10 Times Jim Cornette Got It Absolutely Right

10. The Ryback Payment Plan

Ryback made waves across the wrestling world by suggesting that wrestlers should get paid - equally regardless of whether they win or lose.

You can almost see the logic - or at least, the thought process, myopic though it is. Ryback would have received less pay than CM Punk for wrestling him in the same match. Punk's supposed injuries notwithstanding, who watched the Ryback Vs. Punk matches for Ryback?

The former Ryan Reeves - Ryback, like the Ultimate Warrior before him, has changed his name - is right in one respect. But it's pretty much by accident.

There are pay disparities in WWE. If one is to believe AJ Lee, their female talents earn a "fraction" of what their male counterparts do. Her husband, CM Punk, is one of many to point out that the issue of Pay Per View appearances - which already had been calculated by an inscrutable algorithm - should be addressed, given that talents haven't yet been told how their salary will be augmented in the Network era.

That said, Cornette, with his winning use of analogy, summarised the idiocy behind Ryback's argument. "That means that the Shakespearean actor who gets a bit-part walk-on in a Schwarzenegger movie should get Arnold's money. He's a great actor, but he ain't the star of the movie. He's a f*ckin' bit-part player!"