[1992-04-25-SMW-TV] Interview: Jim Cornette & Heavenly Bodies

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

These guys really, genuinely hate the town of Beckley, West Virginia.

[Cox]

Cornette does some tremendous local promos ripping on the coal miners and mountain folk and what have you.

[shoe]

Awesome. Plus when you know the backstory they really hate Beckley.

[El-P]

Am I crazy or does Dr. Tom sound a bit like Roddy Piper ?

[rainmakerrtv]

Am I crazy or does Dr. Tom sound a bit like Roddy Piper ?

There is a fair stretch of his career where it could be said Dr. Tom was doing a Piper imitation in his interviews.

[Kevin Ridge]

I never noticed it during his time as Skip but maybe he never got to talk with Sunny. But watching these yearbooks, I started to really notice how much he sounded like Piper.

[FLIK]

Heh, Pritchard freely admits he was a Piper rip off and he actually wrote a really great blog about it just a couple of weeks ago

 

At the moment his website http://www.drtomprichard.com is down but you can read the google cached version here

 

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/sear...om-best-or.html

[MikeCampbell]

Wow. They do no like the city of Beckley.

[WingedEagle]

Definitely didn't pick up on Pritchard channeling Piper here. Great local promo by Cornette.

[PeteF3]

Prichard's Piper impersonation is relatively subdued here. In USWA-Texas it was blatantly out of control. If there's one pukehole Stanfield Lane does NOT want to go to, it's Beckley, West Virginia.

[Mr. Lacelle]

I never noticed it during his time as Skip but maybe he never got to talk with Sunny. But watching these yearbooks, I started to really notice how much he sounded like Piper.

? Chris Candido was Skip.

[GSR]

Not much to add for this one, just that Stanfield hates the pukehole that is Beckley, WV! Fun little promo for an upcoming house show.

[garretta]

Great local promo for an upcoming Beckley card. Not much of substance can be said in a minute fifteen, but it's an opportunity to hear Dr. Tom talk as a Body. I never minded the Piper imitation; he naturally sounds a bit like Rod, so why not take advantage of it to try and make some money? It got a bit out of control down in Texas, but I think Papa Jarrett wanted it that way so he could have something close to classic 1984 Piper in the booth. Once Tom's time as a commentator was over, the "Piperness" in his voice came back to its natural level.

 

These Fantastics were the Fulton brothers; where was Tommy Rogers, and did Corny try to bring him in at any point?

 

Why exactly do Corny and Stan legitimately hate Beckley, West Virginia? I have a feeling that I've heard the story, but I've heard so many of Corny's stories about why he hates certain towns and people that they all run together.

[dawho5]

Beckley really took some shots here....wow.  Are they wrestling against the Fantastics or the town?