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Too Real for the Ring: Learning From Jim Cornette in WWE's OVW

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports, Sports News, News, Leisure, Wrestling

4.8761 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Step inside the mind of Muhammad Hassan as he gives a raw, unfiltered look at his early days in Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) under the mentorship of the legendary Jim Cornette. From the intense training regimens to the behind-the-scenes drama, Hassan opens up about how Cornette shaped him—not just as a wrestler, but as a man.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, it's Sean Mooney and welcome back to Primetime with Sean Mooney. On today's edition,

0:05.5

we have a special interview brought to you by my co-host, Steve Fall. I hope you enjoy it and

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don't forget to subscribe to the channel to stay tuned for more great content.

0:26.5

What is going on wrestling and fantasized the fall?

0:28.3

Welcome back to 10 count media on today's edition.

0:29.6

It's another wonderful day here.

0:31.5

Talking to Muhammad's son and Markipani.

0:32.2

How are you?

0:33.0

Good.

0:33.3

How are you?

0:34.9

I am doing great.

1:11.7

And today we're going to talk about a controversial figure. You either love him or you hate him. It's Jim Cornett. I love him. But what was your experience with Jim Cornett before you got to OBW? What was your experience? Did you watch him on television? Joyous character? What were your thoughts on him? Oh, I hated him. I watched him on TV, and he was just so obnoxious. Him and Brother Love were probably like the two people I hated the most as far as the valets, the managers go, not valets and managers go. But I, of course, I knew who Jim Cornett was, you know, a huge name in wrestling. And he, you know, he, I didn't realize, you know, when you're a kid and you're watching wrestling and you see jim corn on tv you just think that he's on tv and that's his job and that's what he

1:15.9

does didn't realize the depth of his involvement in wrestling at the time i didn't realize that he was

1:21.3

the brains behind a lot of the angles and the storylines and you know i i didn't really appreciate

1:26.1

that at the time but my initial impression was i hate that fucking guy. She was my language. Brother Love, I hated too. Bruce Pritchard, there were two guys that I just absolutely hated to see on TV. And he was one of them. But, you know, in the end, I love Jimmy Cornynett. Yeah, you know, my experience with him when I started watching wrestling, you know, he has Camp Coronet. He has the British Bulldog, Owen Har, Yokozuna, Vader. He has the heavy hitters. He has the top heels all underneath him. And then eventually, you mentioned, like I started discovering this backstage at wrestling. What are you talking about? Like, there's people who write this stuff? What do you mean? And then find out jim kronet is a big part of all this and with your wrestling career getting started

2:05.6

at least in the w w w and ovd when you come in to ov is there a meeting is there a sit down what is the

2:13.7

process to even get into ov you have to write a check when i got into o w whenW? You have to write a check when I got into OVW. When I started, you have to write a check? When I started in OVW, I moved to Louisville from Buffalo where I was going to school. I was going to be a senior at the time. But I started in the Saturday class, which was a class. It was the amateur class. And I had to pay. I had to pay

2:34.6

money every month to train with Nick Dinsmore, Rob Conway, Danny Davis. At that time, Jimmy

2:40.6

was there, but he wasn't there too often. I mean, Jimmy just loves wrestling. So whenever you

2:44.5

could be there he was. But there was, we paid and that's how we learned how to wrestle. At least a few of us was in that amateur class on Saturdays. And we learned from some of the guys that were at OVW at the time. But there was no meeting. There was no sit down. There was like, do you have the money? I have the money. Great. You're in. And that was pretty much it. Wow. That's how I started and I and I was one of the few

3:11.6

people that started out in an amateur class and eventually there's only three of us that I can

3:16.5

recall that started in the amateur class that ever made it to the WWE training camps and then

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