Eric Bischoff SHOOTS On Vince Russo Being In Denial
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What do you think is Vince Russo’s best idea? Let us know in the comments below!
Watch Survivor Series 98. Best show Russo wrote and infinitely better than anything Bischoff could come up with in wcw. Beats anything they've done in the last 22 years on the Paul Levesque show too.
He best idea was giving EVERYONE on the roster a storyline. Yes some of them sucked but those women and dudes didn't have ANY storyline before him
@@Rschr101 no. Just no. SS 98 is better than the beginning of the nWo? No. Its better than Evolution? or the Bloodline through Sami? No. You are fucking delusional.
@@Rschr101 That was 26 years ago and it was easy being "edgy" in 1997/98 but it's not as easy anymore once you get used to see a million turns and throw in curse words. Russo hasn't written anything close to that and keep in mind that the actual say had McMahon. It's easy to come up with 100 ideas and let the boss make the decision but in WCW Russo had the responsibility to create and implement those ideas. But the question was about Russo's best WCW idea, not what his best idea ever was. And the only thing I can come up with was the Millionaire vs. Young blood storyline which they totally blew because they made the veterans become faces lmao Bischoff isn't any better creatively speaking but Russo is overrated.
@@martifrey3357"What do you think is Vince Russo's best idea?" That's literally the question that's being asked. And if you want to bring up Vince McMahon being in WWE overseeing Russo. Then the same should be used for his time in both WCW and TNA. Where he worked with Bischoff and later Jarrett. But people don't like to bring that up cause it ruins their narrative. Which is to put all creative failure solely on Russo. While wanting to give others credit for his good ideas.
"Grass is always greener on the other side. Except if Vince Russo was there. Then the grass is probably dead" - Jim Cornette
That sounds about right... poor old Corny sure is triggered by Russo existing.
Cornette paid wrestlers to sleep with his wife. Think about that
@@jimbo_1312 cornettes just mad vince mcmahon picked russo over him thank god he did because the wwe wouldnt exist .cornettes bizarre obsession with the past would of put wwe out of business. while wcw had the nwo cornette would of been booking the fabulous ones coming out of a box in 1998 🤣
@@jimbo_1312russo helped neuter a business cornette took pride in.
And it went from wwf to tna and russo says he hates wrestling so...
@@bb-gc2tx Facts. All anyone has to do is listen to Cornette's ideas for the Invasion to hear the creative he would have implemented.
Damn, that's just about the best thing Bischoff has ever said
Eric should do these open mics hes amazing and could go on tour and talk for a living as a massive career....it would help the business!!!
Booker T as champ. Come on Eric.
💯% 👍
Booker T as champ was a response to the lawsuit Turner/WCW was facing.
@@claytron3000No it wasn't
Bringing back G.I. Bro and putting him in MIA was a Russo idea. That says it all right there…
so one idea? oh great :) theres a reason russo will the only person who will never return to wwe
Eric can accept it as he was not A BOOKER per se (his words) or a writer. He was an Executive who was very creative and surrounded himself with guys like Kevin Sullivan who were great. Unfortunately, WCW had too many "Big Names" with "Creative Control" that coveted their "Spots" over what was Best For Business. Some are these guys were future HALL OF FAMERS that should have readied the next generation for the business to thrive. Russo ran smack dab into this when Eric left. A shit sandwich to be sure.
it was no one thing with WCW, it was just a whole bunch of things. Part of it was always approach. The WWE conceipt was always Wrestling as a TV show, the Crocket/NWA to WCW was lets televise wrestling, i know that sounds the same, but its not. Bringing in Hogan and Macho, and then Hall and Nash and the nWo was a solid idea, but they over did it with too many stars. Rick Rude? Just to stand around? How many matches did Perfect have? What was the point of Virgil? Giving hogan creative control was a collosal mistake. The most favored nation status in Hall's contract was also a stupid idea. That being said. No one has beaten vince other than Bischoff, for 93 weeks. No one.
@@Bigbudd0045 Agreed. A shit sandwich.
@@Bigbudd0045the ironic thing is that I internally in Turner WCW was looked at as a tv business and Vince and his guys looked at WWF as a live event business promoted on tv.
There are a lot of moving parts there, and there was a lot that was a problem with WCW. The biggest issue was the WCW Model and vision in Ted Turners mind had a shelf life, and was destined to fail. Let's go back in history.
Ted Turner didn't buy JCP because he "loved pro rasslin and dreamed of being a promoter." Back in the 1980's Ted Turner decided he wanted to own the WWF as part of his portfolio and bragging rights, so he approached Vince and told him he wanted to buy the WWF. Vince told him no, he wasn't interested in that.
JCP was bought and WCW existed as a personal vendetta between Turner and McMahon. The fact that for the firs time in Turners career someone told him no ate him alive. It was his personal mission and obsession to put the WWF put of business.
That was the whole platform. That was the every day end goal. This put Eric Bischoff as well as later Vince Russo in no win situations.
Marks on the internet shit on Bischoff every chance they get, but the reality is Ted Turner didn't hire Bischoff and go "Eric, I want you to make me a good product that turns a nice profit." He hired Bischoff and said "Eric, go put that Vince asshole out of business."
Unfortunately the only way to have done that was pay far more than Vince paid to poach big nesz then sign as much of the talent available out there as possible and hope it holds out long enough that you hit your goal and kill off the other guys business before you have too big of a mess to clean up.
Vince Russo inherited Ted Turners mess. Just like with Bischoff, Russo wasn't told by Time Warner Execs who were now in charge of the mess Turner made, "Vince, scrap everything and rebuild it from scratch over the next two years." He was hired and told "turn this mess around in the next few months or we'll hire someone else."
The Meltzer and Alvarez as well as McMahon revisionist history that is parrotted regarding WCW is irritating as fuck at this point.
Liaten, I dont care for a lot of Russo's booking as much as the next. Russo had the correct intention of pushing all the young guys because in any sport or show, u gotta always have youth. The problem was HOW he would do it.
Not really. In WWF and TNA he did it fine. By 2000 Eric couldn't save WCW either. People forget there was no way Russo could do much. They just point at David winning the title like McMahon is any more credible. Not for me. I know better. Marks don't
No, the problem was WCW Corporate demanded instant results, expecting Bischoff, Russo, Sullivan etc to be able to walk in and clean up a decade of Ted Turners mountain of mistakes and mismanagement in 6-8 weeks.
The reality and brutally honest truth? If Time Warner was serious about rebuilding WCW and keeping it, which they weren't, or eventually selling it to a wealthy investor? WCW had to bottom out. There was no other way.
WCW had to start one by one phasing out and releasing all of the once big names from their contracts and then spent 18-24 months building an entirely new product with entirely new stars.
Vince Russo understood this and in fact said it during an interview with WCW's website. Instead Time Warner wanted WCW turning a profit, selling out arenas ans doing 5's in the ratings again in two months time and everyone hired for the position had to try and fast track a two year process into a two month process.
I concur…BRO!
Miss Hancock was really good
That interviewer saying he doesn’t want to talk to Vince because he gets the impression he doesn’t take criticism. What a ridiculous reason to refuse to speak to someone. Even if you think he’s like that, why not be the bigger person and try to get your opinion across the best you can and then let others decide for themselves how it went. Scared of a difficult conversation? These guys are flat out bullies. Vince has become the punching bag of the industry, anything goes when it comes to Russo. And why? Because they didn’t like his style of booking 20 years ago. Truly embarrassing.
"It's not my fault, bro".
"I tried my best, bro".
That felt like a Tedx about Vince Russo
When was this interview?
Some time after Vince Russo was in WCW probably.
Wait, I can do better than that. They talked about an incident that happened as happening in 2023 so probably at least then.
Putting the strap on Booker was his best idea.
That wasn't his idea.
Whose idea was ot
Yes it was @@TheEWFX29
And no his best idea was bringing an edgy product to WWE and booking characters based on how they should be instead of what a face or heel would do. No cookie cutter crap
Booker T said it was Russo idea
The Scottish guy's hair...
Its just a fohawk are you 80?
@@deathmauler181 It looks really bad. A good friend would have told him to cut it off before hosting a live event in front of a crowd.
@@jackjohnson5714 depending on your preferences sure but He's had this for a while on n off. Short cut hair isn't for everyone, fohawks are fairly normalized
@@deathmauler181 no self respecting guy should have a fohawk after 30.
After that opening segment.....idk if u guys ever had Sean Oliver on but you should 😂😂😂
Great words from Eric bischoff
Somebody implied that VR coming to WCW may have been VM trying to destroy it from within.
The irony of Bischoff saying this lol
They both tell granny goose storys of years gone by
eric is a real one
Some people think Vince Russo was a plant in the WCW by Vince McMahon. It really wouldn't surprise me.
The pot calling the kettle black
What did Eric actually did on WCW paid insanely high contracts to WWE rejects/ allowed talent to run a ruckus backstage and even on air , to top it all allowed writers to make ridiculous storylines who made no sense but held no accountability for any of it blame it all on TED and the investors. Great job Eric.
Gee the exact same model tony khan is doing.
Tell us you have zero clue about WCW without telling us.
I honestly liked some of Russo's early WCW stuff. He made me care far more about the underneath guys than I did before. It was a big improvement over what WCW was doing at the time frankly. He seemed good at making the underneath guys more entertaining, but I don't think he knew how to make money matches that people would be willing to pay to see. Take the stuff with the nWo or the Bloodline. I couldn't see that ever coming out of Russo.
Maybe he didn't like Booker T as champion, so for him it wasn't a good idea. What I've understood about Vince Russo is that he actually is a writer that needs a booker over him. He has ideas for guys, lots of them, but he doesn't know how to take them and use them to make money.
Russo seems to work best as the guy in your creative team that when you ask for stuff for people to do, he'll give you 100's of things that these people could do, and so you pick the ones you want and use them to get people to pay for a match in a PPV. As long as a booker chooses who the guys are and what ideas to use, I think that Russo can make some contributions, probably even today. But he doesn't work as well as a booker because he doesn't know how to get his ideas to a place where people would pay a ticket or buy a PPV.
@@DuxyVargol pretty much what I see as well. Russo has value, but he doesn’t understand his role and thinks all of his ideas are good. Cornette summed him up pretty well frankly. I can totally understand why Vince thought he’d be useful on a team. Same with Cornette, but they can’t play nicely together.
When Russo was in WWE, Vince would act as something of a filter. I suspect Russo was still in that mentality early on in WCW, but then realized he didn't have to filter his ideas anymore.
@@DG_RaizenAhh yes, the good old "filter" mythology.
I'm with Eric on this, if I can bat 40 out of 100, I'm very happy.
Has to be the worst chairs for a sit down .
Eric went from laughing to absolute stone the moment he heard Russo & Good Idea in the same sentence. If that don't say it all
Lol he stood up
Neither are close to perfect, but I'd have a beer w/ Bischoff any day. Never would I be in the same room w/ Russo.
Russo and Bischoff are the same. Both had really good 2-3 year runs. Came in as outsiders who caught lightning in a bottle. Ultimately their personalities and lack of depth led to them having to retreat to being podcast trolls.
someone buy little eric a mirror 💀😭
Shitting on hogan. Crazy how much i hate that guy. I used to have that mfers lunch box in the 3rd grade. Use to love that guy
3:14 where I left off
Vince Russo is just a convenient scapegoat for people in the business
I mean, Eric is a bit of a hypocrite because he's always negative on the guy in every interview about him. Im pretty sure the guy has some redeeming qualities too.
There is not one single redeeming quality about Vince Russo.
@@LadyDragonsbloodPeople who worked with him disagree with you
@@kevinlee9929
Like Jim Cornette?
@@intron1353 Like Austin, Rock, Kurt Angle, and Booker T
@@kevinlee9929 No, they don't
How does Bischoff make money out of criticism?
Because he was at the forefront of the wrestling business when it was at its peak. People like to hear him talk about it as a result. Despite his mistakes, his opinion carries weight.
I can name many;
He pushed guys like Booker T and Jeff Jarrett who were younger than the veterans and deserved a shot in the main events
He pushed Scott Steiner as a mega heel who just went nuts on anyone, this was the correct way to use Scotty Steiner instead of a background character to Hogan.
He attempted to use younger talents and the NBT group was awesome.
He turned Goldberg heel. People will totally disagree with me here but Goldberg was getting stale and fans were giving him either mixed reactions or mostly bad ones. The execution wasn’t great but the concept was and if Goldberg weren’t such a mark for himself and had he embraced the turn, it could’ve been a thousand times better than it was.
I think highly of Eric Bischoff and he did a lot of great things in WCW but he also came with his own baggage of negatives too. He let the veterans stay on top so long they became toxic to the brand and the nWo that saved WCW also ended up partly to blame for killing it. Eric doesn’t wanna credit Russo for anything positive he did but if you’d taken Russo’s positives with Eric’s, you’d have likely gotten the exact competition for WWF/WWE’s product that WCW needed to be. That’s the irony in the whole back and forth between Russo and Bischoff.
Neither Russo nor Bischoff deserve any blame for "killing WCW", a meaningless mantra chanted on the internet. Timer Warner killed WCW, not the writers just trying to put together a show.
That said, I really wish Bischoff and Russo could have and would put their ego's aside and find common ground. Those two together produced some great wrestling programming in TNA even while being at one another's throats. I can only imagine how great it would have been to see those two united and on the same page in the early 2000's.
Vince RussBro
Was about to say this 🤣😂
I’m not a fan of Vince Russo but to say he had zero good ideas is ridiculous. Eric wants to act like Russo isn’t living rent free in his head but he is. I’m not saying Russo is some phenom but he’s the guy who put the title on Booker T not Eric. Eric wanted to keep it on hogan and the rest of the retirement community wcw had become. Booker T could never break through if Eric is still 100% running creative.
Very true. He doesn't have to like Russo, but to deny him credit is insane. For years now I think it's insane that the guy who was the main writer of the greatest era in history of the business gets so much shit from everyone. I get why Cornette hates him, it's pure jealousy from him. But I don't get why the fans and some people in the business follow him along on that.
I don't understand your point. He did say he never had any good ideas, he said he couldn't think of 1. Dude's old and that was 20 something years ago. Maybe Booker just didn't come to mind. Plus he admitted that not all of his own ideas were good, buy he tried to learn from then. Not only that, buy although I liked Booker T ad a performer, WCW was already dying by the time they put belt of Booker T. 1 good call that was basically a collective call doesn't change the fact that Russo was garbage without Vince McMahon turning lemons into lemonade with the shit he came up with
@@johnsw224 “the fact is the mutherfucker never came up with a good idea in his life.” - Eric Bischoff in this clip.
He didn’t say he couldn’t remember brov he said he never came up with a good idea in his life. Maybe you should watch the clip before running your mouth bub.
@@johnsw224 Eric Bischoff said “the fact is the motherf**ker never had a good idea in his life.” He didn’t forget, he didn’t have trouble remembering. He flat out said Russo never had a good idea in his life with profanity. Next time you wanna run your mouth take the time to actually watch the video bub.
@@johnsw224 Eric Bischoff said “the fact is the motherf****r never had a good idea in his life.” He didn’t forget, he didn’t have trouble remembering. He flat out said Russo never had a good idea in his life with profanity. Next time you wanna run your mouth take the time to actually watch the video bub.
...staying away from Cornette!
Vince Russo saying The Bloodline is really bad is ridiculous. It's better than anything he ever did
It really isn't. Even The Misfits In Action were better than that Bloodline garbage.
I Believe In Joe Hendry!
Lmao sir yo ass down… you ain’t that good either….😂😂😂
Very rich coming from Eric "I can't recall" Bischoff.
Describe one great or good idea Russo had in WCW. Answer: quitting
The Bloodline story did suck. Oh Jay is the bad guy. No now they are both bad. Now jimmy is the bad one. Ahhhh. Oh my names Solo. I poke people with my thumb. Roman is great now because he took his shield armour off and got new music....
In wCw, the New Blood storyline was a high spot of my week!
To Vince Russo credit, he was a success. Its unfair to constantly say how he was a failure or 'killed' wrestling companies. Eric is right about Ruso's denial of bad ideas though. He's come up with some terrible ideas that ruined people's careers but at the same time he's been credited by guys saying he was a real help.
He gets a lot of unwarranted hate and is unappreciated.
I disagree on the denial of bad ideas. He has criticized his own crap. However, his "but" is that the results do reflect that the "hum" periods, seem to get filled by the "stupid ideas." I dunno if that makes sense. Like the pole matches seem to be born of "running out of ideas, and throwing what doesn't work at the wall, to see if they stick" those get the reactions.
Yeah you're right. In hindsight Russo does call out his own stuff at times.
Still, at the end of the day he was booking when WWF was at its hottest, he improved WCW's ratings for a time and he was a huge part of TNA's success in the 2000s.
There's no denying Russo has had awful ideas but he's been a typically been a net positive to every company he's been with. He's probably one of the most thankless and overlooked guys in wrestling history.
Tbh the Blue Blazer was Russos idea
I can't stand Russo.... BUT... did he come up with New Blood/Millionaires Club? I can't say he NEVER had a good idea, but they are few and far between and his bad outweighs his good.
Love Bischoff but Russo had more success than any Booker and yes good ideas, he's the one who convinced Vince to bring on attitude. And WWE got only worse when Russo left while TNA got great. Yet what happened when Eric came to TNA? What happened when Eric came to WWE? you can make whatever excuses you want. But not until you admit the merger and politics effected WCW. WCW sucked under Eric during post 98 and no ideas were done by ANYONE
Russo > khan sorry 💥✨🎉🎉❇ #EOMREACTS ☪🎉🎉✨💥
Like Dave Meltzer.. yet I'll shit on Tony Kahn and all his workers for hours on my podcast.
Well this is complete BS, Russo has criticised himself plenty of times.
Also Russo is one of the key components of the attitude era, that is a fact. The ratings in WCW did improve during Russo's period in charge, that is also a fact.
People can hate on Russo all they like but to say Russo has never had a good idea is ridiculous.
What good idea? Or better yet, what got over and what got people killed, injured, fired or quit.
Russo did FAR greater legitimate damage to the wrestling industry than anything that might have hit the wall that Vince McMahon modified and used.
Russo and Bischoff worked together for only a few months in WCW (from April 2000 on) - Russo was the writer and Bischoff was a consultant for Turner . He also got paid to be an on-air talent. And that was some of the worst creative in all of pro wrestling history.
So Bischoff CAN be right, based on what he knew or saw.
@@claytron3000 oh of course he can be right but so can Russo. It is a fact that wcw ratings did actually improve when Russo was there.
@alanw9620 they didn't tho, the ratings in the dying days of WCW was way down and that's all on Russo
@@colonelkenpachi5009 not actually true. Yes the ratings were down the last few years the ratings when Russo joined went up before going back down once he actually left, you can actually look it up. There was a lot going on that led to the downfall of WCW. And Russo was long gone by the time WCW was finished for good
Eric is much more in denial then Vince ever was, he claims WCW was in shambles before he took over but the truth is under his reign the company collapsed a lot faster then before he took charge.
That’s not true at all. WCW was worse than WWE pre NWO and people were constantly jumping ship. Turner merging companies ultimately killed the company along with them not keeping Eric there. Russo didn’t help like he did in WWE.
I find it funny, currently, that AEW has fucked up SO BADLY, that they've got Bischoff, Russo & Cornette all agreeing! When you get those 3 on the same page about something, that's a hell of a disturbance in the force... (had to use a reference, cause it's Star Wars weekend!)
I need 2 learn 2 bs my way into being a multimillionaire
All the russo marks butt hurt about EB talking truth.
erica and vince both live in denial
Accepting a paycheck was the answer
Russo, Cornette and Bischoff all play the same game. When they want to crap on each other, things are very black and white but when they ran into obstacles in the same companies it's shades of gray.
Not true Cornette is very honest about his firings or quiting.
It's only his TNA that I'm iffy about but Dutch Mantel pretty much covered basically giving the same details Jim gave to what he could remember.
@@colonelkenpachi5009 Cornette has been honest about his firings, but when it comes to things like WCW dying he likes to blame Russo like he didn’t walk on to the titanic. I’m not just talking about firing though, I’m talking about addressing the hurdles they ran into.
@geneanthony3421
Cornette walked off because of Jim heard.
Jim and midnight were basically being buried till both Jim and Stan left leaving only Bobby in WCW. (Bobby needed the money)
When him was on WCW wasn't sinking yet at least not as bad as to where it got.
@@colonelkenpachi5009 that’s not how it ended in TNA or ROH. Both of them Cornette went off on the backstage environment issues.
@geneanthony3421 that's how it ended in WCW.
TNA he was fired.
And ROH he quit.
But in TNA it was kind of a purging of the old guard because not just did Jim get fired Dutch got fired and a lot the former wrestler talent.
Russo seems more suited to be a creative coach working with individual talent directly, rather than having total control of everything in the company.
Exactly. Russo is a character guy. He doesn't do well programming the whole show.
If you want to impress the marks...Talk crap about Vince Russo.
Just cause it's low hanging fruit, doesn't mean it's not tasty.
@@DoctorLazers Russo made wrestling cool. He drew the highest ratings of all-time. People can't use the "Vince McMahon filter" excuse because Brian Gewirtz had the same cast plus Jericho and Kurt Angle and the ratings went down after Russo's departure.
@@Robert-zv4qu Russo made wrestling Jerry springer BS.
@@colonelkenpachi5009 It was enjoyable and it brought in millions of casual fans. This is why wrestling is trash today, because wrestling marks/Russo haters are ruining the product. I will choose Russo's Jerry Springer writing over anything today.
@Robert-zv4qu it was a giant mixed bag of mostly bad ideas but very few bright spots.
Don't make me list some of Russo's ideas.
The casual audience were already pulled not because of Russo and his ideas but because of the talent he was working with.
Great talent can turn chicken shit into chicken salad.
The stars that were already built are what made the attitude era, not Russo.
How is it 2024 and we’re still talking about Vince Russo
He's right.
Vince Russo had bad idea after bad idea over and over and over again but he never learned from them and in interviews today, he still won't admit they were bad ideas.
Yeah, DX, Ministry of Darkness, 3 Faces of Foley, The Rock, This Is Your Life, Too Cool, New Age Outlaws, APA, The Big Show, The Corporstion etc were all bad idea after bad idea after bad idea. 😂
Both of these guys suck 😮😢 but Eric bishoff had the record of running a company into the ground 😮😢 I would be hiding in no man land 😮😢
Russo had 5 good ideas during attitude era for Bischoff's one good one brooo
Eric changed the whole climate of the wrestling world with that idea
Eric Revolutionized the entire industry with dozens of good ideas. Cope harder.
@@onewarriornation602 facts💯
That’s the pot calling the kettle black. Russo is an idiot but bischoff was a damn fool too.
I believe he doesn’t like aew
Of course tony khan is like vince russo😅
@@Thedice-fr6dy dude he is nothing like him.
You need to learn how to style your hair properly brother
I stand with Vince Russo
I stand against Vince Russo.
The only ones that stand with him are those that believe his lies and that he was the reason the attitude Era was great.
He was the reason why WCW when deep down in the dumps and is also the reason TNA was at its biggest lows.
@colonelkenpachi5009
That's what the marks like to believe, wcw died because of Turner broadcasting and big egos.
@@yui8uyoipi Oh please, get real. There's no possible way in hell WCW was going anywhere with Russo. The product was absolutely horrible. Was the writing on the wall? Yep. But dwindling numbers that are not improving but getting worse gets shit canned. Had Russo been even remotely worth a damn he may have prolonged it. If he was good he may have prevented it if he got ratings back.
Hiring Russo was just driving the nail in the coffin.
So, you stand with a guy that cost WWE millions of dollars, killed Owen Hart, and injured potential stars? Moves to stand as FAR away from you as possible.
@yui8uyoipi
I didn't say he killed WCW I said he's the reason the product was in the dumps and was a major part of its downfall.
He was the last nail in the coffin.
Vince Russo wrote Raw during its most explosive growth in viewership ever. He was head writer of WWF, WCW, and TNA, and never left a promotion with lower ratings than he inherited. Top stars like The Rock, Steve Austin, Mick Foley, Kurt Angle, and Shawn Michaels will talk fondly of working with him and celebrate his contribution to the business.
Then you get clowns who only ever want to talk about half a dozen Pole match he booked, how stupid all of his ideas were, and how he killed the wrestling business, and they get confused about why he doesn't want to engage with them? Wild.
He didnt write raw, he was a writer on raw. And Vince oversaw all the writers. Russo claims more shit than he did. Notice how the minute he was a head booker in WCW it immediately fell apart? He couldnt book out backyard wrestling. He has never been successful other than a brief moment in WWE, when Vince was desperate and it was Vince who made the calls on everything.
@@Bigbudd0045 You can't even credit the head writer of Raw with writing Raw. Think about what you are saying. Is it any wonder Vince Russo is bored of dealing with people like you?
He was part of a team in every situation and frankly there's a lot of ways to look at things. Lots of people pull stunts that lead to short term profit and long term gains (politics are known for it). Russo is a guy who focuses on the short term and is gone before the damage is easily seen.
The buck only stopped with Russo in WCW and TNA. We saw how those shows looked.
Vince McMahon cleared/altered everything Russo did in WWF.
@@Bigbudd0045 He had the same role in WCW as he did in the WWF. You're delusional if you think that Vince McMahon was writing those AE shows.
vince russo ruined wcw
I like Bischoff but hes a dick. Successful sure, but he constantly shits on Russo because Russo took his job at wcw. He cant let that go and seems to be holding a grudge. Maybe he should let it go, same with Cornette.
Not a huge Bischoff fan myself... but, guess you have never heard Screwso talk... I think Bischoff and Cornette have a right to speak about him, the way he speaks about them. Russo is a joke, was a joke and always will be a joke in wrestling.
@@LadyDragonsblood that’s what i’m saying. if the intensity of cornette’s sentiments towards bischoff and russo were flipped, that would be confusing. but since they’re not, it just makes sense just the way it is
Everyone shits on Russo, cause he's a clown. Eric is not unique in this.
Russo didn't take Bischoff's job he took Kevin Nash's job Kevin was the booker before Russo
Russo is a legend and helped contribute to the best time in wrestling. The product was never better than when Russo was writing the show. Only Meltzer marks and crazy Cornette followers have an issue with Russo.
He contributed dog shit.
That was all McMahon, Cornette, JR, or Prichard.
Russo was always a lying sack of shit.
If anyone is familiar with Stuttering John and the Dabbleverse tell me if u think Russo is just like Stut John, the way he can't accept criticism or admit to being wrong, the lying and rewitting of history to fit the narrative in his head, they both have all the traits of a narcissist
1:25 - That was probably the worst story I've ever heard... That storyline is bad, and you were NOT entitled to Vince Russo's time. He should have hung up on you marks.
Didn't bischoff tank two wrestling companies? He took the nwo idea from Japan, the wrestlers made it what it was and his lack of creative direction drove it into the ground. Why does anyone listen to him about anything?
nWo, lWo, nWo Hollywood, nWo Wolfpack, nWo Japan, nWo B-Team, nWo Elite. It couldn't have been ran into the ground anymore than it was.