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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2019 14:14:45 GMT -5
Can we just go ahead and lock it now and spare everyone the headache?
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Post by 111111 on Nov 2, 2019 14:15:08 GMT -5
I refuse to click play but if it isn't a work then he's an absolute c*** which is even worse.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Nov 2, 2019 14:15:18 GMT -5
Oh boy, another Cornette thread.... Any sensible person knows he's not working people with his attitude. Dudes a douche, knowledgeable douche, but douche all the same.
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Post by Dub H on Nov 2, 2019 14:15:47 GMT -5
"Kenny Olivier tries to deflect what I say about all of 'em, with, 'Well, that's just Jim, trying to make money and work his gimmick...' If you think I need to make money off of knocking you...But they try to deflect that, or de-weaponize the criticism by just making people think I'm doing a gimmick. Well, I don't have to. As everybody knows by now, when a couple of years ago, when I just decided to be myself and start telling the truth, I've been more successful ever since then than I ever have in my life." That's a direct quote. Cornette is literally saying, 'I don't need to attack you to make money, also, ever since I started attacking you, I've made more money than I ever have.' There was a Young Bucks shoot a handful of years ago - I want to say with RF Video, but I'm not positive - where the Bucks told a story where Cornette came up to them at a convention and said something to the effect of, 'Guys, isn't this great! We're working the one angle in the wrestling business that people actually believe!' And now Cornette says that he is making more money than ever by going after them and many others like them...and that that is proof that he isn't working a gimmick? Ok I know I said one ,but since you brought the Bucks I want to add something,and then promise no more. Bucks also said how they had heat backstage and how Jim had legit heat with Owens,Zayn ,etc. and that he had screwed then out of their jobs.But they skip over this part. Most likely Cornette knew The Young Bucks had connections and money,so behind the doors trying to con then into a job.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Nov 2, 2019 14:17:14 GMT -5
Maybe his insistence it's not a work is a work; that doesn't really make it 'better'. If there's no moment of disengagement where you say it's all for laughs when you're saying bigoted things and hurling verbal abuse at strangers who aren't 'in on it', you should be held responsible for the things you say. Telling someone you'll kill them "as a joke" is a still a death threat and it is sitll acted on and taken seriously. It has to be, because there's a chance it's not a joke.
This is gonna get a bit minefieldy as a comparison, but raving freakshow hell man Alex Jones went through custody proceedings a few years ago where his attorney claimed he was playing a character and wasn't really the unhinged lunatic believing in gay frogs and government mind control who made threats against politicians on the regular. He denied those claims, insisted he wasn't a performance artist, was the real deal, and then talked in his testimony about George Soros using marijuana as a tool for mind control. And now he doesn't have custody of his kids anymore.
It'd be easy to say "It's just a joke guys. I believe what I believe, but it's more interesting if I make it entertaining and if I work people, and the marks who take me seriously are the real jokes here". It would be so simple, but I don't think he can. I think even if it's an act, he relies too much on peoples' hope it's real, because the money he's making is being curated off the back of a fanbase that can get really toxic in some places and are holding him up as some kind of ideological god in ways more complicated and broadly societal than anything to do with cosplay wrestlers. He commands a hate mob he knows will go hurl abuse at the people he targets, and even still, it's more important he maintain the sanctity of the work than to try and curb that shittiness?
Nah, he can f*** right off, fake or not.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Nov 2, 2019 14:18:51 GMT -5
I'm just making this post so the thread appears in my participated dealy so I can click into it and watch it easier.
Carry on.
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Post by 111111 on Nov 2, 2019 14:28:02 GMT -5
My take on Cornette is its a work in the sense that he is exaggerating his opinion and using colorful language to make it more entertaining. I dont think all the insane things he says are a work though, some of this is similar in tone to the shit he used to say about Russo which definately wasn't a work I dont think the bigoted things he says are a work either, that's just him being an out of touch boomer.
basically some of it is a work in the sense he's using his promo skills but he's also an asshole too.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Nov 2, 2019 14:37:06 GMT -5
Jim should move to LA, change his gimmick to a Hollywood agent, and call himself Jim Corvette.
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Post by autisticgeordie on Nov 2, 2019 14:37:41 GMT -5
Why does Cornette need to work people?? Is he that f***ing desperate for attention that he feels the need to shit on the wrestling industry decades after he left it?? Dude, shut the f*** up and go and play golf or something like other old timers do. Tully Blanchard became a f***ing preacher and bettered himself and, apparently, is much less of a dick than he used to be in his prime; maybe you need to do something similar, Jim? You've already got the flock of faithful followers who'll believe every word that comes out of your mouth.
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Nov 2, 2019 14:44:04 GMT -5
If somebody can offer a fresh take on Cornette that I haven't read in the previous 552 threads on him in the past week, I'll give them a shiny penny. Jim Cornette is actually a robot that was purchased by the Cornetto ice cream company that has gone rogue. Simon Pegg & Nick Frost are intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter....
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Nov 2, 2019 14:50:54 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2019 15:36:32 GMT -5
Can we... Can we just not talk about Cornhole?
The threads are a magnet for vitriol and I tire of his cadre of fanatics getting butthurt over us calling out a bitter old man saying vile crap. Plus mods must grow weary of suspension and ban usage.
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Post by The Ichi on Nov 2, 2019 15:39:44 GMT -5
This took me way too long.
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Post by Cyno on Nov 2, 2019 15:44:59 GMT -5
This took me way too long. I thought it was Dumbbell Cornette at first.
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Post by Larryhausen on Nov 2, 2019 15:54:33 GMT -5
The real Work was the friends we made along the way.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Nov 2, 2019 16:04:54 GMT -5
If somebody can offer a fresh take on Cornette that I haven't read in the previous 552 threads on him in the past week, I'll give them a shiny penny. Jim Cornette is actually a robot that was purchased by the Cornetto ice cream company that has gone rogue. "Come with me if you want butter brickle."
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Post by Dub H on Nov 2, 2019 16:14:24 GMT -5
The real Work was the friends we made along the way. Wait by this do you mean our friendship ISNT real?
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Post by 111111 on Nov 2, 2019 16:18:33 GMT -5
Remember when he slapped Santino for laughing at a hokey gimmick on a wrestling show that happened in a barn in front of about 20 people?
Or when he lost his shit at some poor minimum wage worker at a drive through.
I’ve just remembered he’s always been like this
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Post by mystermystery on Nov 2, 2019 16:49:32 GMT -5
Fun historian whose videos about 80s WCW and the like used to be very entertaining to listen to while playing some video games.
This whole thing has been rather nasty but I think the moment I stopped caring to give any more attention to him was the blatantly wrong accusation of Riho sleeping her way to a title shot based on the "evidence" that he doesn't like the friends she has and thinks it is offensive to say she's trained to wrestle since the age of nine.
Work or not work, his attempts for attention serve no real purpose and thus deserves no actual attention.
Why, at this point, would I care if Jim Cornette likes an AEW match/wrestler? I have no cares to provide.
Why should anyone care what Cornette is going to say about certain wrestlers unless they just want to have a voice beyond the one in their head shout nasty things about professional wrestlers who don't wrestle the way they want them to?
At the end of the day, I personally feel that he is just trying to make more money and have decided to make sure I'm never apart of his financial process.
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Post by Some Baritone guy IS REDEEMED! on Nov 2, 2019 17:00:27 GMT -5
So, what’s the over under for how long this thread lasts?
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