Only thing shocking is that Cornette was once
widely considered to be a voice of reason in pro wrestling. One of the big reasons he has a podcast is because there were people begging for it, based on his shoot interview rants from RF video, and well, mainly the kayfabe commentaries interviews. Also, the fact that WWE was run by Vince McMahon, an old man that, while he did figure out the equivalent of an infinite money cheat code in life, he had lost touch with what wrestling fans liked. Vince was also surrounded by yes men, and thus, all Corny had to do is not be retarded himself for a while, and voila. He is practically getting free money via podcasts.
I usually keep away from most american pro wrestling these days and stick to CMLL. But man, the more I think about it, the more I realize that Corny is a lolcow. Probably not quite worthy of a thread here (it'd die soon after getting off the ground, imo). I'll just say this to avoid a wall of text: think back to the days before Cornette and every other wrestling personality had a podcast. Were there even a few cracks showing back then? Not really, as far I can tell. I think there was one odd clip where he shit talked Canada. The clip where he impotently yelled at Santino Marella at a convention was after he already had a podcast, iirc.
Other than that, Cornette was practically worshipped by the hardcore fans.
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PS: I hope he thanked Maffew for the Cornette face idea. That was 100% an idea from botchamania.