The Jim Cornette Appreciation and/or Discussion Thread

[Deezy]

Maybe, I don't know. I don't have any numbers to prove or dispute that.

Cornette has a top 10 trending podcast in the sports section, not the wrestling one with both his shows.

Atleast that's what I always see when I'm scrolling them shits.

 

[Swamps]

Only people who care anything about them are either non casuals, or old people(in Jim’s case only probably)

Well, I'm old so I fall into that category. I remember watching the PPVs of the NWA with the Midnight Express. One of my favorite times for tag team wrestling (even WWE had a good tag division then) and he was always an entertaining part of it. Now, I like listening to his podcast, even when he insults people like me, hahaha .

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Kenny does rule but yeah it's weird and unnecessary to bring up years later, let alone to someone who will never change their mind anyways. Waste of time

 

[Death By Looch]

The awards from Dave’s magazine are fan voted by readers. So Dave ain’t give to no one

tbf... if the Awards from Meltzer's magazine are voted for by it's readers (probably not just a few of them being Dave boys), it's pretty much as if Meltzer himself gives them out. So I dunno if he really should try to boast about it THAT much.

 

[Hidden Blaze]

tbf... if the Awards from Meltzer's magazine are voted for by it's readers (probably not just a few of them being Dave boys), it's pretty much as if Meltzer himself gives them out. So I dunno if he really should try to boast about it THAT much.

See, to me giving out awards, is what happens at like Academy Awards. Ones that aren't fan voted. But as I said, it's still all opinion based. Just because some people voted him the best wrestler, doesn't mean he is the best wrestler. But it's not like Dave makes all the picks himself. That's what I mean by he doesn't give them out himself.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

tbf kenny won PWI as well which had 0 to do with meltz too . But as I said, if people refuse to acknowledge Kenny's greatness at this point they never will

 

[Hidden Blaze]

tbf kenny won PWI as well which had 0 to do with meltz too . But as I said, if people refuse to acknowledge Kenny's greatness at this point they never will

I thought PWI was kayfabe sort of? Not exactly sure I’d use that.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

I thought PWI was kayfabe sort of? Not exactly sure I’d use that.

It most definitely is kayfabe inspired

 

[GARBAGE]

I think Kenny Omega is massively overrated in basically every way but at this point I reckon Jim Cornette brought more attention to him wrestling a 9 year old girl, and the blow up doll and all that, than any other person has ever, which kind of misses the point of it exposing wrestling. Meltzer is a strange man to me in general but I've never seen him act this straight up weird about someone the way he does Omega. Maybe he's always been this petty but there was never enough major industry push back on Ric Flair or Kenta Kobashi so we never saw it. It's sad these two aren't tight any more (though, despite what people think, it wasn't just about "differing opinions") but they should probably just stop referencing each other, especially just over one other guy.

 

[Canadian Dragon]

 

[Swamps]

I think Kenny Omega is massively overrated in basically every way but at this point I reckon Jim Cornette brought more attention to him wrestling a 9 year old girl, and the blow up doll and all that, than any other person has ever, which kind of misses the point of it exposing wrestling. Meltzer is a strange man to me in general but I've never seen him act this straight up weird about someone the way he does Omega. Maybe he's always been this petty but there was never enough major industry push back on Ric Flair or Kenta Kobashi so we never saw it. It's sad these two aren't tight any more (though, despite what people think, it wasn't just about "differing opinions") but they should probably just stop referencing each other, especially just over one other guy.

The main difference between Flair/Kobashi and Omega is that they treated wrestling as a sport and not some comic con bullshit. Watch Flair's promos from the 1980s. Hell watch his promo after the 1992 Royal Rumble.

 

[GARBAGE]

The main difference between Flair/Kobashi and Omega is that they treated wrestling as a sport and not some comic con bullshit. Watch Flair's promos from the 1980s. Hell watch his promo after the 1992 Royal Rumble.

I'm a fan of Flair (....a..a....as a wrestler) and Kobashi, and not usually one of Omega, but what I wonder is why Meltzer is so defensive of him in particular when he never seemed to be of those two (both guys he was a MASSSSIVE fan of). Again maybe it's just Kobashi, Flair, etc didn't have the pushback Omega does.

 

[Deezy]

Major props to the guy who made this for using a Big L beat.

 

[Swerve]

He is going to piss on Vince Russo's grave.

 

[Necro]