Jimmy Korderas

Jim Korderas
Born	March 19, 1962 East York, Ontario
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Jim Korderas
Billed height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Billed weight	210 lb (95 kg)
Debut	1985

Jim "Jimmy" Korderas (born March 19, 1962) is a Canadian professional wrestling referee currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment, officiating on the SmackDown! brand.

In one notable match at WrestleMania IV, Korderas was legitimately knocked unconscious by Jimmy Hart after Hart decked him too hard with his trademark megaphone. As a result, he had to be physically assisted from the ring.

During a kayfabe strike by the WWF referees in late 1999, Korderas was the only regular referee who did not join the strike. This lead to him being attacked by the striking refs at Unforgiven 1999.

At Insurrextion 2002 in a "Kiss my Ass Match" with Rikishi vs. Albert he made Albert kiss Rikishi's buttocks as Albert was running out of the arena.

In a 2002 interview, Curt Hennig recalled that Jim Korderas renamed the fisherman suplex to the Perfectplex quoting "As he was preparing to make his WWE debut, Hennig was looking around for a finishing maneuver. He found it one day on a Japanese tour, as he watch a match featuring his father's old tag-team partner, Harley Race. Race executed a fisherman's suplex during the bout, which turned on a light bulb in Hennig's head. "The way he did it, he just fell right on his back, and being an amateur wrestler too, I figured I could just bridge," Hennig recalls. "I have a pretty strong neck. So I did it, and the guy went right over. Then one day (referee) Jim Korderas said, 'Why don't you call it the Perfectplex?' I said, 'That's great! Thank you! "

Korderas played a minor part in JBL's last appearance as a wrestler on SmackDown!. Originally giving JBL the win on the May 26, 2006 edition as JBL was taking the World Heavyweight Championship belt, Korderas spotted Rey Mysterio's foot on the bottom rope and restarted the match which Mysterio would win after JBL threw Mysterio into Korderas who was retying a turnbuckle that he had caught JBL untying, knocking Korderas out. He came to in time to see Mysterio pin JBL after an exchange of illegal objects and moves, thus ending JBL's Smackdown career. Earlier that night, Korderas had also been assigned to the JBL vs. Lashley match for the WWE United States Championship which Lashley would win. JBL as a color commentator has begun to bash Korderas for being Canadian and claim that he was screwed out of the Championship by Korderas.

In 2006, the WWE had pulled Korderas off the road briefly due to health reasons, but he returned to work shortly thereafter.

References

• Official WWE Profile
• Profile at obsessedwithwrestling.com
• SLAM! Wrestling Canadian Hall of Fame