[1992-08-01-SMW-TV] Interview: Jim Cornette & Heavenly Bodies

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Cornette has the perfect segues. He asks if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable, then says if the Fantastics are tomatoes, they are fruits that will be turned into vegetables. Then he pulls a tomato out of a paper bag and slices it against the barbed wire Pritchard is holding to make his point. Good promo.

[shoe]

I really liked this. Had a real 80's feel when the wrestlers would have the gimmick in their promos. Heck it was one of Watt's rules for promos. The visual with the tomato was cool.

[El-P]

SMW is doing old-school hardcore before ECW could. Good stuff, the point of the dangerosity of the barb-wire is well taken.

[Kevin Ridge]

Good work of showing off the barbwire even if it was only demonstrated on a tomato. They should have tried cutting through Stan's toupee.

[WingedEagle]

Cornette & the Bodies setting up a barbed wire cage match vs. Fantastics w/ Bob Armstrong as ref. All the heat seems to be on the fantastics. Cornette rips up a tomato on barbed wire in a really effective spot.

[PeteF3]

We need more gimmick demonstrations during wrestling interviews today.

[GSR]

Tom Prichard is wearing heavy duty gloves and carrying the barbed wire, whilst Bob Caudle says that Jim Cornette has been smiling about everything, but Bob Armstrong is going to be the referee and he is going to even things up. Cornette says that Armstrong only takes care of his friends and those who mean something to him, but he will be in the barbed wire cage with the Fantastics and the Bodies (kind of implying that there is every chance he will get hurt as well). Cornette goes on to say how the barbed wire will rip cows, horses and will sure rip the Fantastics. He then uses some tomatoes to represent the Fulton's and shows what will happen when they step in the cage, and shreds the tomatoes on the barbed wire.

 

Good promo and build for the match at Fire on the Mountain. Stan Lane just stands there and comes across more disinterested the more I watch of the season. Maybe he's just concerned about that pesky wig falling off his head? Never expected that he would be my least favourite part of the Bodies act when I started on this.

[garretta]

The demonstration is what makes this. Corny being the student of Watts that he is, it only makes sense that he knew how to do a segment like this better than anyone. One touch I liked was his constantly warning Dr. Tom not to squeeze the wire too hard even with his gloves on; it's so dangerous than one wrong move could have seriously injured his hands. This is another example of how Corny has grown as a promo guy from his days in JCP, when he would never have pulled something as serious as this off so well.

 

Meanwhile, Lane stands off to the side and doesn't do much of anything. Magnum's right; he's been looking more and more disinterested as time has gone on, and I'm surprised Corny's putting up with it. Whatever's going on, it's about more than a stupid toupee (at least I hope so).

[dawho5]

Loved the demonstration here.  Really showed how dangerous the barbed wire cage is.  Also love how Corny never even mentions the chance that his guys could go into the barbed wire.