Jim Cornette Is Out Here Throwing Shots At Errybody

[OGmittee]

That's a large part in why Russo doesn't wanna do wrestling interviews anymore, because in any of his shoots he doesn't bury anyone. He'll give him opinion on them and leave it at that. But he keeps getting buried and he feels like he's just lying in every interview because he doesn't bury the people he should

Im pretty sure Russo did an interview with Sean Oliver and Cornette got butthurt about it and was acting like he'd never talk to Sean Oliver again lol

I didnt see the Russo interview but I agree that Russo doesnt go at Cornette half as hard as Corny shyts on Russo

 

[jazzfan]

Anyone have. Link to konan s podcast? Can't seem to find any working links

 

[Henzo]

Im pretty sure Russo did an interview with Sean Oliver and Cornette got butthurt about it and was acting like he'd never talk to Sean Oliver again lol

I didnt see the Russo interview but I agree that Russo doesnt go at Cornette half as hard as Corny shyts on Russo

Russo has a few quotes in his book "Forgiven" that probably pissed Jim off to no end. Here's some:

On being promoted to head writer:

“This is what Raw needs to be like!”Vince screamed.
Come again?
“Last night’s show was a joke! Raw needs to be like this magazine!”
I wanted to laugh and cry at the same time. First the laughter part
— so much for politics.With one statement, I rose above all the cre-
ative brass sitting in that room. With one statement, Vince finally
decided the days of mediocrity were over and it was time to shake
things up.With one statement, Vince said, “You’re out — he’s in.”

The crying part — this was a dream. Never had I expected things
to wash out like this, in such a public display. Vince couldn’t have
stuck it to them any better. I had won — I had freaking won. All I’d
wanted was a chance — and here it was.Man, I looked in the eyes of
Prichard, Ross and Cornette that day, and never had I seen such
hatred. They had to be thinking, “How did this guy pull this off?” I’ll
tell you how — by being honest, by not playing anybody to get there,
by my own merit. . . . By just plain playing the game smarter.

On working with Cornette and Vince in creative:

Man, was this a mistake. You see, at the time Jim Cornette and I
went together like Ludacris and nascar. I wanted “attitude,” he
wanted Bullet Bob Armstrong (a legendary wrestler from the South).
Jim was from the old school that said heels could only act one way —
cheat, steal, spit, snarl — while babyfaces had to act another — smile,
kiss babies and wink at teenage girls. Unfortunately, thanks to today’s
society, in the sports-entertainment game the heels are perceived as
babyfaces, while the babyfaces are seen as heels. In other words — it’s
cool to be bad. The faces were perceived as phony, while the heels
were looked upon as real. To give an example of Cornette’s mindset,
he actually used to travel around with a gun under the driver’s seat of
his car, in case he was attacked by fans — because he was a heel! We’re
talking 1997 here folks, not 1977.Man, it was ugly.We argued like Tom
and Roseanne Arnold before, during and after the divorce. I’ll never
forget Vince’s face during those meetings. He was getting so fed up
with the both of us, he looked like his head was going to pop.
Personally, I had nothing against Jim — I just felt his way of think-
ing, in 1997, was wrong. In my opinion, you can’t book now like you
did 20 years ago, because the fans are smart — they know it’s a work
(fake). Today’s fans react to the product in a negative way if they feel
their intelligence is being insulted. Old-school booking is based on
one simple axiom — the fans are stupid, and they’ll eat whatever you
serve up because they don’t know enough to question why you’re
booking what you’re booking. In their minds, no one is “booking”
anything — it’s all happening for real. Years ago, you could get away
with all kinds of corny and phony garbage, because the fans didn’t
know any better. Jim just didn’t see that. The business was changing
on a daily basis, and you were either riding the runaway train, or tak-
ing the third rail in a painful place! But I remained persistent. Even
though we were driving McMahon nuts, I stuck to my guns, because
I knew I was right. As a company, I knew where we had to go.

On Cornette's last days in creative:

Let me preface this by saying the following: when he isn’t blowing
a gasket, I like Jim Cornette. In his day, he was by far one of the best
personalities in the business. The guy has a great mind — he comes
up with things off the cuff that others couldn’t come up with in a life-
time. He’s a comedic genius — I once wanted to write a book on the
thousands of sayings he would come up with on a daily basis.
In my opinion — and keep in mind, this is only my opinion — if
Jim Cornette made the radical decision to adapt his way of thinking
to the 21st century, he could be the man to take the wwf out of its
current slump. For whatever reasons, however, Jim refuses to do that.
Jim has chosen to live in the heyday of the late ’70s and early ’80s and
that’s his choice. Part of me respects him for sticking to his guns —
the other part just doesn’t get it.
Jim wanted to bring wrestling legend Terry Funk back to the wwf.
I had no problem with this — I was, and still am, a huge fan of Funk.
However, how Jim wanted to do this was a whole other story. . . .
Jim’s idea was to have Cactus Jack, a.k.a.Mick Foley, wheel a huge
box down to ringside. Week after week we would see this box, until

finally Terry Funk emerged. When asked why, Jim answered,
“Anybody who comes out of a box is instantly over.”To this day, that’s
the greatest line I’ve ever heard. I’ve even considered using it for the
title of this book. I thought Vince was going to die when he heard it.
To appease Jim, Vince came up with the character of Chainsaw
Charlie, who would chainsaw his way out of the box immediately
upon his arrival in the wwf.
Man, it just wasn’t going to work — Cornette and Russo. One of
us had to go.All that arguing — all we were doing was wasting Vince’s
time and the company’s money. I had a meeting with Vince and told
him exactly that. I said one of us had to go, and if it was me, I totally
understood. The next week, Cornette was off the booking committee.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

Everything he said was pretty much on point

except this :. Old-school booking is based on
one simple axiom — the fans are stupid, and they’ll eat whatever you
serve up because they don’t know enough to question why you’re
booking what you’re booking

 

[FreshAIG]

LMAO that was some of my best work too

 

[OGmittee]

Russo has a few quotes in his book "Forgiven" that probably pissed Jim off to no end. Here's some:

On being promoted to head writer:


On working with Cornette and Vince in creative:


On Cornette's last days in creative:

Yeah it may have made Cornette mad, but none of that seems off base at all. Cornette is always saying he doesnt respect Russo because Russo isnt a "wrestling guy". I can see where both guys are coming from and neither are necessarily right or wrong. Its just that Cornette acts like a crybaby and that he was doing it for the "real wrestling" fans and purists while Russo would just conjure up the worst garbage possible and pass it off as wrestling lol Cornette has a point though, Russo did end up taking things too far and after a little while its impossible to "top" yourself and people will get bored (so to speak) or whatever you are doing becomes so unrealistic people dont even want to buy into the possibility of it happening (even though they know its a work)

 

[mortuus est]

haha the vince russo bit was funny

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

Spend yr time shytting on something you know everything about but haven't watched for the last 15 years brehs

 

[Jmare007]

Everything he said was pretty much on point

except this :. Old-school booking is based on
one simple axiom — the fans are stupid, and they’ll eat whatever you
serve up because they don’t know enough to question why you’re
booking what you’re booking

This is spot on.

I just watched Cornette's KC Breaking Kayfabe shoot and even though he spends 70% of it blaming other people and trying to explain why ROH's downfall wasn't his fault (shocker), Jim does seem to finally realize that you can't book with an old school mentality anymore. Him saying that his real plan for ROH never came close to fruition but even if it did, it may have failed anyways, is a huge quote from someone like him.

I hope he ends up as a full blown historian. Wrestling needs more people digging up stuff from the past and what better than have a known guy do it.

 

[jadillac]

I read all of those comments in my head with Cornettes screaming voice LOL

 

[Grifter]

I read all of those comments in my head with Cornettes screaming voice LOL

then he coughs and reaches for sprite.