Indie Wrestler Phil Earley recently accused former WWE employee Jim Cornette, and his wife Stacey, of using their power and status to coerce talent into sexual acts at Ohio Valley Wrestling.
Earley talks about being “groomed” by Cornette and his wife and mentions that their exploits were well known amongst OVW alumni.
She approached via DM, sent me lewd photos I never asked for, implied protection from the Kentucky commission (stating he was a family friend), and told me she WAS going to fuck me, as if I didn't have a choice.
My experience with them is tame compared to others, though /2
— AKI Evolution (@AKI_Evolution) June 18, 2020
This will probably ruin a lot of opportunities in wrestling, and that's fine, but make no mistake: Jim Cornette is trash. He and his wife have made power plays in order to hurt many, many people.
Fuck you Jim. Fuck you Stacy. You are scum.
— AKI Evolution (@AKI_Evolution) June 18, 2020
In his latest Drive- Thru podcast, Cornette has addressed the above accusations:
“I pushed all the people I should have and half the people I shouldn’t have, but everybody got a shot and it was not given out on any fears or favors for anything. And it’s never been said before in the 15 years since. The only problem I had when it came to pushing talent was when they were telling me to push the talent was when they were telling me to push the talent that had never been in front of an audience before, that got a little unpalatable, but that had nothing to do with the accusations of which we speak.”
“You don’t think that these guys who became the most powerful wrestlers in the largest promotion in the world, especially during a period of time where John Lauranitis wanted to get rid of me, get me out of the way here at OVW, wouldn’t it have given him some help?”
“This wouldn’t have come up by now, as many f***in’ horrible things? Not one person that I ever supposedly made that offer at that time, ever privately, publicly stated it to anybody, eccetra.”
“I have never offered any wrestler, male or female, preferential treatment, a job a contract or push or anything else related to their employment or threatened the same or the opposite if they would or would not engage in ribald relations with me or my wife. No quid pro quo, not tit for tat as they say in some of these cases.”
“If you take out the manipulating people’s jobs accusations’ which we’ve just basically drawn and quartered as they say and illustrated was f***in’ ca-ca, what you’ve got left is I’ve been charged with having an interesting sex life!”
“That was how it hurt me the worst cause of course, you know me I don’t have human feelings and I don’t give a shit of what people say, but I was indignant that people would say that I’ve monkeyed with my job or the business or other people’s jobs, but then it becomes ‘Oh my God, they’re crazed sex maniacs.’”
(H/T to Dominic DeAngelo of WrestleZone.com)
