He has contributed positively to the business he obviously loves so much, even in this century.As I have gotten older, I kind of understand why my parents liked the show and why they forced me to watch it. His history with Rollins and his contributions to Dark Side of the Ring show him to be more than the crotchety gatekeeper his detractors cast him as. It's unfortunate to see Cornette, not too far removed from his latest exit from a promotion, alienate someone like Rollins. Cornette considers keeping Rollins from signing with TNA one of his biggest accomplishments in recent years, given that it kept him from potentially suffering the same treatment as wrestlers like NJPW's Kazuchika Okada (or two of Cornette's many nemeses, the Young Bucks). In the time it took TNA to get back to Rollins, WWE finally made him an offer to join their developmental territory, FCW. Cornette reasoned that if TNA wanted him now, they'd still want him in the week it would take to clear some things up. He advised Rollins to ask some questions before signing with the company. ![]() 2 promotion in the United States due to lack of interest from WWE, but Cornette found TNA's offer insulting. Rollins was considering taking an offer with what was then the No. In fact, Cornette paid him the compliment of comparing him to the legendary Rick Rude, leading to pleasantries between the two being exchanged on Twitter. The personal connection is an interesting wrinkle to the story. Rollins is one of the few active wrestlers whom Cornette does not actively root against. Related: The 5 Most USELESS Wrestling Championships (That WWE NEEDS to Resurrect) Rollins went on to say the comments caused him to "lose a lot respect for someone that people have already lost respect for." He was hoping his connection with Cornette might make him think twice about making the comments he did, about women in general, and his wife in particular, and that he wouldn't be able to forgive Cornette for them. It can be difficult to keep up with all of Cornette's problematic takes, especially if your schedule is as busy as Rollins' is. Rollins might have missed Cornette calling Impact Wrestling's Jordynne Grace a "butterface" because she had the temerity to say wrestling was a performance art, or his recent comments about Dana Brooke. He said the statements hurt "on a personal level" because Cornette "is someone who is a legend in our industry, he is someone that I’ve personally worked with in my time at Ring of Honor, and for him to come out and say some real negative things, some real misogynistic things about women in general and pregnancy in the industry, it kind of caught me off-guard." Rollins responded to Cornette's comments on Corey Graves' podcast, After the Bell. He finished by putting his listeners in Rollins' shoes, asking, "What would you do if your wife came home and said, instead of making a million dollars next year I’m gonna basically just be a raging bitch for the next nine months and then give you more shit to worry about around the house?!" While that might be wrongheaded, what really caused the controversy - or at least exacerbated it - were his remarks about what he believed Rollins would have to look forward to when he came home to a pregnant, non-revenue generating Lynch. Comparing the 33-year-old Lynch's ability to have a baby to an "Easy Bake Oven" that wouldn't shut off for years, Cornette said "she can have all those problems like a distended stomach and stretch marks and hemorrhoids and hormones problems and mood swings and all those other joys of motherhood later on when she ain't making a million dollars a year!" ![]() ![]() (Cornette admitted in a follow-up segment that he wasn't thinking about WWE's guaranteed contracts when he made his first comments.) He repeatedly fixated on the idea of Lynch passing up a million dollars to have a baby, as if she were the Joker lighting a tower of money on fire and not someone WWE would still want to use for PR purposes. He compared Lynch choosing to have a baby and going on maternity leave to "one of the boys breaking his leg on purpose" to get out of working. Most of Cornette's incredulity stemmed from his frame of reference coming up in the territories. Related: Dark Side of the Ring Just Revealed WWE's Most Controversial Booking EverĬornette couldn't fathom how Lynch and Rollins would choose to start a family in this point in their careers when Lynch was arguably WWE's top full-time star. His take on Becky Lynch's pregnancy, however, saw Cornette go old school in a way far beyond that. Most of the time his takes, as vitriolic as they are, can be chalked up to a combination of personal taste and his being an "old man yells at cloud"-style curmudgeon. What his podcast is most known for, however, are Cornette's scathing rants at modern promotions and talent that offend his old-school sensibilities - these days, it seems like that's most of them.
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