Cornette is such a failure

[DANJ!]

So he gets a pass for all his bs because he had two good years of ideas that had to be filtered by one of the greatest minds in the business? Not to mention the high level of talent he had at his disposal or that he was more miss than hit.

Fact is the WWF got better when he left, WCW got worse, and so did TNA. He has no track record for defense against a guy like Cornette who's an all-time great manager, responsible for bringing up some of the better young talent of the last 2 decades, and ran a company for 4 years. Russo running a show by himself wouldn't last 4 months.

Yeah... all this Russo praise is nutso. I know he's associated with TSC's favorite era of all time and whatnot, but when he got the chance to write/book a bunch of shyt on his own, he made two companies look like complete garbage. In fairness, he had a few good ideas in WCW, it wasn't all trash... but let's not trick ourselves into believing that the guy who supposedly wrote everything great about the WWF in '97-'99 could suddenly only manage one or two good ideas a month as soon as he went to WCW. And even the good things were minor and offset by the major dumb shyt he wrote. Russo might not be completely incompetent, but he was damn near close. But it's the same thing I say about a lot of internet armchair bookers too- sure, you might be able to come up with a couple storylines better than the ones on TV... but let's see you do it every week for years on end. Most of the "I can book better than they can" back-patting would burn out quickly... and that's exactly what happened to Russo once he got free reign to run the whole ship.

But that doesn't make Cornette much better. I think Cornette has a very good grasp on what would be great TV if this was 1988. But most of his criticism nowadays I can only take with a grain of salt, because I can't think of anything great he's been creatively responsible for in the last 15 years. He knew his shyt during his time, and let him tell it, everybody since then has been a "fukkin' idiot". But the last thing he fully ran was a fed that died because he tried to present it like the shows he grew up on, while the business had drastically changed.

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Russo had more reboots in WCW than Superman and Spiderman combined

 

[PeripheralSummers]

Its amazing though if you really considering the two essences of both bookers.

Cornette is all about wrassling. He wants to get back to having one hour classics.

Russo is just about ratings. He said it many times, the wrestling doesn't bring in numbers. This influences his whole shoot style of booking, where he wants everything to be believable.

Two extremes, but again if you take selective bits you got a pretty interesting product. I just wish both of these a$$holes could realize that.

 

[dbp]

Two extremes, but again if you take selective bits you got a pretty interesting product. I just wish both of these a$$holes could realize that.

This. Russo wrote in his first book that he and Vince used to joke that eventually there'd be no wrestling on their program.

Cornette still carried a gun cause he was a heel in the late 90s, and seems furious that kayfabe ever got broken. No one wants to see tons of hour broadways with a suplex as a high spot.

 

[SAJ!!]

By the time Russo went to WCW, it was already a sinking ship. Nobody could have saved that. This is what Nash and Hall said. You know more than these two

Russo's work in the Attitude Era>>>>>>>>>Cornette's life

Russo schools Tenay

 

[StatUS]

Its amazing though if you really considering the two essences of both bookers.

Cornette is all about wrassling. He wants to get back to having one hour classics.

Russo is just about ratings. He said it many times, the wrestling doesn't bring in numbers. This influences his whole shoot style of booking, where he wants everything to be believable.

Two extremes, but again if you take selective bits you got a pretty interesting product. I just wish both of these a$$holes could realize that.

Meet Paul Heyman.

 

[DLo]

Cornette turning into Ole Anderson.

Russo had Rock, Austin, Taker, Foley, Hunter, etc... I'm not saying he want talented but that crew ain't nothing to overlook

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

This. Cornette's a genius who's become irrelevant because he's trapped in another era.

Sounds like someone else I know :vince:

 

[Shadow]

He butted heads constantly with WCW Executive Vice President Jim Herd which eventually led to him quitting the company with his Midnight Express protégé Stan Lane in late 1990, and soon after sending Herd a black funeral wreath to signify the death of his wrestling promotion. He left a huge booger on the front windscreen of Eric Bischoff's car after Superbrawl III, due to his belief that Bischoff was responsible for undermining his SMW (Smokey Mountain Wrestling) invasion angle of WCW. In September 1994, while still the owner of SMW, he was arrested for smashing the windows of his former employee K.C. O'Connor's car. His days as the WWF's head booker became numbered after he cruelly made fun of their Executive Producer Kevin Dunn's "fukking bucky beaver teeth" and was on the verge of assaulting him in an official creative team meeting in July 1997. Eventually, he happily left Stamford, CT and returned to his homeland of Louisville, KY to run WWE's developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), but he lost that job in July 2005 for slapping the hell out of trainee Johnny Geo Basco (now WWE's Santino Marella) for laughing at The Boogeyman's debut instead of running away in horror as he was supposed to in his role as a planted fan. Finally, in April 2010, TNA sent Cornette a legal letter for sending an email to their Head of Talent Relations Terry Taylor stating how much he despised their head writer Vince Russo, that he wanted him to die and would gleefully murder him if he could get away with it.

Jim Cornette "on sabbatical" from Ring Of Honor (ROH) after temper tantrum - Cageside Seats
at this dude throwing tantrums when he doesn't get his way.