History Wrestling / JimCornette

** "For the people who like that kind of thing, that's the kind of thing those people like", for something which he considers stupid or would be seen as ridiculous by the mainstream but has a dedicated minority of fans.

** '''Penelope Ford:''' "[[WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop Penelope Pitstop]]".

*** Kast Media and their CEO Colin Thomson, for stealing ad revenue from Cornette's podcast (and many others) and then going bankrupt. Cornette explains the whole mess [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBlY3zUpBck here]], litigation is ongoing. His co-host/producer Brian Last has stated that he's starting a podcast called "Does Colin Thomson Owe You Money?" so all the other people ripped off by Kast Media can tell their stories.

** "He couldn't whip cream with an outboard motor" for guys that can't actually fight. Lake the "Lake Have-a-Soma" example above, this one is almost a reflex to any mention of Shawn Michaels.

** '''Luchasaurus:''' "Dino Douche" (pronounced "Dee-no", not "Di-no"), picked up from an MJF promo

* StartOfDarkness: To explain to the Memphis Wrestling fans why the ring photographer was suddenly a {{Jerkass}} manager, Cornette initially offered his services to several of the company's top stars. They turned him down and made [[KickTheSonOfABitch fun of him in the process]], leading Cornette to want revenge.

*** Wrestling/JoeyRyan, whom he calls a "frustrated preliminary wrestler", a "no-talent piece of shit" and "the dick guy", whose antics are entirely based around what, Cornette considers, are shameless shock value, violations of the boundaries of good taste, don't require athleticism or charisma to perform, and drag the legitimacy of the business through the mud. This started when Ryan asked Ring of Honor for more money, and unlike even Wrestling/ColtCabana or The Young Bucks, Cornette did not even try to help Ryan, suggesting they find a fifty dollar local {{jobber}} instead. It escalated when Ryan started doing Sexxxy Eddy-type comedy in Dramatic Dream Team and reached its peak when Ryan started a promotion bordering on softcore pornography propped up by a hardcore porn company. Joey Ryan has taken it personally, often trying to pick fights with Cornette on social media.

** '''Kris Statlander:''' Kris Flatlander, Kris Flatliner.

** After the passing of Jon Huber (aka Brodie Lee, aka Wrestling/LukeHarper), Cornette said he would not review the AEW "Celebration of Mr. Brodie Lee's Life" broadcast. He further stipulated that whatever they wanted to do on that show was fine and he would not comment on it at all, and also refuses to comment on anything the promotion does with Lee's young son, Jon Jr. (who the promotion features as a recurring performer, first under the name Negative One and now as Mr. Brodie Lee Jr.). Finally, he retroactively retracted all criticism he'd ever had for Lee's in-ring work, feeling that whatever killed him so suddenly was almost certainly having negative effects on his body prior to his passing and therefore his judgment was unfair.

** '''Orange Cassidy:''' "My little dog Pockets", because of Cassidy's gimmick of wrestling with his hands in his pockets. Cornette will also often refer to him as "the company mascot", mainly because he's supposedly Tony Khan's favorite wrestler.

* 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 are 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 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 they consider their wrestlers to be UsefulNotes/IntellectualProperty, while Cornette is against it because it always breaks {{Kayfabe}} and often contradicts what's being seen on TV.

** When he started working as a manager in the CWA, he had been doing odd jobs in the arenas for a few years, been a ringside photographer and penned a few magazine articles. In his first promo, he acknowledged this and claimed he had been been dabbling in various roles as a hobby before deciding to use his mother’s money to become a manager. Although 95% of fans likely wouldn’t be aware of him, Jerry Jarrett didn’t want the minority who might recognise his face or name to think “Wait, why is the kid from the merch tables suddenly a manager?” and suspect wrestling was fake, and so weaved his real life history into his gimmick.

* MommasBoy: Early on in his managerial career he was implied to be one of these - he was sometimes mockingly referred to as "Mrs. Cornette's baby boy". This aspect of his character was quietly dropped after his first several years in the business. Jim Cornette had started taking pictures and ring announcing while he was a teenager, so his mother had to drive him to shows. By the time Jim Cornette became a manager though he was 20 and had his own driver's license, so only the oldest and most astute fans would have known the "momma Cornette" people were talking about. In-storyline, it was her who gave the money that got Cornette his {{kayfabe}} bodyguard, [[Wrestling/BigBossMan Big Bubba Rogers]]. (The man who dropped him in the aforementioned reference to the scaffold match which screwed up both Cornette's knees.)

* NonActionGuy: Cornette actually has "worked" the occasional match, usually as part of a six-man tag with Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress or as a result of a wrestler winning five minutes with Jim as part of a stipulation. His contributions would generally be to cower in the corner and bump around like a ping pong ball, the only offence he ever got was a sneak attack with his racquet. Justified since his gimmick as a manager was that he was an untrained, unathletic pansy who couldn’t fight, and he would have cursed out anyone who suggested he have anything resembling a competitive match with any wrestler.

** As a {{Heel}} manager in [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} Georgia Championship Wrestling]], Jim was given free reign to basically say anything to get heat, up to and including full-on racist rants. However, one night, while cutting a promo on a wrestler who Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress had hit with a fireball, Jim shouted "his face went up like the Challenger!" As soon as the words left his lips, the studio went dark with an audible hum, and Wrestling/DustyRhodes called him into the control room like a schoolboy to the principal’s office. Dusty simply told him "Kid, don't talk about the Challenger. Go do it again."
** In 2019, Cornette was fired from NWA for an on-air comment that Trevor Murdoch was so tough "he could strap a bucket of fried chicken to his back and ride a motor scooter across Ethiopia". Reaction was...negative, to say the least.

** '''Kenny Omega:''' "Kenny Olivier" (after Creator/LaurenceOlivier due to him viewing himself as a performer and artist), Twinkletoes [=McFingerbang=], "Harpo Finger Fuck" or just "Harpo" (based on Omega's resemblance to Harpo Marx of the Creator/MarxBrothers, inbetween the curly blond hair and Omega's in-ring style reminding Cornette of Harpo's pantomime, as Cornette views the former as hammy and over-the-top).
** '''The Young Bucks:''' "Balding Buck" (Nick), and "Road Warrior Buck" (Matt). Jim retired "Road Warrior Buck" after Road Warrior Animal's death in 2020, and started calling him "Buck Hogan" before settling on "Pie-Faced Buck". Collectively he refers to the team as "The Cucamonga Kids" or "the Hardly Boys", the latter in reference to his belief that the Bucks are less talented Hardy Boyz imitators.

** '''Jon Moxley:''' "The CEO of Moxley Plumbing", or any other reference to "Moxley Plumbing". Due to the fact that Moxley dresses in street clothes and makes his entrance from the parking lot, coupled with Cornette's perception that Moxley is physically unimpressive, Cornette surmises that Moxley must actually be a plumber.
** '''Blackpool Combat Club:'''[[note]]Moxley, Wrestling/BryanDanielson, Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli, and Wheeler Yuta. [[ArtifactName None of those people are from England]][[/note]] "[[BlackIsBiggerInBed The BBC]]"

** '''Renee Paquette:''' "Renee Moxley-Good"; in reference to Renee being married to Jon Moxley (real name Johnathan Good). He usually gets quite theatrical in his pronunciation, affecting the best RP accent he can achieve with his Kentucky twang.

** '''Pro Wrestling Guerilla:''' "Pro Wrestling Chimpanzee"[[note]]While PWG spells it like "guerilla warfare" they've leaned into the homonym and use a gorilla face in their logo[[/note]]

** He deliberately mispronounces some names such as Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}'s ring name according to its more traditional spelling, (Seamus) as "SEE-mus," [[note]] He temporarily started calling Sheamus by his proper name after gaining several levels of respect for Sheamus following his match with Gunther. He reverted to his previous pronunciation in early 2023, however.[[/note]] [[Wrestling/KanakoUrai Asuka's]] as "Oscar," and Seth "Freaking" Rollins' as "Seth [='=]Franklin[='=] Rollins"[[note]]This actually comes from a misprinted WWE advertisement someone sent Cornette, though the podcast is so dedicated to this nickname that they even use it in the titles of the Website/YouTube clips[[/note]].
*** He also over-emmpathises names of certain wrestlers such as Riho ("REE-HOOOOOOO!") and the aforementioned Miro ("MEE-ROOOOOOO!").

** '''Orange Cassidy:''' "My little dog Pockets", because of Cassidy's gimmick of wrestling with his hands in his pockets.

** '''Michael Nakazawa:''' "Michael Nock-nock-knock-it-the-fuck-off."

** He calls Cassidy's "Best Friends" stablemate Chuck Taylor "Muffin-Top Taylor" because of Taylor's unimpressive physique for a wrestler.

---> '''Jim Cornette:''' "So if you would have asked that yesterday I would have said 'Well, ya know, they're trying, and they've got some good guys there, some friends of mine and employees there or...' but now, no. After I saw that, [[ClusterFBomb fuck you. Just get out of the fucking way at this point. Just let guys go somewhere where they can be fucking stars instead of goddamned subjecting the few remaining legitimate talents you have to this fuckin' horseshit and being associated with that until they get the stench of goddamned play wrasslers and grisly death on them too. I don't know why the fucking guys would even goddamn... contemplate going to... Why would you want to be involved with Impact Wrestling if that's the kind of shit they're putting out or validating? As a talent why would you want to be there? Why would you want to be... especially not contractually obligated, when somebody legitimate might want to give you a fucking job, but just why would you want to validate something like with your fucking presence if you're a real talent?]] If they can't do any better than that, quit."

---> '''Jim Cornette:''' "So if you would have asked that yesterday I would have said 'Well, ya know, they're trying, and they've got some good guys there, some friends of mine and employees there or...' but now, no. After I saw that, [[ClusterFBomb Fuck you. Just get out of the fucking way at this point. Just let guys go somewhere where they can be fucking stars instead of goddamned subjecting the few remaining legitimate talents you have to this fuckin' horseshit and being associated with that until they get the stench of goddamned play wrasslers and grisly death on them too. I don't know why the fucking guys would even goddamn... contemplate going to... Why would you want to be involved with Impact Wrestling if that's the kind of shit they're putting out or validating? As a talent why would you want to be there? Why would you want to be... especially not contractually obligated, when somebody legitimate might want to give you a fucking job, but just why would you want to validate something like with your fucking presence if you're a real talent?]] If they can't do any better than that, quit."

* NostalgiaFilter: Is open about hating most current wrestling, and holding his time with Bill Watts's Mid-South Wrestling as a GoldenAge never to be reached again.

** This goes both ways, as Cornette will give a free pass to anyone he respects from his days as a manager (like Wrestling/RicFlair or Wrestling/BretHart), the children of wrestlers he respects (Wrestling/CharlotteFlair, Wrestling/TessaBlanchard), people he helped train in OVW (Wrestling/RandyOrton, Wrestling/DolphZiggler), or guys he just really likes (Wrestling/CMPunk, Wrestling/{{MJF}}), so long as they're not doing anything ''really'' terrible.

* 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 are 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 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 they consider their wrestlers to be UsefulNotes/IntellectualProperty, while Cornette is against it because it always breaks {{Kayfabe}} and often contradicts what's being seen on TV.
* JerkassToOne: While he can be just as critical of NXT as he is of AEW at times, his hatred is usually reserved for Wrestling/JohnnyGargano, whom he declares has no business being on television (let alone as a top star) due to his size and [[DullSurprise limited facial expressions]] with his only redeeming factor being his wrestling skills (believing he should be a coach for the WWE Performance Center or motion capture person for video games). To the point where when he heard that Gargano's contract was up for renewal, he insisted that WWE should cut their losses with him, seeing absolutely no value in him, and that the only way he would ever support him is if he were to job to Marko Stunt in AEW, if only to show where [[{{Jobber}} his place in wrestling should be]].

** “You know, it’s like Mama Cornette used to say…” followed by an incredibly folksy metaphor creating a absurdist visual to whatever he’s talking about.

With signature [[IKnowMaddenKombat tennis racket]] in hand, JC has managed many great tag teams and wrestlers, most notably Wrestling/TheMidnightExpress, Wrestling/JeffJarrett, Wrestling/{{Yokozuna}} and Wrestling/{{Vader}}. He has worked with or for nearly every major pro wrestling group in the United States, from the [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance NWA]] to Wrestling/{{WCW}} to Wrestling/{{WWE}} to Wrestling/{{TNA}} to Wrestling/RingOfHonor to Wrestling/{{MLW}}, as well as running his own promotion [[Wrestling/{{SMW}} Smoky Mountain Wrestling]] and spending several years in charge of WWE's developmental promotion Ohio Valley Wrestling.

* 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 are a publicly traded company like WWE, something else that Cornette thinks has a huge part in all of [=WWE's=] various issues[[/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 they consider their wrestlers to be UsefulNotes/IntellectualProperty, while Cornette is against it because it always breaks {{Kayfabe}} and often contradicts what's being seen on TV.

* 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 are a publicly traded company like WWE, something else that Cornette thinks has a huge part in all of [=WWE's=] various issues[[/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) 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 they consider their wrestlers to be UsefulNotes/IntellectualProperty, while Cornette is against it because it always breaks {{Kayfabe}} and often contradicts what's being seen on TV.

* 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, 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) 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 they consider their wrestlers to be UsefulNotes/IntellectualProperty, while Cornette is against it because it always breaks {{Kayfabe}} and often contradicts what's being seen on TV.