Jim Cornette on A Typical Week In World Class
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- Опубліковано 30 сер 2017
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Anyone else use Cornettes voice to get to sleep? Idk something about his accent and those stories always does the trick. I wish he’d have his podcasts at midnight every night
Yes. Jim Cornette stories and Bill Burr rants
I use lance storm
Holy Shit!! I do too!
If you're a mark I guess lol. Epecially the mark saying "Holy Shit!! I do!"
I use Jerry Jarrett and Corny.
“Couldn’t draw a greasy string out of a cats ass..” might be my new favorite ‘couldn’t draw-ism’.
Thanks Corny. I'm one of the two people that wondered. Loved World Class.
@Joey G it's Brian's though.
I’m the other person who wondered
"If someone cut somebody's head off in front of him he'd say 'well that's a terrible infraction of the rules.'". I think I'll be laughing for the rest of my life now lol.
Funny...but I think Marc Lowrance was a pretty good announcer regardless.
@@billymc2681 I dug Lowrance as well. His voice and style fit that territory and their style of wrestling.
Wasting the Midnight Express is just one of the many reasons World Class went under.
Von Erichs vs. The Midnight's could have been a fresh feud that territory needed.
I could listen to Cornette read the damn phone book.
Legendary pro wrestling historian right here.
Jason Demakis lmao...phone book. I agree
Jason Demakis Me too!!!!!
Jason Demakis me three!
Grew up on Memphis wresting and my friends all gave me crap for liking Corny lol
Jason Demakis #agree100percent 😉🤣👍🏻👍🏻 25:25 mark had me laughing like a loon! 🤣🤣
I love Mark Lowrance. WCCW after school in the 80's was awesome!
I remember in Atlanta during the early-mid 80s was on Channel 46 on Sunday mornings.
Yes, WCCW got me interested in wrestling. Very fond memories
I'll say, on behalf of Marc Lowrance (who, admittedly started out REaaally dry and infifferenct sounding--and was always a very understated announcer): he did get better, especially when things would get out of hand and he'd do his righteous indignation thing. "Enough. Cut to commercial. Enough of this."
Oh yeah :)
@@NevrSilent when Marc got mad, you knew it was serious. I really liked his announcing..
Wow, for all that travelling, the payoffs were terrible! Driving all over the place like that, you guys earned that dough!
In Texas you typically didn't drive, you flew with Southwest Airlines, the late Gary Hart talked about that in his final interview.
Fun fact: Silo Sam was in Pee Wee's Big Adventure. He played Andy, the jealous boyfriend.
Jason Garfield Bardy that may be the first time a "fun fact" was actually that.
"Kids watched Charles Karault hit on their mothers." What the fuck??!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
"You Are There!" I remember watching one of these in the 80s in Social Studies, and seeing a young Christopher Walken as a British soldier in the Revolutionary War.
I used to watch that Saturday night show. I lived in Dallas. Jim is so right. Mark Lowarnce was like a mannequin. However, I still loved WCCW. Jim Cornette is great.
I grew up going to those shows at the Sportatorium. I remember the smell that place had as soon as you walked in. But everyone was great. The Von Eric's were super nice and even wrestled with me in the ring once. I was 10 years old. Mike especially was nice.
I'm from Southern California and got World Class on a UHF channel on Saturdays as a kid. Loved World Class. Much more than WWF(E) sucked when it went off the air. Great memories
RIP "The Crippler" Oliver was the main heel in Portland Wrestling when I was a kid , always fighting Billy Jack Haynes , good times
Love the way Jim tells a story! Back in the day I was there! I live in Dallas, and I can tell u this,......... Between late 83 and 86 If you lived ANYWHERE IN THE DFW AREA, even if you didn't like Wrestling, YOU KNEW WHO THE VON ERICHS WERE!!! THEY WERE BIGGER THAN THE "DALLAS COWBOYS" AT THAT TIME!!!!💯 I remember going to the sportatorium on a lot of Friday night's watching Jim, Bobby, and Dennis beating up on the "The Fantastics" I'm gonna get Jim cornette's book!! As a Wrestling fan I was stoked that Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express WERE IN WCCW!! I was watching them on TV when they were in Mid South, and I was glad they were here for the little time they were!! It totally sucks that they didn't put them up against Kerry and Kevin! That would've been fun to watch!! 💯
Living in Dallas in the 80’s was amazing. Friday nights at the Sportatorium were the best
Yeah, rub it in why don't you! I grew up in New York, so all I ever got was WWF television. Back in the 80's, the WWF pretended that they were the only wrestling promotion in the country, and if you were a niave young kid like myself, then you actually believed them!
When main event talent came in from other promotions, guys like Harley Race and Kerry Von Eric, Vince would give them a new name like "King" Harley Race and the Texas Tornado! They were never figured into the main event either, so they bounced around, fighting mid-card guys, but never actually challenged for the WWF championship. That's cause Vince and Hogan didn't want to mess with their formula of having Hogan fight a monster heel in the main event of a pay-per-view!
As bad as it was to give these established stars from other territories, new names and gimmicks; and as bad as it was for the WWF to NEVER use any of the stars from other territories in a main event match for the WWF championship, it still wasn't the worst thing that they'd do to them! The worst thing they did to the boys like Kerry when they came to the WWF was to never mention any of their accomplishments from the other territories! They would introduce the wrestlers like they were a big deal, they'd say, "Oh my God, that's Kerry Von Eric, the Texas Tornado!" But then they'd never follow that up with any of the wrestlers accolades so to fans like me who didn't even know about other wrestling territories, they were just another mid-card guy, and not meant to be taken seriously. I think that's the worst thing the WWF did to the stars of other promotions whenever they came to the WWF.
That's why I'm jealous of the people who grew up in other states and who got to know about all of the territories and all of the different stars in those territories. When guys came in from other territories they were treated with respect, and their accomplishments from all of the different places that they worked were mentioned to show the fans who might not know that this new wrestler who just came into the territory is a big deal. It was just such a better way of doing things than Vince's way. Vince pretended like he was the only wrestling promotion in the country and pretended like none of the other territories even existed!
@WrongStanceProductions I missed out on that. I lived about 3 hours away, and I knew better to ask my mom to take me. She hated wrestling because I was always hogging the TV watching it. Thankfully, she would let me watch.
@@jamesteegardner2273You're right!! That used to really irritate me. 😂😂
I remember when Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express came to World Class.
His first interview with Mark Lorrence he criticized his tie
Such a great listen as all ways. Ty Great Brian.
I grew up in Oklahoma City & we got World Class on TV(Friday nights, if I remember correctly), along with Mid-South on Saturday afternoons.
I never understood why managers were paid less. They were essential in attracting paying customers.
Hearing the RGV mentioned in these podcasts is cool as hell
"Stupider than owl shit slapped with a board"
People in the Northeast have NO IDEA how big Texas is... they think it's a big trip going from NYC out on Long Island somewhere. **facepalm** I am from Oklahoma and had family in and was stationed at several different military bases in Texas in the 1980s.
Don't fuck with Texas, Ding Dang Wong.
"Peter Gazer I'm going to mess with Texas like I the way I the i messed with your mom" - Joseph Kim
Mother Nature disagreed.
Your statement sounds pointless at the end, what were u trying say
My area of se Wisconsin started getting WCCW and NWA on uhf Chicago channels in early 84 and I was SOLD on both from the getgo. Cornette and Jimmy Garvin were hilarious as I wrestled my antenna every Saturday afternoon.
$63 in 1985 was a lot of money. 😀
That’s about $160 today, just accounting for inflation, not purchasing power. Won’t get rich, but it’s a livable amount.
Gary Hart hated Ken Mantel, but the Freebirds and Jimmy Garvin loved him. In the WCCW DVD WWE DVD a few years ago they talked about him.
Gary Hart was NOT the Saint he painted himself as
They should've given Jimmy his own spot, "Corny's Corner" in Dallas.
Mark Lowrence was a better commentator than Jim gives him credit for. At least Mark knew the names of wrestling moves and he did get exited about things at the right times. The other guy, Bill Mercer, didn't know the names of half the wrestling moves and tended to call everything a bodyslam (neckbreakers, backdrops, etc).
Oh god, I was watching a match on the WccW DVD one time, and whoever the announcer was, I do not recall him saying his name, called a piledriver. A simple, classic piledriver with no bells or whistles.
He called it "some kind of inverted belly to belly suplex."
I could listen to Jim Cornette tell old school stories from now on. His promo’s are hilarious.
Yeah, YOUR stories aren't nearly as interesting as Cornettes are, Mr. HellBilly 🧐
@@timbow1356 and I’m sure that you have no story miss bow
@@hellbillywv5724Now you've done it
Hey that was great,love to hear some more from the NWA days,thanks.
I only listen to Jim on my head phones at work cuz I like to pretend he's my manager
I remember that tag tournament from the Central States. Which the Battens won if I remember right...
25:28 I nearly pissed myself. 😄 Long live Corny.
Best part
All things are as they were then, except... YOU ... ARE THERE
(It was only on for one year, but man, I loved that show)
After hearing about how bad the payoffs were in World Class, now I'm curious to hear about how really bad the payoffs were for a week of work in the Memphis territory (in a non-headlining role).
I've heard they weren't really that bad considering both territories were basically shoestring budgets anyway. That and it also depended on who you are too.
@dbag0584 I would rassle for that!
The business was totally driven on what type of draw you were. So if you were on top you could make what today would be a 250-300k living even in a small territory like Dallas or Memphis.
@@jonnybrotten1290 that's a great line! Always enjoy seeing your comments on Cornette's videos. Keep kickin' 👍
The best JEC story in WORLD CLASS was when he got in an argument with FRITZ and FRITZ kinda yelled a little to loud and the locker room heard the ARGUMENT. So what does James E CORNETTE do. Waits for FRITZ TO LEAVE HIS OFFICE. THEN TAKES WHAT CAN ONLY BE EXPLAINED AS A 5* POWERDUMP IN FRITZ'S PRIVATE BATHROOM. BEST PART FRITZ WAS GONNA BE GONE FOR 2-3 DAYS. CORNETTE AND HIS TEAM WAS LEAVING THAT NIGHT TO GO BACK TO CROCKETT. SO CORNETTE DOESNT FLUSH. HE LETS HIS POWER DUMP SIT THERE - NOW ITS SUMMERTIME IN TEXAS ITS HOT. CORNETTE SEALS ALL THE WINDOWS AND TURNS ON A FAN. HE THEN LOCKS THE DOOR. AND RIDES OFF IN THE HOT TEXAS NIGHT. FRITZ COMES IN 2 DAYS LATER AND IS LIVID.
The Freebirds didn't pop wccw it was Gary Hart and the Great Kabuki they came at a perfect time
Woooo!! Good shoutout to the real south part of Texas: Harlingen, Brownsville, Laredo!
I enjoyed World Class. The area that I was in, didn't get it until ESPN carried it weekly.
25:25 mark "He couldn't draw a greasy string out of a cat's ass, much less break a tennis racquet in his bare hands!" ...lol 😁🤣👍🏻👍🏻
In miami WCCW used to come on sunday night then UWF took it place back in the 80s
dperfect28 That's very interesting.
What a time to live.
This is honestly some of the funniest shit!!
@ 13:20 mark Corny is talking about In the News segments which ran in commercial breaks on Saturdays morning kids shows on CBS.
I remember seeing wccw on tv in the northeast back in the early 80s along with mid south
Shout out to the RGV 956 San Benito, Harlingen Tx
I can listen to cornette for hours,I love to hear his stories. No matter how out of touch he is with the current state of wrestling there is no one who knows the history of the business better than corny!
The current state of wrestling is out of touch with the history of the business
I dont see Wrestling anywhere today, just mud shows and sports entertainment thats worse than the cheapest netflix series.
Rip The Crippler Oliver 🤘
Seven 5Star Dream Matchs: (1) Marty Jannetty vs. Brad Armstrong.
(2) Magnum TA vs. Kevin Von Erich.
(3) Bret Hart vs. Barry Windham.
(4) 8Man Steel Caged Tag Match: "Dr.Death" Steve Williams, Ron Simmons & The Steiner Brothers (Rick & Scott) VS. "Mr. Magnificent" Don Muraco, Stan Hanson & The British Bulldogs(Davey Boy Smith & The Dynamite Kid).
(5) Ted Dibiase & "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff vs. "Living Legend" Larry Zybysko & "Gentleman" Chris Adams.
(6) Austin Idol & "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert vs.Tully Blanchard & Gino Hernandaz.
(7) "The Total Package" Lex Luger & Michael PS Hayes. vs. "The Modern Day Warrior" Kerry Von Erich & "Macho Man" Randy Savage.
Who would win?
Those would be awesome matches man wish we that product instead of todays product
BRET HART VS KERRY VON ERICH MY FAVORITE THE HITMAN ❤VS . MY 3RD FAVORITE/IF NOT TOP FIVE FAV TEXAS TORNADO 🌪
Got the HART FOUNDATION LOGO TATTOO ON MY HAND
Dusty Rhodes in his prime vs Owen Hart. Think of the psychology.
El Paso... I spent a month there one night.
Manning Bowl in Lynn Ma. My hometown
"Kids watched Charles Karault hit on their mothers." What the fuck??!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
The description Jimmy goes into at 18:00 sounds like hell.
The business was rotten on payoffs back then. Damn shame wrestling was great back then.
We made more in Oklahoma in a day than we made during the rest of the week in Dallas. BUT then Dallas started cooling off. - That made no sense.
WCCW was raking in cash at the time, but most of it was going to the Von Erichs.
Yes i use cornette to sleep but buddy Landel makes me sleep deeper
More than 3 minutes of Brian Adias was brutal to watch
Cornette reminds me of young Elvis Costello in this picture.
*JIM CORNETTE* is a wrestling historian
I went to a match in Barton Coliseum Little Rock when I was 8 years old. it had Stager Lee in a tag against Midnight. ME lost and they stripped Cornet put a diaper on him and baby powder then spanked him with his tennis racket. It’s the only match I’ve ever been to. But the strangest thing, at least to me, the ring was orange, not blue.
damn 4 real?
Man I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an orange ring honestly
An orange ring is stranger than Jim Coronette being stripped, powdered, diapered, and spanked?
Too bad Gary Hart wasnt booking Dallas at the time
NOTE Texas Stadium, the former (REAL) home of my beloved "America's Team" The Dallas Cowboys did not open until November 1971. The Cowboys played in the Cotton Bowl and the Texas Stadium in 1971 (first Super Bowl victory season). So when Corny says Texas Stadium and the late 60's that is incorrect. They must have wrestled in the Cotton Bowl in the late 60's, which is CRAZY because that place could sit 90,000.
I love how towards the end of the show, you can hear Harley Quinn trying to get Jim to pay attention to her instead of doing the show.
One question how in the heck did World Class get nationally syndicated, he nailed it when he talked about the mid south area. Im in the Raleigh Durham area and on Saturdays at 10 channel 22 would have World Class and at 11 Mid Atlantic wrestling. If it werent for World Class I wouldnt have had a clue as to who the midnight express were...HOWEVER I do remember when RR Express came to town they played a 5 minute clip from their previous territory (mid south) I guess before they blew up the Mid Atlantic. Interesting!!
No idea, but I remember watching it with my family in indiana and ohio. I loved it.
I didn’t get to see it until ESPN started showing it.
I know I'm super late to this party, but the answer is: WCCW innovated the way Wrestling TV production is done. They were the first to use not just the static camera but also multiple handhelds that would get right up in the action. If you watch the WCCW documentary you can hear them talk about all the things that the production team brought into wrestling that never had been done before.
@@theubie this!......
They even beamed the show to Israel, of all places......so the Von Erichs reach was truly International!
Maybe Corny's explained this before, but is the payoff for a house ON TOP of the salary, or is that the actual salary? And they had to pay their own travel cost? Wow
Could you do a week in WCW, preferably before the Jim Herd years?
Tiffany Carter ...a Jim herd week is good listen. It will be full of laughs just from his ideas.
That would be a typical Mid Atlantic week
More watch alongs
Did Cornette and midnight express do a match in Lake Dallas ? If my memory serves me rite they did .
Awesome Marc impersonation
The corn knows
That's a lot of travel for not much money
Silo Sam was my dad. Lol
Favorite Von Erich? Mine is Kevin.
Ken Mantell must've been Dutch's long lost brother or cousin of some description 😆 but I know there's no relation
Have a "good" full time full benefits job n this sounds like much better $$ than I'm making with same amount of driving
WCCW on Fox 15
WWF on KATC 3
AWA on ESPN 16
JCP on TBS 12
UWF on WBRZ 2 late at night
Midnight best tag team of all time
What missed Opportunity for matches against some Kevin & kerry or David and other tags shouldve had some great matches
For Brian Last. I was born 77 never heard of the show, but here ya go.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Are_There_%28series%29?wprov=sfla1
Something I'm finding odd: If the Von Erichs owned the territory, why didn't they have more say in the booking and ask Mantel to change things?
Tiffany Carter Kerry Von Erich would have been the one Von Erich that could have pulled off being a heel.
While other wrestlers were making low-level stripper money at best, the Von Erichs were doing very well, and raked in most of the money that WCCW was accruing. They also routinely missed appearances at some of the outposts Cornette mentions, whether it was due to their respective drug addictions or just lack of motivation. I would guess that the Von Erich family was more or less satisfied with how things were going, at least until their near-bankruptcy when they brought in Jerry Jarrett to turn things around.
"don't let it drag"? They better not book Manny Fernandez. That guy could have had good promos if he ever cut out 65 percent of his promos
Bummer. I was waiting for Corny to mention my hometown of Enid, OK. They did a house show there on May 21, 1985 (I looked up the date) during the WCCW run. Corny yelled some crazy racist shit to a little black girl before the matches started (obviously, she was a plant and he did it to get heel heat. It worked lol). Loved to hate him back in the day. Just love him now.
What's the best thing to do with an occasionally grumpy old man like Cornette? Pump him for stories from his time. He'll cheer right up, you'll hear some amazing stuff, everyone will get a laugh, and no one has to get grumpy about how things are now.
Corny's insufferable when he's going on about modern-day wrestling, but he's A-FREAK-A-MAZING when he's keeping the history alive.
The only disagreement I have was saying this world class was always bigger than Mid-South
EEP!...Hi Harleyquinn...
WHY SO LOUD?'
How big is cornettes
The Free Birds were awesome!.…They tore it up!
Watts sending the midnight express to Dallas wouldn't be the last time watts screwed Crockett. The sale of uwf to Crockett was a major league screwing
Yep. So basically, Crockett got screwed by Watts twice. The purchase of the UWF, and Watts wanting the Midnight Express to go to World Class.
Does Jim have a pet bird?
Bernie Sander 2020
Whoohoo
Pmsl, "we're gonna destroy the establishment, looks like I lost, vote for establishment" - Bernie Sanders 2016/2020
Do a week in wwe
Al Snow does a great one on WWE.
Very real, not the rosy picture everyone envisions.
ua-cam.com/video/A8tCwiOWS2U/v-deo.html
When I saw Silo Sam I thought the same thing as Jim, I'm like that guy is fat and out of shape. Then I heard Jim talk about him and I realize I was right he was a bum. He was in AWA for awhile too.
he may have also worked in memphis
Every time I hear that theme at the beginning of these videos I picture a pack of midget guitar players..... am I the only one???
So Gino Hernandez was involved with the gay scene in Dallas. What was that like?
It would be kool as fuck if Jim was back in the business like he was with Smokey Mountain Wrestling. He should still have his own promotion RIGHT NOW and someone should give him a try. I understand Jim is older now so he might not even be interested in doing something like that. I think Jim should be a bigger deal than he seems to be. Im a 30 yr. old half black and half white man from Milwaukee. When I began looking up wrestling on youtube to look at wrestling which i hadnt seen for years at that point. It like 2010 I started looking up stuff from when I was a kid and I remembered Jim's face. This man has put so many guys in the business that I could argue he was just as influential as Vince McMahon. I don't know if WWE would be in business if it wasn't for him. SO MANY guys who are still wrestling and known as good workers that Jim gave their first break with the WWE. Props to you JIM!!!
Corny's spot on about Marc Lowrance. If Lowrance and Backlund ever got together....they;d put everybody to sleep. Lowrance was that bad.
I liked the dignity and professionalism he brought. Nowdays, most announcers just sound to me like a couple of screaming 12-year-olds who just drank a two-liter of Mountain Dew. But Lowrance treated wrestling with a somber formality that conveyed authenticity and importance. He may not have been the BEST ringside announcer, but he was far from the worst, and criminally underrated.
Kerry wrestled Flair in Tulsa? Jesus fucking christ, I was born ten years too late. Tulsa wrestling was basically dead by the time I was old enough to appreciate it.
Language.
Ktve channel 11?
Thats CBS brother and its literally an impossibility considering the big 3 (ABC, NBC & CBS) have national commitments for something like 18 hours and the rest is from 2am-6am
That's where wccw had their nonexistent syndication show that the midnights were on twice a night every airing lol.
Now we know why Jim Cornette talks so much. We loves hearing himself. Wow, I didn't know he was such a foul-mouth, but then again, when he was on TV he knew he couldn't get away with using such expletives.
Walter Cronkite - the biggest liar in the history of television.
pinko Cronkite.
Jim Cornette is angry, somewhere in America, right now.