Cornette Rants about Double or Nothing

**Seanny One Ball** · 05-31-2019, 04:56 PM

Jim Cornette is great but there are some easy instances you can go to if you want to point out how hypocritical he can be about "stupid" angles or spots.

The dick flip, inflatable doll and invisible grenade are things he brings up a lot and he's right.

But then you find out about Prince Kharis, or you see a Kowabunga match and you think "how is that not exposing the business?"
The same could be said for his love of Dusty Rhodes, who's years of incredible popularity put paid to any notion that there was ever realism in 70's and 80's wrestling. Fuck me, watch Ray Gunkel vs Lou Thesz or any of the revered stuff of old that you can actually see in relatively decent quality nowadays... it was always pretty obviously bullshit.

Corny just gets mad when other people can tolerate more B.S than he can.
He fucking hates claw holds but managed a wrestler who used one in his own company...

Cornette should have to watch his matches against Paul E every time he wants to tirade about how much Kenny Omega sucks.

So yeah, I think mostly he's unhappy that there is no real effort to preserve kayfabe despite it never really covering up the fact that wrestling has always been silly. Harley Race looked silly in his matches sometimes, Ric Flair and Terry Funk too. It's just that they maintained the veneer a bit better in their day and there isn't much proof of that era if there ever was a dick flip.

Quite frankly I would not be surprised to see a clip of Ric Flair selling a dick flip back in the day. He sold everything else.

05-31-2019, 04:56 PM	#11
Seanny One Ball World Class References Posts: 30,978	Jim Cornette is great but there are some easy instances you can go to if you want to point out how hypocritical he can be about "stupid" angles or spots. The dick flip, inflatable doll and invisible grenade are things he brings up a lot and he's right. But then you find out about Prince Kharis, or you see a Kowabunga match and you think "how is that not exposing the business?" The same could be said for his love of Dusty Rhodes, who's years of incredible popularity put paid to any notion that there was ever realism in 70's and 80's wrestling. Fuck me, watch Ray Gunkel vs Lou Thesz or any of the revered stuff of old that you can actually see in relatively decent quality nowadays... it was always pretty obviously bullshit. Corny just gets mad when other people can tolerate more B.S than he can. He fucking hates claw holds but managed a wrestler who used one in his own company... Cornette should have to watch his matches against Paul E every time he wants to tirade about how much Kenny Omega sucks. So yeah, I think mostly he's unhappy that there is no real effort to preserve kayfabe despite it never really covering up the fact that wrestling has always been silly. Harley Race looked silly in his matches sometimes, Ric Flair and Terry Funk too. It's just that they maintained the veneer a bit better in their day and there isn't much proof of that era if there ever was a dick flip. Quite frankly I would not be surprised to see a clip of Ric Flair selling a dick flip back in the day. He sold everything else.