|
beggar posted:When I think about Cornette I always think about the scaffold spot and how it was impressive that he made it look so weak and staged yet still managed to shatter his tailbone Less his tailbone and more his entire knee. My theory with Jim is that he has untreated PTSD from years of antagonizing fans until they tried to kill him (specifically, his time in Mid South) and over time it has poisoned his brain. He also has no self-awareness and contradicts himself all the time because he thinks he's objective and rational; if guys like Colt Cabana and Orange Cassidy were 1970s Memphis journeymen, he'd sing their praises all the time. Speaking of Colt, it tickles me that Cornette has to work with him and call his matches after years of being a stupid baby about Colt's persona and ring style.
|
# ¿ Oct 30, 2019 15:52 |
|
|
# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 13:01 |
|
BhindiBhaji Boogie posted:What are some other examples of Cornette embracing fantasy wrestling when it suits him and making GBS threads on it when it doesnt? One that springs to mind is his insistence that promoters/companies shouldn't let their financial backers force them to violate their product's credibility. Except for him when Rick Rubin demanded to see a mummy in SMW, that was totally different and not at all comparable to Best Friends dressing like Rick and Morty for five minutes to placate TNT.
|
# ¿ Nov 4, 2019 00:40 |
|
Jesus, sorry to hear that Cornette's bullshit might have bubbled over into ending a friendship. I've never liked Brian and he always comes off as a disingenuous snot to me, but still, losing friends sucks.
|
# ¿ Nov 9, 2019 03:33 |
|
Gaz-L posted:I know this is small potatoes to the larger issues being discussed, but he has to know OC has managed to work him, right? That that's part of the gimmick? It's only a work when Jim is working, when it's someone he doesn't like it's totally real and killing the business.
|
# ¿ Nov 10, 2019 19:16 |
|
Considering his character and all the hardcore/sadistic stuff he does in ring, it makes sense that Havoc looks like an aging sketchball.
|
# ¿ Nov 12, 2019 21:52 |
|
STAC Goat posted:Yeah, its weird because PWG is an institution but Dragon, Bosh, Disco, and Lost are all long gone and its just Excalibur and Joey Ryan left. And Joey's become such a polarizing but ubiquitous part of US indie wrestling. Didn't Human Tornado show up at a GCW show pretty recently?
|
# ¿ Nov 18, 2019 03:39 |
|
DangerDummy! posted:Against Kikutaro, I think. I really need to start watching GCW.
|
# ¿ Nov 18, 2019 03:46 |
|
DangerDummy! posted:Right? That's one of those fun match ups you never really put together in your own head. Unlike Jim Cornette, Kikutaro is the coolest and the best.
|
# ¿ Nov 18, 2019 04:04 |
|
FullMetalJackoff posted:Still hoping for another appearance by Ebesstan Hansen. Human Kikutornado would be fun too. WatermelonGun posted:gcw is the poo poo and im very excited for their shows this upcoming mania weekend. effys big gay brunch is gonna rule and we will be drinking mimosas GCW's themed shows in particular sound really fun and I hope they run in or near Baltimore someday.
|
# ¿ Nov 18, 2019 20:28 |
|
Gumball Gumption posted:Yeah, considering her move set is a lot of stomping and rollups I think she also knows her strikes don't look impactful. A forearm at her size might not look good but a double foot stomp from the top rope always will. Her strikes at the end of that Nyla match won me over because it looked like she was throwing absolute death at Nyla and the crowd was going insane for it.
|
# ¿ Nov 19, 2019 00:04 |
|
MassRafTer posted:Ring of Hell claimed he was sexually harassing wrestlers in WWE. Court Bauer inferred that on the old MLW podcast a few times as well.
|
# ¿ Nov 23, 2019 03:06 |
|
Malcolm Excellent posted:Wrestling is less horny, and therefore, less good. AEW is trying to right this wrong.
|
# ¿ Nov 30, 2019 04:14 |
|
Aesop Poprock posted:And then there’s Ravens podcast where he... actually I don’t get Ravens podcast at all Raven's podcast is an ongoing exploration of his attention deficit problems.
|
# ¿ Dec 15, 2019 17:10 |
|
JUNGLE BOY posted:I only ever see clips posted of Cornette making GBS threads on AEW and the indies, I’m not gonna subject myself to his bullshit but I’m curious does he ever review RAW or Smackdown? His fan base seems to be the type that think Baron Corbin is a good heel and like, are they just taking up his opinion like they usually do? Jim never seriously watched Raw or Smackdown and only watches AEW because the hogs lap it up whenever he complains about it.
|
# ¿ Jan 19, 2020 17:02 |
|
coconono posted:I can't keep track. I thought all the kidfuckers were republicans. Now you're telling me libertarians are kidfuckers too? If anything, they're worse.
|
# ¿ Jan 20, 2020 17:06 |
|
Pinstripe Hourglass posted:I just wanna add that the way Cornette talks about Omega is super homophobic-coded with a lot of “not a REAL man” dogwhistle poo poo And that's when he's not outright calling him a pedophile who groomed Riho into the business, which is just vile. gently caress him and Brian Last and their terrible fanbase.
|
# ¿ Feb 5, 2020 01:09 |
|
coconono posted:At least be honest about the bucks. They work pretty much the same match every time and if you weren’t on board the first time you saw it, subsequent matches won’t hold water. Yeah the Bucks are absolutely spot monkeys with inconsistent psychology but they've also gotten really, really far doing that so of course they're not gonna stop. Plus they're really good at it so their matches are fun.
|
# ¿ Feb 12, 2020 00:41 |
|
coconono posted:if they watched anime they'd realize the idea of a tiny woman being the biggest ballbuster is real and can your best friend. Watching Riho beat the poo poo out of Nyla Rose with forearms during their first title match is what made me an official fan of hers. I didn't really get it until then, but it's impossible not to root for someone that small hitting a bigger opponent that hard.
|
# ¿ May 16, 2020 21:43 |
|
Lamuella posted:Maybe JR should have told him about Asian porn when he told Vince. Somehow I think Corny already knows about it.
|
# ¿ May 25, 2020 23:10 |
|
History Comes Inside! posted:That's a pretty out-there reason to be pushing them, I'd imagine it would have more to do with the fact that they could generally wrestle circles around most other female wrestlers, since we aren't really that far removed from women's wrestling in the west being treated like a novelty sideshow and the wrestlers trained accordingly. Plus they all start training right out of the womb, it seems. I've come to the opinion that AEW is doing with joshi talent what WCW did with luchadors, basically bulking up their midcard/overall presentation with a style that's still new(ish) to a large portion of the fanbase.
|
# ¿ May 26, 2020 01:27 |
|
thatguyclint posted:Like Cavauro said, that's a stated goal, and while it's gotten a little hurt by the pandemic, having people who have still gone over and worked the style in the US has been a help. They've had to rely a little more on women who are less "polished," possibly because they've worked US indie schedules instead of full-on joshi promotion tours, but it's getting there, and I think Shida's the right one to have the belt on. Yeah, Corny refusing to understand this and projecting the shittiest possible intentions onto it are a good example of how out of touch he is with the biz. He flat out refuses to see how over Riho was/is or how talented Shida is.
|
# ¿ May 26, 2020 15:54 |
|
rotinaj posted:This may or may not be the place for it but is there a single person who has been the “other guy” on a wrestler podcast that was good of their own merit? Raven's sidekicks aren't great but their entire job is to try and contain Raven's attention deficit problems, which no sane person with literally anything else to do would sign up for. It's kinda fun listening to him drive them crazy, at least.
|
# ¿ May 27, 2020 21:46 |
|
"Outlaw mud show" refers to z-tier wrestling shows put on by promoters who weren't sanctioned by the NWA and were sometimes held outdoors because they weren't wealthy or well-connected enough to secure a building. Cornette conveniently forgets all the state fairs he and the Midnlght Express wrestled in that were essentially the same thing, even though he's mentioned them in shoot interviews before.Ad by Khad posted:UFC great Jens Pulver's sidekicks are basically identical to this, but he does twitch rather than podcasts Is his twitchcast as much of a glorious mess as Raven's podcast? Could such a thing even be possible?
|
# ¿ May 28, 2020 03:36 |
|
Lamuella posted:It's also a ridiculous backfire because "outlaw mud show" sounds hella cool. Yeah as usual Cornette's "you know what's cool? The SYSTEM and its RULES" stance on wrestling sounds absolutely stupid when applied to anything modern.
|
# ¿ May 28, 2020 15:38 |
|
MassRafTer posted:Who knows at this point half of what Cornette says is made up nonsense about Japanese school girl fetishes and Kenny Omega. He also thinks Brodie Lee is boring so I think it's safe to conclude that Cornette doesn't know poo poo about wrestling past 1989 and is generally a moron.
|
# ¿ Oct 11, 2020 15:47 |
|
https://twitter.com/Mayydayy86/status/1350903868733984768 Cornette unloaded on Jericho recently, publically disavowing him for his support of Donald Trump. Wild.
|
# ¿ Jan 18, 2021 16:07 |
|
Jim's various stupid complaints about modern wrestling are a wild ride when you go back and watch the Memphis stuff he thinks was the pinnacle of wrestling, a territory full of comedy bullshit and stupid gimmicks that he replicated in his own promotion years later.
|
# ¿ Feb 10, 2021 15:50 |
|
smikey posted:Do you not like Cowabunga the anthropomorphic wrestling ninja turtle who kids love? I actually love stupid comedy bullshit in wrestling, which is why I don't complain that it's killing the business on a weekly basis like Cornette does.
|
# ¿ Feb 10, 2021 16:08 |
|
TV Zombie posted:So what you are saying basically is that Corny's a Carny/Carnie. Yes, but one who's no longer aware of what the work/con actually is anymore.
|
# ¿ Feb 10, 2021 17:52 |
|
ItohRespectArmy posted:loving the idea that emi sakura who came up mostly through *checks notes* IWA JAPAN could not have survived the AJW dojo. Not to mention that Emi wrestled for AJW back in the day anyway - she even teamed with Manami Toyota! I didn't realize she STARTED with IWA Japan, though - that's crazy to think about. But it's true, and here's a match against Sumie Sakai from 1998 to prove it. Emi was probably 18 or 19 here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYWAWcua27I
|
# ¿ Feb 15, 2021 16:06 |
|
Lamuella posted:Emi Sakura's fourth match ever was on the undercard for the IWA King Of The Deathmatch tournament that Cactus Jack won in an exploding ring against Terry Funk. Holy poo poo! When Emi comes back to TV more consistently, AEW needs to do a better job informing the audience about this stuff. This thread sent me to Wikipedia and apparently Emi had to take time off early in her career for hernia surgery, and I can't imagine ever taking bumps again after that. Makes Cornette sound even dumber for saying she wouldn't survive the AJW dojo, as if he'd know anything about how that worked in the first place.
|
# ¿ Feb 15, 2021 16:44 |
|
MassRafTer posted:That show isn't exactly a career highlight for most people. Not that show specifically, but more generally about coming up through one of the more insane garbage wrestling promotions out there. Emi's entry into wrestling and her career trajectory through it is really interesting.
|
# ¿ Feb 15, 2021 18:01 |
|
forkboy84 posted:A wealthy backyard promotion sounds cool as hell Turns out it is!
|
# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 17:41 |
|
History Comes Inside! posted:Because shes making it the wrong way! Or time travel back to the late 1970s/early 80s since Corny refuses to ever criticize wrestling from that era.
|
# ¿ Mar 1, 2021 22:36 |
|
ItohRespectArmy posted:he hated ROH and PWG And WWE! He used to bitch about their terrible booking all the time.
|
# ¿ Mar 2, 2021 04:33 |
|
Dawgstar posted:This might be the most damning thing ever said about Brian Last. A lot of those towns were basically dead already since business genius Cornette decided to run shows in extremely rural markets where no one lived/had any money. Consequently he couldn't afford to keep anyone besides Memphis guys who would work for peanuts and none of them had top-guy charisma. Vandar posted:I listened to the first minute of this. He hated it and thought 'Boring Brodie' was never going to get over. This is by far his weirdest gripe since Brodie was everything Cornette claims to want in a pro wrestler.
|
# ¿ Mar 2, 2021 18:43 |
|
Vince MechMahon posted:I had a woman and her kids next to me at ROH once who, even when the kids were not there, spoke as if she genuinely believed everything. She also chanted the f slur at Dalton Castle. This was maybe 2018? People at Manassas ROH shows chanted that at Jimmy Jacobs with distressing regularity.
|
# ¿ Mar 3, 2021 04:50 |
|
|
# ¿ Mar 28, 2024 13:01 |
|
Wait, why would goons hate on video game players?
|
# ¿ Mar 3, 2021 22:30 |