Jim Cornette, Raven and Vince Russo were some of the shoot interviews shown.

Cornette would later recall the incident in a shoot interview.

The chain of events was covered in a " shoot " interview by Cornette.

Despite having Cornette in their corner and the name " Midnight Express ", wrestling fans consider this incarnation of the team as nothing more than a rib by Vince McMahon on Cornette, and in shoot interviews Cornette has indeed indicated that he never considered the team as continuing the lineage of the Midnight Express, since it was not his idea nor his intention to have " glorified jobbers " like Gunn and Holly take on the moniker ( although Gunn and Holly were both former tag team champions prior to being teamed ).

Bill Watts is a Republican, and in an ROH shoot interview with Jim Cornette, he criticised Bill Clinton and the Democrats numerous times.

The Daily Star conducted an interview with Cornette, who had some harsh words for the WWE Chairman.

* An interview with Jim Cornette

In May, 2005, Cornette was suspended for several weeks after slapping OVW developmental wrestler Anthony Carelli backstage after Carelli had " no-sold " fellow wrestler The Boogeyman by laughing at him during a live OVW event.

Due to friction and animosity between himself and WCW head Jim Herd, Cornette quit the company after Halloween Havoc 1990.

When Eaton and Lane in storyline did not approve, they forced a match between the two teams with Cornette remaining neutral at ringside.

Additionally, Cornette suffered serious injuries to his knee during a scaffold match between the Midnight Express and the Road Warriors at Starrcade ' 86 ; when dropping to the mat from the edge of the 20 ft. high scaffold, Cornette didn't allow his legs to buckle quickly enough because he hoped to have a waiting Big Bubba Rogers there to cushion his fall.

At the Clash of Champions IX, the two teams met with Jim Cornette appearing in a neutral corner, forced to choose between the teams.

Jim Cornette booked a match at Bound for Glory between him and Young where the loser would be fired.

They would soon turn heel as a result of a feud with the Dynamic Dudes who they duped into thinking that Jim Cornette wanted to be the Dudes manager when in reality he was all along on the side of the Midnight Express during a match between the teams at Clash of the Champions IX show in New York.

Defending the SMW tag title at the event was part of an agreement between the WWF's Vince McMahon and SMW's Jim Cornette.

At the Clash of Champions IX the two teams met with Jim Cornette in a neutral corner, forced to choose between the teams.

New Jack and Mustafa left SMW in a controversial fashion, which escalated the long standing dispute between Paul Heyman and Jim Cornette.

:* This is the continuation of the Jim Cornette / Paul E. Dangerously feud that started when Dangerously brought the “ Original Midnight Express ” to the NWA.

Featured matches on the undercard were Road Warriors ( Hawk and Animal ) versus Varsity Club ( Steve Williams and Kevin Sullivan ) for the NWA World Tag Team Championship, Lex Luger versus Barry Windham for the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship, Mike Rotunda versus Rick Steiner for the NWA World Television Championship, Midnight Express ( Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane ) and Jim Cornette versus Original Midnight Express ( Jack Victory and Randy Rose ) and Paul E. Dangerously in a Loser Leaves NWA match, Sting versus Butch Reed and Michael Hayes versus Russian Assassin # 1.

On January 28 edition of World Championship Wrestling, it was announced that a Six-man Loser Leaves NWA match would take place pitting Midnight Express and Cornette against Original Midnight Express and Dangerously.

The third match was a Loser Leaves NWA match pitting the Midnight Express ( Bobby Eaton and Stan Lane ) and their manager Jim Cornette against Original Midnight Express ( Dennis Condrey and Randy Rose ) and their manager Paul E. Dangerously.

At that point, Dangerously and the Original Midnight Express hit the ring and proceeded to pummel Cornette and Stan Lane, who was wrestling in a singles match.

The promotion was owned by longtime NWA Manager Jim Cornette and featured many former NWA / WCW wrestlers such as The Rock ' n ' Roll Express, Eddie Gilbert, and " Dr. Death " Steve Williams.

James Mark " Jim " Cornette ( born September 17, 1961 ) is an American professional wrestling manager, commentator, promoter, and booker who is currently working for the Ring of Honor promotion as its executive producer.

A firm believer in " old-school " territorial wrestling, Cornette began the Smoky Mountain Wrestling ( SMW ) promotion in 1991.

In the spring of 2007, Carelli, who had since been called up to the WWE as Santino Marella, appeared on a Canadian radio program where he publicly challenged Cornette to a match despite Cornette working for rival promotion TNA at the time.

On September 8, 2010, Ohio Valley Wrestling announced that Cornette would resume his duties as the head booker of the promotion.

Cornette left OVW in November 2011, when the promotion announced a working agreement with TNA.

Due to various booking issues, Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express left the promotion for a short while, around the time that Ted Turner brought out Jim Crockett and began promoting the federation as the National Wrestling Alliance / World Championship Wrestling.

It was the main home arena for Smoky Mountain Wrestling, a regional wrestling promotion, run by pro wrestling Hall of Famer Jim Cornette, from 1992 to 1995.

Laurinaitis failed to work in the same capacity with OVW, WWE's developmental territory ( also under the direction of Cornette ), as Ross did often failing to warn the promotion when wrestlers OVW were using at the time were going to be called up to the main roster or when wrestlers from the main roster were set to appear for OVW but never did.

When Jim Cornette began his own promotion, Fulton and his brother wrestled as " The Fantastics " in Smoky Mountain Wrestling and occasionally as " The Fantastic Ones " in other promotions.

Seeing potential in Traylor, head booker Dusty Rhodes pulled him off TV for 12 weeks in order to repackage him as Big Bubba Rogers, a silent bodyguard for Jim Cornette, who along with the Midnight Express, was feuding with the James Boys ( Dusty Rhodes and Magnum T. A.

This led to the new head of management Jim Cornette taking the belt from Jarrett as the show ended, leaving the status of the belt in question as to who would be the champion.

Jim Cornette also states that the end of the Dynamic Dudes came when Douglas went over his head to Jim Herd about having a finish changed to make him look stronger.

Jim Cornette was head booker of OVW for a period before being fired by WWE for slapping a student, Anthony Carelli.

On September 8, 2010, in what was dubbed the company's season premiere, Danny Davis, who himself was making his return for the first time in over a year, announced that Jim Cornette was returning to his role as head booker of the company.

Cornette also became active behind the scenes working on the booking committee for several years before being removed after frequently butting heads with head writer Vince Russo.

On the January 21 edition of Ring of Honor television, Cornette announced that chairshots to the head were banned and anyone that did so would be fined $ 5000.

This prompted Anderson to call Smoky Mountain Wrestling head Jim Cornette to try to get his son a job.

** Blade pinned Armstrong after interference by " General " Jim Cornette, enabling Steel to clothesline him in the back of the head.

At the request of Cornette, because his team of Eaton and Lane didn't have a program after their feud with the Road Warriors ended, convinced head booker Dusty Rhodes to give Condrey a second chance with Randy Rose and Dangerously in a " Midnight vs.