Jim Cornette Reviews Young Rock's Memphis Episode
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 2022
- From Episode 426 of the Jim Cornette Experience
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This week’s episode showed a short clip of Yokozuna. Now I badly want them to write an episode featuring Yoko just so then can cast someone to play Cornette, then we can all hear him flip his lid. 🤣
That honor should go to the Wrestling with Wregret guy.
That ish would be epic 😂
@@kineticwrestling7520 Brian Zane. Might have happened a couple of years ago. Zane actually had Corny in a couple of videos, but they had a falling out. Something happened on Twitter someone was blocked. Can't really remember the whole thing.
If they got Russo to play Corny...oooooh
I'm pretty sure when they get to an episode that is supposed to have Jim...it'll probably be played by Bruce Prichard in a brother love suit😆
I get why Jim would hate the show as a wrestling historian. But the bitter pill he has to swallow is that the mainstream audience doesn't give a flying fuck about what wrestler was working in Memphis or any other territory in 1987. The show is okay and doing good ratings on NBC.
Suddenly, a wild Slapnut appears!
Brick to the head brigade
Too bad he and Conrad won't talk about this on their podcast
The Hawk sent me.
*Insert pokemon encounter theme*
"Thats J-E-DOUBLE F J-A-DOUBLE R-E-DOUBLE T!"
I heard the encounter music & his fantastic accent!
Just wait until they cast someone as Jim. That way Cornette can pound himself into a puddle of country gravy.
The only thing country about Jim is the barbeque stain on his wife's shirt.
Oh damn there's an 3hr episode there!🤯🤣
@@oceanview11112 I dunno, his love for naner pudding and biscuits is fairly country or rather southern
They would probably have to ask Cornette before using him on the show, since Jim has everything under the sun related to him copyrighted lol.
@BigGreen I don't know if you were just trying to make a joke that Young Rock is a parody of a wrestling show, but that's not the case. It's not a sketch comedy show. I'm sure part of the reason there is such only a certain amount of wrestlers portrayed on that show is because that's who they could get the rights to from them/their estate.
They should’ve included the time Elvis showed up and faced Jerry Lawler!
You guys gotta understand, Jim is pretty much a wrestling historian. He probably was interested in watching the show to experience The Rock's personal journey/Story through those eras and decades as he was living his own life and to his surprise, the timelines and facts don't add up.
Well no in a past episode he said he knows it's all bs having wrestlers in places when they were not there like Andre the giant being in Hawaii so he knows its just a show it just not a good shown
Thanks for clueing us in on Jim's encyclopedic memory of territory pro wrestling. We had no idea.
Fucking Jim 🤦♂️. It’s for comedy purposes i’m quite sure the actual stories aren’t as funny.
You have to understand, Jim is full of crap. He’s a mark that made it into wrestling long enough for people to find out he’s. Weaselly racist stain of a man.
@@introvertstoner Andre was in Hawaii territory
Bruno told me that he was working for Rocky in Hawaii and that's where he was introduced to my dad on a trip over there. Rocky asked him to book him. That's how Bruno got into Memphis. It was thru help of Rocky.
....Kevin Lawler
The story about Rocky Johnson being billed from Texas with a Canadian accent has been told by Cornette before.
Yall should do this week's episode. Where baby Roman reigns asks when he is gonna wrestle Dwayne and he says " a match that big is only for wrestlemania "
Young roman - acknowledge me lol c'mon, man
jim pronounces the W in “what” like stewie griffin pronounces the W in cool whip
Jim and Brian's frustration over the inaccuracies of Young Rock is basically me with any historical drama.
Yeah, but Young Rock isn't even historical fiction per se, it's a sitcom. It seems a bit unfair to expect it to be an accurate representation of wrestling history.
@@user-do2ev2hr7h It's based on a real person. One who is still still living and very prominent. Giving it a different name and completely making up the story is one thing but if it's based on someone real, I think certain expectations are fair.
@@greghughes6098 You also have to consider the fact that it's made for a general audience. They're crafting an image of what the average TV viewer thinks pro wrestling was, not what it actually was.
@@user-do2ev2hr7h which makes it even worse TBH
It doesn't even fit the Rock's own stories, right before episode one he gave Bruno a brand new truck. They told the story of Bruno helping him buy a car off of a random guy, then while driving someone popped up in the trunk or something scaring the Rock. This was turned into the first episode and they made it happen while he was in high school
Rocky Johnson was from Amherst Nova Scotia, Canada
I have a feeling that when he watched Titanic, Cornette yelled at the screen that Jack and Rose are not historical figures.
I understand the aspect of being real for historical content. But this is a show for entertainment it also give life to a lot of Wrestlers who people didn’t even know existed before the Attitude and Nitro era that people can google a learn the real stories. I see it as more of an re introduction to some awesome talent that I’ve enjoyed through out my childhood.
Rocky Johnson was from Amherst, Nova Scotia.
Rocky Johnson and Jeff Jarrett participated in 3 Battle Royals together in Tennessee, 1987.
Can't wait to eventually see who plays Jim
Tommy Lee Jones would be a good one
Vince Russo will play Jim
@@DespicablepunK25 lmaoooo
@@DespicablepunK25 you win the comment section today!
@@DespicablepunK25 as unfair as that would truly be; the scorched earth tirade on him, NBC, and the entire Johnson name that'd be born of that decision would be legendary.
Jim Cornette needs to make an appearance on Young Rock. They can cast Brian Zane.
We have Corny at home. HAhaha
Corny could produce this thing
There's no accounting for taste
That'll be interesting
Brian Zane is a nobody.
Harvey Whippleman being portrayed as a super short guy and he’s cooking eggs while on the toilet and serves them on a magazine 🤣🤣🤷🏻♂️🤣🤣
God, I'd love for them to pull a swerve and cast Vince Russo as Jim! I'd get so much joy from that, 🤣🤣😂😂
I tried to listen to the Conrad podcast and I’m gonna say this here..
My god, ads in between sentences and every 4 minutes!
That boring tone…he’s putting me to sleep!
Jim, we have our differences in opinion but I would like to thank you for being the BEST wrestling podcast out here.
To offer a bridge between Republican and Democrat…
I truly love your wrestling mind and entertainment. Hell, I love Brian last… don’t quote me… after listening to other podcast I truly see the value in you both. Thank you for all of this quality content.
Conrad used to not be that way before Bruce went back to WWE. I've really grown to dislike the ad in between sentences. At least put it at the end of a sentence. This is why I listen to these 2 (Jim & Brian) no ads(the sponsor ads are priceless though!), they keep it interesting, no monotone voices, & it lasts 3 hours. Love their work!!!
His pod wit Double A is decent, but neither one of them are very lively. Other than the inside info/perspective and my appreciation for Arn Anderson, there’s really nothing it has going for it
Yeah, Jim and Brian are definitely the best duo. Out of the wrestling podcasters, they have the best chemistry and they tend to have more energy behind their reviews and takes on stuff. They don’t pull punches on their takes and always been upfront about how they felt about something.
Lawler was never a commentator in JERRY JARRETSs promotion. Lance and Dave did it for decades. Except for a short time when Lance went to WCW. Then Cory Macklen filled in, but never, never ever the King. It just urks me how wrong it is.
I recall someone once starting a bit of a comment war over their insistence that if Jim ever parts ways with Brian, he'd put on a much better podcast with Conrad as his co-host.
I mean you are free to not like Brian Last as a person but it's clear him and Jim have pretty damn good chemistry and I honestly can't see anyone else clicking with him to this degree. One-off conversations with various other people? Fine. However someone else he could stand to converse with twice weekly and not want to throttle after a few months? Lol I doubt Jim will ever find someone again like that.
It was NOT Lance and Dave but I grew up on it and the studio was pretty spot on save the old ring sound, which was pretty specific.
Cornette reviewing Young Rock should be a weekly staple
Heels too
@@jackjohnson2360 I'm glad you brought up Heels! I was gonna start it a few weeks ago but forgot. Good stuff?
@@jackjohnson2360 is this any good? had forgot it was a thing, had stopped seeing previews for it.
@@jakedasnake_2093 it wasn't great
Heels is a good show. I look forward to watching season 2.
Lance Russell would have been the Memphis announcer in 87 i do believe.but i could be wrong about it . We didn't get Memphis wrestling here in Canada but I'm sure from the Apter mags it was Lance
I live in Nashville, and you're right.
Dave Brown and Lance Russell
You're correct. Lance was slighted in Man on the Moon, despite how widely-aired the footage was of Lawler vs. Andy Kaufman and how prominent Lance's voice was in that footage (Jim Ross took his place in the film). Therefore, it's not surprising that Lance would be slighted again.
Bam Bam was fined and left Memphis During the Lawler/Idol & Rich before Rocky showed up in 1987. Rocky came in to team with Dundee, they won the International tag belts, shortly afterwards Dundee brings in his old partner George Barnes, Barnes treats Rocky like crap and says some racist crap, turns on Dundee leading to a singles feud, meanwhile Rocky starts teaming with the future Virgil doing an Apollo Creed gimmick, Virgil is gone after a few weeks to go to Vince's circus, then Rocky"s main rival during his '87 run was Superstar Bubba aka WWF"s Tugboat. Rocky has a couple of "dance offs" with Bubba in the WMC studio. Babyfaces Jeff Jarrett was teaming with Billy Travis and feuding with Tanaka and Pat Diamond during this time. According to legend Rocky was involved in a rape charge of some female fan and disappeared from the Memphis area, and pretty much stayed disappeared until his son's WWF run nearly 10 years later.
bubba could dance
You left out one of the funniest parts. Young Rock and his family watching Yokozuna on Monday Night Raw.Rock's little Cousin Joe is trying to get Rock to wrestle him and says "Acknowledge Me!".Rock says that's a match they'd save for Wrestlemania. The Jerry Lawler guy looked bad but he had Lawler's mannerism down pat and sounded exactly like him.
Its funny that Jim and Brian dont realize that this is a dramatized tv show. It's not a documentary. It's meant to be entertainment only.
Thing is that it covers up a lot of the really sketchy stuff the Rock's family has done so it doesn't even seem like entertainment but rather a PR campaign for the Rock's image.
@@thommytsunami yeah I can see that too
@@HkFinn83 I can't tell. They're complaining about a sitcom being inaccurate. Im a corny fan, but his disdain is unreasonable
@@thommytsunami Are there videos we can watch about this?
@@dlmoney11 No it isn't unreasonable. They don't need to change much of the history, yet they do so in inane ways. Why? It doesn't make the product better, it just makes it horribly inaccurate. Perhaps a lot of the changes are like someone else said, PR for Rock so people don't see how Rocky Johnson really treated his family. Why was Lawler the announcer? That makes no sense and doesn't add anything to the story that having Lance as the announcer would have done.
I remember specifically an episode on Memphis wrestling when Jeff Jarrett was breaking into the business Robert Fuller chased him around the ring and hit him in the arm with a bat and broke his arm supposedly this was right after Jeff had stopped refereeing I believe and was working on getting the crowd to love him and feel sorry for him
Anyone else think that was Virgil at first look?
In 1987, Johnson was arrested and charged for rape of a 19 Year-Old Tennessee woman. He claimed he was "set up" by rival wrestlers. The charges had him blacklisted from wrestling, leading him to alcoholism and a strained relationship with his son until several years later when he became sober
As if that would get you blacklisted from the wrestling business.
@@Rjensen2 The fact of it?
No chance.
Being charged for it, and it being public?
Yeah.
He wasn't "blacklisted" from wrestling. He kept wrestling until 1991. He was done as a major-league wrestler when the WWE got rid of him in 1985. The problems toward the end of his career were that (a) he was old and (b) by the late 1980s the smaller territories were on their last legs.
And anyone claiming his alcoholism started in 1987 is living in a fantasy world. The strained relationship with his son was partially due to him having two wives and two different families.
Bigelow wrestled in Memphis in 1986 as a heel, then went to World Class with Larry Sharpe as Yurkoff then returned to Memphis in 1987 as a baby face enforcer to help Lawler in his feud with Rich and Idol. He left before Johnson returned to Memphis in the summer of 1987.
OMG, that intro stutter was Porky Pig level of gold!
Wait until Rock goes through Memphis on his way to WWF a decade later...I can't wait for Jim's reaction to that.
So according to Bruno himself from a few years ago, Rocky Johnson invited him to Hawaii to wrestle there. That's were Bruno met Lawler. He give Lawler a lot of credit with his career. But it looks like he was friends with Rocky Johnson first, and it was Rocky who introduced him to Lawler, according to Bruno himself.
Did the Mohel snip Last's sense of humor also.
Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!😎🐐🐐
I watched the episode. It was extremely inaccurate but entertaining. The actor who was supposedly Bam Bam Bigelow actually resembled Bigelow in my opinion.
I just don't get why the show is so offensive to him, although this time he wasn't as hateful towards it but last time he was pretty rough on it, for a show that isn't expected to really be taken too seriously.
@@verygudwerker3048 because a show depicting and recounting what actually happened at the time of each episode though perhaps not as entertaining and anti climatic would have been better in his and many wrestling fans opinion. the uninformed would have gotten to learn something about the rocks past and his fathers career and the smarks would have been shown what they have learned through research or just by believing what historians and what the rock actually saw or knew himself..it comes off more like a show written by WWE writers and “historically recounted” by Vince “history fabricating”McMahon
@@tobiasfarragut292 except the show isn't trying to cater to wrestling fans. It's on a major network for a mainstream audience. The show really isn't even about wrestling.
@@anthonyanderson9303 thats true they’re not. But the goal of a show at least if I recall through experience is to grab the whole audience.. not just the mainstream nitwits that have no idea what really happened and will happily believe and even understand those events as actual history rather than fodder for the show..that’s the issue..if its not a show for wrestling fans then leave that part out or only mention it when its relevant to the episode content ie. something that happened with “dewey”. the few episodes I labored through saw me enjoying the parts with dewey and atta not the skinny under 7’ andre or the anemic ric flair or bloated JYD
@@tobiasfarragut292 Well I realize now you don't actually watch the show but if you did you'd realize they show very little wrestling because...wait for it...this show isn't about wrestling! There's a reason the Rock when he started making it big in Hollywood he separated himself from the industry cuz there's a negative stigma about it. It's not as bad as it was 10-15 years ago but there's an element of it there. This show wouldn't get the ratings it does it focused the majority of episodes on wrestling. Even Heelz doesn't do this.
have you watched and reviewed "Heels" on Starz? I'd like to hear Jim's review of some of that!!
I’ve finally got to watch it and amazed at how good it is loved the show
There is a sitcom currently on UK TV called Deep Heat. About a family run wrestling company in the north of England. It's not very funny tbh, but it does give me the odd chuckle. But I can't help thinking what Corny would say about it. I wonder if Corny has Britbox?
Just a heads-up, Rocky Johnson was NOT from Ontario. He was from Nova Scotia (home province of Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon, & Brad Marchand from the NHL). He was born in Amherst, a small town (POP 9,000) that sits on the border to New Brunswick. Rocky was my step-fathers favorite wrestler as a child & was probably the most famous man to ever come from there.
I'm pretty sure i remember seeing Rocky Johnson fight Scott Hall at the Evansville Coliseum in 87
Rock's gonna make his wwf debut beating Andre to win the North American belt
I wouldn't expect anything else at this point.. sheesh 🙄😂😂
I love the actress who plays the Mother on the show
I saw the new episode of Young Rock with the intro of Roman (acknowledge me). It’s a great way to promote the potential Roman vs The Rock…but other that…I take every moment in this show with a grain of salt. It’s majority entertainment
It's ALL entertainment, what do you mean majority?
Wrestling is also supposed to be entertainment
Is that the real reason they're keeping that clown Reigns around, for an awful feud with his more successful cousin?
@@leonrobinson2475 It's Sports Entertainment pal🤑
@@leonrobinson2475 Cornette wants it to be more realistic. But at the end of the day, it’s entertainment
I watch the show for what it is. A fictional comedy loosely based around the rock that includes wrestling.And watching as such, I actually really enjoy the show and laugh at least once or twice an episode.
@Dodge Morningstar yessir lol most crap I watch and think why is this even on?
Rocky Johnson against the Orient Express in Memphis...damn.
Bigelow left in March 87 and Rocky Johnson entered in April 87, at least based on cagematch.
There's litterally a video on YT of Jeff Jarrett & Downtown Bruno
I love how sometimes Corn answers a question i considered e mailing without me doing it, I remember bad company from EcW in 94’ for a few matches and a rivalry with PE but didn’t understand their notoriety they had because they seemed like a good makeshift team..oops lol my bad
Bad Company were managed by DDP when they beat Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannety for the AWA Tag Titles in 1988.
@@jaydav6521 nice….those tidbits r cool to find out I got to actually take the time to watch some AWA on the stupid peacock
@@tobiasfarragut292 I haven't seen AWA since it was on ESPN back in the 80s.
@@jaydav6521 welp!..u can for the low low price of $4.99 each month (Shameless plug)
I wonder if they'll cover his dad's activities.
They will, but heavily inaccurate.
Activities?
They havent mentioned a single infidelity yet
Wait. The Rock's dad and Virgil beat Typhoon and the Omos of their time.
Holy shit.
The show is growing on me can’t lie.
Is it just me does Brian Last not seem too fond of Dwayne Johnson? Lol he seems a bit agitated to talk about him at times.
Yeah he doesnt like him for whatever reason but Jim highly respects him so he’s less disrespectful than he is about Vince or Bruce Prichard
@@TheeCoachg Rocky Johnson was a grade A+ piece of crap. Especially when it came to the ladies or even girls at some points.
Last has issues with almost anyone richer than him…i wonder why that's the case…
#oyvey
@@A_real_Ha_So What, are you jealous? Hearing this has raised my respect for him.
Someone tell Corny this isn't a documentary
I feel your pain, guys. This episode could have easily been far more accurate if anyone involved did something as easy as google "Memphis Wrestling 1987". Nearly every episode is posted on CZcams. The laziness involved is mind knumbing.
It bothers me that we have all these things like Google Search to have accurate information on things and we still don't use.. We have become some lazy bastards now.. WE HAVE KNOWLEDGE AT OUR FINGER TIPS AND REFUSE TO USE IT!!
Then go watch a documentary instead of having expectations out of a half hour primetime sitcom lol.
Ohhhhhh I missed this!
Holy SHIT, I just clicked on this but aint watched it yet, just reading the comments here and WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON
Rock helps 16 grandmothers to escape a burning building,what do you think Brian.I bet he started the fire himself..The hate is real.
in 30 years I dont think I've ever heard of a show referencing Memphis TN Wrestling.
wait don't know if Johnson was down there?
There was Letterman. And Rocky was in Memphis.
Rocky wrestled in Memphis a lot. He was actually the Southern Heavyweight champion at one time when he was there.
5 : 04 😂
Bruh, they gotta be ribbing us? There is no way Jim doesn’t understand that this is a sitcom , a TV show and not a biography on the History channel. Of course the producers are going to take creative liberties with The Rocks recollections on his childhood. What will bring in more viewers - a show about wrestling with a few guys we’ve heard of but a bunch of no-name guys with no personality OR do we fill those no-name guys with well known guys from the 80’s to pop the older viewers and maybe get more viewers. This is not rocket science people.
Has Jim ever explained the different styles of wrestling? Were they different by territory back in the day? Like, one territory might be more into hardcore, one might be into the technical mat wrestling, high flying, etc?
He has on a few different occasions.
Yes ..here is how I would describe them from watching
AWA ..very technical and amatuer wrestling mat based
NWA ..technical pro wrestling with snug element...think Brett Hart or Bryan Danielson
WWF cartoonish and entertainment
Mid South ...strong style and blood and guts .big guys .. heavy hitters lots of punching kicking and power moves
World Class ..good mix of high flying no pun intended with strong style elements and blood and guts
Calgary... technical high flying strong style
Why didn’t Rocky Johnson last in Memphis? They alluded to something happening but stopped talking about it,
I don't think it is meant to be a documentary
Jim cornette for DVD commentary
Thanks spectrum
He was from Nova Scotia, not Ontario.
This is pry the only show like this that will ever even talk about Memphis Wrestling. I know it ain't perfect, but i think it's pretty cool
WWE owns many of the territories old tapes. WWE is on Peacock TV. They had plenty of valuable research to get this piece of wrestling history right.
It’s a tv show not a wrestling historical documentary. I love Cornette’s historical wrestling knowledge but he’s seriously upset that the wrestling timeline is off while The Rock is campaigning to be president in the 2030s on the same show. The show is not going to be 100 percent accurate but I’m sure it’s mainly true about the people who made Rock become Rock because that’s what the show is about. The show for me is hit or miss on certain episodes.
I think the Rock said or suggested some of the show is only told through stories he was told and as he remembered etc, so it could be inaccurate. Idk
You forgot to mention that the Rock is the owner of the XFL.
Hey, Cornette, don't you run down Rocky Johnson's Canadian pronunciation, Dwayne Johnson inherited his charismatic flair from his father's colourful Canadian personality! (But I suspect that Rocky Sr.'s accent was more Nova Scotia than Ontario.) (Yeah, I'm in Calgary, Alberta)
I’m just now seeing this, but did the show really not have Lance Russell as the announcer?
Memphis in da house! 901 represent
My mom knows nothing about wrestling other thing it just existing in the background but yet she absolutely loves young Rock
Rocky Johnson is from halifax NS
Maybe they're confusing him with Abdullah the Butcher.
It's a comedy Jim not a documentary
OK so I'm confused in not super big into wrestling...but every Sunday here in Louisville KY on TV wrestling would come on(this is in the early 90s to mid 90s ) and they would have ppl like the MOONDOGS and Jerry Lawler would sometimes wrestle but mostly he would be commentator as well....and there was this tag team pg 13 lol. But there was also what they said was Jerry's son ...Brian Christopher (at least this is how my mind remembers) and I swear either I saw the king tag team with Brian Christopher once or he was part of pg 13....WAS THAT IN LOUISVILLE OR IN MEMPHIS ....someone plz clarify also is Jim from Louisville....I used to go to the Louisville gardens with a friend I think it was every Tuesday or Wed.......I'm confused because I saw where Jim was either in charge or owned a wrestling ..I don't know either association or whatever you call it....I need a history lesson ...like I said I'm not all that into wrestling but the history and lore behind all this is fascinating to me...the time when I was INTO wrestling was like stone colds and rocks time...I wonder if that was the hey day for wwf....it was right before they had to change the name lol
I can tell you two things: 1. Jim Cornette did run a local wrestling association/show (they're usually called promotions) called Smokey Mountain Wrestling, continuing after most local ones disappeared and WWF and WCW dominated them. Some famous guys were there at some point. 2. The time of Stone Cold and the Rock was the time with the highest profits for WWF/WWE, and the weekly viewership was much higher than they had when Raw was created and Bret Hart was a top star, bringing back fans' interest from WCW back to WWF. Some people believe the company peaked then and has been declining ever since, and some of those people furthermore believe it's a conspiracy because they don't want anyone to get famous enough to leave wrestling and not depend on them.
Thank you for clarifying a lil for me I tried looking up a video on it but there wasn't anything specific
Uncle Bam bam Bigelow had interesting tattoos
Did Jim know Rock when he was young?
Its possible ... Rock would have been very young ... in 1987 Corny would have been in the NWA long gone from Memphis.
it’s storyline and comedy over accuracy. i don’t think anyone is taking it that seriously haha
For someone who grew up in Hawaii that show does not look like Hawaii.
Where is Uncle Buck Zumhoffe?
Not Ontario. Nova Scotia
Why didn't The Rock hire Jim or Brian to be the historic consultant for the Young Rock show?
Because neither The Rock or any of the other produces are interested in delivering a historically accurate document.
They want views and the cash which it generates.
Simple as that.
I went and watched the episode after I watched this review, I wonder if they found a guy that looked like Bam Bam Bigelow and then wrote an episode then found out they couldn't use the name.
This episode is exactly why I stopped watching Young Rock after episode 2. I've been watching wrestling for way too long and this show messes with the timeline so much it hurts my head. They just use household names and try to fit them into a story regardless if its true.
I understand if you have to add something to a timeline to keep the story moving or interesting but they are butchering history here and I can't take it neither..
The Rock looks like Hans Moleman
Based on the series, The Rock created the ladder match in grade school 😆
How come we havent heard a review on the Moxley vs Yuta match, Jim?
On some level this is the history according to Rocky Johnson via The Rock and all the bullshit Rocky would have spewed to his son and THEN turned into a palatable sitcom.
Eventually they got to Pat Paterson saying Crusher's name was stupid and Rocky Johnson telling him he should listen to Vince and Pat in a kind of redemption arc. So that's the only reason I can think of to bring him up as Crusher.
They keep talking about this Saudi Arabia thing now and I can't find any reference to it or why he got released/fired from the WWF.
The show is entertaining but I agree it's so far out of reality that it's crazy. Like I didnt follow much of Memphis cause that was before my time but even I noticed things were off. Like I know for a fact that Jerry Lawler was not a suit wearing announcer for example, hell even in the WWF/E he never did. And Bam Bam was already Bam Bam by then. Also heels and babyfaces talking in the parking lot of the tv station was a big no no back in the day. You get fined easily for that or worse.
Mantaur was no longer on the roster when Rock had his first dark match.
I imagine the process of creating the show goes something like this.. Rock says this one time when I was 8 years old in Hawaii we had a party and a bunch of wrestlers were there.. Joe Blow, Jack Jack, Fly Guy, Big Curtis.. and then the TV people go let's say it was Andre the Giant, Macho Man, Iron Shiek, and Ric Flair instead
Brian has an issue with hyperbole apparently. Christ dude we know Rock doesn’t really find cures for cancer in his spare time
I just gotta say it: we don't talk about Bruno
What happened to make Johnson leave Memphis? Brian breezed right over it.
Cornette is my favorite, but it is a sitcom he's talking about. It doesn't have to be perfectly accurate, it's not a documentary. He even says "just enjoy it". And that's how I have approached it. It has its moments, but overall I like it.(I've been a fan of Memphis wrestling since 1975 as a little kid). BTW, on the Memphis episode I thought whoever was cast as Jeff Jarrett was a ringer for him.
Soul Train Jones!!!!!
I like the show.