Jim Cornette is at it once again. Earlier today, I posted about this on our Twitter account @PWPNation and just couldn’t believe what I was reading.
So I listened.
And Cornette said every single word about a brand of wrestling that dares to be a little bit “different.” Jim Cornette buried Lucha Underground in a rant that contains some extreme and harsh language. I thought that maybe…just maybe that the rant I read was exaggerated.
But it wasn’t. Every word was said. Here is the rant in its entirety:
“This fucking Lucha Underground horse shit. That is the most heinous horse shit that I’ve ever seen in my life. We joked off the air and I said, “Well, I’ll probably like the match, but I won’t like the concept of the show because it has writers.”
I didn’t like nothing. This is more embarrassing than anything I could have dreamed of. It’s a TV show. It’s a movie. It’s not wrestling. It’s not a sport. They make no pretense of even attempting to make this shit believable.
The production is incredible. It looks like Scorsese directed it. The cinematography is wonderful. It looks like a John Ford Western, whatever the fuck. I can’t say enough about the production. And it’s another nail int he coffin of wrestling to being taken seriously as a sport or anything that’s not completely predetermined.
There’s nobody on the face of the planet that could watch this shit and believe that there is any legitimacy to it whatsoever. It shouldn’t be called pro wrestling at all. It’s a movie and they’re wrestling in the movie. That’s all it fucking is. That backstage horse shit that obviously takes multiple takes to shoot something like that. Nobodies believe these people. It’s a scripted performance of a movie or a TV show. That’s all that shit is.
And then, good God! I watched Prince Puma and Felix. I know Lucha is obviously acrobatic. But this was a choreographed fucking Chinese acrobat Olympic gymnastics tumbling routine! That’s all that fucking was. A 3-way ladder match is more garbage horse shit hardcore wrestling where they’re beating each other with furniture that doesn’t work with you and somebody is going to get killed. And just more of this ladder goofiness. And the recap of the year, where there’s Vampire hitting people with light tubes and thumbtacks on the ground.
And John Morrison, I like, he was an OVW guy. I like him as a person. I’m sorry to see him in that atmosphere instead of real wrestling.
The only way to save this God damn horse shit is if they get everyone in that fucking Temple who is associated with Lucha Underground and all the tapes of everything they’ve ever shot and put it in the same place and then drop a nuclear fucking bomb not he whole God Damn Thing!!!!
That would be the best way to treat Lucha Undergound if you are a wrestling fan who has any pride in pro wrestling as a performer, as a professional or as a fan, because it’s more writers happy horse shit making wrestlers phony.”
Newsflash Jimmy: It’s not 1988 anymore.