Jim Cornette
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James Mark Jim Cornette is a retired American wrestling commentator, promoter, manager and all-around man behind the scenes.
Bio[edit | edit source]
Not everyone enters wrestling as a wrestler. Its own, dedicated entertainment sector, it has its own industry of writers, bookers, trainers, promoters, and agents; all dutifully doing their work both on-screen and off-screen. But while many of these roles experience some kind of overlap, few people can claim to have run the entire gamut of the scene, and of these, and of these, only one person happens to be Cornette.
Originally starting out as a humble ringside photographer, Cornette enjoyed his initial breakthrough as manager of the tag team The Midnight Express. He later jumped from working alongside Jim BAH GAWD Ross as a color commentator in what would be WCW, to building the Camp Cornette stable in WWF/WWE, to becoming management director for TNA, to working as executive producer for Ring of Honor.
After some seven more years doing on-and-off jobs for various promos, Cornette retired from the wrestling business to ... start doing podcasts about the wrestling. His often vitriolic and indeed colorful language tends to make Statler and Waldorf look like adoring fans, but for all of his verbal abuse, Cornette stil is respected as a living legend of the industry. Just don't mention Vince Russo.
In 8chanmania[edit | edit source]
Cornette, for reasons lost to history, decided to serve as the manager of Waspinator during 8chanmania LXXXIII. His prep speeches apparently sufficed to get the bio-mech beyond Mega Man X, but did little to help him against the faceless fury of Master Chief
