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** For some more delicious LaserGuidedKarma, 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 "[[BullyingADragon What the hell did you expect him to say?]]" From there, Davis and Cornette would explain to Lesnar that nobody would 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: [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim to shoot him]].

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** For some more delicious LaserGuidedKarma, 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 "[[BullyingADragon What the hell did you expect him to say?]]" From there, Davis and Cornette would explain to Lesnar that nobody would 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: way they can: [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim to just simply shoot him]].
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-->'''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!

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-->'''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 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!



-->"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 the people 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. [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Sit down, Mr. Peabody, and let me give you the deal here.]]"

-->"I am not alone in my opinion of you. I will explain in minute, granular detail momentarily 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 you're a joke jackoff is is ridiculous. Because if anybody can bother to do mathematics, wrestling has lost 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 who've gone away, they're the ones, Twinkletoes, they're the ones that are repulsed by you and your ilk, the rest of the members of 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 foreign objects or setting each other on fire."

-->"You ruined a pasttime, a hobby, an interest, an entertainment that a lot of us, some of us professionally, for years and years 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 it should be fun and laugh at the silliness. Well guess who's laughing now, Twinkletoes, because I've got the 75-80% of wrestling fans that love 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, so I think the roles are reversed here, because when you talk about me, you don't trend, I 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 you're playing a video game with on Twitch, I'm speaking on...the most listened to podcast hosted by a professional wrestling personality in the history of history!"

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-->"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 capacity, and that if anybody talks about them them, they do it because the those people that are talking about them want their attention attention, or want attention. I got news for you. First you: first of all, as far as the pathetic people Twinkletoes, here's the facts. [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Sit down, Mr. Peabody, and let me give you the deal here.]]"

-->"I am -->"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 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 you're that you are a joke jackoff is 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...fuck, whatever the fuck...but fuck. But all those people who've that have gone away, they're the ones, Twinkletoes, they're the ones that are repulsed by you and your ilk, the rest of the members of 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 foreign inanimate objects or setting each other on fire."

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

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-->"You ruined a pasttime, a hobby, an interest, an entertainment that a lot of us, some of us professionally, for years and years 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 it should be fun and laugh at the silliness. Well guess who's laughing now, Twinkletoes, because I've got the 75-80% of wrestling fans that love 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, so I think the roles are reversed here, because when you talk about me, you don't trend, I 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 you're playing a video game with on Twitch, I'm speaking on...the most listened to wrestling podcast hosted by a professional wrestling personality in the history of history!"
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* While playing video games on his Twitch channel, Wrestling/KennyOmega [[BullyingADragon 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 [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech utterly destroys Omega]] with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnKxPkG4L7c 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 the people 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. [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Sit down, Mr. Peabody, and let me give you the deal here.]]"

-->"I am not alone in my opinion of you. I will explain in minute, granular detail momentarily 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 you're a joke jackoff is is ridiculous. Because if anybody can bother to do mathematics, wrestling has lost 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 who've gone away, they're the ones, Twinkletoes, they're the ones that are repulsed by you and your ilk, the rest of the members of 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 foreign objects or setting each other on fire."

-->"You ruined a pasttime, a hobby, an interest, an entertainment that a lot of us, some of us professionally, for years and years 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 it should be fun and laugh at the silliness. Well guess who's laughing now, Twinkletoes, because I've got the 75-80% of wrestling fans that love 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, so I think the roles are reversed here, because when you talk about me, you don't trend, I 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 you're playing a video game with on Twitch, I'm speaking on...the most listened to wrestling podcast hosted by a professional wrestling personality in the history of history!"
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-->'''Cornette:''' You're a ''forty-eight-year-old man!'' And you're [[KavorkaMan runnin' around with these]] [[{{Ephebophile}} teenage girls]] that you're ''[[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow "counseling?"]]''

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-->'''Cornette:''' You're a ''forty-eight-year-old man!'' And you're [[KavorkaMan runnin' around with these]] [[{{Ephebophile}} teenage girls]] that you're ''[[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow ''[[ImaginedInnuendo "counseling?"]]''
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* Among the various retired awards that ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' 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]]Wrestling/JimmyHart won the first one in 1983, and Wrestling/SherriMartel won it in 1991, with Cornette winning every other one.[[/note]]

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* Among the various retired awards that ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' 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]]Wrestling/JimmyHart won the first one in 1983, and Wrestling/SherriMartel won it in 1991, 1991 (while Cornette was concentrating on getting SMW started and only made a couple appearances as a manager), with Cornette winning every other one.[[/note]]
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** 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.

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** 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]]Mainly out of loyalty to Jarrett, who's grandmother Christine got Jim started in the business.[[/note]]
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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 [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech soundly tears Bolin apart, calling him on his scams, manipulative behaviour and general bastardry]]. Upon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FzkjvxxSNk&t=31m36s 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 speechless[[note]]To elaborate; Grizzly Smith was the father of Wrestling/JakeRoberts, who was conceived when Smith raped the 13 year old daughter of a woman he was dating). [[OhCrap Bolin then learns from Cornette that Cornette will be receiving his own segment on the podcast where he will proceed to call Bolin out whenever he lies about something in the business.]][[/note]]:

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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 [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech soundly tears Bolin apart, calling him on his scams, manipulative behaviour and general bastardry]]. Upon [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FzkjvxxSNk&t=31m36s [[https://youtu.be/6IMf6R96bjE?t=1915 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 speechless[[note]]To elaborate; Grizzly Smith was the father of Wrestling/JakeRoberts, who was conceived when Smith raped the 13 year old daughter of a woman he was dating). [[OhCrap Bolin then learns from Cornette that Cornette will be receiving his own segment on the podcast where he will proceed to call Bolin out whenever he lies about something in the business.]][[/note]]:
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* [[https://youtu.be/3Dpe8mgM3Qc This segment]] from his podcast in which he tears into Wrestling/RondaRousey for her comments towards the wrestling business as a whole, particularly her calling her matches "fake fighting with her friends".

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* [[https://youtu.be/3Dpe8mgM3Qc This segment]] from his podcast in which he tears into Wrestling/RondaRousey Creator/RondaRousey for her comments towards the wrestling business as a whole, particularly her calling her matches "fake fighting with her friends".
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* [[https://youtu.be/3Dpe8mgM3Qc This segment]] from his podcast in which he tears into Wrestling/RondaRousey for her comments towards the wrestling business as a whole, particularly her calling her matches "fake fighting with her friends".
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--> Droz' still paralyzed to this day. It's more than 20 years. Things happen you know in this business. And it's not ballet. [[BerserkButton And that's why it especially angers me when people diminish it.]] [[CareerEndingInjury One move]], he's been in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. [[SeriousBusiness So don't tell me that wrestling is a bunch of bullshit]]. Just some of the ways that [[Wrestling/VinceRusso people have gotten into it treat it]] is bullshit.

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--> Droz' still paralyzed to this day. It's more than 20 years. Things happen you know in this business. And it's not ballet. [[BerserkButton And that's why it especially angers me when people diminish it.]] One move, [[CareerEndingInjury One move]], he's been in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.life]]. [[SeriousBusiness So don't tell me that wrestling is a bunch of bullshit]]. Just some of the ways that [[Wrestling/VinceRusso people have gotten into it treat it]] is bullshit.
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--> Droz' still paralyzed to this day. It's more than 20 years. Things happen you know in this business. And it's not ballet. [[BerserkButton 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. [[SeriousBusiness So don't tell me that wrestling is a bunch of bullshit]]. Just some of the ways that [[Wrestling/VinceRusso people have gotten into it treat it]] is bullshit.

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--> Droz' still paralyzed to this day. It's more than 20 years. Things happen you know in this business. And it's not ballet. [[BerserkButton And that's why it especially angers me when people diminish it.]] [[CareerEndingInjury One move, move]], he's been in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. [[SeriousBusiness So don't tell me that wrestling is a bunch of bullshit]]. Just some of the ways that [[Wrestling/VinceRusso people have gotten into it treat it]] is bullshit.
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* His speech in the "Brawl for All" episode of ''Series/DarkSideOfTheRing,'' in regards to what happened to Droz, which shows why he takes Wrestling so seriously. Can also be considered a tear jerker 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. [[BerserkButton 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. [[SeriousBusiness So don't tell me that wrestling is a bunch of bullshit]]. Just some of the ways that [[Wrestling/VinceRusso people have gotten into treat it]] is bullshit.

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* His speech in the "Brawl for All" episode of ''Series/DarkSideOfTheRing,'' in regards to what happened to Droz, which shows why he takes Wrestling wrestling so seriously. Can also be considered a tear jerker 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. [[BerserkButton 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. [[SeriousBusiness So don't tell me that wrestling is a bunch of bullshit]]. Just some of the ways that [[Wrestling/VinceRusso people have gotten into it treat it]] is bullshit.
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* His speech in the "Brawl for All" episode of ''Series/DarkSideOfTheRing,'' in regards to what happened to Droz, which shows why he takes Wrestling so seriously. Can also be considered a tear jerker 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. [[BerserkButton 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. [[SeriousBusiness So don't tell me that wrestling is a bunch of bullshit]]. Just some of the ways that [[Wrestling/VinceRusso people have gotten into treat it]] is bullshit.
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* His ''legendary'' threat to [[HateSink Kevin Dunn]] during a booking meeting. Some background info - WWF had recently [[Wrestling/DelWilkes 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 [[BestKnownForTheFanservice 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 [[MemeticMutation 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.

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* His ''legendary'' threat to [[HateSink Kevin Dunn]] during a booking meeting. Some background info - WWF had recently brought [[Wrestling/DelWilkes 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 [[BestKnownForTheFanservice 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 [[MemeticMutation 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 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.

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