Jim Cornette Challenges Vince Russo To A $5,000 Shoot Fight
So it's come to this.
The bad blood between Jim Cornette and Vince Russo goes back two decades. They worked together in the WWF and in TNA but never got along...to say the least. After he left TNA, Cornette said in an e-mail that he would murder Russo if he could figure out a way to do it without going to prison. Now, he just straight-up wants to fight him.
The issue stems from a recent episode of Table for 3, in which Cornette and Eric Bischoff discussed their mutual hatred for Russo. Russo then went on the Wreslting Inc. podcast and said his piece about the matter, stating that Cornette doesn't have "half a brain" and that in the past he wanted to debate him on iPPV. Cornette did not like that offer or the dig at him. And so, he wants to rumble. For real. At the end of the podcast he laid out a challenge:
"I swear on my mother's grave if you give me a date, a time and an address. I will meet you there and I will bring five grand in cash as long as the rules are no cops, no guns and no knives. And what happens, happens."
That's about the tamest thing he said in his rant as the rest was a bit vile. Check it out if you want, just not at work.
Of course, it's highly unlikely this brawl will ever actually happen, but it's certainly another insane chapter in one of wrestling's longest-running rivalry.