Source: Hit the Ropes & Pro Wrestling Torch
Former TNA writer Jim Cornette continues to speak out against his former company’s writing and management, targeting TNA president Dixie Carter.
During an interview on “Hit the Ropes” radio yesterday, Cornette ripped the TNA writing, specifically Vince Russo, and extended criticism to Carter for what he considers her not being “smartened up to the business.” Cornette’s comments were set up by a question on what Carter could learn from Jeff Jarrett’s grandmother, Christine Jarrett, who was a long-time promoter in the Memphis territory.
“The sad part of it is Dixie Carter couldn’t learn anything from Christine Jarrett. Christine Jarrett could talk to that woman for 15 years and I don’t think it would get through. Christine Jarrett is just way too much smarter than most people in the wrestling business (laughter), especially… As a matter of fact, that popped me, just that visual, of Miss Christine trying to sit down and smarten up Dixie Carter,” Cornette said. “They don’t make women like her anymore and her son was quite a sharp one as well for 40 years in the business. Jeff Jarrett couldn’t smarten up Dixie. He might have come closer to her than either one of them because maybe he could more relate to her on her level. I don’t know. But he couldn’t do it either, apparently.”
Related to Russo, Cornette was asked to name the worst angle he witnessed in TNA, where Russo has said in interviews he would rather throw storylines against the wall to see what sticks than not try anything new at all. Naturally, Cornette had fun playing with the question.
“To be honest, if I quoted one specific one I would be inhibiting a lot of unfairness to all the so-called many, rotten, stinky, bad angles that Vince Russo booked,” Cornette said. “I tend to block so many of them out of my mind that I really can’t recall them without going under some kind of extensive psychiatric therapy.”
“I don’t want to call just one. Basically, anything that Vince Russo has ever done involving more than 12 people and more than 3 of those turning in the same segment, that narrows it down to a couple of dozen. At one point we had a 32-man brawl in the Impact Zone, in four different locations, and that wasn’t even the end of the show.”
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