Exactly! I love how Jim breaks down how matches were laid out and explains it. You can tell he's a student and teacher of how professional wresting should be done.
I would love for him to do a documentary from the beginning times of pro wrestling and Today's time.. I want to hear about The New York/East Coast, The Atlanta/Southeast, The Texas/Southwest, The West Coast and The Mid West.. I was looking up Rick Martel one day and I was talking to this commenter on TH-cam about why WWE hasn't put him in the Hall of Fame yet, He was telling me Rick Martel should be in! He wrestled in the Portland territories.. when he said that it blown my mind and wanted to know more.. He said the reason Rick Martel isn't in the Hall of Fame cause Vince doesn't own Portland and I had to sit back and think, that's probably why he's not in either because of that video library not belonging to Vince at this point..
Andre Ricardo Bryant Yea cuz the wwe is left with stupid viewers that seem to ONLY process short meaningless storylines and matches. Explains the low ratings. I bet if wwe cancelled they shows and decided to show reruns of the Golden Age or Attitude Era, it’ll draw more viewers/ratings than the bullshit they air today . And that’s facts!
Andre Ricardo Bryant I hear that all the time, but look at the current state of the product. Im not saying he has all the answers, but he’s a goldmine of knowledge.
Remember when Edge & Christian cut that promo where they were talking about swerves?"You know when you're driving down the road at night and a deer runs across the road and you SWERVE your car to avoid it? Well, we're not talking about THAT kind of swerve..."
@20:00 - "It looks like a performance rather than a conflict" This^ sums up succinctly what is SO wrong with wrestling these days and why it died for me ten, fifteen, years ago. Just a pair of people coming out and doing a bunch of moves and going back to the curtain. No psychology any more. No in-ring story telling. Oh, sure, there's plenty backstage "days of our lives" story telling - but no more tales are told in the ring. And i find that a very sad thing... So instead i watch "Brett Hart vs Roddy Piper" Wrestlemania VIII; or Shawn Michaels & Razor Ramon ladder match; Brett & Shawn Iron Man Match. Need i go on...?
Idk why but I’m fascinated by the “carny talk/terms” it’s like a lost art of the wrestling business. I feel like us fans use more carny terms than the wrestlers themselves do today.
@@Yamah12a - It has nothing to do with AEW vs WWE. It’s something that has permeated into the entire internet wrestling community. ECW, WCW & WWF fans back in the early 90’s used it too.
@@zlinedavid - This is true but I mean what can you expect when in 2022/2023 the “marks” are the only ones that want to get into the wrestling business
@@MrRighteousRon The leadership(managers & Ramp Agents)will manipulate the way a person thinks to gain a benefit at their expense. They will also fuck over someone,who has busted their ass for the company,that is in position to get a leadership position for one of their own who is lazy as hell & unprofessional
I LOVE Cornette's Ernie Ladd impressions, they're always spot on! BTW, What did they call a NWA v. WWF champion v. champion match? In Comics whenever a Marvel character meets a DC character, that's called a "Crossover"...
People know what "bury" means. Shame is, nobody uses it properly and it's been overused to the point of meaninglessness. Person loses once that someone didn't want to lose "BURRRIED, RUINED FUREVER"
Same can be said about other words, too. I thought I knew what 'work' meant until I listened to Corny a while back. Now I'm sure everyone else is using it wrong.
Get out of my head! I was just thinking that. Heck, if their fave isn't presented as the very top guy some fans will say he's being buried no matter how many main events and title runs he has.
I learned some of this stuff, as a kid, in the 70s, reading old comic book stories. You got stuff like "Hey Rube!" all of the time, because circuses and carnivals were big elements of entertainment in those days. Also, ballyhoo was a favorite of old Hollywood (Check out the lyrics to Hooray for Hollywood). Fans these days deed to watch movies from before 1995; preferably from before 1945.
wow, i got chills when he was outlining the match as ernie at the end. i really felt like i was there. talk about painting a picture - cornette is 100% correct. poetry.
They will probably tell you to "put your tampon back in, Karen", or simply tell you to stay home if you are afraid of being around people as if there is an Ebola or bubonic plague outbreak.
The Rock didnt kill "jabroni"...granted, he made it a more known term, but Hulk Hogan was the one who has driven it into the ground over the last 20 years after the Rock made it cool. I never heard Hogan use the term until after the Rock, now he says it every chance he gets.
Rock had gotten the term from hearing Sheiky Baby use it while Rock was training to become a wrestler. I'm sure Sheiky didn't invent it, but he's used it quite a bit himself. Just like how Rock got the idea of his promo style by borrowing from Austin Idol
This is a reminder of the sad state of modern pro wrestling as a whole. There has been so much of the culture and craft of wrestling that has been lost over the last 2-3 decades. It seems like most "wrestling schools" teach the mechanical aspects of ring work but don't go in depth about the business. Understanding the big picture is something many wrestlers these days are sorely lacking in. They may know how to get a cheap pop or spot pops but they don't understand how to build a match, they don't know how to get someone else over while also getting themselves over(they only know how to get over by burying someone else, it seems), and the list goes on. Long story short, when wrestlers and promoters these days often seem to lack understanding of things like terminology, how can one expect a random fan to know these things when they're being fed incorrect meanings by the working professionals who should know better? Losing the language of pro wrestling may not seem like a big deal to some but by losing the language and in turn a large part of the culture of pro wrestling, people are losing the fundamentals of the business of pro wrestling.
Thanks to The Older Vince McMahon we have now and the sad part is he knows all of this stuff and chose not to be bothered with it, Paul Haymen in the early 1990s with ECW who seem to say *"f__k those terminology"* It's not the young wrestlers fault cause the generation before them didn't teach them the terminology correctly.. Just telling the truth..
@@kenrickkahn Exactly, it isn't the newer guys and gals fault that the training they received has been lackluster more often than not. They've been taught by people who are either lacking in their own knowledge of pro wrestling or they purposefully held back knowledge from their students, for one reason or another. The real shame in all of this is that with each successive generation of wrestlers, the knowledge pool is diluting severely. We're at the point where there are few active workers in the ring who know anything significant about the business, from the language/slang to ring psychology to building/maintaining/growing a business, and so on. All people seem to know these days is how to mimic what they've seen without understanding why something works or doesn't work.
@Joe Greene Very true. I think that Omega, The Young Bucks, and many other workers largely recognized as the top guys these days have extreme talent and ability but they often don't know how to fully utilize what they can do. For all their athleticism and physical capability, I've not seen guys like them put on a clinic of ring work where they displayed command of psychology and ability to tell a compelling story.
Jim Cornette Jim Ross and Mike Tenay should write a book and get together on one of their shows. All that knowledge of wrestling and its stories through out its long history.
When I was a kid at a carnival and I remember hearing someone shout something right before a bunch of guys started to fight. I thought he was yelling out "Its Ken!" It wasn't until many years later while looking up carny stuff as an adult that I realized he was yelling "Its a clem". Only time I ever got to hear something like that. I wish I had been able to appreciate it back then.
Lol. You're right. I don't get why people using colloquialisms "improperly" matters in the least to ANYTHING. It's nice from a historical view of HOW they change. Maybe it's an old man trying to struggle to push content in a time where there isnt much for him to talk about. Is that what I'm to get?
I think the only pro-wrestling terms I use regularly are "heel", "babyface", and "over" I feel like everything else gets a little muddy and changed with time
Jim's respect and passion for wrestling is amazing. He has dedicated his life to the business and he wont allow someone to shit on it without telling them to go fuck themselves. Thank you Jim for standing up for wrestling.
Ah... "milk it" has a different meaning today. Because milking it means that when it works, you're doing it over and over again. So getting a pop by punching a guy in the face - "milk it" wouldn't mean signaling you'd punch him... it would mean you'd keep on punching him afterwards.
It's interesting as I got hooked on pro wrasslin in the summer of 1987, 1st saw it in early 1986 though, I was 11.. I never knew for a few more years how cool some stuff is behind the scenes lol..
"when he looks like he's gonna hit the finish line on ya...cheat like the criminal ya are...!!!" --There will never be anyone like a Cornette or a Heenan again in wrestling--off the charts talent. Thankfully, we have TH-cam.
Another masterpiece by Travis Heckel! haha! This is right up there with his bald Ernie Ladd / Corny thumbnail......i"D LET THEM PLUCK EVERY HAIR IN MY HEAD, I'D BE AS BALD AS AN EGG!
"Hey Rube" was also the name of a weekly column on the now defunct Page 2 of the ESPN website, written by none other than the late, great Hunter S. Thompson.
I imagine it would hard to give wrestlers today a general story and finish of the match and let them work it out without specifying "don't kick out of each others finishers a dozen times" and "don't do some elaborate spot that would make a great finish in a later match and kill it as a two count in an eight minute match". You would have to really retrain the guys to make it work. You don't want to tell two guys in the opening match to have a five minute match with the heel reversing a rollup while grabbing the tights and then watch them no sell burning hammers at the two minute mark because they want to get in cool shit.
People don’t say words like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Holy Shit Jim, you nailed my exact problem with current product (all wrestling has this problem it's like the gorram 'Rona) Ricochet and Seth Rollins specifically have this problem, they don't make anything look like a struggle. It's too fluid, no effort, I personally blame Shawn Michaels and all his goofy shit.
There are two terms (moves) that I wish I knew the names of (if they have names): 1.When a heel thinks he did something smart and taps the side of his head, showing the crowd that he is smart. He then turns around to be clobbered by the babyface. 2.During a tag team match, a heel is knocked silly and mistakenly goes to the wrong corner to tag out, only to be hit by the babyface.
The first ought to be known as "The Heenan Sell." Because early on Bobby Heenan was renowned for pantomime moves such as that. The second in honor of John Lennon "Instant Karma" (also the name of a guy in Kevin Sullivan's faction in early 1980s Florida).B.W.
Corny’s Ernie Ladd impression never disappoints. It so priceless
Wanted to like your comment but its already on the perfect number and I wouldn't wanna dumb myself out of the YT comments section.
Jim should do a whole show on Ernie Ladd in Ernie Ladd's voice Hahahaha I could listen to that all day everyday
OMG yes!
Ernie is 'DA BEST"
And get some heat on em’!!
I really miss Ernie...
The first time I ever truly marked out was when Chief Jay Strongbow jumped onto Ernie Ladd’s back in Georgia Championship Wrestling.
The history is totally fascinating
I love the history.
Exactly! I love how Jim breaks down how matches were laid out and explains it. You can tell he's a student and teacher of how professional wresting should be done.
Man Jim Cornette paints such a great picture of what real wrestling used to feel like !!! This his such awesome stuff !!!
I would love for him to do a documentary from the beginning times of pro wrestling and Today's time.. I want to hear about The New York/East Coast, The Atlanta/Southeast, The Texas/Southwest, The West Coast and The Mid West.. I was looking up Rick Martel one day and I was talking to this commenter on TH-cam about why WWE hasn't put him in the Hall of Fame yet, He was telling me Rick Martel should be in! He wrestled in the Portland territories.. when he said that it blown my mind and wanted to know more.. He said the reason Rick Martel isn't in the Hall of Fame cause Vince doesn't own Portland and I had to sit back and think, that's probably why he's not in either because of that video library not belonging to Vince at this point..
Andre Ricardo Bryant Yea cuz the wwe is left with stupid viewers that seem to ONLY process short meaningless storylines and matches. Explains the low ratings. I bet if wwe cancelled they shows and decided to show reruns of the Golden Age or Attitude Era, it’ll draw more viewers/ratings than the bullshit they air today . And that’s facts!
@@kenrickkahn that cant be it cuz Piper worked Portland before coming to the WWF and he got in the H.O.F in 05.
Andre Ricardo Bryant
I hear that all the time, but look at the current state of the product. Im not saying he has all the answers, but he’s a goldmine of knowledge.
@@rogueprince1341 Okay, I didn't even know that either.. Piper did also?! Who else wrestled there?
Cornette’s knowledge never fails to astound.
Remember when Edge & Christian cut that promo where they were talking about swerves?"You know when you're driving down the road at night and a deer runs across the road and you SWERVE your car to avoid it? Well, we're not talking about THAT kind of swerve..."
Yeah, they did that on commentary. It was excellent!
That Booker talk at the end was poetry!
21:16
"Ding, ding, ding, the bell rings..."
Never enough Big Cat stories, Jim and Brian, never enough.
I love Cornette's Ernie Ladd impression. I've even started using "you just dumbed yourself out of position" in casual conversation, lol.
BUNDAY
Cornette doing "Big Cat" Ernie Ladd. Absolutely priceless
Did Ernie Ladd sound like Dusty?
Lol, that was the best part!
Bundy, ya fat piece of shit.
Rando1975 lmfao, I love it when Corny does that impression.
My wife bought me a really expensive gift. She swerved me when I found out it was bought with my credit card.
@20:00 - "It looks like a performance rather than a conflict"
This^ sums up succinctly what is SO wrong with wrestling these days and why it died for me ten, fifteen, years ago. Just a pair of people coming out and doing a bunch of moves and going back to the curtain. No psychology any more.
No in-ring story telling.
Oh, sure, there's plenty backstage "days of our lives" story telling - but no more tales are told in the ring.
And i find that a very sad thing...
So instead i watch "Brett Hart vs Roddy Piper" Wrestlemania VIII; or Shawn Michaels & Razor Ramon ladder match; Brett & Shawn Iron Man Match.
Need i go on...?
Do you go to any indie events? Theyre the best. An new japan has world class wrestlers as well
Well said
You nailed it.
Arn Anderson was such a good policeman, he became the Enforcer.
Idk why but I’m fascinated by the
“carny talk/terms” it’s like a lost art of the wrestling business. I feel like us fans use more carny terms than the wrestlers themselves do today.
Linguistics is a fascinating subject. Shibboleths, and how each subculture integrates their own, are especially interesting.
Yes and I hate it, especially the aew fans.. They talk as if they have been in the business for years.
@@Yamah12a - It has nothing to do with AEW vs WWE. It’s something that has permeated into the entire internet wrestling community. ECW, WCW & WWF fans back in the early 90’s used it too.
It’s because the marks are in the ring instead of the seats
@@zlinedavid - This is true but I mean what can you expect when in 2022/2023 the “marks” are the only ones that want to get into the wrestling business
where did he get a lawnmower, see thats what happens when the ref doesnt check for forgien objects
Didn't Warrior cut a promo where he talked about training for a match by letting someone run over him with a lawnmower? lol...
I loved how he said that so nonchalantly like it was a commonly used foreign object
Excuse me, that's International object!
That's racist they're called International Objects.
@@georgejackson4426 those dirty foreign objects taking the place of our domestic objects
Corny basically described my old job at FedEx with the swerve definition
Craig Smith II LOL.
How so?
@@MrRighteousRon
The leadership(managers & Ramp Agents)will manipulate the way a person thinks to gain a benefit at their expense. They will also fuck over someone,who has busted their ass for the company,that is in position to get a leadership position for one of their own who is lazy as hell & unprofessional
Aaron B THats a dumbass question, he EXPLAINED the word, and THIS dude said it was like his job....that’s a self answerable question you fucking moron
@@Sabbathbloodysabbath666 LMAO 😂😂😂😂
Jim Cornette is the best storyteller since my Grandmother.... God rest her soul
Rip
RIP
I LOVE Cornette's Ernie Ladd impressions, they're always spot on!
BTW, What did they call a NWA v. WWF champion v. champion match? In Comics whenever a Marvel character meets a DC character, that's called a "Crossover"...
Since no one is answering after five months, I will. I believe the term you are looking for is cross promotional or inter promotional...I use "cross".
“What book?” “Exactly.” Hahaha anyone catch that little back and forth?
I think Fall Guys by Marcus Griffin is the book he is talking about. th-cam.com/video/r9PIleVWJtE/w-d-xo.html
On Jim's website he has a graphic novel that has insider terms
@@ernieprofitt4979 Yep, I own that and it's frigging amazing especially on the terms
People know what "bury" means. Shame is, nobody uses it properly and it's been overused to the point of meaninglessness.
Person loses once that someone didn't want to lose "BURRRIED, RUINED FUREVER"
Actually I like the new meaning! What the hell do you call Bray Wyatt multiple loses and 2003 Booker T losing against Triple H? That's burying homie..
Same can be said about other words, too. I thought I knew what 'work' meant until I listened to Corny a while back. Now I'm sure everyone else is using it wrong.
you could say they buried the word bury
@@kenrickkahn its called long storied career...lol ya dope...booker t's is a good example of a burial
Get out of my head! I was just thinking that. Heck, if their fave isn't presented as the very top guy some fans will say he's being buried no matter how many main events and title runs he has.
I learned some of this stuff, as a kid, in the 70s, reading old comic book stories. You got stuff like "Hey Rube!" all of the time, because circuses and carnivals were big elements of entertainment in those days. Also, ballyhoo was a favorite of old Hollywood (Check out the lyrics to Hooray for Hollywood). Fans these days deed to watch movies from before 1995; preferably from before 1945.
I’m such a mark for the corny drive thru .
Yeah, I am too.. I Mark out when I see the videos pop up on my notifications..
Stop tryin to sound cool by saying Mark....you’re an idiot
@@Sabbathbloodysabbath666 Shut up ya mark, you're no gatekeeper
Worst term ever going public is "mark". Now everyone who has no argument just throws it around like it makes them one of the boys.
"Who shot John" should be "who hired Russo" now
That Ernie Ladd impersonation at the end was incredible lmao
I loved when he did the impression of Dusty.. I was shocked and amaze that Jim had it down packed to a tee..
That John Lennon joke went straight over corneys head lol, I thought it was funny 😂
This is one of my favorite episodes so far. Truly enjoy the terms and in a sentence.
Ahhh a new one to get me through another 25 mins of night shift!
wow, i got chills when he was outlining the match as ernie at the end. i really felt like i was there. talk about painting a picture - cornette is 100% correct. poetry.
Next time I'm in public and someone gets within 6feet of me I'm going to scream "Hey Rube!" at them. Just to see what happens.
They will probably tell you to "put your tampon back in, Karen", or simply tell you to stay home if you are afraid of being around people as if there is an Ebola or bubonic plague outbreak.
The last two minutes are phenomenal in an already awesome video.
The Rock didnt kill "jabroni"...granted, he made it a more known term, but Hulk Hogan was the one who has driven it into the ground over the last 20 years after the Rock made it cool. I never heard Hogan use the term until after the Rock, now he says it every chance he gets.
Rock had gotten the term from hearing Sheiky Baby use it while Rock was training to become a wrestler.
I'm sure Sheiky didn't invent it, but he's used it quite a bit himself.
Just like how Rock got the idea of his promo style by borrowing from Austin Idol
Because brother was overkilled
Don't work yourself into a shoot,jabroni
Jabroni. Cool word!👏
@@amongstthemasses3097 LOL!!!! You will be costing me money brother..
I know that's the Big Cat, but that looks like early 2000s Donovan McNabb in the thumbnail too.
i am unpretty. but famous.
My uncle who was in the business from the 50’s to early & 70’s use to always tell me don’t give me a swerve job! Lol
“Bidness match” Thats where you sell dat elbow like a gunshot baby!
"Milk it" is a wrestling term? that's a common phrase here in the UK
some of the terms arent exclusively wrestling terms but terms used in wrestling that have a wrestling meaning to it
Yeah it’s a pretty common term. We would call items in Mario kart getting the milk
Bryan Skyline Wrestling Channel never heard this before
I though milking it was just a regular term everyone used
Yancy Garcia it might of been just my group of friends and I. I’ve heard it elsewhere but terms and slang r used differently depending upon the region
Carnies gonna carn.
This is a reminder of the sad state of modern pro wrestling as a whole. There has been so much of the culture and craft of wrestling that has been lost over the last 2-3 decades.
It seems like most "wrestling schools" teach the mechanical aspects of ring work but don't go in depth about the business. Understanding the big picture is something many wrestlers these days are sorely lacking in. They may know how to get a cheap pop or spot pops but they don't understand how to build a match, they don't know how to get someone else over while also getting themselves over(they only know how to get over by burying someone else, it seems), and the list goes on.
Long story short, when wrestlers and promoters these days often seem to lack understanding of things like terminology, how can one expect a random fan to know these things when they're being fed incorrect meanings by the working professionals who should know better?
Losing the language of pro wrestling may not seem like a big deal to some but by losing the language and in turn a large part of the culture of pro wrestling, people are losing the fundamentals of the business of pro wrestling.
Thanks to The Older Vince McMahon we have now and the sad part is he knows all of this stuff and chose not to be bothered with it, Paul Haymen in the early 1990s with ECW who seem to say *"f__k those terminology"* It's not the young wrestlers fault cause the generation before them didn't teach them the terminology correctly.. Just telling the truth..
About the only one doing it that i could see is Al Snow. Whether or not his advice is taken is another story.
@@jpjpjp453 yep. its hard to teach fundamentals to people who already think they've got it- or somehow "know" their way works better...
@@kenrickkahn Exactly, it isn't the newer guys and gals fault that the training they received has been lackluster more often than not. They've been taught by people who are either lacking in their own knowledge of pro wrestling or they purposefully held back knowledge from their students, for one reason or another.
The real shame in all of this is that with each successive generation of wrestlers, the knowledge pool is diluting severely. We're at the point where there are few active workers in the ring who know anything significant about the business, from the language/slang to ring psychology to building/maintaining/growing a business, and so on. All people seem to know these days is how to mimic what they've seen without understanding why something works or doesn't work.
@Joe Greene Very true. I think that Omega, The Young Bucks, and many other workers largely recognized as the top guys these days have extreme talent and ability but they often don't know how to fully utilize what they can do.
For all their athleticism and physical capability, I've not seen guys like them put on a clinic of ring work where they displayed command of psychology and ability to tell a compelling story.
Jim Cornette Jim Ross and Mike Tenay should write a book and get together on one of their shows. All that knowledge of wrestling and its stories through out its long history.
Technology has abbreviated so much of our language.
This podcast is the best thing about professional wrestling.
That drawing of Ladd looks like Venus Flytrap from “WKRP In Cincinnati” 🤣🤣
This was awesome! It feels like I'm at that match.
"Milk it" isn't wrestling terminology. It is English.
When I was a kid at a carnival and I remember hearing someone shout something right before a bunch of guys started to fight. I thought he was yelling out "Its Ken!" It wasn't until many years later while looking up carny stuff as an adult that I realized he was yelling "Its a clem". Only time I ever got to hear something like that. I wish I had been able to appreciate it back then.
Cornette teaches me how not to get old.
Words change.
Lol. You're right. I don't get why people using colloquialisms "improperly" matters in the least to ANYTHING. It's nice from a historical view of HOW they change.
Maybe it's an old man trying to struggle to push content in a time where there isnt much for him to talk about. Is that what I'm to get?
Shibboleths tend not to change. Thats kinda important to them working.
Words only "change" typically due to misuse or ignorance. Language is malleable enough that the misuse of words shouldn't be necessary.
I think the only pro-wrestling terms I use regularly are "heel", "babyface", and "over"
I feel like everything else gets a little muddy and changed with time
I use blown up, work, and rib as much as possible bc they are funny to me
Jim should have milked Brian's classic one liner around 9:27 for way more laughs!🥛😂B.W.
"over"
Prelim. Bum = no name wrestler or jobber.
Why I prefer the term "starmaker."😎B.W.
My old man’s favorite expression was “I don’t care who shot John” lol
"Who shot John?" ... "Mark David Chapman" .... I feel bad about laughing at that.
Jim's respect and passion for wrestling is amazing. He has dedicated his life to the business and he wont allow someone to shit on it without telling them to go fuck themselves. Thank you Jim for standing up for wrestling.
8:14 Greatest song by the Beatles!
Does "take a powder" come from the french " prendre la poudre d'escampette" ?
What pops into my head is the whole deal where ladies leave the dinner table to use the restroom and refresh their makeup.
Jim needs to read a novel in Ernie Ladd's voice.
They should do a Ernie Ladd omnibus. Love Cornette's impression
Corny's Ladd is awesome!!! We had Ladd here in Mid South when I was kid and that dude had the best promos!!!
Really enjoyed this episode. Thanks
In the uk we say to "powder out".
Jim Cornette is Wrestling Gold.
he could write a wrestling textbook lol
@11:10 I was just about to say the same thing..."Such cool stuff" 🤓📚
he hit HHH with a lawn mower lmao
Ah... "milk it" has a different meaning today. Because milking it means that when it works, you're doing it over and over again. So getting a pop by punching a guy in the face - "milk it" wouldn't mean signaling you'd punch him... it would mean you'd keep on punching him afterwards.
looking at the comments, so many people still misunderstand one or two of these despite them being clearly explained...
He did wrestle in England, sure, but I >have< to point out that Adrian Street is Welsh.
I say figure me in with that context in day to day life.
Shine em up like a new penny
My father always used to say give me a shot of that who shot John so I assumed it meant a strong whiskey. LoL
I just looked it up and it says it does apply to strong whiskey or moon shine comes from the old west.
Could Corny do an entire show as Ernie Ladd please?
Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!🙌🐐🐐
what I think would be great is a break down on the styles of wrestling from each territory
It's interesting as I got hooked on pro wrasslin in the summer of 1987, 1st saw it in early 1986 though, I was 11.. I never knew for a few more years how cool some stuff is behind the scenes lol..
"when he looks like he's gonna hit the finish line on ya...cheat like the criminal ya are...!!!" --There will never be anyone like a Cornette or a Heenan again in wrestling--off the charts talent. Thankfully, we have TH-cam.
I had a Sci-fi/Fantasy book called "Circus World". 'Hey Rube!' was the planetary call to war.
Jim's Big Cat and Brian's Moxley. Just 5 minutes. That would be one for the ages.
I know the term ballyhoo from the song The Lullaby of Broadway.
"but swerves and hits Triple H with a lawn mover.." Jim Cornette channeling New Jack
Wasn’t it Randy Savage who really pushed the entire choreographed planed march? DDP was said to be famous for it as well, doing nothing on the fly.
I think so he laid out his match at wm3 so by at least 87 that way of working was becoming more common
Another masterpiece by Travis Heckel! haha!
This is right up there with his bald Ernie Ladd / Corny thumbnail......i"D LET THEM PLUCK EVERY HAIR IN MY HEAD, I'D BE AS BALD AS AN EGG!
Absolutely great stuff😂😂
What is the different between a Feud and an Angle?
"Hey Rube" was also the name of a weekly column on the now defunct Page 2 of the ESPN website, written by none other than the late, great Hunter S. Thompson.
I imagine it would hard to give wrestlers today a general story and finish of the match and let them work it out without specifying "don't kick out of each others finishers a dozen times" and "don't do some elaborate spot that would make a great finish in a later match and kill it as a two count in an eight minute match". You would have to really retrain the guys to make it work. You don't want to tell two guys in the opening match to have a five minute match with the heel reversing a rollup while grabbing the tights and then watch them no sell burning hammers at the two minute mark because they want to get in cool shit.
19th century slang for $1000, Alex
What if the Stone Cold Stunner was called the lawnmower?😂😂
I def think the swerve one is right for outta the company because that’s what swerve means in slang
We Want More!!!
People don’t say words like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.
Now where were we? Oh yeah: the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones...
Abe...
Kenny Olivier wants to play with Corny's joystick. 🕹️
Holy Shit Jim, you nailed my exact problem with current product (all wrestling has this problem it's like the gorram 'Rona) Ricochet and Seth Rollins specifically have this problem, they don't make anything look like a struggle. It's too fluid, no effort, I personally blame Shawn Michaels and all his goofy shit.
Milk it means - stretching it out
A phrase that is applicable beyond just wrestling. Mostly in workplaces with union labor who get paid by the hour.
Take a powder means - give me a Bump
Can we get a Corny Tiger King review Yowie Meowie
What Jim explained was the reason I loved Wrestling!! Goddamn I hate Sports Entertainment bullshit!!!!!!!
There are two terms (moves) that I wish I knew the names of (if they have names):
1.When a heel thinks he did something smart and taps the side of his head, showing the crowd that he is smart. He then turns around to be clobbered by the babyface.
2.During a tag team match, a heel is knocked silly and mistakenly goes to the wrong corner to tag out, only to be hit by the babyface.
The first ought to be known as "The Heenan Sell." Because early on Bobby Heenan was renowned for pantomime moves such as that. The second in honor of John Lennon "Instant Karma" (also the name of a guy in Kevin Sullivan's faction in early 1980s Florida).B.W.
are you sure " whatever the fuck" isn't part of your old school lexicon? lol
Joe Rogan had a pretty interesting convo about kayfabe in a recent podcast. His guest wrote a paper on it.
Patrick Boian who was he on with?
Junior Saucedo some guy named weinstein it’s about 1:01:00 in and its a recent episode
Ah damn I sent in that you should do a pod on wrestling terminology
15:00 u better believe 'shit stain" is referring to Vince Russo 🤣🤣🤣
The Ernie Ladd bit was great. At times though, It sounded like Dusty Rhodes.
5th time I've listened to this just to get the Ernie Ladd impression at the end