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Post by Mr. Emoticon Man, TF Fan on Oct 24, 2009 13:33:37 GMT -5
Hahaha, all these negative comments about Jim Cornette's personal character and booking philosophy, and all from folks that don't even know the man. Kinda funny in a weird way. You don't need to know someone to disagree with their philosophy. And it's not like people don't do the exact same thing to every other wrestling personality either, particularly Russo. |
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Post by Mayonnaise on Oct 24, 2009 13:34:12 GMT -5
If I were a billionaire I would give Cornette his own promotion just to watch it fail. I like him but he really is a couple decades behind in what he wants sometimes. Nice to welcome Rick Rubin to the Wrestlecrap Boards. |
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Post by H-Fist on Oct 24, 2009 14:18:27 GMT -5
Yeah if he can ever get out 1975. Cornette booking WWF(94-95), terrible, OVW boring, and SMW to hillbilly for my taste. I jst enjoy him as a character rather then booker. Cornette didn't book any of the WWF in 1994-95. He joined WWF as a manager in late 1993 with the SMW talent exchange, but SMW was up and running through 1995. It was in 1996 that he became part of the WWF creative team. Sidebar: For all the complaints about 94-95, those were the years that established Undertaker, Bret, Shawn, Owen, Razor, Bulldog, and Diesel as top guys. So for all the King Mabel and LT/Bam Bam stuff, it did do good for the industry in the long run. On track: I think people confuse Cornette's booking with his gimmicks. His booking is based on the premise that it is simple, but not easy, to get people over. You don't need the booking to be overly complex because it gets confusing. You need to spend the time making sure the talent can do it right. That's the hard part. The simpler the booking (the when's, why's, and how's), the easier it can be to get talent over. Some of his gimmick ideas, yes, don't work as well anymore because fans are so used to character-driven and episodic TV. I like Cornette. I agree with him on a lot of things. If we look back at the history of the WWF from WrestleMania XII through McMahon purchasing WCW, we can trace the booking, as well. 1996-97 saw a lot of solid stars come into the company (thanks to talent relations...was that JR then?) and some good builds happen. Russo in the Monday Night Wars is kind of like Star Wars missile defense as opposed to building a traditional army. Good ideas that were not necessarily thought through in a booking sense. The idea is to refine the broad idea. Russo unquestionably has creative ideas, but the issue is refining them into something that makes good TV now AND makes sense in the long term. A mix of personalities is useful. But don't give Corny a bum rap for something he didn't do. And SMW actually did well for a while. They were basically the forerunners of ECW and ROH. Rising costs and limited media and cash flow made it too tough to grow, so they couldn't spend to improve to make money to spend...catch-22 kind of thing. |
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