What about Judy Bagwell on a Forklift Match

"When your snake turns on you, you know you've made some bad life choices."

On-a-pole matches lose their appeal these days because everyone is using weapons all the time anyway both outside and inside matches that it's nothing special.

Travis kinda drew Jim to look like Janet Reno here. Lol 🤣

I love these mini dives into certain topics. Keep it up.

That's old school territory stuff. You didn't even need sound to know who was face and heel. If he runs to the ring and does a lap around it giving fans high fives. Tries to shake the opponents hand before the match. Pretty sure that's not your heel. On the other hand. If he comes out already pissed off. Spitting cussing raising 9 kinds of hell. Threatening little old ladies and sucker punching the opponent during hand shake.....that probably not your baby face

Stripper on a pole match

When I hear Coal Miner's Glove match, I think of Sting vs Jake Roberts at Halloween Havoc 92

If I had this clip to explain the law of diminishing returns when I was in college I’d use it

The first one I seen was in early 1970 at pikeville, KY. At a coal mine. Two miners was fighting.

I recall promos for Duggan vs Dibiase, in Mid-South, for a Coal Miner's Glove match. Duggan showed the glove, on tv, with a close-up, where you could see the metal studs on the knuckle area. They looked like about $4-5 in queartes melted solid and mounted on leather. You definitely believed that if it really connected with someone's head, there would be blood and broken bones.

In Stampede if there was a Street Fight between say Dynamite Kid vs Bad News Allen, both wore jeans and cowboy boots to the ring and both men had taped fists.

I remember when WWE went to gimmick ppvs to draw up ppv business and thinking how stupid that was. Now TLC and Hell in a Cell matches (which used to be terrifying matches) are just what happens when those months come around and they have to shoehorn in reasons why to people who just started a feud have to now fight in Hell in a Cell.

The rabid mice cage match sounds like a winner to me.

A match between Jeff Jerrett and Kurt Angle, Karen on a pole match

We need an Infinity Gauntlet on a pole match! If the heel snaps his fingers Dave Meltzer will record that half the attendance was papered.

Portland wrestling had coal miners glove matches in the 1970's

10:40 I'm glad to hear a burly lumberjack was able to help you finally get it up ;p

Crockett Promotion had "pole matches" Salt Miner Glove, Coal Miner Glove, Kendo Stick, Capture the Flag. Jimmy Valiant was the center of most of them. Makes sense now with his history in Memphis territory. Ivan Koloff worked most of them with him and they were in WWWE together in early 1970s. Don't know if they had any programs together there.

For some weird reason this reminds me of Vince Russo

Portland had a “Loaded Boot on a pole match” featuring the Legendary Grappler

The Sting V. Jake the Snake match was Sting gets the coal miner's glove, but Cactus Jack comes out with a sack and a snake handler's glove as Sting's climbing the pole, and so now Jake has the snake out of the sack (supposedly a cobra but it did not look like one to me as I recall), and Sting has the Coal Miner's glove, and Sting kidney punches Jake from behind and the side, which has Jake 'lose control' of the snake, and it bites him in the side of the face, lacerating him in the face and presumably filling him with venom (On top of this, Jake is holding the snake and trying to make the snake bite him and pressing it's fangs against his face, so if this was a legitimate venomous snake even if it had already had it's venom sacs milked or even removed, Jake had to be completely out of his mind to do this), and Cactus Jack sort of tries to help Jake out of the ring to receive medical care, all while Jake wobbles out of the arena to the back, snake in hand. All of this happened in about 2:30. Memorable enough match because I think it's the only time I ever saw a coal miner's glove match, but also the only time I can remember Jake getting injured by his own snake. It was a terrible match but Jim Ross sold the hell out of it.

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

I could listen to Jim drop knowledge all day. Everything he's talking about is almost a completely lost art form. Guys can't cut promos anymore. Guys barely have grudges or even angles. Now its just two little athletic dudes doing, "flip, flip, big move, kick out" and then the crowd chants and Meltzer says its the greatest match of all time.

All Star Wrestling out of Cloverdale British Columbia Canada used to have coal miners glove matches from time to time. I saw one once in Oliver and it was freakin' brutal.

16:47 Jim described the same problem that comedians had during the transition from vaudeville to national television. Comedians had years and years of practicing and perfecting their routines in front of live audiences, and then they could still perform their perfected routine in front of an audience who had never seen it before. That doesn’t happen with national tv. George Burns described as “they’ll never be as good, because they no longer have a place where they can be bad.”

A remember on the Knoxville matches they were doing a promo and dinged the bell with the glove.

Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!😎🐐🐐

Mid-South had the “on the pole” matches too. I remember Hacksaw Butch Reed vs Jim Heidhart in a “Football Helmet On A Pole” match in the early 80s

Portland wrestling also had stretcher matches, chain matches and kendo stick marches in the 1970's

Can we finally get Cornette vs Russo at WrestleMania in a 🎾 on a pole match!

I saw one in the early to mid 80’s with Chris von colt v Wildcat Wendell Cooley loser leaves continental championship wrestling It was awesome,I still remember it to this day

Jim would wrestle a cheeseburger on a pole match

Shame they never did any coal miner's glove on a pole match cross-promotion with Loretta Lynn... writes itself, man.

Amarillo territory had "diamond glove" matches, a "diamond " studded glove on a pole.

Feast or fired was another example in a way

Idk what anyone says. The "Judy Bagwell on a Pole" match was a 5 Star instant classic and should be preserved and ejected into space so that future forms of intelligent life can know what our species had to offer before we destroyed ourselves. We should only show them the very best and this is one of the candidates for the probe that must be sent.

For a secound i thought it said jim cornette on a pole match lol

Is it just me but does anyone else think it would have been funny to see a verry young Jim Corrnet on Joe LeDuce shoulders as the latter being on tip toes to put the strap on the poll

GWF in the early nineties had a ten grand on a pole match, the bag of money fell into the middle of the ring and Cactus Jack snatched it in the middle of the fight, smiled at the camera and took off and they had to reset the match and get the money back from Foley lol

"On a pole" matches can be great. At our last event we had the first ever (as far as we know) Weaponized Coal Miner's Glove Match. The crowd was hot for it and we didn't do any crazy over the top stuff.

"Standing on the shoulders of giants" Almost perfectly literal moment.

It all boils down to storytelling. It’s not a question of the business changing or anyone being out of touch. Either you can tell a story and get an audience interested in it, or you can’t. This concept cuts across all entertainment forms not just wrestling, and it is timeless!

Oh all the other Territories did the On a Pole match, the Pacific Northwest was actually where the Coal Miners Glove started with Dutch Savage vs "Apache" Bull Ramos. Don Owens, the promoter for the PNW, always finished his shows with either a Two out of Three Falls or a Pole Match, coal miners gloves, kendo sticks, baseball bat, chains, all sorts of things were on that pole

The coal-miners-glove match was still popular here in Portland through the '80s.

I always wanted to see a pole match on a pole match

Jim mentioned the object in the tights spot, I haven't seen that in years and years. Is it still done anymore?

I think the worst one was the Pepper-on-a-Pole match when Big Boss Man put Al Snow's dog on the pole and Al had to save it.

the simplicity of this makes so much sense and makes you wonder why wrestling is like it is now, less is more

Paddle on a pole matches were great.

JUDY BAGWELL ON A POLE!!!

"I've heard tell" Jim using phrases I haven't heard since aI moved up north

When I first read the title I thought it said "Jim Cornette on a Pole Match. The sequel to Judy Bagwell on a forklift

I believe back in the Calgary Stampede Wrestling days, they would call this a Gauntlet Match

russo was a memphis fan bro

I’d like to ask Jim about the Fukin Galaxiens or whatever they were called lol

Stampede had those matches but the glove always just looked like a heavy Welding Glove.

I was first.cant wait to see Jim in Knoxville 5 days from now.love the Cole miner glove match.watching mark curtis put the glove on the pole was the best part of the match rip#mark curtis#

2:09 whose promo is Jim quoting ?

Honestly thought the cartoon of Jim was actually Judy Bagwell

Dutch Savage has claimed he invented the match in Portland (at least with the Coal Miners glove).

Dutch Savage in Portland

4:12 No, it was Krusher Kruschev.

Didn't it start in Nashville when The Gulus family ran it?

That "spin tge wheel make the deal" gimmick was all dusty rhodes.

Very disappointed to find out this wasn't a review of a "Jim Cornette on a Pole" match that I hadn't previously heard of

There were coal miner's glove matches in Crockett. Even WWF did nightstick on a pole and such.

Would have been great when Ivan Putski's son was wrestling to have a Pole on a pole match.

Missing a divas match on a pole' but they would have to bring back 14

"Geritol on a pole match"- Stunning Steve Austin

I own a couple of pairs of coal miners gloves, they make great work gloves for use with grinders, though i guess you should call it a Granite Mason's glove since i live not 10km from a granite quary in northern canada and got them from my uncle who worked the quary for 20years

i always loved the 92 coal miners glove match. where jake was bloated, drugged up and clearly unable to climb to the top turnbuckle let alone up a damn pole. no one bled. there were certainly better options on the wheel they could've done (bull rope, first blood, etc)

Poor old Judy Bagwell...

Pinata!! Pinata!! Pinata!!

Curt Hennig was in a coal miner glove on a pole match in awa

Coal miners glove match bayyybee...

Something that immediately took the suspense out of the stip for me was when the babyface would get the object, but then the heel would use it and end up winning anyway. At that point it's like why do it?

Coal miners don’t wear special gloves fwiw... sometimes the electricians wear a lineman’s glove but that’s about it... just regular work gloves

21:25 seen some of the best matches drunk af at the fairgrounds Edit: timestamp

I wonder if it being a Tennessee territory it was just understood what a coal miners glove was. Idk though, Memphis is a long way from coal country

Ultimate Surrender? i'm sure wherever JBL is, he's got a browser tab open to that particular genre.

Popcorn on a pole...

Corny looks like a young, thin Judy Bagwell in the artwork.

It's a hat on a hat

No sunny on a pole match?

Nothing is protected anymore. I believe Randy Ortons RKO is one of the only protected finishers in wrestling. Once he hits it, no one gets up. Nowadays a wrestler has to hit a finisher 5 times to pin an opponent, ridiculous. They should have a finisher on a pole match and when you pull down whatever they hang up, then you can do your finisher, sound silly but then again on a pole matches can be silly!

I kinda found it odd that most of these matches generally took place where at least some people would know there is no such thing as a coal miners glove.

I hear coal miner's glove match I think Portland and Dutch Savage. They had one just about every other week and he would always bring it out for the babyface to get even with the heel.

The sixteen year old corny story was fantastic.

They need to do another 3 stages of hell match

Strap-on on a pole match

The whole “no ads in the middle of a sentence” thing isn’t going too well....

Terry Tory

AWA dying days: Turkey on a pole won by Jake the Milkman

Already been posted...wtf

Dies Jim have any idea what Ultimate Surrender match is. Lmao 🤣 Goggle it.

One of these days I’m going to convince WWE’s Naomi to take me on in a “Sit on my Pole” match 🤷🏾‍♂️

If you want to know why WWE is so different from Corny’s vision of what a wrestling promotion should be, just look at the financial statements of WWE. Revenues for 2021: From media: $936M From live events: $57M From consumer products $101M Out of the media revenue: Network & PPV $215M Core content (raw&nxt) $575M Advertising $71M No wrestling promotion in the 70’s could survive if only 5% of the money that came in was from selling tickets. Further down the report says that they ran 88 live events and averaged 6,880 tickets sold.

“THE” Russos?!?!? There’s more than one???? Good god Jim. Please tell me there isn’t. Please Jim tell me it’s not true. 😱😱 Our society’s gene pool can’t handle it.

I would pay for a "midget on a pole match"..... Sorry, little person. Or a "4 corner each Mcmahon on a pole" match