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Jim Cornette addressed the latest accusations of abuse that have been made against him on the most recent edition of his Drive-Thru podcast. Cornette opened by addressing his accuser.
āHe did apparently train in the OVW system at some point around 2017 and thatās the only other wrestling connection that Iāve been able to find is that one of his social media accounts, his profile picture is a meet and greet pose with Sami Callihan. Thatās very interesting.ā
Before Cornette continues on, he states that to give his point context, he alleges that this individual, @AKI_Evolution, has photos of another wrestling talent that he somehow acquired.
āThis guyās got somebody elseās shit in wrestling that he donāt want them to have and donāt know how that he got, so obviously heās starting a career here. I donāt want to go into that any further cause itās not my place, but this other guyās probably going to go into this further if anything else happens.ā
As far as his work with OVW goes, Cornette talks about his initial 1999 to 2005 run with the promotion and says how he only pushed the top talent and gave other talent the opportunity to perform on television.
āI pushed all the people I should have and half the people I shouldnāt have, but everybody got a shot and it was not given out on any fears or favors for anything. And itās never been said before in the 15 years since. The only problem I had when it came to pushing talent was when they were telling me to push the talent was when they were telling me to push the talent that had never been in front of an audience before, that got a little unpalatable, but that had nothing to do with the accusations of which we speak.ā
āYou donāt think that these guys who became the most powerful wrestlers in the largest promotion in the world, especially during a period of time where John Lauranitis wanted to get rid of me, get me out of the way here at OVW, wouldnāt it have given him some help?ā
āThis wouldnāt have come up by now, as many fuckinā horrible things? Not one person that I ever supposedly made that offer at that time, ever privately, publicly stated it to anybody, eccetra.ā
Jim Cornette then talks his 2010 return to OVW after Danny Davis lost his affiliations and was going through a rough spot. Cornette said that he agreed to write TV for him once a week. This was around the time when he was in ROH and he was just working on the Sinclair purchase so he was home a lot. One night a week, Cornette was writing the TV and trying to help teach talent how to perform on television. Cornette stated that there was nothing on the line for talent as their was no affiliation. OVW at that time was only a straight wrestling school and he said there was only about four guys that could likely get a contract with anybody. He also says that he didnāt book the house shows because Davis was never sure who would be able to show up due to work obligations.
āSo the idea that there was anything to withhold or reward anybody with, you people donāt know how the fuckinā wrestling business works,ā he said.
āThat doesnāt sound like a high-pressure environment where, āHey, come bone my wife or Iām gonna fuckinā take this goddamn giant opportunity away from youā might be existing at that point, does it to you, Brian?ā
āIt does not. No,ā said Last.
Cornette said that time was his last creative stint he had with OVW and did a couple of outside deals here and there. He claims that he hasnāt paid any attention to the OVW product since.
Regarding the idea of him bribing the Kentucky Athletic Commission, Cornette said it would be ridiculous for him to go to a government official and ask him to for favors because that would be a crime for said official.
āIāve never asked the Commissioner or the Representative of The Commission of the state of Kentucky to test, fine, suspend, harass, cuss out or in other way, mistreat anybody or do any favors for anybody in OVW or any other company.ā
āIāve applauded him a few times fining or suspending some of these promotions, but Iāve never asked him to do it,ā he adds.
Cornette then flat out denies any sort of bribery or blackmail from talent.
āI have never offered any wrestler, male or female, preferential treatment, a job a contract or push or anything else related to their employment or threatened the same or the opposite if they would or would not engage in ribald relations with me or my wife. No quid pro quo, not tit for tat as they say in some of these cases.ā
To clear all the controversy, Cornette also states that heās never done any of the activity thatās been accused of some other people in the wrestling industry during the #SpeakingOut movement.
āIf you take out the manipulating peopleās jobs accusationsā which weāve just basically drawn and quartered as they say and illustrated was fuckinā ca-ca, what youāve got left is Iāve been charged with having an interesting sex life!ā
What Cornette mostly took exception with was the idea that heād tamper with the business operations of his job or jeopardize anyone elseās in wrestling.
āThat was how it hurt me the worst cause of course, you know me I donāt have human feelings and I donāt give a shit of what people say, but I was indignant that people would say that Iāve monkeyed with my job or the business or other peopleās jobs, but then it becomes āOh my God, theyāre crazed sex maniacs.'ā
Thanks to @DominicDeAngelo of WrestleZone for the transcript.
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