Jim Cornette on His Experiences With Vince McMahon

I watched the 1998 Royal Rumble just now on the 'Cock and saw ya come down with Jeff Jarrett! I said, "Hey there's Liberal Trump, my favorite podcast host!" Double J sucked tho, out in under 3 mins😂

Jim gets it. After a long day I just want to eat alone in a climate controlled room, too.

I think an important factor in the difference between Jim's experience with Vince and later stories is the change in the industry during that period. Jim left at a time when the Monday Night Wars were still ongoing, but shortly after that Vince won, and for the two decades since he has basically been untouchable - he was essentially the entire industry for all that time, and also became a billionaire. That amount of money and power can corrupt, and there's an escalation in Vince's behaviour that tracks with his increase in power and decrease in accountability, nobody's holding him to account because there's no way of holding him to account, he's the CEO of an entire industry and has the numbers of kings and presidents in his phone, it's no wonder he thought he was untouchable, he fucking was! Gradually a board of directors is established and the company goes public, but it's too little too late in terms of reigning in Vince's exploitation of that power, as long as the NDAs keep being signed and paid he will keep thinking he can do whatever he wants and nobody will touch him, and if he'd kept paying Janel Grant he'd probably still be CEO. Decades of unfettered freedom and power warped Vince's mind past the point where Jim would recognise him, and that warped perspective led him to believe that he could fuck over this woman and refuse to pay her, and to hell with the NDA, he still thought he was untouchable because he's Vince McMahon and has been untouchable for decades, and he didn't (or couldn't) recognise that he wasn't untouchable any more. Ultimately, Vince screwed Vince.

Some people are damn good at compartmentalizing their behaviors in fluctuating situations. Vince seems like that type of person...

Listening to this now, with the current scandal still ongoing, has been absolutely wild.

LET JIM CORNETTE COOK. VERY ENTERTAINING AS A PODCASTER.

Imagine if she was a paralegal lol didn't age good in February 24

“Imagine if she was a Paralegal!”

Listening to this end of Jan. 2024 and… wow. Yah, stuff was DEFINITELY different than when Corny was there.

Head shitting lol

Is this what Shane had in the lockbox he mentioned back when Shane fought Taker at Mania?

Brian’s impression of Vince is just unreal! 😂😂😂 I can’t stop laughing

Interesting to listen to this in january 2024

You know Cornette says he never saw Vince impaired. But Cornette doesn't drink or do any drugs. I have friends that don't smoke pot but I do and I never invite them over when I do smoke up and they don't go to social parties most people who are straight edge don't so that doesn't mean much that Corny never saw it. Like I said my straight edge friends knew I smoked because I'm open about it but very few ever actually saw me on cloud nine.

Bret Hart has a story about smoking weed with Vince and Owen and others in Flair's motel room.

He definitely would have been in peak business mindset around the time corny was there since those where the days he was trying to be number 1. Then it was to maintain that position. But even Vince can't keep that competitive mindset when there is no competition and he had monopoly over everything and that's probably when boredom set in and then these things creep up

Cornette has said this about Vince is that "Working with Vince was like develpoing a twitch trying to figure him out" and I believe him. Anybody who has worked with Vince knows what they're gonna expect from him. Vince had all these crazy bat$h!t insane ideas, sometimes they make it onto TV or get shot down. I think the reason why everyone has had an in between relationship with Vince (love-hate) in my estimation is probably because they love his ideas at times, but hate how they get treated. Take Jim Ross for great example, why he got treated the way he got treated by Vince, I have no idea, but JR didn't deserve that at all, but at least in AEW he's getting the respect he rightfully deserves instead of being treated like $h!t

What's really ironic is I'm trying to listen to this but someones gardener with a leaf blower nearby is drowning it out

Vince lost his way once WWE went public, and he was lost forever after the Benoit deal where he didn't want to take chances anymore.

Vince is a billionaire. Why we hating he getting some pootang. We should respect it 😅

Vince getting hit with the Doomsday Device at the strip club is the funniest fucking thing I've ever heard

its a humiliation ritual, nobody finds it weird how all these celebrities randomly get 136 women all at the same time remembering they were assaulted.

I say fuck what you say about Vince McMahon he did a good ass job for WWE Jim Cornett wanted to be Vince McMahon and he just jealous that his stupid Smoky mountain was not a success like WWE cause no one likes Tennessee but the people who live there

Sure, Vince has an inflated ego, has had LOTS financial blunders (Wrestlemania 7 comes to mind, when they tried to get the LA Colosseum then they couldn't cause of horrible ticket sales), but one thing's for sure, Vince knows his stuff most of the time despite coming up with crazy bat$h!t ideas.

Hard disagree with cornette about sable, she ooozed sexiness, she was fucking hot 🥵, even more hot when she returned in 2003,

I believe he did try and rape nailz

This is funny since the HR director of my employer looks like Vince McMahon.

If you get a free pass for pretending to run a country while having a cognitive decline, you should be able to manage a fake fight company

Vince has an evil twin!

I firmly believe if Linda didn’t come back from the office and spring Jim and co. Vince would keep writing with them for 24 straight hours.

White cotton Panties ugghhhhhh😭🤣😭🤣😭 funniest shit ever🤞🏿

Any possibility that the few matches Vince had had a detrimental effect on his mind?

“I was tired. I wanted to eat. Turn the air conditioning up and watch TV in my underwear.” - That hits home.

He's like buyed-in his brain is mush

Why are these flirting hos never held accountable

Corny kills me

I don't know anything about anything, but the concussion thing is not something I have ever thought about

Cornette hasn't been around Vince or WWE in over twenty years. Things change. People change. He's hardly a reliable source on what Vince or the company are like.

Vince’s private area on the plane was at the emergency exit….because of the implication…

I watched Vince since I was introduced to Wrestling at 10 years old on Spanish Chanel 47 in NYC in the early 70's. Even then he seemed like the kind of guy your parents warned you to stay away from.
I believe The Drug and Steroid Stories....I believe the Child Molestation Stories....I believe sexual abuse stories...I believe The Beniot Family...I believe The Hart family....I belive VKM has been and always will be a Piece of shit.

Jim was talking like he was Sargeant Schultz of Hogan's Heroes. "I see nothing. I know nothing." Ha

Didn't think we had a whole lot in common but eating and keeping to yourself in a hotel room on a layover stop sounds like something I'd do. Otherwise I might take a walk and take in scenery.

Vince mcmahon did it

Whoa whoa whoa whoa did Jim literally just say that sable didn't have a lick of sexiness? Lol all right I'm out