Jim Cornette on Working With The Midnight Express In Georgia In 1985
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2020
- From Episode 346 of the Jim Cornette Experience
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39 minutes feels like 10 when Jim is talking about 80s wrestling. We're so lucky to have him
Good old days. Midnight Express was my favorite team back then.
@@chadk890 its always fun to hear stories older than i am.
@@willielogan4811 It was even more fun to have been old enough (barely) to have experienced that time in pro wrestling, as it happened. These stories are great, but watching this stuff as it happened as a kid was incredible, society just had a different level of respect for professional wrestling back then. Everyone knew it was not real fights, but most folks treated it as if it was legit. The business presented itself with more respect, so the fans gave it respect. I hope that makes sense.
Jim's global icon and a national treasure
@@stanhenderson9928 I saw your comment and could have sworn your name said Stan Hansen. I had to do a double take 🤣🤣
Damn. Corny wore that racquet out lol.
Buzz Sawyer was like a hillbilly Rick Steiner with a drug problem.
Hearing Corny describe something as ‘hella interesting’ is a mood in itself.
His wife is from San Francisco, so he almost certainly picked it up from her.
@@MichaelSmith-fq6hz I would've guessed South Park
*Jim Cornette is the official human encyclopedia of wrestling..period.*
Brian Last isn't no slouch either.
...of old wrestling.
@@fjccommish well past dictates the present.Therefore jim & Jr are best
GREAT story about Sawyer.
"You hit me like a mark!"
"You hit ME like a mark!!!"
This was a very interesting, informative segmemt.
I love hearing how Jim stands up for himself.
My favorite part of the story is Dennis with his hand in his bag ready to shoot Buzz if necessary.
This is when Corney is at his best.
The crowd piping during the T.Bolt promo lol.
Such an interesting time In wrestling.
Buzz Sawyer sounds like the scariest human being ever in wrestling
If you've never watched Buzz wrestle, he had a whine when he wrestled and yelling, consistent with mental illness. But, I loved him, he was my favorite. Great promo guy and could mix it with anyone.
@@bigbadbarbiepodcastchannel2682 I agree he was mentally ill
All part of the gimmick
In 1972, in my first grade class, there was a kid named Mike. He was much smaller than the rest of us kids, was dirty, and wore the same clothes every day. Every two days or so someone’s lunch would go missing from their lunch box. Soon it was discovered that it was Mike stealing the lunches. Mike, in retrospect was clearly malnourished, way too small for his age. We all hated him for this. Many of us teased him and excluded him from our social circle. The teacher punished him. Some weeks later there was a parent teacher conference held in the evening. It was a rare one in that we kids attended with our parents. The parents/guardians who showed up for Mike were two women who weighed at least 325lbs each. I was confused but it became clear to me at that moment that Mike got too little food and these two women got too much. I remembered this all recently, almost 45 years later. And I feel sad.
A very sad story, but I fail to see the connection to the video.
@@sullyb23511 You took the words out of my mouth. I thought Mercoid was talking about Mike because he Mike would one day become a famous wrestler.
What does this have to do with anything in the video, darlin'?
Anyone else here after the death of Beautiful Bobby Eaton ?
No one can tell a story like Jim especially from the golden era …
I knew that was buzz Sawyer as soon as I saw it! Lol. Great pic. (It probably helps I knew the story)
Corny may looked like a nerdy manager with a punchable face, but the minute he yields his tennis racket, he's as dangerous and bad ass as Haku.
yuuup
Any real man who respects wrestling and earns its day-to-day out it... Will, sooner or later, have stand on his ground. Waving off crazy guys, badly resolved characters and a stupid fan now and then, that's when the tennis racket enjoyed.
Cheers
i thought he was scary when i was a kid watching him in the attitude era lmao. to be young.
Travis Heckel= Genius
I could listen to jim and Brian all day
19:05 as a kid in the Charlotte area then we loved the Midnight & rock & roll fued and man did people hate Jim. He constantly had stuff thrown at him like crazy, great heel team/manager.
I think every video he talks about eating a whole pizza
Buzz Sawyer was genuinely a psychopath. When wrestling guys say you're crazy, you probably are. But he was a great promo guy and tactical wrestler, but could brawl with the greatest.
Isn't Buzz Sawyer the same guy who screwed the Undertaker out of $2000 when he promised to train him to become a wrestler?. I saw this on the Undertaker's last ride doc.
@@samuraijack0876 I believe you are correct, kinda proves he IS insane, of course 'taker was a pup in those days.
"255. Buzz Sawyer got into a fight outside a club. The other guy pulls out a gun and sticks it in Buzz's mouth saying hes going to blow his head off. Buzz just stands their laughing with the loaded gun in his mouth and the other guy freaks out and leaves."
I use to love buzz Sawyer as a kid but didn't know he was a prick in real life. It doesn't take away the fact I liked his character which may have been his real persona. I can still see him on all fours yelling mad dog mad dog
Buzz Sawyer vs Tommy Rich - Last Battle of Atlanta was the blueprint for Hell In A Cell.
Yeah Midnight was on tv with Jim talking about facing the Sawyers then it went to the feud with Jimmy Valiant and Mrs Atlanta lively and Big Mama at Starrcade.
My stepdad use to go watch wrestling in Grand Prairie when he was a kid, he lived in Celina...not too far
When wrestling was really wrestling and each state had some kind of wrestling territory when WWF wasn't in town. The Thunderbolt segment was funny because it reminded me of the Tex Avery cartoon with the grumpy bear who hired a guard to keep things quiet while he slept.. Thunderbolt sounded exactly like the grumpy bear from the Tex Avery cartoon.
SHUT UP! QUIET! DON'T KNOCK SO LOUD! I loved that short.
@@DarksaberForce You deef or somethin' cause I don't want noise round hare, I WANT QUIET!! "SLAM"
On the Thunderbolt moment: He actually said something much like a preacher/stern dad Jim is right. And I’m sure this played well to his audience.
My god! That impression of Dusty!! LOL
Hell yeah 🤣! I was thinking that gotta be the best Dusty impression ever . Even better than when Dustin did his Common Man impression on Raw , and I think Steve Blackman beat him quick too . He tried the big elbow & Blackman no sold it.
looks like Hannibal 🤣
Thunderbolt "If-You-MOVE...." Patterson
I remember seeing the Thunderbolt tv spot the Jim is referring to, it was painful to watch. Even for mark back then I remember thinking WTH did he say or in this case not say
He went to my high school, Pez that is.
I liked the veiled shot at Preparation H at the very end
The arena he's thinking of is Henderson's arena. Watched wrestling there once or twice.
If anyone can reference Cornette talking about managing a tag team in GCW with The Angel and some green wrestler after McMahon gave show back id appreciate it.
Having video to go along with Jim's description of the Midnight Express debut would be priceless
I thought that Thunderbolt Patterson promo was pretty good. "If you move"!!!! I understood what he was saying. Ole was gonna get his ass whooped if he even thought about interfering.
I remember the Omni in Atlanta. They had all kinds of events there for a while before they shut it down. The closest I ever got to the Omni was practically the front door the reason why I didn't go in I was with a group at the time and was in a van.
You didn’t go into the Omni because you were in a van? We’re you a kidnapped kid?
Ole turned on Thunderbolt and went with Arn
I remember that angle with Thunderbolt and Ole when Ole turned on Bolt. I was 12 yrs old and i realized at that young age that his ringwork was the absolute shits. He sucked, but he was old
Ole turned on Thunderbolt and Arn was his partner next.
Thunderbolt sounds uncannily like Dusty.
For some reason, I like hearing jim talk smack about buzz sawyer
I wonder how many other people had the balls to shoot on Buzz.
If anyone can reference Cornette talking about managing tag team on GCW with The Angel in it along with some green guy after McMahon gave show back id appreciate it.
Love hearing these stories of wrestling,
Thunderbolt was a good promo
Is WWE Network(Peacock TV) ever going to show Georgia Championship Wrestling(at least if it's watchable)?
To be honest this was the best part of this week's show, which says a lot about today's product.
Wooooo grand prairie tx! Lol
Like how Corny beat his racket into a Mario 2 enemy.
Jim is one of the best oral historians *period*
Im waiting for cornette to say "It exposed the Business"
"IF YOU MOVE!"
Going by the thumbnail, I thought this video was going to be about Hannibal!
Not Festus
8.50 . Love you jim
I think they should put Jim in the Guinness book of World Records he can tell a story using ONLY CUS words Excelsior🤴💯
Corny managed the midnight express? He’s never mentioned it before.
He is always mentioning it
@@walterpetersen776 ever hear of sarcasm?
@@Shaner373 ever hear of deadpan sarcasm?
@@gregp103 yup
Corney wrestling stories. I love em. Wish he was my grandpop
Hey Corny, some of us Ohio kids were damned glad to see you in Wheeling!
Keep up the good work Jim! it’s kind of sad I rather listen to you talk about wrestling stories than watch shit wrestling on tv today!
Mid south was the highest rated cable tv show for 4 months? And I MISSED IT here in Wisconsin? DAMN. Hopefully it’s all on you tube,anyone that than guide me in would be appreciated
hit me like a mark
no hit me like a mark
25:03 what kind of promo is this?
Love to hear cornys in put on AEW or current wwe but when he opens up the encyclopedia it’s gold THANK YOU JIM CORNETT
If you move!
This is the first thumbnail where I had to stop the video to laugh at for a good 5 minutes.
Undertaker didn't like Buzz Sawyer. Or at least that is what Paul Bearer said.
3:36
did Corny just say "hella interesting"?
hm.
If you listen to Thunderbolt you can hear how Dusty stoled his talking gimmick. It almost sounds like Dusty talking cause Thunderbolt did it first.
Who KnockedOut Sloth From Goonies?
Dick Slater
Still my favorite wrestling talk show
God damn this man tells a good story. Lol
Pistol Pez
Whatley
nope. luv ya corney this time you got it wrong- back then blacks knew t-bolt patterson couldnt work for sh*t. but his promos alone were worth the price of admission- if for no other reason than the comedic value. 22:11 "if you move...!" this stuff is pure gold...
the episodes of GCW with cornette, memphis, etc. shows Cornette managing The Angel and some jobber. no midnight xpress
Midnight rule Bobby one great guy one hellva wrestler
12:38
What an incredible story. If I could get an omnibus if these awesome hilarious moments I would be a happy person. Or at least an entertained one.
WTCG CHANNEL 17 THE SUPERSTATION
Corny is the Grand Historian of Pro Wrestling. We are lucky to have him because he provides accurate info.
Jim wasn't a great wrestling athlete, but he has a tennis racket.
Buzz Sawyer looks like Braun Strowman on the artwork. JC should get the racket out of retirement for Strowman too
Thats the stuff i care about not all those AEW/NXT reviews
People still say “hella” ?
Tbs didn't exist in the 1970s
Can you upload a separate video of corny’s political rants? What he called jared kusher blew my mind but i wouldn’t dare type it in the youtube comments! Small tease though: felcher was involved lmao
Hello Jim Cornette.
Hi 🌽!
Hi
Top 10 foreign objects used by heel managers?
Chain
Fire
Nathaniel Baxter nice, people have a short memory on ether
Not trying to mark out to myself too hard here but it took me 2 minutes to come up with a more unique list idea than whatculture’s come up with in the last 2 years
Fuji's cane
Jimmy Hart's megaphone
Jim's racket
Paul E's brick phone
Dennis Condrey had that blammer for Buzz Sawyer.
The iggy
Modern wrestling is so fucking dead that Jim AND Vince Russo will have no choice but to bury the hatchet right next to wrestling's grave.
Love jim but he often contradicts himself. He said buzz sawyer couldn't take it when it was time for him to let them get over but when the stieners etc came along and it was time for them to do jobs and move along he took his ball and went home
If Jim cornette was given a tv time slot and just talked about the good ol days of wrestling it would be must watched tv!!
whoever this person is who is doing this show with Cornette is awful
Lmao at Cornette claiming Cornette gave Vince the million he didn't have to do a wm which change everything. A year later he will claim that anoki gave Vince the million to mania. So basically neither is true and Cornette his still so butthurt Vince won he has to try and convince a few hundred young fans that Vince lucked out and southern wrestling >
Oh look, a guy with AEW in his name, on Cornette’s UA-cam channel talking about being “but hurt”. You are reaching way too hard,in an attempt to bash Cornette. Jim is simply relaying the stories/rumors regarding the Wrestlemania finances. Jim wasn’t in a position to know these details. Cornette also said that if Wrestlemania would have failed, it wouldn’t have knocked the WWF out of business,which is contrary to public opinion. Also, why would Cornette be biased towards WCW? He left that company on bad terms as WCW mismanagement caused the Midnight Express to break up. Take your nonsense on over to the Japanese schoolgirl fetish websites. That way, you might get Kenny Omega’s attention. Maybe, Kenny will give you a “thumbs up”the ass.
Cornette does some many Goofy little things to try and make is stories sound more believable like correct minor things or pantomime thinking long and hard about an inconsequential name to the story. I fell for it for a while but I'm so embarrassed now I know how much bullshit he chats
Another Boring video seems like Cornette has lost his touch
All of this shit is interesting if you love professional wrestling 🤓
@P McGill yes, I do agree with you if Cornette wouldn't have done all those shoot interviews then he would have had a lot of material but it's also the matches that he picks for watch alongs are boring except for Austin vs hart and that got the most views on UA-cam. I gave him a suggestion to do watch alongs of some popular matches of WWE from 1997-2015 and he blocked me on Twitter for that.
Joshua M spot on!
I've UnSubscribed From TheChannel...Due to All TheModernWrestlingCrap Corny Allegedly Hates, But Doesn't Stop Talking About!
@@joshuam190 Exactly