Pro wrestling legend Jim Cornette recently took to an episode of his Jim Cornette Experience podcast, where he discussed a variety of topics such as how no money will be made from a match between CM Punk vs. The Elite as Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks don't want to draw money and they don’t want anybody to jeopardize their position, their company, their revolution and their movement.
Jim Cornette said:
“If they had that lined up, laid out, then all this would be perfectly acceptable. And wishful thinking would indicate, you know that everybody would want to see that, right? Oh, yeah, everybody gets back together. We have this big program, it draws all kinds of money.”
“But what you are overlooking is the fact that these f*cking douchebags don’t want to draw money. They don’t want anybody to jeopardize their position, their company, their revolution, their movement.”
“If anybody gets over or is more important than them, or shows people that their wrestling is sh*t, and that people still in larger numbers react to sh*t they can understand, that’s bad.”
“And you would have to assume that the Buckaroos and Twinkle-toes were willing to work with a guy like Punk who they’ve had heat with, or that Tony would be willing to deal with a guy that’s told him to go f*ck himself or whatever.”
Jim Cornette also discussed the differences between how former WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon did his bookings compared to how AEW President and CEO Tony Khan is currently doing his bookings. He said Vince McMahon's booking decisions was all about business, but Tony Khan's booking decisions is not at all about business as the only people who have any kind of pull with Khan are the ones protecting the spots they have in the company at the expense of everyone and everything.
Jim Cornette said:
“Now I know, people are saying, Well, hey, Vince McMahon has put the WWF title on a dozen guys that said f*ck you to him or whatever, before that. Yes, because Vince was all about business.”
“This is not business. This is fantasy booking by a billionaire boy child. And the incredible windfall that these self-trained, self-important, self-indulgent nitwits have fallen into by getting said billionaire boy child to f*cking fund their goddamn vision of what wrestling is.”
“And it ain’t working, because they’re in the same place they were three years ago. But they’ve had tons more bad publicity. Ticket sales are going down, ratings are going down, everybody’s getting in a fight backstage.”
“And the only people in the locker room that have the pull with Tony to get him to do anything, are the ones that are protecting their spots at the expense of everything else.”
Jim Cornette then discussed how there would be money in a match between CM Punk vs. Kenny Omega.
Jim Cornette said:
“So yes, in a perfect world, this would all be a work, but it’s not. And it’s not going to be and they don’t have it in them to call Punk and say, alright, let’s put this f*cking behind us, let’s make some money. And let’s be honest. Besides the same group of people, you could probably get Punk and Olivier If people thought there were real legitimate bad feelings – which there are – you could probably get a pay-per-view out of them.”
“To have Punk in the same ring with the buckaroos would just be bringing him down to their level. There’s no money to be made there anyway, because the only people that would care would be the same people already watching the show.”
You can check out Jim Cornette's full comments at this link. H/T to Inside The Ropes for transcribing the above quotes.
