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  • Special mention must be made for The Great Debate: Jim Cornette vs. Kenny Bolin in 2009 on the Who's Slammin' Who? podcast. Over the course of 40 minutes, Cornette soundly tears Bolin apart, calling him on his scams, manipulative behaviour and general bastardry. Upon broaching the subject of Bolin's "charity foundation" which supposedly helps teenage girls who are victims of abuse, Cornette delivers one of the greatest put downs of all time that leaves Bolin utterly speechlessnote :
    Cornette: You're a forty-eight-year-old man! And you're runnin' around with these teenage girls that you're "counseling?"
    Bolin: I'm a father figure.
    Cornette: You're a GRIZZLY SMITH is what you are, I'll tell you that right now!
    • A highlight from the Debate: Cornette brings up that Bolin pulled a scam on a local super market where he bought a large tenderloin then returned pieces of it to two seperate locations, getting double his money back due to a guarantee. When Bolin uses the excuse it was for his family, Jim counters by getting Bolin to reveal that Bolin threw his own, ill mother out of his house so he could rent to someone with more money, showing just how the man treats his family.
  • During Brock Lesnar's OVW days, he was apparently a massive jerk backstage: constantly gloating over being on the fast track while openly admitting he didn't give a damn about wrestling, bullying the ring crew, going off-script to berate the audience and generally behaving like an entitled bastard. Cornette gave him multiple warnings but Brock didn't listen. Eventually Jim met his limit when Brock decided for no apparent reason to shoot on Synn (Cornette's wife and the Heel manager he was feuding with) by working her recent piercing while press slamming her, and really twisted the knife by threatening to do it the whole day before. When Cornette found out, he found Brock and declared something which amounted to, "Don't you ever dare disrespect her or anyone else like that again. If you do, I will not fight you, I will shoot you. I don't care how tough you are, you won't get back up from a bullet to the head."
    • For some more delicious Laser-Guided Karma, immediately afterwards, Lesnar went to Danny Davis (the other head of OVW) bawling that "Jim said he was gonna SHOOT me!" But Davis, who had heard the whole thing, simply laughed and basically replied "What the hell did you expect him to say?" From there, Davis and Cornette would explain to Lesnar that nobody is going to be stupid enough to try and beat him up if they had an issue with him, so if he keeps trying to muscle his way through the locker room, someone back there's gonna take him down the only logical way they can: just simply shoot him.
  • After the Midnight Express are jumped by Paul Heyman and his "Original" Midnight Express, a bandaged Cornette delivers a close-up tirade to the camera vowing revenge.
    Cornette: I have devoted five years of my life to trying to make the Midnight Express the greatest tag team in professional wrestling. During those five years, I have been beat up, I have been busted open, I have been stripped naked and knocked off a three-story scaffold and I deserved half of it, but I took a licking and I'm still here and I will be damned if I'm gonna let a little jerk like you come in here and take my job!
  • A rare editorial segment ("Eric, you ignorant slut") on Raw allowed him to shoot on the Monday Night War, particularly a much-hyped cage match between Hulk Hogan & Roddy Piper at WCW Halloween Havoc:
    "I'm Jim Cornette, I just wonder if any of you are sick and tired as I am of people who claim to be the "ICON" of wrestling? Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper claim to be the icon, Shawn Michaels is the "icon that can still go", Bret Hart would claim to be the icon, if he wasn't too busy crying about being screwed, and I guess Randy Savage is still "thinkin', thinkin'!" Well, Shawn Michaels is still the single most talented wrestler today inside the ring, but outside, he's an adolescent, obnoxious jerk who takes his tights and goes home if he doesn't get his way. Bret Hart is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, but if he'd been screwed as many times as he claims, he would've struck oil by now. And Randy Savage is a legend, but let's face it, how many records did Frank Sinatra sell last year?

    But the pinnacle of this "icon" garbage came at last night's cage match between Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper, to determine–in their minds only–who the real icon is. WCW had the gall to say "this is the greatest cage match in history", when it was only the greatest in three weeks since Hell in a Cell. But here you've got a 46-year-old bald movie star wannabe, who looks like Uncle Creepy with a good build, taking on a guy with an artificial hip that hadn't wrestled a full schedule in 10 years! It's a tribute to the massive egotism, in my mind, of both men and indictment of WCW's promotional policies that this match even took place, much less being the main event, when the card was probably the best that WCW's capable of havin'! By the 10-minute mark, they were suckin' wind so bad the first three rows passed out of oxygen deprivation! – would've been funny if it wasn't so sad.

    Well, I'm sick and damn tired of hearing guys claim to be The Icon, especially when it usually comes from guys who just didn't know when to quit. Roddy Piper was my idol when I was a teenager, but that was 20 years ago. Hulk Hogan during his best years was 50% media creation, and those are long gone. This match was a slap in the face to every wrestler that takes pride in his profession! And in my mind, no one man is bigger than this sport, but if there is an Icon, it would be a man who has great ability inside the ring, and professionalism and maturity outside of it! Let's leave all the petty, backstabbing, I-make-more-money-than-you BS with the hat-check girl, and concentrate on talent and attitude! The Undertaker, Ric Flair, and Steve Austin have never claimed to be icons, which means they're big candidates to be just that!

    And on a personal note to Hulk Hogan: you are a household word, but so is garbage; and it stinks when it gets old, too. I'm Jim Cornette, and that's my opinion."
  • The time he soundly tears apart Phil Mushnick, whose vitriol against Professional Wrestling knows no bounds. Below is a condensed recap of Cornette's response.
    '"There is a man named Phil Mushnick. You probably never heard of Mr. Mushnick, but you should because he's had some pretty nasty things to say about you. You see, Mr. Mushnick hates pro wrestling, but he's not content to change the channel. He doesn't want you to watch it, either.

    "But Phil Mushnick not only hates wrestling, he hates wrestling fans. Well, Mr. Mushnick, I'm a wrestling fan and a lot of the people who read the New York Post and TV Guide are wrestling fans, too. We don't enjoy being insulted by publications we pay money to read. We don't appreciate being told we don't know how to parent our children. We don't want a pompous, self-righteous man with a grudge sitting on top of Mount Olympus looking down his nose at us campaigning to take away the constitutional right that every American is guaranteed, that is freedom of speech, freedom of choice, and freedom to enjoy whatever entertainment we choose. But if this has been going on so long, why am I mad right now? Because recently Phil Mushnick used Brian Pillman's death to call for another outcry against wrestling.

    (Jim pauses for about five seconds, that shocked and angry that when he begins again it's in a state of Tranquil Fury.)

    "Well, Brian Pillman was a friend of mine. From the time he was born with throat cancer he had the courage to undergo 36 different throat operations. He had the courage to withstand the punishment of pro football and ten years as a pro wrestler. He had the courage to come back from a car wreck that shattered his ankle and from a lot of other personal tragedies. Then one night, he went to sleep in a hotel room and he died. And for you, Phil Mushnick, to use his death as an excuse for another call to action in your one-man vendetta against pro wrestling is more vulgar and more obscene than anything that you've ever falsely accused the wrestling industry of being guilty of. So on behalf of the wrestling fans, the wrestling industry, the friends and family of Brian Pillman, and anyone in this country that denies any one man the right to force his morals and his beliefs on all of us and to take away our constitutional rights, on behalf of those people, I say go to hell Phil Mushnick, and try to reform things down there because we're doing just fine without you."
  • His legendary threat to Kevin Dunn during a booking meeting. Some background info - WWF had recently brought The Patriot in and were attempting to make him a new main event caliber babyface. However, The Patriot didn't really have any locker room allies, so he was repeatedly made to look like a chump. One particular show, he was going to be flat out buried, and Cornette was trying and failing to get the other bookers to see it. They wouldn't listen and were more interested in discussing various things that Sable would be doing that night. This eventually led to Dunn saying "You know Jim, I find you tiresome." Cornette exploded, threatening to kick his ass across the table, and gave the smark fandom one of their favorite phrases ever when he called Dunn (who has quite prominent front teeth) a "Bucky Beaver Motherfucker."
    • This was made funnier by the fact that everyone in the meeting laughed thinking Cornette was joking. All but Dunn (who took offense to the "Bucky Beaver" jab), and Jim Ross who knew that Cornette was serious and fed up enough to physically assault Dunn.
  • While partaking in the Gimmick Battle Royale at WrestleMania X-7, he actually got to eliminate Bushwhacker Luke!
  • How he handled his firing from TNA: After asking to talk to Dixie Carter directly about it, Dixie cited him "Not being a team player", despite the fact Cornette had always showed up first for meetings, had gone above and beyond for the company to the point of choreographing most of the matches since Vince Russo refused to touch the in-ring work, and agreeing to a truce with Russo to keep the company afloat after Jeff Jarrett was suspended, leaving TNA without a leader. Jim them politely demanded that Dixie admit that Vince Russo convinced her to fire him, as he suspected. When she refused, and had one of her lackey's try to justify it, he calmly rebuked them, not yelling at either of them despite his legendary temper and having every reason to.
    • His agreeing to work peacefully with Vince Russo is also one: Despite Jeff Jarett having refused to let him out of the company when Jim wanted to leave after TNA rehired Russo and slowly but surely getting more and more duties on, Jim was still professional enough to go face to face with his mortal enemy in order to keep the promotion afloat.note 
  • Among the various retired awards that The Wrestling Observer Newsletter used to run is the award for "Manager of the Year", which they gave out from 1983 to 1996. Jim won it every single year except two!note 
  • His speech in the "Brawl for All" episode of Dark Side of the Ring, in regards to what happened to Droz, which shows why he takes wrestling so seriously. Can also be considered a tearjerker as he himself seems to be tearing up.
    Droz' still paralyzed to this day. It's more than 20 years. Things happen you know in this business. And it's not ballet. And that's why it especially angers me when people diminish it. One move, he's been in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. So don't tell me that wrestling is a bunch of bullshit. Just some of the ways that people have gotten into it treat it is bullshit.
  • This segment from his podcast in which he tears into Ronda Rousey for her comments towards the wrestling business as a whole, particularly her calling her matches "fake fighting with her friends".
  • While playing video games on his Twitch channel, Kenny Omega insulted Jim and his fanbase, calling them a group of "extremely pathetic individuals" that have nothing to aspire to, Cornette himself as having "backed himself into a corner" with his character and being forced to talk about Omega to eat his "fancy McDonalds cheeseburgers" and make rent, and how Cornette's comments make so much of AEW's locker room are afraid of Cornette's fans that they want to do whatever they can to "stay safe". Whether you agree with Jim's views or not, he utterly destroys Omega with his rebuttal:
    "I think these insufferable douchebags are so in love with the smell of their own farts, heads so far up their own asses, that they genuinely believe they're big stars in some capacity, and that if anybody talks about them, they do it because those people that are talking about them want their attention, or want attention. I got news for you: first of all, as far as the pathetic people Twinkletoes, here's the facts. Sit down, Mr. Peabody, and let me give you the deal here."

    "I'm not alone in my opinion of you. I will explain in minute, granular detail momentarily why that I dislike almost everything about you, and the only things that I don't dislike are the things I haven't discovered yet. But, to think that I'm alone in thinking that you are a joke jack-off is ridiculous. Because if anybody can bother to do mathematics, wrestling has lost approximately 75-80% of its fanbase in the last 25 years. And the modern fans may go for the V-Trigger, and the One-Winged Fairy, and the Canterbury Step off the fuck, whatever the fuck. But all those people that have gone away, they're the ones, Twinkletoes, that are repulsed by you and your ilk, the rest of the members of the Lollipop Guild. They're the ones that blame you and people like you, the phony, cosplaying video game wannabe trampoline cowboys that do a goddamn floor exercise every time they get in the ring when they're not bashing each other with inanimate objects or setting each other on fire."

    "You ruined a pastime, a hobby, an interest, an entertainment that a lot of us had, some of us professionally, for years and years and decades and decades, because it's just so silly and phony and stupid and illogical, and you've made wrestling something to be laughed at and you admit that. (imitating Omega) It should be fun. We should all laugh and have fun at the silliness. Well, guess who's laughing now, Twinkletoes, because I've got the 75-80% of wrestling fans that loved wrestling and don't watch it anymore because of people like you on my side, and you've got the remaining people that will eat that Elmer's Glue and thank you for the ice cream, for the kind of people who like that kind of thing, that's the kind of thing those people like. So I think the roles are reversed here, because when you talk about me, I trend! You don't trend! ...He thinks, he genuinely thinks that he's such a fucking artiste that everybody talks about him to get noticed. You are talking to some guy that you're playing a video game with on Twitch, and I'm speaking on...the most listened to podcast hosted by a professional wrestling personality in the history of history!"

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