Jim Cornette says wrestling is ‘gone’ after comparing WWE, AEW stars

Jim Cornette painted a bleak picture for the wrestling business while comparing WWE and AEW wrestlers on his podcast, Jim Cornette’s Drive Thru. “The WWE, they’re Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers,” he said. “They’re going to goddamn amaze you with their precision and their smoothness and their whirlwinded-try.” Despite what sounded like a glowing review, he described WWE’s product as boring and fake. His take on AEW, though, was harsher. “AEW is a bunch of goddamn ’90s mosh pit dancers where they’re just going to beat the shit out of each other with no fucking thought or technique whatsoever until they drop,” Cornette said before concluding, “Wrestling is gone from either side.” Cornette’s co-host, Brian Last, said there seem to be only two paths into pro wrestling: WWE recruits talent into its system, or hopefuls work their way up through the independent scene. Either way, each path shapes what fans see on television. The one positive that Cornette saw was that WWE still produces stars