David Starr Calls Out Jim Cornette For Past Racist Comments, Wrestler With Cerebral Palsy Claims Cornette Made Fun Of His Condition

In a post on Twitter, outspoken independent wrestler David Starr turned his sights on Jim Cornette over a clip that leaked in 2017 and featured Cornette using racial slurs. The clip comes from the mid-90s.

Starr wrote: “There’s an epidemic of people in the wrestling community @-ing Jim Cornette as a form of policing wrestling. Well, this seems like an appropriate time to police wrestling. Thoughts, Jim Cornette?”

Cornette didn’t respond directly to Starr, but promised he would tomorrow. He wrote: “Note to all outlaw mud show play rasslers: I know you all want me to make you stars today, but I’m kinda busy–if you’ll save your tweets til tomorrow, I’ll see if I can get you some attention. I only have so much time to get your dead asses over. Thanks.”

You can see those tweets, as well as the footage (which is NSFW) and Starr’s replies to fan comments below.

There’s an epidemic of people in the wrestling community @-ing Jim Cornette as a form of policing wrestling.

Well, this seems like an appropriate time to police wrestling.

Thoughts @TheJimCornette??? https://t.co/iJB9vqvSgq

— Charles Max Barsky (@TheProductDS) June 21, 2019

Here’s the full clip for full context.https://t.co/LfGh0eXdEw

This whole thing is very analogous to when Sam Adonis called a fan a homophobic slur last year.

— Charles Max Barsky (@TheProductDS) June 22, 2019

Note to all outlaw mud show play rasslers: I know you all want me to make you stars today, but I'm kinda busy–if you'll save your tweets til tomorrow, I'll see if I can get you some attention. I only have so much time to get your dead asses over. Thanks.

— Jim Cornette (@TheJimCornette) June 22, 2019

So you were being dishonest until called out for it. Again, I'm not saying it's right but you're trying to fish for people pissed about the Sonny Kiss stuff and imply that he's also racist instead of using tasteless heel tactics in the 90s like Adonis did last year.

— Andrew MacDonald (@andrewisgood) June 22, 2019

Nah.

Those “heel tactics” are trash.

Society evolves.
The sport evolves.

Besides, all I’ve done was repost the audio clip and ask Cornette for his thoughts on it.

— Charles Max Barsky (@TheProductDS) June 22, 2019

Meanwhile, another wrestler named Nathan Taylor, who has cerebral palsy, claimed in the comments of Starr’s tweet that Cornette mocked his condition yesterday. He provided no context, but further research found this exchange:

Things I’ve learnt today…. @TheJimCornette is an actual prick who shits all over guys in the business.

— Nathan Taylor ♿️ (@NathanTaylorPW) June 21, 2019

Look at the state of your dishrag body–if you got a sunburn you'd look like a thermometer.

— Jim Cornette (@TheJimCornette) June 21, 2019

This isn’t the first time this month Cornette has been in the middle of controversy. After some comments he made about Sonny Kiss drew negative reaction online, spurred on by Joey Ryan and others, Cornette took to social media to attack Ryan and others. In addition to that, he reportedly has issues with Sami Callihan after Callihan spat on him during an MLW taping.