David Arquette, a Goldberg spear and Jim Cornette's case against Vince Russo

The new Cornette Side of the Ring episode follows WCW's world title through its strangest year, and it passed 300,000 views in its first twelve hours.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 436,433 views a day, 230 times a normal first day on this channel (1,899).

How Vince Russo Desecrated the WCW Championship | Cornette Side of the Ring

How does a world championship turn into a punchline? Jim Cornette needs about eleven minutes to give his answer, and it is a name: Vince Russo. The new episode of Cornette Side of the Ring, VICE Sports' companion series to Dark Side of the Ring, passed 300,000 views within twelve hours of going up. New uploads on this channel usually open with a couple of thousand.

The chapters trace Russo's "Crash TV" style of writing at the WWF during the Monday Night Wars, his move to WCW and what followed for its top prize. David Arquette won the belt in 2000, while WCW was promoting the film Ready to Rumble. Russo then put himself on television, took a Goldberg spear through a cage and ended up holding the title himself. The episode closes with WCW sold to Vince McMahon and with Cornette's view of Russo's legacy. The grudge goes back to the late 1990s, when both men worked behind the scenes at the WWF. The description calls Russo Cornette's number-one enemy.

The most common complaint in the comments is the running time: people wanted more of it. Many ask for the series to keep going, and one hopes it becomes a Sunday habit. Others swap their favorite Cornette one-liners from the episode. A few point out that he sounds calmer about Russo than they have ever heard him.

The channel posted two other pieces that same Sunday, one on Kimbo Slice and one on Bowman Gray Stadium, where football shares its ground with a stock car track. Both are still near a thousand views or below.

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The numbers

A wrestling grudge from the late 1990s gave this channel a start far beyond anything its other new uploads usually see.

the video's first day

usual first day here

1,899

this video

436,433

subscribers

1,130,000

total views

294,722,094

views per day

93,042

typical day: 121,618

the video

views

301,109

likes

9,229

comments

1,487

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

RocaNews

1,160,000

VICE Sports

1,130,000

Channel 4 Documentaries

1,110,000

Natural World Facts

1,070,000

Odyssey - Ancient History…

1,050,000

Banijay History

1,040,000

As of October 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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