I remember watching so many of these shows especially on TBS. Corny touched on something very important. When Georgia Championship Wrestling was replaced by WWF programming in the same time slot it was a shock to say the least even to a 9 year old kid who was probably the target audience. WHat happened to Tommy "Wildfire" RIch and Solie? Nope, it was an utter disaster we all hated WWF with a passion. Horrible gimmicks, characters, 2 minute squash matches. It was like watching a cartoon. Thank god Mid Atlantic took over that spot and we got to experience real wrestling and the NWA in all its glory every single week and then on the pay per views. What a great era in wrestling history- the crown jewel.
i never knew the tennis racket guy knew so much about wrestling. I loved the rival between Rocking Roll Express and the Midnight Express. Sweet memories as a kid.
I’ve seen a lot of interviews with wrestlers and people associated with wrestling but Jim Cornette has so much passion for the business and knows so much history.
Johnny Valentine did not pop The Carolinas by himself . It was his fights with Wahoo McDaniel that broke the tag team territory into a hot singles feuds .
I saw Starcade and didn’t like the main event . I was supposed to but the match not next level which was surprising . They pretty much telegraphed that Flair was gonna win with the storyline . Harley Race acting scared of Ric Flair was not believable imo . I had seen them wrestle before and it was better then .
The interview just being a little closer to the camera wouldve helped so much. Cornette knows how to project of course so he drowns out the interviewer. Can hear cornette clear as day but have to strain to hear the question that is being asked
This has to be the least annoying that JC has ever been. I really enjoyed this. One on one & face to face in a non-wrasslin environment suits him well.
Fair enough. Point being, wrestling would be in a lot better of a place if we had more guys like him in control of creative. I’d watch wrestling again, that’s for sure
45:37 He says "before the Internet" in so many interviews but the Internet has technically been around since the ARPANET of 1969. Now I agree it didn't get commoditized til ~1990 when dialup started becoming available to the masses instead of just us techies before.
He barely talks about it, ITS YOU snowflake thar ist so annoyed by the truth. GET LIFE, you have been Played, but thats what Trump does. Be like a real Businessman Not that fraud. Admit that you Made a mistake, cut your losses and move on. Even Deutsche Bank did after almost getting ruined totally with him.
Jim Cornette is the only reason that I even have a clue about what's going on in wrestling today. The man's a living legend for the wrestling business to the true fans.
Same here. I could give a flying shite about wrestling past about 1992 (I grew up on nwa, midsouth, and wwf 80s reruns my uncle taped all of it) when I turned like 10 I lost interest and was training for middle school to get laid LOL.
Amen🤜🤛I've been listening to his podcasts for years. He understands the fundamentals of wrestling better than anyone. I just got a cameo from him too!🤟
I'd absolutely love to get in to Jim's archives of all the various memorabilia and scripts and various knick knacks he's kept over the years. Probably every wrestling programme of the last 40 or 50 years. The guy is just so knowledgeable on the territories and it's a joy listening to him talk about days gone by
@@sidneymartin1947who knows, maybe one day someone will get a hold of some of those aforementioned items and open their own museum. Imagine a pro wrestling ball of fame with a physical location fans can visit with museum aspects to it and have various histories and what not of the territories but also of promotions from Canada and Europe and Japan and Mexico etc.
if the freebirds and Rock n roll express are in the wwe hall of fame then Jim and midnight express should definitely be in there. Beautiful bobby Eaton RIP ; Denis condrey; randy rose and Stan lane hell yes
@@Tcup1982 I imagine they must've already asked him too...maybe he didnt have the best relationship with Vince but now with him out of the way the current WWE management can work to get Cornette in he is long overdue
Regarding how people perceived wrestling when Crockett was on TBS and Vince on USA, a guy I knew at the time described the NWA as the wrestling you watched when you wanted to see good, serious matches and the WWF was what you watched when you wanted to watch wrestling and have fun with it.
A priceless interview! As Jim was talking, my memory banks flashed back to all the classic interviews and angles he was involved with in JCP -- from the MX attacking Ricky Morton's throat with the tennis racket to him striking Baby Doll in the stomach again with the racket! You want to talk about heat? Go check out those angles found here!!
When Greenville Memorial Auditorium shut down in the mid 90s in South Carolina, Ric Flair sponsored one last show there. Diamond Dallas, Flair versus Randy macho Man Savage, and after he beat savage, he thanked the crowd for all the memories and we went crazy. Then Greenville built the Bi-Lo Center/Bon Secours today. Old Greenville Memorial Auditorium on a Monday night was so great!
Like Ric Flair said in the rise and fall of WCW documentary if Jim Crockett Jr. did what his dad did and stayed between Baltimore and Chicago Jim Crockett Promotions would still be in business today.
Doubtful. Its a nice thought but cable tv was pushing for a national promotion. Without being seen as the top place, it would be an indy because WWF would have taken all the talent.
GEM of an interview He knows EVERYTHING about wrestling. I mean the houses they were drawing and where in 1985, the name of the 40+ year old arenas, the arena capacities, specific bumps guys took, payoffs, contracts. The guys is just an encyclopedia
When Flair broke in the business, he was 280, and had been living (and training) with Ken Patera, who'd been in training for the Olympics, and he said they'd each drink 3 gallons of milk and eat 3 dozen eggs a day. After the plane crash, he slimmed down, which was prob a good thing bc being a powerhouse he may not have learned to work like he did.
@@totallybored5526 Thats the same thing I said just not as simplistic. Is that what you do: Find a true and logical statement online, then reply to it saying the same thing to try to make it look like it was your original idea?
@@JackBarrett7 I agree, When Flair first started he was just under 300 lbs, he trained with the olympic team including Ken Patera. They ate dozens of eggs a day and gallons of milk he said. Post plane crash he lost weight which probably improved how he worked compared to being a powerhouse. 🤣😂🤣🤣
While the buck stopped with Jim Crockett Jr., the accountant definitely should have spoke up before the situation got that far out of hand. However....i also was not there....there's probably more variables to the situation for me to judge.
I watched the scaffold match on WWE/Peacock. Friggin Bubba just stood the and watched Cornette drop and referee Tommy Young's reaction was one of OH MY GOD and he was cringed up against the ropes and knew Cornette just messed his leg up badly.
This was overall a good interview. Aside from the obvious fact that you can hardly hear the interviewer, it was still nice to hear Jim talk about all this wrestling history. My only other complaint was that I felt like the interviewer rambled on with a lot of his questions and didn’t let Jim just talk. You can see a lot of times were Jim clearly understands what the interviewer is trying to ask but can’t get a word out because the interviewer keeps trying to add in his own thoughts and opinions instead of just asking a short and simple question and letting Jim answer. Jim is a walking encyclopedia of wrestling knowledge and he is more then capable of telling the history on his own. This is suppose to be Jim’s interview where he is given the opportunity to talk, the interview should just ask short and simple question and let Jim take it from there.
I partly get it because I think the interview was for a documentary (which is probably why you can't hear the interviewer...in the actual doc they would have edited themselves out)....so the interviewer knows ahead of time that it's going to be chopped up. But I still agree on the questions. Cornette is one of those guys who is usually so expansive in his answers that you'll get everything you need with short, to the point questions....and then just follow up if there are extra things you want to cover.
They ruined the mystique of masked men by allowing so many jobbers to wear hoods . Not only that but in the nineties I saw both Doom and The Grappler unmasked by a single tug on the hood . That killed the idea that those hoods were laced on tightly and were hard to remove . I used to get excited when someone started unlacing a hood . It was a major mcguffin psychology wise .
Agree, as kid that joined in the 90s when our saw a hood you knew something cheap is about to happen. It was so engraved in my mind even Owen Hart was totally spreading jobber vibes to me as blue Blazer.
I mean I'm almost 50 years old and you know Ole Anderson wasn't a real Anderson or Anderson wasn't a real Anderson I mean who the hell is a real Anderson
Veterans Stadium in Philly was a 60,000 seat stadium. I’ve been to Phillies games there where they drew 30k and it looked like nobody was there. I was at the Philly Bash show, 17-20k is a very fair estimate of the crowd that night
If I was ever lucky enough to own, or run, a wrestling promotion/company, I would get JC in straight away. As a booker, writer and anything else he might want to do!! He's forgotten more about the wrestling business than some people actually know.....
Jim right about showing money off ive worked 4 myself I have a car that pretty much only gets drove out of town it can paint a picture of them thinking there paying 2 much id like 2 meet cornette I loved 2 hate him growing up watching memphis and midsouth nwa.
I have many times, he is one of the very few stars that's approachable and just like he is on this video, A real fan that got to see inside the honeycomb
I'm such a big fan of Jim's it's a borderline man-crush! Haha, j/k. In all seriousness I am a big fan & have been since I saw him & The Midnights in World Class back in 84/85. I was really surprised to see him in "NY" b/c I never saw him fitting in there, he was more traditional compared to Vince's circus like atmosphere. But I gotta admit, Corny fit in just fine & turned out to manage some of the all-time greats like Yoko, Owen Hart, & The British Bulldog. I never miss an episode of either of his shows.
Seeing Jim naturally smile at his knowledge & memory of the territory days says how special it truly was to generations of fans. I watch & listen to his stories to help me research an upcoming novel of mine planned in the territory days. It's titled, Kingdom Territory.
Jim cornette is awesome to listen to about wrestling but his political views are joke he might have the worst political views out of anyone I will stand to listen to
Jim Cornette is as important to Pro Wrestling now more so than ever! Thank God Jim is still JIM!!!
Nothing can change Jim being Jim
Cornette is a WALKING WRESTLING ENCYCLOPEDIA! I grew up watching this man with the Midnight Express. RIP Bobby..
He is by far the best interview in wrestling, dude is a walking book of knowledge. Jim is a treasure .
Proud to be a card carrying member of the Cult of Cornette!!
It's almost scary to see Cornette this happy and calm.
And right after this ended, he cut the most unhinged, legendary promo. For no reason, and on nothing in particular
You can tell he's trying to keep his cool with this interviewer
I remember watching so many of these shows especially on TBS. Corny touched on something very important. When Georgia Championship Wrestling was replaced by WWF programming in the same time slot it was a shock to say the least even to a 9 year old kid who was probably the target audience. WHat happened to Tommy "Wildfire" RIch and Solie? Nope, it was an utter disaster we all hated WWF with a passion. Horrible gimmicks, characters, 2 minute squash matches. It was like watching a cartoon. Thank god Mid Atlantic took over that spot and we got to experience real wrestling and the NWA in all its glory every single week and then on the pay per views. What a great era in wrestling history- the crown jewel.
i never knew the tennis racket guy knew so much about wrestling. I loved the rival between Rocking Roll Express and the Midnight Express. Sweet memories as a kid.
Love him or hate him Jim cornette is a true wrestling historian I love listening to him talk about wrestling now more than I do watching it
I’m not even a wrestling fan yet I somehow found myself on this video and wow, Jim Cornette is a gem
I’ve seen a lot of interviews with wrestlers and people associated with wrestling but Jim Cornette has so much passion for the business and knows so much history.
Love Jim Cornette. He is so good at telling the stories.
Ya, I haven't seen this one. And since this is about wrestling from the past, I know he will be in a good mood
Cornette make a real documentary about the history of wrestling
Yes.
This is just 👍 Great
Johnny Valentine did not pop The Carolinas by himself . It was his fights with Wahoo McDaniel that broke the tag team territory into a hot singles feuds .
Isn’t that exactly what Jim just said haha
I saw Starcade and didn’t like the main event . I was supposed to but the match not next level which was surprising . They pretty much telegraphed that Flair was gonna win with the storyline . Harley Race acting scared of Ric Flair was not believable imo . I had seen them wrestle before and it was better then .
Good videos
Corny is the best! He's like a Professional Wrestling encyclopedia. The day he passes on we'll lose a great historian and just a great guy
The interview just being a little closer to the camera wouldve helped so much. Cornette knows how to project of course so he drowns out the interviewer. Can hear cornette clear as day but have to strain to hear the question that is being asked
I remember the original vs current midnight express and Paulie mostly because of the white suite cornie had and all that blood.
This has to be the least annoying that JC has ever been. I really enjoyed this. One on one & face to face in a non-wrasslin environment suits him well.
I'm so glad you didn't edit out Jim's restart shows even the best make mistakes thanks to all involved I enjoy the old stuff especially with corney
Here in Puerto Rico 6 man tag matches are called "Australian tag matches"🤔
Is there a Jim Crockett Jr interview in JCP DVD Discs?
only Conrad Thompson one on his network, right before Jim died
Jim is amazing
My ISP must be throttling my internet... I don't even have to adjust the playback speed to .25x to understand what Cornette is saying.
The man worked in front of thousands.. he deserves to be an out of touch recluse. 😂
I love jim but he don't care
But I still love him anyway
This man should be getting paid by Vince and the WWE just for being an ambassador of the sport.
Cornette doesn’t want to be a wwe corporate shill that’s for sure. He doesn’t need their money
Fair enough. Point being, wrestling would be in a lot better of a place if we had more guys like him in control of creative. I’d watch wrestling again, that’s for sure
@@gw593 couldn’t agree more!!
Misty…boogie woogie man feel gooooood
How much of this is cut off at the end?
Jim knows very little about the Portland territory.
45:37 He says "before the Internet" in so many interviews but the Internet has technically been around since the ARPANET of 1969. Now I agree it didn't get commoditized til ~1990 when dialup started becoming available to the masses instead of just us techies before.
Lopez Kenneth Young Jose Walker Timothy
Before corny went insane with all the wacky political bs
He barely talks about it, ITS YOU snowflake thar ist so annoyed by the truth. GET LIFE, you have been Played, but thats what Trump does. Be like a real Businessman Not that fraud. Admit that you Made a mistake, cut your losses and move on. Even Deutsche Bank did after almost getting ruined totally with him.
seen this already
I don't believe this is the REAL Jim Cornette.
It's not full of obscenities and foul language.
WHEN WAS THIS RECORDED????? PLEASE SOMONE TELL ME
Corny is an American treasure....I wish he would come to NY to just talk about wrestling....I'd pay top dollar...
paying someone to pretend to be your friend sounds kind of depressing
@@warshipsatin8764 nice try...did you at least make your bed?..I'm sorry I bet that's ur momma's job...
You'd probably have to come to him or in the Kentucky area
@@L_Train I know he hates traveling, that's why I said "I wish"
@@warshipsatin8764 Troll
His passion for pro wrestling is contagious
Great interviews, only problem is you can't hear the questions being asked.
Jim Cornette is the only reason that I even have a clue about what's going on in wrestling today. The man's a living legend for the wrestling business to the true fans.
Same here. I could give a flying shite about wrestling past about 1992 (I grew up on nwa, midsouth, and wwf 80s reruns my uncle taped all of it) when I turned like 10 I lost interest and was training for middle school to get laid LOL.
@@exspiravit6920 i didnt know getting laid required training lol
I no longer care about current wrestling ...my give a damn busted when WCW screwed the pooch ...I only watch these videos for nostalgia's sake .
Amen🤜🤛I've been listening to his podcasts for years. He understands the fundamentals of wrestling better than anyone. I just got a cameo from him too!🤟
@@exspiravit6920 Did you succeed in getting laid?
I'd absolutely love to get in to Jim's archives of all the various memorabilia and scripts and various knick knacks he's kept over the years. Probably every wrestling programme of the last 40 or 50 years. The guy is just so knowledgeable on the territories and it's a joy listening to him talk about days gone by
I wish he would open a museum that the public could come to and see all his collection of wrestling memorabilia.
@@sidneymartin1947who knows, maybe one day someone will get a hold of some of those aforementioned items and open their own museum. Imagine a pro wrestling ball of fame with a physical location fans can visit with museum aspects to it and have various histories and what not of the territories but also of promotions from Canada and Europe and Japan and Mexico etc.
Jim Cornette should be in the WWE Hall of Fame!
Yes agreed. He should be in there along with m the Midnight Express. (Going in together)
if the freebirds and Rock n roll express are in the wwe hall of fame then Jim and midnight express should definitely be in there. Beautiful bobby Eaton RIP ; Denis condrey; randy rose and Stan lane hell yes
Hell yea,how do we get him in there,he deserves to be in there more than most that are in there
@@Tcup1982 I imagine they must've already asked him too...maybe he didnt have the best relationship with Vince but now with him out of the way the current WWE management can work to get Cornette in
he is long overdue
Regarding how people perceived wrestling when Crockett was on TBS and Vince on USA, a guy I knew at the time described the NWA as the wrestling you watched when you wanted to see good, serious matches and the WWF was what you watched when you wanted to watch wrestling and have fun with it.
I think that's an accurate description.
I am so blessed to have been able to see actual pro wrestling
A priceless interview! As Jim was talking, my memory banks flashed back to all the classic interviews and angles he was involved with in JCP -- from the MX attacking Ricky Morton's throat with the tennis racket to him striking Baby Doll in the stomach again with the racket! You want to talk about heat? Go check out those angles found here!!
I love it when Corny is calm...😅
Jim is the historian of wrestling In my opinion. he basically knows all about it
Yeah! Jim C and Dave Meltzer, 2 of the best wrestling historians. ❤️
@@jebsonloteyro6741 Meltzer while knowledgeable, isn't on Corny's level
@@joekuvorkian true.
He have a degree?
@@jebsonloteyro6741 Meltzer is a hack. 90% of his writings are absolute bollocks.
Historian. Truth teller. This man is extraordinary.
I would pay top dollar to see him brought into aew as an authority figure and he just shits on everybody on live TV lol
Fun fact:
Cornette used to have a normal size forehead, and then he accumulated all that wrestling knowledge
This is old
That's ok
Jim looked so excited during this. It was a great interview.
When Greenville Memorial Auditorium shut down in the mid 90s in South Carolina, Ric Flair sponsored one last show there. Diamond Dallas, Flair versus Randy macho Man Savage, and after he beat savage, he thanked the crowd for all the memories and we went crazy. Then Greenville built the Bi-Lo Center/Bon Secours today. Old Greenville Memorial Auditorium on a Monday night was so great!
Love Jimmy
Jim Cornett Is the true GOAT!
52:17 Jimmy, not the wisest thing to say. You said it better earlier.
This a old interview thats been reposted
No shit Sherlock Shitpipe
Corny is the best! What a mind for the business. It’s easy to see his love for the real business of pro wrestling.
Like Ric Flair said in the rise and fall of WCW documentary if Jim Crockett Jr. did what his dad did and stayed between Baltimore and Chicago Jim Crockett Promotions would still be in business today.
Doubtful. Its a nice thought but cable tv was pushing for a national promotion. Without being seen as the top place, it would be an indy because WWF would have taken all the talent.
GEM of an interview
He knows EVERYTHING about wrestling. I mean the houses they were drawing and where in 1985, the name of the 40+ year old arenas, the arena capacities, specific bumps guys took, payoffs, contracts. The guys is just an encyclopedia
25:07 just listing wrestler names for a minute
When Flair broke in the business, he was 280, and had been living (and training) with Ken Patera, who'd been in training for the Olympics, and he said they'd each drink 3 gallons of milk and eat 3 dozen eggs a day. After the plane crash, he slimmed down, which was prob a good thing bc being a powerhouse he may not have learned to work like he did.
@@totallybored5526 Thats the same thing I said just not as simplistic. Is that what you do: Find a true and logical statement online, then reply to it saying the same thing to try to make it look like it was your original idea?
@@JackBarrett7 I agree, When Flair first started he was just under 300 lbs, he trained with the olympic team including Ken Patera. They ate dozens of eggs a day and gallons of milk he said. Post plane crash he lost weight which probably improved how he worked compared to being a powerhouse. 🤣😂🤣🤣
Jim Cornette is the best. He should come out of retirement and get back in the game .. TV needs him
TV could not handle him
Much like me, Jim hates the current product unlike me is already wealthy and doesn't care to come back.
While the buck stopped with Jim Crockett Jr., the accountant definitely should have spoke up before the situation got that far out of hand. However....i also was not there....there's probably more variables to the situation for me to judge.
Cornette is literally always congested
I watched the scaffold match on WWE/Peacock. Friggin Bubba just stood the and watched Cornette drop and referee Tommy Young's reaction was one of OH MY GOD and he was cringed up against the ropes and knew Cornette just messed his leg up badly.
Too bad whomever the interviewer was for this video wasn't given a working microphone. I couldn't hear a single question.
Jim is the way about wrestling.. In a way like I am about music.. Kind of crazy!
I love listening to Jim Cornette and the history of wrestling.
You can tell jim is talking about something he loves.
This was overall a good interview. Aside from the obvious fact that you can hardly hear the interviewer, it was still nice to hear Jim talk about all this wrestling history.
My only other complaint was that I felt like the interviewer rambled on with a lot of his questions and didn’t let Jim just talk. You can see a lot of times were Jim clearly understands what the interviewer is trying to ask but can’t get a word out because the interviewer keeps trying to add in his own thoughts and opinions instead of just asking a short and simple question and letting Jim answer. Jim is a walking encyclopedia of wrestling knowledge and he is more then capable of telling the history on his own. This is suppose to be Jim’s interview where he is given the opportunity to talk, the interview should just ask short and simple question and let Jim take it from there.
I partly get it because I think the interview was for a documentary (which is probably why you can't hear the interviewer...in the actual doc they would have edited themselves out)....so the interviewer knows ahead of time that it's going to be chopped up. But I still agree on the questions. Cornette is one of those guys who is usually so expansive in his answers that you'll get everything you need with short, to the point questions....and then just follow up if there are extra things you want to cover.
They ruined the mystique of masked men by allowing so many jobbers to wear hoods . Not only that but in the nineties I saw both Doom and The Grappler unmasked by a single tug on the hood . That killed the idea that those hoods were laced on tightly and were hard to remove . I used to get excited when someone started unlacing a hood . It was a major mcguffin psychology wise .
Agree, as kid that joined in the 90s when our saw a hood you knew something cheap is about to happen. It was so engraved in my mind even Owen Hart was totally spreading jobber vibes to me as blue Blazer.
@@herzkine Once main eventers like The Assassin and Mr Wrestling 2 proudly wore hoods . Its a lost asset now .
I mean I'm almost 50 years old and you know Ole Anderson wasn't a real Anderson or Anderson wasn't a real Anderson I mean who the hell is a real Anderson
Gene.
So why the tennis racket?
Boogie man. Feel goooood !
Love me some Corny!
Corny on point
Veterans Stadium in Philly was a 60,000 seat stadium. I’ve been to Phillies games there where they drew 30k and it looked like nobody was there. I was at the Philly Bash show, 17-20k is a very fair estimate of the crowd that night
Ron richtie ben alexandear???
P
Sick
I wonder if he can talk about anything besides wrestling
Why would you want him to?
If I was ever lucky enough to own, or run, a wrestling promotion/company, I would get JC in straight away. As a booker, writer and anything else he might want to do!! He's forgotten more about the wrestling business than some people actually know.....
Corny is great on wrestling and horrible on politics 🙄. He has been a recluse for too long. He is so out of touch with reality 😢
1000% agree....genius at wrestling and it's history....but a fuckn moron with politics
@@Beaver_Cleavage420with all due respect I’m sure he’d say you’re a moron when it comes to politics too so do you see how silly both sides are?
Jim right about showing money off ive worked 4 myself I have a car that pretty much only gets drove out of town it can paint a picture of them thinking there paying 2 much id like 2 meet cornette I loved 2 hate him growing up watching memphis and midsouth nwa.
I have many times, he is one of the very few stars that's approachable and just like he is on this video, A real fan that got to see inside the honeycomb
I'm such a big fan of Jim's it's a borderline man-crush! Haha, j/k. In all seriousness I am a big fan & have been since I saw him & The Midnights in World Class back in 84/85. I was really surprised to see him in "NY" b/c I never saw him fitting in there, he was more traditional compared to Vince's circus like atmosphere. But I gotta admit, Corny fit in just fine & turned out to manage some of the all-time greats like Yoko, Owen Hart, & The British Bulldog. I never miss an episode of either of his shows.
Seeing Jim naturally smile at his knowledge & memory of the territory days says how special it truly was to generations of fans.
I watch & listen to his stories to help me research an upcoming novel of mine planned in the territory days. It's titled, Kingdom Territory.
he lived a more exciting life than most people on earth, great memories im sure
Cornette use to be a really good pro wrestling manager and personality. It’s a shame he’s turned into a bitter, hateful, meta-liberal human being. 👎🏼
😂😂😂
Jim knows some things, but if you really wanted to know about the history of the territories, Vince Russo is the guy.
Jim cornette is awesome to listen to about wrestling but his political views are joke he might have the worst political views out of anyone I will stand to listen to
Um, what about all the profanity?