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  • Опубликовано: 25 мар 2021
  • From Episode 184 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
    Artwork by Travis Heckel!
    Send in your question for the Drive-Thru to: CornyDriveThru@gmail.com
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Комментарии • 237

  • @chrisgreig98
    @chrisgreig98 3 года назад +78

    Homer Simpson looks at the thumbnail
    *"Doh, stupid sexy Cornette"*

    • @MatthewSaliba
      @MatthewSaliba 3 года назад +7

      "Feels like I'm wearing nothing at all!"

    • @suchiuomizu
      @suchiuomizu 3 года назад +10

      Think unsexy thoughts, think unsexy thoughts.

    • @thompur
      @thompur 3 года назад +1

      That's just disturbing.

    • @stinkypinkeee5085
      @stinkypinkeee5085 3 года назад +4

      @@MatthewSaliba "Nothing at all...nothing at all..."

    • @Fallout3AtWar
      @Fallout3AtWar 3 года назад

      69 Likes, Nice.

  • @greghughes6098
    @greghughes6098 3 года назад +69

    That artwork will haunt me for all my remaining days

    • @stevegyles3190
      @stevegyles3190 3 года назад +1

      That look on Watt's face is priceless.

    • @fatalsniper3413
      @fatalsniper3413 3 года назад

      You never dreamed about Jim shaking that thing? I thought that was natural

    • @maxand.1462
      @maxand.1462 3 года назад

      He's just a sexy corny, sexy cornyyyy

  • @daniel-san-augh
    @daniel-san-augh 3 года назад +144

    Last thing I needed to see today was Jim in daisy dukes. Although Nikolai questioning his existence makes up for it

  • @GEORGIOARCADE
    @GEORGIOARCADE 3 года назад +51

    Personally i love when Brian and Jim talk about the old school stuff more than modern day wrestling. Not that those are bad or anything. There's so many great stories i haven't heard about the old days that i wanna hear. I could listen to this stuff all day.

    • @MABMGuitar
      @MABMGuitar 3 года назад +1

      I’m skipping the podcasts 9 times outta ten these days, and I just watch whatever clips look interesting.

    • @MABMGuitar
      @MABMGuitar 3 года назад

      @MemphoWrasslin1 I agree on all counts.

    • @smarkslowplay3512
      @smarkslowplay3512 3 года назад +1

      80s specifically yeah

    • @davidleewrath6919
      @davidleewrath6919 3 года назад +1

      @MemphoWrasslin1 I've the cure for youtube commercials. Adblock on your computer OR just grab the timeline bar and go to the end of the video. Restart it. No more ads.

    • @davidleewrath6919
      @davidleewrath6919 3 года назад +1

      @MemphoWrasslin1 I've the cure for youtube commercials. Adblock on your computer OR just grab the timeline bar and go to the end of the video. Restart it. No more ads.

  • @jaxsoncruz6804
    @jaxsoncruz6804 3 года назад +72

    Jim's sexy graphic looks like he got them shorts from SUNNY KISS😂🤣😭😅

    • @SheriffOutlaw
      @SheriffOutlaw 3 года назад +1

      Good grief! But hey can't hate daisy dukes shorts 😂

  • @eiephants
    @eiephants 3 года назад +46

    This thumbnail is top tier along side Cornette in pigtails on a swing. 🤣🤣🤣

    • @artymixon5316
      @artymixon5316 3 года назад +5

      The one with Jim as wolverine is up there as well imo

    • @DarksaberForce
      @DarksaberForce 3 года назад +1

      What about Fire Marshal Bill?

  • @TheGreatestPlayerInTheWorld
    @TheGreatestPlayerInTheWorld 3 года назад +31

    Jim in daisy dukes oh my god lmao 😂

    • @fatalsniper3413
      @fatalsniper3413 3 года назад +2

      Seems you like it. Got the big boy chubby?

  • @bearface86
    @bearface86 3 года назад +22

    Both the grossest and greatest thumbnail I've ever seen

  • @MilMaska
    @MilMaska 3 года назад +29

    "Business was hot. We were selling out everywhere" - Jim Cornette

  • @philanderphillips2309
    @philanderphillips2309 3 года назад +6

    Travis Heckel: When it comes to this particular artwork I have only one word... NO!!!!!!!!!!! I'll never look at Jim Cornette the same ever, ever.

  • @christofl6523
    @christofl6523 3 года назад +12

    I loved the "loser leaves town" matches of the 80's.

  • @RickJW-OSM
    @RickJW-OSM 2 года назад +5

    Travis's artwork once again top tier.
    The look on Watts's face is priceless like he's thinking, 'What in the blue hell are we doing here?!'

  • @impalaman9707
    @impalaman9707 Год назад +3

    For a lack of talent, I remember a lot of "scrub versus scrub" matches on Mid South TV in the early 80s. Like Art Crews versus Joe Savoldi--type stuff. And boy, Jim Ross would always talk it up, like--"and this would be a main event, anywhere in the country"!🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @WyattHolliday
    @WyattHolliday 3 года назад +19

    Mid-South and Memphis are two of the territories I wish I could have seen in person.

    • @johngallagher72
      @johngallagher72 3 года назад +8

      Texas during the von Erich years would be on my list. .that and NWA Crockett.

    • @bonusbaby801
      @bonusbaby801 3 года назад +10

      @Wyatt Holliday, I was & count myself VERY FORTUNATE to have lived in the hot bed of Mid-South territory. I watched the weekly show faithfully & attended MANY live events. I am forever grateful to my Grandfather for getting me into pro wrestling.

    • @WyattHolliday
      @WyattHolliday 3 года назад +4

      @@johngallagher72 I definitely could have gone for some World Class, myself. I saw lot of Crockett though!

    • @WyattHolliday
      @WyattHolliday 3 года назад +6

      @@bonusbaby801 That’s awesome! I was around the Florida territory, so I saw a lot of Crockett in the later years.

    • @jamesashmore3655
      @jamesashmore3655 3 года назад +2

      I was able to watch both. Memphis on channel 5 and mid south on abc channel 6 out of Greenville MS. Some of the best wrestling ever

  • @fishhookism
    @fishhookism 3 года назад +5

    Saw kamala beat Iron Mike Shape bloody in 1983 at Barton Coliseum in Little rock.

    • @mr.mr.4772
      @mr.mr.4772 3 года назад +1

      Iron Mike Sharp

    • @fishhookism
      @fishhookism 3 года назад +1

      @@mr.mr.4772 Yeah, Sharpe. Sorry for the spelling.

  • @leaespejo9776
    @leaespejo9776 3 года назад +14

    Howdy friends. Why is Jim dressed as Sonny Kiss?

    • @tg995nation6
      @tg995nation6 3 года назад +3

      Cause he can.

    • @stinkypinkeee5085
      @stinkypinkeee5085 3 года назад +5

      Because he reads my emails and knows I have fetishes?

    • @leaespejo9776
      @leaespejo9776 3 года назад +3

      @@stinkypinkeee5085 if Jim clapped his cheeks I would die laughing.

  • @michaelwilmoth1018
    @michaelwilmoth1018 3 года назад +3

    Most of us loved mid south wrestling.all through jr.high and high school.we grew up every saturday watching our ffavorite wrestlers.we could not wait till monday morning to talk about wrestling at school.

  • @johngallagher72
    @johngallagher72 3 года назад +4

    82 to 87 Mid South was Vinces first developmental territory ...Orndorrff ...JYD . OMG ...Butch Reed ...Duggan ...Jake Roberts .. DiBiase

    • @p.d.l7023
      @p.d.l7023 3 года назад +1

      Terry Taylor and Big Boss man

    • @johngallagher72
      @johngallagher72 3 года назад

      @@p.d.l7023 very true ...also Koko B Ware if I'm not mistaken although I think he bounced back and forth between Memphis and Mid South

    • @johngallagher72
      @johngallagher72 3 года назад

      Also Nikolai Volkoff

    • @mr.mr.4772
      @mr.mr.4772 3 года назад

      The New Zealand Sheepheaders AKA The Bushwackers

  • @brandedbybryant1144
    @brandedbybryant1144 3 года назад +7

    Strong thumbnail

  • @zacheatscrackers
    @zacheatscrackers 3 года назад +1

    That fucking thumbnail 😂😂😂🤣🤣 like lookin at Spongebob in fishnets and high heels

  • @rickstalentedtongue910
    @rickstalentedtongue910 Год назад +1

    Jim in those short shorts made me revert to my old habit that dies hard. Any time I am on the phone or online, I unzip.

  • @MarkJackson-wc2xh
    @MarkJackson-wc2xh 3 года назад +6

    What's next? Corny days or Jimmy Hyatt.

  • @OongTheLastAirbender
    @OongTheLastAirbender 3 года назад +4

    bruh the picture lol

  • @ac8274
    @ac8274 3 года назад +5

    Best thumbnail yet lmaoooooooo

    • @stinkypinkeee5085
      @stinkypinkeee5085 3 года назад

      Makes me wanna wake up the Wofe for a "Tussle"...

  • @Dakatari
    @Dakatari 3 года назад +3

    Mid South just like any company had their highs and lows

    • @fatalsniper3413
      @fatalsniper3413 3 года назад +1

      A lot of lows. Considering they went out of business. The thing is 95% of wrestling at any given time is garbage it's just people get captivated by the 5%. Then the 5% that wasn't garbage becomes garbage because they beat the horse until it dies. Actually that describes life.

    • @impalaman9707
      @impalaman9707 Год назад

      And I was a faithful viewer to the bitter end in 1987!

  • @jeffmac9642
    @jeffmac9642 3 года назад +3

    NBC is probably going to cancel 80% of the WWE Library. Anything south, ECW, attitude Era, divas, puppies, Fabulous freebirds.

    • @SuperNitroZ64
      @SuperNitroZ64 3 года назад +2

      What? I thought that was something Disney would do.

    • @-JAVY-
      @-JAVY- 3 года назад +2

      And edit most of the stuff from attitude era

    • @stinkypinkeee5085
      @stinkypinkeee5085 3 года назад +1

      They are editing out Roddy Piper's "Black And White" interview before WM V (I think it's that WM)...THAT is a piece of business that should be shared with the World, not censored out of existence...I see "tape trading" making a BIG return as Old-School fans try to ensure the preservation of Pro Wrestling in its original form...

  • @darksideka
    @darksideka 3 года назад +8

    Is that Bill Watts or Al Bundy?

    • @gregorybaxter7594
      @gregorybaxter7594 3 года назад +1

      Same guy.

    • @davidkos74
      @davidkos74 3 года назад +4

      Al Bundy was the most famous graduate from Polk High. Legend has it he scored 4 touchdowns in one game.

    • @ValiantWrestling
      @ValiantWrestling 3 года назад

      I thought it was Chris Latta...

    • @TranceMasterJack
      @TranceMasterJack 2 года назад

      And the Cincinnati Bengals still don't have an indoor practice facility.

  • @ndr1764
    @ndr1764 3 года назад +3

    Amazing art.

  • @philiptew4836
    @philiptew4836 3 года назад +2

    Mr. Wrestling #2 was my favorite wrestler from Mid-South, before JYD and the Freebirds

  • @thundertyrant
    @thundertyrant 2 года назад +1

    The November 1983 Dome Show in New Orleans they had to bring in people from everywhere else. I was there.
    JYD vs Butch Reed in a yellow streak match
    The Road Warriors vs II and TA
    David Von Erich vs Kamala
    Kerry Von Erich vs Missing link
    Dusty Rhodes vs. King Kong Bundy
    Hacksaw Duggan vs Anvil Neidhart
    It was an awesome show but like they said a change needed to happen. It was hard to beat the heat the birds vs jyd got or the heat teddy vs dog got.

  • @christianpierce4978
    @christianpierce4978 3 года назад +4

    I'm booked at a show with Mike Jackson tonight 😂

    • @travisheckel3788
      @travisheckel3788 3 года назад +1

      Dude, get me Mike’s contact number! Would love to get him in this wrestling game I’m a fan of!! (Filsinger games legends of wrestling)
      Yes, this is Travis that does that art!! Lol

    • @fatalsniper3413
      @fatalsniper3413 3 года назад

      You're lying

  • @erickmack4131
    @erickmack4131 3 года назад +8

    🤣not sure how i feel about this one, travis. Mixed emotions 🤔

    • @longj74
      @longj74 3 года назад +2

      Is that because Corny in those dukes turns you on and you don't like that?!?!? 🤣😂🤣

    • @smarkslowplay3512
      @smarkslowplay3512 3 года назад +2

      Stupid sexy Corny

    • @fatalsniper3413
      @fatalsniper3413 3 года назад

      @@longj74 it got him happy. He got a lil chubby

    • @Fallout3AtWar
      @Fallout3AtWar 3 года назад

      Scared and Aroused?

  • @DARC-87
    @DARC-87 2 месяца назад

    I had no idea Ole and Watts had a deep friendship until the Dark Side episode came out.

  • @GusGoosegrease
    @GusGoosegrease 3 года назад +3

    That drawing of Jim needs to be on a t-shirt!

    • @fatalsniper3413
      @fatalsniper3413 3 года назад

      You beating your thing ain't you? It's okay it's natural Jim too fine

  • @SaigaTenshi
    @SaigaTenshi 3 года назад +1

    I knew Sunny is Jim Cornette in disguise all along in that thumbnail

  • @venom74799
    @venom74799 3 года назад +1

    That thumbnail is pure nightmare fuel.

  • @PhoShoTheatre
    @PhoShoTheatre 3 года назад +7

    Did Jim ever explain JJ Dillon wearing women's lingerie under his suit?

    • @MABMGuitar
      @MABMGuitar 3 года назад +3

      It was strictly a comfort thing.

    • @davidkos74
      @davidkos74 3 года назад +2

      That was in the Florida territory right?

    • @PhoShoTheatre
      @PhoShoTheatre 3 года назад +1

      @@davidkos74 that's right ruclips.net/video/LTjUyYBzKsw/видео.html

  • @magnificentone4686
    @magnificentone4686 3 года назад +1

    So Bill Dundee is the reason Randy Savage didn’t come to Mid-South? Man what a missed opportunity

    • @impalaman9707
      @impalaman9707 Год назад +1

      A reunion of the Poffos as a team might have given Lanny a real push! He was struggling as a job scrub in Mid South for years!

  • @seangoodwin3046
    @seangoodwin3046 29 дней назад

    2:30: Why did Jim Ross only mention Dennis as someone coming in soon?
    Dennis is probably the only name the Mid South fans would have recognized in 1983. Bobby hasn't left Tennessee territory (including Alabama and Kentucky and Indiana etc) yet, I don't think, and I know Jim had not at that time.

  • @031767sc
    @031767sc 2 года назад +1

    artwork needs to be a t-shirt

  • @EnergyFitnessCX
    @EnergyFitnessCX 3 года назад +1

    Jim in Daisy Dukes sold me into clicking on this video lol

  • @78bcat
    @78bcat 3 года назад +3

    What's funny is that Bill Watts gets hired by WCW and decided he needed to recreate the "dark days" described above...rather than find a new, fresh mind to handle creative.
    Bill Watts is one of the legendary idiots of the industry...

    • @chrischar9428
      @chrischar9428 3 года назад +3

      Go ahead and list your wrestling resume and then we'll compare it against bills

    • @chrischar9428
      @chrischar9428 3 года назад +2

      Watts did what he was told to do by WCW cut costs

  • @stormthepitbull
    @stormthepitbull 3 года назад +3

    Nice Legs Jim !

    • @fatalsniper3413
      @fatalsniper3413 3 года назад

      Im trying to smash. Never knew i liked men

  • @MrQuinn-tc3uo
    @MrQuinn-tc3uo 3 года назад +1

    ha! corny in the "daisy dukes". he he he.

  • @JoJo-ie8sl
    @JoJo-ie8sl 3 года назад +2

    Travis....whyyyyyyy

  • @tacosworld-oq5tv
    @tacosworld-oq5tv 9 месяцев назад

    Cornette in daisy dukes is scarier then any horror movie

  • @markstaffieri5732
    @markstaffieri5732 3 года назад +3

    Awesome conversation about the greatest decade of wrestling. In those days, Volkoff could have generated heat in any promotion. How ironic that he was Croatian.

  • @kennethanway7979
    @kennethanway7979 11 месяцев назад

    Please turn up the volume!!!!!!!

  • @kennethanway7979
    @kennethanway7979 11 месяцев назад

    I'm old, deaf, andmy tablet is crappy!

  • @JeremyPeeples
    @JeremyPeeples Год назад

    The Darsow Daisy Dukes!

    • @impalaman9707
      @impalaman9707 Год назад

      Yeah, I never did understand him wearing anything like that in the North woods of Minnesota!

  • @rickjones5377
    @rickjones5377 3 года назад +3

    I think the last mid south show for 83 was Bill Watts slapping Jim Cornette I've been watching old mid south shows.

  • @ChrisC11291980
    @ChrisC11291980 Год назад

    What years did Grizzly Smith book for Watts?

  • @DrRonThomasJr
    @DrRonThomasJr 3 года назад

    Cornette doing a great Missy Hyatt (can't blame Heckel for putting him in a Cornette shirt rather than the classic red PWI)

  • @thetheoryguy5544
    @thetheoryguy5544 3 года назад +2

    Jim Thicc Tho 🤣

  • @russellcampbell3500
    @russellcampbell3500 3 года назад

    Jim I never thought daisy dukes would burn my eyes. Thanks for that Jim u ruined my childhood. Lol

  • @Breakfast_of_Champions
    @Breakfast_of_Champions 3 года назад

    This is a virtual catcall.

  • @NORWOODShadow
    @NORWOODShadow 3 года назад +1

    Does Jim actually see his thumbnails?

  • @theoelliott4649
    @theoelliott4649 3 года назад +1

    Cornette got played in the artist work for this one.

  • @davidmreyes77
    @davidmreyes77 3 года назад

    Let’s take a moment to pause and reflect on the video thumbnail art.

  • @magnificentone4686
    @magnificentone4686 3 года назад

    To get One Man Gang and Bob Orton Jr. from ICW paid off big dividends

  • @DenkyManner
    @DenkyManner 3 года назад

    *looking from foot to head*
    _Whhiiiit_-NOPE

  • @ddlk9913
    @ddlk9913 3 года назад +2

    Hard to believe Jim approved that absurd graphic

    • @travisheckel3788
      @travisheckel3788 3 года назад +7

      Lol, he doesn’t. He gives myself and Brian free reign

  • @mjcastro82
    @mjcastro82 3 года назад

    Corn makes a mighty fine snack

  • @brandonizaguirre2963
    @brandonizaguirre2963 3 года назад +1

    I see Jim has been in Sonny Kiss' closet. Probably the same one he came out of.

  • @ernestoj.infante2433
    @ernestoj.infante2433 3 года назад

    Jim’s pic lmao 🤷‍♂️😏

  • @ericgilbert56
    @ericgilbert56 3 года назад

    Please don't make me visualise Jim in those shorts.

  • @peterriverajr6899
    @peterriverajr6899 3 года назад

    Was there an issue between Dundee and Macho that i dont know about

    • @KayFabe87
      @KayFabe87 3 года назад +1

      Big time issue. Plenty of shoot interviews and stories from both Dundee's perspective and the Poffo (Savage) perspective. The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle, but all agree that there was a pistol involved in the most notable incident.

    • @peterriverajr6899
      @peterriverajr6899 3 года назад +1

      @@KayFabe87 are these shoots on youtube id like to hear the stories. Thank you by the way

    • @KayFabe87
      @KayFabe87 3 года назад +1

      @@peterriverajr6899 : Plenty of shoots all over RUclips. Pretty much any shoot interview with Bill Dundee or Lanny Poffo will reference this incident.

    • @peterriverajr6899
      @peterriverajr6899 3 года назад

      @@KayFabe87 thanks im gonna go listen to some

  • @Am0ment0fB
    @Am0ment0fB 3 года назад +1

    Second too!

  • @joeygrunge
    @joeygrunge 3 года назад

    Look at the gams on Jimmy

  • @osaji922
    @osaji922 3 года назад

    Why's Jim look like Sonny Kiss?

  • @anthonydaro4134
    @anthonydaro4134 3 года назад

    Jeff sword 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

  • @GTA-qv8pk
    @GTA-qv8pk 3 года назад

    Sh!t that thumbnail is terrible before you know it Jim will be 69ing in an AEW ring

  • @IamBrixTM
    @IamBrixTM 3 года назад

    what tHE FUCK

  • @avid2112
    @avid2112 3 года назад

    Yum yum cornette

  • @johnkelsiemcnair7787
    @johnkelsiemcnair7787 3 года назад

    Jim, you're the greatest but that pic of you in those "catch me, pound me" hot pants is disturbing to say the least.

  • @ivaerz4977
    @ivaerz4977 3 года назад

    That thumbnail should be reported

  • @Phantasia_Workshop
    @Phantasia_Workshop 3 года назад +1

    Worst. Thumbnail. Ever.

  • @Am0ment0fB
    @Am0ment0fB 3 года назад +1

    First again!

    • @Am0ment0fB
      @Am0ment0fB 3 года назад

      I'm the best!

    • @maxxdahl6062
      @maxxdahl6062 3 года назад

      @@Am0ment0fB First means nothing, 3rd requires talent.

    • @Am0ment0fB
      @Am0ment0fB 3 года назад

      @@maxxdahl6062 Well then, I was actually first, second, and third. So, I get all the ribbons! Ha.

    • @maxxdahl6062
      @maxxdahl6062 3 года назад +1

      @@Am0ment0fB Nope, you were not.

    • @Am0ment0fB
      @Am0ment0fB 3 года назад +2

      @@maxxdahl6062 yeah. I totally was. I'm the best!

  • @kensmith1813
    @kensmith1813 3 года назад +1

    1st