Jim Cornette Reviews Max Dupri & Maximum Male Models on WWE Smackdown
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.ค. 2022
- From Episode 251 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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Seeing where LA Knight has come from this point is such a treat and you see how Jim genuinely felt sorry for him after this.
I will give props for mace and mansoor for not cracking up through the whole promo.
Mace looked like he was about to crack at least once
Hilarious shit. I'm marking out for them acting suddenly feminine
😂😂
You mean Måçë and Måñsoòr?
Mansoor was way to into it if you ask me
After 1 full year of terrible booking, he's the most over babyface in all of wrestling.
This ended up being so stupid I actually couldn’t stop watching and laughing. Everything about it is so absurd, it’s funny. I do feel a bit bad for LA Knight; the guy is super talented, is great naturally on the mic, and has a classic pro wrestler look (there are times when his in ring mannerisms resemble The Rock circa late 90s).
@@joegreene7619 lol wut ? You must be trolling. I guess mjf is a knock off of ric flair then. Case closed. Mjf never drew a dime.
@@guccimane3731 that's massive 🤣🤣. Also he didn't even do that
Yea the guy has everything to succeed, that's why they wanted to change him. Can you imagine Kurt Hennig going to the WWE and they would have done something like this? At least they gave him a gimmick saying he was perfect at everything. They should have given Eli something like that.
@@joegreene7619 "knockoff of stone cold" lol what? This guys mic work his entire career is modeled after The Rock. Eli Drake is a Rock fan and its clear hes a big influence, i have no idea where you people get stone cold from. Never drawn a dime? This guy was a clear as day star in TNA and a reason to watch, and a star on his own because he is that good. If he was Eli Drake in a sane wwe, he draws money for them same as anywhere else.
@@topvillainy maybe it’s the mud stomps people are thinking of? Idk… I just remember a moment, towards the end of his NXT run where he kind of turned face, where he ran to the ring to help someone getting an outnumbered beat down, and I remember thinking “the way this guy moves and his mannerisms really remind me of late 90s Rock”.
This actually worked for me, its ridiculous enough and as long as they put the time and energy into it, this will get over.
They got a massive reaction for modern WWE and it was the biggest story on social media the next day. Don't sleep on this gimmick. That said, Pat was critical. Michael Cole did nothing to help this at all. I can see why it played better on TV than to the live crowd.
what?!!!; This is thee worst and most painfully cringey gimmick I have seen in over a decade!! All they were missing was Orlando Jordan with the bottle of lotion.
The best part about the gimmick is something nobody is talking about. He is a close talker, and it is hilarious. Whoever had the idea to make him a close talker is a genius. I cannot watch him talk without thinking of the Seinfeld close talker episode, where they made fun of close talkers. They clearly thought people would notice his close talking, but they didn't, so they had him do it even more every week, and still nobody has seemed to notice.
@@chrisgullett4332 yes I especially liked when he complained Adam was being "invasive" while standing 1 inch away, and how when a woman tried to interview him he stood normally and didn't stand close to her, like he had no interest in her compared to Adam
@@jamesdaly1111 We seem to be the only two people that have noticed the close talking. It is the best part of the gimmick. He has no respect for personal space.
They're decent as a comedy sideshow, I don't see any of them getting their hands on a midcard belt let alone a world championship with those gimmicks. It's like Jim says, two dogs fuckin in the side of the road. People look at it mildly intrigued for two seconds and then move on.
I'm sure that Stone Cold and The Rock could've played great comedy characters, and would work just fine as the butt of every friday night joke because of how talented they were. But is this really the right way to use a guy who's this good in the ring and in promos? A guy who has the whole package?
I was cracking up during all this so I'm fine to wait and see how this goes. Maximum Male Models may just be gold.
Naw Bruh! This is Trash 😂🤣🤣
You never know, can't judge too soon
I think it has limited mileage
@@CEONYHD Complete trash, not funny , not believable , and wont sell one ticket.
It was an amazing angle. Plus, Duprì is a great talent.
Not going to lie, I actually dig this. I wouldn't mind a mid card feud with them against another solid heel tag team like Sheamus's team.
Yeah I would love to watch that feud , it'd be as fun as sticking a fork in my eyes.
Nah los lotharios would be perfect as the pretty boys vs the models
Feuding with heels ? Heels vs Heels ? Do you get more stupid ideas ? xD
Pat McAfee is both the hero we need AND the hero we deserve! He was absolutely gold during this. "How could you forget the ankle, when the ankle looks that good." 🤣
I'm not gonna lie, I kinda dug this segment. I expected to suck. Dudes actually look like models, lol. And Eli Drake/LA Knight/Max Dupree is great whatever he's doing. He's really charismatic and great on the mic.
My thoughts exactly. I went over to watch it, expecting to cringe, and instead i laughed my ass off.
It isn’t wrestling
@@elizabethmccleary7331 its a segment of course it isn't wrestling
Brian’s laugh makes me laugh harder at what we’re laughing about in the first place. “Are they gonna be a Tag Team?!?! He! He! He! He!” Lol
So true, Brian's laugh gets me every damn time!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Brian sounds like a teacher's aid that I had in high school.
His laugh sounds like an 1880's prospector.
I can understand Jim not liking it but it just may be silly enough to work. It's just about getting noticed and known by the WWE audience. You can always transition to a less goofy gimmick once you get established.
I mean, Elias managed to pull off the silly younger brother angle. LA Knight should be able to make this work
casuals flipping through channels wont stop to watch two 5"8 dudes who look the same wrestling but they'll stop to watch this silliness as sad as that sounds..its true
@@davidnelson4347 how about kids? This show is rated PG, after all. Ha.
@@Am0ment0fB this whole show is catered to children. whether by age or mental state. Seems that way to me based on the folks who actually go out there way to watch the entire shows every week lol.
@@davidnelson4347 they not hiding it. It's a PG rated program designed to sell merchandise to kids. Been that way for a long, long time.
This cracked me up although I'm slightly ashamed to admit it. I'm looking forward to seeing how committed these guys get to this weird gimmick
Max dupriiiiiiiii
You were totally tittilated and that's ok
“Titillate the juices of your guilty pleasures” lmao Vince probably thinks wrestling fans are all homophobes
I think you mean he thinks we're all homosexuals. Like him.
@@MarcoNegrisEye I mean he made them heels for a reason
@@UFCWWE69 just reflecting society 😂
@@UFCWWE69 they’re heels?
As someone who watches Up Up Down Down then Mace and Mansoor together are damn entertaining and as they often work alongside Tyler Breeze on UUDD then seeing him return as part of the group could be fantastic. Yeah, the gimmick is ridiculous but WWE are at least invested enough to have literally got Maximum Male Models their own website. Can understand the hate and they might end up glorified jobbers but reckon they'll be entertaining throughout so yeah... all the best to them.
what? they made them a f'n website? in 2022 XDDDD fuck, they're going strong XDD
This reminds me of when they first brought out The New Day and the gimmick was terrible but you couldn’t help but watch to see where it will go next - Hopefully the guys fully commit and it works in their favor further down the line.
Idk...... I usually turned the channel and came back when new day music hit.
Never liked them and never will.
New Day never tittilated the juices to this extent
I love people's revisionist history with New Day. They actually got cheered for the first couple weeks. It was only after the members deliberately started to go over the top so Vince would turn them heel, that they started getting booed.
@@raveoreynolds6049 lmao that didn't happen. They were booed from the get-go for having a generic gospel gimmick. It was only when they slowly started incorporating some arrogance in their promos that they turned heel, followed by ditching the gospel gimmick altogether and doing the OTT unicorn stuff that got them over with the audience as heels.
It was funny,I was sports entertained, and look forward to what happens next
you could say you were titillated
@@jamirimaj6880 My juices certainly were
Max Dupri is one Helluva Goofy Gimmick which is saying something from the WWE ….
Shaun Ricker AKA Eli Drake etc. is the biggest example of wasted talent in WWE. The ONLY mark against him is his age and he still looks young and can go in the ring, so it shouldn't matter. The guy is a fantastic promo, he can work and has an excellent physique, and has proven that he can get the crowd to do whatever he wants to. I see absolutely no reason why he couldn't be a main eventer with enough of a push behind him.
This comment aged extremely well...👍
This was one of the most ridiculous segment I ever saw, but Max Dupri is not a gay character at all, Jim proving once again that he still is in the 70's....
"Arrogant Male Models" are a "trope/archetype" on wrestling who get over in a very simple way.
Rick Rude, Rick Martel and Narcisist Lex Luger are some examples.
Yeah and none of them became wwe/f champion which all 3 of them should of especially Rick rude,that dude was great
@@kumodohaizi7234 you don't need to be champ to be a legend. Scott hall was never wwf champ and he was a legend. So yeah
@@darthnater9731 yeah but u do wanna cement ur legacy as world heavyweight champion and go down as one of the greats and reserve ur spot in the books or else y r u wrestling for? To be a good jobber or to be a good helping hand,besides everyone r legends like Alicia fox hahaha,so NO
@@kumodohaizi7234 rikishi wasn't champ either. You do not need to be world champion to be a legend. Ricky steamboat, Terry funk, curt henning, Ted DiBiase, Owen hart, and Jake Roberts are all legends and never won a world title in wwf/wwe. So no what you're saying is not true
@@darthnater9731 rikishi? He was never a great wrestler,he was just a good hand,but the way I see it if the miz,big e and Kofi were champion and soon to be theory,(somewhere down the line)if I was in a wrestler boots,ain't no way I'm a be a so-called"legend" and let's these below average be champs,that's unheard of,in short I don't wanna be a legend,I wanna be the ONE,and if ur mind not like that idk y ur a wrestler in the first place btw don't forget Johnny nitro!!!! He should of at least been 2x wwe champion,so yeah I'm right
This would of got over like 20 years during like 2002-2004 smackdown the crowds back then would of dug it I mean even later then that in like 06 MNM got over with the papparazzi fur coat and shades gimmick they had. I'm willing to see if these guys are miracle workers and can get this over because some guys can get these flamboyant characters over if given the time to do it. But the way they was looking during that first segment of it I woudnt put my hopes onit because it's not always the gimmick it's the material that comes with it that they have to say etc
Model gimmicks have been heels in wrestling since the dawn of time. This has potential. You’ve got two good workers, a great talker, and Pat selling the shit out of it on commentary.
Rick Martel
Mansoor was very entertaining and quite charismatic in his stuff before wwe. I hope he gets to show more of his stuff.
My juices are titillated
Nah these MMM segments are the best part of the wrestling week. All three of them are hilarious with how seriously they're taking it. Also Manny and Brennan were /asp/ies back in the day
This has to be a punishment gimmick. It’s happened before. Watching Michael Cole corpsing made it even funnier.
Make this the main event segment every week, give pat a pound of reefer in the commercial and let him have free reign to say whatever he wants about it. I was cracking up from start to finish when I went to find the clip
I'm only like 15 seconds into the video, but I believe the dude with the mohawk is supposed to be "Elay" Drake. Thing is, I thought he looked more like Jared Fogle disguising himself as the Red Rooster.
This was one of the best segments I have seen in a long time and it got a reaction from the crowd. If Max could put a twang on everyone's name it could really get over I think
hell no 🤣😢 This didn't get a pop or massive crowd reaction 🙄 only thing those segments make me want to do is either vomit or gouge my eyes out!! You gotta have a certain preference to like this. Live your truth and to each is own, but let's not pretend like this is any good
I disagree with Jimmy. I thought it was horribly awesome. It was one of those segments that was corny but incredibly entertaining. Wrestling is best with overtop personalities. Similar to what Jim was early in his career
I mean, what you just said sums up wrestling for the past 30-odd years I've been watching (on and off).
People always say they want "real" wrestling... well, I dunno, because _this is exactly the only_ wrestling I've known for my lifetime.
Na, Jim is wrong here.. this gonna work for sure.. it will get over with the fans I'm 100% sure.. It was awesome.. 😂
too many simpletons lol
F’n ridiculous. This is why wrestling is trash now
How'd this work out for you? 😂
I wouldn't say Dupri was acting like a gay person at all. Modern straight men can be equally as flamboyant these days as gay men, I would say it's stereotyping of all gay men to assume being flamboyant and expressive is exclusive to gay people. It's PGTV, and it was a gimmick about mens fitness.
Jim is showing he is slightly outdated here with modern people, as he constantly reminds us he never leaves his house and doesn't deal with people, somewhere in the south...
Fast forward 2 years later and LA KNIGHT is on top, YEAH!
YEAAAH
I've been waiting for this!!! Loved it!
one of the funniest thumbnails to date 😂y’all oughta give your artist a raise
"It's another one of those 'Don't let Vince look at shit' type deal." LOL! Just described the last 30 years of WWF/E.
Poor poor Eli Drake
In his mind he's probably thinking "Dummy, yeah!"
I hate to say it but Eli Drake is done.
40 year old wrestler making a great amount of money without having to take stupid bumps….yeah poor him
@@ThaTruth223 doubt it's a great amount. COULD be great if they let him be LA/Eli
@@smarkslowplay3512 just say you’re not feeling it, because making it seem like the guy is suffering because of a gimmick change is much of an overreaction
One of the most entertaining segments in a while. Was there in Phoenix live at the debut and the crowd was red hot booing this thing when the fashion got ratcheted up. People act like they don't remember HBKs girly act and Goldust
Adam Cole dodged a bullet leaving when he did. This definitely would have been him.
I'm looking forward to Jim's retort to Kenny Omega's remarks about him and all of us that listen as part of Cult of Cornette.
Kenny Olivier lost his buttplug that day, that why he went on that rant
I'm honestly kind of curious what's going to happen to WWE at this point when this whole group of current top talent is on their way out. I mean they are doing every single conceivably possible thing to ruin their upcoming talent as much as possible. Someone like LA Knight could be a huge star if you book him with some of your current top people, but instead you just bury him with a dumb gimmick. And they do the same with your up and coming young talent. Who the hell is going to replace your current top guys if you keep purposely burying your up and coming guys????? It's like Vince is going out of his way to just have the company buried along with him in his final years lmao.
I wonder if the Max Dupri character is what Vince McMahon wanted Adam Cole to be?
Cole should have taken the role in hindsight.
I think Adam Cole was supposed to manage Keith “Bearcat” Lee. However, they were going to change Adam’s name to not confuse them with Michael Cole.
That Maxwell Dupri gimmick is very funny and how he is with other ppl is gold. The segment had me laughing.
It's a shame that WWE has practically destroyed Eli Drake / LA Knight's character and possibly his career. With all the talent this guy has as an old school style wrestler, who would want him after this ? Is it over for him ? It's a really good talent used the wrong way AGAIN by WWE.
Your wish came true. He's the guy now
I was waiting for this. Pat McAfee was gold here. Had me in tears lol.
Hey, if this gimmick gets Brian to laugh like that without Cody in AEW and Jane Cargil starting to get better, might as well keep this gimmick
I'm sorry ... Cargill is what?!?? 😐
“Let me tell you about my first homosexual experience” - Vince McMahon to Scott Hall explaining the concept of Goldust
@Mack Eastwood, There's been rumors for DECADES that Vince had a "relationship" with Patterson all the years that he was married to Linda
Jesus Jim. "Homophobic" does not mean "afraid of gay people"
The thing is it was meant to be over the top, you can see it with how Max, Mace, and Mansoor sells it with their facial expressions and I like it. What makes comedy for me in wrestling work is if they FULLY commit to it, and that goes for the announcers, so kudos to Pat. So far so good, how they follow this up with the next segments and in-ring stuff though remains to be seen.
I thought it was great, very entertaining but Zoolander is a guilty pleasure haha
Does Zoolander…titillate…the juices…of your guilty pleasures?
@@mahakalavanilla6263 so hot right now!
Zoolander sucks and so does this gimmick
I loved it. Eli Drake has always been a great promo and he sold me on this. Ma.çé and Mån.sôör lmao that shit had me rolling. They were styling too, I kinda wanted that upper chest fanny pack.
I know it will probably go no where soon and it will be quickly forgotten but this segment was hilarious
Bronson Pinchot in Beverly Hills Cop 😂😂😂😂😂
Knowing WWE Masoor and Mace will turn on dupri in like a week or something then they’ll feud with the Mysterios
This is funny as fuck because that could literally happen
“demoted to the mysterios”
Well they're teasing a Gunther and Ludwig split. I could see Ludwig joining MMM.
I was hysterically laughing while walking my dog listening to this! People couldn't believe it! 🤣🤣🤣
LOL, reminds me of Goldust and Lawler.
King: "Well... are you?"
GD: "Am I what?"
King: "You know... Q*eer?"
GD: "NO!"
(Crowd pops like Austin just walked out)
Vince's head is just up his ass and Bruce's like right behind it when it comes to the the creativity for Eli Drake
i was wondering why they didnt cover any wwe events for hella videos lol finally we're here
I'm looking forward to seeing where this one goes.
"Kept Adrian from kissing black men on television". One of the greatest quotes I've ever heard. Cornette has the best podcasts period!!
The first interracial gay kiss on Memphis TV
I can’t wait to see mansoor take this gimmick to saudi arabia 😂
i thought it was a really fun segment. looking forward to seeing what this heel faction will do
Jim Cornette is my role model
Maximum Role Model
I was waiting for this.....
LA Knight is great right now.
When they brought up Beverly Hills Cop and name dropped Surge, it made my day.
The only problem with Corny bringing it up is that most of today's fans wouldn't know who that character is from that movie, & also the fact that the actor from that movie who played that role was also on Perfect Strangers
“There is only one true model.” -Rick Martel
As soon as Brian mentioned Billy n Chuck I started doing the song 🎶..cant help it its so bad its addictive
This shit really had me in stitches! I hope it doesn’t turn into straight comedy but so far mannnnnn 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nobody ever accused Vince of having a sophisticated sense of humor. One can only speculate to what mental age he might have regressed by now.
It's likenwhen wwe had 3 Bobby's
Bobby fish
Bobby lashley
Bobby Roode
i couldn't wait to hear this
I personally think it would be a top notch troll move if wwe gave mansoor an ambiguous borderline homosexual zoolander gimmick.
would be very intrigued to see how the kingdom would react^^
Lmao
What's a pay per view? There was a Premium Live Event on this past Saturday.
i cant wait for tomorrow's edition of mmm
If there is any fan out there that still needs convincing that Vince MacMahon has lost his damn mind ages ago - to scrap and destroy a near perfect gimmick, the l.a knight gimmick, for this max dopri m.m.m gimmick bs - this is your proof.
Everyone hated LA Knight until Drake got it over. He'll get this over, too
@@TheMagnificentMongoSlade the drake gimmick was at impact wrestling, I'm talking about the l.a knight gimmick at nxt. I give this m.m.m of max dupri 3 months top before vince is gonna realize ops, i didn't again, i just ruin another great gimmick because i can. The hell with walter, i Vince MacMahon want his name to be Gunther and I don't care that i have no reason at all to change the name... Vince MacMahon lost his damn mind ages ago.
@@TheMagnificentMongoSlade Say what now?
I lost track of NWA Powerr, during the shutdown and then heard so many were gone and didn't go back, but wondered what happened to Eli Drake. I didn't think much of him when they started; but, he grew on me, after a while. Same with James Storm. If this is how he ended up, I don't want to know about Storm. I get you go where the money is; but, he had sounded like that was the last place he wanted to end up, when he was doing the podcast, for the NWA, when they first went into lockdown.
L.A. Knight: Amazing wrestler, managed to integrate bits of Eli Drake into the gimmick, fans loved him.
Max Dupri: Running a Project Runway modeling agency, fans don't follow it, can't even wrestle.
Whenever WWE calls up talent, they'll make sure they get their swift kick to the gut by changing their names and gimmicks into usually something degrading to who they were originally or to something that makes zero sense. This is a prime case.
Damien Priest, Rhea Ripley, Riddle, Gunther, Theory, Belair. Call ups that are committed and talented make something if themselves. The ones that didn't make it were lazy or flawed, but the IWC dorks don't get it.
how the hell is this “degrading”
@@ThaTruth223 how is it not? As both Eli Drake and LA Knight he was a masculine, ass-kickin, cocky man with some bass in his voice who wanted success as a serious wrestler. Now he’s an effeminate modeling manager who speaks with a corny voice and probably won’t even get a real in-ring showing, although he’s easily one of the best in-ring workers WWE has to offer. You tell me how that’s not degrading.
@@joegreene7619 you know who else is 40 and injury prone? Randy Orton. Anybody can be injured, it’s part of the physicality. But it ain’t like he hasn’t gone long periods without being healthy. Never before has that stopped anyone else from being presented seriously - current day Goldberg, Orton (like I said), Reigns, etc. You just shilling for WWE lmao
@@jamesynfg Exactly. Way better than I could've said it lol.
From what I gather fans are actually excited for what’s next with this group 😂 it’s so stupid but in the best way possible
Now that you mention it, he DOES remind me of Serge from Beverly Hills Cop! XD
1:47 , 11:29 I love how Jim tries to say the names 😂
Brian was in his bag here. I was laughing my ass off.
"Diarrheaaaaa"...
The Gay Pride Parade doesn't exactly help with gay stereotypes. They literally bring them out in full force.
Pat McAfee is God's gift to WWE. He makes the product somewhat watchable when he's on.
LA Knight/Eli Drake would’ve been a PERFECT old-school IC champion. Such a shame
They should never of changed LA Knight’s gimmick and name. This was a local guy from my hometown of Hagerstown, MD, and I’ve always rooted for him whether he’s a heal or face. He’s a hell of a talker and he’s good in the ring. This is like the 6th wrestler they’ve changed their gimmick and name from one week to the next, it’s so stupid it doesn’t make sense. He had momentum as LA Knight, now he’s got nothing and probably is gonna be passed over.
"It's one of those don't let Vince look at shit type of deals." lmfao
I was waiting for a comment on Rico. Everybody was son high on that guy and then he got called up...
Red Rooster hair: It's not sexy, it's animal.
The Maximum Male Models was so absurd, I thought it was funny asf.
Vince had an Elvis impersonator as the IC champion for over a year. The man is nuts
All hail LA Knight, looks like he ditched the MMM thing. Friggin' great, expect a lot from him!
Would Vince mock someone who's gay?...Have forgotten how WWE treated Kris Kanyon?
And to think... this was probably destined for Adam Cole.
Cole did crack at some point. Who can blame him anyway? I too wanted to do crack after watching that! 😂
it's gold -if you don't like this you have no joy in your heart haha!
Their segment on Smackdown last night fell FLAT
This the one I've been waiting for 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Brian's laugh is what got me
That shit was so funny
😆😆😆😆
I guess Jim's never watched a fashion show before because the hosts always read off of cards describing what the models are wearing like Max was doing, lol.
I was getting Simon Dean vibes from when he would be selling supplements.
When it was first announced that LA Knight was going to be a manager every pooped on it. I was like give it a chance right? I ASSUMED he was going to be his cocky LA Knight character, but as a manager. So we'd hear him talk and he wouldn't have to get beat up. Anyways. They pooped all over it with this. We thank you and wish you well with your future endeavors. So you think this is the character they created for Adam Cole?
Curious what'll happen at Crown Jewel lol.