@AlexanderTheGreat4K give Cornette an live open mic on Dynamite then just shove Russo out there against his will. Infact have the bucks and Kenny Omega pushing him out there saying do it or your no getting paid
I’ve heard Cornette tell this story several times. Interesting to hear Jeff’s side of the story. Edit: I guess Jeff doesn’t remember much. So much for hearing his side of the story.
Jeff doesn't really take sides when he gives his side of the story and honestly... It's still the 2nd best podcast ext to 83 weeks but get the ads down, you think your back into the podcast qnd rheree still another 9 minutes of conrad advertising sleep easy 😴 I'm in the bloody UK mate get some region available ads
Alcoholism is a nasty disease. As someone with 18 years sobriety I can tell you that we have shitty memories and blackout a lot from our selective memories!
Believe it or not Cornettes constantly hurling insults and contempt at Russo is and is meant to be a backhanded compliment. People would talk less about Russo if it wasn't for Cornette.
The reason why he calls him shit stain is because no matter how hard Cornette he can't erase him from wrestling. He's like a shit stain that won't come out of the carpet. On the other hand Cornette wouldn't maintain the heat he has with Russia if he didn't see some value there. Why have a fued with someone if they are inconsequential? Jeep in mind he's a wrestling guy, they are bombastic, liars, who try to manipulate your psychology. He wants you to ask that question and look at Russo and his work hopefully you even take a side. Wrestling 101, create,heat, draw a crowd, make money at least at this point. He did hate working with Russo back in the day.
Cornette did an interview with JJ Dillon on his podcast where he openly said Bobby Heenan is the greatest manager of all time but he'll gladly take 2nd place alongside JJ who agreed with him
Becky and Charlotte don't hate eachother. Life just changed and they aren't close like they used to be. That is totally different.Cornette has said that if there was a way he could murder him and not get caught or go to jail he would do it.
I can only say this about the situation with Cornett and Russo, I was a big tna fan until Russo started working there and as a fan he was a big part of what drove me away from tna.
I started watching tna it was so fun to watch the crazy matches the almost real story lines where everybody took it serious and then one day it seems more like a joke they hired alot of old people and started seeing less of the young talents and if we did it looked like a bad joke and when I heard they hired Russo I understood
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? shut up nerd, we all know that cena sold a shitload of merch. your ridiculous claims otherwise are what require evidence. get off the internet, kid
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? you’re not gonna like this mate, but John Cena is the biggest wrestling superstar of the last 20 years there and is that a good thing for wrestling no not really, but still John Cena is the biggest star of the last 20 years, and a draw two and a pretty big one at that.
Helped put UWF under, was on the booking team when WCW couldn't even sell 200 tickets to house shows and 2500 fans to PPV's, failed and ran SMW into the ground, was on the booking team that drove Raw ratings down into the 1's and 500 person house shows, didn't draw shit booking TNA and destroyed ROH. But yeah, other than that he's a genius...
This worries me. People have had these conversations with me before. "Don't leave. He/she is not your boss. We really value you. Don't do anything crazy/stupid." Am I JC?
If Jarrett is big about moral for a company, how has it ever worked out for a company when an active wrestler is the booker of the company especially when he's constantly champion?
Jeff Jarrett, as TNA world champion, put over Sting, AJ Styles, Rhyno, Raven, The Alpha Male, Ken Shamrock, Ron Killings, Christian Cage and Abyss. When TNA developed it's own World Heavyweight Championship, Jeff Jarrett NEVER got the title a SINGLE TIME but in matches he put over Sting, Kurt Angle, Jeff Hardy, Christian Cage and Rob Van Dam when they were the TNA/Impact World Heavyweight Champion. And Jeff gave TOP NOTCH matches every time he went out there, whether he won as champion, lost the championship to someone else or challenged for the championship and lost. ENLIGHTEN ME how he was NOT morally correct to put over other legends and younger talent that TODAY are considered legends?
I get what Jarrett's saying at the end here, but its probably not healthy for two creative people like Cornette and Russo to be at each other's throats like this. I look forward to checking out more of this podcast. Jarrett must have some good stories and a different prespective than some of Conrad's other guests.
TNA clash>>> 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Jim Cornette vs Vince Russo Jim Cornette quote: The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he finds out that Santa Claus is not real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
God Bless Jim Cornette, but he’s right about that goof Russo. I love Jim Cornette and he’s usually right about all things wrestling. BUT I think he’s got Eric all wrong, Their table for three was by far the best one I’ve ever seen.
Cornette is right about a lot of things... but he’s also been wrong about a lot of things - Even basic factual things. His cult will believe anything he says but... well if one doesn’t want to believe it about his wrestling takes, at least keep in mind this is a guy who loves and strongly supported Hillary.... lol! I’m a Canadian and I laugh about that!
Cornette has admitted that he’s softened his opinion on Bischoff lately. They found common ground in their loathing of Russ-bro. I think they’re actually more similar than either one wants to admit. Cornette wins in terms of pure wrestling knowledge hands down, but he’d beat just about anyone in that area. Eric has better long-term vision and is probably more in touch with modern culture. But they’re both incredibly smart, articulate and creative….and they both have the reputation of being stubborn and arrogant at times.
Meanwhile on Jim's podcast, we have improv sponsored ads that go from taking over small governments to hiring gardeners to spy on your house with satellites.
My understanding is, it has to do with John Arezzi. If I'm not mistaken, Arezzi and Last were friends, they had a falling out, then Conrad had Arezzi on one of his shows, where he mentioned the situation with Last, so Last got mad at Conrad. Something like that
@@12jess01 I'm talking about Russo being made Head Writer for WWF and starting the Attitude era in 1997, that's what got millions of new fans into watching wrestling and nothing you can say could ever deny that truth. Those people who talk about how he 'messed up' aren't in the business. Marks and stupid dirtsheet writers don't know what success looks like. Opinions from marks don't matter. They were never there to see the creative process and didn't see how Russo bumped up ratings in a sinking ship, WCW was in big trouble before he got there and they were worse off AFTER he left and the ratings went down again before WCW ended in 2001. Many wrestlers in the business put Russo over, ESPECIALLY the people who worked with him first hand and actually benefitted from his show writing, many legends in the Attitude era credit Russo for helping them take their characters to the next level such as Stone Cold and The Rock. You are just another Cornette mark literally riding his meat hating on Russo just because YOU think it's the popular thing to. do
I’m pretty sure Cornette getting fired was part of Dixie’s clean out of Jarretts crew after he got caught dating Kurt Angles Ex Wife. Road Dogg, Dutch and eventually Scott Steiner were all shown the door after Jarrett lost all backstage power.
Oh if only a promotion could find enough money to have Cornette and Russo have a match. Let it be a street fight of some kind and tell me we aren't all paying for it.
I don't think you'd have to pay them that much. At least not Corny. Sounds like he'd fight Russo for $10 and Cheeseburger cuz he hates him so much. Also, I think Russo would talk shit,no show the fight and then make some bogus claim/bullshit excuse as to why he no showed. 🎶🎶"I could be wrong now....but I don't think so!,🎶🎶
Cornette is a 60 year old man with 2 bad knees and a bad shoulder, but put him in the same zip code as Shitstain and you’d be able to fit what was left of Russ-bro in a mayonnaise jar.
This kind of said a lot of nothing. The only thing noteworthy was that Cornette wasn’t “by design” a part of the creative team. It doesn’t really get into anything other than that. Wasnt the topic about the cause of him leaving?
I know Russo and Jarrett go back a long way and always worked well together for better or for worst so it's no surprise that Jeff gave Russo another chance in TNA but I also know that Cornette has hated Russo's guts since theirs days working together in WWF in the mid 90s. It's a tough situation and I see both sides of it equally but in the end, it was going go badly no matter what between Cornette and Russo.
@stealthmode1303 Are you sure you aren't projecting? I'm not the one that thinks TNA went out of business. There's nothing funnier than VERY insecure people being wrong and getting upset about it. 🤣🤣🤣
Here’s a rarity….someone that will admit that Cornette probably gets a little too much praise and that Russ-bro probably deserves a little more credit than he gets. That said, if mediating between the two, I’m probably going to side with Cornette 8 or 9 times out of 10. But, when Russo was on target, he was a dead on bullseye. Case in point: Survivor Series 1998. Russo’s magnum opus. Not perfect, but 99%. Brilliant writing/booking. One of the best PPVs of the Attitude era, if not in WWF history. That kind of scenario was ideal for Russo’s style. Fast moving, short matches, a lot of twists and turns in one night. The problem…..Russo couldn’t write any other way. The best thing to do would have been slow down just a touch just after that, especially on the undercard stuff. And that’s where Cornette comes in. He’s great on the small details that make matches, angles and scenes believable and interesting. Where he falls short is understanding the individual characters and kick starting storylines.
Credit for what?? Honestly I’ve been watching raw from the start of 98. If it doesn’t have the rock or stone cold in it, it’s actually a lot of garbage. I probably liked it at 10 but Jesus it’s so bad. Sure Russo had something to do with the rock and stone cold segments. But he was let loose on the rest of it and it’s bad. Then you have his work in wcw that was putrid garbage.
@@Giveme1goodreason 1998 in my opinion was great around the summer but that year on the whole was mostly a rebuilding phase following the mass exodus of talent over the previous 2 years. 1999 for me was WWF at its absolute best but whether or not you liked the creative content on the show in 1998, the formatting/structuring of the show is what actually made the WWF a success. The formula of having an A story and a B story threaded from top to bottom each week, and a cliffhanger every quarter hour to make sure you stayed tuned in is what ultimately grew the audience. Once Russo left and they ditched that formula, within a year they had lost millions of viewers and it was downhill from there.
I have to say that Jeff Jarrett would have been something if he has never counted with Russo. The fact of the matter is that Jeff wasn't a business man and he never learned from his mistakes. At that point, Ring of Honor had something to offer and that's because of people like Cornette when TNA was big names but nothing special in their product
Why is it that people always tried to get Cornette & Russo together, knowing the animosity between them?! You’d be better off trying to get 2pac & Notorious B.I.G. on the same stage…
TK, the Elite, CM Punk, Ace Steel, and also the wrestlers and fans who thinks they want to join the drain better listen to this nugget from Jarrett starting at 5:59.
@@MrRevolutionNine that ts a fucking lie. All he did was get impact off spike tv. Russo is nothing more cancer to this fucking business. He stole alot of his ideas from tv and wcw doing the mid 90s. Most suck that's why most people only talk about rock and Austin during that time. Killed owen hart by putting him in that stupid blue blazer gimmick. Was half the reason why wcw went to shit in 3 year's. Booked like dog shit doing his time in tna and got them drop from one of the biggest tv channels at the time. Then got kicked out of the business and nobody wanted him back since
@@MrRevolutionNine yet he somehow managed through his political machinations to get TNA kicked off Spike and other networks, thus bringing them to their lowest ratings 👍
@@destinyson23 I love the fact you're stupid enough to think Spike even knew Russo's name let alone cared who he was when he's bringing in the numbers. Stop listening to Meltzer.
Problem is I like Jim's podcast, but he has been wrong on alot of stuff. The table for 3 was the best when he tried to blame Eric for something and Hayes said "Eric wasn't even in charge". Also he's on the Alvarez point of view blaming Eric and Vince for the downfall of WCW. He use to feed Dave Metzer stuff. Now he's not friends with Dave now. Like I said I like his podcast, but you look at the comment with his marks. People calling him "God" and saying "He's always right" lmao.
Definitely... his cult following parrots everything he says without a second thought lol. Corny is right in many cases but he’s even gotten basic facts wrong - let alone his semi-hysterical opinions on people he doesn’t like!
@@InvisibleHotdog The situation is real there are papers Russo has taken out because it was Kenny Bolin a former friend of Jim Cornette who told Russo what Jim said about wanting Russo dead and thinking about paying somebody to do it knowing he had a lot of supporters who might be crazy enough to do that so he warned Russo who took out a restraining order through the courts and he warned Russo because he didn't want him to end up getting attacked and because he didn't want Jim to go to jail so he wanted to try stop it before it escalates while Jim hasn't done anything yet. Kenny Bolin was a long time friend of Jim from the late 70s and knee Jim for a long time, he was a heel manager who worked with Jim at OVW who trained guys from the Ruthless Agression era such as Cena who was part of his stable Bolin Services back when he called himself The Prototype. You should look into it and you will see. Jim really is out for Russo's blood. When Kenny Bolin went on Rene Dupree's podcast Cafe de Rene a couple of months ago to explain the situation, representatives for Jim Cornette threatened to take out a lawsuit against Rene, the podcast and Kenny so they had to edit the video on RUclips so this is very real and Jim Cornette does not want anyone else to hear about this otherwise he wouldn't have threatened legal action against Rene
Has Jarrett ever been properly asked why he brought Russo back at that time? Just a terrible decision and many other options at the time if wanted to move to a three man team, instead of the larger group they had before. As basically how Jeff tells it here, it was Dixie that forced Russo back in on them.
I still don't get it. Ferrara first did the JR impersonation (with bells palsy) to his face on RAW before later doing it on WCW, while Cornette was still in WWF. Was he paying attention to the monitors? Was he annoyed that Ferrara dared do that w/o JR's approval on Nitro?
These podcast constantly put commercials at the worse time. I stopped listening because right in the middle of someone talking and it just changed to some stupid mortgage commercial.
I'm glad Jeff said that, because wrestling sucks when you can tell that all the wrestlers are friends.. it hits different when you know that the people that suppose to be so heated with each other are in the back taking pictures together and making videos
Not sure where Conrad gets the idea Jim Cornette is a nice guy, he seems to be considered a prick by everyone who knows him. Even his best friend of decades is now friends with Russo and dumped Cornette.
I like Cornette but hes a moody little c####. Hes one of those people that pride rules everything. He will throw away a lifelong friendship overall a slight
Plenty of wrestlers put Russo over, hell Jarrett puts Russo over for wanting to have him in TNA, Russo was a part of the creative team but Jim wasn't. Jeff is returning favours Russo did for him in WWF and WCW, he booked Jarrett good.
For me Cornette is still someone who loves the business and respects it. Russo has never respected the business and never even tried to understand how it works. Hence why WWF did just fine when he left and WCW died essentially under his watch.
AOL/Time-Warrner merger canceled WcW. and WcW was already trash before Russo got there. Finger poke of Doom, all the NWO factions Halloween Havoc '98. WWE had Katie Vick, Mae Young giving birth to a hand, Kerwin White, Eugene
Wrong, Cornette is a dinosaur. Russo was right, Russo is why WWF won the Monday Night Wars otherwise they wouldn't know what to do with Steve Austin, The Rock and Undertaker and ratings would have tanked. Cornette tried to have Russo killed. That's not excusable, he should be in jail...WCW was already finished by the time Russo came. You are in complete denial and marks like you make me sick, the general public don't care for your preferred style of wrestling shows
Some say TK is the best booker some say VKM is the best booker well neither have been able to book Jim v Russo so I don’t see how they that great 😂 it a joke btw
Russo may have had his issues, BUT WCW was all but dead and buried long before Russo got there. I challenge you to go and watch the shows that Russo was actually in charge of. It actually was a breath of fresh air compared to the 🐎💩 WCW was putting on towards the end, before Russo got there. The death of WCW lies in the hands of standards and practices and everyone at Turner who decided to get involved with the number one product, after it started making money, and then started making changes.
WAIT! Jim Cornette was NEVER part of TNA creative? He was just a go-to guy? Or a 2nd opinion type guy, but was never an actual member of creative? Did anyone tell Cornette this? He still swears up and down he was on creative.
Slow down...Cornette was highly valued insight for creative but didn't want to be official otherwise his name is next to shit stain and he wasnt gonna do that. Jim did it so he could cut ties clean if it went tits up.
Cornette was mostly a producer and, for a time, on screen authority figure for TNA. He was technically in creative but he was never the one making the booking decisions. He and Dutch were helping Jeff with creative after Russo was let go the first time.
It wasn't justified, not once did Russo ever try to confront Cornette, it was always Cornette who was looking to fight Russo, Russo always tried to de-escalate and stay out of trouble but Cornette has been trying to assault Russo just because he hates him for the way he wrote shows before. Cornette tried having Russo killed and Russo needed to take a restraining order out on him, that will NEVER be justified. Cornette should seriously have been in jail when it escalated and he was planning to put a hit out on Vince
The one match that would be bigger than Roman/Brock, Hulk/Andre, Austin/McMahon would be Corny and shitstain. I would literally pay money to watch them yell at each other for 3 hours, a lot of us would lol
Jeff is a coward, he beat around the bush on all the questions. Jeff was an idiot for hiring "shit stain" in the first place. And Dixie Carter, your just as guilty as Jeff for pushing Jim out the back door. I sware, TNA had a gold mine with Jim! I've had the honor and pleasure meeting Jim Cornette several times, he is a true wrestling God.
You're very much entitled to your opinion but the facts paint a different picture. Hiring Russo saw the company's viewership increase virtually every single year, peaking at more than 2 million viewers in 2011 (Cornette left in 2009 so the company did just fine without him). From a business standpoint that ratings increase ultimately brings in more money for TNA, and it pleases the network which brings the possibility of extra investment and ad revenue once contract renewal talks roll around. That's priority #1, to make money.
@@TheNextStep851 it didn't last long and remember that Spike TV dropped impact because they didn't want Russo involved with the production. So, your point holds no water.
@@wiseass2149 That's not true at all lol, you're completely wrong there. The whole Spike thing was debunked years ago. The Spike Senior Vice President himself, David Schwarz, confirmed in an interview that Russo had nothing to do with the negotiations between Spike and TNA. Ratings had dropped and TNA tried to get more money during renewal talks and so Spike pulled out. Mike Johnson of PWInsider has also confirmed this, and he hates Russo. Logically, why would a TV network cancel a deal with a show because that show hired a writer? That's not how TV works, dude. The network pay for ratings because it generates ad revenue, and if the ratings drop too low the show tends to get canceled.
Cornette made me click on this. He's a draw.
Kid's a needle mover for sure
Did you watch GFW when he was on?
@@Himanshu_Doi he’s not that much of a draw
@@Eagles2020 good one
Me too. He’s hilarious
I would pay to see Cornette……
I dont feel the same about paying to see Russo.
People have paid to see Cornette in recent times.
@AlexanderTheGreat4K give Cornette an live open mic on Dynamite then just shove Russo out there against his will. Infact have the bucks and Kenny Omega pushing him out there saying do it or your no getting paid
@@craigbiggam2111 in doing so I'm unsure if that would turn The Bucks and Omega face in Cornette's eyes or not. Maybe if they listened to him
I’ve heard Cornette tell this story several times. Interesting to hear Jeff’s side of the story.
Edit: I guess Jeff doesn’t remember much. So much for hearing his side of the story.
Jeff doesn't really take sides when he gives his side of the story and honestly...
It's still the 2nd best podcast ext to 83 weeks but get the ads down, you think your back into the podcast qnd rheree still another 9 minutes of conrad advertising sleep easy 😴 I'm in the bloody UK mate get some region available ads
Alcoholism is a nasty disease. As someone with 18 years sobriety I can tell you that we have shitty memories and blackout a lot from our selective memories!
As far as professional wrestling goes, Jim Cornette is a God!!!! He is an historian when it comes to professional wrestling!!!!
A God of getting fired from every single promotion he's worked for.
@@MrRevolutionNine and yet people still like him. And want his feedback on things
@@ivanpabon2741 like who? Brian Last? The same Brian Last who had Russo at his bar mitzvah? Uhh ohh...
@@MrRevolutionNine Tony Khan multiple times that he has a great respect for jim cornet and like some of the feedback Jim has given him
@@ivanpabon2741 The great Tony Khan who struggles to draw over a 0.32?
This was obvious...why is it Corny calls Russo "shit stain" every chance he gets
Lol
Believe it or not Cornettes constantly hurling insults and contempt at Russo is and is meant to be a backhanded compliment. People would talk less about Russo if it wasn't for Cornette.
The reason why he calls him shit stain is because no matter how hard Cornette he can't erase him from wrestling. He's like a shit stain that won't come out of the carpet. On the other hand Cornette wouldn't maintain the heat he has with Russia if he didn't see some value there. Why have a fued with someone if they are inconsequential? Jeep in mind he's a wrestling guy, they are bombastic, liars, who try to manipulate your psychology. He wants you to ask that question and look at Russo and his work hopefully you even take a side. Wrestling 101, create,heat, draw a crowd, make money at least at this point. He did hate working with Russo back in the day.
@@mikedeck8381 lolwut? you are clueless
Cornette delivered some of the best promos in the industry, not just among managers but anyone! Best manager ever minus "the brain"
Cornette did an interview with JJ Dillon on his podcast where he openly said Bobby Heenan is the greatest manager of all time but he'll gladly take 2nd place alongside JJ who agreed with him
Heenan, him and Heyman
2017's Feud of the Year is easily Cornette vs Russo. Nothing comes close.
Becky and Charlotte don't hate eachother. Life just changed and they aren't close like they used to be. That is totally different.Cornette has said that if there was a way he could murder him and not get caught or go to jail he would do it.
Yeah not too the same scale
RIC gave Becky a Gucci watch back in the day
@@MyNameIsCurrentlyUnavailable Ric always buying overpriced waatches, its no wonder he's basically bankrupt.
I can only say this about the situation with Cornett and Russo, I was a big tna fan until Russo started working there and as a fan he was a big part of what drove me away from tna.
I started watching tna it was so fun to watch the crazy matches the almost real story lines where everybody took it serious and then one day it seems more like a joke they hired alot of old people and started seeing less of the young talents and if we did it looked like a bad joke and when I heard they hired Russo I understood
So you were a fan of 2005 TNA that just had matches or 2012 TNA under Eric or Bruce? Russo peaked TNA to record highs from 2006-2011
@@introvertstoner that was Bischoff and Hogan
@@XtremeEffect Exactly the golden era of TNA
What's wrong with a man like Cornette taking the business more serious than Russo and Jarrett should have known that this isn't going to work out
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? Well Making a B Actor the world champion was worse
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? Hahahaha what?!?!?!?! John Cena is one of the biggest stars and merch sellers ever.
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? shut up nerd, we all know that cena sold a shitload of merch. your ridiculous claims otherwise are what require evidence. get off the internet, kid
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? you’re not gonna like this mate, but John Cena is the biggest wrestling superstar of the last 20 years there and is that a good thing for wrestling no not really, but still John Cena is the biggest star of the last 20 years, and a draw two and a pretty big one at that.
All these years later and Corny still has the best mind in the business.
Helped put UWF under, was on the booking team when WCW couldn't even sell 200 tickets to house shows and 2500 fans to PPV's, failed and ran SMW into the ground, was on the booking team that drove Raw ratings down into the 1's and 500 person house shows, didn't draw shit booking TNA and destroyed ROH.
But yeah, other than that he's a genius...
@@onewarriornation602 ok
@@onewarriornation602the only thing corny has is quick wit and a mouth … he blows
And Cornette would never "try" to physically attack Russo.
No he would never try, cuz he's a spineless little twit, he would send his humongous wife...
Every video that has mid sentence "Save With Conrad" ads should get down voted en masse
Long Live JC!!!
This worries me. People have had these conversations with me before. "Don't leave. He/she is not your boss. We really value you. Don't do anything crazy/stupid." Am I JC?
Corny vs Russo in a boxing match - WHEN
Never because Russo filed a restraining order on Corny a couple years ago
Vince probably kicks his ass now corny is an oap. Vince scares corny gna kill him lol
I would too I love Corny but he’s a nut
If Jarrett is big about moral for a company, how has it ever worked out for a company when an active wrestler is the booker of the company especially when he's constantly champion?
Dusty in Florida?
@@cmcg3738 dusty was over before that. Jeff had to own a company to try and get over
He’s an overrated clown who is only famous because he stuck Vince for money 1 time
Jeff Jarrett, as TNA world champion, put over Sting, AJ Styles, Rhyno, Raven, The Alpha Male, Ken Shamrock, Ron Killings, Christian Cage and Abyss. When TNA developed it's own World Heavyweight Championship, Jeff Jarrett NEVER got the title a SINGLE TIME but in matches he put over Sting, Kurt Angle, Jeff Hardy, Christian Cage and Rob Van Dam when they were the TNA/Impact World Heavyweight Champion. And Jeff gave TOP NOTCH matches every time he went out there, whether he won as champion, lost the championship to someone else or challenged for the championship and lost. ENLIGHTEN ME how he was NOT morally correct to put over other legends and younger talent that TODAY are considered legends?
Jesus, Conrad. You're shameless with the ads.
I get what Jarrett's saying at the end here, but its probably not healthy for two creative people like Cornette and Russo to be at each other's throats like this. I look forward to checking out more of this podcast. Jarrett must have some good stories and a different prespective than some of Conrad's other guests.
God bless Jim Cornette, he’s right about that goof Russo.
I wanna give Russo the benefit of the doubt but he always puts his foot in his mouth (see Dark side of the ring - brawl for all)
@Old Man not far enough
@@ivanpabon2741 Cringe
@@MrRevolutionNine but I'm right tho
@@MrRevolutionNine And many wrestling fans wonder why people look at them like they do SMH
Cornette vs Russo is my favorite rivalry in wrestling.
It's not a rivalry. They both hate eachother. They will never work together on TV.
TNA clash>>> 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Jim Cornette vs Vince Russo
Jim Cornette quote:
The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he finds out that Santa Claus is not real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Making Cornette and Russo work together is like trying to let OJ and Goldman work together. A terrible idea.
God Bless Jim Cornette, but he’s right about that goof Russo. I love Jim Cornette and he’s usually right about all things wrestling. BUT I think he’s got Eric all wrong, Their table for three was by far the best one I’ve ever seen.
I just think he has a misplaced grudge
@@davidharrington5694 it's not misplaced
Cornette is right about a lot of things... but he’s also been wrong about a lot of things - Even basic factual things. His cult will believe anything he says but... well if one doesn’t want to believe it about his wrestling takes, at least keep in mind this is a guy who loves and strongly supported Hillary.... lol! I’m a Canadian and I laugh about that!
Cornette has admitted that he’s softened his opinion on Bischoff lately. They found common ground in their loathing of Russ-bro. I think they’re actually more similar than either one wants to admit. Cornette wins in terms of pure wrestling knowledge hands down, but he’d beat just about anyone in that area. Eric has better long-term vision and is probably more in touch with modern culture. But they’re both incredibly smart, articulate and creative….and they both have the reputation of being stubborn and arrogant at times.
@Why The Hell Was I In Star Trek 6? Russo was also the reason TNA got kicked off of Spike.
A rivalry between bookers. Well i forgot.. jim said that russo likes to be called a WRITER not a booker. My mistake.
writer and booker are 2 different things in the wrestling industry
@@absolutez3r019 Nope.. WRONG!
@@absolutez3r019 nope WRONG
@@nathantturnert1631 explain?
@@absolutez3r019 i cant. Because you're not agreeing with me. If you'd just agree with me there'd be no issue understand? So.. your choice
Conrad has a great face for radio and a great voice for silent movies. LOL
Savewithconrad followed by a RUclips advertisement. 😕
Meanwhile on Jim's podcast, we have improv sponsored ads that go from taking over small governments to hiring gardeners to spy on your house with satellites.
Can somebody clue me in on the beef between Conrad Thompson and Brian last
My understanding is, it has to do with John Arezzi. If I'm not mistaken, Arezzi and Last were friends, they had a falling out, then Conrad had Arezzi on one of his shows, where he mentioned the situation with Last, so Last got mad at Conrad. Something like that
@@stevehogan9958 thank you
@@jeremybarber9780 You're welcome
@@patjablonski9739 I don't go to the beach much either because I'm fat
@@patjablonski9739 I edited it so no longer is it Beach but it's beef which I ate a lot of to get fat
THANK YOU JEFF!!
You made TNA/AJ Styles!!
Gave us a solid figure to hate!
Even comedy with the "Double M A" stuff!!
LIVE LONG, SIR!!
I hope Jeff eventually channels his inner cornette and obliterates Vince Russo on the podcast.
Russo believed in him as a main eventer. I don't think he'll ever do that.
Right! Jeff should destroy the only person who believed in him enough to put the World Title on him!!!
@@kevinlee9929 You do know that Russo buried Jeff to Dixie when he got to TNA right? It's been well documented.
@@DSI090 And still put the belt on him.
Russo always believed that fans wanted to see his Jerry Springer shit instead of the wrestling.
He drew more people to wrestling than Cornette ever will
@@codesm96the fuck are you talking about? He drew more people to talk about how he fucked it right up like WCW, TNA etc.
@@12jess01 I'm talking about Russo being made Head Writer for WWF and starting the Attitude era in 1997, that's what got millions of new fans into watching wrestling and nothing you can say could ever deny that truth. Those people who talk about how he 'messed up' aren't in the business. Marks and stupid dirtsheet writers don't know what success looks like. Opinions from marks don't matter. They were never there to see the creative process and didn't see how Russo bumped up ratings in a sinking ship, WCW was in big trouble before he got there and they were worse off AFTER he left and the ratings went down again before WCW ended in 2001. Many wrestlers in the business put Russo over, ESPECIALLY the people who worked with him first hand and actually benefitted from his show writing, many legends in the Attitude era credit Russo for helping them take their characters to the next level such as Stone Cold and The Rock. You are just another Cornette mark literally riding his meat hating on Russo just because YOU think it's the popular thing to. do
Cornette vs Russo in a Pole match at The Tokyo Dome.
I’m pretty sure Cornette getting fired was part of Dixie’s clean out of Jarretts crew after he got caught dating Kurt Angles Ex Wife. Road Dogg, Dutch and eventually Scott Steiner were all shown the door after Jarrett lost all backstage power.
Holy shit? This show is over a year old? I thought this was a brand new podcast
Oh if only a promotion could find enough money to have Cornette and Russo have a match. Let it be a street fight of some kind and tell me we aren't all paying for it.
Bischoff as special ref
I don't think you'd have to pay them that much. At least not Corny. Sounds like he'd fight Russo for $10 and Cheeseburger cuz he hates him so much.
Also, I think Russo would talk shit,no show the fight and then make some bogus claim/bullshit excuse as to why he no showed.
🎶🎶"I could be wrong now....but I don't think so!,🎶🎶
Just give Russo's address to Corny and it'll happen for free
Cornette is a 60 year old man with 2 bad knees and a bad shoulder, but put him in the same zip code as Shitstain and you’d be able to fit what was left of Russ-bro in a mayonnaise jar.
A street fight in an exploding cage!!!!
Cornette , his own dad and many more for a guy that booked Judy Bagwell on a forklift.
"Broke 6,000 guitars and never drew a dime."
This kind of said a lot of nothing. The only thing noteworthy was that Cornette wasn’t “by design” a part of the creative team. It doesn’t really get into anything other than that. Wasnt the topic about the cause of him leaving?
Jarrett is great to listen to but that host is awful!
That Vince Russo was Jarrett's 'boy' for so long goes a long way to explain why he never figured out how to get over as a main eventer.
Get over as a main eventer? Don’t you mean get over period.
@@412StepUp That's a fair point, but I did think he was over on a lower-midcard level. He was very skilled in the ring, but also extremely unexciting.
What's the deal with Conrad's face? Is he turning into a Smurf? Why do his stars always look better than him who's the expert? Lighting Mr Thompson.
I know Russo and Jarrett go back a long way and always worked well together for better or for worst so it's no surprise that Jeff gave Russo another chance in TNA but I also know that Cornette has hated Russo's guts since theirs days working together in WWF in the mid 90s. It's a tough situation and I see both sides of it equally but in the end, it was going go badly no matter what between Cornette and Russo.
Cornette is the biggest draw in the wrestling business
I didn't expect everybody to bring each other happy meals..... 🤣
Dixie was instrumental in killing TNA.
TNA is still around.
@ it took a long, long time for TNA to recover and it only started doing so once Dixie was out of the picture.
@stealthmode1303 And?
@@Rjensen2 and you’re mother is probably your sister as well.
@stealthmode1303 Are you sure you aren't projecting?
I'm not the one that thinks TNA went out of business.
There's nothing funnier than VERY insecure people being wrong and getting upset about it. 🤣🤣🤣
Jeff had a bad night in that MecicanWrestleMania event Vampiro was a part of! Crazy docu
A mortgage commercial in a 9 minute clip.....sheesh
Damn, even gets his predatory mortgage commercial in the middle. This is why your numbers are tanking across the board.
I hope the lightning gets fixed, Conrad looks Sheamus level pale here!
Stupid place for a dumb ad!
I LOVE these podcasts, so please don’t take this overly negative. Why isn’t video quality better?
These shows would be a hell of alot better if grifter conrad was nowhere around.
Here’s a rarity….someone that will admit that Cornette probably gets a little too much praise and that Russ-bro probably deserves a little more credit than he gets. That said, if mediating between the two, I’m probably going to side with Cornette 8 or 9 times out of 10. But, when Russo was on target, he was a dead on bullseye.
Case in point: Survivor Series 1998. Russo’s magnum opus. Not perfect, but 99%. Brilliant writing/booking. One of the best PPVs of the Attitude era, if not in WWF history.
That kind of scenario was ideal for Russo’s style. Fast moving, short matches, a lot of twists and turns in one night. The problem…..Russo couldn’t write any other way. The best thing to do would have been slow down just a touch just after that, especially on the undercard stuff. And that’s where Cornette comes in. He’s great on the small details that make matches, angles and scenes believable and interesting. Where he falls short is understanding the individual characters and kick starting storylines.
Credit for what?? Honestly I’ve been watching raw from the start of 98. If it doesn’t have the rock or stone cold in it, it’s actually a lot of garbage. I probably liked it at 10 but Jesus it’s so bad. Sure Russo had something to do with the rock and stone cold segments. But he was let loose on the rest of it and it’s bad. Then you have his work in wcw that was putrid garbage.
@@Giveme1goodreason 1998 in my opinion was great around the summer but that year on the whole was mostly a rebuilding phase following the mass exodus of talent over the previous 2 years.
1999 for me was WWF at its absolute best but whether or not you liked the creative content on the show in 1998, the formatting/structuring of the show is what actually made the WWF a success. The formula of having an A story and a B story threaded from top to bottom each week, and a cliffhanger every quarter hour to make sure you stayed tuned in is what ultimately grew the audience. Once Russo left and they ditched that formula, within a year they had lost millions of viewers and it was downhill from there.
Why is they’re 3 ads in a 10 minute video, seriously no other podcaster has this many ads. It’s super obnoxious
Like anyone would take Russo’s side in this.
Conrad, that lighting is amateur.
I have to say that Jeff Jarrett would have been something if he has never counted with Russo. The fact of the matter is that Jeff wasn't a business man and he never learned from his mistakes. At that point, Ring of Honor had something to offer and that's because of people like Cornette when TNA was big names but nothing special in their product
ring of honor was only known on the internet
Why is it that people always tried to get Cornette & Russo together, knowing the animosity between them?! You’d be better off trying to get 2pac & Notorious B.I.G. on the same stage…
Meltzer and his " facts " jim quit the 3rd company he didn't get removed..
TK, the Elite, CM Punk, Ace Steel, and also the wrestlers and fans who thinks they want to join the drain better listen to this nugget from Jarrett starting at 5:59.
Someone needs to sort out Conrads lighting.
Russo is qualified to be a jerry Springer producer/writer and not much else
Highest rated WWE shows were written by Russo...let that sink in
@@codesm96 to bad his mouth since then, has ruined his "accomplishments". lol
Corneys version of the story is pretty close if not exactly the same if I remember right ….
"this isn't ballet". I understand black swan may change your mind.
Hiring Russo has to be one of the worst decisions ever. He was cancer. 🤦♂️
Yet brought TNA their highest ever ratings. Tard.
@@MrRevolutionNine that ts a fucking lie. All he did was get impact off spike tv. Russo is nothing more cancer to this fucking business. He stole alot of his ideas from tv and wcw doing the mid 90s. Most suck that's why most people only talk about rock and Austin during that time. Killed owen hart by putting him in that stupid blue blazer gimmick. Was half the reason why wcw went to shit in 3 year's. Booked like dog shit doing his time in tna and got them drop from one of the biggest tv channels at the time. Then got kicked out of the business and nobody wanted him back since
@@MrRevolutionNine yet he somehow managed through his political machinations to get TNA kicked off Spike and other networks, thus bringing them to their lowest ratings 👍
@@ivanpabon2741 Yawn. Stop reading dirtsheets you mong.
@@destinyson23 I love the fact you're stupid enough to think Spike even knew Russo's name let alone cared who he was when he's bringing in the numbers. Stop listening to Meltzer.
Problem is I like Jim's podcast, but he has been wrong on alot of stuff. The table for 3 was the best when he tried to blame Eric for something and Hayes said "Eric wasn't even in charge". Also he's on the Alvarez point of view blaming Eric and Vince for the downfall of WCW. He use to feed Dave Metzer stuff. Now he's not friends with Dave now. Like I said I like his podcast, but you look at the comment with his marks. People calling him "God" and saying "He's always right" lmao.
Definitely... his cult following parrots everything he says without a second thought lol. Corny is right in many cases but he’s even gotten basic facts wrong - let alone his semi-hysterical opinions on people he doesn’t like!
He has not been wrong a lot that insane
@@Aj6711 Corny is entertaining but he's wrong more than he's right if we're being honest
Jeff told Russo just fight Cornette and get it over with, then they can get on with it.
Stopped watching these clips and podcasts for ages i remember why, too many adverts
Say what you will about Cornette, he was more reasonable with Russo than Jeff's dad who didn't speak to him for years partly because of Russo
Like trying to have him killed...okay
@@codesm96 what are you talking about? Lmao
@@InvisibleHotdog Cornette tried to have Russo killed and put a hit out on him
@@codesm96 wtf are you talking about? Did Russo say that? lmao
@@InvisibleHotdog The situation is real there are papers Russo has taken out because it was Kenny Bolin a former friend of Jim Cornette who told Russo what Jim said about wanting Russo dead and thinking about paying somebody to do it knowing he had a lot of supporters who might be crazy enough to do that so he warned Russo who took out a restraining order through the courts and he warned Russo because he didn't want him to end up getting attacked and because he didn't want Jim to go to jail so he wanted to try stop it before it escalates while Jim hasn't done anything yet. Kenny Bolin was a long time friend of Jim from the late 70s and knee Jim for a long time, he was a heel manager who worked with Jim at OVW who trained guys from the Ruthless Agression era such as Cena who was part of his stable Bolin Services back when he called himself The Prototype. You should look into it and you will see. Jim really is out for Russo's blood. When Kenny Bolin went on Rene Dupree's podcast Cafe de Rene a couple of months ago to explain the situation, representatives for Jim Cornette threatened to take out a lawsuit against Rene, the podcast and Kenny so they had to edit the video on RUclips so this is very real and Jim Cornette does not want anyone else to hear about this otherwise he wouldn't have threatened legal action against Rene
Has Jarrett ever been properly asked why he brought Russo back at that time? Just a terrible decision and many other options at the time if wanted to move to a three man team, instead of the larger group they had before. As basically how Jeff tells it here, it was Dixie that forced Russo back in on them.
I still don't get it. Ferrara first did the JR impersonation (with bells palsy) to his face on RAW before later doing it on WCW, while Cornette was still in WWF. Was he paying attention to the monitors? Was he annoyed that Ferrara dared do that w/o JR's approval on Nitro?
Most likely
These podcast constantly put commercials at the worse time. I stopped listening because right in the middle of someone talking and it just changed to some stupid mortgage commercial.
You had to set conditions that Cornette would not attack him... I love it
I'm glad Jeff said that, because wrestling sucks when you can tell that all the wrestlers are friends.. it hits different when you know that the people that suppose to be so heated with each other are in the back taking pictures together and making videos
They forgot to refer to Shitstain by his proper name, lol.
Jeff Jrrett, who is the beter booker- VINCE A$$ clown RUISO, or My favorite Pod Caster, and the voice of wrlessing, JIM -mammas boy- Cornett?!
'Now Jim, no physically attacking Russo today' 'aww, not even a little bit?'
Not sure where Conrad gets the idea Jim Cornette is a nice guy, he seems to be considered a prick by everyone who knows him. Even his best friend of decades is now friends with Russo and dumped Cornette.
False
I like Cornette but hes a moody little c####. Hes one of those people that pride rules everything. He will throw away a lifelong friendship overall a slight
Even mention cornette in a video title and look at the difference in views
Jarrett all about those non answers
Anyone else imagine Jeff in white double J outfit on his knees, begging Cornette not to attack Russo 😂😂
Is there anyone who has positive things to say about hteir experiences working with Vince Russo?
Plenty of wrestlers put Russo over, hell Jarrett puts Russo over for wanting to have him in TNA, Russo was a part of the creative team but Jim wasn't. Jeff is returning favours Russo did for him in WWF and WCW, he booked Jarrett good.
I love how Jeff is completely avoiding talking about aew and any shape or form right now in this video n🤣🤣🤣🤣
For me Cornette is still someone who loves the business and respects it. Russo has never respected the business and never even tried to understand how it works. Hence why WWF did just fine when he left and WCW died essentially under his watch.
AOL/Time-Warrner merger canceled WcW. and WcW was already trash before Russo got there. Finger poke of Doom, all the NWO factions Halloween Havoc '98. WWE had Katie Vick, Mae Young giving birth to a hand, Kerwin White, Eugene
Wrong, Cornette is a dinosaur. Russo was right, Russo is why WWF won the Monday Night Wars otherwise they wouldn't know what to do with Steve Austin, The Rock and Undertaker and ratings would have tanked. Cornette tried to have Russo killed. That's not excusable, he should be in jail...WCW was already finished by the time Russo came. You are in complete denial and marks like you make me sick, the general public don't care for your preferred style of wrestling shows
Some say TK is the best booker some say VKM is the best booker well neither have been able to book Jim v Russo so I don’t see how they that great 😂 it a joke btw
You definitely have a strong argument. Whoever is able to book Cornette vs. Russo shall be the world's greatest Booker
Jim cornette has knowledge on wrestling but I cannot stand his politics
Coz he isnt a Conservative?
@@soup8786 bro Corny is a liberal
@@jackc1186 exactly
Russo may have had his issues, BUT WCW was all but dead and buried long before Russo got there. I challenge you to go and watch the shows that Russo was actually in charge of. It actually was a breath of fresh air compared to the 🐎💩 WCW was putting on towards the end, before Russo got there. The death of WCW lies in the hands of standards and practices and everyone at Turner who decided to get involved with the number one product, after it started making money, and then started making changes.
"I don't recall"
Yup happened
WAIT! Jim Cornette was NEVER part of TNA creative? He was just a go-to guy? Or a 2nd opinion type guy, but was never an actual member of creative? Did anyone tell Cornette this? He still swears up and down he was on creative.
Slow down...Cornette was highly valued insight for creative but didn't want to be official otherwise his name is next to shit stain and he wasnt gonna do that. Jim did it so he could cut ties clean if it went tits up.
Cornette was mostly a producer and, for a time, on screen authority figure for TNA. He was technically in creative but he was never the one making the booking decisions. He and Dutch were helping Jeff with creative after Russo was let go the first time.
This is why Jarrett lost control of TNA. His lack of understanding of the deep seated hatred of Russo that cornette had and it was justified
It wasn't justified, not once did Russo ever try to confront Cornette, it was always Cornette who was looking to fight Russo, Russo always tried to de-escalate and stay out of trouble but Cornette has been trying to assault Russo just because he hates him for the way he wrote shows before. Cornette tried having Russo killed and Russo needed to take a restraining order out on him, that will NEVER be justified. Cornette should seriously have been in jail when it escalated and he was planning to put a hit out on Vince
Jarrett was sent home after he was cheating with Karen Angle! I'm amazed Kurt Angle didn't snap Jeff like a twig!
Spike T.V. shared his opinion
Russo didn't get TNA kicked off Spike. This was debunked years ago.
To me, Cornette is the real life personification of Daffy Duck!
More like Yosemite Sam
The one match that would be bigger than Roman/Brock, Hulk/Andre, Austin/McMahon would be Corny and shitstain. I would literally pay money to watch them yell at each other for 3 hours, a lot of us would lol
Who would want to work with Vince Russo?
Nobody wanted to work with Russo. At least Corny had the balls to do something about it.
Love Cornette.
Thanks to Conrad im saving money on my mortgage AND learning about Jeff Jarrett....And thats no lie!
You just THINK you're saving money on your mortgage. Just wait. And that's no lie !
hi CONrad
Jeff is a coward, he beat around the bush on all the questions. Jeff was an idiot for hiring "shit stain" in the first place. And Dixie Carter, your just as guilty as Jeff for pushing Jim out the back door. I sware, TNA had a gold mine with Jim! I've had the honor and pleasure meeting Jim Cornette several times, he is a true wrestling God.
Facts. His booking in 06 is what got me to start watching tna
You're very much entitled to your opinion but the facts paint a different picture.
Hiring Russo saw the company's viewership increase virtually every single year, peaking at more than 2 million viewers in 2011 (Cornette left in 2009 so the company did just fine without him). From a business standpoint that ratings increase ultimately brings in more money for TNA, and it pleases the network which brings the possibility of extra investment and ad revenue once contract renewal talks roll around. That's priority #1, to make money.
@@TheNextStep851 it didn't last long and remember that Spike TV dropped impact because they didn't want Russo involved with the production. So, your point holds no water.
@@wiseass2149 That's not true at all lol, you're completely wrong there.
The whole Spike thing was debunked years ago. The Spike Senior Vice President himself, David Schwarz, confirmed in an interview that Russo had nothing to do with the negotiations between Spike and TNA. Ratings had dropped and TNA tried to get more money during renewal talks and so Spike pulled out. Mike Johnson of PWInsider has also confirmed this, and he hates Russo.
Logically, why would a TV network cancel a deal with a show because that show hired a writer? That's not how TV works, dude. The network pay for ratings because it generates ad revenue, and if the ratings drop too low the show tends to get canceled.