The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast with Jim Cornette
Hosts: John and Chad
Interview available at Tmptow.podomatic.com
The perception that he does not like Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn: “Once again everyone said that Cornette must be hanging himself in his closet and slitting his wrist because they are so successful. Which is ridiculous. Kevin Steen (Owens) and El Generico (Sami Zayn) were both pains in the asses to deal with. It was the 80/20 principle where you spend 80 percent of your time dealing with 20 percent of your talent’s problems. Part of it is that they are French Canadian and I’m sorry but French Canadians in wrestling have always been pains in the ass except for Pat Patterson. But part of it was we are paying them to play professional athletes on television so Steen, we’d like you to lose some weight, f—ing buy some new clothes and f—ing trim your beard up and look a little neater. El Generico a television company has just bought the promotion you work for so we’d like you to be able to do interviews instead of being a mute and we’d like you to take the God damn mask off ( I didn’t even broach that with him) because OH MY GOD it would have been like I sodomized his f—ing mother if I would have said take the mask off. But you’ve got a French Canadian Muslim with red hair trying to play a Luchador and nobody understood it.
“When people that are paying you ask you to do and get a long a little better and son of a gun we just found out that Ring of Honor wasn’t paying them enough money because when somebody comes along and pays them more money they do what we asked them to do and as a result they are tremendously successful. I never said that they were f—ing horrible wrestlers. We made Steen the World Champion for a f—ing year, we tried to sign Generico to another contract but that is when he had the WWE sniffing around him so he wouldn’t do it so we didn’t use him. Everybody said “oh God damn” Cornette has run these guys off…well no. I just wanted them to be more accessible to a wider audience. Now when they have done everything I had asked them to do they are now superstars, imagine that? Wouldn’t you know who won the pony.
“I never said that (once again) they were bad wrestlers and they couldn’t get over. I said they ain’t getting over unless they do certain things and tweak what they’ve already got. They’ve done that and they have been successful. They’ve never embarrassed the business by beating up grade school children or having matches with blow up dolls. Kenny Omega (I’ve said this about him), I don’t care if he discovers the cure for cancer in his spare time, brings Lou Thesz back from the grave and stretches him in a shoot…he is still a piece of shit that should never be in the business because he had matches with nine year old girls and blow up dolls. I don’t care how good he is. I don’t have any time for him, don’t want to look at him, don’t want to hear about him, and if I had complete control over pro wrestling I would have Dan Severn go and beat the f— out of him and leave him laying in a f—ing ditch.
Why he still has such strong feelings about the wrestling business and how comedy spots hurt the industry: “He (Omega) embarrassed his profession and he embarrassed everybody that has ever been in it. Steen and Generico never did that. They just had misguided ideas of the facets of their gimmicks and their personalities. They didn’t do phony spots with their dick like that f—ing idiot Joey Ryan. He just blatantly does phony bullshit because he is an underneath guy that doesn’t have the talent to compete with the major main event level wrestlers so he does this shit to get attention. Everybody says that Cornette says all that stuff because he wants people to listen to his podcast and how can he take wrestling that seriously. Well, I do! I’ve made several million dollars off of wrestling and not only because it has been my profession but it has been my favorite thing in life as a hobby since I was nine years old. So, yeah, I do take it that seriously and Joey Ryan is an embarrassment to it and so is Kenny Omega. At least Omega has a job on top and Joey Ryan is still working “outlaw” shows in front of 400 people shaking his dick because that is all he can do.”
On Glenn “Kane” Jacobs being a positive asset to wrestling and his run for Mayor of Knox County, Tennessee: “Glenn has lived in Knoxville now since 1995. He’s been one of the guys in the WWE that when you talk about somebody that has never brought bad publicity on the company, has always been reliable, has no bad habits, has produced in the ring, drawn huge money and, as JR refers to it, he was in the seven figure club making over a million dollars a year for a number of years in the WWF. Now that he is winding down his wrestling career and he owns an insurance agency down there, he’s involved with the community and I don’t know that we agree politically because he is a Libertarian and I am a Socialist Democrat and am about as close to Bernie Sanders as you can be in terms of my political beliefs, but Glenn Jacobs is a great human being and old Mayor Burchett is term limited down there in Knoxville and he’s out, so now the spot is open and Glenn is running and I wouldn’t put it past him to win it. I don’t care what are his political beliefs, I know that Glenn is an honest and a well meaning guy who would do the best that he could at the job and I’m pulling for him.”
Wow Cornette, salty much?
as much as i like cornette, he should know that Samy Zayn isnt french canadian at all. He can speak french with an accent but he was not raised as a french canadian. You can live your entire life in the province of quebec, go to school in english, work in english etc.. and never have to learn to speak french if you want. Owens is a french canadian tho.