Jim's shoot interviews on Russo and Jim Herd are epic. I swear 100 years from now you'll be able to visit Jim's final resting place, mention the name Vince Russo, and the dirt will start spouting F-bombs.
Russo was head writer during the WWE's peak period "The Attitude Era". Jim Cornette was a two-bit manager who has been fired from every company he has worked for. You have shown that you have no love of professional wrestling. Piss off and go and follow something else. You won't be missed, and neither will Jim when he dies (which hopefully is sooner rather than later).
I like Awesome Kong, she’s one of the greatest heel women wrestlers of all time. And she always took care of her opponents and never tried to intentionally injure anyone during matches. I like that too!
That reporter asking Ian Rotten his opening question was one of the funniest slow burn jokes I've ever heard. I expected him to just keep listing things and never actually ask a question.
Thanks so much for finding, listening to and giving credit to the excellent 2011 shoot interview Jerry Wiseman did with Ian Rotten for his “And Then The Bell Rings” radio show. When I was on Twitter I followed Wiseman and told him how much I loved what he did and said, and he followed me back and we had some good conversations about wrestling at times. He’s a great guy and I’m really glad he took the time to talk to me like he did!
@@modru2u252SMW is underrated as hell. People dog it for not lasting long but it was never going to be a big federation. They're missing the point and in effect miss out on some good TV wrestling.
@@modru2u252 not exactly. They had more of a working agreement with them due to Cornette being friendly with guys like Dennis Coralluzzo. So it was more along the lines of a talent exchange. They featured NWAs champions at the time, Chris Candido and Dan Severn during their Heavyweight title reigns and Rock and Roll Express during their Tag title run. Likewise, Cornette and SMW talent appeared on NWA shows. So they weren't an NWA affiliate, per se, like ECW was originally, for instance.
You gotta understand the context of Cornette's hate for hardcore wrestling. It specifically made business difficult for him in the early 2000s when he was promoting OVW as the Kentucky state athletic commission came down hard on wrestling as a whole as a result of Ian Rotten's IWA Mid-South. Ian was able to promote in Indiana with little to no consequence, but Cornette was left to deal with the strict rules and bad press as a result of Ian Rotten.
That and people beating the shit out of each other for no money is the polar opposite of what pro wrestling is supposed to be about. It's the fundamental antithesis of the pro wrestling business from the very beginning.
@@mikefrost1312 to a certain extent.... Watching 2 guys just hit each other with weapons over and over again with no other moves, context, storytelling, etc. would get old. Especially if every match was like that. People don't realize that ECW was loaded with some of the best in ring workers of all time on top of the hardcore rules. Sure you had guys like New Jack and Sandman who strictly relied on weaponry, but then you had guys like Eddie, Benoit, Jericho, RVD, Mysterio, Sabu, Jerry Lynn, Stone Cold, etc etc. Those guys were putting on great actual WRESTLING matches along with smacking each other with kendo sticks and putting each other through tables.
@@mikefrost1312 nice sarcasm. WWE introduced all that because they kept getting "ECW" chants so they adopted their own watered down/sanitized version. That should be obvious. Though, if they got rid of it tomorrow, no one would even care. Hardcore/deathmatch wrestling is only cool if youre 13 years old. Then when you mature and develop mentally, it becomes apparent just how shitty it really is. Objectively, Onita was the only person to do it right. The gates that he was able to draw plus the right amount of spectacle with good drama. To put it lightly, everything else is trash.
@@GreatestOneDestroyer lol, John Cena, hulk hogan, Roman reigns, the usos, the rock, Steve Austin, undertaker, Gregory helms, hell, even the original doink the clown (may he rest in peace). You could probably add in a few names from the original ECW to that list…all full time professional wrestlers who made good money. Deathmatch “wrasslin” is for bastards who can’t keep a job at the local fast food joint.
I miss those days before everyone had a podcast, when You Shoot really had a corner on the market. Sean Oliver should be in the Conrad Thompson position, not taking anything away from Conrad, but Sean had his way of getting a good story out of anyone.
Oh my goodness dude! What a nostalgia trip! I love Sean Oliver and his work with interviewing. Hell of a dude and always comes prepared. He's my favorite of all shoot interviewers and seemingly one of the pioneers of the wrestling shoots
@@Mclovinit8171 No no, that was Terry Bollea, remember? Hulk Hogan is the fictional character with the fictional 10-inch penis. Terry Bollea's penis is much smaller
I loved New Jack's shoot interviews. He was incredibly entertaining and fascinating. Also, Balls Mahoney doing the HoBag on K.C. is a riot. He practically says everyone's a hoe!! 🤣
dude knew he wasn’t going to WWE after a point and just wanted to work and talk about work with friends. wired tf up with too much coke but always seemed to have a good overall moral compass. only dude to say he has no respect for benoit, wore his heart on his sleeve and was brutally honest. apparently also did a lot for black wrestlers in indies as well IIRC, one of the surprisingly good overall people in the business
@@toprope_don't remember anyone saying anything bad about Balls besides the small beef that he had with New Jack and it more or less boiled down to New Jack being really concerned for Balls in the end but they ended up patching that all up before he passed.
@@toprope_A lot say that they had no respect for Benoit.... after the fact. I sometimes wonder how respected Benoit really was. People readily believed the police implicating him with little evidence, but if it had been "Stone Cold" Steve Austin or Eddie Guerrero, people would be asking for the case to be reopened, as fans would refuse to believe the police then.
Personal opinion, I think he was trying to find some way to justify his company or try to take some heat off of himself but he did it during a very very bad time because JC Bailey was still fresh on people's minds, and the Mickie Knuckles stuff had reached fever pitch.
@@stnr247If I were him, I would tell the interviewer to shit up, let me talk, as it is my interview, and then remind him that he never wrestled, so he wouldn't know. If I was Rotten, the interview would turn to me telling the interviewer what I think of him and his scum media mates and also say a few things about my critics. You dish it out, you gotta take it.
The Saturn one where he resurfaces after disappearing for a few years..is another great one..not intense or contentious but some insanely crazy stories of debauchery...and Raven...
Just Sucks the owner of is RF is a monster...can't say the word I want it'll get me community standarded ..so not promoting that company..but there were some great shoots..
I think my favorite Cornette shoot is the one he does on Kenny King, the moment he said "Fuck anybody that looks like you" I started bursting into laughter
That shit Ian did pisses me tf off, as someone who is from Indiana getting ready to start a inring career. I will say this now, I'm never gonna wrestle anywhere he is apart of. That's a fact
Hope you have some good local promotions to try your foot in. I'm pretty sure Ian singlehandedly tarnished the reputation of states he was/is booking in.
@@eternalblasphemy6526 my mom has a few friends from high school who r In the business who told me they're gonna help me get booked so I'm hopeful tbh. Especially since the character I created for myself in the ring is one I have used for years on just the WWE games
yeah that is a great shoot/rant especially because he isn't just shitting on the wrestlers or styles he doesn't enjoy. Instead he is so pissed and passionate in that shoot and defending the wrestlers and their well being and pay rate because the office didn't give a single shit. Jim really does love the business but sometimes he loses it a bit lol
Awesome Kong was one of the most genuine kind person I’ve ever met. She worked with CWA (the one in SC) a few shows. We went to Jamil temple in Columbia and did the meet and greet. A few months later we saw her in Fayetteville NC and she not only remembered my buddy’s daughter….but remembered her NAME! That moment I’ll never forget
I'd say the reason shoot interviews aren't as big now is because wrestling itself isn't as big as it used to be and also because of the internet there really isn't a curtain to look behind anymore. Also, guys like Cornette now have their own podcasts which you can listen to for free rather than having to buy a DVD...if you could find them.
It also has to do with that the shoot stories aren't as interesting anymore now that all the wrestlers aren't hopped up on pills , alcohol and steroids anymore
it used to be taboo, underground, for people in the know. that also gave ppl more inclation to let more out because it wouldnt be seen widely. now i feel people kinda steer clear of airing their dirt laundry because its put everywhere as soon as it comes out. nowadays they just make passive aggresive tweets or side step stuff on podcasts. they do make money telling their own journey on a pod of their own. its just not raw or as prodding as YouShoots for example
One of my favourite Cornette clips is his review of the 6 o’clock news in Louisville just before the pandemic leading with a story about a hepatitis outbreak at an IWA Mid South show. He goes into how Ian got wrestling de facto banned in Kentucky for over 10 years.
For the record, Cornette doesn't hate hardcore wrestling. He hates the indie garbage "deathmatches" you see these tiny independent "promotions" put on. There's a difference, and Corn has explained it several times in a more prescient and succinct manner than I could.
I swear, if theres any wrestler I'd love to meet, and hang out with, it would be Awesome Kong. She seems like the most real person ever, and is not afraid to stand on business. What a legend!
Dude! I am so gonna check out that Ian rotten video. Thank you! I seen the Awesome Kong shoot. Didn't know who she was tbh, but I'll never forget that shoot lol. And I can't stand Cornette most of the time. Though I do respect the impact he made on professional wrestling and I totally agree with his stance on death wrestling.
The thing I love about all of Cornette's shoot interviews is that regardless of what one may think of his opinions (and I've disagreed with plenty of them), you can't say that they're uninformed ones, or that he's coming from a position of anything but love for the business.
The Ian Rotten one, man, that one will always stick with me. It is satisfying, but at the same time, what it shows can go on behind the curtain just makes one feel..dirty...
Yeah that part with his father confronting him on the phone. It’s like fuck man plus as the clips of him doing all the stunts he did. It makes you realize how much pain he was doing all this night after night. His dad I could tell just it all just gutted him knowing his son could’ve been so much more then ending up like this.😢
the degeneration goes FMW>ECW>XPW>CZW>>>>IWA-MS W*ING, IWA Japan, and BJW are all kinda round the same level between FMW and CZW GCW is degenerate but i feels above CZW depending on the event
4:55 I'm with Jim Cornette on the deathmatch wrestling. I don't mind Hardcore matches or stuff like that (Love Mick Foley matches against Triple H at Rumble 2000, Orton at Backlash 2004 and Edge at WM22 for example) but deathmatch stuff is cringe and too far.
I can't imagine anything worse for a promoter to do than paying his own wrestler in drugs a wrestler who was very publicly addicted to drugs, that's so disgusting, sick, reprehensible and it honestly makes me angry, that's worse than being an enabler
If you don't know what im talking about for some reason..check it out..beyond brutal..not sure if it's on youtube..been about 20 years..actually had to buy the tape back then..
Awesome Kongs feud with Gail Kim and then later with Taylor Wilde is some of the best women's wrestling product ever in the U.S. I'm not a huge fan of women's wrestling, and I was all in for that first year and a half so of the knockouts division.
I have heard clips of that Rotten interview and they go hard on him. I must admit my favorite shoot interviews are of the Iron Sheik especially when he talks about what he wants to do to Hogan😂
I watched that entire interview, and it was absolutely insane. Literally, everyone who called in ripped him a new one. I knew Ian was a piece of shit, but it was eye-opening to hear about all the shit he's did from that interview.
There's something about Jim ranting that would be such a perfect lullaby for me to go to sleep to....can I request a video of 1 straight hour of Cornette rants?
Jim is right about hardcore wrestling. ECW had plenty of awesome matches and wrestlers. But that CZW, XPW stuff is the backyard or backyards. It's for the same audience that's enjoyed swimming in fecal matter back in Woodstock 99 or whatever the hell. It takes no talent to hit someone with an instrument, how about an actual great technical match with an interesting storyline? Where in the grand finale you could actually have some blood in the match, maybe a few chair shots and so on. But these backyard wrestling companies can't draw, their wrestlers need several weeks to recover from all those hard hits. And you mess up your booking real fast. When your audience seen all kinds of dangerous things, you got nothing else to offer anymore, cause your wrestlers aren't technical enough.
CZW has lasted more than 6 times as long as Smokey Mountain Wrestling did. And they did it without Rick Rubin's money. Say what you like, that's a cold hard fact. Cornette reckons he knows how to draw and if something he doesn't like draws, that's the fans fault. That's not how business works.
Way, way worse would be: new jack and balls Mahoney face off, new jack iron sheik and honky tonk being blind drunk and screaming for three hours, or that appalling Jamie dundee shoot.
Hahaha !! Ive watched a ton of KC commentary shoots but not Awesome Kongs . But Holy shit it looks hilarious . She definitely wasnt pulling punches . I got to see this. I loved her work especially with Gail Kim . They were the two women to lay the blueprint for modern women's wrestling in the 2000s .
@@objectiveasylum I honestly don't remember why I wrote that man it was over a year ago,I think it's bc he looked like the devil in some pictures or something???
So Mick Foley, Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer don't know how to do hardcore properly? Didn't Jim Cornette one time fall from a scaffold during a Scaffold match? That's not exactly a straight up wrestling match either, but Midnight Express were always in them. Cage matches are kinda Hardcore, yet his beloved territories used them all the time. Cornette loves Flair and Heyman. Yet Flair has had street fights and Heyman ran a federation which was all hardcore matches. As good as they were, not every match can be Ricky Steamboat v Roc Flair one-hour classics. Cornette doesn't like hardcore because he doesn't like Moxley because Moxley wouldn't fix Cornette's dripping tap.
You should read what thumbtack jack tells about Ian in his book. But i am not sure if there is a englisch version. TJ was at his house for a view days and it was ugly.
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Jim's shoot interviews on Russo and Jim Herd are epic. I swear 100 years from now you'll be able to visit Jim's final resting place, mention the name Vince Russo, and the dirt will start spouting F-bombs.
Russo was head writer during the WWE's peak period "The Attitude Era".
Jim Cornette was a two-bit manager who has been fired from every company he has worked for.
You have shown that you have no love of professional wrestling. Piss off and go and follow something else. You won't be missed, and neither will Jim when he dies (which hopefully is sooner rather than later).
Lol
Are we talking about Jim or Jims resting place?
Try like 15-20 years
Cornette is a wrestling genuis
Gotta appreciate Awesome Kong being a physically massive woman and not leaving any opponent with an injury.
Unlike Nia Jax who I don't believe hasn't had a match where she didn't cause injuries
Awesome Kong was an amazing worker
More reason why she is Awesome :)
She broke rhaka khans ribs and many other women but I don’t blame her wrestling comes with injuries
Exactly
I like Awesome Kong, she’s one of the greatest heel women wrestlers of all time. And she always took care of her opponents and never tried to intentionally injure anyone during matches. I like that too!
Super nice lady too. Very down-to-earth every time I've met her.
It’s a shame AEW had nothing for kong.
@@franciscoavalos265 To be fair, unfortunately I think her body betrayed her.
Really good actress too, she was great in Glow
Yep,a very nice lady🙂
That reporter asking Ian Rotten his opening question was one of the funniest slow burn jokes I've ever heard. I expected him to just keep listing things and never actually ask a question.
I was waiting for him to put together a full sentence without saying “uhhhm” after every other word.
Explain it to me I’m slow
Ian was right about blowing the main event surprise, though. That was kinda bogus of him to do.
@@DrSpoculusAnyone who was actually pumped about that show can get over it
@matthewgabbard6415 that has nothing to do with anything.
Thanks so much for finding, listening to and giving credit to the excellent 2011 shoot interview Jerry Wiseman did with Ian Rotten for his “And Then The Bell Rings” radio show. When I was on Twitter I followed Wiseman and told him how much I loved what he did and said, and he followed me back and we had some good conversations about wrestling at times. He’s a great guy and I’m really glad he took the time to talk to me like he did!
There’s nothing quite like Jim Cornette pissed off and hopped up on Sprite Zero
He was an awesome heel. I watched Smokey Mountain Wrestling religiously. He has been around but that was how I was really exposed to him growing up.
@@modru2u252SMW is underrated as hell. People dog it for not lasting long but it was never going to be a big federation. They're missing the point and in effect miss out on some good TV wrestling.
@@justint8635 it was just a branch of NWA wasn't it? It's been so long I can't remember.
@@modru2u252 not exactly. They had more of a working agreement with them due to Cornette being friendly with guys like Dennis Coralluzzo. So it was more along the lines of a talent exchange. They featured NWAs champions at the time, Chris Candido and Dan Severn during their Heavyweight title reigns and Rock and Roll Express during their Tag title run. Likewise, Cornette and SMW talent appeared on NWA shows. So they weren't an NWA affiliate, per se, like ECW was originally, for instance.
@@justint8635 Thank you very much.
You gotta understand the context of Cornette's hate for hardcore wrestling. It specifically made business difficult for him in the early 2000s when he was promoting OVW as the Kentucky state athletic commission came down hard on wrestling as a whole as a result of Ian Rotten's IWA Mid-South. Ian was able to promote in Indiana with little to no consequence, but Cornette was left to deal with the strict rules and bad press as a result of Ian Rotten.
That and people beating the shit out of each other for no money is the polar opposite of what pro wrestling is supposed to be about. It's the fundamental antithesis of the pro wrestling business from the very beginning.
@@justint8635 but, it's WAY MORE entertaining!! There's a reason WWF/WWE adopted "hardcore/ extreme rules"
@@mikefrost1312 to a certain extent.... Watching 2 guys just hit each other with weapons over and over again with no other moves, context, storytelling, etc. would get old. Especially if every match was like that.
People don't realize that ECW was loaded with some of the best in ring workers of all time on top of the hardcore rules. Sure you had guys like New Jack and Sandman who strictly relied on weaponry, but then you had guys like Eddie, Benoit, Jericho, RVD, Mysterio, Sabu, Jerry Lynn, Stone Cold, etc etc.
Those guys were putting on great actual WRESTLING matches along with smacking each other with kendo sticks and putting each other through tables.
@@mikefrost1312 nice sarcasm. WWE introduced all that because they kept getting "ECW" chants so they adopted their own watered down/sanitized version. That should be obvious. Though, if they got rid of it tomorrow, no one would even care. Hardcore/deathmatch wrestling is only cool if youre 13 years old. Then when you mature and develop mentally, it becomes apparent just how shitty it really is. Objectively, Onita was the only person to do it right. The gates that he was able to draw plus the right amount of spectacle with good drama. To put it lightly, everything else is trash.
@@D_2387 that's the thing, it wasn't all JUST chairs, sticks and blood. There were some INSANE athletes doing awesome shit throughout the matches
I love how the last interview pretty much validates Cornette’s opinion on hardcore wrestling lol
Can you blame the man? There ain’t any money in deathmatch “wraaslin”.
Cornette was making sense
@@anthonybarnes1903 obviously there is if ppl still does lol
@@GreatestOneDestroyer they do it for a handful of pills and that's the hard truth. Look it up
@@GreatestOneDestroyer lol, John Cena, hulk hogan, Roman reigns, the usos, the rock, Steve Austin, undertaker, Gregory helms, hell, even the original doink the clown (may he rest in peace). You could probably add in a few names from the original ECW to that list…all full time professional wrestlers who made good money. Deathmatch “wrasslin” is for bastards who can’t keep a job at the local fast food joint.
Jim Cornette’s shoots are simply just a must listen.
Those are just a piece of art. Every shoot interview is iconic.
Except when it's about politics.
@@AS_ONYXtrump supporter here and I love it
@@billwe5772 You’re a trump supporter?
@@AS_ONYX yes why not
2 hours of Ian rotten being absolutely destroyed! LOL
Simon Gotch shoots on Enzo Amore deserves to be on here solely for the fact that it's as contagious to people's recommended as the fucking plague
Simon is a tool. Never drew a dime anywhere and the drugs left him with some serious man boobs 😅 him and Enzo are both equally terrible.
You've been on a roll lately. Keep em coming
I miss those days before everyone had a podcast, when You Shoot really had a corner on the market. Sean Oliver should be in the Conrad Thompson position, not taking anything away from Conrad, but Sean had his way of getting a good story out of anyone.
Conrad is everywhere and it's fucking annoying
Truth!
Sean is so chill and doesn't give me charlatan vibes.
Did a comment get deleted?
Meltzer would go on to say
Sean Oliver is one of my favorite personalities in wrestling. Love him on Kevin Nash’s podcast
Kev never had a problem with Sean, he never had a problem with him
Oh my goodness dude! What a nostalgia trip! I love Sean Oliver and his work with interviewing. Hell of a dude and always comes prepared. He's my favorite of all shoot interviewers and seemingly one of the pioneers of the wrestling shoots
I guess Hogan being friends with Bubba makes a lot of sense in hindsight.
well i mean he banged his wife on tape and bubba knew about it. If thats not being friends in some fucked up way idk what is
@@Mclovinit8171 No no, that was Terry Bollea, remember? Hulk Hogan is the fictional character with the fictional 10-inch penis. Terry Bollea's penis is much smaller
@@Mclovinit8171Hogan banging Bubba's wife was recorded as a sex tape, and it is where Hogan used the racist slur.
“I’ve sold more tickets in my sleep than you ever will in your life..and I’m nobody” Cornette gives no fucks. I love it
Well, Cornette's right about being a nobody.
Most listened to wrestling podcast. HOF talent. Trained the modern greats in OVW. He's pretty ite.
Definitely not in SMW lmao
So glad you stopped doing the click bait thumbnails, the recent stuff has been great too. You re earned a subscription 👏
Damn, J.C Bailey's dad, Bull Pain, and Mickie Knuckles TERMINATED Ian Rotten's carnie ass! Whoa!
Huge respect to awesome Kong for destroying bubba the loser Sponge and cornett for destroying Ian rotten
I loved New Jack's shoot interviews. He was incredibly entertaining and fascinating.
Also, Balls Mahoney doing the HoBag on K.C. is a riot. He practically says everyone's a hoe!! 🤣
dude knew he wasn’t going to WWE after a point and just wanted to work and talk about work with friends. wired tf up with too much coke but always seemed to have a good overall moral compass. only dude to say he has no respect for benoit, wore his heart on his sleeve and was brutally honest. apparently also did a lot for black wrestlers in indies as well IIRC, one of the surprisingly good overall people in the business
@Cameron Montgomery True. If you disrespected him he'd beat it out of you. Always called it as it was.
@@toprope_don't remember anyone saying anything bad about Balls besides the small beef that he had with New Jack and it more or less boiled down to New Jack being really concerned for Balls in the end but they ended up patching that all up before he passed.
@@toprope_A lot say that they had no respect for Benoit.... after the fact.
I sometimes wonder how respected Benoit really was. People readily believed the police implicating him with little evidence, but if it had been "Stone Cold" Steve Austin or Eddie Guerrero, people would be asking for the case to be reopened, as fans would refuse to believe the police then.
@@toprope_Good moral compass? Is this before or after he tries to stab you?
Why the hell would Ian Rotten agree to a shoot interview? 😂😂😂
And why the hell would he sit through that for 2 hours. Sounded like he was on the phone, just hang up...
@@stnr247 lol it’s almost like he wanted to incriminate himself
Personal opinion, I think he was trying to find some way to justify his company or try to take some heat off of himself but he did it during a very very bad time because JC Bailey was still fresh on people's minds, and the Mickie Knuckles stuff had reached fever pitch.
@@stnr247If I were him, I would tell the interviewer to shit up, let me talk, as it is my interview, and then remind him that he never wrestled, so he wouldn't know.
If I was Rotten, the interview would turn to me telling the interviewer what I think of him and his scum media mates and also say a few things about my critics.
You dish it out, you gotta take it.
At the time it came out, the theory was he was only being paid if he stayed on the line for the full show
The Saturn one where he resurfaces after disappearing for a few years..is another great one..not intense or contentious but some insanely crazy stories of debauchery...and Raven...
Just Sucks the owner of is RF is a monster...can't say the word I want it'll get me community standarded ..so not promoting that company..but there were some great shoots..
@@xxbobsetsfirexx4269 yeah they were great shoots for sure, shame RF is a dirty nonce
I fucking LOVE awesome Kong she’s just great all around one of the few wrestlers I want to meet
Also would and would have no regrets
She's gorgeous
@@emobassist that’s for damn sure
Lmao you'd probably die if she sat on your face. Death by snusnu
New Jack an Balls Mahoney had a good series of shoot face to face interviews that could be concidered heated
I always assumed those were worked shoots.
@@higler. they were friends that yelled at each other.
I've got the Face Off DVD they did where they basically had to be patted down by a cop and it was centered around Balls allegedly doing some wild shit
@@3ShotTGK bro don't get worked too hard lol that shit was obviously staged as hell.
I discovered who Jim Cornette was through shoot interviews.
Go and watch his promos from his managing days with the Midnight Express and Heavenly Bodies. Cornette was a natural on the mic
You've missed the good ol' Cornette and his "ma cornette" promo days.
@@PittheadX oh I definitely went back and watched his work on TV!
Same lol
Wow really? He was one of the 5 to 3 top managers of all time
The third shoot was an absolute masterpiece holy shit lmao thank you for sharing
I'm actually loving these shoot interviews I hope there's more
I think my favorite Cornette shoot is the one he does on Kenny King, the moment he said "Fuck anybody that looks like you" I started bursting into laughter
Jim cornette is hilarious to be honest 🤣
Most definitely
No he's not, he has a tremendous amount of historical knowledge that I give him credit for, but, his sense of humor is the same as a 5 year olds.
Your "3 count to subscribe" gimmick actually works lol. Subbed!
That shit Ian did pisses me tf off, as someone who is from Indiana getting ready to start a inring career. I will say this now, I'm never gonna wrestle anywhere he is apart of. That's a fact
Hope you have some good local promotions to try your foot in.
I'm pretty sure Ian singlehandedly tarnished the reputation of states he was/is booking in.
@@eternalblasphemy6526 my mom has a few friends from high school who r In the business who told me they're gonna help me get booked so I'm hopeful tbh. Especially since the character I created for myself in the ring is one I have used for years on just the WWE games
Ian rotten sure fucked up wrestling in Indiana.
@skylarsmith200 Good luck with your future career. Hopefully, it will work out for you.
@@skylarsmith200 Hope it's going well for you
I was gonna link the Ian rotten but glad you found it
Cornettes shoot on his last days in ROH is my all time favorite. Kings is definately second.
yeah that is a great shoot/rant especially because he isn't just shitting on the wrestlers or styles he doesn't enjoy. Instead he is so pissed and passionate in that shoot and defending the wrestlers and their well being and pay rate because the office didn't give a single shit. Jim really does love the business but sometimes he loses it a bit lol
@@higler.fair assessment.
Awesome Kong gets my respect. That comment about Haiti was straight up disturbing.
Awesome Kong is the sweetest person in the industry. Which makes her in-ring persona even more impressive
The way that interviewer said Juggalo like "Jew-goo-lu" cracked me the hell up haha...
I remember hearing that way back when the interview came out and have called it that ever since because of how funny it sounded
Awesome Kong was one of the most genuine kind person I’ve ever met. She worked with CWA (the one in SC) a few shows. We went to Jamil temple in Columbia and did the meet and greet. A few months later we saw her in Fayetteville NC and she not only remembered my buddy’s daughter….but remembered her NAME! That moment I’ll never forget
Wow that Ian Rotten ..uh beating?...is amazing Holy crap!
I'll give Ian this, he sat there and ate every piece of that interview. Whew...
I'd say the reason shoot interviews aren't as big now is because wrestling itself isn't as big as it used to be and also because of the internet there really isn't a curtain to look behind anymore. Also, guys like Cornette now have their own podcasts which you can listen to for free rather than having to buy a DVD...if you could find them.
It also has to do with that the shoot stories aren't as interesting anymore now that all the wrestlers aren't hopped up on pills , alcohol and steroids anymore
@@jdunno7859You can thank the Benoit incident for that.
Also, isn't that a good thing? I don't want wrestlers dying in their 30s or 40s.
it used to be taboo, underground, for people in the know. that also gave ppl more inclation to let more out because it wouldnt be seen widely. now i feel people kinda steer clear of airing their dirt laundry because its put everywhere as soon as it comes out. nowadays they just make passive aggresive tweets or side step stuff on podcasts. they do make money telling their own journey on a pod of their own. its just not raw or as prodding as YouShoots for example
Awesome Kong is such a great person, absolutely based, awesome if you will
"You know I didn't beat you up!"
"Ok. Thanks. I wasn't sure."
One of my favourite Cornette clips is his review of the 6 o’clock news in Louisville just before the pandemic leading with a story about a hepatitis outbreak at an IWA Mid South show. He goes into how Ian got wrestling de facto banned in Kentucky for over 10 years.
Cornette has some great ones. His absolute 6 feet deep burial of Kenny King is one of my favourites.
I've listened to that one so many times
For the record, Cornette doesn't hate hardcore wrestling. He hates the indie garbage "deathmatches" you see these tiny independent "promotions" put on. There's a difference, and Corn has explained it several times in a more prescient and succinct manner than I could.
Do you love the guy so much you think he has magic powers or do you not know what "prescient" means?
He insulted ECW a lot, and they weren't doing death matches
@@PaulSCO There was the Taipei death match, but yeah compared to those Indy ones they have now it's tame.
Absolutely based Kong for beating that dumbass Bubba.
My favorite jim cornette phrase - 'and I told everybody that was there what I thought about everybody that wasn't there'
Ian rotten getting exposed for 2 hours just proves Jim Cornettes points on how hardcore wrestling has negatively impacted the wrestling business
I'm fairness that's just a person's character not the art or lack there of of hardcore wrestling.
Them YouShoot interviews used to be classics 💯
We need a dark side of the ring on Ian Rotten
I swear, if theres any wrestler I'd love to meet, and hang out with, it would be Awesome Kong. She seems like the most real person ever, and is not afraid to stand on business. What a legend!
Dude! I am so gonna check out that Ian rotten video. Thank you! I seen the Awesome Kong shoot. Didn't know who she was tbh, but I'll never forget that shoot lol. And I can't stand Cornette most of the time. Though I do respect the impact he made on professional wrestling and I totally agree with his stance on death wrestling.
The thing I love about all of Cornette's shoot interviews is that regardless of what one may think of his opinions (and I've disagreed with plenty of them), you can't say that they're uninformed ones, or that he's coming from a position of anything but love for the business.
Awesome kong is fucking awesome for owning bubba the love sponge
The Ian Rotten one, man, that one will always stick with me. It is satisfying, but at the same time, what it shows can go on behind the curtain just makes one feel..dirty...
Yeah that part with his father confronting him on the phone. It’s like fuck man plus as the clips of him doing all the stunts he did. It makes you realize how much pain he was doing all this night after night. His dad I could tell just it all just gutted him knowing his son could’ve been so much more then ending up like this.😢
the degeneration goes
FMW>ECW>XPW>CZW>>>>IWA-MS
W*ING, IWA Japan, and BJW are all kinda round the same level between FMW and CZW
GCW is degenerate but i feels above CZW depending on the event
Kong saying most knockouts hos!!
4:55 I'm with Jim Cornette on the deathmatch wrestling.
I don't mind Hardcore matches or stuff like that (Love Mick Foley matches against Triple H at Rumble 2000, Orton at Backlash 2004 and Edge at WM22 for example) but deathmatch stuff is cringe and too far.
Joseph Bailey cutting the best promo of the year
I can't imagine anything worse for a promoter to do than paying his own wrestler in drugs a wrestler who was very publicly addicted to drugs, that's so disgusting, sick, reprehensible and it honestly makes me angry, that's worse than being an enabler
Just starting this video..the RF video Ole shoot is the most intense I've ever seen ..gotta be 1.
If you don't know what im talking about for some reason..check it out..beyond brutal..not sure if it's on youtube..been about 20 years..actually had to buy the tape back then..
14:00 -15:40 is better than any mid south promo I’ve ever heard.
I love Jim Cornette
My lord what kind of interview where people called in on the guy you’re interviewing😅😅😅 this is wild
Awesome Kongs feud with Gail Kim and then later with Taylor Wilde is some of the best women's wrestling product ever in the U.S. I'm not a huge fan of women's wrestling, and I was all in for that first year and a half so of the knockouts division.
Awesome Kong always been a cutie in my eyes
Gross
She is a sexual Tyranasaurus rex
Absolutely. God damn right.
@@adamirishconundrum851 good for you that's what you like
she is very cute, loved her on the G.L.O.W netflix show. she has a very warm personality which can really do a lot for the attraction to a person
Im suprised Ian wasn't a Dark Side of the Ring Episode.
yet
Give it time.
@@Dragonwolfwormit’s not happening. Dark Side of the Ring is cancelled I believe
@BrickFighter 13, what happened ?
@@BrickFighter13nope. It's coming back. What I have heard
Jim Cornette shoot interviews let me sleep at night peacefully.
You owe my aunt some money!
Dammmmmm Daddy Bailey went hard on Ian. Good for him.
I have heard clips of that Rotten interview and they go hard on him. I must admit my favorite shoot interviews are of the Iron Sheik especially when he talks about what he wants to do to Hogan😂
I watched that entire interview, and it was absolutely insane. Literally, everyone who called in ripped him a new one. I knew Ian was a piece of shit, but it was eye-opening to hear about all the shit he's did from that interview.
The guy interviewing Rotten jumped right into it, LOL. Good for him.
There's something about Jim ranting that would be such a perfect lullaby for me to go to sleep to....can I request a video of 1 straight hour of Cornette rants?
Keep up the good work top 10 wrestling.
Damn, these shoot interviews got kinda heated huh? I need a lie down now!
Shawn Michaels could get a 5 star match with a broomstick, in a similar way Jim Cornette could make an entertaining 5 hour rant about a broomstick
Hot take
Wasnt Jim Cornette working with ROH during the huge CZW crossover storyline?
He wasn't the booker.
Didn't Cornette sign New Jack for his ability to work the hardcore style. Seems like he's okay with it when it makes him money.
Cornette is the best shoot interview ever
That is not what i thought Kong would sound like lol
She has one of the sweetest personalities in the biz. She's a baby doll
Mickie Knuckles deserved so much more in this business - all the way to TNA, than the leg break
She's a genuine sweetheart. I actually got to meet her 2 years ago when she started making her return to the indies.
Agreed. Her and LuFisto never were able to shake the hardcore/deathmatch baggage when they should've gone much further
Naw after the Mike levey thing you could call that leg break karma.
She slept with a married man admittedly.
@@gh0rochi363that was pretty hilarious. She got publicly EMBARRASSED
Cornette has been the man since carrying a tennis racket and managing the midnight express. He ain’t wrong about the “hardcore wrestling
Jim is right about hardcore wrestling. ECW had plenty of awesome matches and wrestlers. But that CZW, XPW stuff is the backyard or backyards. It's for the same audience that's enjoyed swimming in fecal matter back in Woodstock 99 or whatever the hell. It takes no talent to hit someone with an instrument, how about an actual great technical match with an interesting storyline? Where in the grand finale you could actually have some blood in the match, maybe a few chair shots and so on.
But these backyard wrestling companies can't draw, their wrestlers need several weeks to recover from all those hard hits. And you mess up your booking real fast. When your audience seen all kinds of dangerous things, you got nothing else to offer anymore, cause your wrestlers aren't technical enough.
CZW has lasted more than 6 times as long as Smokey Mountain Wrestling did. And they did it without Rick Rubin's money. Say what you like, that's a cold hard fact. Cornette reckons he knows how to draw and if something he doesn't like draws, that's the fans fault. That's not how business works.
Bros been putting out banger after banger videos👏👏
If someone selling drugs for money isn't a drug dealer than idk what is.
Way, way worse would be: new jack and balls Mahoney face off, new jack iron sheik and honky tonk being blind drunk and screaming for three hours, or that appalling Jamie dundee shoot.
Shoot interviews were the best. They seem to have gone away.
No lie Awesome Kong is underrated, I wish she had a bigger presence and career in the west. I'd buy her a beer if I saw her.
Me too man
Hahaha !! Ive watched a ton of KC commentary shoots but not Awesome Kongs . But Holy shit it looks hilarious . She definitely wasnt pulling punches . I got to see this. I loved her work especially with Gail Kim . They were the two women to lay the blueprint for modern women's wrestling in the 2000s .
I have watched probably all of these
That Ian rotten interview was like on a whole other level. I got a listen to this full interview
The Jerry Wiseman show part was crazy. Also, New Jack was in that interview too but the video cut off
"I am a huge huge fan of Ian rotten"....The Devil.
What the fuck did the devil ever do to you to deserve this kind of defamation?! 😂
@@objectiveasylum I honestly don't remember why I wrote that man it was over a year ago,I think it's bc he looked like the devil in some pictures or something???
Jim was right about hardcore wrestling. Outside of ECW, nobody was able to do story and the right amount of hardcore in their matches.
So Mick Foley, Terry Funk and Tommy Dreamer don't know how to do hardcore properly?
Didn't Jim Cornette one time fall from a scaffold during a Scaffold match? That's not exactly a straight up wrestling match either, but Midnight Express were always in them.
Cage matches are kinda Hardcore, yet his beloved territories used them all the time.
Cornette loves Flair and Heyman. Yet Flair has had street fights and Heyman ran a federation which was all hardcore matches.
As good as they were, not every match can be Ricky Steamboat v Roc Flair one-hour classics.
Cornette doesn't like hardcore because he doesn't like Moxley because Moxley wouldn't fix Cornette's dripping tap.
CZW have survived more than 6 times as long as Smokey Mountain Wrestling did.
I can already see Jim Cornette on this list
I like Awesome Kong as the wrestler. Awesome Kong as the person though seems so problematic to deal with.
how so?
@@kristofoliwa6008 impact, WWE, and AEW had her for short spurts and she always left abruptly and no one is trying to ask her back anytime soon.
@@jonpower9728 they weren't paying people in Impact, she got pregnant in WWE, and she was close to retirement in AEW.
You should read what thumbtack jack tells about Ian in his book. But i am not sure if there is a englisch version. TJ was at his house for a view days and it was ugly.
Instead of shoot interviews we now have Wrestling Podcasts with former wrestlers/ managers like Jim Cornette and it’s wild lol
As a Marylander I can confirm that Ian Rotten is a disgrace to MD
To Ian Rotten, MD stands for Multiple Diseases. That man is human gonorrhea.
Was Knobbs wrong though? I saw they're barbecuing and eating people down there now.
How is Ian Rotten still allowed to be running a wrestling company
He's not. IWA Midsouth is dead.