Jim Cornette Goes On Negative Rant About Lucha Underground

Lucha Underground has been universally praised by most wrestling fans that have watched it because it remains vibrant and different than any other wrestling television show on Network cable.

However, not everyone is impressed. Jim Cornette went on a hugely negative rant following the premiere episode of the promotion’s second season on the Jim Cornette Experience podcast. You can listen to the full podcast right here. Below is the essence of his rant:

“This fucking Lucha Underground horse shit. That is the most heinous horse shit that I’ve ever seen in my life. We joked off the air and I said, “Well, I’ll probably like the match, but I won’t like the concept of the show because it has writers.” I didn’t like nothing. This is more embarrassing than anything I could have dreamed of. It’s a TV show. It’s a movie. It’s not wrestling. It’s not a sport. They make no pretense of even attempting to make this shit believable.

The production is incredible. It looks like Scorsese directed it. The cinematography is wonderful. It looks like a John Ford western, whatever the fuck. I can’t say enough about the production. And it’s another nail in the coffin of wrestling to being taken seriously as a sport or anything that’s not completely predetermined. There’s nobody on the face of the planet that could watch this shit and believe that there is any legitimacy to it whatsoever. It shouldn’t be called pro wrestling at all. It’s a movie and they’re wrestling in the movie. That’s all it fucking is. That backstage horse shit that obviously takes multiple takes to shoot something like that. Nobodies believing these people. It’s a scripted performance of a movie or a TV show. That’s all that shit it.”