Vince Russo

"What can really be said about Vince Russo? Well, he's an anomaly in professional wrestling. He's a double-edged sword as far as booking goes. Some of his stuff was good. But the unfortunate part is, he tried too hard to be an "entertainment writer." I don't think he actually wanted to be a wrestling TV writer. He just wanted to be a TV writer. Like, basically he wanted it to be too much "Crash TV" in wrestling. He just wants it to be all entertainment and no wrestling. Which, there should be an entertainment aspect in wrestling, but it should be organic. It shouldn't be contrived or phony."

[3.0] "Originally written on 04/27/25: "Vince Russo in the worst I can happen in the professional Wrestling, how could he be on so many sides if his ideas were horrible? Quick count of horrible decisions: he invented the Bra and Panties Match, I do not think it is necessary to explain why this is horrible and is bad; WCW destroyed, when WCW was shattered, Vince arrived and shattered the shatters; TNA almost destroys, I think they didn't learn from what he was able to do; He gave recognition to Ed Ferrara, this in horrible, which he saw in Ed (Oklahoma or as half of "The Powers That Be"). Bad." Yes, I was watching his promo at Bash at the Beach, and thinking, I was too hard on Vince. I still think most of his ideas were stupid, but looking at it another way, Vince was in charge of running a WCW that was already doomed even before he arrived. His vision is what I admire most about him; he sought out young talent for great things, relegating the legends on the roster to the background. I also have to highlight his role in the Attitude Era. Although it was short, it was important in laying the foundation for what would become the most important era in WWF history. At times, he was a genius. For this reason, I'm raising my rating from 0.0 to 3.0. And Hogan you big bald son of a bitch, kiss my ass!"

[1.0] "The unfortunate case study of being the wrong person at the right place at the right time. Really needed someone to filter his ideas down and contort them into something feasible and applicable to wrestling. My personal biggest grievance is the inability to properly book an angle for any woman that wasn't about ownership, miscarriages, slut shaming or similar affairs."

[1.0] "There's nothing good to say about Vince Russo, he's done significant damage to the WCW, swerves left and ride, meta commentary on "smart" wrestling fans, booking himself of all people to be the champion."

[10.0] "Main problem of Vince Russo is that the man cant write storylines in a long term ways. Except this, he objectively got the science of the idea, either if you like it or not. He needed structure to filter his ideas because he got a lot of it. The creator of the Attitude Era, Vince McMahon might be close WWE if Vince Russo wasn't here to got him better. All i say is fact and not my emotions like yall ............ Main problem of Vince Russo is that the man cant write storylines in a long term ways. Except this, he objectively got the science of the idea, either if you like it or not. He needed structure to filter his ideas because he got a lot of it. The creator of the Attitude Era, Vince McMahon might be close WWE if Vince Russo wasn't here to got him better. All i say is fact and not my emotions like yall."

[4.0] "I don't think he was a terrible booker. A lot of his ideas during the Attitude Era were very entertaining and I am sure that he was one of the reasons for the popularity of that time period. Unfortunately he couldn't keep up with the times during WCW."

[1.0] "Russo is given some credit for contributing to Mick Foley's run and the Austin vs. McMahon feud. One point for that. He's responsible for making WCW so bad that they had no chance to make money and therefore no chance to stay alive after the Time Warner/AOL merger. Consider this, he was hired in October 1999 and then "walked out" in January 2000 because his ego wouldn't allow him to work with more people since his ideas were all terrible. Then he comes back and makes himself world champion and reportedly kept trying to not only get Elizabeth to wrestle, but also take her clothes off. What a legend...Then he dupes TNA into hiring him which was a total disaster as well. Sports Entertainment Extreme...GET IT IS SAYS SEX! Worshipping this guy is akin to saying you know fuck all of nothing about wrestling."

[7.0] "This man does not deserve the hate he has been given he gave people like Boker T a chance to be a main eventer. Made Bret Hart champion when he should have been a lot sooner in 1998. One of the few people not scared of Hulk Hogans power. He may have had a lot of crap ideas but he made wrestling the most popular it ever was. And he was very entertaining on the mic people don't give Russo credit for that ether. He also gave everyone a story Eric isn't a lot better then him yet he has like a 7. Russo should be remembered as a person that changed the business good and the bad."

[0.0] "There have been bad bookers before Vince Russo and bad bookers after but no one has ever came close to his level of ineptitude. He's so thoroughly hated that one is almost tempted to be a contrarian and defend him but no, he is genuinely that bad. His early fame came from better bookers like Vince McMahon (and considering some of the absolute trash he booked in his final years running WWE, it's saying something that Russo is demonstrably worse) taking his "best" ideas and working them into something manageable. And even then, trash like Brawl 4 All happened."

[1.0] "You are not a true wrestling fan unless you hate Vince Russo with all your being. His touch is the reverse of King Midas - every wrestling promotion that he has been employed becomes worse. He's not a good writer, he's not a good wrestler, and he's not even a good heel personality. Overall a bad footnote in the history of pro-wrestling."

[0.0] "Could not imagine someone worse for the wrestling business than Vince Russo. He brought so many awful things into wrestling, the horrible gimmick matches, especially the women's, is such an awful thing to introduce. I genuinely feel like he set the business back and ruined WCW, hence I feel I have to give a 0"

[3.0] "Here's what would happen at Wrestlemania 41 main event if Russo was the booker. Cody Rhodes, WWE Champion, defends against John Cena at Wrestlemania in Las Vegas. Cena returns, claiming he's after title #17, revealing he's funding Brandi Rhodes' heel faction, "The High Rollers." Brandi slaps Cody with casino chips, turning on him. Build-up includes a "Casino Chaos" match (Cena wins via Dustin Rhodes' interference) and a "Vegas Vice" segment with Don Johnson, ending in chaos. Match: "Sin City Showdown" (no-DQ, falls anywhere). Ring has a roulette barricade, slot machine, and fuzzy dice. Cody enters on a motorcycle, Cena in a limo with showgirls. They brawl through a blackjack table. Dustin interferes but Cena accidentally AAs him. A "Vegas Prize on a Pole" yields brass knuckles for Cena; Cody kicks out. Wayne Newton swings a chair, misses, and Cody suplexes him into the slot machine. Cody wins with a Cross Rhodes through a flaming poker table. Brandi teases betrayal post-match. On Raw, Cena demands a cage rematch with Brandi in a shark cage."

[6.0] "Vince Russo is a love/hate guy. I respect his writing for the late 90s in WWF, it cannot be overstated. His WCW career is highly criticized, and for good reason. His booking of himself winning the WCW title might be the most annoying thing to me personally. I never paid much attention to TNA so can't really comment on that portion of his embattled career. I will take up for him when people attack him for "the death of WCW" - that company was clearly dying out before Vince Russo ever arrived in Atlanta. And god rest the late great Roddy Piper, I highly respect his opinion but can't blame Vince Russo for Owen Hart's death. Accidents happen, if anyone is truly at fault it would have to be the stunt coordinators in my humble opinion. I obviously wasn't there and was just a fan watching RAW the day after Over the Edge 1999."

[3.0] "The legacy of Vince Russo is quite murky. He was one of the people responsible for the WWF's resurgence in the late 90s with the Attitude Era, but he is also responsible for ruining one promotion to the point of closing and nearly doing the same with another. He helped create some of the more memorable characters and angles but also created some of the wackiest, ridiculous, and downright abysmal storylines and gimmicks too. Vince Russe bought in the crash TV style of booking that could be done well with a filter, but could be awful with nonsensical swerves, pointlessly quick matches, numerous backstage skits and segments, and the constant breaking of the fourth wall with insider references and worked-shoot bullocks. It doesn't help that Russo decided to insert himself onto the product as a participant, really trying to copy the shtick the McMahons were doing. Nowadays, Vince is one of the many grifters you offen see and hear complain about the modern wrestling product, constantly dropping bad takes and opinions in order to stay relevant in a business that left him behind."

[3.0] "Known for his crash TV style and edgy storytelling, he played a key role in WWE's Attitude Era, helping create compelling characters and unpredictable moments. However, Russo's reliance on swerves, gimmick matches, and controversial angles often led to inconsistent storytelling, especially in WCW and TNA. While his creativity brought excitement, his booking often overshadowed in-ring action and generally more of his stuff is bad than good"

[0.0] "I'm not kidding when I say this man is the worst writer to ever be in charge of mainstream wrestling promotions, Vince McMahon should have never hired him as a writer or even let him write for their magazines. Seriously, this man has done irreparable damage to this industry. Despite people look back on the WWF's "Attitude Era" with fondness & nostalgia, people forget that the era had A LOT of problems when Vince was the head writer/booker (it did get better once he left). Then he goes to WCW and the company goes from bad to even worse, he ruined WCW so badly that Dark Side of the Ring needs to do a 2 part episode on his days as head writer/booker in WCW, from David Arquette as world champion to the dumb gimmick matches, countless swerves, etc. it's all a trainwreck. He sure didn't help TNA, did damage the moment he convinced his pitch for the name to the Jarrett's, is this man 12 years old? TNA really kept this man around, even when Spike TV didn't want him, and it's not like he was valuable. Overall, Vince Russo is one of-if not-the most creatively bankrupt men in this amazing "sport" we all love, glad no one in the industry wants him back. I know this word gets thrown around a lot by people, but, Vince Russo is a legitimate cancer to professional wrestling. Seriously, 99.99% of everything he touches turns to shit."

[7.0] "One of the most disrespected and undervalued people in the wrestling business, he is often criticized by sheep or those who blindly follow Jim Cornette's opinions. Many claim he was a terrible booker and writer, yet he played a major role in the rise of the Attitude Era and the rise of stars like Triple H and The Rock. It's hilarious how people ignore the fact that, in the two years following his promotion to head writer, Raw surpassed WCW Nitro in head-to-head ratings, after years of losing that battle. He took what was a stale product at the time and injected entertainment into it. I don't believe he's a booking genius, as seen in his WCW and TNA runs, but the refusal to give him credit is super cringe. The narrative (and the fact that it's so insanely popular) that he simply gave ideas while others in WWF polished them is proof that people will go out of their way to discredit him due to bias. If that's all he did, then how in the world did he manage to become head writer? That narrative has zero proof to back it up, yet everyone runs with it. The way all the wrestling fan sheep try to discredit him is so odd you'd think he was some kind of evil person. Yes, people can point out the bad, like how he contributed to WCW's demise (an already doomed company) or TNA's stagnation, but that doesn't mean they should completely ignore the great television he contributed to in WWF. Running with the lazy "He had 1/10 good ideas, and they were all filtered" narrative or acting like he wrote nonsense that was simply carried by The Rock, Austin, etc., is just disingenuous."

[0.0] "The damage that Vince Russo has done to professional wrestling might never be undone. This man did nothing but insult the product, the fans, and everyone who has ever cared about professional wrestling every time he was in charge of anything. The fact that THREE different promotions thought it was a good idea to let Russo run their show is beyond me, he never should have ever been involved in this business. And yet, ultimately, he got what he wanted, and that's a generation of WWE fans who actively dislike in-ring wrestling. And that's a shoot, bro."

[0.0] "Vince Russo might be the biggest train wreck ever to hit wrestling. He was all about shock value, pointless swerves, and wacky angles that made zero sense in the long run. Whether it was WWE, WCW, or TNA, he left a trainwreck everywhere he went with random title changes, overbooked matches, and inconsistent storylines. Instead of letting talent shine through solid feuds and smart booking, he kept throwing in cheap stunts that turned off fans who wanted to see good wrestling. If you want to see why long term planning matters in wrestling, just look at the chaos Vince Russo left behind. If you told me that Vince Russo had a hidden agenda to sabotage the wrestling industry I would probably believe it."

[0.0] "One of the biggest pieces of crap in wrestling history. Horrible promoter, booker, and writer. Can't believe he actually has a podcast where he critiques things. Every sentence he seems to use the word "Bro". Pretty much helped destroy WCW and almost destroyed TNA."

[0.0] "The guy is a complete clown and his current presence online only exists to rage bait wrestling fans. I must admit, there's a reason why he was the top writer in the then WWF for a while. He definitely did have ideas, it's just they were all filtered by Vince & the rest of the staff. Left to his own devices, you get what WCW became in the end and what TNA was going through in the mid 2000s. Which is basically poor TV and poor writing. His idea as to what professional wrestling should be is completely asinine and just doesn't work. He obviously cared about wrestlers as characters, and it's clear that he gave more depth to certain wrestlers in WWF during his time. But again, he needed a Vince McMahon to filter his ideas and turn them into something "good." All in all, Vince Russo gets a lot of hate, and it's all deserved. Loves to run his mouth about this and that, it's clear why he's disliked by 99.99% of fans and wrestlers."

[0.0] "Terrible, terrible booker with no long term plan, no booking philosophy, no concept of how to structure a show and no ability on-screen as a talker or a wrestler, yet he made himself world champion. All the successful bookers had a philosophy or at least a vision of what wrestling should be, from Crockett to Vince to Inoki to Baba to Onita, they all had a vision of what they wanted, Russo had no vision, he just throw stuff on TV and hoped it stuck, which it did not. He was better in TNA but he still made a lot of the same errors he made in WCW. I'd say he books wrestling angles like its a tik tok, get it over with quickly and without substance, then move on fast. Anyone employing him after 2000 was being very foolish."

[0.0] "For someone who defended that wrestling and its storylines should move closer to what was done in TV shows/dramas and movies when it came to narratives and the like, Vince Russo was certainly terrible at coming up with and writing those same narratives. Add to that the fact he contributed massively to the deaths of WCW and TNA, and all the damage he did to women's wrestling and women in wrestling in general, and there's very few good things that can be said about him, if any at all."

[2.0] "If there's one thing I'll give him, he kickstarted the attitude era, but I'm sorry, I cannot take him seriously. When he went into WCW, it all fell apart. He made himself the champion, and at one point, David Arquette. And his time in TNA was barely better. Remember the Last Rites match?"

[1.0] "Russo is easily one of the worst figures in pro-wrestling history, the damage that this guy has done to our sport is irreparable, and I absolutely hate him, not only for the several bad things that he wrote, but for what he represents, his philosophies are the complete opposite of mine, and in my opinion his thoughts on professional wrestling are shit. I'm only giving Russo a point here, because of the stuff he did at the Attitude Era, the only period of time that he was actually 'successful', not because of his brightness, but because out of 10 ideas, he had 1 good and 9 bad ones, but he did had good ideas, that helped the company, and all of the bad ones were just discarded or polished by guys like Vince, Cornette, Patterson, Pritchard, etc... After going to WCW in 1999, Russo played a big role on the company's downfall and he's a big reason of why it ran out of business, some of the worst stuff that ever happened in pro-wrestling history happened there under his command, and the company became a total mess. After pretty much destroying WCW, he spent long years with TNA, which explains why I was never interested by that company in my entire life."

[0.0] "I cant take anyone seriously who justifies their hatred for this sport by claiming mainstream fans dont care about wrestling, then proceeds to write some of the worst television ever. This mindset only lead to damaging the sport, instead of elevating it."

[1.0] "Vince Russo is wrestling infamy. He had a few good thoughts here and there, but he wrote like "swerves" were the only thing that mattered, like you could replace actual storytelling with throwing random crap at the wall just to "shock" the audience. He took a good thing in WWF and ran it into the ground with ridiculous, nonsensical angles, then jumped to WCW and basically put the final nail in their coffin, as that's easily the worst run a major US Company has ever had, and they never recovered. Russo never met a good wrestler he couldnt "fix" with some stupid gimmick or worked shoot. His obsession with being edgy led to some of the most embarrassing moments in wrestling history, and just has absolute contempt for actual wrestling, simply because he doesn't have the capacity to understand why people like it. the fact he kept getting jobs is proof that wrestling can sometimes reward the absolute least talented people as long as they're infamous."

[0.0] "I will not critique any of the outside televised parts of Vince Russo as if I did that, Id go to the negatives; however, the character on-screen and him holding the WCW World heavyweight championship was a key defining moment in the end of WCW as a company."

[0.0] "Just a complete moron who think's that he is the saviour of wrestling and all-knowing being of wrestling. I'd do anything in the world to never have anyone talk about anything this doofus says ever again. Single handedly set back women's wrestling in north america back DECADES with how awful he was"

[0.0] "An absolute loser with horrible ideas who lucked into every small amount of success he ever had. Responsible for some of the absolutely worst moments in wrestling that are still laughed about decades on. A wrestling world without Vince Russo is an incredibly better wrestling world. Terrible, just terrible."

[1.0] "I'm rating Russo on his on-screen character skills. He gets a point for his promo abilities, that's it. If I was rating his off-screen antics, I'd find a way to go negative."

[0.0] "I could write reviews like the other ones below me where I dissect everything wrong with the man but to keep it short, to sum up everything wrong with him, I'll sum up in one sentence. This is a dude who claims to hate the wrestling business but makes all his money off the wrestling business while burying the wrestling business and making fun of the fans of the wrestling business which he himself claims to be a fan of."

[0.0] "Awful booker and directly responsible for the demise of WCW and TNA. His horrible ideas hurt the careers and lives of numerous wrestlers such as Owen Hart, Dr. Death, Daffney among many many others. How he had a job for so long boggles the mind. If I could go into the negatives I would"

[2.0] "He sucks in so many ways, but he shit harder on Hogan on live TV than anyone else ever has so that earns a couple points."

[0.0] "Effectively killed off WCW tried his best too kill off Wrestling as a whole, his ideas only worked out when VKM filtered them, disrespectful to the business. For his worst booking look at Bash at the Beach 2000 in WCW or the "New York Rules stipulation on WCW Thunder."

[1.0] "A singular point for the fact he had *some* good ideas. He wasn't 100% god fucking awful, just 99%. He absolutely did book a couple shows that were actually good, and he did always make sure everyone on the roster had something to do. That being said, he didn't understand wrestling in its basic fundamentals, and most of his story lines were in poor taste at best. I understand 25 years ago was a very different time than it is now, and during that time sexism, misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, drag-bashing, racism, and honestly any form of bigotry wasn't taken as seriously as it is now, and was used for comedic effect or something along those lines, but considering it wasn't even good back then, I think it's fair for me to put serious criticism on the man for incorporating that so much, especially towards his bashing of women in storylines. It's not a coincidence how many times he's painted women as liars of abuse and pregnancies, as well as being unfaithful. Asides from how deeply offensive a lot of his booking was in that aspect, he also quite literally didn't understand what makes wrestling actually captivating. Take a look at his WCW work for instance, where every match on the show contained a ref bump, interference on top of interference, constant bending to flat out breaking of the rules, and nonsensical booking in terms of who goes over who, without any form of consistency or flow. Gimmick matches should be a special occasion, not something that takes a majority of the show's card. Asides from his awful booking and writing, he was also a damn terrible character. Absolutely unbearable, especially in WCW. 1 point for Survivor Series 1998, that's literally all he's got."

[0.0] "Destroyed WCW, almost destroyed TNA. A complete cancer to the industry, whether as a booker, as on-screen talent, or as a man with a microphone and a podcast. Even the other Vince's creative disasters look like Don Quixote in terms of narrative excellence."

[0.0] "Complete shit no redeeming qualities to the man he was a shit booker everywhere he went ruined a lot of peoples careers ruined multiple wrestling companies takes credit for the big boom of pro wrestling in the 90s when he had absolutely nothing to do with it a garbage person and a waste of space fuck Vince Russo"

[0.0] "You know bro, I gotta give it to Russo bro, the Brawl For All was 100% to see that big bully Bradshaw get beat up... And not just an excuse to give undercard guys CTE! Bro, WCW needed to be a shoot all the time because when you are telling everyone that everything else is fake but this is super real that's what gets the internet talking bro... Bro, Jeff Jarrett is the greatest wrestler of all time let's make him the champion of every company I book. Bro, wouldn't it be super cool to have David Arquette be the champion... Wait.. Bro... what if a writer made himself the champion? Vince Russo was completely delusional and part of the reason Wresting went on a downward spiral for many years and is still trying to recover and probably never will be the pop culture spawning icon it once was. Also bro has a podcast and he isn't even good at that in fact.. Part of my 0 rating comes from his comments he's had on his podcast claiming insane things and lying straight out of his mouth. Vince Russo is a psychopath compulsive liar on the levels of Hulk Hogan. His lies expose the harsh truths and reality of how things were.. Just watch the Dark side of the ring about Bash at the Beach 2000.."

[0.0] "I don't care about the attitude era, his work on WCW and TNA is the worst mainstream wrestling thing that happened (that doesn't involve wrestlers passing away or injuries). He can have one good idea out of 755, but the constant interference killed WCW and it's not a exaggerating. He killed WCW by going there and killed it once again by leaving Kevin Sullivan on power"

[1.0] "Listen bro, I think Vince Russo bro is a bit of a one trick pony bro. Sure he contributed to the attitude era bro, and wrote a lot of quality trash eerrrr I mean crash TV bro, but did he understand wrestling bro? Did he have a favorite guy growing up bro? Did he understand what it truly meant to be a fan and get lost on these bizarre ventures bro? Fans and Jim Cornette might have been a little too harsh on Russo bro. Yet he genuinely seems to be lost in the sauce bro. Like Hulk Hogan, the lines between truth and fiction from their tales gets really confusing fast bro. Once he jumped ship to WCW he essentially killed the company bro. True the NWO was getting way too big, and things needed to be stripped back bro. Yet things could have been handled a lot better bro, once he became WCW champion bro, we all knew the end of times for WCW was near bro. His jump to TNA was just amazing bro. His gimmick match ideas were super obvious bro, just add a pole and you got crash TV bro. Once it was revealed Russo was in the IMPACT zone bro, it became clearer TNA was WCW 2.0 bro. Makes Jonathan Coachman look like Paul Heyman bro. 1.0/10."

[0.0] "Nothing he ever did for the wrestling business brought any good, one of the worst bookers in wrestling history and he killed wcw."

[0.0] "Do I really need to explain why I feel that Vince Russo is worthy of a 0/10? He is the worst Booker in pro wrestling history. Take a long hard look at what happened to WCW once he came into power. Nuff said. There should be a Dark Side of the Ring episode on the Death of WCW because of this guy."

[1.0] "Vince Russo had 1 good idea in his life and that was the carefully planned out booking of the 1998 Survivor Series tournament, and I am not even sure how much of that show can be attributed to him because the guy seriously needed someone else in the room to keep him grounded in reality. His outlandish crash TV and swerve booking quickly soured on the viewing audience and now his name is synonymous in the wrestling world with a booker who has no idea how to run a wrestling company or that of a completely inept tempt worker who got promoted to CEO. The shadow of Vince Russo still looms over the wrestling world even 23 years on and even after 2 decades past his biggest failure, he was still given chances in the wrestling biz instead of just disappearing like Jim Herd."

[1.0] "He has Midas' touch, but for awful wrestling. The guy have few to none redeeming qualities, and most of his achievements were made on the back of other people. Dumb idea after dumb idea, almost killed TNA, contributed to WCW's downfall, and has been accused for being at least partly responsible for the death of a beloved wrestler. He made some good? Yeah, maybe, but he needs to be held accountable for all the awful things he has done."

[1.0] "His attempt to repeat a writing success in WCW after WWF became a total garbage and cringy joke. Russo and Hogan's backstage work is the worst thing that we could imagine happened for WCW and at some point TNA. Dark card of wrestling history."

[0.0] "Edited, but the score remains. This guy is a pox upon the earth or perhaps living universe. The incessant use of "bro" seems like an extreme form of Tourette's. Hideous booking mind and has made some really rotten television that could never possibly age gracefully in this space time continuum or any other. I did like that he took Hulk Hogan off tv at that time - but not the way it was done. There are sprinkled bits of "yes, ok - I definitely like that" but a broken clock is right twice a day, so. yup. ZILCH."

[0.0] "Ruined everything he touched. Single handedly one of the worst minds in professional wrestling history and forever a stain on wrestling in general."

[1.0] "I'll give this guy the same number of points as the number of years it seemed like he was actually trying to write coherent, good storylines. Other than that, he was complete shit in the most moronic of ways."

[0.0] "Recently, WWE Network was showing the "Monday Night Wars" documentary, and despite not even being alive during that era, I was hooked rather quickly. The documentary went into great detail about the man known as Vince Russo, and all I can say is wow.. I had heard about him killing WCW but I didn't actually think it had gotten as bad as it did. From what was showcased, he was a horrible booker, an asinine personality on television, and just a shitty human being. His philosophy of wanting to put younger guys over was good on paper, but his vision of it was to fire everyone over the age of 40. That is just ridiculous. WCW 2000, from what was shown, looked like absolutely abysmal programming. The shows were plagued by issues such as the commentary having no clue what to say or what was coming next, technical issues, and god awful matches and storylines. That's not even to mention his saga with Hogan that resulted in him walking out of the company at Bash at the Beach. All of this can be blamed on Vince Russo. Vince McMahon also made a great point about Russo' supposed "success" writing for WWE, in that all of his ideas were good because McMahon was there to put them into motion and make them compelling and executed the best they possibly could be. With no Vince McMahon guiding him, Vince Russo is worthless. And his takes on today's wrestling landscape are absolutely dogshit. Disgruntled, worthless old man who blames everyone but himself for his failures."