It’s clear, in hindsight, that the Jim Cornette in 1997 who delighted fans with his edgy demeanor, is never going to be happy again. He’s now 48 years old and has latched onto Ring of Honor for the second time in his career. Instead of ranting angrily about something most people would agree with (WCW having bad main events, Mushnick being a weasel, etc), he’s now rallied against the status quo. He cannot fathom how anyone could have had fun on Monday night, because it’s not his vision of what professional wrestling should be. This is the same Jim Cornette who once got angry with Chris Jericho during their shared tenure in Smoky Mountain Wrestling, simply because Jericho wouldn’t sleep with female fans (the idea being that to sleep with them would lead to them buying tickets for the shows, an apparently common practice for babyfaces in the territory). That was 1994, and Cornette was attempting to push a concept from the 1980’s onto him (one perfected by Ricky Morton). |
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