Jim Cornette Exposing Wrestling Business To Fans | Kane, Al Snow, Del Ray | SMW Fan Cookout 1995
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- In this rare video from August 5th, 1995, Smoky Mountain Wrestling hosts a cookout featuring some very prominent heels as part of SMW Fan Week.
Yes, Jim Cornette -- the promoter of SMW and wrestling historian notorious for becoming enraged when this generation's wrestlers break kayfabe and expose the business -- is seen here breaking kayfabe and exposing the business in 1995, much like he does weekly revealing pro wrestling secrets free of charge on his podcast.
Featuring appearances by Jim Cornette, Kane during his time as Issac Yankem, D'lo Brown, Al Snow, Buddy Landel, Jimmy Del Ray, and Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Bill Apter.
Highlights include:
-Al Snow making claims of being offered $160,000 from WCW.
-Jim Cornette talks with fans about how to properly book a wrestling card and financial figures, shoots on Ronnie Garvin & Tim Horner, and tells a story about Jimmy Del Ray setting someone's head on fire.
-Bill Apter impersonates Dusty Rhodes, Bruno Sammartino, Antonino Rocca, Pedro Morales, Terry Funk, The Iron Sheik, Lou Albano, The Grand Wizard, Hulk Hogan in The Dungeon of Doom, Buddy Rogers, and Jimmy Snuka.
-Buddy Landel tells a story about traveling with Ricky Morton & Iron Sheik over the border.
-and more!
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I dont see this as Corny "exposing the business". He is simply fulfilling his obligation to the SMW fans who loved and appreciated his promotion, while having a day to just relax from the stress of operating that business. If anything, I think he's protecting the business. There are no babyfaces. His passion for the business is unmatched! And he never would have thought that a home video recording would be mass distributed to an internet company that wouldn't even exist for another 10-15 years.
This was also a bunch of smart fans. It's not like he was talking to a television audience or a huge crowd of people. These people knew wrestling was a work,they were reading the sheets.
@@GregS-1981 smart fans back then was very rare or a very small niche, they had to have a foot in the back door, weather they knew people, helped at shows etc....Cuz back then majority of the fan was still wondering if it was real or not... nowadays much of that smart knowledge can be gained without even having to do any of that stuff from the past. lol
This was exclusively for the smart fans that travelled down there for SMW Fanweek. Local marks were not permitted to attend.
It's pretty clear that the person who wrote the Description above hasn't really listened to Cornette and doesn't understand the things in modern wrestling that irk him. They try to make him sound like a hypocrite, with the argument that "he becomes enraged when young wrestlers break kayfabe and expose the business, but he does the same thing on his podcast!". This is the argument of someone who is totally clueless. They know the bare bones basic facts of the situation and just want to bury Cornette. As far as "exposing the business", that cat's been out of the bag for 30+ years, and Cornette is well aware of this fact. He's been doing shoot interviews for over a decade, I think starting with the Sean Oliver KC stuff. The things that he hates about modern wrestling go a lot further than just "breaking kayfabe"
First of all, about this video... this cookout was part of "Fan Week", where smart fans had come in for the Superbowl of Wrestling and that week's worth of shows. This wasn't advertised to the general public. Feinstein started doing his shoot interviews around the same time, and I remember Eddie Gilbert doing one in '93-'94ish. And this video wasn't going to be sold by SMW, or anyone else for that matter. Plus it's not exactly a gripping exposé of the business. It's mostly Bill Apter doing impressions lol
There's a world of difference between this and the things that Corny dislikes, e.g. wrestling sex dolls & small children, a ring full of men selling an "invisible grenade", conga lines with guys sticking their thumbs in each other's asses, penis flipping, etc. THAT is the type of dreck that Cornette cannot stand. Not somebody simply breaking kayfabe in an interview or book or whatever. I'm sure he doesn't like the fact that everyone breaks character on Twitter, or immediately after the show at a press conference, but the man's not an idiot. He gets offended when you really thumb your nose as the sport of wrestling
Also notice that it's "Cookout with Heels"... So even in dealing with the smart fans here he isn't bringing the babyfaces and heels together. If you can't see the difference between this cookout and someone going into the ring at a live show and literally pretending to wrestle a blow up doll, then I think you're a lost cause...
Do you see how this says “with the heels” that officially meant he wasn’t exposing the business
Weird to see Glenn Jacobs with Andy’s sister’s hair from Toy Story 1.🤣
5:07 Glen Jacobs as he lives and breathes. "That's gotta be, that's gotta be KANE!!!"
This was from the era just before wrestling truly met the internet. What a great time capsule. Thanks for sharing it. I wanted to make a SMW Fanweek so bad but they folded before I was able to. So seeing this footage is the next best thing.
Kinda hard for Jim to expose the business when the cookout only had people who were already smart to the business, but clickbait titles are how the world goes I guess.
Exactly, it was a bunch of smart fans. Brian Last is in the video. Every fan there was reading Meltzer and all the other dirt sheets. They all knew wrestling was a work
Larry Bailey made a really good point with his comment here. Another one I’d like to add is that in 1989 Vince McMahon had already admitted that Pro Wrestling was predetermined. Kayfabe was already ending.
This isn’t the “gotcha” you think it is. It was all the dirt sheet fans of the day who knew everything already. He isn’t blatantly doing this for all the fans or in front of regular fans. Thanks for the video though!
Great upload This is the first VHS Tape i bought online (From either Highspot or RF Video) Back when they only sold VHS Tapes
Al Snow is in better physical condition today, than he was in 1995. 😆
Love hearing Glenn going "trying to improve my dental hygiene" as Yankem
Issac Yankem debuts June 1995
This is in August 1995..
Jim to Glen without his gimmick teeth in:
"Hey, I see you've been flossing!"..🤣
9:13 this right here is relatable still today 🤣
This isn't Jim exposing the business. This is Jim giving back to the Smokey mountain fans. The majority of the fans here are adults and I'm pretty sure all were smart to the business. If not, they were slow adults.
Of all my MANY High dollar wrestling autographs and memorabilia, Mark Curtis is the one Signature I own that I have only seen one or two others ever have! Does ANYBODY out there have this man’s signature other than me and a few others at the most?! Didn’t realize how rarely he must have signed
Cornette at 15:41 "give me a sprite"
30 years strong
did a Young Buck write this vid description? lol imagine thinking this is a burn
thanks for this, this is a treasure.
47:20 New Jack
I could sit and listen to cornette wrestling storys for days and he loves telling them
Love the backwards Fanny packs. Classic 90’s
Hell they all still dress like that. I think it’s from wearing sweatpants and shorts most days because they are sore as hell and probably have to drive 300 miles everyday. That’s how it started anyway
@@matthewgabbard6415 No, the wrestlers carried all their drugs in their fanny packs according to every shoot interview ever.
@@e2goYeah I’m sure that’s all they were ever used for. No officer there’s no reason to check this inconspicuous purse I have strapped to my waist. My wallet and keys aren’t in there, just dope.
I miss Smokey Mountain, best wrestling league ever!!!
Is it just me or did it look like Cornette was standing next to Larry Bird in the thumbnail?
Is that Kane at 5:11?
Jim Cornette is greatness.
Is that D Lo and Thrasher around the 1:00 mark?
I also see Mosh there too.
I lost my copy of this 20 years ago.
1st min: al snow here before showing up on Raw as avatar 3 months later.
Its a mullet fest 😂
Mullet convention
The Nature Boy Buddy Landel is awesome it’s heartbreaking to know he’s gone
how have I never seen or heard of this?
Where is Brian Last?
Al Snow is that guy
A sex genius. I had an uncle that would call a “Fu&@ing know it all” type person a sex genius
Jim could've done his Dusty Rhodes impression, & shut it down!
If this is Corny exposing the business, he should have done it years ago. Like it has been said, it was a good way for him and the heels to get some down time and relax. Side note: OMG! All the Zubaz!
I don’t know, it looks like Corny here is killing the wrasslin’ business to me
Hell, AEW could do with some Bill Apter.
Look how young Al Snow is. And look at Buddy, he looks great.
A young, Bill Apter, mixing it up with the wrestlers! 😅
Vince told everyone in the 80s everyone already knew at this point
Holy smokes! I haven't seen this in years!! 👍👍
Jim was a heel hanging out with other heels.
lol, "exposing the business" means when you have a match in the ring where you throw fake punches and dive onto a group of people that are there standing just waiting for you to dive on them. This video here is just Cornette spending time with his loyal fans.
Isn't it amazing how most of if not all the shit that comes out of Jim (-insert trask talk here-) Cornette's mouth in respect to booking is solid fucking gold. He's a picture perfect example of how true genius will always be at the mercy of, the out of touch sob signing the checks. Thanks for the upload!!!!
Bet Corny put down some burgers that day.
Al Snow and Kane looked diffent back then
Absolute Gold, here! As a native Knoxvillian, I miss Smokey Mountain Wrestling and then TMW. My buddies and I would call up ole Terry Landell aka K-Town Daddy on the CTV show, "Wrestle Talk," and give him the business. SO GLAD GLENN JACOBS IS MYYYYYYYY MAYOR!!!!!! WHOOOOOOO!
Omg holy cow my God that is al snow on smw
That’s not Al Snow that’s Lief Cassidy
Al Snow has a natural charisma for sure.
I can’t agree on that one, he’s definitely a ratchet jaw, but he comes across as the guy you want to quit talking, not the guy you can’t quit listening to.
Any ric flair jokes
This is classic!!!
@ Panther Creek State Park in Morristown, TN
Jim bashes the Kliq for the curtain call but no problem for him to expose the business. Hypocrite.
If he did one of these today, all those wrestlers would've taken turns on Cornette's wife off camera
And? What's your point? 🧐. Odd how people are so concerned what other consenting adults do while it doesn't even affect them.There's people out there in society doing alot worse. You could say the same about Buddy Landell, The Rock N Roll Express, flair and 90% of the wrestlers out there. Having ring rats in every town screwing every women they could. Double standard much?
I was thinking Buddy was a face?
I hear bill apter
Glad Cornette got healthy he looks really overweight here
Kane and Al Snow look like their 20 lmfao
34:00
He wasn't exposing anything. Need to fix your title there, guy.....
Any chance Brian Last would’ve been here?
I believe thats him that you can see with the sunglasses when Cornette appears.
He’s sitting tightly between Jim’s right and left ass cheek.
@@GregS-1981 That was Brian Hildebrand (R.I.P.) (Mark Curtis WCW Ref)
@@GregS-1981 Nvm I see you said sunglasses. I think that is Last
@@GregS-1981 8:15 mark standing behind Bill Apter?
Yea, No, Try again
So much for Kayfabe!
It was already dead by then. Either way it's not like theres thousands of people there.
I never would've thought anybody would see this. Jim wasn't the one that leaked this so to speak. Thats all ill say about it. The person is in the video though and tbh it wasn't leaked intentionally. I'll put it this was... It was loaned to the wrong person.
And you are absolutely nobody of any interest so well done.
cool
He did this regularly, which actually is a good thing. I don't think it's a good idea to pretend that wrestling was real (meaning the results weren't pre-determined). If you tell people this is real life and what you see on TV is entertainment then I think it's more honest.
And that's why modern wrestling is steaming garbage
@@dereksnyder7271 Yeah but a lot of people watch that garbage. Vince McMahon is loyal to the money.
Jim Cornette is the one constantly bitching about it ffs😂
Wrestling has always been about money lol@@J.B24
28:30
Count the sprites lol jk
I can hear my illustrious Mayor talking all thru this video perhaps I shall isolate and enhance to see he he slandered any females or whatnot
No surprise seeing Jim 'the Hot-Tub Push' Cornette exposing the business like the hypocrite he is. No surprise there...
Say it to his face, Billy!
🤡🤡🤡
@nosoyallowed828 Yet he complains about every instance past this video and to this day.
@@billrichardson6259I don’t see any faces
Exposing the business to a bunch of sheet readers? They weren't local. And where are the babyfaces?