Jim Cornette Launches Websites, Slams WWE Creative Team In Commentary

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Jim Cornette now has an official website.

Among the site’s many features is Cornette’s Commentary, which gives Cornette a platform for his trademark take no prisoners style of tearing apart whatever’s annoying him in the business. His first entry is on the difference between being writers and bookers in a wrestling show:

Pro wrestling doesn’t have “writers”, it has a BOOKER. “Sports entertainment” has “writers”.

The booker told the talent the subject and time of their TV promos, content and delivery was up to talent. As an example, Dusty Rhodes’ instructions to me might be, “You’ve got 3 minutes, you’re wrestling the Rock & Roll Express in Charlotte, last show there you interfered with the racket so this time they’ve asked for a cage match, and it’s for the Tag Title. Go sell me some tickets.”

Being Cornette, it goes on for a bit. Being Cornette, it’s also very interesting and worth reading. Especially when you hit the meat of the article, about why he thinks WWE creative doesn’t work. He really doesn’t like the practice of hiring TV writers, as you can see here:

It’s no wonder that Michael Hayes, the last remaining person out of the revolving door staff of “writers” who has actually BEEN a pro wrestler, has had public issues with alcohol. After watching these amateur Shakespeares barge into the front door of my profession, wipe their feet on the rug, and turn the business into a clown show resembling the Harlem Globetrotters on acid, I feel like taking up a Mexican black tar heroin habit.

Cornette has also launched Cornette’s Collectibles, a place for him to showcase his massive collection of wrestling memorabilia and auction some of it off. He currently has programs, magazines, photos, and copies of his new book, Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express 25th Anniversary Scrapbook, up for sale.