't a character this is all serious

​@@wardenunknownTechnically he didn't actually point a gun at Lesner, just told Lesner he would shoot him if he continued to disrespect him and his wife. That being said, you even make that kind of threat, you're definitely not "working".

Yeah I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Jim is like that and that is the same reason why Jim says wrestling is boring nowadays 🤷‍♂️ It’s too filtered now ☯️ Lol

Everything is racist bro. If it White it ain't right....

I think the joke was a good call back and it was still funny plus it works beacuse Murdoch is a big guy so he has a lot of extra weight, the marks online just can't take jokes

I think the problem is it´s a Joke you can bring in the 90´s but when you look at Society Today it´s not fitting for this time what is Sad. If you said something like this back in the Day no one in the right Mind would think it´s Rascist but Today where so much has Changed and Society is mostly full of Snowflakes that take everything Personal and start a Wtch Hunt you need to be very careful what u say in Public. I mean i got the Joke also and knew it was a Starvation Joke. :/ Sad Times...

I was struggling to find what was wrong, it just sounded stupid and random.

I guess because the connotation of fried chicken and black people? But that's an African American thing not an African thing.

Lmao “has the balls to stand up and says what he thinks” that’s because he spends all of his life hiding behind a computer crying when he doesn’t like someone or something

@@indeathreborn2947 go and check out the Santino Marella footage. Corny is standing face to face arguing with the guy!

he literally sent death threats to people. over sweaty men rolling around in their panties.

​@quetzalpachecoIf you actually knew anything about him, you would know why he isnt involved in the business anymore

​@@indeathreborn2947This is just the most untruthful thing I've ever heard

He doesn't have his own political opinions he just regurgitates anything he half listened to on CNN that morning.

@@paulearl8203 yep for as knowledgeable as he is about wrestling he's equally as clueless about politics.

@@dalegribble49 The weirdest thing is he's being cancelled by the ones he thinks are freedom fighters and the ones defending him are the ones he's maintaining are being authoritarian. He just can't shift his 1980's view on politics. Entrenchment in politics is how you get lifelong partisans where indy's will actually (or more likely should) actually look at the *current* positions.

@@wavesfromthedarksea3629 He's dug in for sure.

First off he doesn’t take a “my way or the highway” approach to wrestling if you actually listen to him recap the wwe and aew weekly. He offers up ways things could’ve been better and he doesn’t say anything close to what you’re suggesting, it’s just his opinion. Also, it’s spelled aisle. Isle is a body of water. He doesn’t hate people who disagree with him he hates people who blindly follow stupid ideology or political stances with no critical thinking behind it.

Santino was laughing at his daughter being terrified of the Boogeyman who was in attendance he wasn't laughing at the Boogeyman himself. sure santino messed up but doesn't mean he should get assaulted for it. Also just because he plays a comedic character doesn't mean he doesn't take wrestling seriously. he's just playing his character given to him. this guy even has his own wrestling school so I say he takes wrestling very seriously but that's just my two cents.

problem is that slap literally happened on Santion's first day on the job, him having completed only some basic training before. It is punishing someone for not knowing something you haven't him yet the incident itself is maybe a splitt second, you can find it on youtube. If Cornette hasn't made a scene about it, nobody would have even noticed.

@clawy99 Jim went too far. I can understand being annoyed with Santino, but slapping him in front of his daughter was a step too far. Actually, no, I take it back. Threatening to murder someone is taking things too far.

@@zemox2534 the slap happened backstage, the daughter was not present. What did happen involving children is him leaving some death threats on Russo's answering machine, and his young son hearing those.

Cornette is a mid talent who waves around a tennis racket and seethes that actually entertaining characters are more popular and loved than he ever was. He could not polish Santinos boots

That video is gonna be about an hour or more if he’s gonna go deep into it. There’s a lot to unpack there

@@thegame7134 even longer if there's a directors cut

LOTR extended editions put together type of documentary or even docudrama

90% of that stuff is pretty much him dipping into that shithead heel shit he's been known for, you know, since he first started wrestling. The 'pressuring into having sex with his wife' stuff he's gone on record as saying is lies and he's said if they want to pursue that he'd sue them...then they suddenly shut up. Weird how that happened, huh?

@@slayer-22 Cornette isn't a heel manager anymore though. He's a podcaster whose opinions are taken seriously by a fanbase that eats up everything he says. You can't just handwave every bad thing he says as him just being a heel especially when his fans constantly parrot him and harass these wrestlers. Also him threatening to sue somebody isn't the evidence of innocence you think it is.

@Chernobyl Hobo Yes. You can. People harass Corny daily because of stuff the Bucks have said to him. Or Kenny. Wrestling fans are terrible. This is a well known fact. What is he supposed to do, never say a bad thing ever? Absurd. And no, threatening litigation isn't. You know what is? The deafening silence after he did.

@@slayer-22 "What is he supposed to do, never say a bad thing ever?" He could not constantly say bigoted and sexist things. He could not wish injury on wrestlers simply because he does like the style they wrestle in. There are plenty of things he could avoid doing, but instead he keeps doing it and people like you enable him.

@Chernobyl Hobo Jesus, what a crybaby. He's an old school heat magnet. And you're taking the bait.

People are too sensitive for dark humor in 2023. People love being offended.

Ah yes. The "it's a joke" defence. Yes. It is a joke. A racist joke. "It's a joke" isn't some magical uno-reverse card that means making a racist joke isn't racist and now it's everyone else's fault for not finding you as hilarious as you find yourself. Stop glorying in people being "offended". The world isn't full of cry babies that you are tougher than like you try to convince yourself. The world is just full of people that don't want irrelevant old men making black people fried chicken jokes on their wrestling show.

@@VelvetMetrolink Your life must be pretty good to be able to have the time to get online and look for things to be offended by. Must suck to be you.

​@@crystalwater505 there's nothing humorous about stereotypes.

@@Shadowjester1985 I disagree. Stereotypes are hilarious.

Far fetched and comedy garbage like a guy slow-mo kicking people take away from legit talent on the card like MJF. Why would I take him seriously when the 3 Stooges were just on?

Wrestling is tv clown

@@pleaseshutup7053 wrestling is on tv but their's also untaped and indy events so it's entertainment but it's not tv it predates tv by at least 50 years

I can have Superman and Lois lane and Constantine at the same time

There already is “drama” wrestling, “comedy” wrestling, “fantasy” wrestling. Problem is no one wants to watch it and all it does is cheapen wrestling

He said Becky shouldn't have gotten knocked up to begin with and that it was a stupid thing to do at the peak of her career.

The most recent two Bray Wyatt matches (from before he left and most recently with LA Knight) are legit embarrassments. The reviews were terrible, the fan reaction was poor, and it looks like Bray is his ACTUAL own worst enemy when it comes to creativity. Cornette had fair complaints with how poorly Wyatt's matches have gone...they've been pathetic efforts.

He didn’t say any of that. 😂😂😂

@@pazuzu66613 I stand corrected. Still, it was a stupid thing to say. Becky is a human being and has a life outside wrestling. Jim obviously doesn't understand that.

@Garrett Fisher But to say he ruined wrestling is just taking things too far. I mean, come on!

The majority of the comments were defending having an old white guy making black people fried chicken jokes on a TV show. I assume that is what you mean? Yeah, really not a good look. No wonder we're nowhere near the mainstream any more.

@@VelvetMetrolink It was a meaningless line at the end of the day. As usual, the only people offended were jaded, middle-class liberals that have never met a minority.

​@@VelvetMetrolink I hate to say it but you're wasting your breath. I see other comments saying it was "dark humor." If it was dark humor about starvation, they have starving populations all across the world. And why did the particular food have to be friend chicken, that's not even African food it's southern US food.

​@@VelvetMetrolink Sit down SJW. No one cares. You have plenty of stereotypes about people but to you they're not a Problem. The whole tolerance crowd are the least tolerant people on earth.

I remember that episode. It was a joke that didn't age well, but I'm not ashamed to say I laughed at it as I had heard it the first time he used it. It was a nostalgic pop in a sense

People are currently over sensitive.

We need that

@@pleaseshutup7053 yes

I don't think there's enough time in the world to make a video about him EDIT: he uploaded one on Russo the very next day after I commented🤣

Agreed

With such gems as saying that a known pregnant Becky Lynch shouldn't take time off and continue wrestling despite carrying a child.

@@CryoJnik did you read that on r/allpetitewrestling? lol No, he said she should've waited to conceive instead of doing it when she was one of the hottest names in wrestling.

@Invisible Hotdog is still an incredibly stupid comment, then again he's no stranger to running his mouth before his old ass brain can catch up.

I like Jim myself, I think he's hilarious. I haven't seen him saying to sign Jake Paul so I'm genuinely asking you here... does he say that because he thinks Paul would be exciting as an actual wrestler or because he thinks it'll be good for business and it'll funny to see Paul flounder with the actual professionals? Because in most of the interviews I've seen with Cornette he's not 100% sold on a lot of these gimmicky wrestling stunts? Signing Jake or Logan Paul to the roster seems to me like the EXACT sort of thing Cornette would hate. Again, I'm not trying to argue with you or anything. I genuinely don't know and it's 4:30am where I am so I can't afford to go down a rabbit hole tonight 😂 I'm also 32, and I haven't followed wrasslin' since like '06 or '07. IMO you need the balance between pure wrestlers who can put on a show and that stupid gimmicky shit Russo loved so much. I know wrestling purists would disagree but I thought wrestling was at it's peak when they did have some stupid gimmick stuff and wild storylines, but then the wrestlers got into the ring and delivered an unreal technical match. Mate I tried to watch wrestling with my sons who are 16, 13, 12, 9, 5 and 2 and I nearly fucking fell asleep during it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the in-ring action was bad because those guys are unreal at what they do, it just falls a bit flat to me when there's basically no storyline. But then again, I grew up in the Attitude Era and the monday night wars. Some of the angles they went with back then were absolutely fucking insane to try and market to children in this day and age. I'm not a super fan or anything either btw and I'm not trying to claim to be because I'm definitely not compared to some people. But me and my brothers never missed a WWF show or PPV from like '95-'08. Well, that's to say my older brother watched it until like 2002- he hated that whole invasion angle. I stopped watching in like 2006 because all my favourite guys had pretty much left and I was getting bored and then I suppose my little brother stopped watching a couple years later because neither of us watched it anymore.

'you either love him to death or FN hate his guts'. Or just don't care for him like me, why are people talking like there's only 2 choices?

No, he only sent his lawyer after people trying to profit from his image. And yeah, representing children that were born addicted to opioids makes him such an ambulance chaser. Good one.

You’re so incorrect bro😭

@@InvisibleHotdog He's gone after other podcasts for discussing him in a negative light. Cafe de Renee, The Bolin Alley and Keeping it 100 have all said that they've received C&D's over Jim related content and those are just the one's off the top of my head. Don't be a fan boy and ignore flaws, you can still enjoy his content and see he's a massive pussy when it comes to criticism from people he considers "the boys". But yes, a lawyer that primarily focuses on class action lawsuits that resulted in physical harm is by literal definition an ambulance chaser.

Nah. The world is already full of wrestling promotions that won't last 5 years. We don't need him to do it again.

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This guy do research? That's a good one!!! My respect for this channel just fucking plummeted

Danish kids in the late 1980s knew a similar joke after the 1983-1985 famine in Ethiopia regarding what the fastest animal in Ethiopia was ;)

um santino was moving in front of him lol

​@@Rogue1sme Santino talked about it on Cafe de Rene. There's a lot of details that aren't on camera that really make Cornette out to be a prick and a jerk.

@@seantaft3853 has it ever crossed your mind that he was lying? Maybe Cornette is lying. Who knows what we do know is multiple people have said Santino No sold shit a lot.

Spoken like a true mark for the guy.

@@samcooper2474 People constantly trying to use insider lingo, makes me cringe. If you mean that I watch his clips from time to time, I do. If you mean I dislike the current wrestling product, I do.

Nah. He just moans the whole time.

@@CesarSanchezfool hmmm I don't hear it, I just love he is honest about today's crappy wrestling compared to the attitude era and before

@@runekit8286 that just means you listen to him because you like hearing what he says, not because he's 'real'. And marks like you need to either get over the past or quit crying over wrestling altogether because you're nothing but a nuisance for those who can still find enjoyment in it

@Sam Cooper dude ur rude AF, all I said was I like the guy. U need to learn internet etiquette. Don't let shit get to u

You honestly believe the black people fried chicken joke wasn't racist because he was thinking quickly by repeating a line he's been using since the 80's? Really? Do you want to buy a bridge?

You really need to get out more Samuel.

Why's your picture your car?

He tells it like he thinks it is. There is a difference.

The only issues I have with Jim are when he delves into politics and shows that he gets his information from bullshit peddlers like MSNBC or Washington Post. And it seems like his political ignorance has led to the collapse of several of his longtime friendships, most notably Chris Jericho and Kane.

@@jackdaone6469 If only he got his information from those "truth tellers" from Fox news and NewsMax, right? Probably people that believe in that BS that Fox News peddles and that the election was stolen are not worthy of keeping around as friends.

@@dcs4947 Imagine believing the election wasn't stolen. Oops sorry "fortified".

@@AffectedArea don't stress that lonely neuron of yours buddy. He's already on the edge. He might just pop.

Such a great mind that his personal outlaw mudshow, smw quickly went out of business despite wwf help. And he almost killed ROH after it's hottest period because his booking was so atrociously bad. And he never, ever takes accountability for his failures, it's always someone else's fault.

Cornette slapped him and he didn't respond then but waited over a decade to go for Jim what when he was older and slow, who is the bitch in that scenario

@jamie Corser , he slapped him as a superior not a guy out on the streets. How many times after his firing do you think he ran into him ? Those ten years, he continued to run his mouth as well . But Santino is a bitch for confronting him ? OK 👍. Kinda like all those years Cornette talked shit bout New Jack , then NJ found him in a hotel room and Cornette practically melted at the sight of him , never to talk bout him negatively again . Weird how that works . Or recently Nero who said he was going to beat Cornys ass if he ever ran into him in public , guess who stopped talking bout his wife ????