Kayfabe! - YouShoot with Jim Cornette - The Lost Questions

Posted by Mike Campbell on 09.04.2010

Because the previous four hour long, two disc, set just wasn't enough. . . .

Kayfabe!
YouShoot with Jim Cornette: The Lost Questions

I guess this could be considered the bonus disc to Jim’s first YouShoot, featuring questions that didn’t make it into the first YouShoot. The first YouShoot covered Jim’s career inside the ring, this covers all the juicy stuff from outside the ring including, but not limited to, Dairy Queen, Sprite, drugs, rats, and of course Jim takes some time to talk about his recent legal issues with wonderful people of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.

Before we get to the dirt though, Jim takes some time to discuss his views on current wrestling. He likes working for ROH as opposed to WWE or TNA because mainstream wrestling is run by asshole corporations, while ROH is simply run by nice people. One fan asks if he thinks that the indy feds will ever work together the way that the various territories did under the NWA banner. Jim doesn’t think so, because there’s too many egos involved, he brings up Pro Wrestling USA as an example of why that sort of thing won’t work. He’s trying to get ROH to work with more local feds for their various markets as way of finding talent and establishing good relationships. There’s some good old fashioned Vince Russo bashing when the topic turns to a section of his book knocking Cornette for wanting to bring in Terry Funk by having him come out of a box. Cornette goes into the full story, as he only can, but gist is that Funk was gonna come out of the box and attack the New Age Outlaws and Russo’s reaction was “Why would he come out of a box?” and he didn’t understand Cornette’s answer of “The guy who comes out of the box always gets over.” Cornette uses a football analogy of a quarterback calling for the Hail Mary and the coach’s reaction being “Why would that work?”

Like the first YouShoot, it’s impossible to pick a single highlight, this is more or less ninety minutes of highlights. But some of the better segments (and that says a lot) include:

- Cornette’s take on “The Wrestler” which is that it made the business look horrible and put him into a three day depression. It ran him off from doing indy feds because he was embarrassed that people would think he was doing them because he needed the money.

- Sean plays the WrestleRock Rumble for Cornette and his reaction is priceless.

- Cornette plays “What’s in the bag?” - A bottle of JD makes him think the Freebirds. He also picks Buddy Roberts for a bag of weed, based on a story in WCCW when an ounce of weed fell out of his boot during a match. A bag of coke makes him think of Bill Watts due to a story in Mid South when Watts had a meeting and held up a bag of sweet and low and a Krugerrand and told the boys that they were in equal value and they could spend their money on this (Krugerrand) or this (the white powder). A bottle of pills leads to another great Cornette line. “I don’t want to name any names . . . . like Shawn Michaels.” He also takes a minute to rib Sean for them using a pen to simulate a needle and Sean comes back with “If we get pulled over with this fuckin’ bag on our way back from a shoot. . . .” which causes Jim to burst out laughing.

Jim talks a bit about the rat scene a bit during his heyday. There weren’t many ladies, but there were tons of sluts! He preferred the rats who liked the heels because they were more like the women he’d actually want to date. There were so many rats lined up for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Express that the heels could skim rats from the back of the line and the Rock ‘n’ Rolls wouldn’t even know about it. He compares Flair to Ricky Morton with rats, Morton had more rats for quantity but Flair’s were of much higher quality. He also quashes the rumor about Savage and Stephanie, saying he was there during that time frame and the rumor only came about a few years ago.

The topic then moves on to Cornette’s history with drinking Sprite. He used to be an avid Pepsi drinker until he started thinking he was getting heartburn. Being that he didn’t know what heartburn was, he drank cold Pepsi to cool it off. One night he was in so much pain that he had to go to the hospital. He actually had acid reflux, brought on by stress, spicy food, and caffeine. He switched to Sprite because it was caffeine free and quit the WCW booking committee (working with Jim Herd was very stressful) and has been fine ever since. In a continuation with the New Jack Youshoot, Cornette has a taste test, Sprite, 7 Up, and Sierra Mist. He correctly guesses Sprite, but mixes up Sierra Mist and 7 Up. He has since mostly quit drinking all soda, although he’ll occasionally have a Sprite.

After Sprite, we talk about another of Jim’s passions, fast food. He hates the Big Mac because it’s mostly bread. He likes the Triple Whopper, but they’re not always fresh off the grill. His preference is the Wendy’s Triple Cheesburger (I wonder if Jim has ever had the Baconater?). He tells his story about going to the Heart Attack Grill (a burger joint in Arizona, which has become famous thanks to being featured on the Food Network and Travel Channel) and being so hungry that he downed a quadruple bypass burger (four half pound patties, with eight pieces of cheese) in ten minutes and was still hungry. Then, it’s onto the main event of the shoot. . . Dairy Queen!

Jim finally gives the whole story. SMW held a show in Hyden, KY at the Richard M. Nixon center that was supposed to be heavily advertised, but none was to be found. The result was a house of 300 in a massive arena. The only place open (in all of Hyden, apparently, because it was packed) was Dairy Queen. They place a huge order, wait twenty minutes, and find out that they hadn’t even made it because the DQ people thought they were joking. What set Jim off was the woman at the counter telling them that if they cussed her out they wouldn’t get a damn thing. So Jim got out of the car and gave her you know what for.

After that, the interview goes back onto the topic of wrestling, and Jim tells a couple of great stories. The best one being about a commissioner in Memphis who wasn’t smartened up the business, he once got on the house microphone and tried to stop a match between Lawler and Funk (both guys were bleeding, which meant the match had to be stopped). There was also a rule that only the ring announcer could talk on the microphone. Christine Jarrett (Jeff’s grandmother, the woman who got Cornette started in the business) told him that he had to keep Sheiky off the microphone. It’s time for his match, and he goes for the mic, but Jim won’t let him have it, he’s trying to tell him about the commissioner, but Sheiky yelled (into the microphone) “FUCK THE COMMISSIONER!” All hell broke loose in the locker room with the commissioner trying to chew out Mrs. Jarrett, and she finally told him to worry about the taxes and let them worry about the wrestling. He wasn’t back for six months. Jim also mentions that the commissioner has just recently passed away at the age of ninety-something, and shows that as proof that good people die young and pricks last forever.

The other good story is about the ‘88 Great American Bash tour, and Dusty booking the Sheik in a tag match. Bobby Fulton and Cornette both big marks for him and were glued to the monitor in the back, because his gimmick was that a limo would pull into Cobo Hall during the first match and he’d stop out of the car. Sure enough, the limo pulled in and the who arena stopped to watch. It memorized Jim that anyone could be that over. He comments that Sheik made a lot of money because he never dropped the gimmick. Then he lost it all because he never dropped the gimmick.

This is where the Youshoot ends, but Jim asks for some time to get something off his chest. . . . He talks a bit (well, a bit for him) about the recent TNA situation and says that TNA has always tried to babyface themselves to make him look bad. He talks about the email situation with Terry Taylor and Vince Russo and says that it wasn’t “intercepted” by their IT department “I’ve been to the TNA offices, they’re lucky they can check their own email.” The letter he got from the lawyer included both the email Jim sent Taylor, and also the email that Taylor sent Russo forwarding Jim’s email. He then goes off on Russo complaining about wrestling fans complaining about how much time on the shows is devoted to “fake wrestling matches” and how stupid Russo is for not understanding why fans of wrestling find it offensive. He closes by asking fans not to harm Russo, because then he’ll get blamed and he’ll need an alibi.

The 411: This just might be the best KC DVD so far. If it's not better than Jim's first YouShoot it's at least tied with it. The only thing it lacks is Jim really going off on people, the way he did Batista. But he makes up for it with more great stories.

Final Score:  10.0   [ Virtually Perfect ]