![]() ![]() “Bruiser and Crusher were in the business in the early ’50s for goodness sake! She happened to make a comment to me the next day. ![]() ![]() “For all intents and purposes, it could have been the same kind of wrestling she saw when she moved to Louisville,” continued Cornette. Anyway, she started watching the show, and it had Bruiser and The Crusher on it. I was reading comic books - that was my first love. There was wrestling on the air in Louisville at the time, but I didn’t know it. It used to show Dick The Bruiser’s wrestling program. Once channel three in Louisville went off the air that night, she turned the channel and discovered she could get a decent signal from Bloomington, Indiana, which was the Indianapolis market. “I was around nine years old, and my mom happened to be sick one weekend. ![]() “My mother is the reason I ever saw my first wrestling match,” explained Jim Cornette to SLAM! Wrestling. She moved to Louisville in the early ’50s and worked as a secretary at the Louisville Chamber of Commerce where she met her husband who was an executive at the Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. While some mothers may frown upon their children becoming involved in the world of professional wrestling, Thelma “Mama” Cornette was the driving force behind her son entering the business.īorn on October 21, 1933, in the small town of Duckrun, Kentucky, she was the first in her family to graduate high school. ![]()
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