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
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.🤣
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.
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.
This was incredible as a fan to stumble across. I love hearing the old school days. I’m from Indianapolis and Jim & Brian have taught me so much about the history of not just wrestling in my area, but around the world, but they’ve taught me so much about bookings, running a show etc. this was an incredible deep dive!
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.
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 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.
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.
Im at work with earbuds in (im not allowed) when brian screamed “THE MOTHERSHIP I nearly got my ass in trouble, thanks brian. Edit: thanks brian for the encore, the second scream, my ears are bleeding
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.
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??
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.
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?
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...
@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.
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! 😂😂😊
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.
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 TH-cam. 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.
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.
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.
I love this intro because in my mind i would've just always assumed it was Lawler but that clearly wasn't going to be the answer so i know I'm about to learn about someone i had no idea about!
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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
I love taking the piss out AEW, but this is the type of content I subscribed for
Exactly
Seconded.
Crazy how much more entertaining the OLD SCHOOL STUFF is over today’s Product 💪💪
This is so much better than hearing about ratings
Yeah that just something they have to do to draw in and appease a specific part of the audience.
Man, I love hearing stories from back in the day. Sh*t was wild back then. Riots, arrests, attempted murder charges.
This is the stuff I started watching 5his channel for back in 2015/2016. I love this stuff
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.🤣
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
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
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.
Keep giving us more wrestling history we need it!!!!!
Lmao
I literally can not get enough of these old stories!! We are so lucky to have Corny!!!
“Oh, the bear’s always the babyface.” All jokes aside, more stuff like this, please!
More classic wrestling, please!
Yes!!
Yes, PLEASE!
As a lifetime native Nashvillian, this is now my favorite episode of all time lol.
Nashville>America
This was incredible as a fan to stumble across. I love hearing the old school days. I’m from Indianapolis and Jim & Brian have taught me so much about the history of not just wrestling in my area, but around the world, but they’ve taught me so much about bookings, running a show etc. this was an incredible deep dive!
Both men are two of the best historians of pro wresting working on the same podcast. Their wrestling history segments are always gold.
Cornette talks about history - before he was EVEN BORN - with such passion, clarity and detail, you might think that he's a time-traveller
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is what the masses come for Corny!!!!!!
44:01
I was so into the old school story, Cornette’s ad read caught me completely off guard 😂😂
Im at work with earbuds in (im not allowed) when brian screamed “THE MOTHERSHIP
I nearly got my ass in trouble, thanks brian.
Edit: thanks brian for the encore, the second scream, my ears are bleeding
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.
Alright ! Corny talking almost an hour on old school wrestling just made my day !!!
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!!!
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?!
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.
Much better than that shit they call wrestling now ..
Damn far more interesting than what we have now
This is why im such a fan or cornie; i love these old tine stories! Keep them coming guys!
This is why I follow Jim's channel.
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
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??
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.
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.
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?
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...
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.
@@Trippeak 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.
Green Shadow was booked beautifully
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! 😂😂😊
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.
Love this content. Love hearing by about bygone era wrestling
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 TH-cam. 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.
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.
Herb Welch is a fascinating dude as well.
Jim Cornette is number 3 on Undertakers Rushmore of great managers.
What evil lurks in the hearts of man? The Green Shadow knows!
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.
Dude, Irish heels took so much shit in the South.
Ya gotta give em what they want !
Classic talk done by Corny!
Great stuff! I love the classic stories!!
Yes the classics 🙌
These are my favorite segments!!!
This is so much better than hearing about how bad AEW is.
Ive been gone for a while.i missed hearing the saltiest of salty, JIM CORNETTE
I love this intro because in my mind i would've just always assumed it was Lawler but that clearly wasn't going to be the answer so i know I'm about to learn about someone i had no idea about!
Thank GOD! Not AEW talk
Dixie Carter
Oh to have a time machine!
I can't imagine watching a 90 minute Broadway 2 out of 3 falls match live. Kill me lol
Looking for any photo of the Green Shadow
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
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.
Tracy Smothers!!!!
Apparently it was The Riddler
Wrestling history is the best
I feel like gym has years worth of stories to tell, i hope he tells them
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.
What's sup uncle Jim Cornette when you coming back on cameo I need you unc 💐🐐
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.
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
Please stop reviewing any modern product and focus solely on this stuff for at least a full show. That plus listeners questions as well!
Chattanooga the UTC arena
Pat malone "the green shadow"
what a guy
Dick Leaver, I hardly knew her!
Miles Turner. He blocks shots yes. But he’s soft and pacers kept the wrong big man
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I hate Jims political views. How can he be so intelligent yet love Biden?
Nick gulas
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.
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?
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