10 Worst Ideas That Actual WRESTLERS Came Up With
6. Jim Cornette Fantasy Books The Invasion
You should know Jim Cornette's deal at this point: he values legitimacy and logic above all else, and cannot abide what he perceives to be weak offence and a lack of commitment to selling.
You might know him as the guy who grifts his hatred of the Elite; if you're a little older, you'll know him as the man who hates Vince Russo so much that he once threatened to kill him, or at least said "If I could figure out a way to murder him without going to prison, I would consider it the greatest accomplishment of my life".
Cornette despised Russo for "exposing" the business with his stupid lowbrow television and relentless worked shoot philosophy - which is very odd, since his fantasy booking of the Invasion, as told to Kayfabe Commentaries in 2009, called for precisely that. Tensions were to escalate between the WWF and WCW when Chris Benoit jumped back down south in this redux, Vince McMahon sent William Regal to WCW to teach him a lesson, and the "shots" in their match would "land" to make it clear that the hatred between the promotions was actually real.
Doesn't that negate everything else on the shows as "fake", which is what Cornette has despised about pro wrestling since it went all meta in the 1990s and beyond?
And wasn't that idea redundant, since the hatred between the WWF and WCW in the mid-to-late 1990s was so real that it was the most compelling rivalry of the decade?
Why would you break kayfabe to put over the one thing that the fans actually bought?