"I'm Jim Cornette and that's my opinion (Teil 2)"

Jim Cornette: "I’m Jim Cornette and I’m just wondering if any of you are sick and tired as I am of people who claim to be the icon of wrestling. Hogan, Roddy Piper claimed to be the icon of wrestling, Shawn Michaels is the icon that can still go. Bret Hart would claim to be the icon if he wasn’t too busy crying about being screwed, and I guess Randy Savage is still “thinkin’, thinkin’”.

Well Shawn Michaels is still the single most talented wrestler in wrestling today, inside the ring. But outside he’s adolescent, obnoxious jerk who takes his tights and goes home if he doesn’t get his way. Bret Hart is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, but if he’d have been screwed as many times as he claims, he’d have struck oil by now. Randy Savage, yes, he is a legend, but let’s face it, how many records did Frank Sinatra sell last year? But the pinnacle of this icon garbage came last night in the cage match between Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper to determine in their minds only who the real icon is. How does WCW have the gall to say this is the greatest cage match in history, when it was only the greatest in 3 weeks since Hell In The Cell? Here you’ve got a 46-year old bald movie star wannabe who looks like Uncle Creepy with a good build, taking on a guy with an artificial hip who hasn’t wrestled a full schedule in 10 years. It’s a tribute to the massive egotism, in my mind, of both men, and an indictment of WCW’s promotional policies that this match even took place, much less be in the main event when the card was probably the best the WCW is capable of having. At the 10-minute mark they were sucking wind so bad that the first three rows passed out from oxygen deprivation. Would have been funny if it wasn’t so sad.

Well I’m sick and tired of hearing guys claiming to be the icon when it usually comes from guys who didn’t know when to quit. Roddy Piper was my idol when I was a teenager, but that was 20 years ago. Hulk Hogan during his best days was 50% media created, and those are long gone. That match was a slap in the face to every wrestler who takes pride in his profession.

In my mind, no one is bigger than this sport, but if there is an icon, it would be a man who has great ability inside the ring, and professionalism and maturity outside of it. Let’s leave all the petty backstabbing “I make more money than you” BS with the hat check girl, and concentrate on talent and attitude. The Undertaker, Ric Flair and Steve Austin have never claimed to be icons, which means they’re big candidates to be just that. And on a personal note to Hulk Hogan, you may be a household word, but so is garbage, and it stinks when it gets old too. I'm Jim Cornette, and that’s my opinion."