Jim Cornette Reveals a Hilarious Booking Idea Pitched by Jim Herd

[Bort]

The best stupid idea that Jim Herd had, there is so many of them that we could go on and on, but the best one I ever heard was when he wanted to introduce the team of the Hunchbacks. I'm sitting there in a room, and Flair had already quit as booker and I was shortly after to follow, but I was still there. I was sitting there in a room, with Jim Barnett, Jim Ross, Jim Herd, Kevin Sullivan, myself, Jody Hamilton, Terry Funk may or may not have been there, and Ole Anderson. So, Jim Herd goes off on this ten minute soliloquy of how he has come up with the greatest idea for a tag team ever, the Hunchbacks. ‘They got the big hump on their back, you know, and ya' get ‘em in there and ya' can't pin ‘em, because they got the hump on their back. So, they are an unbeatable tag team and that's how we'll sell ‘em, you can't beat these guys, because they've got humps on their backs.' He was deadly serious, because remember, the Ding Dongs made it to television and that was Herd, so he was deadly serious about this. Finally, Ole let him get it all out of his system, and Ole, bless him, wrestling's cantankerous old man. He says, ‘All right, Jim, you book the Hunchbacks, build them up, they're undefeated. Then you book them with me and Arn. As soon as I tag in, I'm going to take one of them down, I'm going to slap an arm bar on him and I'm going to make him submit. He is going to give up. I just beat your unbeatable team.' ‘Well, god dammit, Ole, you know what I mean!'… Thankfully, the Hunchbacks did not make their appearance in WCW, but by the time Herd got finished with WCW it wouldn't have really mattered anyway…"

Reading this in his voice, I just can't... There are also loads of stuff about Russo in there.

 

[WarMachine1]

It was Russo all along!!!!! :

 

[Lockard 23]

I remember reading about this in Flair's book. Not surprised that Jim Herd would have thought it a good idea.

 

[Stopspot]

This brought me back to when Cornette talked about Russo's original gimmick for Edge, as a deaf mute.
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[seabs]

This is brilliant.