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Jimmy Korderas On Owen Hart's Fall, His Problem With Some Current Referees, Friendship With Edge

Jimmy Korderas (@jimmykorderas) is a professional wrestling referee, commentator and broadcaster known for his 22-year tenure with WWE from 1987 to 2009. He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about how he got started in the pro wrestling industry by accident, getting a job with WWE, going from setting up the ring to being a referee, some of his favorite people to work with, the biggest mistakes he sees referees make now, being in the ring the day Owen Hart died at Over The Edge 1999 and much more!

00:00 Intro/Being Canadian
01:24 Pat Patterson
05:39 Not being noticed as a referee
07:12 Referees having names
09:10 Goals before being a referee
12:44 First Big WWF Break
14:49 Ref Bumps
18:29 Injuries
19:38 False Finishes
21:34 What refs need to work on
22:30 Wrestlemania 4
23:40 Bam Bam Bigelow
24:22 Planning a match
25:22 Ring Crew
28:28 Different eras of WWE
30:20 Referees in the WWE HOF
31:39 Best Workers
35:18 Triple H regime
36:48 AEW
38:50 MJF
40:34 Wrestlemania 24
42:31 Owen Hart
51:07 Edge
51:44 ReffinRANTS
53:58 Gratitude

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