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our lord and savior James E Cornette says, "Professional wrestling is dead. Sports entertainment is all that's left."
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lol @ Wendys
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I want these!
just to have them as part of my collection. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BsT7DXvCQAA7ZHC.jpg:large |
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Collection of wrestling merchandise, rowdy roddy piper merchandise, or soda?
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I collect old newspaper ads, magazines, dvds, vhs tapes, pictures & etc. I've even met some of the legends I admire. |
Who is the raddest legend you have met?
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I need to dig that photo out and scan it sometime. He and I talked like old friends the time we met. He signed a pic of him wrestling Lou Thesz and a fake Apple. He can crush apples with his bare hands. |
Just saw those at this candy shop in town that has like a billion different sodas. They have a ranch dressing soda.
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Who is the sexiest Legend?
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I've never really been a fan of him and I've never really understood the people who see him as some sort of god and, like that Dan guy in the image touched on, take his opinion as gospel. He's always came across to me as arrogant/egotistical and really bitter about something. I get the feeling he thinks he's better than most people in the world of wrestling, because he hates the WWE and TNA and prefers promotions such as ROH, PWG, FWA and NJPW. One of those guys. The people who flock to see him and whoop and cheer when he says something negative relating to WWE or TNA, only inflates his ego. |
He's also been a giant failure in ROH, TNA and helped book the worst period in the WWF. Same thing he shits on Russo for.
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it's mostly a work, he certainly has opinions and a lot of passion but for the most part he knows what people want to hear and placates them. He certainly dislikes Russo's way of going about things but he knows people want to hear him shit on him. I'm sure if the two of them sat in a room alone with wrestling cast aside, they'd get on just fine. And he doesn't hate WWE or TNA, just has a bit of an old school mentality. Was in the same kind of boat as you until a few months ago but get away from the idiots asking the same questions and he's great. Classy guy also.
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He's got a brilliant fucking mind when it comes to the basics. He knows how to get a guy over and how to build anticipation for a match. He's like Paul Heyman in that way. He's just very anti-sports entertainment. I wish some writers in WWE had his mind for building characters over time and putting care into match outcomes and stuff.
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Cornette may be brash, but I'd watch any company he books for..... the guy knows what he is doing.....I personally love him and could listen to him talk wrestling for days on end.
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Lol his ROH booking was a disaster and not because of Sinclair Broadcasting like he claims.
That being said, his podcast is awesome and I love watching the shoots he does. |
How was his ROH booking a disaster? And why do you know that much about ROH?
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Just because I dislike ROH doesn't mean I don't know all about it.
The fans hated his booking. His 'Pick 6' idea was a friggen mess. Booking Kenny King to win the tag title even though his contract was up in a couple days and ended up leaving. Non-finishes, not makibg any stars, pushing guys who weren't over. Getting the TWGTT looked awesome as I love that team, but they weren't over. ROH isn't bad to watch once in a while and I do from time to time, but during Cornettes rub it wasn't nearly as good. The wrestling slowed down and attendance dropped. He can blame others for ippv issues and stuff but the booking was on him and Delirious |
<font color=goldenrod>I love JR's interviews on his podcast but I have to skip the opening monologue at this point. He bitches about the same exact things every single week. Rules aren't enforced enough, closed fist punches expose the business, ROH wrestlers work too fast, TNA has awful production values, there should be no more time limits, referees aren't utilized properly and should still have names, etc.
I agree with some of those things but jesus, I don't need to hear about them every fucking week.</font> |
Just from watching Cornette's shoots, while he maybe be stuck in his anti-sports entertainment ways an he'd probably push guys based solely on rasslin' skill who have no business being pushed in a sports entertainment atmosphere (kinda like WWE does anyway), he understands the basics. Things that WWE is fucking abysmal at. Things that should be common sense whether you're running an old school wrestling company or a sports entertainment company.
He understands why match outcomes should matter. He understands why having a guy job for months, become a monster for a month to build to a title match, suddenly forget how to win matches again, and repeating is fucking stupid and gets no one over. He understands why Money in the Bank the way it's being done is gets no one over and makes the title a useless prop that no one is gonna pay money to see defended. He understands why Kane chokeslamming The Undertaker through a table the week after he debuts when you've got five months to build to the match is a retarded idea. Basically he may be stuck in the 80's but there are still fundamentals that carry over into 2014 sports entertainment. As long as 50% or more of the show is wrestling matches that fans are expected to be invested in, they're necessary. |
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I :heart: Japan!!
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JS you're cool but that photo sends a weird vibe.
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May as well have called this the Macho Man gets chokeslammed compilation for the amount of times he's in it. The series of slams he does from the 1:55 point look pretty dodgy, both hands around the neck with little in the way of leverage, think that was how it was originally then changed to one hand on the back. |
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Cesaro vs Daniel Bryan in ROH
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