10 Times Jim Cornette Got It Absolutely Right
1. Vince Russo Also Helped Kill WCW
While Bruiser Brody is credited with giving rise to the shoot video movement, Jim Cornette popularised it. And in initiating hostilities with Vince Russo, Cornette has crafted the most gripping rivalry outside of the ropes in modern wrestling.
Cornette, speaking before WCW closed its doors, was the first to posit the theory that Russo may not have been the messiah of wrestling's second mainstream boom period, attributing his WWF success to strict Vince McMahon regulation and the unprecedented two-headed Orthrus of The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
Presciently describing the WCW corporate arm as "marks" for hiring Russo, Cornette also criticised (that's understating matters) the Brooklynite for the manner of his WWF exit. As Cornette tells it, Russo didn't have the good grace to tell Vince McMahon in person of his intention to depart the doors of Titan Towers.
Cornette described Russo in his first, infamous rant as a "mark who no longer had to subsist on the internet fans" for adulation. He instead had WCW's dwindling audience for that. That dwindling audience would soon disappear altogether - with Russo largely to blame.
Jim Cornette is a man who does not mince his words - and we have the pleasure of hosting this irresistible wordplay at Refuse To Lose, our first ever iPPV!