Jim Cornette on Bruce Prichard's New Role & Paul Heyman Being Removed From WWE Creative
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 มิ.ย. 2020
- From Episode 144 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
Artwork by Travis Heckel!
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Bruce Prichard is Waylon Smithers.
Bruce thinks women and seamen don't mix.
Lol. This.
Lol yes absolutely correct bro
Kevin Dunn is
😁😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🙇♂️ I'm a huge Bruce fan (Something to Wrestle fan), but this is gold.
Well that meme with Bruce Prichard as the grim reaper knocking on Triple H's door turned out to be quite prophetic
Now the Game has turned, Left Foot Laurinaitis is gone and Bruce’s role has been reduced.
Watching WWE is like being in a abusive relationship, you always go back to see if it will get better.And it never does😔
Well said👌🏽
This is so true. The amount of times I’ve said I’m done watching wwe and end up watching a damn PPV 🤣
That was well put.
Chris Fraser that was the most spot on analogy I have ever heard regarding the WWE. I just keep going back saying to myself "it can't be any worse than last time"
Best analogy ever!!!!
I swear Bruce gets more red with each piece of work
@Brandi lord just the nose
He’s like Pinocchio. Except instead of his nose getting bigger, his face gets more red every time he lies.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That, and more like Colonel Sanders
Wait till he has to answer to Stephanie
The way J.R. described this whole situation, he believed that Vince hired Bischoff and Heyman purely to be fall guys in case ratings dropped during his big TV deals with Fox and USA. If the ratings tanked, then Vince could blame things on the "need to restructure" to keep his deals alive. Of course, we all know that whatever ends up on TV is ultimately Vince's say-so.
Ok so when Bruce goes I will tell you right now Cornette will refuse, Pat refuse, Driscoe refuse, Watts refuse, you are not get your agents back at this time. The rest of them dead. Going to have to look inside batter up Scrap Iron
Where he said this ; link?
you tlak fial guys aj was pissed at hyman form being lazy man who dotn balls to try tell vicn ehe should keep the oc
vicne own wwe no can froce him to be remvoed or kil wwe off
Bischoff was hired to make a smooth transition to Fox and to present fox executives with a familiar non-McMahon face to deal with.
props to the artist once again 👏🏾 👏🏾
Corny is entertaining as ever. But he turns it up to 11 from about 10:50 when he starts describing what should be in the (awesome!!!) graphic.
The artist formerly known as Prince Iukea?
I wish you could order prints of the artwork. The graphic of Jim hanging from the scaffold with Bubba under him is priceless.
I love how Cornette even mentions Travis and his next artwork. Honestly Travis deserves a much higher recognition for his talents
Time to scrap all the shit they got in the Louvre and make way for some real goddamn art
Jim is a humble and kind man. My favourite dude in wrestling.
Best line: "He would accept that he's now Billy."
God “Billy”
Prichard “But my names Bruce...”
God “...it doesn’t matter what your name is”
The expression on Vince's face is always classic in these illustrations.
Thank you man.
Definitely. Creepy Vinny Mac.
James Bee
It’s actually a face he made at Wrestlemania 19 against Hulk Hogan when a bloodied Vince peeks up over the apron with a maniacal smile
@@nickhughes8179 I remember that.
Reminder that Bruce is the guy who told Daffney to either work with a concussion or she wouldn't be booked for TV or photoshoots, then denied it until she provided the emails he sent her as proof.
I thought that was someone else, but for some reason I did think of Daffney while listening to this video. TNA sure knew how to pick 'em.
Jesus, is that true?
Seeing how she recently committed suicide, with her last words being “send my brain to Boston”, Bruce and others forcing her to work with a concussion seems pretty damning.
@@Hallo_215 Jesssssus, I forgot that this was her. That seems like a very well-justified lawsuit on her family's behalf. Bruce should feel fucking awful about this.
That South Park reference to Stan and his grandpa is gold lol
Bruce Prichard is the Waylon Smithers to Vince McMahon's Mr. Burns.
Waylon is a name.... 'Weiland' is aaabbsolutely not
Then what does that make Kevin Dunn?
@@supermegaguy666 Weiland aaabbsolutely is a name actually.
I love Jim Cornette man lol. He always keeps it real.
Jim Cornette guy 4 life!
Bruce Pritchard is what you get when the Kool-aid man and the Colonel from KFC fuse together.
Becoming the ultimate mascot
lol
You know it is his old gimmick right?
LostDutchman Yes, but this thumbnail gave it the impression.
I looooove yeeewwww
The thumbnail though Lmao @Travis Heckel does it again
It did help that Jim gave him a few prompts
"Billy... Billy... Do you remember when we had all the wrestlers in the world, Billy?"
🤣🤣🤣
I'm still not going to kill you, Grandpa.
"Dammit, Billy!"
If only Vince wanted to die just like Stan's grandpa.
Ben Brislawn haha perfect
There's no axle on Vince's wheelchair...technical error aside, it's something of a poetic statement on the current status of WWE.
This comment deserves way more likes
The wheel came off?
@Gavin star Oooooo...That's some cutting-edge stuff right there.
Do you want to throw in a "yo mama" joke while you're offering up such dizzying, original commentary?
The worst thing about this whole mess is that the talent keep resigning, regardless of how they are used on TV. I have a lot of respect for FTR for turning down the money and putting their brand first.
I second that
The minute this was announced ive been waiting for cornettes take on this
I live for these thumbnails.
After Prichard took over he went to Vinces office and said " Vince i Looooove yoooou!!!!!
This is the only wrestling related channel that I still follow. Keep up the good work!
You guys put together a really solid podcast. Only one I've ever listened to regularly.
Another great episode. Favorite line, "I'm not gonna pay 40 dollars to sit and watch someone act a movie out in front of me." That would be called a play, and I guarantee most good Broadway seats are more than 40 dollars. Just saying...
Jim Cornette is just trash lol
Look at the bright side; a match for the Raw tag tiles, at a pay-per-view, ended with the teams working together to fight a gang of ninjas.
Haha, feeding Vince in his wheelchair
10:50 “You can call me Billy.” 😆
From Creepshow
@@starfox7673 from southpark
Vince has been running his shows like he has dementia, or something. Perhaps he forgets what he wants, and then rewrites it, because well... he forgot what he was rewriting.
Probably not. I think it's extremely childish to talk about someone that you don't know. You, and everyone here, don't know how things work behind-the-scenes. You don't know what's Vince's idea and what isn't. You can listen to people on podcasts theorize what may or may not be his idea, but you still don't know unless you're there. There's also a lot of factors that no one takes into consideration when it comes to how the shows are written. Did someone who's being pushed ask for time off for something personal? Did someone show up or call in sick? Did someone do something disrespectful publicly or behind-the-scenes and you're taking them off TV to punish them? Did you stop believing in someone you're pushing? Did someone else come along that you like better than the guy you're pushing? Did USA or FOX mandate something? Did advertisers express interest or disinterest in something or someone? All of these things happen on a regular basis over there. Not only do they have a ton of talent, but they have FIVE weekly wrestling shows to write for every single week of the year with no off time. I can't imagine what that workload looks like and neither can anyone here. This was lengthy, but it needed to be said.
@@al5306 that's a long opinion there, buddy. I assume your longwinded in real life too.
@@TheJohnnyDoggs you're right, that *was* a long opinion 😵😵😵
@@al5306 is that you Bruce?
Paul was responsible for the Lana and Lashley angle. Anyone who's responsible for that should be gone.
It worked very well at start. It was very dramatic and grabbed the folk's attention. Obviously the old fuck ruined it
@@bol3iz lol cuz it cool to blame Vince and defend heyman
@Fil Fil That was Vince, Heyman was in charge of the other storyline with Maria and Mike Kanellis.
@@khesipresents1885 God forbid anyone criticize Paul Heyman, the genius that single handedly killed ECW when he became the owner.
@@pikkon899 killed ECW?, no that was TNN. Heyman made ECW what it was.
Does Bruce have a claus in his contract that lets him smoke pot? He's gotta be going nuts if he can't.
It's only a fine for the in ring performers and I doubt they test office personnel
The pills have been the bigger problem historically. Pills and waving guns around in the office.
@bigevilworldwide1 Yea, they fine you up to 2,500 dollars. I meant I wonder if he has a special clause that exempts him from that, because he's known Vince so long. Performer or not, I assume they all take the same drug test.
Contracted employee's don't have to take drug tests.
Well they always let RVD slide with that stuff...😤
LoL I remember the video where Bruce was explaining to these two on phone call how the red rooster would have been over if more effort was added. Also he explains how doink the clown got over with effort.
Heel Doink was pretty damn good, and this is from someone who hates evil clowns
Doink got over because his gimmick just didn't make sense as a heel when hes throwing pies on people's faces. Its like trying to get people to boo for the New Blood.
@bigevilworldwide1 I have to agree Doink did get over. It just wasn't gonna last.
@bigevilworldwide1 in ecw tho not really wwf at the time
Go back and watch the gimmick battle royal from Wrestlemania 17 and tell everyone here that Doink The Clown wasn't over. Matt Bourn killed it as the original Doink The Clown and the gimmick was over. You could say the same thing about the Undertaker and Kane. The big difference between Kane and Undertaker is that Mark Callway and Glenn Jacobs had the talent to get those wacky but now classic gimmicks over where as Terry Taylor did not. There's a reason why so many people within the Wresing business respect and love Callway and Jacobs as people. You can't say the same about Terry Taylor. I love how people point to the Red Rooster but are completely biased to Undertaker and Kane despite both gimmicks being far more "unbelievable" than the Red Rooster.
The wheels have come off Vince’s wheelchair, a telling metaphor.
Good catch!
What's the metaphor?
Travis Never disappoints on the artwork. Bruce's red face had me rolling hahaha
Bruce is an old fashioned company man!
Gotta give it to Bruce, he’s playing a masterful long game.
Imagine how tna would be if heyman was in tna
@I’m The Absolute. Dixie Carter spoke with Heyman in 2010, but Heyman said that if he was to work in TNA he wanted full creative control and for the old guys like Scott Steiner, Kevin Nash, Sting, Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan to all be gone, then Dixie Carter said no.
@@nu-metalfan2654 And look at TNA now... you can't... it's 'Impact' without any to speak of...
It could happen now. I am sure Anthem would pay anything to save that show. Best of All? NO DIXIE TRAIN. 😅
Bankruptcy
Vince is the 1 that killed the wrestling business........
The night he announced he bought wcw I knew it was going downhill..
@@chrisiverson5648 which is sad, because lots of wrestling fans thought so.
That could have topped the nWo in terms of greatest storyline ever, but they totally dropped the ball.
With that said, to give Vince a little credit, he tried to get WCW a tv deal, but nobody wanted it.
ShadowAngel this isn’t the answer he was looking for though. Vince killed everything is what he wants to hear. Come on man, Vince is evil, if the internet says it it’s true.
I really think the Red Rooster could have been a good gimmick. As a little kid then so many kids loved wrestling, and I liked him. It was memorable. He could have been a great kid gimmick at first then evolved it.
ShadowAngel well said
Good old Travis Bickel (loved him in Taxi Driver) always comes through with the artwork.
When you realise R-truth's gimmick is just a parody of Vince's current mental state.
I said this when WWE publicly announced this: if you take a job as a writer for WWE, be looking for your next job, because they are always looking for future former-writers.
LMAO @ That Thumbnail 😝😂😂
If I worked at a fast food drive thru and Jim Cornette was a customer in line.... but Gordon Ramsey was the next customer after him.
Vince McMahon the man who in the end destroyed his own creation as his dementia took hold a modern day King Lear.
They’re all tools unfortunately Vince will be controlling the WWE until he passes unfortunately
Prichard has wrote some of the best storylines in wwe history and has written smackdown brilliantly for the last 4 weeks
And then it goes to Paul and Stephanie. Good god, could you imagine it will get worse then?
They need to rehire Cornette
i I What decent angle did he ever do?
@@ii9714 I disagree. I think Cornette has done more than enough for WWE and should be helping some other company at this point. Especially when Cornette's contributions lead to Shaniqua managing the Basham Brothers. Let WWE corrupt someone else's work, that is my opinion.
The artwork is always excellent for each episode
Philosophy is important. Heyman has been spinning wheels for awhile. Bruce's Smackdown has actually improved over time (though I hate a lot of Bruce's ideas), and the ratings have been going up. Heyman's RAW has been struggling.
I think Bruce just understands Vince's vision and how to make it real and doing the best he can with it. Others will half ass it, hoping it fails so they can be proven right (and hoping Vince will change his mind upon the failure).
Paul needed 18 months to establish new stars on the rebuild. It was taking time because Vince was overriding things
Bruce gets what IT means to Vince, also defined as Bruce just takes vinces words and tells them in his own words to the rest
This artwork is amazing!! Thank you, Travis!
Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!🙌🐐🐐
I LOVE the art for these videos Travis Heckel, You Rock! :D
Tony Anthony, Tracy Smothers, etc. probably weren't going to sell a ton of t-shirts and action figures, which is probably what Vince/Bruce meant. Of course, TL Hopper and Freddie Joe Floyd and The Pug didn't move merch, either, so there's that.
These thumbnails on Jim's videos are hilarious.
Dude, I about did a spit take when I saw Corny feeding Vinnie Mac with his mouth gaped open. Omg. Lol.
This artwork is 🔥🔥🔥 shoutout Travis
Vince should hire Devon Dudley and Jeremy Borash as the bookers I believe they would be able boost the ratings significantly on Raw
Nope I say Jim cornete
@@ii9714 Obviously that's not going to happen 1 Vince is not interested 2 Jim said he would never go back. So let's focus on the people he already has in pkace.
@@Dakatari I know that but it's my opinion he would improve the product
Wrestlers are killing the business by breaking kayfabe on social media and telling everyone that it’s fake
A John Davidson reference, that’s incredible
Go Phins!
Circle gets a thumbs up.
I see what you did there
OMG ctfu on that last line "cinematic matches" 😂😂😂
Wwf during the 80s did so well. Not only because of hulk which was a big factor but the card as a whole was brilliant and made for an amazing show, now they haven’t got even a small fraction of those characters and personalities and talents
"Travis attention, here's your thumbnail"
One thing is universal after hearing so many different people talking about it: Bruce believed in the Red Rooster.
And I believe in the Easter Bunny.
😂😭@11:05
Talking about the Thumbnail
hamilton tickets in new york sold for between $179 and $199 (currently, the regular seats are priced from $139 to $177). The 46 $10 seats sold via lottery will be in the theater's first two rows.
Bill Watts could produce a better product of WWE than this. I know for fact he would push McIntyre to the moon
But Vince will let go what's the odds on another let's higher him back Bruce 3 to I odds one month out of three
@Thomas Bugg not saying he would not on knowledge and talent but there in a mathematical some what fucked up system here. No matter what not a word against Stephanie, I mean Vince demoted HHH well ok. Stephanie and Vince prior to this start firing agents. Prichard fired brought back fired brought Back. Same wit Bischoff and Heyman, Watts was there before and fired I think everyone is watching Bruce right now because it's a pattern that Vince is nuts and working for Vince is sure fire. Not that Watts can't do it but Vince's company Vince's world and Big Bill likes his golden years just fine.
McIntyre is a star? You put him, Rollins, and Roman Reigns in a room and I couldn't tell them apart...even with name tags
McIntyres already Champion what more do you want
@@franksullivan7110
Watts quit because he got tired of Vince going back making Popcorn Calls--changing shit--at the last minute that he would already set up
This week's RAW was the best RAW in 10 years. When were you going to fast forward? There was always something going on. Ongoing storylines. Things in the back. No stupid, well in the last there were, but they didn't make us watch a 3 segment Apollo Crews match. Just as I was about to fast forward that match, he cheated to win. So they're giving him a character. Like Eddie. He didn't need to cheat, but maybe if you're not cheating then you're not trying? We'll see how it goes.
Paul Heyman definitely not feeling the brotherly love lately ...
You know, where the hell is Dutch Mantell these days?
Took a year but Bruce is knocking on HHHs door
Ha! Now look, Bruce made it thru triple H's door
Smh Bruce isn’t going to take any risks.
Bruce is the one who brought backstage segments back to life in WWE. Remember when Batista returned and they had the camera angle of him pulling the camera guy to where he beat up Flair? Bruce produced that.
The Jeff Hardy car accident segment that started Smackdown a few weeks has his style all over it. Story might be in bad taste but people are tuning in; definitely were googling Jeff that night if they didn't tune in the first 10 minutes.
miah moe Big whoop. He can shoot a good angle, just not come up with one.
Bruce isn't really in charge of anything in creative, it all goes through Vince and he decides everything.
@@mimoe7587 A broken clock is right 2 times a day
Chris Ayers Highest ratings ever, with Stone Cold and The Rock. They ain’t around now, and no one has managed to take their places.
Russo’s “writing” was horrible. Brawl For All, The Oddities, and “choppey choppey pee pee!” are Russo’s contributions to WWE.
OOF about that HHH door.
"It's a bad sign for WWE television." Stop it. People have called doom and gloom on WWE since the early 90's. Every week someone said they were going out of business. They're fine. They do NOT cater to the "smart mark" audience with their main roster shows anymore. They've made that clear. If you keep watching something that's not intended for you and you expect it to change so you'll like it, you're nuts. Move on. RAW and Smackdown are for casuals.
Exactly bro. Smarks are just stupid
People listening to Cornette's podcast typically don't watch WWE, few even watch anything running(which admittedly isn't much this year). People listening to Cornette's podcast want him and Bryan Last to watch WWE because they think listening to them suffer is funny...I myself am guilty of that. Some are WWE's NXT fans who will listen to anyone who says nice things about WWE NXT, but that's mostly it.
That artwork is glorious.
Just like he said yellow poke dots wasn’t a rib Prichard said and Virgil and I don’t know all he’s
Lied about.SMH
What?
And you know he lied how?
First Bischoff, now Heyman! Not surprise I knew it wasn't going to last long. Anybody that gave Vince problems back in the day won't survive long. If Brock wasn't there Heyman wouldn't be there. Bad move Vince!
The fall of wcw put the wwe right back into the rabbit hole todays wwe reminds me of mid 90's wwe.
I HAVE to find that meme that Corny spoke about. That is fucking hilarious!
That artwork is spot on
Please Come Back and save Wrestling 😢 Jim
The problem there is you have to be invited before you can just burst through the door and announce that you're here to save the day.
#BringBackCornette
@@michaelkaminski8339 true. even the kool aid man in the graphic was invited back. he didn't just break through and go oh yeahhh
Save? lol, save the WWE cuz other organizations like NJPW, for example, are killing it
@ShadowAngel Really? Wrestle kingdom 13 in 2019 drew 38,162. The G1 with ROH in Madison Square Garden drew a sold out 16,534. They undersold in some of their US dates, but that ranged from 2-4k each time. Far from dead.
What a great idea this was lol
So many months later and as I predicted, things have gotten even worse.
Well Paul still has a job, that man always is the last survivor in any and all situation every since the days of ecw... Big ups too Paul Heyman for surviving in a world that doesn't want him but he's too dangerous of a mind to let another company get him 👍🏾
Red rooster got burried into a locker by who....the Brooklyn brawler?
Lol
Prime time wrestling was dope
Hosted by gorilla and the brain
He was the cock of the flock lol..or whatever they tried to sell the gimmick as
I don't think Terry Taylor's career was ever the same after that stupid gimmick.
Remember when he came out to try to get Jim Ross to leave the announcers table and Ross said something to Taylor about being the Red Rooster? That was comedy gold.
Lol this image is the epitome of epic.
It’s called a “YES” man or more accurately a “BROWN NOSE”, not someone who gets it! He was/is a yes man/brown nose cause he’s probably making a fairly large salary and doesn’t/didn’t want to lose it! He finally worked it too where it was him and Vince Mc calling the shots with him agreeing with VM on everything to keep that seat plus he more than likely has zero ideas himself! I would bet a million dollars that Bruce P would agree with what VM was saying then adding “that’s exactly what I was thinking or that’s what I was going to say Vince”!
Travis Heckel Highest Q rating of everybody here (love your art!)
Heyman knows how to work internet marks like no other.
The most notable thing Heyman did while in charge of RAW was the Strowman-Lashley segment where Corey yelled “Holy shit!” That’s about it.
And kudos for the South Park reference
Jim Cornette is the greatest thing going in wrestling today. Awesome? YES. Sad? YESer
Bruce Prichard is the typical yes man, Vince McMahon says jump, Bruce says how high.
Just say it Jim, Bruce is a "yes man".
SmackDown ranked #1 in ratings for the key 18-49 demographic on network TV this week. SmackDown also ranked #1 in the 18-34 demo this week, for the fourth week in a row, and tied for #1 in the 25-54 demo with 20/20.
Smackdown has consistently been a solid show.
Popular crap is still crap.
It’s. Because it’s on fox, if they were both on usa the #s wud be very similar
@@fjccommish:🤔..... Ahhh....that is true..
@@Njbear7453 Is it? I just started watching again, but only Backlash 2020 & a few Raw segments. I was largely unimpressed, but haven't seen Smackdown yet
I think Vince just wants titan tower to be his sarcophagus so he can take everything with him when he finally kicks.
I like Bruce and Corny
Ive barely watched any wrestling since the crowd went. Corny and Simon’s ups and downs saves me 6 hours a week and I don’t think I’m ever going back.
I think Bruce does understand creative but I agree with Corny, he is where he's at because he understands what Vince wants and does his best to carry that out. It may not be popular but, that's the way of the world. His job is to support Vince's decision and vision regardless of if he agrees with it or not.
Billy,
But my name's Bru-
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOUR NAME IS DAMMIT!!
WWE should of let Brother love become a Wrestling Manager he would of been good..