My baby sitter lived down the street from Jim cornett and the midnight express in alexandria,la. Most of the wrestlers lived here because it was midpoint. It was nothing to see jim duggan, butch Reed, Rick steiner and others on a regular basis. That's when i fell in love with wresting.
I used to absolutely love watching mid-south wrestling when able to catch it on cable TV. Which to you youngins was not as easy as it sounds. Ted DiBiase, Hacksaw Jim, Dr. Death….later, The Blade Runners (Sting & Rock…a Road Warriors interpretation. Members became Sting and The Ultimate Warrior respectfully)…..Watts expanding and changing it from mid south to UWF was the beginning of the end. Long live the territories!!!!
Growing up in Oklahoma City Mid-South Wrestling was a main stay. Going to the old Myriad and State Fairgrounds arena was an every two week thing. Plus there was the Dallas territory as well.
I wonder if Jim ever played DnD. The way he paints a picture with words, his love of stat keeping, and his creative mind would have served him well as a dungeon master.
“This ogre is massive. He’s like if you put Haystacks Calhoun on Andre’s shoulders…” The local king would be based on Lawler, and would insult you before sending you on the quest. It would be hilarious.
Hey guys thanks for reviewing I enjoy listening about my local wrestling history. Wed go to the ringling brothers circus at the centroplex and also saw my first raw there. The city in partnership with LSU is building a new $350M building for sports and entertainment presumably on LSUs campus.
I love these segments so damn much !!! I pop when these pop up on my feed every time !!!!! Jim is a treasure trove of wrestling knowledge . And it is so awesome he documented all this stuff as he went . I wish most wrestlers did that as it would give so much to talk about from different perspectives in the days of podcasts . But back then , who could've known ?
When i started driving in 96 a gallon of regular unleaded was $.98. Cornette couldnt have been paying more than 70 cents a gallon so $800 payoffs a night was a fortune
Jim Cornette isn't just giving his schedule here, he's breaking down pay offs, how travel was done, explaining how matches were put together, how continuity was kept with television, giving you every detail you need to realize professional wrestling is not a goddam stage play! Yes, finishes are decided, predetermined, worked, but this is not goddam theater! Brian Last, stop describing professional wrestling in terms of a stage play. It is no more theater than gridiron football is rugby, than baseball is cricket, than video games are cartoons, than carnivals are circuses, than cars are boats. To use the same terms for both is to do a disservice to both.
Traveling is the best and worst thing, i have a certain period of time i love driving, i love driving in storms/rain at night, makes the drive so much easier when you're almost the only person on the road. Nothing more peaceful.
@@DMS-pq8 Such an embarrassing take. You think it makes you knowledgeable, when in fact it shows how uneducated you are on wrestling and its history. 🙄
From age 12-14, I went to nearly every tv taping at Irish McNeil's. Mid-South Wrestling was a vital part of my childhood. I HATED Cornette with a passion. Love Corny now, of course. Through Corny's stories, I get to revisit my childhood. Thank you, Corny and Brian!! Also, Brian: please do 1984 on the Mid-South podcast with Mike Mills. I have listened multiple times to 1982-1983, but you stopped just when it was getting good (1984). Thanks for this great content.
To be fair we would get the PPV and we would see the Rock and Roll or Road Warriors beat you and the Midnight Express but the next Saturday you’d come out and talk about how you ran them out of town and whipped them like dogs. I’d get so mad as a kid because I knew you were lying. 😂
40 years ago?!!!! I was 11. We didn’t get Mid South on TV in Eastern Ky where I grew up. I didn’t know about Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express until I saw them on WTBS the night year.
I can’t wait for the Omnibus of all the month by months. Also hoping we cover the JCP years again through fresh eyes. When they were originally covered, a lot was different than it is now.
As a native Oklahoman of 32 years, it really grinds my gears when you call it Oak city, Jim. It’s referred to most commonly as “the city” or okc, but never ever oak city.
Sometimes they were not paid at all, or they'd get literally $25 after driving their own car 4 hours one way to the gig, spent two hours setting up the ring and other odds n ends, wrestled, helped take the ring down, and at the end of the day they spent 12 hours of their own time, their own gas, and got almost nothing for it.
Apart from Will actually busts his ass in the ring and Jim just stood at ring side and sat on his arse in a car stuffing his face with cheese burgers lol the way he talks you would think he was one of the wrestlers. Talk about living off others hard sweat. Sure he rode a lot etc but too comment on wrestlers of today and the highly athletic matches they put on is ridiculous. Jim is nothing more than a manager and backstage figure....Steve Kearn said it best ''Jim Cornette was just a fkin manager''.
@@SonnyBubba He doesn't get that the focus on the business was the house show. Television was just the infomercial to get people to pay to see what happens in the arena. The house show was the "show", and just like a play you perform the show for the new audience all around the loop until the next show. He just doesn't get it, but thinks he's being cute and has Jim in a "gotcha" when really he's just an ignorant, cliché IWC mark.
I bet ai can then it can be hype when awe naw is the dip apout for oil amd branches whispering in the breeze for the fine and devine that forgot the faith and joy have a naturally selective footprint that is able to figure it the @#$&out and be the truth example is knowledgeable power that shines when happy is in self all on the same
I remember going to the shows in tulsa,man those were the days!
Long Live The Territories!!!
I was born and raised in Hammond. I'll never tire of hearing Jim talk about Louisiana.
My baby sitter lived down the street from Jim cornett and the midnight express in alexandria,la. Most of the wrestlers lived here because it was midpoint. It was nothing to see jim duggan, butch Reed, Rick steiner and others on a regular basis. That's when i fell in love with wresting.
I used to absolutely love watching mid-south wrestling when able to catch it on cable TV. Which to you youngins was not as easy as it sounds. Ted DiBiase, Hacksaw Jim, Dr. Death….later, The Blade Runners (Sting & Rock…a Road Warriors interpretation. Members became Sting and The Ultimate Warrior respectfully)…..Watts expanding and changing it from mid south to UWF was the beginning of the end. Long live the territories!!!!
Jim has a pair of bombers in that artwork 😂
And a smelly fish box
This is the kinda content I love
I'm looking forward to listening to Jim's eulogy for Kevin Sullivan.
Me too. Kevin does not get enough credit. At all.
@@nicholasfarrell8403the only credit I see him getting is from the insane people who think he killed Chris Benoit
LMAO the fact that 1984 is 40-years ago is mind boggling to me where has time gone these videos are always fascinating 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Only useless pieces of shit spam stupid shitty emojis.
Trash.
You're 12, be quiet.
1984 Richard Ramirez started his killing spree
Oh shit... I'm old...🥺
Growing up in Oklahoma City Mid-South Wrestling was a main stay. Going to the old Myriad and State Fairgrounds arena was an every two week thing. Plus there was the Dallas territory as well.
This trip started on my second birthday, February 27th. Two years later, I'd start watching wrestling at 4 years old
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This unexpected treat, here. Thanks guys.
Travis that thumbnail is diabolical!!! 😭😭
Oh, good! Something to listen to at work!
Make that money! 💰
I wonder if Jim ever played DnD. The way he paints a picture with words, his love of stat keeping, and his creative mind would have served him well as a dungeon master.
People tend to only have a mind for certain fantasy role playing. It be tough to be great at both Wrestling and DnD
“This ogre is massive. He’s like if you put Haystacks Calhoun on Andre’s shoulders…”
The local king would be based on Lawler, and would insult you before sending you on the quest.
It would be hilarious.
I miss the Territory days
That thumbnail...
I know. I cannot unsee it.
Frankly Scarlett...I don't give a damn!
@@kennethanway7979 Cornette's version might be a little less-PG.
I'd like to hear some months from their run in Crockett
Hey guys thanks for reviewing I enjoy listening about my local wrestling history. Wed go to the ringling brothers circus at the centroplex and also saw my first raw there. The city in partnership with LSU is building a new $350M building for sports and entertainment presumably on LSUs campus.
Nooo....onee....rants like Cornette, calls out scrubs like Cornette!
15:00 that’s right, the local tv station would only show the promo for that particular market.
Love hearing these schedule episodes keep em going
Day 5 of asking for Brian Last's greatest outbursts (while Jim laughs in the background like a proud father) omnibus.
5minutes with video footage would be worth it. Split screen so you could see Brians face react to Jim
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Love the flash backs!!!
I love these segments so damn much !!! I pop when these pop up on my feed every time !!!!! Jim is a treasure trove of wrestling knowledge . And it is so awesome he documented all this stuff as he went . I wish most wrestlers did that as it would give so much to talk about from different perspectives in the days of podcasts . But back then , who could've known ?
When i started driving in 96 a gallon of regular unleaded was $.98. Cornette couldnt have been paying more than 70 cents a gallon so $800 payoffs a night was a fortune
Jim Cornette isn't just giving his schedule here, he's breaking down pay offs, how travel was done, explaining how matches were put together, how continuity was kept with television, giving you every detail you need to realize professional wrestling is not a goddam stage play!
Yes, finishes are decided, predetermined, worked, but this is not goddam theater! Brian Last, stop describing professional wrestling in terms of a stage play. It is no more theater than gridiron football is rugby, than baseball is cricket, than video games are cartoons, than carnivals are circuses, than cars are boats. To use the same terms for both is to do a disservice to both.
I'm only a 1 mile away from the fairgrounds in Jackson, MS . I have traveled over 100,000 miles.
Traveling is the best and worst thing, i have a certain period of time i love driving, i love driving in storms/rain at night, makes the drive so much easier when you're almost the only person on the road. Nothing more peaceful.
Seems like Bill Watts put the Tag team belts in 1984 ahead of the North American Title. Headline act was for the tag team belts. Pure genius!
1984 is one of the most important years in professional wrestling. Hulk Hogan won his first WWF Championship that year and the rest is history
A dark year if you weren't a fan of McMahon's cartoon wrestling
@@DMS-pq8 1.) I said “important”, which is objectively correct in this case; that word does not imply “good” or “bad”
@@DMS-pq8 Such an embarrassing take. You think it makes you knowledgeable, when in fact it shows how uneducated you are on wrestling and its history. 🙄
@@jonathanturbide2232wow bro. Please do educate the rest of us? 🥹
@@DMS-pq8you’re just mad cuz you pitch a tent to 90% headlocks and arm bar rasslin matches
I was 21 at the time, great era, life was very different, good times, good people, what a time to be alive!!! Fortunate 🙏🏼
Agreed 👍
This entire 1:12:34 was exceptional, very entertaining listen.
From age 12-14, I went to nearly every tv taping at Irish McNeil's. Mid-South Wrestling was a vital part of my childhood. I HATED Cornette with a passion. Love Corny now, of course. Through Corny's stories, I get to revisit my childhood. Thank you, Corny and Brian!! Also, Brian: please do 1984 on the Mid-South podcast with Mike Mills. I have listened multiple times to 1982-1983, but you stopped just when it was getting good (1984). Thanks for this great content.
To be fair we would get the PPV and we would see the Rock and Roll or Road Warriors beat you and the Midnight Express but the next Saturday you’d come out and talk about how you ran them out of town and whipped them like dogs. I’d get so mad as a kid because I knew you were lying. 😂
40 years ago?!!!! I was 11. We didn’t get Mid South on TV in Eastern Ky where I grew up.
I didn’t know about Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express until I saw them on WTBS the night year.
The Jackson Mississippi to OKC trip today is still a long day in a vehicle, at 55 miles/hour would be gruesome.
I can’t wait for the Omnibus of all the month by months. Also hoping we cover the JCP years again through fresh eyes. When they were originally covered, a lot was different than it is now.
As a native Oklahoman of 32 years, it really grinds my gears when you call it Oak city, Jim. It’s referred to most commonly as “the city” or okc, but never ever oak city.
YES!!! More of this stuff!!!!
I love this series, I hope it becomes more regular
Bill Watts out there like a Mark having fun at Jim's expense???😂😂😂😂😂
Porkchop Cash has always been one of my favorite wrestler names of all time 😂
HOLY FUCK Travis beauty and the beast was my favorite Disney WAS ! My favorite until Jim in a dress ruined LMFAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I thought it was gone with the wind.... I'm old.
@@kennethanway7979 looks like both now that u mention it
Jimmie O'Hara 😅😂
I think the intention is Gone with the Wind, but we're a bunch of 90s babies.
@@willielogan4811 its the beauty and the beast dress, the arm bits and cartoon face on the boom box are a giveaway.
Blessed to see all from 1980-Now
A Tale As Old As Time
Good stuff but this was already posted a couple of weeks ago
Jim looking like a snack 😅
Wrestlers got so pimped out back then.
They probably made the equivalent of $10/hr at a job, they just worked 700hrs a month...
Sometimes they were not paid at all, or they'd get literally $25 after driving their own car 4 hours one way to the gig, spent two hours setting up the ring and other odds n ends, wrestled, helped take the ring down, and at the end of the day they spent 12 hours of their own time, their own gas, and got almost nothing for it.
Don’t trust the racket.- Jack Nicholson per Paul Heyman.😂
At the China Club
Beauty And The Beast Live Action
Anyone up for a betting pool on whether Corny reviews When Giants Walked Here?
What about deadpool and wolverine. Oh wait he doesn't leave the house
😂😂😂 Travis and his damned nightmare fuel!
Jim actually posed for this drawing 😚👌 even after the drawing was done he kept posing 👍
These videos of Jim's schedule are too much of a grind for Will Osprey to listen to.
Apart from Will actually busts his ass in the ring and Jim just stood at ring side and sat on his arse in a car stuffing his face with cheese burgers lol the way he talks you would think he was one of the wrestlers. Talk about living off others hard sweat. Sure he rode a lot etc but too comment on wrestlers of today and the highly athletic matches they put on is ridiculous. Jim is nothing more than a manager and backstage figure....Steve Kearn said it best ''Jim Cornette was just a fkin manager''.
@hiddensword9387 agreed. Love Jim, but Stan, Dennis, and Bobby took the bumps mostly. He mostly drove.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Only 19 years before I was born
Not a bad look for Jim.
Travis knows something
AVGN 1,000,000
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Had to read it twice 😂😂😂
Heh, grind. The only thing I know about the grind is grindin' on Triple H's wife. Or something...
Will we ever get Jelly Roll in the artwork?
I think he was in one yesterday or the day before I swear
@@ronin86_Oiyou're right. He was.
history
Gas was a dollar something 4 years ago, Jim.
Drill baby drill
24:52 , 25:16 thumbnail
26:08
Jim Cornett in a dress and with wig scary.
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Doing the same angle for each show is LAZY BOOKING
Just say "I have no reference for how territory wrestling worked"
It’s not lazy if you know the different towns weren’t going to have the same audience.
@@SonnyBubba He doesn't get that the focus on the business was the house show. Television was just the infomercial to get people to pay to see what happens in the arena.
The house show was the "show", and just like a play you perform the show for the new audience all around the loop until the next show.
He just doesn't get it, but thinks he's being cute and has Jim in a "gotcha" when really he's just an ignorant, cliché IWC mark.
Corny
First
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Nobody gives a fuck.
@@revolverrambles Trash.
Uh oh. Another Bill Watts experience. They must've had relations
I bet ai can then it can be hype when awe naw is the dip apout for oil amd branches whispering in the breeze for the fine and devine that forgot the faith and joy have a naturally selective footprint that is able to figure it the @#$&out and be the truth example is knowledgeable power that shines when happy is in self all on the same
This again
Hey look, they talked about something good