I would like to point out, when the WWF added Sunday Night Heat as a new TV show in 1998 they hired Ed Ferrara as an additional writer. When they got SmackDown! in August 1999, Tommy Blacha and Brian Gewirtz were hired as additional writers. Tommy started end of September and Brian November of 1999. Russo actually worked with Blacha in the WWF when Blacha arrived. So him always leaving out that WWF indeed hired new writers for SmackDown when talking about his exit, does not paint an accurate picture of how it really went down!
Three words ( work life balance ) I see it from your point of view to be asked to write an extra tv show would require less time seeing one,s family thus would not be a reasonable balance between personal life and work life.
You know how you write 2 shows? Make them feel different. Different guys, different stories, different feel. Focus more on wrestling segments to cut back on time it takes to write segments (especially on Smackdown since people weren't going to switch to WCW at the same time). Give wrestlers more freedom to try their own stuff as well so they can get themselves over like Austin and Foley did. If you micro manage everything you'll never get it done. Work in the corporate world when mergers happen and you have to find ways to adapt. You have to delegate responsibility. In my eyes, Vince was stupid to ask Russo to do more work without giving him more staff. You should probably assign junior people to write each show, under Russo and have him decide on the final production or you put up a new team.
I would like to point out, when the WWF added Sunday Night Heat as a new TV show in 1998 they hired Ed Ferrara as an additional writer. When they got SmackDown! in August 1999, Tommy Blacha and Brian Gewirtz were hired as additional writers. Tommy started end of September and Brian November of 1999. Russo actually worked with Blacha in the WWF when Blacha arrived. So him always leaving out that WWF indeed hired new writers for SmackDown when talking about his exit, does not paint an accurate picture of how it really went down!
Russo lied, shocker!
If Jim Cornette says Russo is a piece of garbage, I believe it.
But he rarely had a bad thing to say about the other Vince
Ur soft
vince russo turned mike awesome into that 70s guy, i just cant get over it
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Missed the word BRO at the end of the title header..bro
Three words ( work life balance ) I see it from your point of view to be asked to write an extra tv show would require less time seeing one,s family thus would not be a reasonable balance between personal life and work life.
You know how you write 2 shows? Make them feel different. Different guys, different stories, different feel. Focus more on wrestling segments to cut back on time it takes to write segments (especially on Smackdown since people weren't going to switch to WCW at the same time). Give wrestlers more freedom to try their own stuff as well so they can get themselves over like Austin and Foley did. If you micro manage everything you'll never get it done. Work in the corporate world when mergers happen and you have to find ways to adapt. You have to delegate responsibility. In my eyes, Vince was stupid to ask Russo to do more work without giving him more staff. You should probably assign junior people to write each show, under Russo and have him decide on the final production or you put up a new team.
how old is this interview
Yes
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Jeff Lane was Russo’s young boyfriend at the time. That’s how old the video is.
But he tried to go back in like '02. Lol he's full of it
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