Black Widow
10-26-2009, 03:33 PM
Jim Cornette has written an extremely long and detailed blog looking at his tenure in TNA and his departure from the company. For everyone who expects a nuclear assault on TNA, you won't get it here, but Cornette does express his amazement at the fact that Vince Russo is able to maintain a job despite his professional history and admits that at times, he went against his better judgment and past statements in an attempt to co-exist with Russo.
Some excerpts:
"Bewildered, as I said, at how [Russo] does it. How he convinces people he can do something that he's never actually had any success at doing. Amused, at the preposterousness of it all. Relieved, that a burden is off of me of having to coexist with someone I dislike and trying to avoid criticizing the company I work for. More relieved that I'm avoiding a 1700 mile round trip drive twice a month. Excited, to get back into the pro wrestling business with Ring of Honor. But not pissed. I'm not going to knock anything else about TNA besides Vince Russo, because I want my friends and associates and protégés to succeed and make a lot of money. I don't want Vince McMahon to own wrestling. I don't want to tear TNA down. But my frustration there has always existed because the company, it's talent and crew deserve so much more success than the "work" Russo turns in has allowed them to have. I can only imagine my blood pressure at having to work with the same writing team that made WCW the biggest money-losing company in wrestling history in 2000."
"I admit that I am guilty of what many of you have accused me of--consorting with Vince Russo, working for a company that employs Vince Russo, going against everything I have ever believed or said publicly. I hope this column somewhat explains the position I was in, and halfass vindicates me. If not, I deserve and will accept your scorn and ridicule. In my defense, the one thing I never did was defend any of his writing or ideals--I still had to be able to look myself in the mirror. But it is not without shame that I have spent the last three years fighting the battle of whether the money I earned and the good I was able to do for others justified my tacit approval of this knuckledragging cretin having a job in the sport so many of us love."
Cornette covers every angle, from the day he was hired, what his responsibilities were, trying to work with Russo, his amazement at being told he was doing a good job by Terry Taylor only to be fired a week later by Taylor, the "screaming" story that made the Internet, getting TNA to shoot it down, what he told Dixie Carter and more.
Cornette, who is going to take most of the winter off to enjoy himself, is working on a new book project already (classic photos of stars' early days that he took when he was a photographer) and a series of classic DVDs that will be sold on his website, www.jimcornette.com.
Some excerpts:
"Bewildered, as I said, at how [Russo] does it. How he convinces people he can do something that he's never actually had any success at doing. Amused, at the preposterousness of it all. Relieved, that a burden is off of me of having to coexist with someone I dislike and trying to avoid criticizing the company I work for. More relieved that I'm avoiding a 1700 mile round trip drive twice a month. Excited, to get back into the pro wrestling business with Ring of Honor. But not pissed. I'm not going to knock anything else about TNA besides Vince Russo, because I want my friends and associates and protégés to succeed and make a lot of money. I don't want Vince McMahon to own wrestling. I don't want to tear TNA down. But my frustration there has always existed because the company, it's talent and crew deserve so much more success than the "work" Russo turns in has allowed them to have. I can only imagine my blood pressure at having to work with the same writing team that made WCW the biggest money-losing company in wrestling history in 2000."
"I admit that I am guilty of what many of you have accused me of--consorting with Vince Russo, working for a company that employs Vince Russo, going against everything I have ever believed or said publicly. I hope this column somewhat explains the position I was in, and halfass vindicates me. If not, I deserve and will accept your scorn and ridicule. In my defense, the one thing I never did was defend any of his writing or ideals--I still had to be able to look myself in the mirror. But it is not without shame that I have spent the last three years fighting the battle of whether the money I earned and the good I was able to do for others justified my tacit approval of this knuckledragging cretin having a job in the sport so many of us love."
Cornette covers every angle, from the day he was hired, what his responsibilities were, trying to work with Russo, his amazement at being told he was doing a good job by Terry Taylor only to be fired a week later by Taylor, the "screaming" story that made the Internet, getting TNA to shoot it down, what he told Dixie Carter and more.
Cornette, who is going to take most of the winter off to enjoy himself, is working on a new book project already (classic photos of stars' early days that he took when he was a photographer) and a series of classic DVDs that will be sold on his website, www.jimcornette.com.