10 Times Jim Cornette Got It Absolutely Right
2. The Ed Ferrara Rant
In Aladdin, everybody hates Jafar - but Iago, his back-up irritant, largely goes ignored.
Ed Ferrara is the obnoxious parrot atop the shoulder of Vince Russo's detestable Royal Vizier, but he isn't spared from Cornette's scorn. And with good reason; Ferrara was the "brainchild"/enabler behind Terri Runnels' infamous pregnancy angle, which in the hands of Russo and his spirit animal had just one logical conclusion: miscarriage!
Cornette summarised his grievance with the angle perfectly: "I always like to say that wrestling is bad taste in good taste, but this was bad taste done in bad taste." Cornette approached Ferrara after the angle's awful conclusion. Ferrara for his part claimed he proposed the angle because "they do it all the time on prime time TV!"
Ferrara would demonstrate a further propensity for disrespectful vulgarity by impersonating Jim Ross - purely to ridicule his struggles with Bell's Palsy. Ferrara as 'Oklahoma' (subtle) would cure the affliction by pouring barbecue sauce over his face, which Cornette in intervening years would spit on in retaliation. His reason?
"If you took Ed Ferrara's f*ckin' nuts, and you threw 'em into a god damn drinking straw, they'd look like a kernel of corn rolling into a storm drain."