Im not a fan of Russo and his booking style, but I think WWE goes out of business if they dont give make him a writer in 1997.. Attitude saved WWF imho
A lot of people accuse Russo of lying, but, all of his stories never change. He never flip flops on what he says are facts. That's interesting to me. It either means he's telling or the truth, or he's very very good at bullshit.
Terry Funk came up with the name Chainsaw Charlie, not Vince McMahon. It was the nickname that Terry and his childhood friends came up with for their local barber, who would always dig the clippers into their heads and hurt them when they were kids. Let this be a prime example of Russo bold-faced lying for you. Store it in your memory forever. This guy lies about SOMETHING in like 95% of the things he says, and he is an extreme narcissist as well.
Oh, balderdash! Sir, I'll have you know Vince Russo created mankind, in his image, using only half a rib as the proverbial clay. Doubt him again, I'm calling the GAHT-damned PO-lice.
2:21:10 as someone who has a serious opioid addiction and have for 12yrs now, to answer Sean’s question about approaching Hawk over the substance abuse angle it depends on 2 things 1: the person you’re dealing with and most importantly 2: where they are in their addiction! If they know they got a problem and are on the road to recovery it will probably bother them but if they’re lost in their addiction they most likely won’t care
I'm not advocating drug use, but when I see a video with 3 hours worth of Vince Russo talking, I need some "party favors" for the sake of maximum enjoyment.
I’m not defending this man at all…but he gets so much hate that is underserved. We were all there and enjoyed the era, he was a huge part of it. Can’t take that way…
1:41:21 I bet Russo bought every Playboy that Sable appeared in (2 or 3 times she did it, one was with Torrie Wilson) and would pleasure himself to it when his wife was out
The best era in WWF. Thanks Vince! (Especially considering all the star power which the company had lost during 1997, Russo did a fantastic job building up the new characters.)
what's funny is watching this after the 1997 timelines and hearing the contradictions. Sean, Jim said he had the 1998 book, would it be so bad to have 2 different 1998 WWF timelines? If anything different perspectives on a timeline would be great. That's what I liked about the 1997 Mash up with Jim/Nash/Sabu
15:27 can anyone hear the beeping of a truck reversing? I thought it was outside my house so I paused the video it stopped and I played the video and the beeping starts again
Sable was completely synonymous with overrated. She was pretty with attractive features, but it wasn't take your breath away level. Brock would hospitalize me for saying that (don't misunderstand me, I would be a sentient heavy bad, I wouldn't fought back, but it'd be an exercise of futility).
25:05 actually I’ve hear Robert Fuller (Robert Parker) and Tom Prichard both say they wanted Robert Fuller to be part of the WWE office but Robert Fuller turned it down and that’s why he didn’t stay
15 minutes in, and Russo is putting himself over and I think at any minute he's gonna say "I walked on water, bro." By no means am I one of Russo's detractors. Numbers don't lie, and it's not debatable that he was the head writer during the time of the WWF's resurrection. HOWEVER... When he was left to his own devices in future companies, his goose quit laying the golden eggs. The fact that he's never owned up to his cornucopia of bad booking makes it harder to take him seriously. He made Mike Awesome "That 70s Guy". Mike FUCKING Awesome. A major program with him vs Kanyon on a main event/world champion level feud would've not only drawing eyes to WCW, it would've given the post-nWo some truly cool highlights for WCW's history. It's a shame it didn't happen.
Russo: Shawn was under the influence of a lot of things. Cornette: And they said he was "self-medicating" for his bad back. HE'D BEEN MEDICATING THAT BACK FOR 3 YESRS BEFORE HE GOT IT?
Russo saying he was a liason between Shawn and vice. As they were not talking. Absolutely bull shit. A manager of a multimillion dollar company dose not have a go between
I like that you got Russo on, so people can see and hear his side of things. But I gotta agree with Cornette; Russo doesn't write for wrestling, he writes for schtick and sap comedy and sadly, the wrestlers were the brunt of the joke.
@@ChewyChicken589 I agree, it does have to be about the story. But if you have a writer that doesn't know anything about the business; what's written can tank someone's career. Mark Henry was lucky to have weathered that storm with Mae Young and that hand.... that was just the shits.
Vince doesn’t need to know how to write a show he’s the owner the promoter, that’s why he had bookers/writers but he can tell a good idea from a bad one.
It's enjoyable listening to people tell stories about Vince when he still had his finger on the pulse and cared about making a quality product from top to bottom. Man, have things gone south...
Whose ever idea it was to keep doing the date pop-ups during interviews really misses the mark those pop-ups make these unwatchable. Anyone watching these is most likely already a big fan and doesn't need to be given that little bit of useless info every 5 minutes I'm 12 mins in and I already am annoyed,I just cant stand those already..... Way to squander an interview and it's not just this but the booker videos also are a dumb idea they just jumble everything up and half way through the booking they just get so out of hand uve already lost ppl by then. Sean Oliver is a terrible idea guy, he's an okay host but his ideas for the interviews are WoW so bad like he doesn't hit on even 1 gimmick during these interview like what's in the bag another dumb one idk what else but most of his interviews have been trash cause of the gimmicks he adds to them or makes apart of the interview. Just have the interviewees tell their stories with u listening and waiting to insert urself during parts where u can expound on something they say or if they skip over something go back and ask them straight up, have some questions ready to go and sprinkle them in the interviews periodically with the story. Not this all over the place mumbo jumbo stuff u have going on like these dumb pop-ups, dumb gimmicks an some dumb activities that no one cares about lol none of that is needed bro do better peace
When Americans complain about gas prices I say that we pay the same for a litre in England not a gallon (4.5l). But America has the most oil my dad worked for a Saudi oil company and he told me how he done so many deals in the 80’s selling Saudi oil to America (their biggest customers) and a few times he had to fly to Texas to do deals or go oversee the oil transfers with 6-10 supertankers parked up in the Gulf Of Mexico where they pumped the oil into America’s reserves. So anyone in the south in the 80’s who lost their job because the oil business collapsed in America that’s because people like my dad sold them Saudi oil cheaper than they could pump it out of the ground, sorry but that money put my brother and I through private school allowed me to go to Cambridge University and have a very comfortable life, though I wouldn’t see my dad for 4 months at a time he was home a month then back to work
That's actually because of what is known as the petrodollar. America actually made a deal with OPEC that they wouldn't drill their own oil and they would buy oil from Saudi arabia. In exchange, OPEC agreed to only take dollars for oil which solidified the dollar as the world's Reserve currency. That deal has recently been broken which means that Trump will have America start producing more oil when he gets back into office
