[1993-08-21-SMW-TV] Down and Dirty: Jim Cornette

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Jim Cornette politely asks for just five minutes of Big Boss Man's time. Cornette talks about his WWF exploits and how Bob Armstrong is trying to keep him from "cornering the market" on wrestling by beating him at Rage in the Cage.

[Kevin Ridge]

Cornette has been having success managing but has some concerns regarding Boss Man and Bob Armstrong in that they could cause issues for him. Taped before the matches we have already seen.

[PeteF3]

Back in time a bit before Rage in the Cage and Cornette's hospitalization--he hypes the WWF Tag Title match at SummerSlam while also attempting to contact the Big Boss Man.

[soup23]

Cornette is talking about the WWF too! We see him here interacting with Boss Man and I wish Ray would have picked SMW over WCW even though we may not have gotten the great Vader feud.

[GSR]

Cornette is in the backstage area at Fire on the Mountain outside the Big Boss Mans dressing room knocking on his door trying to speak to him. Dutch disturbs him and Cornette almost has a heart attack. He asks what is going on in the life of Jim Cornette right now in Johnson City at the Rage in the Cage? Cornette says that he is trying to get hold of the Big Boss Man and just wants five minutes of his time before the Rage in the Cage. Everyone knows that they go back a long time but they havent spoken in years. Hes called him 35 times this week but he wont return his phone calls, hes sent three telegrams but hes refused them. Maybe he thought they were bill collectors? He just wants five minutes of his time though as with the Rage in the Cage and K-Town Showdown, Bob Armstrong is trying to finish him off. Jim Cornette, the Heavenly Bodies and the Bruise Brothers are poised on the edge of dominating pro wrestling. Everyone saw him and the Bodies storm up to the WWF and challenge the Steiner Brothers to defend their World tag team titles against them and they have accepted that challenge. He has also aligned himself with Mr. Fuji and the WWF World Champion, Yokozuna, while the Bruise Brothers are still the Smoky Mountain Wrestling tag team champions. Jim Cornette stands poised to corner the market and have all the belts that mean anything in the world of wrestling under one umbrella, but Bob Armstrong wants to ruin those plans. He wants to hurt the Heavenly Bodies tonight so they cant beat the Steiner Brothers for the WWF tag team titles, and he wants to get his revenge on him so that he cant appear at Summerslam to manage them on their way to the WWF tag team titles and to prevent him from aligning himself with Yokozuna and guiding the Bruise Brothers. There is one key though, that key is who wins Rage in the Cage and that is why hes trying to talk to the Big Boss Man. Jim Cornette is ready to dominate professional wrestling and Bob Armstrong is the only man who can pull the rug out from under him. One way or another it is going to be either him or The Bullet, this place isnt big enough for both of them!

[garretta]

Not a lot new here, but it's a nice little recap of the things that have been going on in Corny's career. It's also a way to make Bossman's presence a bigger deal than it might have been otherwise, although any former (or current) WWF Sperstar showing up on an SMW card was probably a huge deal anyway.

 

Corny puts Bullet Bob over as a threat much more here than he does in other promos, actually allowing for the possibility that Armstrong's Army just might prevail if Bossman doesn't come through. In a day and age where wrestlers are already losing the ability to put their opponents over as legitimate threats, this is a breath of fresh air and something that other wresters would have done well to copy.

 

I don't know how Vince could have worked it, or even if Bullet Bob would have wanted to, but I'd have given anything to see an Armstrong appearance or two at a Raw​ or on ​Superstars to continue his feud with Corny. If they'd really been on top of things, we could have had Bullet Bob as a guest cornerman for the Steiners at SummerSlam. Again, he may have declined even if he'd been asked, but Vince and his people should have at least made the effort.