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Post by markymark on Mar 3, 2019 18:36:55 GMT -5
Cornette as road agent is actually good, when he was in TNA he was the road agent of the tag team division(back when they had the best tag team division in Pro Wrestling).
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 3, 2019 18:43:41 GMT -5
Cornette as road agent is actually good, when he was in TNA he was the road agent of the tag team division(back when they had the best tag team division in Pro Wrestling). Guess some of it is going to boil down to how much he has to travel. He can't hates flying so he tries to drive everywhere.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Mar 3, 2019 18:54:24 GMT -5
I love Corny and will try to find a way to watch MLW. You don't have to try very hard, it's on YouTube. Yay!!!
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Post by MrElijah on Mar 3, 2019 19:22:30 GMT -5
I love Corny and will try to find a way to watch MLW. It's actually pretty good/fun. Low-Ki was World Champ, MJF is an unlikable jackass, Selina de la Renta is a pretty damn good manager(which MLW calls promoters) and the Lucha Bros.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Mar 3, 2019 19:53:52 GMT -5
I love Corny and will try to find a way to watch MLW. It's actually pretty good/fun. Low-Ki was World Champ, MJF is an unlikable jackass, Selina de la Renta is a pretty damn good manager(which MLW calls promoters) and the Lucha Bros. And Brian Pillman Jr's mullet!
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Post by MrElijah on Mar 3, 2019 20:13:53 GMT -5
It's actually pretty good/fun. Low-Ki was World Champ, MJF is an unlikable jackass, Selina de la Renta is a pretty damn good manager(which MLW calls promoters) and the Lucha Bros. And Brian Pillman Jr's mullet! I swear, BPJ is Pillman if he didn't have all the throat surgeries.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Mar 3, 2019 20:14:56 GMT -5
I love Corny and will try to find a way to watch MLW. You don't have to try very hard, it's on YouTube. Yeah the network they are on uploads them on YouTube. You can also watch if you have FITE.TV app. I'm kind of surprised by this because he recently said he was doing working for wrestling companies in making appearances and ext not long after his one tapping only with TNA a couple years back, but takes on a big role is interesting.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Mar 4, 2019 3:37:47 GMT -5
Watching Intimidation Games right now and Corny is fantastic.
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Post by RowdyRobbyPiper on Mar 4, 2019 3:47:10 GMT -5
And now I have no desire to watch MLW Your loss.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Mar 4, 2019 3:51:46 GMT -5
You don't have to try very hard, it's on YouTube. Yeah the network they are on uploads them on YouTube. You can also watch if you have FITE.TV app. I'm kind of surprised by this because he recently said he was doing working for wrestling companies in making appearances and ext not long after his one tapping only with TNA a couple years back, but takes on a big role is interesting. It probably helps that it isn’t that big a role. He’s merely a commentator and agent which seems like the smallest role he’s taken since his last TNA booking team one.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Mar 4, 2019 4:18:32 GMT -5
Rich and Cornette were just great. So many fun little moments on commentary I'd hafta go rewatch just to catch them all to share here so instead of that, just go give a listen yourselves.
It felt like a real sport. Stories were weaved into the in-ring action. I BELIEVED in the commentary reacting to the wrestling.
More of this please.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2019 4:33:06 GMT -5
Admittedly I know... literally nothing about MLW to begin with but this doesn't really serve to make me interested. Honestly from my perspective the only substantial difference between Cornette and Russo is Cornette still gets work.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 4, 2019 4:45:52 GMT -5
Admittedly I know... literally nothing about MLW to begin with but this doesn't really serve to make me interested. Honestly from my perspective the only substantial difference between Cornette and Russo is Cornette still gets work. I have serious issues with Cornette on some stuff (like his shit temper, or stooping to homophobic jokes about guys he doesn't like to insult their manhood despite otherwise denouncing homophobia), but for all of his bad or dated ideas like his InVasion pitch that for some reason had Terry Funk main eventing in 2001, he at least will try to back up his ideas and explain the reasoning. You get the idea it's supposed to have a point beyond, "people will flip, come on. Like, I can't picture him ever pitching to remove a guy from TV while admitting he has no idea what the reasoning would be, that'd they'd just come up with a reason later like the Samoa Joe/Ninjas storyline, and if he did, he'd actually try to explain why he was no back, and not do the Russo thing or immediately getting bored and just dropping it. (Just since I've, in the past, been challenged on the homophobia thing: I am not even especially suggesting that he is a homophobe, since I don't really know. He certainly speaks of people like Pat Patterson, the Grand Wizard, or Barnett with respect enough that he'd show anyone else in their position in wrestling history, and didn't make cracks about them on that that I've heard. That being said, he LOVES trotting out the gag that whoever he was calling into question in terms of toughness would be in the men's locker room, whistling "Stranger in Paradise", attributing said gag to Watts, which... isn't great, but worse being his assertion that wrestling business has suffered from the guys not screwing ring rats as much as they used to, and that women don't come out to the shows as much because the guys, "used to look like they'd f*** them, but now look like they'd style their hair", which I'd struggle to read as anything BUT calling them effeminate and saying they "look gay". Cornette's got issues.)
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