Dave Meltzer Slams Jim Cornette For Being Out Of Touch With Modern Wrestling

Dave Meltzer Slams Jim Cornette For Being Out Of Touch With Modern Wrestling

Dave Meltzer has expressed his belief that Jim Cornette lacks an understanding of modern professional wrestling.

In an interview with Wrestling Shoot Interviews, Dave Meltzer claimed that his and Cornette’s strained relationship is a result of Cornette’s inability to grasp the changes that have occurred in the industry.

Number one, he doesn’t understand modern wrestling whatsoever, which is, I think part of it.

Meltzer acknowledges Cornette’s extensive knowledge of wrestling before 2005 and praises his intelligence in that era. However, Meltzer notes that Cornette now despises the direction in which wrestling has evolved.

And it’s sad. Because if you talk to anybody about wrestling pre-2005, you will find that there are very few who are smarter than Jim Cornette, I would put him right near the top. So now things have changed in a different direction, and he despises them.

Ironically, Cornette was once a pioneer in appreciating the acrobatic and dynamic style of wrestling showcased by the likes of Dynamite Kid and Tiger Mask. Meltzer suggests that the wrestlers Cornette now criticises are the very ones who were influenced by the same tapes that he admired.

And it’s funny, because the guys who started this direction, he was the first guy in the business in the United States who understood Dynamite Kid and Tiger Mask and Japanese wrestling. And now, he’ll have his rationales, but essentially, the guys that he hates now are the guys that were the disciples who learned from watching the same tapes, and then took it one step further and made it more acrobatic and things like that.

What Does Jim Cornette Think About Dave Meltzer?

Jim Cornette stated that he believes Dave Meltzer has lost his mind. Cornette said that back in the 1980s that Meltzer would criticise bad wrestling but now he will state that even if something isn’t good that it “works in the room.”

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