Jim Cornette's Deep Dive Into The Biggest Heel In Nashville Wrestling History
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2023
- From Episode 505 of the Jim Cornette Experience
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I love the classic wrestling stuff because I love when Jim is happy. You can hear the excitement in his voice when he talks about it
Jim isn’t a grumpy old man, he’s actually a pretty happy, fun loving guy, there’s just a lot to be grumpy about.
I agree. You can hear his passion and hear what these things really mean to him.
Lmfao
you can tell he'd rather talk about classic wrestling.. but unfortunately most of his cult want him to suffer and sit through modern wrestling and review it so he does it for them.. Jim's too nice
@@flea2789well yeah wouldn't you be slightly grumpy if your lifes passion and work, what your first true love was ended up going into the shitter as a product and overall industry the way wrestling has?? and on top that you have a bunch of young generation that thinks their shit dont stink, literally say stuff like JungleBoy did abt not needing to take advice from old timers and legends like Terry Funk and Jim Ross and a rich nerd mark kid who makes Jim wanna pull his hair out how he shoots himself and his promotion in the foot with the dumb mistakes you know Jim could fix in a weekend of work yet wants to tell everybody how great they doing😂😂
And thats not even getting into the Bucks&Kenny Oliviet hahahhaha
Yeah i would be just as grumpy as Jim lmao
This is so much better than hearing about ratings
More classic wrestling, please!
Yes!!
Yes, PLEASE!
Man, I love hearing stories from back in the day. Sh*t was wild back then. Riots, arrests, attempted murder charges.
Cornette talks about history - before he was EVEN BORN - with such passion, clarity and detail, you might think that he's a time-traveller
Crazy how much more entertaining the OLD SCHOOL STUFF is over today’s Product 💪💪
Jim went deep, deep into his classic wrestling bag. This is a guy I have never heard of or seen.
You Do Now, Btw He’s Only Grumpy When He’s Reviewing The Present that ShitShow of What Pro Wrestling have gone now, Full of Flippy Shit with No Time for Feuds, Drama, Characters, Stories, Btw Wrestling Nowdays have went against realism and Jim Gives his fam rob the present day Shit. But when in-depth with the 1930’s to the early 00’s Were the Golden Days of Professional Wrestling. This is used a overview of Jim Cornette.🤣
I love taking the piss out AEW, but this is the type of content I subscribed for
Exactly
Seconded.
Can we please get a weekly "Guess the Program" segment instead if another "Collision" review? We want more ol school stuff guys!! 🙂
That’s a good idea.
Lol, you probably should email them, boss
Keep giving us more wrestling history we need it!!!!!
Lmao
This is the stuff I started watching 5his channel for back in 2015/2016. I love this stuff
As a lifetime native Nashvillian, this is now my favorite episode of all time lol.
“Oh, the bear’s always the babyface.” All jokes aside, more stuff like this, please!
it’s gonna be a shame when Jim passes. he knows and remembers so many details of pro wrestling history. hearing other wrestling personalities talk about the past, they either don’t remember many things or just don’t know.
Don't even speak those words into existence !!! LOL
He's gonna be around for a long time. He's not that old yet and lost all that weight and seems to be healthier now than he ever was.
@@antonlifer4449as long as he stays away from Ric Flairs WOOOO Juice or whatever it's called
@@antonlifer4449 i didn’t mean to sound negative 😂
Lmfao
Both men are two of the best historians of pro wresting working on the same podcast. Their wrestling history segments are always gold.
23:40 He talking about when my old man was a kid. My dad was born in 1926 and talked about having his crystal radio kit he'd sent away for from an ad in a magazine listening to the Grand Ol' Oprey broadcasts in his room because his mother didn't approve of this new hillbilly music and he never got to hear it on the nice radio, no. He had to listen on this little unpowered receiver through an ear plug. He'd spend hours listening to broadcasts from all over Tennessee, Kentucky and even the Virginias when the weather was right. Much later and far away we'd watch the local wrestling on tv and he took the whole family out to the live shows now and then. My first live show was headlined by Dusty Rhodes at the old Robarts Arena.
Thanks Corny! Love the history of the classics, my era, I was in my late teens & early to mid 20’s during the greatest era in Pro Wrestling, the late 70’s thru the late 80’s
I love this old school talk, I hope Jim will spotlight more talent from the good old days.
Any other show, some chump would be reading this shit from a bunch of google screens they'd set up beforehand - Cornette just KNOWS this stuff!!!
Alright ! Corny talking almost an hour on old school wrestling just made my day !!!
This is what the masses come for Corny!!!!!!
so i grew up in southern middle Tennessee, about an hour south of Nashville. I had no idea there was wrestling there growing up. It was all Memphis, all Jackie all Jerry. I think Jim would tell you East TN is almost a different world from middle and west tn.
Time to get the top shelf bud out, clean the bong up real nice, and rip fat clouds...thanks, Cult Of Cornette!
😂 What’d you eat?!
Damn far more interesting than what we have now
Much better than that shit they call wrestling now ..
What a great story of wrestling..
I bet it was really intense back then to have people rushing the ring trying to kill you and chasing you out of town. The wrestling business today is on life support.
Jesus, the amount of riots that broke out because of him, wow! My modern wrestling influenced mind boggles at that. I cannot imagine that ever happening nowadays. Even when I was watching wrestling back in the very late 90s-late 00s.
Green Shadow was booked beautifully
I would listen more if Cornette would talk about the old school wrestling more instead of the AEW/RAW/NXT etc, etc.
These episodes including the old time wrestling are more interesting than todays wrestling
Let us pray that Tony Khan doesn’t purchase NJPW
If he ran it into the ground (which he would) then I think NOAH and All Japan would be big beneficiaries.
@@IrateTurkey I think it's already been ran into the ground, that's why TK might buy it.
@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma I don't know, it's hard to tell when the coverage by wrestling journalists has reduced it favour of AEW. Difference is I actually like New Japan.
This is why I follow Jim's channel.
I love wrestling and live in Nashville. I LOVE the Nashville stories. I watched old WWF matches at the Municipal Auditorium. I actually got to see The Rockers, Jake the Snake vs Andre (he was HUGE). I also met Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine. Brutus was a DICK. Greg was cool as hell. My all time favorite moment was meeting the Los Conquistadores. I waved at them (I was sitting ring side with some friends and family) they came over and said hello. That broke my 14 year old mind! 😂😂😊
Ha, imagine how bad that guy who threw the salt shaker must have felt that the heel immediately used it to slash up the faces, being kayfabe was in full effect at the time.
There should be masked wrasslers 2day, not just the Luchas & wannabes or the random ones that prolong a storylines with attacks that are already a part of said storylines just to unmask...
I've been waiting for some good classic content. I'm a bit burned out on the modern stuff, for the most part. This is the good stuff.
44:01
I was so into the old school story, Cornette’s ad read caught me completely off guard 😂😂
Dixie Carter
What evil lurks in the hearts of man? The Green Shadow knows!
This is so much better than hearing about how bad AEW is.
Yes the classics 🙌
Fighting Spirit Magazine. I remember buying that at the local newsagent when I was still in secondary school. Articles from Jim and then people like Nick Aldis. Think it even had people like Bret Hart and Jake Roberts writing articles for it at one point. Sad to hear it’s out of business.
Thank GOD! Not AEW talk
I literally can not get enough of these old stories!! We are so lucky to have Corny!!!
Tracy Smothers!!!!
Great stuff! I love the classic stories!!
Ive been gone for a while.i missed hearing the saltiest of salty, JIM CORNETTE
The '40s are like the lost decade for wrestling. We know a good amount of stuff about the pioneer era, and Londos' peak in the '30s, then the '50s is when the TV golden age is, but the '40s seem to be overshadowed by WW2 and such even more than the ''30s were overshadowed by the Depression.
Apparently it was The Riddler
Corn and marriage
Corn and marriage
This Sprite Zero you just can't disparage
This I tell you brother - it's a mixer like no other.
That point about drawing over a million dollars in today's money out of a roller rink with a green sock on his head is why I fell in love with professional wrestling. The realization that these guys were actual athletes who knew actual wrestling holds helped me learn to respect professional wrestling, but that ability to practically make something out of nothing is what made me love it. I might be happier with today's overall lackluster product if I could just understand why so many people don't appreciate that about the business anymore. Why do people want so badly to turn professional wrestling into stag plays, into action adventure television, into live action cartoons, into something more video game like? I enjoys all of those things too, but they aren't professional wrestling. Why don't we make Jazz more like basketball or DDR while we're at it?
These are my favorite segments!!!
Ya gotta give em what they want !
Classic talk done by Corny!
I grew up in Nashville in the 70’s. I missed the Hippodrome by a few years, but always heard of Hippodrome Oldsmobile on West End, I think? But it turns out the actual Hippodrome was down by Centennial Park, by Vanderbilt. Did the Olds dealership move? Or did they just take the name because of how popular it was? Any Nashville old heads know??
Wrestling history is the best
This is why im such a fan or cornie; i love these old tine stories! Keep them coming guys!
I can't imagine watching a 90 minute Broadway 2 out of 3 falls match live. Kill me lol
I feel like gym has years worth of stories to tell, i hope he tells them
Love this content. Love hearing by about bygone era wrestling
Jim Cornette is number 3 on Undertakers Rushmore of great managers.
Mr. Jim ever considered something like substance and amazon for places to write articles and/or book ideas.i definitely feel like there would be interest in seeing more from him in regards to wrestling history.
Oh to have a time machine!
Fighting Spirit held out a long time for a pro wrestling magazine. Surprised I didn't hear about when they specifically went under though.
Mexico City lightweights made/make more than heavyweights more often than not too.
I have a book of Nashville wrestling results from the post war era and it is the Green Shadow all over the place. From the mid 1930s to the mid 1940s he was the biggest draw in the area. Almost every week it seemed. He still made spots into the 1950s. Pat Malone had this mask that did not fit and looked more like a sack on his head - it was creepy looking and just added to the effect.
If George Gulas had leaned into his daddy's boy personality as a heel, he'd have been crazy over and Jarrett never would have taken over the territory.
Dude, Irish heels took so much shit in the South.
Really wish you guys would get back to this more. My wife & I don’t listen nearly as much as we used to because we are just over (honestly, sick & tired of it) the modern Wrestlong reviews. The shows have gone up to 3.5-5.5 hours long now. We just can’t do it, anymore. Used to listen to every second of every show. But, it’s been over 6 months, since we’ve done that. Drive-Thru was CALLED that because it was originally supposed to be the fan questions show. That’s gone to shit now.
But, hopefully they get back to it. Get back to fan questions & more classic wrestling. Only talk about modern wrestling, when there’s big news, a major fan question, & so on. I began listening, before Brian Last was even there. It was still the NPR-voiced chick that would put me to sleep. lol!
I actually enjoy Brian Last. I think he’s good at what he does & he truly knows his shit.
Seriously, if WWE decides to have a physical HOF building, Jim should be the orator for the building. Jim knowledge for wrestling history serve the role well and he can tell stories about why so and so wrestler from the older era in the HOF to the new generations of fans/international fans
Chattanooga the UTC arena
what a guy
Pat malone "the green shadow"
Dick Leaver, I hardly knew her!
This was great!!!!!! 🔥🔥🔥
THE BEGINNING OF THIS IS ALL WE WANT JIM AND BRIAN! A lot of your listeners love the history of wrestling! PLEASE GUYS! I'M BEGGING YOU. Stop with the AEW bashing stuff. We know it's garbage, and I'm sure 99.9% of the people listening to you guys do not like anything about AEW. It's a horrible product. Listening to this historic video is gold! Love this!
AEW being trash is what blew up his channel to be honest. He has old deep dives and other episodes that took 4 years to get over a half million views. He has other stuff that's been out for years that don't have of 60k views. I like his episodes, but let's be realistic. Definitely not a "we".
@scrappy93 I doubt Jim is worried about the money or views from RUclips. It just sounds like "hate" when he and Brian trash AEW. It's "cheap heat". However, you are right about "we". I would rather Jim be in good spirits than ranting about AEW and the BS that happens over there. And I'm sure there are a lot of unstold stories in the history of wrestling that can be shared
Like the one in this video.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Miles Turner. He blocks shots yes. But he’s soft and pacers kept the wrong big man
Please stop reviewing any modern product and focus solely on this stuff for at least a full show. That plus listeners questions as well!
We need more of this and less of the modern stuff. When it comes to modern wrestling I feel like Jim repeats himself because everything is the same. With the history segments, It's always something new.
These classic wrestling segments are better than the modern stuff keep these coming.
WRASSLIN'. sidenote: what the fuck does it take to get admitted to Cult of Cornette group on Facebook? I've tried joining 3 times now.
I agree, it's time to stop watching Collision! Just review Dynamite if you have too 🤦
@@meadowscrazyworldCollison is dead especially since tony khan fired CM Punk whom this show was supposed to be centered around once tony fired Punk Collison feels like a 3rd hour of Dynamite.
It’s just that no one really watches these , and so there’s not much incentive for them to do it as often. If you haven’t noticed, Jim’s channel has been overrun by teenagers or adults with teenage-like minds and their hate boners for AEW.
it's a good mix of both
I wish he would stick with the classic stuff
What's sup uncle Jim Cornette when you coming back on cameo I need you unc 💐🐐
Some of these comment are cringe. On the level of when I heard Ryan Satin say he drives around in his car blasting wwe tunes.
I hate Jims political views. How can he be so intelligent yet love Biden?
First
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Nobody gives a fuck.
Ill be honest love ya jim but his was not interesting ..but to each their own. We love modern reviews cause you rip into them and the funny banter. I respect the classic wrestling stuff but ill be honst its not as entertaining.
Speak for yourself.
Wonder if thats the same bear Dutch talked about?
17:55 Imagine dudes like that today but with some vince money, buying panda bears and taking them out on tour. China allows first ever panda bear wrestling match next summer in Saudi Arabia!
Haha. Genius radio program ended with a nice manscape commercial.
I miss the old jobber-squash matches! Some reason I always enjoyed them lmao..I just rewatched a old RAW, Had to be Jan 1994 and Yoko literally destroyed some dude on that banzai drop lmao! You could see the jobber saying something to ref when camera pans back down and it is insane to see! I don’t see how that didn’t break his ribs/Chest. Just something about old WCW and WWF squash matches. Those old crap shows too like the Power Hour or WCW Pro I like to watch too lol..WWF Mania or whatever the Todd Pettingale one was lmao, Miss those days
Please stop watching aew and just do shows like this.
I'm with you on that!
3rd listen