Professional wrestling mainstay Jim Cornette has resigned his position with the National Wrestling Alliance.
“Effective immediately: Jim Cornette has resigned from the National Wrestling Alliance,” the company said in a statement released Wednesday. “As an announcer on the November 19th edition of ‘Nwa Power,’ Jim made remarks during a singles match between Nick Aldis and Trevor Murdoch that were both offensive and do not meet the high standards of decency and good faith of the National Wrestling Alliance. To ensure that such an error can never happen again, we’ve established new procedures of review for all Nwa programming going forward. We sincerely regret our failure in this regard.”
Cornette had been working as a color commentator on the Nwa’s recently-launched weekly YouTube wrestling show, “Nwa Power,” but during the Nov. 19 episode he said, “[Trevor Murdoch] is the only man I’ve ever known that can strap a bucket of fried...
“Effective immediately: Jim Cornette has resigned from the National Wrestling Alliance,” the company said in a statement released Wednesday. “As an announcer on the November 19th edition of ‘Nwa Power,’ Jim made remarks during a singles match between Nick Aldis and Trevor Murdoch that were both offensive and do not meet the high standards of decency and good faith of the National Wrestling Alliance. To ensure that such an error can never happen again, we’ve established new procedures of review for all Nwa programming going forward. We sincerely regret our failure in this regard.”
Cornette had been working as a color commentator on the Nwa’s recently-launched weekly YouTube wrestling show, “Nwa Power,” but during the Nov. 19 episode he said, “[Trevor Murdoch] is the only man I’ve ever known that can strap a bucket of fried...
- 11/20/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
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