He's a true historian of the sport. If you haven't seen it yet, there's a video he did showing off his memorabilia collection at his house, with some incredibly rare stuff, and I have no doubt he's read through every piece of paper that's in there.
I could listen to this guy and his stories for eons. Nice to hear someone who has a connection to the past when "sports entertainment" was "wrassling."
42:50 In 1989, I was an 11-year-old kid growing up 10 miles away from Springfield, MA. Jim is right -- nobody in western Massachusetts gave a fuck about WCW in those days. The fact that the WWF ran the Springfield Civic Center about once a month back then was only partly responsible. The locally-owned cable system we had at the time didn't carry TBS (and wouldn't until the summer of '92). I suspect there were other cable systems in the vicinity in the same boat. My parents and I were away from western MA on vacation at the time of that show, so this is the first I'd ever heard of WCW running Springfield. You learn something new every day!
Exactly. They ran a ppv in the Nassau Mausoleum in 88, probably the worst one they ever ran. They couldn't even give tickets away for that. They tried to fight fire with fire and got burned.
@@elgrandecaudillo yeah, it was George Scott and his 1978 booking (using the Iron Sheik, etc.) and his perplexion of not using the Midnight Express. Has this guy seen any wrestling since 1978? haha
I work in a restaurant kitchen, and on days I work in the dish pit, I’m allowed to wear headphones. I don’t always agree with Cornette, but I love these deep dives because they are so long they can play for a while and I not have to worry about stopping to dry my hands and mess with my phone.
I pretty much always agree with him. I hate modern wrestling and I enjoy these old stories. I manage a retail shop, i work alone and I can Listen essentially all day.
Same situation, but I drive trucks across Australia. There's nothing better than driving in the outback at midnight, looking at the milky way in the sky, with some Corney on the Radio XD
As a fan of WCW during this era, this was great. And there is really a night and day difference between 1989 WCW and 1990 WCW. Although the company had it's problems, there were some great things going on in '89. You had Lex Luger's best run, Flair/Steamboat and Flair/Funk, Sting's continued rise, the Great Muta, etc.
I never knew how deeply involved Cornette was with all this business... As a kid I only knew him as a heel manager in WWF. Fun to learn about all the crazy ass intrigue behind the scenes! Super cool to deep dive and watch old NWA and WCW videos. Wrestling was a hell of a lot more brutal and raw and fun back then in the 90s. We had a great setup as kids; two TVs in the downstairs entertainment room: RAW on one, NITRO on the other. Amazing and fun Monday nights!
Smoky Mountain Wrestling on WCYB every Saturday introduced me to Jim Cornette... Then later he turned up on Shotgun Saturday Night ca. 1998-99. My parents didn't have the money for cable, but once in a while my friend would tape Raw or Nitro for me... I saw a lot of Jim Cornette, but it wasn't until I started seeing his shoot interviews through tape trading that I realized how much Cornette knows about pro wrestling. And his love for the sport is very obvious in his podcasts. I feel that everything about the 90s was more raw, brutal, and fun. Rap music got more violent, TV became edgier and grittier, and as you mentioned, the Attitude Era and Monday Night Wars happened. I'm retroactively jealous of your 2 TVs in your living room! I'm always grateful that I came of age during the 1990s, what a great decade!
Can’t say I agree with Jim Cornette on everything by any means, but I can (and do) listen to him talk about the good old days of wrestling for hours. At least some of these classic events can still be seen on the WWE Network now, if you know where to look.
I just watched 2 great 1989 matches. They both couldn't have been in January. So he's as full of it on this, as he is on politics, or light heavyweight division. The guy is plain obnoxious.
Or You Tube, Daily Motion, Facebook or a number of other places. You might be surprised what you can find out there. Between Jim Cornette, Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and so many others so many of the interviews, storylines and matches from this era have been broken down and discussed.
If they were to run a show at TD Garden in Boston today, I could tell them that there are a lot of good restaurants within walking distance of TD Garden.
I was a 14 year old kid at the NWA/WCW event in Boston at the Walter Brown Arena on the campus of Boston University. We all thought Luger showing up late was a work...😂😂😂
@@josephdelledonne2098 he didn’t come up with that one, though - Exotic Adrian Street did and Corny has credited him sometimes when using that expression in other places
@@marklee3441 she's referring to a mention of a Boston show wcw did where lex luger showed up so late to the building cause he couldn't find it, that they had to do a second intermission so he could get dressed and ready.
Well the thought process has been the management and the behind the scenes aspect of that time was worse to the point where the company almost died. The in ring work was awesome.
I'm watching it for the first time (I was born in '90 and I'm fucking loving it. Who needs the current shit when we can watch the good stuff from 30 years ago.
@@vincentkennedymcmahon50 I guess I could have, but my point was that Monday Night Raw had been putting out trash content so nobody was watching, which is why I only said Raw, not AEW. But thanks lol
Jim cornette impersonates jim herd :We are gonna have a tean and call em the hunchbacks. And they got a big hunch on their back . And ole was on the committee. The big hunch on their back you cant turn em this way or that way they are an unbeatable team Ole not wanting to be outdone said"Okay jim we ll book the hunchbacks , me v them as soon as i get in the ring i ll slap a submission make em give up. You just beat the unbeatable team".
Gotta feel bad for Sting as an individual draw. He is still one of my fav babyfaces ever and you hate to hear him and Terry funk couldn't draw because the lunatics were running the asylum
I stopped watching Wrestling when Vince had to do that TV spot about Chris Benoit after "dying" on Raw the night before. But this is better than any match I've watched.
Jim Herd's booking (cities) became formula Eric Bischoff would continue...To no longer book in the Carolinas, to break away from southern wrestling and go corporate across america
The amounts of information he has recorded or retained is mind-boggling. Imagine trying to run through all this at the pace he manages at his age. Insane.
$12.00 tickets to see wrestling?! Wow! You could take the family out for a night at the show quite comfortably. Trying to do that with today's ticket prices is almost a mortgage payment or a car note.
You do know what inflation is correct? That is almost $30 today which coincidentally... is what it cost for a regular seating ticket to a WWE Live event today is. A 15 second search shows tickets to a WWE house show on sale for THIRTEEN DOLLARS (That’s totally almost a house/car payment am I right?) Unless you’re talking about ringside seats, which you weren’t btw, tickets to wrestling are cheaper now then they were then. That is, if you know what inflation is.
Sam3 today's cost of gas is a poor example. Everybody knows that in today's world everyone gets less bang for there work and everything now days is over priced. Even necessities today are way more relatively expensive than the 80's.
Sitting here in Carbondale, Illinois and much to my surprise we get a very hilarious shout out during this. Too bad I wasn't born in time for that show. 😂
A WCW event at the college in Carbondale Illinois in 1989!?! They should have considered themselves lucky to get twelve grand for that event. That was primarily WWF territory back then.
He kinda has,you just have to search by year. There’s a Summer of 1993 one and a 1994/WM10 one. You could finish with OVW as thats when he left the company
GAB 1989 Cornette vs Paul....Jim Ross "He admits he's not a wrestler, he admits he's not an athlete...But he says he can fight just enough to kick Paul E's rear end"
Yes, but now he dares to comment on people he'd be afraid to look at straight in the face and say half the stuff he insults them with daily. Personal insults every time, nothing "work" about it. And yes, it's very funny, so he gets subs. Hell I listen for that reason too. He's a giant insecure jerk though.
1989 might be my all Tim's favorite year in pro wrestling ever. WCW & WWF both. Not really sure what was going on in the other territories, but I'm site it kicked ass then too. Lol
1:59 - I know exactly where Jim is. Walter Brown Arena is on the Boston University Campus, which is located on Commonwealth Ave. (A few blocks from Kenmore Square). Running down the Center of Comm. Ave is the "Green Line" trolley, so if you are about to cross the Comm. Ave to take a left - you will cross on top of those tracks.
Carbondale, Illinois fascinates me given I’ve heard a long rumor over the years over a young neighborhood woman being a “girlfriend” of Lanny Poffo but I don’t think Memphis or Lexington ever came to Carbondale though Lanny did.
You mean to tell me Steamboat goes from making good money in the WWF to making peanuts in Crockett Promotions just to get the World Title put around his waist? Man, that's pitiful.
Jim hatred for J. Herd is inspiring wish one day to have this much hate for someone one day. Check out Twitter for Jim's recent spats with indieverse cosplay wrestlers getting bent out of shape for real criticism about their art form. Hopefully the heat never stops it's what keeps Jim Cornette living long and strong. I'm on the bus with the Cult of Cornette no better place to be no BS here just passion.
The thing I've always wanted to know is whether Bill Ding (the evil architect) was meant to be from the same family tree as Ding from the Ding-dongs? These are the things I think about.
@@patrickwilliams6143 I got a gay mate who probably knows a few websites if you spend too long thinking about dongs. Better to get these loads off your 'mind'
I grew up on NWA and JCP. I was a die-hard Wrestling is real fan. You gotta remember, I saw the matches where somebody bleed. Saw the butterfly strips during the next interview. The actual Holds that were applied were painful. (It wasn't until much later that I learned they didn't actually crank on them like it appeared on TV) BUT, I could not stand Jim Heard. From the minute I saw him all I could think was "Who's this clown and what the f-en hell is he doing to my Wrestling"?
47:25 I think the next time wrestling came to the SIU Arena was a WWECW super show in 2009 or 2010. If only I knew WCW was at SIU Arena at when I was an adolescent…… lol
I am from New Zealand and had never heard of the NZ Malitia, cool to know a fellow kiwi (slang for some from N.Z.) got some relatively success in USA. Just did some research and Rip Morgan worked on the NWA, WCW and also World Class. That pretty cool and would have never known if I had not listened to this episode of the great podcast. Cheers Cornet!!
I don't believe it! I remember something that JC didn't: Great American Bash was a ppv in 1989. In a promo, Dusty was calling it "Funky Like a Monkey Tour 1989." Whenever someone brings up 1989 (which seems to be a lot) like I have tourettes I must imitate Dusty and yell, "My funky like a monkey tour nineteen eightynine!"
Bigger the house, the more money you make. Plus, Jim has admitted to being a compulsive record keeper. Also, such records can come in handy during contract negotiations. As Jim had some evidence of what had been drawn if someone tried to bullshit him. Probably helpful around tax time too.
Terry Funk- "To many cooks and not enough stew"😂 I'm keeping that one!
That's why the booking committee was a mess.
Bryan: "Good to go?"
Jim: *clears throat* then talks for four days without taking a breath.
I could listen to Cornette tell his stories for 10-12 hours straight! The guy is like a elephant with his memory!! Keep em comin Jim
He's a true historian of the sport. If you haven't seen it yet, there's a video he did showing off his memorabilia collection at his house, with some incredibly rare stuff, and I have no doubt he's read through every piece of paper that's in there.
He has a 10-hour omnibus
@@cmc5394oparva it’s not a sport
@@xboxonevideos7685 Ok Zoomer.
@@xboxonevideos7685 Um. No. It is, most definitely, a sport. The results are just fixed ahead of time.
"Breakdancing Dumbfuck" is now my new favorite expression.
Who doesn't care that the video is almost 3 hours and still is gonna watch ? Because i love the long jim cornette videos.
Those long-play videos are the best ones! Storytelling and history while you work on something else. Always passes the time wonderfully!
@@InazumaStudios1 I agree
I listen too every minute of these "on the busses".
marquise booker Are always the top shows!!!!!!!
If only WrestleMania lasted this long!
Over the last few years I have listened to this particular segment maybe a dozen times.. I just keep coming back for this absolute gold!
I could listen to this guy and his stories for eons. Nice to hear someone who has a connection to the past when "sports entertainment" was "wrassling."
Wrasslin’ was always on at my grandparents. My grandma was all about Dusty Rhodes
My grandpa was more into GLOW :)
42:50 In 1989, I was an 11-year-old kid growing up 10 miles away from Springfield, MA. Jim is right -- nobody in western Massachusetts gave a fuck about WCW in those days.
The fact that the WWF ran the Springfield Civic Center about once a month back then was only partly responsible. The locally-owned cable system we had at the time didn't carry TBS (and wouldn't until the summer of '92). I suspect there were other cable systems in the vicinity in the same boat.
My parents and I were away from western MA on vacation at the time of that show, so this is the first I'd ever heard of WCW running Springfield. You learn something new every day!
Exactly. They ran a ppv in the Nassau Mausoleum in 88, probably the worst one they ever ran. They couldn't even give tickets away for that. They tried to fight fire with fire and got burned.
Jim Cornette: "Do you have Alzheimer ?"
Sean Oliver: "No"
Jim Cornette: "Well Jim (Herd) did. This is why im repeating this s#!t to you"
Wasn't that George Scott and not Jim Herd? 😂
@@elgrandecaudillo yeah, it was George Scott and his 1978 booking (using the Iron Sheik, etc.) and his perplexion of not using the Midnight Express. Has this guy seen any wrestling since 1978? haha
Are you sure it’s Sean Oliver and not Brian Last?
I work in a restaurant kitchen, and on days I work in the dish pit, I’m allowed to wear headphones.
I don’t always agree with Cornette, but I love these deep dives because they are so long they can play for a while and I not have to worry about stopping to dry my hands and mess with my phone.
I pretty much always agree with him. I hate modern wrestling and I enjoy these old stories. I manage a retail shop, i work alone and I can Listen essentially all day.
As brilliant and, as well as being well spoken and funny, when it comes to his politics, he's a box of rocks
@@bluntforcetrauma2141his politics are some of the best parts. Fuck Trump.
Same situation, but I drive trucks across Australia. There's nothing better than driving in the outback at midnight, looking at the milky way in the sky, with some Corney on the Radio XD
I made a playlist of ring psycholoy and cornette is on it among other old timers
Listening you from Rome, Italy 🇮🇹 Thanks Jim for this Omnibus
Man i love hearing Cornette talk about the behind the scenes of our great past time
Did he mention Kevin Dunn and Russo? 😂😂😂
No.
I could listen to him, and I do, all day cause I remember watching all the shit he's talking about, and I'm a bigger fan of him now,then I was then 👍
As a fan of WCW during this era, this was great. And there is really a night and day difference between 1989 WCW and 1990 WCW. Although the company had it's problems, there were some great things going on in '89. You had Lex Luger's best run, Flair/Steamboat and Flair/Funk, Sting's continued rise, the Great Muta, etc.
1989 WCW is still my all time favorite year
Agree, matches from that year are really great.
Couldn't stand Jimmy C when he showed up here in the Mid Atlantic. Now I don't want to miss a word he speaks. Reliving my childhood through him.
I never knew how deeply involved Cornette was with all this business... As a kid I only knew him as a heel manager in WWF. Fun to learn about all the crazy ass intrigue behind the scenes! Super cool to deep dive and watch old NWA and WCW videos. Wrestling was a hell of a lot more brutal and raw and fun back then in the 90s. We had a great setup as kids; two TVs in the downstairs entertainment room: RAW on one, NITRO on the other. Amazing and fun Monday nights!
Smoky Mountain Wrestling on WCYB every Saturday introduced me to Jim Cornette... Then later he turned up on Shotgun Saturday Night ca. 1998-99. My parents didn't have the money for cable, but once in a while my friend would tape Raw or Nitro for me... I saw a lot of Jim Cornette, but it wasn't until I started seeing his shoot interviews through tape trading that I realized how much Cornette knows about pro wrestling. And his love for the sport is very obvious in his podcasts.
I feel that everything about the 90s was more raw, brutal, and fun. Rap music got more violent, TV became edgier and grittier, and as you mentioned, the Attitude Era and Monday Night Wars happened. I'm retroactively jealous of your 2 TVs in your living room! I'm always grateful that I came of age during the 1990s, what a great decade!
Aws aqqqqqqqqqaaa
why I loved growing up in Canada, nitro was in tuesdays so we didn’t have to split up our time and could watch both shows without missing anything! :)
"Like a piss hole in a snowbank" is one of my favorite Cornetteism's
Thank you Jim for another great post. Love listening to these all night with ear buds in.
I can listen to Jim all day long...Hands down more exciting than anything the wwe puts out now.
@Alasdair MacAoidh yes, you are!😂😂😂
I would pay to listen to Jim talk
I love His ole anderson impressions...quick and to the point and always has “Fuck it” somewhere in it.
Can’t say I agree with Jim Cornette on everything by any means, but I can (and do) listen to him talk about the good old days of wrestling for hours. At least some of these classic events can still be seen on the WWE Network now, if you know where to look.
I just watched 2 great 1989 matches. They both couldn't have been in January. So he's as full of it on this, as he is on politics, or light heavyweight division. The guy is plain obnoxious.
@@dodesskiy1 he is a liar
Or You Tube, Daily Motion, Facebook or a number of other places. You might be surprised what you can find out there. Between Jim Cornette, Jim Ross, Tony Schiavone, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson and so many others so many of the interviews, storylines and matches from this era have been broken down and discussed.
If they were to run a show at TD Garden in Boston today, I could tell them that there are a lot of good restaurants within walking distance of TD Garden.
@@dodesskiy1 So why are you here if he disgusts you so much? Silly human
I was a 14 year old kid at the NWA/WCW event in Boston at the Walter Brown Arena on the campus of Boston University. We all thought Luger showing up late was a work...😂😂😂
@Daryl Mixan Was he sick or ate bad food?
@@DarksaberForce probably the Nachos
@@DarksaberForce or was it intentional??
@@iromulus33 😱
So you and your buds were already smart or at least WON readers back then?
i listen to it when i go to bed perfect tone and rhythm to entertain and relax,
80s wrestling rocks....
Couldn't draw money with green crayons and paper. 😂😂😂😂
💸💸
Lol
That one's probably in the "Jim Cornette Joke Book" that Paul Heyman has in his backpocket trying to be Jim--as Corny says Paul E has!
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That's one of my most favorite lines besides faker than a football bat lol
If Bobby Eaton didn't like a person then you know they were awful
That's the word.
If Beautiful Bobby ain't happy--ain't NOBODY happy!
Vince Youuuunnngggg, come over here!
He wasn't just there to put them over
He told me he hates you
I love the long videos. I put in my bluetooth headphones and listen most all day.
" WRESTLING SHOW GASSED "
" IT WAS A MERCY KILLING "
And this will be a great omnibus
Am i the only one that gets a kick outta Corny sayin On The Bus instead of Omnibus xD
I love listening to Jim on the WCW/NWA deep dives
Yeah, right!
Whatever, Walt....
" I'm there like a spare prick at the wedding" lmao
Jim's got so many sayings that he just comes up with. You have to be born with it, I wish I was born with that gift of gab.
@@josephdelledonne2098 he didn’t come up with that one, though - Exotic Adrian Street did and Corny has credited him sometimes when using that expression in other places
Really Really good show today Jim and Brian. Love yals shows. Very educated shows on the wrestling I love to watch.
Jim's Dusty impression.😂
He needs to act out a conversation between Dusty and Ernie Ladd for a solid 10. I would pay to hear that.
@@thomasc.5219 I'd buy that for a dollar.
GojiraRising jest he’s Dusty impression I think they are all great corny is the man with many gifts in my opinion
I like his Original Sheik impression and Vince McMahon anything ending with pal or thats good shit
Don't forget his OOH MERCYYY Jimmy Valiant impression
I was at the Boston show Jim talked about. I remember the intermission thing during the main event & everyone there being like - "WTF?".
What r u talking about?
@@marklee3441 she's referring to a mention of a Boston show wcw did where lex luger showed up so late to the building cause he couldn't find it, that they had to do a second intermission so he could get dressed and ready.
This is gold. Great bit of history... I actually liked '89-early 90's WCW.
Well the thought process has been the management and the behind the scenes aspect of that time was worse to the point where the company almost died. The in ring work was awesome.
I'm watching it for the first time (I was born in '90 and I'm fucking loving it. Who needs the current shit when we can watch the good stuff from 30 years ago.
Jim and brian, keep up the great work!!!👍
New favorite podcast. Never a dull story coming out of Jim. Keep it up guys!
I can listen to Jim all day. Grew up watching and hating him now I love all the content. What an intelligent and entertaining human being
Travis Heckel missed an opportunity to include a pizza hut box in the artwork for this
Was herd always eating pizza hut or obsessed with the sponsorship?
@Steve A oOhHHHhHhH...and the Circle ⭕️ is complete....
SLAYERRRRRRRR
@Steve A 0q
@@tobiasfarragut292 no he worked for them for about 5 years or so
Cornette gets more listeners on new videos than Monday Night Raw has viewers!!! Keep up the great work, you're an absolute legend!!!
Could have said both aew and WWE
@@vincentkennedymcmahon50 I guess I could have, but my point was that Monday Night Raw had been putting out trash content so nobody was watching, which is why I only said Raw, not AEW. But thanks lol
@@juliovelazco5774 Both haven't exactly been essential viewing xD
I love hearing Mr. Cornette rant about Jim Herd!
Same it's so funny and sometimes i randomly look up old videos of jim.
Always side splitting laughter 😂😂
I cannot wait for Corny to dance on his grave
Jim cornette impersonates jim herd :We are gonna have a tean and call em the hunchbacks. And they got a big hunch on their back . And ole was on the committee. The big hunch on their back you cant turn em this way or that way they are an unbeatable team Ole not wanting to be outdone said"Okay jim we ll book the hunchbacks , me v them as soon as i get in the ring i ll slap a submission make em give up. You just beat the unbeatable team".
same
I love these they help my work night go by so fast
Gotta feel bad for Sting as an individual draw. He is still one of my fav babyfaces ever and you hate to hear him and Terry funk couldn't draw because the lunatics were running the asylum
Ran out of OSW vids. Jim cornette is awesome. Loved him on Dark Side of the Ring. Happy to find this channel.
I stopped watching Wrestling when Vince had to do that TV spot about Chris Benoit after "dying" on Raw the night before. But this is better than any match I've watched.
It is amazing how Jim was able to keep me engaged throughout the entirety of him listing off house show results.
Jim Herd's booking (cities) became formula Eric Bischoff would continue...To no longer book in the Carolinas, to break away from southern wrestling and go corporate across america
Sorry to hear about the death of Bobby Eaton. I imagine you guys were like brothers Jim.
Just found this gem can’t wait to listen
Corny your the man
These On The Buses are the best, keep em' comin'.
Omnibus
Jim has a memory like a steel trap, which is great as he's an awesome storyteller
Plus he has a ton of books full of notes about his career.
Memory of a steel strap? Yes
Political views of a strap on dildo .. yep
The amounts of information he has recorded or retained is mind-boggling. Imagine trying to run through all this at the pace he manages at his age. Insane.
Probably bc he’s a homosexual no women to distract him
@@BiggestkidyouknowThat's factually incorrect and complete nonsense talk.
@@HaveAHuff is this Brian lasts Burner account
@@Biggestkidyouknow No. Was that a sad attempt at an insult?
@@HaveAHuff it’s well documented that Jim is gay
$12.00 tickets to see wrestling?! Wow! You could take the family out for a night at the show quite comfortably. Trying to do that with today's ticket prices is almost a mortgage payment or a car note.
gas costed $1 a gallon in late 80s.
minimum wage hourly was less than $4.
You do know what inflation is correct? That is almost $30 today which coincidentally... is what it cost for a regular seating ticket to a WWE Live event today is. A 15 second search shows tickets to a WWE house show on sale for THIRTEEN DOLLARS (That’s totally almost a house/car payment am I right?) Unless you’re talking about ringside seats, which you weren’t btw, tickets to wrestling are cheaper now then they were then. That is, if you know what inflation is.
@@ryandoubleu. Absolute nonsense.
Sam3 today's cost of gas is a poor example. Everybody knows that in today's world everyone gets less bang for there work and everything now days is over priced. Even necessities today are way more relatively expensive than the 80's.
Uncle Jim can talk about ice cream sandwiches for hours and I’d listen lol
Billy Corgan letting go of Jim Cornette was a stupid business decision. They would be thriving right now if Cornette was still there.
I listen to Jim while I mow the yard. Makes it go by too fast. Thanks Jim.
Lmao so do i!! Bunch of Cornette fans mowing their yard with a Hank Hill complex listening to the Drive Thru
Why would anyone do drugs when they could just mow a lawn?
@@mcomiskey7 I’ll tell ya hwut
@@SLURM187
Barbara
Bf
"FUCK!"
"FUCK WITH ME?!"
"FUCK!"
"FUCK WITH ME?!"
HAHAHA OH Man that cracks me up!!
“I’m looking in my book.”
That's an "oh shit" moment.
Iii
@@DarksaberForce p pop p
Really good show Jim and Brian. I love the long show's yal do.
3 hours well spent on the bus!
Wow, was just sitting around bored as shit and Jim drops this lil present on us! Thanks!
Eating a pizza while listening. Thanks Jim and Brian!
Was it from Pizza Hut? Asking for a friend.
Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!😎🐐🐐
Sitting here in Carbondale, Illinois and much to my surprise we get a very hilarious shout out during this. Too bad I wasn't born in time for that show. 😂
Jim Cornette is the absolute best he is a fountain of information
1,000 people for a show in Carbondale seems like a lot, plus an fyi Carbondale is 5 1/2 hours from Chicago.
And 5.5 hours from everything else too.
It's in-state and they're as far away as I am in the Des Moines area.
@@thekidfromiowa I'm about 2 hours away from Carbondale yet 5.5 hours away.
Yeah, it’s closer to STL.
I remember those Roos commercials. I was such a mark thatvI bought a pair. The pockets didn't hold much. Maybe some coins and folded up bills.
A WCW event at the college in Carbondale Illinois in 1989!?! They should have considered themselves lucky to get twelve grand for that event. That was primarily WWF territory back then.
It’s actually crazy how many good shows and weird events have happened here.
Old Bill Watts and a young Jim Cornett are always fun to watch
Both insanely racist though
@@alkiline9199 Who isn’t anymore. You blink wrong and you’re racist.
It’s so sad how Vince was actively trying to destroy other companies.
Vince is a cutthroat type of guy
Jim should do a WWF deep dive and a Smoky Mountain Wrestling one as well.
Yes, but they should be during Experience days so he can answer fan mail on the Drive-thru.
The SMW ones are on the Arcadian Vanguard channel
He kinda has,you just have to search by year. There’s a Summer of 1993 one and a 1994/WM10 one. You could finish with OVW as thats when he left the company
The best podcast
GAB 1989 Cornette vs Paul....Jim Ross "He admits he's not a wrestler, he admits he's not an athlete...But he says he can fight just enough to kick Paul E's rear end"
Yes, but now he dares to comment on people he'd be afraid to look at straight in the face and say half the stuff he insults them with daily. Personal insults every time, nothing "work" about it. And yes, it's very funny, so he gets subs. Hell I listen for that reason too. He's a giant insecure jerk though.
Jim, do you remember the chiropractor and the massage therapist? The Ding Dongs gimmick would have been excellent for SNL or Vice or Cartoon Network.
41:40 I dunno if even Terry Gordy could hold off a raging Dr Death, would've been interesting though..
I don't think Bam-Bam or Dr. Death care to find out. That's why they formed a tag team.
God Damn!! I love me a Jim Cornette’s story!
right on his knowlege and storytelling he and Brian are not far from the podcast great teams like a Connrad and Bruce /Eric/Jim/A.A.
Got a Pizza Hut ad while looking at Jim Herd angry
Pizza Party!🍕🍕🍝
I love listening to cornette ‘s stories
1989 might be my all Tim's favorite year in pro wrestling ever. WCW & WWF both. Not really sure what was going on in the other territories, but I'm site it kicked ass then too. Lol
1:59 - I know exactly where Jim is. Walter Brown Arena is on the Boston University Campus, which is located on Commonwealth Ave. (A few blocks from Kenmore Square). Running down the Center of Comm. Ave is the "Green Line" trolley, so if you are about to cross the Comm. Ave to take a left - you will cross on top of those tracks.
Carbondale, Illinois fascinates me given I’ve heard a long rumor over the years over a young neighborhood woman being a “girlfriend” of Lanny Poffo but I don’t think Memphis or Lexington ever came to Carbondale though Lanny did.
Being from Carbondale it’s definitely a strange place considering how many people are either from here or have come through here. Still blows my mind.
You mean to tell me Steamboat goes from making good money in the WWF to making peanuts in Crockett Promotions just to get the World Title put around his waist? Man, that's pitiful.
Great episode
Jim hatred for J. Herd is inspiring wish one day to have this much hate for someone one day. Check out Twitter for Jim's recent spats with indieverse cosplay wrestlers getting bent out of shape for real criticism about their art form. Hopefully the heat never stops it's what keeps Jim Cornette living long and strong. I'm on the bus with the Cult of Cornette no better place to be no BS here just passion.
If the Ding Dongs couldn't save the WCW no one could
I seriously remember when they debuted. Lmao
I nearly had to Google that, but then it came back to me.. thanks for that bud... lol 😆
Same goes for the Latino World Order ten years later.
The thing I've always wanted to know is whether Bill Ding (the evil architect) was meant to be from the same family tree as Ding from the Ding-dongs? These are the things I think about.
@@patrickwilliams6143 I got a gay mate who probably knows a few websites if you spend too long thinking about dongs. Better to get these loads off your 'mind'
Too many chefs, not enough stew 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I bet Bobby Eaton going off on the freebirds was a shock to everyone
Brian last is so good. Conrad Thompson should take notes. Conrad is awful.
"Hey had more make-up than Muta" made my fucking day.
"Breakdancing Dumbfuck" is going to be my indy wrestling name.
Kenny Omega???
46:33- my ma's from Carbondale. Grandpa was a miner.
Fascinating
I grew up on NWA and JCP. I was a die-hard Wrestling is real fan. You gotta remember, I saw the matches where somebody bleed. Saw the butterfly strips during the next interview. The actual Holds that were applied were painful. (It wasn't until much later that I learned they didn't actually crank on them like it appeared on TV) BUT, I could not stand Jim Heard. From the minute I saw him all I could think was "Who's this clown and what the f-en hell is he doing to my Wrestling"?
Dammit, Heckel, you brilliant bastard... Please DL some fonts and crop your pics to 16x9
47:25 I think the next time wrestling came to the SIU Arena was a WWECW super show in 2009 or 2010. If only I knew WCW was at SIU Arena at when I was an adolescent…… lol
Part 2: 1:52:00
Does Jim ever stop to breathe?
Back in 1986. When Jim Cornette outran "Animal" and "Hawk".
No
I am from New Zealand and had never heard of the NZ Malitia, cool to know a fellow kiwi (slang for some from N.Z.) got some relatively success in USA. Just did some research and Rip Morgan worked on the NWA, WCW and also World Class. That pretty cool and would have never known if I had not listened to this episode of the great podcast. Cheers Cornet!!
The other half was from Jersey
Pat O'Conner was nwa world champ.
I don't believe it! I remember something that JC didn't: Great American Bash was a ppv in 1989.
In a promo, Dusty was calling it "Funky Like a Monkey Tour 1989."
Whenever someone brings up 1989 (which seems to be a lot) like I have tourettes I must imitate Dusty and yell, "My funky like a monkey tour nineteen eightynine!"
7:16 got me dying laughing. 😂😂😂
Jimmy is a great storyteller.
Why did Jim write down the houses for all of the shows? He must have been planning to write a book or tell these stories later.
Bigger the house, the more money you make. Plus, Jim has admitted to being a compulsive record keeper.
Also, such records can come in handy during contract negotiations. As Jim had some evidence of what had been drawn if someone tried to bullshit him. Probably helpful around tax time too.
I saw Wendell Cooley once on WCW Worldwide in this time period, he was introduced as Wildcat but his knees were seriously padded up