I could listen to Cornette talk about behind the scenes all day. It really is fascinating.

As one of the 5,000 people watching Smokey Mountain Wrestling in Pikeville, KY, I had no clue this was going on behind the scenes. Wow.

Love hearing the history about professional wrestling. It is deep and complex and has had an effect on sports, television, pop culture, and everything in-between whether the average person realizes it or not.

I love these segments more than the reviews honestly. Still love the reviews but these take the cake

This is why Cornette has the #1 wrestling podcast The stories, history and just insight like this that most just don't offer.

This was a fascinating segment in how the territories and spot shows worked. Heard it on the podcast and glad to see it segmented out here.

Cornette's memory on this stuff is astounding. He really is library of pro wrestling knowledge.

Thank you Jim Cornette. When you do this it’s very informative.

I could sit under the Jim Cornette learning tree all day.

I love listening to The History of Professional wrestling all the way back when events were held in house shows and Travis knows how to make the best art work!

For tv tapings, Memphis territory received around $400,000 per year in today's money.

I used to go to WWF charity shows in the 1990s in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. They were held in a small gym with only about a hundred people there (which was 1/4 of the gym). It was fabulous! Ringside seats were only like $15, and you could see Randy Savage, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, etc.

History lesson for free. Just listen and learn.

It's kind of wild how the old days of wrestling relied on community support so much, and I don't even mean people showing up for the matches, like Jim always talks about local teams, restaurants, radio personalities, construction companies etc and it's cool how wrestling as a business is anti-big corporation simply because you cant own all of those individual pieces that make wrestling truly successful.

Overlooked in all this is how insane and exhausting it is to work 7 days a week doing anything.

Jim is like a giddy kid on Christmas opening his presents talking about Old School Wrestling and I love it

I might be a little bit strange or weird, but I always enjoy listening to Mr Cornett talk about the business from the prime as I remember it, especially here in the UK from my childhood, more than I do actually watching wrestling today!

The horror in Brian's "What?!" at the thought of Synn swirling her tongue around Jim's big toe, and Cornette's subsequent total no sell had me in stitches.

It just now hit me that Jim Cornette is so compelling, I'm entranced by him talking about accounting stuff.

You also have to remember this was old school wrestling. Where a match would be a hip toss, knock down arm drag, which is perfectly fine! Those guys earned $500 a night to just do that.. whole guys today will get slightly more but have to do a 450 sunset flip on a burning table to get one fan to tweet about it.

Man,this segment was really great. Most of us know the 'basics' of wrestling's past...but Corny gives you the small details that you never could have guessed. Especially w/numbers concerning pay outs/costs/etc and how promoters skimmed poi off the top.

Let's go Jim Cornette!

Jim brings a good perspective. It seems that when you add in cost of living, it was easier for a poor or middle class person to achieve economic independence in the 70s and 80s

We have heard so many stories about supposed robberies at the box office. Can you blame us for thinking guys weren't making money back then?

Yeah that was a fascinating segment I had to listen to twice. Amazing how different things were back then vs now.

Too many 2/3s. He must be using Steiner math

This is like taking a course in Wrestling Economics with Prof. Cornette.

This is Jim at his most brilliant.

I love how Wrestling could help the community! As a fund raiser. I remember this from my childhood!

Tickets were a lot cheaper then even accounting for inflation

It's amazing that Corinth Mississippi was mentioned in a good light for the first time ever,, I was born and raised there

Jim is making another point that people born after 2000 might not get, these people were dealing in a cash business so they were not claiming taxes on all their money so they pocketed more profits.

I do my shopping in hohenwald cause it has the closest wal mart to my house. Believe it or not wrestling still draws a crowd. My wife is from hohenwald just thought it was cool to hear it mentioned.

When I was a little kid I saw a Mid-South spot show in the Eunice High School gym in Eunice, La. I don’t remember much about it except that a babyface Ted DiBiase and Mr. Olympia (Jerry Stubbs) were on the card bc my brother had Polaroids of them signing autographs.

This says less about how much money promoters used to make and more about how the dollar is barely worth the paper it's printed on now.

Jim Cornette talks about the facts and gate $ in his book and the attendance. It's interesting to me he is the best talker in the Wrestling industry and I like listening to him.

this stuff is so interesting to me, the logistics of running shows back then. I would love to hear more stories of Jim’s early days in the business.

I've never heard the sponsor spot for this. i was crying, laughing at Jim's conviction, and Brian's confusion

God it’s crazy how much things change in wrestling. Back in Jims day you wouldn’t go to a tv taping because they wouldn’t do anything cool so you go to the live event but when I was a kid we would hate when the show was just a “live event” because we knew they wouldn’t do anything cool because it’s not on tv lol

I live close to the Hopkinsville, Ky area and Evansville, IN area it’s crazy hearing where these territories once settled where I’m from. I remember Memphis wrestling was always around the Evansville area as well as the Smokey mountain promotion.

Sell tickets? Hell, even WWE and AEW have trouble giving them away.

I don't know what's better - listening to Corny spin his tales or Corny riffing on the sponsors to his co-host's dismay.

I love hearing about this stuff. The hate watching modern stuff is fun sometimes but this is why I'm subscribed.

This is the type of segment I’m here for. Thank you.

People can disagree with Jim’s views on current wresting but when it comes to stuff like this he’s unmatched … Could listen to it all day …

I’ve literally spent the past 25 years wondering what happened to that storyline 😂 I remember the 2 weeks of promos on it and the match but them never wrapping up the Diana part!

I love it when JC takes us all to school

I was born and bred in Johnson City Tennessee. And wrestling was in my blood. I was 17. and went to watch wrestling at least twice a month. at the legion Street rec. I would watch the Fuller Brothers. Adrian Street. Ron and Don write. big bad Wolf. the hands of stone Ronnie Garvin. Kevin Sullivan. But that's not the end.i also went to Smoky mountain wrestling quite a bit. I truly enjoyed it.

Love how anytime cornette talks about oldschool wrestling the views are thru the ceiling

Jim's knowledge and records of the Terriyory days is Amazing!!!

As an Evansville, IN native, I love how often Jim uses Evansville as an example on the podcast.

I would really like to hear Cornette review wrestling games from over the years

These are the segments I like. The history of the of what it was like back in the day.

Really enjoyed the breakdown. Then you imagine every part of the country with a active territory, crazy going back and looking at some of the small towns drawing 2k +.

I wonder if there were less savory sponsors for spot shows. Surely somebody was trying to make more than the cost of new football uniforms?

These are the segments I live for

When I heard this on the podcast all I was thinking for the 45 minutes was “holy crap I can’t wait for this to hit KZfaq so I can send it to several people I know” this was amazingly informative and I loved every second of this lesson.

Nobody knows more about rasslin than Jim.

The awa did have shows in smaller towns in my area in the late 70's,at 2 area high schools

when you live like 20 minutes from North Wilkesboro where almost nothing ever happens; and you randomly hear Jim name drop it... nice lmao btw there is nothing in North WIlkesboro now, prob even worse 30 or 40 years ago

Good one. Love to see what's behind the curtain

I thought the promoters made money by putting the house profit in a basket, throwing it in the air, and giving the boys whatever stuck to the ceiling.

EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gary Hart also broke down how the payoffs were done. It's in his book. Corny is always right.

Jim needs to put all of his notes in a book

Fantastic stuff!

i could listen to this all day.

These are like time machine rides for me , he gets so detailed and so precise I feel like I’m standing next to him in ghostly form as this is happening , absolutely love it 😍

A business badly in need of a union.

45 minutes of Wrestling History! Buckle up & enjoy Cornette junkies! 😁

I miss old school professional wrestling 🤼‍♀️

The last real mind in wrestling

I'm 25 minutes in and just realized his only point is that live shows sold better before the internet existed. I mean I love hearing his stories, they're downright educational, but I thought there was going to be a less obvious or more insightful point lol Edit: about 34:30, I take issue with the implication that not drawing a crowd of 4k means people aren't interested. I've sold pro sport tickets in both hockey and basketball and I can't tell you how many times diehard fans have told me they've already experienced going to a game and a nowadays are fine watching from the comfort of home. The only reason I make it a point to go to WWE or AEW is because they come rarely. If they were local and ran every week or month I'd be much less tempted to bother, i.e. my local indies.

A nice 45min Sunday Corny vid to listen while i slay wild beasts in the Witcher 3, Magnificent!

The more I hear about this Ernie Couch fella, the more I like him.

Understand that the "modern day" stuff gets the views/listens but I'd much rather listen to this stuff than the reviews of the current product. Fascinating stuff

WWE would go to the Scranton CYC in the 80s. They'd stop by on the way to Pittsburgh or Philly, 2 times a year. WWE stops by the local arena for the Scranton Penguins every 15 to 18 months. Scranton would be a C toen in the territory days. We were happy the two known guys from television showed up for the main event.

“Hole In Wall” Tennessee lol

Someone share this to Tony Khan lol.

I wish i was alive in the territory days. I grew up in the attitude era which was an awesome time but it woulda been so cool going around to see different territories and different wrestlers every month

Danm sounds like a good hustle.

I'd love to hear Scott Steiner explain the math

Ho-medics? Is that Para-medic's from MGS skanky sister?

Learned a lot on this one.

I hope some Wrestlers were working as Giggalos on the side 😂😂😂😂 I’m sure there were plenty of ladies with there husbands $$ to spend

Good ole Hole in the Wall, Tennessee. I know it well.

MJF vrs Punk. Im willing it into existence. I know it doesn't fit here

Ah yes the old FIA fund lol

How hard is it to understand that in any business you don’t get paid if you don’t show up to work. If independent contractors don’t have insurance, they sure don’t have vacation or PTO.

I was born on September 17 too😁

when he said that FIA fund line i've completely lost it 🤣

Sponsors cover the shows nowadays(mostly) and the marks cover their shows with a debit card😳

I'm like 20 25 min from Hohenwald lol...

Jim!!

Corny giving out free game yet again.

How's corney remember all this shit I can't remember 2 days ago Lmao

37:22... I'd Like to Have Ernie Couch's Old PinBallMachines. (If They Function)

"I Got Eliminated from a BattleRoyal." I Kinda *WISH* I Could at Least Say That! 😜

I don't have a pet but HoMedics gave me a free one with my purchase

lol@ "FIA Fund"