I'd pay good money to hear Jim have a conversation with himself alternating between his Ernie Ladd and Dusty Rhodes impersonations. 😂😂😂

"Bundeh! You big, fat piece of shit!" 😂😂😂😂

On Ivan Putski "He's so dumb he stayed up all night studying for a blood test." -Ernie Ladd

When I was teaching in Franklin, on of my black students came up to me one day and said," Mr. Powell, guess who I saw walking down the street in Franklin yesterday?....Earnie Ladd!!! So I asked him what he did and he replied, "Walk to the other side of the street!!!" How's that for being and over heel in what became his home town???

Ernie Ladd lived in the same town as I did and went to the same church as me in Franklin,LA. Use to come to my house and eat with my family and I. He was a real nice,humble guy.

"YAK YAK YAK.....YONK YONK YONK" Big Cat Ernie Ladd is undoubtedly on EVERY RASSLIN FAN'S Top Ten List and you can take that to the Bank Mr. Television Announcer! The Big Cat Is Simply Legendary

"Ya Betta pick up the phone and call somebody!". Love me some Ernie Ladd.

"You dumbed yourself right out a position" - Ernie Ladd

Still my favorite Jim Cornette impression of Ernie Ladd. "You're stealing money Bundy. Every time you cash a check, you're stealing money."

Ernie "The Big Cat" Ladd is a legend.

Ernie like Brody and Hansen were so popular they could do what was best for them financially.That is a good feeling.

“Mr Solie, you been drinking? Must be that drunken Indian Wahoo McDaniels!!

Ernie Ladd R.I.P. to a Franklin, LA legend

"THIS AIN'T GIVIN' TEXAS ....THIS IS HOUSTON TEXAS......" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

my dad worked for the KC Chiefs and i got to meet him many times. very very nice man

Ernie played at Grambling which is in Louisiana.

Big Cat made his own schedule ...Legend

That was why Ernie Ladd walked like Frankenstein at the end of his career. To save his knees...

“Mr TV ANNOUNCER”

I drove Ernie in Chicago in wwa a few times, "if I don't get the money I'm not coming back " 😁🤑

In my opinion, Ernie Ladd should've been the 1st African American World Heavyweight Champion. He was the black Ric Flair. He was a ahead of his time on the mic

"TONY ATLAS! KEEP THESE TWO AWAY FROM EACH OTHER!" - I fucking died.

Jim Cornette with the Goose Creek South Carolina shout out!!😂 that's where I live

“Ox. The natives are getting restless!”

The Ernie Ladd/Brisco Brothers fight story is great!

It sounds like Jim had great admiration for Mr. Ernie.

Ladd was in the first house show I ever attended in 1979. He teamed up with Bruiser Brody vs. Dick The Bruiser & Andre The Giant. Pretty good match.

The Big Cat was a true Legend inside and outside the ring.God Bless him. RIP Ernie Ladd!!

Ernie Ladd was a lot like Andre The Giant. They had home territories, Ernie with the NWA and Andre with the WWWF, then WWF when Jr. took over, but they were always on the road wrestling for whatever other promotions would have them. They were legit road dogs. And like George Steel has said; "Great workers don't need a belt." Ernie Ladd and Andre The Giant were great workers.

Early 60's Detroit I was about 10 y.o. after the matches at Cobb we'd go get autographs. Asked Mr. Ladd for an autograph he said "Next time" I said " You said that last time" he stopped in the middle of the street dropped his bag grabbed the pen and paper and signed his name.

Bryan's Ernie Ladd impression is almost as good as Cornette's.

Very mind-boggling that Corny connects a very long generation of wrestling. Surreal to hear him talk about WWWF in one clip and AEW and NXT in another.

Ernie felt he made way more bank touring territories, than he thought he would've staying in one place. Otherwise, I would've loved to have seen Ladd as an NWA champion

Whoever does these drawings doesn't get enough credit. This guy should get paid 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰

I have seen Ernie Ladd in person several times. I was probably about 13 years old the first time. He was a fuck'n MONSTER ! He was awesome 👍.

Big Cat" Ernie Ladd 💛🙏🙏R.I.P. 🙏🙏🙏❤ I watched you growing up. You helped paved the road for many blacks in Football,l and. Pro-Wrestling. You were professional, and classy!!! One of the best heal wrestlers of his era. Loved his matches with Andre the Giant. You will be missed!❤

A.Vangaurd needs a Cornette compilation of Ladd stories produced.

Great Heel---One of The Best--I remember his run in old WWWF in the 70's beating up on Sammartino....Morales...Jay Strongbow....great on the mic

I vividly remember as a child when The Big Cat feigned being knocked out from Chief Jay Strongbow’s sleeper hold on Georgia Championship Wrestling. Ernie then tied Chief Jay in the ropes and plucked his feathers! I was sad all Saturday because of that! Without The Big Cat, there would have been no Rock. You are missed, Mr. Ladd

Jim is just the perfect Wrestling Historian Story book

Ernie ladd was just awesome he was wanted every place he was a favorite of my dad still remember when we would watch ernie and the thumb I tell you great times and ernie was just awesome brings back great memories and sad. Dad isn't around anymore and so is ernie miss pops terribly and ernie is also missed I really hurt when I think about this time. God bless I miss you dad and I miss the wrestling of the 70s.

I love ernie ladd and hearing this story of him breaking up a fight while his knees buckled made my soul smile

Ladd was a big star. He headlined everywhere.

Big heels didn't stay in territories (def not WWF) in the 70's for long. When Bruno and Backlund were champion, they'd bring big heels in to stomp guys for a few weeks and then work main events for a few months, wrestle the champion and then split, maybe for a year or longer. Guys didn't stay around. It kept things fresh.

Ernie Ladd was completely awesome

Ernie unfortunately had a bad gambling problem and lost a lot of his money. His wife still stays right by the bayou off of Main Street in Franklin,La. He had a son that was pretty big,but always got into trouble. S/o to Jim for saying my hometown of Franklin lol it’s a small town of about 5,000 ppl. WWE actually came to my high school because they were shooting a documentary on him,I’ll never forget that.

Bundy, you dumbed yourself out of position!

"TONY ATLAS!!" sounds like CHARLIE-MURPHY!

Corney as Dorothy 🤣🤣🤣

One of my favorite Ernie Ladd memories as a kid growing up in the Mid-South area was when General Skandor Akbar showed up with Afa and Siki at a TV taping while Ladd was being interviewed and Ladd said, and I may be paraphrasing, “What is HE doing with MY Samoans?”

Jim and brian, keep up the great work!!!👍

I saw Brad Armstrong go thru decades of gimmicks..none stuck. Ernie Ladd telling Sweet Brown Sugar "I WANNA TASTE YA!!" 😂😂

Love me some Ernie Ladd!

Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!😎🐐🐐

I think the Cornster has been used as Dorothy art multiple times now 🤣🔥☠🔥

This whole story sounds like Thin Lizzy's "Boys Are Bacl In Town!" 😅 "If the boys wanna fight you better let em!" Keep it fair tho! No weapons! O. Btw. You're still workin with each other tonight! 😅 I love it!

Goose Creek reference!!!

Absolutely love listening to Jim’s story’s of the good old days. I was definitely born too late !

This is the kind of question asked when the fan doesn't understand how different things were back then. Most guys didn't homestead.

I remember Earnie Ladd and Dusty Rhodes on CWF in the early 80's

Grapes on tooth picks CORNY always quick with it🤣😂🤣💪💪

On October 16, 1984 that Great Christian Athlete Ernie Ladd wrestled a scientific match against that talentless pretty boy rule breaker Magnum TA and scored a no-controversy-middle-of-the-ring-pinfall-victory to win the match and the Mid South Wrestling North American Title. Ladd brought honor and dignity back to the Championship after Magnum TA besmirched it by holding the title.

Well that brings some context to the shoot fight Bourne and Duggan had at that school gym event a few years ago.

It interesting to see, a lot of modern fans don't understand how over a ton of guys were, and didn't need "the belt"

5:35 and I'm ☠. 😆😆😆

saw Ernie Ladd on wrestling at the chase out of st.Louis .awesome days previous memories

Ernie was a mainstay in mid south when it drew big money.

A bleach blond, a Russian and a black man walk into a bar. . .

Greatest of villains easily. Pure pleasure to watch

Hey man jim knows his fuckin wrestling

5:36 makes the drawing even funnier!

I clicked on this mainly for Corny’s Big Cat impression so I was disappointed to only hear one brief line.

I used to watch Bundy and Ladd in OKC Great times

Travis needs awards lol hahaah im fucking dead

This might just be Travis Heckel's magnum opus!

Matt Borne got in fights with Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Arn Anderson, Brian Blair and Buzz Sawyer.

"Bundyyyyyy......ya big fat piece of sh*t!"

I grew up in the Northeast in the 70s and early 80s. He may or may not have faced Backlund but I do remember Ladd challenging Andre.

Nice. Now I have to look up bullet Bob.

Too bad their isn't more tape of Ernie from his prime days

Ernie was not from Texas ...he once lived there ....he was born and raised in Washington Louisiana and lived in Franklin until his death .

I can understand why his knees were bad.. hard wrestling rings no mats on the outside of the ring and in football back then you could chop block someone and no flag, no penalty him being a DE going after the QB... getting double teamed on his pass rush...

Can you imagine A guy as tall as Omos, but possessed by the spirit of Ernie Ladd.

Bourne was kinda like Savage (and to a lesser extent Batista) in that he'd ALWAYS start a fight, but always lose em.

Ladd was born in Rayville, Louisiana for the record .

Wasn't Brad masked heel wrestler "Badstreet"?

This thumbnail painting is money.

Watch Tony Atlas on the Boston Wrestling channel most weeks a more surreal and entertaining interview you won't find.last video a George Wells quick finish story , wasn't a squash match.

Corn doesn't believe in AAChamps lol

A couple of favorite Ernie Ladd matches. On June 8, 1977 Buddy Wolff & Ivan Koloff defeated Dusty Rhodes and Ernie Ladd. This match saw Ladd do all the work in the ring while Rhodes was out in the crowd signing autographs. When Rhodes finally got the ring he was pinned fair and square without controversy. On July 16, 1977 Ernie Ladd defeated Dusty Rhodes and two masked men, (probably the Midnight Rider & Uvalde Slim) to win the NWA Florida Heavyweight Title. Ernie Ladd is a real man. Dirty Roads should have spent his time driving buses or plucking chickens.

Jim in Alice Wonderland thumbnail 😂😂😂

The "Matt Borne beating up his girlfriend" portion of the story that's glossed over...yikes.

Hm. If Brad Armstrong had a snarky side, the fans never saw it. His mic work was always a bit too milquetoast to be interesting. If it's true that a wrestlers persona is an extension and an amplification of his real personality, he missed an opportunity to mix things up and go heel, like a Gino Hernandez. Father vs. son, or brother vs. brother would be instant generators of heat.

That picture, Fuck! Ha ha ha ha

Ernie worked Dusty during the 70s in Florida.

Eric Ladd was the Hulk Hogan of his Era. Big guy and great performer!

He was black too duuh

Goose Creek SC in da house!

Dream match would be the big cat vs Dr D David Shiltz two big strong lads beating the shit out of each other

Just came across this episode & about Brad Armstrong, imo his best work was as a heel in the dying days of WCW when his gimmick was the Armstrong Curse