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[Darren Grett]

Below is a recap of former TNA Writer Vince Russo's live shoot interview conducted by KayfabeCommentaries last night.

Russo mentions that a third book is highly unlikely. He felt he said everything he needed to say in his last book.

Someone asked about the record low 0.8 rating tna got on their last live show. Russo refused to respond to the question

Vince says that most wrestling talent would be crazy not to start a union.

Vince says that The more you keep changing things up the further you get from having a successful company.

Russo says he was treated very nice and professionally by Dixie Carter and no problems with her but didn't agree with her business decisions.

He says he doesn't feel going live will effect the rating and only consistency will increase the numbers

Russo says Garret Bischoff is in a 'no win' situation and says it mirrors many of the problems fans first had with Shane McMahon.

An animated video showing Matt Hardy plays. Russo says that Matt was in a bad place in his life when he was in TNA.

Russo said he enjoyed most working with guys that came from ECW. He never reveals any names in particular.

Vince says that Samoa Joe has to take an equal bit of responsibility for his own burial on television.

He says TV ratings drive everything but was not proud of the 1.3 and 1.5 ratings during his time in the company.

Russo says that when he briefly returned to the WWE in 2002 he pitched for Eric Bischoff to be brought into the company. He left the wwe just a few days before Bischoff was brought in.

Kevin Nash makes a surprise appearance by video. Nash asks Vince if he still would have accepted the job as head of wcw if he knew just how dysfunctional the company was at the time.

Russo announced that he and his son Will who also worked for TNA wrote a screenplay comedy about a dysfunctional wrestling company.

Russo says he was the one who had to pull Awesome Kong off of Bubba the Love Sponge during their infamous fight back in 2010.

Called Karen Jarrett is one of the best talents he has worked with and a 'travesty' she is not on TV right now.

Russo makes it clear that he made a point never to use the terms 'bitches' and 'sluts' for scripts in the knockouts division but most of the women added them in to the stories and scripts so he left them.

Ric Flair was supposed to get Stacy Keibler pregnant in WCW

Called Jeremy Borash a hard worker and a go getter and has never changed since meeting him in WCW

Russo says the talent is less charismatic today than generations past

He said in WWE everyone has a specific task and they don't criss cross, says lot of good talent in TNA but everyone gets in everyone's way

Russo said he wanted to work solely with Matt Conway and let their vision come out in TNA

A fan asked tons of questions about Bischoff. All Russo said was that Bischoff was a part of the creative team when he first joined TNA. He called Bischoff a smarter business man than he is and says Bischoff was instrumental in getting Russo and Hogan in the same room to talk.


Many thanks to Christian Parazulli for the news tip

[Wild]

I lol'd at Ric Flair getting Stacy Keblier pregnant for a storyline in WCW. That would've been gold. Better than the Matt/Lita/Kane love triangle.

[MickeyThyQueenBeck]

Let's not remember that one. Hell stinky kicked the baby sooooo. Please lets forget it.

Now yes we all knew that. But why not. Ric still is on space mountain or in space.

[MR B]

always staying classly.

[teambadazz]

somehow the comment about samoa joe turned into people saying he threw samoa joe under the bus....wish i heard exactly what he said but i refuse to pay for it

[Incognito]

MickeyThyQueenBeck, on 02 June 2012 - 11:35 PM, said:

Let's not remember that one. Hell stinky kicked the baby sooooo. Please lets forget it.

Hey, it wasn't his fault!

[Darren Grett]

teambadazz, on 02 June 2012 - 11:53 PM, said:

somehow the comment about samoa joe turned into people saying he threw samoa joe under the bus....wish i heard exactly what he said but i refuse to pay for it

not the first time tna backstage workers pointed the finger directly at joe for what happened. BG James did the same thing in a shoot interview.

[wifiaero]

Can't wait to see the ratings breakdown.

[Zeppelin4]

It seems like Russo kept his cool when talking about TNA, classy move on his part but not suprised since he never had any resentment towards TNA when he left. Pretty much left on his own terms and simply moved on.

[MickeyThyQueenBeck]

Joe is close friends with Punk and even though that doesn't mean anything sadly in this case it does.

[teambadazz]

404, on 03 June 2012 - 12:40 AM, said:

not the first time tna backstage workers pointed the finger directly at joe for what happened. BG James did the same thing in a shoot interview.

is it the most recent shoot 404 with billy gunn??

[Fenris]

Russo says Garret Bischoff is in a 'no win' situation and says it mirrors many of the problems fans first had with Shane McMahon.


Indeed.

Vince says that Samoa Joe has to take an equal bit of responsibility for his own burial on television.

Pure 110% fact, Joe only has himself to blame.

[Incognito]

Fenris, on 05 June 2012 - 08:37 PM, said:

Russo says Garret Bischoff is in a 'no win' situation and says it mirrors many of the problems fans first had with Shane McMahon.


Indeed.

Vince says that Samoa Joe has to take an equal bit of responsibility for his own burial on television.

Pure 110% fact, Joe only has himself to blame.

Exactly. Joe was hugely over, and then decided to start jobbing all the time, playing second fiddle to Kevin Nash, disappearing for months at a time and coming back to lose and disappear again...and he's somewhat less over! Bad decision on Joe's part, he should have kept winning most of his matches and looking like a bad ass. I don't know what he could have been thinking, deciding to bury himself like that. What did he expect was going to happen?

[Fenris]

Incognito, on 05 June 2012 - 08:48 PM, said:

Exactly. Joe was hugely over, and then decided to start jobbing all the time, playing second fiddle to Kevin Nash, disappearing for months at a time and coming back to lose and disappear again...and he's somewhat less over! Bad decision on Joe's part, he should have kept winning most of his matches and looking like a bad ass. I don't know what he could have been thinking, deciding to bury himself like that. What did he expect was going to happen?

Yeah clearly they just randomly decided to start jobbing him, it's not as if he's some lazy fat fuck with an entitlement attitude who only gives effort against his buddies.

[Incognito]

Fenris, on 06 June 2012 - 01:09 AM, said:

Yeah clearly they just randomly decided to start jobbing him, it's not as if he's some lazy fat fuck with an entitlement attitude who only gives effort against his buddies.

Yeah, go look at his crappy, lazy matches against Sting...or was Sting one of his best buddies?