- Greetings, and hopefully everyone had a fruitful and drunken Canada Day. Sadly, work infringed on mine, so I wasted my weekend watching tapes. In this case, the extremely long Jim Cornette shoot interview sold by RF Video and provided by the man, the legend, Ed Koskey. Normally these things are about two hours long and sold on one tape, but due to Cornette’s complete inability to shut up, this one spans two tapes and took the better part of Saturday to watch. Totally worth it, though, and probaby even better than the SMW Fan Week Q&A session with him from 1995 that I’m extremely fond of.

- Note: I’m going to go into this assuming you know most of what I’m talking about, because this isn’t what you’d call an interview that would be interesting for newer fans, ya know? So please don’t write me and ask who the Fantastics are, or why I call Ole Anderson retarded all the time, or who Dennis Condrey is, because I’ll just get upset and say bad things to you. Thank you in advance.

Part I

- We start with some classic Cornette clips, before commencing with the interview proper. It’s taped 11-6-2000, at Cornette’s house in Kentucky. What I’m basically doing is covering the highlights, but there’s WAY more stuff than what I’ve got here, because he’ll go off on unrelated tangents at a moment’s notice and I couldn’t even come close to getting everything on paper.

- Cornette begins by talking a bit about his role as head trainer in OVW.

- He started in the business early on, at age 14, taking pictures at ringside in Memphis. The workers were so impressed with his stuff that they began taking him backstage and eventually letting him do some ring announcing, until one day Jerry Jarrett asked him if he’d like to be a manager. He was 20 at that point. His first week of managing was actually cut from TV due to time constraints, but by the second week he was back on, cutting a brutally bad mama’s boy promo. He nervously asks Rob Feinstein if he has that clip or not. Rob replies that he doesn’t. Of course, it turns up later on the tape like magic…

- He loves Jerry Lawler’s total mastery of psychology, because he was the guy who really showed that you didn’t have to be a huge muscle-bound freak to win the crowd over – you just had to know how and when to make your comebacks and what drew money. More...