History Wrestling / JimCornette

-->'''Jim Cornette:''' He'd rather climb a tree and tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth.

* TheLastDJ: He is without a doubt one of the most talented managers and promoters of all time, a man whose love for ProfessionalWrestling rivals Wrestling/RicFlair's, Wrestling/JohnCena's and Wrestling/{{Ryback}}'s combined and has the knowledge to match. However, several things, including a caustic personality, a willingness to knock who he works for and his vision of wrestling not fitting in with "Sports Entertainment" or the Wrestling/AttitudeEra has kept him mostly behind the scenes, and he has walked out of or been fired from every promotion he worked for.[[note]]Well, almost every promotion. He actually had a completely amicable split with Wrestling/{{MLW}} - there was a bit of an incident with Wrestling/SamiCallihan on Cornette's last show, but that had nothing to do with him leaving (and Callihan would actually be the one invoking this trope that night). His second tenure with Wrestling/{{TNA}} also ended due to the company moving their tapings to Canada (where [[PersonaNonGrata Cornette isn't welcome]]) rather than quitting or getting fired. But outside of those two... He dedicated an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvUZ0dhicAM& entire episode]] of his podcast to running down his career quit/got fired scorecard back in 2019.[[/note]]

* TheLastDJ: He is without a doubt one of the most talented managers and promoters of all time, a man whose love for ProfessionalWrestling rivals Wrestling/RicFlair's, Wrestling/JohnCena's and Wrestling/{{Ryback}}'s combined and has the knowledge to match. However, several things, including a caustic personality, a willingness to knock who he works for and his vision of wrestling not fitting in with "Sports Entertainment" or the Wrestling/AttitudeEra has kept him mostly behind the scenes, and he has walked out of or been fired from every promotion he worked for.

** '''Wrestling/{{KazuchikaOkada}}:''' Started out as "Japanese [[Wrestling/CodyRhodes Cody]]" after he signed with AEW due to his similarities to the American Nightmare (blonde hair, superstar treatment, lots of hype). Then changed it to "O-Cody" which is easier to say than "Japanese Cody".

** Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch has been on the receiving end of two of these after her arrest for [[DrunkDriver DUI]] manslaughter in 2022. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0CDThE69Cc The first]] was Cornette more coming off like a ''very'' disappointed father, as he's one of the few people that Sytch has always got along with (and vice-versa). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPlcInLyRMg&t=2s The second one]] after Sytch was convicted and tried to blame wrestling for her personal problems to get lighter sentence[[note]]Using the usual claim of CTE, while in many cases this may be warranted for wrestlers (and other pro athletes) Stych '''wasn't a wrestler''', just a manager. Cornette even points out that in the all the time they worked together he didn't see her take a single bump[[/note]] (it didn't work, she got 17 years), sees Cornette take a much harsher tone, even saying that she should have got an even longer prison term. Naturally, the second one [[ProductPlacement was followed by a Stephen P. New ad]].

** '''Jay White & Juice Robinson:''' "[[Music/SnoopDogg Gin & Juice]]"

* JerkassHasAPoint: This was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMPOJo2ChRY Cornette's reaction]] to WWE telling their wrestlers they could no longer take third-party deals with other media platforms (Website/YouTube, Website/{{Twitch}}, etc...) to make extra cash. After delivering a pretty scathing rant about WWE's practice of making all their wrestlers "independent contractors" to deny them benefits like health insurance,[[note]]He's also criticized WWE on several occasions for their (relatively) low pay, noting that while the talent in the "Big 4" American sports leagues collect somewhere in the neighborhood of half of all revenue in the form of their salaries, in WWE it's around 15% at best. Of course, none of the Big 4 sports leagues is a publicly traded company like WWE, something else that Cornette thinks has a huge part in all of [=WWE's=] various issues. Also unlike the players of the Big 4 (and basically every major professional sports league in the world), professional wrestling doesn't have a union of any kind. A few wrestlers have [[UsefulNotes/UnionsInHollywood SAG-AFTRA cards]], but those don't cover wrestling shows[[/note]] something Cornette believes they only get away with because Wrestling/VinceMcMahon is a big GOP donor (though the "independent contractor" thing is standard practice in wrestling, [=WWE=]'s "independent contractors" aren't allowed to wrestle anywhere else while under contract with WWE, meaning they are employees in every sense that benefits the company, without the company having to assume many of the responsibilities it would be legally required to if they were actual employees) and the U.S. government thinks wrestling is a joke to begin with, he then agreed with WWE about the third party deals, albeit for a different reason. WWE shut it down because it considers its wrestlers to be UsefulNotes/IntellectualProperty, while Cornette is against it because it always breaks {{kayfabe}} and often contradicts what's being seen on TV.

* KarmaHoudini: Views Hangman Adam Page as this, as he blamed him for the whole fiasco between CM Punk and The Elite as it was caused by his "Worker's Rights" promo to begin with, yet he came out scott free while the others were suspended and stripped of their titles.

*** His wife, Wrestling/{{Sable}}, gets even less love from him, citing her egotistical attitude, having no skills in the ring, getting by purely on both [[ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful her looks]] and [[SleepingTheirWayToTheTop her screwing the right people]], setting off the trend of "pretty women who can't wrestle" that lasted for over a decade, and having no respect for the business altogether. He also expressed disgust at her pushing out/shafting legitimately entertaining colleagues or friends of his that had potential to go further and cared about wrestling, namely [[Wrestling/TammyLynnSytch Sunny]] and Wrestling/MarcMero The comparisons drawn by him of her to Wrestling/UltimateWarrior hasn't gone unnoticed by the public either, even among Corny's detractors.