Jim Cornette on The Honky Tonk Man

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  • @Maxx_XIII
    @Maxx_XIII Год назад +9

    I was never a fan of Honky Tonk Man's Elvis impersonator gimmick, but I loved him on the mic, loved him as a heel AND a face, and he tells great stories. I could listen to him shoot for not hours, but DAYS. Underrated performer, and he seems like a really cool guy in person.

  • @toddwebb7521
    @toddwebb7521 3 года назад +55

    I've always liked him just because I was good at using his character on NES wrestlemania

    • @juliangallegos7627
      @juliangallegos7627 Год назад +1

      Dang I forgot about that game LOL I'mma go back and downloaded some emulators

    • @zitofan4life
      @zitofan4life Год назад +1

      Fair enough 😂

    • @IAEMThatIAEM
      @IAEMThatIAEM 4 месяца назад

      worst game ever

  • @WildBillCox13
    @WildBillCox13 5 лет назад +45

    "A good heel should have a beer belly and pipestem arms . . ." --Honkers.

    • @7thson555
      @7thson555 3 года назад +8

      Buggy Whip arms

    • @WildBillCox13
      @WildBillCox13 3 года назад +1

      @@7thson555 Thanks for the correction.

  • @ellisdtrails420
    @ellisdtrails420 3 года назад +18

    Its the fuckin Honky Tonk Man. He's a legend. Hogan and Goldberg each had 2 moves. Legends. Wrestling is so fun to watch for so many different reasons. Wrestling is fuckin awesome. Period.

  • @davidderifield3820
    @davidderifield3820 5 лет назад +39

    Seen Wayne Ferris at his comedy show last year. Worth the 15-20 bucks I paid.

    • @ReginaldForman
      @ReginaldForman 4 года назад +6

      Hes hilarious off stage so i can only imagine when hes on stage

    • @timmylong833
      @timmylong833 3 года назад +4

      How did you get all of those bucks in the building?

    • @davidderifield3820
      @davidderifield3820 3 года назад +4

      @@timmylong833 very carefully

    • @timmylong833
      @timmylong833 3 года назад +2

      @@davidderifield3820 interesting, kudos to you for that.

    • @Ijustinsultedyou
      @Ijustinsultedyou 2 года назад

      No you didn’t

  •  5 лет назад +18

    To this day, I still sing Honky Tonk Man of Piledriver. Love the dig at Jake The Snake:
    I pick a mean guitar
    I wear a blue suede shoes
    You oughtta hear me sing
    The Snakeskin Blues

  • @Journey-of-1000-Miles
    @Journey-of-1000-Miles 2 года назад +6

    I remember him as honky-tonk Wayne in the stampede days. He has always been a huge pain in the ass! LOL he is a terrific he’ll

  • @bonlouis8808
    @bonlouis8808 6 лет назад +69

    Should’ve won the tag titles with Valentine. Loved Rhythm n Blues

    • @jonathanduplantis1403
      @jonathanduplantis1403 4 года назад +2

      Wtf, really????

    • @grabbity
      @grabbity 4 года назад +3

      Best name ever for a tag team that formed from two singles IMO.

    • @joemama7163
      @joemama7163 4 года назад +1

      You should stop doing drugs.

    • @DeeEllEff
      @DeeEllEff 4 года назад +2

      I think the main reason that Valentine didn’t like it was the jet black dye-job they forced on him! Crazy looking.

    • @sstrykert
      @sstrykert Год назад

      It had fun potential

  • @ivanwesley8182
    @ivanwesley8182 3 года назад +9

    Blonde Bombers were excellent and the concession stand thing was awesome

  • @SuperFunkmachine
    @SuperFunkmachine 6 лет назад +13

    The man was a carpenter and a good one, a steady hand.

  • @adamrobinette139
    @adamrobinette139 3 года назад +28

    Honky was a tremendous heater back in the 80's, and I appreciate that he's dedicated his life to the business. And he seems like a cool guy. But he blames everyone under the sun for not staying on top. It was the fact that fans lost momentum for the gimmick, and he ceased to draw heat. Fans didn't want to see him get beat up, they just wanted him not to be there. I still remember his last Wrestlemania during his big run. He and Valentine came out in a pink caddy (Driven by DDP) with a huge entrance, did his song which I'm sure was supposed to whip fans into some sort of a frenzy of heat, and there was zero reaction to it. No 'heat'. A burning indifference. Like 'Welp, time for a piss' indifference. It was brutal. Then the Bushwackers attacked them, and the transition to that was so awful that the fans didn't respond at all 'Wait...they're not vendors! That's LUKE...and....BUTCH....the BUSHWACKERS!!!'. When you are a heater, you take up that much time in that big of an event, and the fans wish both the faces and heels would get the hell out of the ring and for the segment to be over with, your gimmick has run it's course. Like it's 30 years later, and HTM still hasn't gotten the memo those WM fans sent him that year. He's still blaming Ric Flair, or whatever, in his 10,000th shoot interview.

    • @a.j.hellraiser8993
      @a.j.hellraiser8993 3 года назад

      Honky tonk man is a pile of crap

    • @MichaelWilliams-so1pq
      @MichaelWilliams-so1pq 2 года назад +1

      Yep, these guys forget that our attention span isn't long enough to see the same old same old. I like Honky Tonk in general. Wish him well like I do all of these guys that added a lot to my childhood.

  • @eddiewilkinson9794
    @eddiewilkinson9794 5 лет назад +9

    Remember Austin Idol painting the black stripe then he was Skunk-Rock Wayne Ferris, good run between those two

  • @gurtblack3471
    @gurtblack3471 4 года назад +6

    HTM. Love him for his work when he wrestled and also his shoot interviews. modern fans,who didn’t love his cameo in rumble 2001?

  • @darylmixan8170
    @darylmixan8170 Год назад +2

    Honky was so good! I hated him as a kid and now love his old matches... he would always milk it

  • @dmurphy1578
    @dmurphy1578 3 года назад +7

    Great heel. Hated him as a kid. Once I was clued in I loved him.

    • @thespaceram2879
      @thespaceram2879 3 года назад +1

      Honky Tonk Man quoting Thank you very much! You are a great audience!

    • @ao6536
      @ao6536 3 года назад +1

      Same

  • @danbernardi6599
    @danbernardi6599 2 года назад +2

    Hey Jim - - loved the Honky Tonk Man !!

  • @christopherstark7204
    @christopherstark7204 5 лет назад +2

    Thanks for mentioning Tupelo Corny. He is also related to Jimmy Hart

  • @osaji922
    @osaji922 6 лет назад +86

    I don't know who this is but he looks cool, cocky and bad.

    • @CarnalKid
      @CarnalKid 6 лет назад +3

      Really? Looks like a goofy hick to me.

    • @TheHibbitydibbity
      @TheHibbitydibbity 5 лет назад +2

      @Dorre Notyalc it's hard to tell on the Internet sometimes, but you're joking, right?

    • @Chase_H
      @Chase_H 4 года назад +2

      @@TheHibbitydibbity Well who the hell is it then?!

    • @antoni.guzman
      @antoni.guzman 4 года назад +11

      He’s the greatest intercontinental champ of all times

    • @DeeEllEff
      @DeeEllEff 4 года назад

      Antoni Guzman To hear him tell it, anyway.

  • @OliverGuerrero82
    @OliverGuerrero82 5 лет назад +8

    Please say there’s footage of The Kisser 😂

  • @piercetapes
    @piercetapes 5 лет назад +4

    Blonde Bombers were a great tag team

  • @timlenord1
    @timlenord1 5 лет назад +6

    Way way way better at shooting than he was at Wrestling

  • @rtenny7
    @rtenny7 2 года назад

    I need to Google and some of the previous Ferris gimmicks,Cornette mentioned......I'm surprised Cornette didn't mention Ferris was part of the Midnight Express at one point..

  • @wilhelmheinrich7502
    @wilhelmheinrich7502 Год назад

    I used to have a Honky Tonk Man parody song. “I’m the Honky Tonk Man, I’m big in Japan!?”

  • @Ken9284
    @Ken9284 6 лет назад +4

    The Kisser!

  • @Whatsthatsmell69.
    @Whatsthatsmell69. 3 года назад +9

    The Greatest Intercontinental Champion of All Time.

  • @reclusiveperson9409
    @reclusiveperson9409 6 лет назад +17

    HTM man was great on the mic and drawing heat. His in ring work was awful. Then again, most people in the WWF weren’t solid wrestlers back then. WWF wasn’t about in ring quality in the 1980’s.

    • @jasonchandler2463
      @jasonchandler2463 5 лет назад +2

      Damn are you dilusional the in ring quality was it's all time best in the 80s.

    • @jasonchandler2463
      @jasonchandler2463 5 лет назад

      @DICK LONG the in ring work of the 80s as well as the angles were at it's all time best the wrestlers even said that,you obviously don't know what your talking about,you don't understand in ring work and the art of it.

    • @jasonchandler2463
      @jasonchandler2463 5 лет назад

      @DICK LONG that's not true Bret was one of the best so was dr.d so we're the killer bees mr.perfect so was Paul roma and Jim powers,what you don't seem to understand is that alot of those characters weren't supposed to be great grapplers like Bundy, piper,and various others their characters weren't supposed to be great grapplers but the in ring work was at it's very best you don't understand the art of it all u have to do is watch it and you'll see it unless you can't recognize talent.

    • @jpowers55
      @jpowers55 5 лет назад +2

      @@jasonchandler2463 Really? In the 80s you had Hogan, Warrior and a bunch of big guys and muscle guys who could not wrestle. The ring work was at it's best in the early and mid 2000s when guys like Benoit, Angle, Eddie and Edge were around.

    • @Thor-Orion
      @Thor-Orion Год назад

      @@jpowers55 the 80’s WWF DID have in ring workers who could go, but they were kept in the undercard basically until the Steroid scandal.

  • @SaleGuy
    @SaleGuy 6 лет назад +11

    HTM needs to make a comeback! He is still in his prime!

    • @Makron5
      @Makron5 6 лет назад

      What? How? He can't wrestle anymore. Who would he manage.

    • @brianstone3722
      @brianstone3722 5 лет назад +4

      His prime? Hahahahaha just stop

    • @cmm98
      @cmm98 5 лет назад

      Uh no I don't think he's exactly in shape and the age

    • @ReginaldForman
      @ReginaldForman 4 года назад +2

      Come on folks you really didnt get the joke?

  • @petermcfookens
    @petermcfookens Год назад

    Honky and Jim would be great on a podcast together

  • @BadLuckLuke
    @BadLuckLuke 3 года назад +3

    Before a rockabilly he was a punk???

  • @pusanghalaw
    @pusanghalaw 6 лет назад +6

    only saw him in wwf: hated him then, miss him now. then i saw the concession stand brawl - he's now in my top 5.

  • @chrishebditch654
    @chrishebditch654 4 года назад

    No sorry he said Buggywhip Arms on that 3hour and 5 hours shoot!

  • @StarOasis26
    @StarOasis26 9 месяцев назад

    I love honky tonk. He's the greatest intercontinental champion!

  • @johnbrink5690
    @johnbrink5690 4 года назад +2

    Never forget Warrior won I C belt open challenge. When his music hit people went crazy the hole 12 seconds. Lol

  • @matthewgabbard6415
    @matthewgabbard6415 Месяц назад

    Oh I get it, “the kisser” I don’t like it.

  • @joshpotts8669
    @joshpotts8669 3 года назад

    He was also Danny Condrey

  • @thejuggernaut5327
    @thejuggernaut5327 Год назад

    When I was 17, I wanted to see, Jake, Steamboat, Savage, or anyone really, just straight up murder Honky. That’s heat!

  • @kingsports1113
    @kingsports1113 5 лет назад +1

    Bloodboomer Memphis before wwe lol

  • @allamericananti-christ666
    @allamericananti-christ666 3 года назад

    Holy shit, does Corny have a book out? The rest of em do. If not, he should. But only if he writes it himself. Thats the only way I'd be interested in it. No one else would do it justice.

  • @jasondelvaux3036
    @jasondelvaux3036 2 года назад +2

    Definitely not likeable. Just not a good wrestler at all. But a good heel, I suppose, but mainly because everybody hated him.

  • @jaquesteddyruxpin932
    @jaquesteddyruxpin932 3 года назад

    Wasn't a great technical wrestler? Is there another Honky Tonk Man that I don't know about?

  • @randylewis7116
    @randylewis7116 3 года назад

    Elvis had a 727 honky Tonk man has a 747

  • @sugartbube
    @sugartbube 4 года назад

    Fcuking HEEL HEAT!! Couldn't stand him. He did his job

  • @matrixrevolution2600
    @matrixrevolution2600 4 года назад +4

    Never was one of my favorite. Never like the gimmick. Never like the look.
    Hell... I never saw him in my eyes as a real wrestler.

  • @michaell6807
    @michaell6807 Год назад

    "if your cousin made you come out with your..." Nope💋

  • @toma.4808
    @toma.4808 Год назад

    Greatest IC champion of all time.

    • @PoorMansInvesting
      @PoorMansInvesting 10 месяцев назад +1

      Refused to drop to Mach, got PAID to drop to Warrior. Goes to WCW and gets fired for demanding more to drop the TV title. After Hogan, he's most ridiculous person in wrestling.

    • @yakamarezlife
      @yakamarezlife 5 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@PoorMansInvestingyup only reason he is relevant at all is he's Jerry's cousin

  • @Panwere36
    @Panwere36 3 года назад +1

    Of course HTM (Wayne Feris) does as little as possible.. As much as I like him, he is one of the most overrated singles wrestlers of all time. I will say if he does have heat with Lawler, he has a right.

  • @plainbrownwrapper
    @plainbrownwrapper 3 года назад +1

    Honky inspired Orange Cassidy lol

  • @GoHerd2001
    @GoHerd2001 2 года назад +3

    "The Greatest Intercontinental Champion of All Time!"

  • @PaulieD1984
    @PaulieD1984 4 года назад +3

    Never liked the Wanky Tank Man he had that Jeff Jarrett appeal to me

    • @RedfishCarolina
      @RedfishCarolina 4 года назад +1

      You know I'd have to agree with you here.

  • @mikevicchiarelli2369
    @mikevicchiarelli2369 2 года назад

    Jim fantasizes about the time of the territories when a couple eye raked and chops and a throw outside the ring sold 10 minutes. “Yeah, no”

  • @chrischar1969
    @chrischar1969 3 года назад +1

    HE SUCKED THE MOST

  • @christhornycroft3686
    @christhornycroft3686 2 года назад

    Another stupid cartoon character in the WWF. I'm sure he was a good technical wrestler, but he never got to show it.

  • @LarryStranger
    @LarryStranger 10 месяцев назад

    Everything about honky tonk sucked. From the gimmick to the actual person behind the gimmick, it was all terrible. While I don't trust Eric Bischoff's stories, I get a kick out of him talking about finally firing him.

  • @joebrown8503
    @joebrown8503 4 года назад +1

    I wanna see Kirk Cameron debate Jim Cornette he'd absolutely destroy Cornette

    • @grabbity
      @grabbity 4 года назад +2

      Lmao

    • @RedfishCarolina
      @RedfishCarolina 4 года назад +3

      Listen, I'm about as conservative as they come, have been a Bible believing Christian for the past 20 years. But Kirk Cameron (whom I respect as a brother in Christ) wouldn't stand a popsicle's chance in Michael Moore's hand against Cornette. Cornette made a solid career out of fast talking, ad-lib promo cutting.

    • @ferox965
      @ferox965 4 года назад +3

      Corny would eviscerate him verbally.

    • @waylonmercy8405
      @waylonmercy8405 3 года назад

      @@RedfishCarolina religion is a sham. The worst people ive learned of or encountered all hid behind the church lol

    • @RedfishCarolina
      @RedfishCarolina 3 года назад +5

      @@waylonmercy8405 Your opinion has been duly noted and categorized as the repetitive, unoriginal cliché that it is.