Jim Cornette Reads A TNA TV Format
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- From Episode 230 of Jim Cornette's Drive Thru
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"This is the most horrible thing I've ever read. I need to preserve it for future generations."
- Jim Cornette, 2009
I'd love for someone to send an AEW format to Jim for him to read and review on air.
Sounds like Russo thought he was writing a soap opera or an episode of HEELS!
BTW Is HEELS still in production?
Mind you this is supposedly supposed to be what "happened" in this production meet.... in supposedly 2009, according to Ole Corny here. How the heck do I know this is legit. This idiot could be making the whole goddamn thing up just to get more views on his UA-cam video 🙄😒. Cornette is a washed up out of touch old man who likes to relive the "glory days" of 1980's American "Pro Wrasslin" 🤭🤔😃🖕🤷🏽....
@@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster You sound like a sexually frustrated troll who apparently enjoys masochism since you intentionally choose to listen to a man you apparently don't like talk for nearly an hour about something you clearly disagree with him on. I get it though, there always needs to be a contrarian in the mix somewhere.
BTW, Mike Tenay has confirmed this meeting happened exactly as Cornette has described it over the years. Jarrett, Dutch, and Taylor have also confirmed that Cornette's description of that meeting is about 99% accurate.
As far as him wanting todays Sports Entertainment to be like his "glory days" of southern wrasslin; well why wouldn't he? That was when there were nearly 10 different wrestling promotions in the United States alone that made between 1 million to 5 million dollars a year. That was when there were plenty of places for up and comers to work and learn different styles, techniques, and so on. That was when the top guys could actually go out in the middle of the ring with a microphone and almost literally hold an audience of an average 5k to 20k people in the palm of their hands. That was when pro wrestling was taken seriously as a business and because of that it looked and felt real to a lot of people. Between the past product and the current product of now, there is no comparison. Wrestling from 1980-2001 was at it's absolute zenith. Where even low card guys could make 50k+ a year. That's why we continually see both indy promotions and even the AEW do their absolute damnedest to emulate pro wrestling's product and presentation from back then. They know how good it was.
What we have now is a horrible product from all companies on a nightly basis. Where all of the top stars all wrestle the same style and all use nearly the exact same moveset as one another. Where all it takes to get a "This is Awesome" or "Holy Shit" chant is someone jumping off of something. Nothing means anything anymore. Fans have to see the exact same garbage every time they tune in and they drool all over themselves when Omega, the Young Bucks, Bryan Danielson, Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar, Bobby Lashley, and the vast majority of everyone else do the exact same thing every time they get in the ring. It's hilarious how utterly asinine people like you are. I guarantee that if you like today's garbage wrestling then you would've died from excitement if you watched Pro Wrestling in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s.
Also, Cornette was a HUGE name in wrestling from 86-2010. Hell, he was just as manager for 95% of that time and I would say that during that time period he was a bigger name, a better draw, and a better talker than 99% of the guys wrestling today. I'd say that right now, Punk, Lesnar, Danielson are the only North American wrestlers with bigger names than that of Cornette from 85-2010. Even today, right now, he's wrestling's best personality AND HE'S NOT EVEN IN IT ANYMORE. It's sad where wrestling has gone. No wonder wrestling has lost nearly 90% of it's audience from it's absolute peak.
Anyways, I digress.
@@Thex-W.I.T.C.H.-xMaster well other than the fact that multiple sources including Dutch Mantell, Mike Tenay and Don West have confirmed it, the program Jim read off was also shot and televised. It was known forever that shitstain was head of creative for the time period so who else would be in charge of creating the TV formats?! Plus if Jim is such an alleged liar, how come he told this story the exact same way in his interview with Matt Striker 5 years ago?! Usually liars can't keep track of their lies.
"Why isn't he dead?"
"It's because of the blank, doesn't do that to ya "
"...Heat!"
That just killed me!
Please, as long as you still have formats to read, make this into a segment of the Drive-Thru.
"I tell you, bro, you're gonna love it bro..."
Bullet Point!
HEAT BRO! 😂😂😂
Why are you taking it so serious?! It's just wrestling bro!
17:14 “see now it’s a shoot” I died laughing 🤣🤣🤣
And you know that Russo wanted Stevie to emphasize "CHRIS" just the way Jim said it to drive home the point that "it's a shoot bro".
46 minutes of Jim reading a TNA format? This is going to be gold! 😂
It's more entertaining than watching the actual show!
Like...you know it's going to be good and then it turns out even better.
Also, "Heat"
Would’ve been nice if Tenay would’ve called in and read some of it in his Tenay monotone eye rolling delivery..give you that feeling of a production meeting 😅
Hahaha it sure was! Had me cracking up.
@@jaymeister4850 😊nq🎉-🎉❤😅
"If all his muscles stopped working why wouldn't he be dead?"
"Because of the Blank" I would like "Because of the Blank" to become the new "A wizard did it."
45:38 “Gum bumping bipolar b*tch” might be one of the funniest things Jim has said recently. This entire upload was pure gold!
I was drinking coffee and nearly spit it all over my laptop. Some of the shit Jim comes up with lmfao
Dude I’m back listening to this 2 years later and that part is my absolute favorite. 😂 just so organic
Brian's reaction at "HEAT" has gotta be one of the Podcast moments of the year already...
28:48 For people to watch it again
That was one of the most hearty laughs I've heard from Brian. I can almost see his face turning read and eyes watering from laughter.
Oh I was dying laughing at this… “Heat”… well then what the hell was Kurt doing with the barbed wire and the bat? Ice?? Lmao
It is the main reason why I already have several rewatches of this clip lol.
That laugh is grating to the ears like nails on a damn chalkboard
Jim needs to read more of these TNA formats. That was hilarious! I have no clue how everyone in the room could sit through this without laughing in Russo’s face.
So you want him to "expose the business"? Thats heresy!!!
Bulletpoint: HEAT! That would of had me dying!
I agree but hopefully Russo won't sue him
Because they're professionals and only an asshole laughs in a colleagues face publically?
TNA should've let Russo go earlier because he was messing up the shows.Jeff Jarrett and Dixie Carter screwed up big time.
"Doctor Stevie slaps Abyss!!" I popped for that, especially as the voice he was reading it in sounds like he was doing an impression of Vince on commentary 😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Old Russo scripts should be a weekly feature.
*Formats! Only Marks say script! 😂
@@dgwfigures5259 Russo never wrote a format in his life though.
More entertaining than wwe today
@@dgwfigures5259 what Russo wrote was actually a script though. that's how bad he was. there are actual differences between a script and format outside of just being industry terminology.
It's hilarious. The effects of
restricts blood flow to every muscle. Well there's a very important muscle called Cardiac muscle. so if Dr Stevie spiked Abyss with then Abyss would have had a cardiac arrest and died lol.
: Nash takes his somas
: Nash goes to tanning bed instead of match
: “Heat!”
It sounds like Vince Russo was trying to impress the SPIKE TV Rep with his Spielberg writing skills!!!!
More like Jerry springer shit
Vince Russo was too busy doing his "real job" -- doing EVERYTHING that cutie patootie Dixie Carter told him to.
“It’s because of the blank…does it to you”… the best line of this episode
"Sting is posing as somoa joe"🤣🤣🤣😂
The Magic Spoon spot at the end had me in tears from laughing so hard.
I had to rewind it 7 times
I was just on the edge of falling sleep, and then I heard it xD.... omg woke me up saying: WTF was that?, what?
@@tjs1098 you’ve tried already? Lol..which one the Fruity? The Frosted or did u combine Peanut Butter and chocolate to make it like a reesie cup like corn says 😂
".... why are we going down this road??"
Oh Brian, the spot hasn't *begun* to gloriously derail yet.
“Fuckin’ gum bump in’, no-polar bitch” had me laughing as hard as Brian.
this is great. please do it again. just listening to the original, unfiltered russo material is priceless
19:51 visualizing this meeting occurring with a big ass conference table & Road Dogg sleeping at it made my night 😂😂
I envisioned all of them at the production table talking about the format and he's curled up in the corner with his bag as a pillow and they just ignore him like it's a common occurence lol
27:29 & 28:52 Brian’s laugh is sooo infectious you can’t help but laugh when he laughs 😂😂😂
it's obnoxious
I died laughing at"Heat"
I imagine Brian's belly shaking like Santa claus, as he laughs!
@@Highly3666 I agree. Sounds fake and forced
@@Ratmann8436sounds like your shitstain replying to yourself 😂🤣
I can't believe this gem is already 2 years old
Press 28:51 for HEAT
😂😂😂😂😂
I'm surprised it didn't read "Heat Bro"😂😂😂😂😂
My favorite part of this video! 28:50…heat. 😂😂😂😂
I really don't understand what was so funny about it.
@@micharogowski9538 okay
We need a weekly reading of a TNA format
This format drew more people than AEW, bahahaha
Brian's laugh at 28:49 is the funniest shit ever.
or the cringiest is more accurate lol
With everything discussed I think it went over everyone's head that it sounds like Stevie was saying he was Abyss' doctor for ten years. While he was actively on WWE, WCW, and ECW TV.
“I guess Abyss was just fucked because we didn't hear from him for the rest of the program” 31:58
I don’t know why that made me laugh so hard 😂😂😂
For the love of God please make a “”Shitstain Format Review” program or recurring segment!! This is gold!
" Well, it's because of the blank. Doesn't do that to you Bria". I'm fucking wheezing
🤣🤣🤣 Brian Last' laugh got me dying
Honesty, an omnibus of formats and how they evolved over time would be amazing to hear. Starting with mid south / world class to wcw to Smokey mountain to wwe to tna would be a great showcase of how the business changed overtime
Well there was no Format...heel, babyface, go...
Hell you could do a whole podcast just on this type of stuff. Not like there’s a lack of material, lol.
@@herzkineI mean single page formats were a thing
17:43 "...I ordered my receptionist to drop some (blank) in your coffee..."
🤔 Sounds an awful lot like Match Game to me. 😁
Jim has told the story about this format, and to finally hear the full review was better than I could imagine.
Can't wait to see posters at upcoming events with "HEAT"
I remember watching a 2000 Attitude Era format and it was FOUR PAGES MAX. Imagine how long the "script" is in current WWE.
That goddamn thing probably has chapters and tabs.
@@zlinedavid No wonder it's such a snoozefest nowadays.
@@zlinedavid Sort of like Kayleigh McLieany (Donald Trump's last "Press Secretary" aka "personal and Cabinetcritter entertainment") and her book of lies. Everything McLieany said was a lie but she had a large three ring binder with chapters and tabs for every lie she might have to tell that day.
@@mharris5047 she had binders full of women, and she's married to a minor league pitcher who's brother is a Trump crook. I call her KayLie MagaNazi.
@@mharris5047 keep your personal political views to yourself. This is a wrestling page take that bullshit to CNN or MSNBC you tube pages.
Dawg, the Magic Spoon plug had me DEAD 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
1. Chamomile tea instead of coffee
2. They could've used the word "sedatives" in the blank part and cut the mext paragraph abt what it does.
But then again it's like trying to put sugar on a turd.
Pretty much just summed up why a lot of people think Russo is a hack. Even the ones who like sports entertainment instead of wrestling.
This is excellent! Share more types of this stuff. Its very, very fascinating to get this tupe of inside look at any buisness. Thanks!
Magic Spoon definitely got their money's worth with that rant at the end 🤣
"Rant" is the best way to describe his ad pitches.
Brian's laugh never gets old, love this a great way to pass the time 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Cosby was free, you could have called him"
well played Brian, well played
That line right there had me laughing so hard
Pure Gold
Loved when Cornette started breaking down the move-for-move match format for Angle/Foley/Jarrett. Would love to hear more match breakdowns from show formats of matches Cornette was the agent for. Maybe some of his favorite and least favorite matches and how the breakdown in the format differed from the match in the end. Could be an interesting new segment for the show.
would definitely love to hear jim break down more of these tna formats in depth
This is amazing. Would love to hear some of the old WCW formats, especially the infamous Capital Combat '90 PPV with RoboCop. I know Jim's covered it before, but JR on commentary having to pretend that RoboCop basically walked out of the film and is REAL is one of the most surreal moments in wrestling.
$39 for 4 boxes of cereal lmao there better be some actual magic inside that box
Magic mushrooms
@EwanCumia the mushrooms used to create blank
The show happened around June or July 2009 to build up Victory Road 2009, which resulted in Jeff Jarrett being sent home and Vince Russo getting more creative control
July 9, 2009
Please keep Reading the TNA stuff, I’ve been cracking up all morning listening to this
"Well it's because of the BLANK, Brian! It doesn't do that to you!"
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I almost wrecked.........again.
I like it when corny puts up longer form stuff. Always works well for my help me sleep playlist lol
Yep... I download them offline so that I can play them while I'm out fishing on the boat where the service isn't so good on the lake
I find that Corny is especially funny after a drink or soMe weed.
@@lmaoitsmee1812 down right hilarious....I had a girl that would casually sleep over and hookup every once in awhile and when I'd be listening to corny and she'd overhear she'd be like who is that guy and why is he so hilarious mad....
I would just say Babe...There's not enough time to get you to understand. Just know he's lost all hope 🤣🤣🤣
The omnibus collections (especially 86/87 mid south) are awesome to fall asleep to.
@@palecurve you said it
I come back to this clip for the "Heat" moment and that ad at the end
“Gum bumping Bipolar Bitch” 😂😂😂😂😂
Sounds like my brothers ex wife 🤣
@@MrJjburgess11 hahahaha and my brother’s too🤣
I dare anyone not to laugh when Jim says the word Heat
I've been trying to do that for a year lol
😂😂
Shitstain, TNA, and a donkey? This’ll be gold…
Edit: • Heat.
Lol that Magic Spoon ad at the end was great. The prices are absolutely ridiculous though
Did they ever read any more of these? This is amazing
"Wait if it stopped all his muscles from working how did he not die?"
"Well because of the blank, stops that from happening" lol 🤣
God bless shitstain for providing us with such comedic gold
Brian laughing always cracks me up! Magic spoon 😄🤣
Starting to see why Jim says that Vince hiring Russo was a moment of insanity
And I thought that donkey suited Tony Khan to a T in Experience 342. This fits Russo so much it's almost flattering. Travis Heckel struck gold with this one.
This clip is absolutely EVERYTHING!!! Thoroughly enjoyed this and def wanna hear Jim read off more formats!
This is everything to you?
Being from Philly, yes...this video is EVERYTHING!!! All it means from these parts is that it's very well done...something I, and many others obviously, want to see a lot more of.
Word to the wise, don't try to come at me on my comments. I am actually in the business and can prove it....and I will slay u every single time hands down! Period!
I honestly don’t know how TNA is still in business; their PPV’s are basically available on UA-cam, they have nonsensical angles, and they’ll hire anyone (especially WWE castoffs). They’re like AEW without the money mark.
Impact has gotten better wrestling wise and they're traveling again at least.
And as sad as it is that I have to say this....I'm actually glad that they still haven't been killed off. They play an important marker in the wrestling ecosystem
This Artwork is Absolutely Hilarious Awesome Job Travis Heckel and I remember this episode of TNA impact that Jim cornette is Referring to since I used to be an avid watcher of TNA impact this is going to be good.
Pretty sure u said this multiple times now. Justfu about the art dude. Idc about it and others done either. Sick of it, sick of you
Just watch The dam video! Be silent about cartoon drawings, man! You're not ruining my day this time. So whatever worship the drawing.
@@nathantturnert1631 I’m sorry I hurt you
@@travisheckel3788 LMFAO Brilliant Response 👏 🤣
@@travisheckel3788 you keep saying that to me.. if you actually cared you'd stop w this nonsense. I'm not taking it easy on you just because you're part of this channel. I do not accept the sarcastic apology.
The script read was equally as good as the ad read at the end 😂
I also get the impression Brian is asking these questions to garner more laughter from us the fans and for his own entertainment 😁😁😁😁
The ad for Magic Spoon was the most hysterical shit I’ve heard this side of George Carlin. I was genuinely screaming laughing.
Please do more of these! I died laughing all the way back to Pittsburgh. Listening to this is like a play by play of a bad acid trip, like someone tripping balls trying to remember an episode of WCW
37:45 “Smells like ratings” 😂😂 who talks like that?
"28:48......"HEAT!"............Love the laughing through-out this lmao!"
Had to stop and go back at around 27:10 maybe 5 times, I was laughing so hard.
That drawing of Russo with the poster reading “Heat” is not realistic…he would’ve spelled it “Heet”
That Magic Spoon money back guarantee was HILARIOUS!
I feel like the whole format for the Dr. Stevie segment just demonstrates the lack of accountability from creative in wrestling over the last 20 or so years. Here you have to set up an office set and hire actors but what is the connection between that cost and revenue? Does it help sell tickets or PPV buys or merchandise? If you're going to have build sets and hire actors for something there better be some sort of business plan for it. But the problem is that the WWE has switched to a revenue model based on guaranteed deals with networks and pretty much every other national promotion from WCW onwards has been kept afloat on a rich person's whim. Vince Russo would never last in a situation where his ideas had to have a quick revenue turnaround. If the promotion relies on revenue directly generated from the content of the show encouraging ticket sales and PPV buys then if those aren't at the level they want the first thing they would do is look at skits that don't lead to a match that required a high cost to produce. A promoter looking at his revenue dropping would immediately make the incompetent writer justify the expense of skits that don't appear to generate revenue. Russo would either have to shape up or he would be gone. But instead wrestling is like some weird bureaucracy where things are just paid for and there is no connection between the creative team's work and revenue generation.
Basically all that happens in the segment in Stevie attacks Abyss. Why all this high cost, elaborate nonsense for what could have been accomplished by having Stevie jump Abyss in catering?
Can we get these TNA format
readings like once a month? Amazing
This is one of my favorites, I've listened to this video several times. Thank you guys for the videos 👍🤟
“It’s because of the blank, doesn’t do that to ya!”
😂😂😂😂 I’m dead
More horror stories from TNA, and/or Impact (are there any other kind). Especially when Dixie had Russo and Jarrett running the show...
Then Hogan and Bischoff
I'm so glad I hung about for the 4 minutes of absolutely golden advertising at the end. 41:06 is when it starts...amazing!
I can see why Abyss retired early to become a road agent for WWE. No wonder why Spike agent told Dixie to get rid of him or lose their TV contract.
Road Dogg would've at least came up with a believable if not real name for "blank" 😂
Take a shot everytime Corny says "shit stain". You're welcome.
ahahaha have a coffee to relax. that was definitely written by an italian guy from new york lmao
Russo really writes the way Southpark thinks the stock market is run😂😂😂. GOD Bless him.
Jim Cornette reading weekly TNA TV formats on his podcast & Jason "The Solomonster" Solomon reading RSPW posts on his podcast ('The Solomonster Sounds Off') are both timeless gold.
I love it!...
Every now and then this video shows up on my youtube feed and I listen to it every time.
I lost it at the “Heat” part xD
I actually remember that episode lmao
2007 era TNA was one of the most entertaining wrestling shows around, you can't change my mind.
I love how they both lose it when Jim said HEAT the funniest reaction to something so ridiculous lol.
I personally have been waiting a decade for Jim to read an old TNA format.
OMG…please clip the magic spoon promo at the end by itself…absolutely hilarious…laughed my ass off
We need more of these...
Open up the vault Cornette!
*sees Vince Russo*
*sees title of video*
This is gonna be good.
Just when you thought Heat! Was the funniest.. that ad read.. dear LORD! 😂😂😂
Brian's laughter is so epic!
Remember when abyss kidnapped a audience member and branded 10-10-10 on his body
** grabs a beer, starts the video **
Jim needs to read all of these tv formats and then later on, do an omnibus of all of the formats in one video
Video starts at 0:00
One word: HEAT