#33 Jim Cornette on the History of Professional Wrestling
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
There's a good chance you don't appreciate how engrained professional wrestling is in American history and culture, and this episode is about to change that. We didn't know all this either until wrestling legend Jim Cornette was kind enough to spend an hour taking us from wrestling's origins in the late 19th century up to the sport as it exists today. Jim knows the sport like no other- he's been part of the professional wrestling scene since the 1970s, and currently hosts the tremendously popular podcast The Jim Cornette Experience. Jim has also been ringside (and sometimes in the ring) for some of wrestling's greatest moments, including the April 5, 1982 showdown between Andy Kaufman & Jerry "The King" Lawler (that was his first time on national television), and his storytelling is second-to-none.
This episode also features wrestling aficionado Jon Burr making a special appearance as guest co-host. Jon is the host of the NBA podcast The Fastbreak Breakfast, the front man for the band How I Became the Bomb, and Ben's friend & neighbor.
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| 0:22.8 | This episode of The Road to Now is a rebroadcast of episode number 33, |
| 0:27.1 | Jim Cornett on the history of professional wrestling, which originally aired in December of 2016. |
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| 0:45.5 | We'll be back with a new episode next week. Ben, you and John Burr spoke with Jim Cornett. |
| 1:10.5 | That's right, we did. We spoke with the legend, Jim Cornett. That's right, we did. |
| 1:11.8 | We spoke with the legend Jim Cornett. |
| 1:14.1 | And I hate you couldn't be there for it. |
| 1:15.8 | It's one of those ones where I always feel bad when Bob can't be there for an interview. |
| 1:19.6 | But it's easy for me to forget about when these interviews are incredible. |
| 1:23.8 | So it was so good. |
| 1:25.7 | Jim Cornett, for those of you guys who don't know him, he's been a part of professional wrestling since the 1970s. He has an incredible podcast called The Jim Cornett Experience. And this guy is, he knows professional wrestling inside out. And as we spoke a little bit earlier on with Charles Hughes, wrestling really reveals a |
| 1:48.4 | lot about American culture. |
| 1:49.8 | And it has changed. |
| 1:50.9 | And the way wrestling has changed has gone along with American politics. |
| 1:55.0 | It has gone along with changes in technology. |
| 1:56.9 | It has gone along with, you know, the centralization of employment that has largely defined the latter |
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