10 Pieces Of Wrestling Trivia That Will Astonish You
1. Jim Cornette Is Younger Than Vince Russo
Though it's probably best not to platform either man in 2021 - one is an irrelevant dinosaur, and the other is Jim Cornette - this is really quite incredible.
Jim Cornette is known in reality as the irrelevant dinosaur, which is a shame, since he's such a valuable resource on topics that don't generate clicks in 2021. Then again, one look at his YouTube thumbnails renders this a just fate.
He is the man who never evolved past his beloved 1980s, where everything looked like it hurt when wrestling was a hyper-realistic sporting emulation in which performers were never repeatedly struck in the face with closed fists without bearing a single bruise. Russo meanwhile was the meteorite whose cutting edge writing modernised pro wrestling with its crude embrace of the alternative, controversial 1990s. Gothic characters! South Park t-shirts! Heaving silicon t*tties, bro!
Cornette was as '80s as Bananarama, Russo as '90s as the Spice Girls. And yet, Cornette is 59, and Vince Russo is 60.
Yes, Vince Russo is 60, which is even more bizarre when one considers what he booked in 1998.