Comments on: Does Pro Wrestling Have a Future?

By: Katherine Campbell

Katherine Campbell — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:38:17 +0000

real wrestling only exists on the olympics, the wrestling on WWE is quite scripted”-;

By: Maria Rogers

Maria Rogers — Mon, 24 May 2010 19:32:02 +0000

Sumo wrestling is my all time favorite. i always watch it a lot in Japanese channels.”~-

By: Butler Stevens

Butler Stevens — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:40:44 +0000

In the early 90′s I worked a WWF/E tag match with the team Cornette was managing. As my partner was laying down for the 3 count I fed into the ring for the appearance of trying to make the save for my partner to “disrupt” the referee’s count, thereby looking like I was trying to prevent my team from losing the match (a VERY standard procedure). That of course Cornette knows very well. Instead of allowing one of his members to simply give me a punch where I would then sell it and bail out of the ring, Cornette hits me in the head with the hard aluminum side of his tennis racket, whereby I receive a huge welt to my forehead. This of course is completely unprofessional and low class.

In the back he proceeds to berate me, saying I tried to “upstage” him & his team. He and I get into a loud shoving match where Eaton & Lane separate us, sheepishly saying to me that there sorry that “Jimmy” often fly’s of the handle like this – as if that makes it ok.

The reason I post this is to further give insight into Cornette’s immature nature and why I concur with Wachter’s premise regarding Cornette and his continued erratic behaviors.

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:42:17 +0000

Smokey Mountain was a good promotion for its area (Kentucky and Tennessee), but it would have never, ever had ANY success in other areas. Honestly, does anyone think that a main event of The Rock and Roll Express vs. Tracy Smothers and The Dirty White Boy in a Country Whippin’ Match, or Tim Horner vs. Brian Lee (NO offense to any of those guys), would sell more than a couple of dozen tickets in areas like Los Angeles, New York City, Boston, Chicago, etc.? Cornette seems to have this outlook that if only his promotion would have succeeded, and wrestling was still done the way he liked it, it would be in much better shape than it is now. I disagree with that.

By: Online World of Wrestling » Wrestling Globe Newsletter for 5/29

Online World of Wrestling » Wrestling Globe Newsletter for 5/29 — Fri, 29 May 2009 18:04:21 +0000

[...] Wachter at http://upperdeckblog.com/?p=671 wrote a blog in response to the commentary that Jim Cornette wrote on hardcore wrestling at [...]

By: Toby Wachter

Toby Wachter — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:49:04 +0000

Actually Adam, I went to a bunch of RoH shows before moving out here to California, and I really enjoyed them. Unfortunately, soon after, their top guys like Styles, Daniels, Joe, Homicide, Punk, etc all went to TNA and well…you know how that goes.

Who would have thought that Vince of all people would be able to do the most with a former RoH talent?

By: Manitoban

Manitoban — Fri, 29 May 2009 06:08:48 +0000

I’ve been watching wrestling religiously now for 20 years (I am 23). I to also have a Bachelor of Commerce Honours Degree. I can tell you that ninety percent of your article is bang on. I’m so sick of these writers, and bookers thinking they know what best for us as fans. I love all types of sports but I’m so loyal to wrestling because I’m always hoping that at anytime they might do something thats right and just downright entertaining. They always have glimpses of hope that seem to fade. I understand the moving to PG…to a point. The part I find weird is that many parents won’t let their kids watch wrestling period, PG or not. So why not try to get back to a real product with some real thought behind it and appeal to the 18 to 34 year old age again? You don’t need the hardcore matches of the late 90′s, you need creative characters with good gimmicks that can get a crowd emotionally involved. Austin and The Rock and the NWO spoke to people. People could connect with the character and loved to cheer or boo them. But Vince just keeps ramming the same old down our throat making us accept it. In no other business is this a good idea…why does Vince and most in pro wrestling think it is?

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:52:11 +0000

Toby, if you liked ECW, then you might want to check out (if you haven’t already) Ring of Honor.

It can’t be that bad if Ric Flair is their ambassador.

To be honest, I’ve watched more ROH and SHIMMER (an all-women’s wrestling company out of Chicago that is a sister-promotion to ROH) in the past 2 years than I have WWE or TNA. Why?

Because I like it more. It reminds me of a time when you could forget that it’s predetermined.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 29 May 2009 04:23:14 +0000

Hey brother,

Gotta say that I loved the blog about Professional Wrestling. I remember watching it as a little kid in the 1980′s and in the 1990′s through the attitude era and I believe that it has gotten stale which has made me lose interest in watching.

By: Eric Lewis

Eric Lewis — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:28:51 +0000

SMW could never have held ECW’s proverbial jock. Let’s take a look at this honestly. SMW was a retro promotion, designed to rekindle the glory days of Memphis that Cornette grew up watching. ECW completely changed the wrestling business, and created characters that didn’t need to be rebranded. They became legitimate stars on their own. SMW was a promotion that constantly ran in front of 50 to 75 people in small gyms. ECW broke through that barrier within a year. By the time ECW hit New York, first at the Lost Batallion Hall, its cultural significance on wrestling was amazing. Plus, as for the comment about SMW in letter number 6 by someone name “Heart Throb” Phil Barnard, there wasn’t one single SMW match that could have touched the Funk vs Sabu vs Shane Douglas 3 Way match at The Night The Line Was Crossed, let alone any RVD main event match in ECW. There wasn’t one act in SMW that came close to the heat The Dudleys got. Even The Gangstas, with all their heat, only drew 50 -100 people at shows for SMW, but
New Jack became a legitimate star in ECW. I went to all the ECW in Dayton, Ohio, and there were 4,000 or more at those shows, and the tickets weren’t cheap. ECW lives on today because Paul Heyman created a product that transcended the wrestling landscape and even changed the landscape it rose from. Heyman was a revolutionary booker who took chances no one else would dare even try to conceive of. Cornette is great at what he does, but it’s like comparing Fritz Von Erich to Vince McMahon. One guy had regional impact, with some success. The other changed the business.