You are here: Home>Tape Reviews>Shoot Interviews>Jim Cornette Shoot Interview 2000


Search Kayfabe Memories

Regional Territories 4

This section contains monthly articles on over two dozen territories. To relive those wonderful days of old, click here.

Wrestlers 4

Enter this section for bios/profiles of various wrestlers from the regional days. To find more out about your favorite pro wrestler, click here.

Stories 4

This section contains stories from the pros themselves told exclusively to Kayfabe Memories. Want to know more as told from the wrestlers themselves? Click here.

Old School Book Reviews4

Click here to find various book reviews from old school wrestlers. 

KM Links 4
For tons of links to old school related sites, click here.
KM Micro Wrestlers4
What are Micro Wrestlers?  Click here  
to find out.
KM Interviews... 4
Click here to read exclusive interviews with stars from the regional territories.
 

View Old Guestbook

 
 

www.kayfabememories.com is © 2004 AtomDesigns. All promotional art, characters, logos and other depictions are © their respective owners. All Rights Reserved.

All contents save Wrestler Stories are © Kayfabe Memories.

Website designed and maintained by  AtomDesigns © 2004 . If you experience any problems with this site or have any questions, please contact the Webmaster.

 

 - Scott Keith

- Greetings, and hopefully everyone had a fruitful and drunken Canada Day. Sadly, work infringed on mine, so I wasted my weekend watching tapes. In this case, the extremely long Jim Cornette shoot interview sold by RF Video and provided by the man, the legend, Ed Koskey. Normally these things are about two hours long and sold on one tape, but due to Cornette’s complete inability to shut up, this one spans two tapes and took the better part of Saturday to watch. Totally worth it, though, and probaby even better than the SMW Fan Week Q&A session with him from 1995 that I’m extremely fond of.

- Note: I’m going to go into this assuming you know most of what I’m talking about, because this isn’t what you’d call an interview that would be interesting for newer fans, ya know? So please don’t write me and ask who the Fantastics are, or why I call Ole Anderson retarded all the time, or who Dennis Condrey is, because I’ll just get upset and say bad things to you. Thank you in advance.

Part I

- We start with some classic Cornette clips, before commencing with the interview proper. It’s taped 11-6-2000, at Cornette’s house in Kentucky. What I’m basically doing is covering the highlights, but there’s WAY more stuff than what I’ve got here, because he’ll go off on unrelated tangents at a moment’s notice and I couldn’t even come close to getting everything on paper.

- Cornette begins by talking a bit about his role as head trainer in OVW.

- He started in the business early on, at age 14, taking pictures at ringside in Memphis. The workers were so impressed with his stuff that they began taking him backstage and eventually letting him do some ring announcing, until one day Jerry Jarrett asked him if he’d like to be a manager. He was 20 at that point. His first week of managing was actually cut from TV due to time constraints, but by the second week he was back on, cutting a brutally bad mama’s boy promo. He nervously asks Rob Feinstein if he has that clip or not. Rob replies that he doesn’t. Of course, it turns up later on the tape like magic…

- He loves Jerry Lawler’s total mastery of psychology, because he was the guy who really showed that you didn’t have to be a huge muscle-bound freak to win the crowd over – you just had to know how and when to make your comebacks and what drew money. More...

 

KM DVD/VHS Store 4
Click here to purchase DVD or VHS products direct from the official distributors.
KM Replica Masks 4
Click here to purchase pro quality replica wrestling masks of all your favorite old school masked wrestlers.   
KM Store 4
The KM Store now features products featuring the GCW logo as well as some other very cool images.  To see what's new and to purchase T-Shirts, ball caps, mouse pads and more, click here
KM Message Board 4

Want to chat with other fans of regional wrestling? This message board has forums for over two dozen promotions. Click here.

KM Belt Gallery 4

This section contains an extensive title belt gallery... images of heavyweight, tag, U.S. and various regional title belts.  To view it, click here.

Old School Tape Review 4

Reviews of various PPV's, commercial tapes and regional wrestling TV shows are available in this section. To read more, click here.

 

Website designed & maintained by

 

 

Thanks for visiting!