@Tiger It essentially felt like a late 70s/early 80s promotion except in the early 90s. Cornette is a traditionalist and he set up SMW for other traditionalists who were no longer satisfied with the increasingly “sports entertainment” (for lack of a better term) presentation of the WWF and WCW. If you like that previously mentioned era of wrestling, you’ll LOVE SMW. If you don’t like that era, then SMW isn’t for you.
Damn, even back then in 1990 when I could barely even walk, Jim was still in the business contributing to this great sport we all love. Man is a legend 🙌🙌🙏🙏
@@alexythimia23 Well today's modern wrestling is certainly theater cause it's so phony. But when wrestling is so good and believable as it should be, respectively it's called a sport.
I miss when people called in to music radio stations, talked to the dj on the air, and had their requested song played. My local rock station seems like it has about 7 or 8 playlists it switches between and I hear the same songs around the same time way too often.
@@osaji922 as a fan who watched wcw and wwf in the 90s, wcw got good in the attitude era, it was like watching a great musician crash and burn, it was fucking crazy and even the bad shit was watchable like a car crash in slow motion
@@osaji922 Both the WWF and WCW were in decline by 1990. But I miss those days just the same. 😕. That being said. WCW had Ric Flair, Sting, Lex Luger and the Steiner Brothers wrestling for them in 1990.
I thought Sting was the longest wrestler signed uninterrupted under the Turner regime from 1988 when they bought JCP until 2001 when WCW was bought by Vince.
So wait going by the interview clip, that guy insinuated that Cornette didn't like where wrestling was going in 1990?, understandable. Hasn't he also said before that he regrets certain stuff he helped the creative team with in WWF?
Yes, he said he participated in certain things to entertain Vince McMahon that never should have made it to television by sometimes did. He also said, when pressed by McMahon, that he came up with the finish to the Montreal screw job based on a double cross that happened in the same building fifty years prior. He said he didn't think McMahon would go through with it and that they should have just done a disqualification, but ended up leaving the building when he saw they were indeed going to do a double cross. Granted, the "screw job" wasn't his fault per se. Triple H also said there should have been a double cross.
These are the episodes I like... "sea stories". Pro wrestling today is a joke. I stopped watching after Vince bought everything and made the poor decision to NOT implement salutory neglect.
Eaton's contract was up in May of 1991 and WOULDN'T YOU KNOW WHO WON THE PONY!!!!! They put the TV Title on him beating Arn, lol. And the heel who took it off him?????? Some good looking blond muscular kid with hand me down indy trunks who "Stunningly" like Bobby, WCW didn't really do anything with.
What....? Mannn, quit playin'... RAW is trash now... RAW has been cooked....!! You must be a millennial... Keeping faith alive for wrestling huh....? Pray about it...
@@wilee.coyote5227 Millenials hate this shit too.. we grew up with Stone Cold, The Rock, Real Kane, and Taker etc.. just because some snot sniffing shit bag likes it don't conclude all of them do.
Hell, even when he was running Smoky Mountain Wrestling, he wasn't happy at times. But then again, it was probably karma being a bitch to him when he had to deal with Tim Horner.
That's funny because like 1/3 of Vince's roster was Mid South UWF talent. JYD, Jake Roberts, Ted Dibiase, One Man Gang, Hacksaw Duggan, Sheepherders, Hercules just off the top of my head.
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"Jim's really not happy with the direction of the Wrestling business in general at the moment"
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I remember when he left WCW and started smoking mountain wrestling. I never missed an episode of Smokey mountain wrestling.
@Tiger It essentially felt like a late 70s/early 80s promotion except in the early 90s. Cornette is a traditionalist and he set up SMW for other traditionalists who were no longer satisfied with the increasingly “sports entertainment” (for lack of a better term) presentation of the WWF and WCW.
If you like that previously mentioned era of wrestling, you’ll LOVE SMW. If you don’t like that era, then SMW isn’t for you.
@Tiger do yourself a favor and watch. You'll see a lot of names you know early in their careers.
Yeah, you and like 5 other people.
You were very fortunate, I wanted to watch SMW so badly but it was never shown in Illinois
@@t-spiders1035 Says the person who probably likes AEW. lol
Damn, that thumbnail! Jim looks like Jerichovid!
It can't be him, he's not having a struggling red face as he tries to hold his stomach in to look "ripped".
Damn, even back then in 1990 when I could barely even walk, Jim was still in the business contributing to this great sport we all love.
Man is a legend 🙌🙌🙏🙏
Sport. Lol
@Andrew Mann you got problem with that words man?
@@alexythimia23 Well today's modern wrestling is certainly theater cause it's so phony.
But when wrestling is so good and believable as it should be, respectively it's called a sport.
Or rather I could of mentioned the term "business" if anything as well.
We've Herd enough! 🍕😂
Well done. Your comment stands out from the Herd.
Well we've all Herd that working for Herd wasn't exactly a slice 🍕 of heaven.
@@thomass789 😂🤣
LMAO! 😂🤣
I pissed myself a little bit. 😂
Makes me nostalgic for call-in radio shows
I miss when people called in to music radio stations, talked to the dj on the air, and had their requested song played. My local rock station seems like it has about 7 or 8 playlists it switches between and I hear the same songs around the same time way too often.
@@jordan_8329 it's not just your local rock station. That's pretty much the format for every corporate radio station regardless of genre or location.
@@jordan_8329 Now most so-called local radio is nothing more the syndicated shows
They still exist
I was way too young to remember this time period, but find it fascinating. Thank goodness for guys like Cornette, Pritchard, Ross and the WWE network.
Pritchard is one the biggest bull shitters there are. Dont believe his stories
F Pritchard
@@jcaceres516 Prichard
@@jcaceres516 Prichard
@@ShowtimeDr Prichard
"I was fanta sizing in the car about it. Almost got a h a rd o n" - Jim Cornette
Jim Jericho in this Thumb?!?!?!
Kenny Bolin in disguise
Having to work with Herd will do that to a man xD
It's crazy how that was only 30 years ago but sounds like old radio baseball games with Babe Ruth playing.
That picture has Jim going to see Dr. Nowzardan in Houston.
1990 was a turnaround for wrestling
I wish it could be 1990 again. Wrestling was so much better back then.
WWE maybe. By that point the territories were dead. Wasn't 1990 really bad for WCW?
@@osaji922 I think 1990-1995 were tough times for WCW.
@@osaji922 as a fan who watched wcw and wwf in the 90s, wcw got good in the attitude era, it was like watching a great musician crash and burn, it was fucking crazy and even the bad shit was watchable like a car crash in slow motion
@@osaji922 Both the WWF and WCW were in decline by 1990. But I miss those days just the same. 😕. That being said. WCW had Ric Flair, Sting, Lex Luger and the Steiner Brothers wrestling for them in 1990.
@@petebagwell6666 I agree.
I thought Sting was the longest wrestler signed uninterrupted under the Turner regime from 1988 when they bought JCP until 2001 when WCW was bought by Vince.
Literally 4 am right now. The thumbnail is too real
They really love talking about this subject don't they
Bobby Eaton was released by WCW in 1993 and had short run in SMW.
@NW 45 Yes, he was. He remained under contract until March 2000, right before the Eric Bischoff-Vince Russo regime kicked in.
"This is PROOF that Cornette always has been a Fed shill!" - angry AEW fan bois
Corny the curmudgeon over there shouting "30 years ago!!!" Got me in stitches😂🤣😂🤣😂
Whens Travis getting his own personal section for thumbnail art, in The Smithsonian Museum?
That graphic though 😂
I was 7 years old at the time
Join the Dark Order.
So wait going by the interview clip, that guy insinuated that Cornette didn't like where wrestling was going in 1990?, understandable. Hasn't he also said before that he regrets certain stuff he helped the creative team with in WWF?
Yes, he said he participated in certain things to entertain Vince McMahon that never should have made it to television by sometimes did. He also said, when pressed by McMahon, that he came up with the finish to the Montreal screw job based on a double cross that happened in the same building fifty years prior. He said he didn't think McMahon would go through with it and that they should have just done a disqualification, but ended up leaving the building when he saw they were indeed going to do a double cross.
Granted, the "screw job" wasn't his fault per se. Triple H also said there should have been a double cross.
These are the episodes I like... "sea stories". Pro wrestling today is a joke. I stopped watching after Vince bought everything and made the poor decision to NOT implement salutory neglect.
30 years ago! Same tune!
Steve Beverley sounds like Ted Bundy. Scary.
Steve Beverly went from the wrestling journalism to game show journalism.
Ya herd me?
Corny has A trait I have the upmost respect for in humans.. good,bad or ugly... He's consistent
Can't wait to hear him what he has to say about Alexa Bliss asuka BS or even if he will call out WWE for their shit
He doesnt watch.. Unless someone sends him a clip
@@jcaceres516 no he watches trust me he just don't want to call them out even though they copy aew every week
0:22 I thought it was Patre-ON, not Patre-IN...
This sounds like "it exposed the business"
Jim Cornette in fighting with the rest of the bookers???? what a shock....
IF YOU NEED TO SSUUUUUUUEEEEEEE
An Out-law Mud Show or twooooo
@@xGodofAcidx He'll sue their @$$
Eaton's contract was up in May of 1991 and WOULDN'T YOU KNOW WHO WON THE PONY!!!!! They put the TV Title on him beating Arn, lol. And the heel who took it off him?????? Some good looking blond muscular kid with hand me down indy trunks who "Stunningly" like Bobby, WCW didn't really do anything with.
Hey! This story again!
I don’t get it. Why would you not like the Midnight Express?! 🤦🏾♂️
Maybe Sweet Stan slept with Herd's wife? 😂
@@jonathanturbide2232 entirely possible.
@@jonathanturbide2232 LMAO! 😂🤣
Get some new topics. You've answered this 100 times now
Corny gained some weight. Did he eat JeriCovid? 😂
wow his voice is so high pitch lol
Hey Jim, talk your s***!
get your trains out, jim
Who needs actual wrestling when you can put on such an entertaining show as RAW was tonight
What....? Mannn, quit playin'... RAW is trash now... RAW has been cooked....!! You must be a millennial... Keeping faith alive for wrestling huh....? Pray about it...
@@wilee.coyote5227 Millenials hate this shit too.. we grew up with Stone Cold, The Rock, Real Kane, and Taker etc.. just because some snot sniffing shit bag likes it don't conclude all of them do.
Raw was utterly sh1te last night. There literally hasn't been a good episode of Raw since it went to 3 hours. Not a single one.
#sarcasm
@@Andrew-wt1oq , my bad... I stand corrected... ✌
Jim cornette on how wrestling hasn't been good in 30 years.... Also he hates everything
Lol even back in heyday of wrestling Jim still wasn't happy
Hell, even when he was running Smoky Mountain Wrestling, he wasn't happy at times. But then again, it was probably karma being a bitch to him when he had to deal with Tim Horner.
Why do they say "independents"?
Where’s the drive thru
Tuesday.
Boooo
"Gained 60 pounds" lol
Jim Herd is a misunderstood genius. I’ll take Herd over Watts any day!
How so? He was an asshole like most southern bookers but he was good at booking.
That's funny because like 1/3 of Vince's roster was Mid South UWF talent. JYD, Jake Roberts, Ted Dibiase, One Man Gang, Hacksaw Duggan, Sheepherders, Hercules just off the top of my head.
@@piperar2014 Vince got the best talent from the AWA IMO
Johns voice is awful
Meeeee
Cornette is stuck in 86
He Still live Happily in his castle, so whats your point
@@welowee7610 point is Cornette is never gonna say anything good about today's wrestling so I'm always gonna say he stuck in 86
@@carloslozada470 i mean , nothin good's happenin in today's wrestlin , alot of poor plots and less actual wrestlin
2016 era wrestlers suck at promos
@@carloslozada470 he praised Walter vs Dragunov