Guess Who Disliked The Monday Night Showdown

Jim Cornette

You know, I used to enjoy Jim Cornette and his motor mouthed ranting.

That’s not to say that I can’t go back in time and enjoy Corny in his verbal glory. I have tapes, I have DVDs, I have Youtube, not to mention a tremendous mental recollection of some of Cornette’s great one-liners and spiels.

Being that I was never a big fan of Southern-style “rasslin” (one of the side effects of living in decent proximity to New York and Philadelphia), most of my exposure to Cornette came in the World Wrestling Federation, where he never truly shined, save for few instances. But those times when Jimmy would start spewing in that Louisville drawl with his garish outfits, he was quite the treat.

As a manager, he was undervalued. I mean, sure, he would serve as the antagonistic spokesman for Yokozuna during his reign as champion (getting in a hilarious one liner on dust-panned interviewer Joe Fowler at Summerslam 1993, expressing surprise that anyone would ever hire the future infomercial regular), but he was definitely capable of more. This is especially true when you consider that he managed the Heavenly Bodies of Dr. Tom Pritchard and “Gigolo” Jimmy Del Ray, who looked for all the world like hard-luck strip club patrons in 1985.

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Posted on January 8, 2010 | Filed Under WWE