10 Incredible Links Between Wrestlers You'd Never Expect
5. Super Dragon And Jim Cornette's Shared Booking Philosophy
Jim Cornette might hate Pro Wrestling Guerrilla more than anything in the world.
He's known for his rants more than his hit peak booking or legendary managerial career in 2023. Despite being an unpleasant individual, or perhaps because he's an unpleasant individual, his loyal army of followers adore his diatribes. He makes a living being nasty because he remains a compelling promo.
His explosive burial of the infamous "grenade" spot in PWG is something else, though. That audio is an unhinged, barely coherent, expletive-ridden rant. There's no entertainment value or even flow to it. It isn't one of his ugly albeit well-cut promos. It's a childish, stream of consciousness rant you'd expect to hear from a 14 year-old 4Chan loser who just got shot in an online multiplayer shooter.
And yet.
Cornette warred with then-WWE Head of Talent Relations John Laurinaitis in the early 2000s for his promotion of Ohio Valley Wrestling. Cornette didn't want to book the WWE hires as the only stars of his self-sufficient promotion. He reasoned that it wouldn't get those guys anywhere. He wanted to cultivate competition for spots in order to emulate the territory days. Only then would the WWE hires actually learn how to get over.
PWG booker Super Dragon held a not too dissimilar philosophy. His promotion willingly booked a fleet of imports to work whichever match they wished. Virtually everybody got the chance and the time to blow everybody in the building away in a meritocratic competition to see who could steal the show.
Fundamentally, Cornette and Dragon encouraged their talents to get over in the exact same way.