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Vince Russo says Jim Cornette “has always been a goof” but is willing to have a debate with him

Aaron Rift

While speaking to Ariel Helwani, former WWE writer Jim Cornette addressed his longtime beef with veteran wrestling personality Jim Cornette…

“First of all, let me make one thing perfectly clear. I don’t have any beef with Jim Cornette. I don’t have any hatred for Jim Cornette. If I am going to be honest with you, and I’m a New Yorker, to me, Jim Cornette is a goof. To me, Jim Cornette has always been a goof. So a goof is not going to upset me. Here’s what happened, Ariel. It’s really easy and it’s twofold. Number one, how did the hatred start? It’s real simple. Vince McMahon chose me over Jim Cornette. Years later, Dixie Carter chose me over Jim Cornette. Rather than Jim Cornette look himself in the mirror and say, ‘Wait a minute, why Russo? Why didn’t they choose me? What do I need to work on? What do I need to approve on?’ Rather than him do that, it was my fault. It was my fault that they chose me off. It had nothing to do with him. It was my fault. Now, you add to that, I have become part of Jim Cornette’s shtick. His cult of Cornette, whatever it is, they expect Cornette to rip on every single thing I do to cut promos on me and to call me a Yankee and a sh*t stain.”

“I have offered to have public debates with Jim Cornette and Eric Bischoff, both of them. These guys will not get in front of me. Listen, man. This is the way I look at it. And again, I’m a New Yorker. If I think somebody is a liar and every word out of their mouth is a lie, and I can get them face to face and expose them, bro, I am going to be all over that. I am going to be all… But yet these guys have claimed for 25 years, every word out of my mouth is a lie. So I have said, no problem, let’s debate. I even said to Cornette, Jim, let’s do it online. We’ll have a debate. All the money goes to Cauliflower Alley. I don’t want a penny. Give all the money. Nope, they refuse. They’ll talk about me behind my back. They’ll cut promos behind my back. One on one in the same room. I’m still waiting for that to happen.”

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