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Good Deadspin Story On Vince Russo's Origins
...and how he got into wrestling in the first place by backstabbing the guy whose newsletter he was writing for. As one of the comments said, if you
pretended he was a garden slug and poured salt all over him would Russo finally go away?
http://deadspin.com/vince-russo-one-of-pro-wrestlings-biggest-bullshit-art-1794338204
quote:
Hard as it may be for long-time fans to believe, this month marks 25 years since Vince Russo first emerged as a presence in pro wrestling. All
these years later, the former WWE, WCW, and TNA storyline writer and television personality is best known for his role behind the scenes in the
Attitude Era and for having created some of the worst wrestling TV to ever air. This would have been difficult to foresee in April 1992, when, having
been involved in wrestling for 90 days as the financial backer of New York�s most popular wrestling radio show, he split from host John Arezzi and
hijacked their newsletter, Pro Wrestling Spotlight, devoting most of the next issue to attacks on both the wrestling media and local tabloid
sportswriters.
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When the radio show went south, Russo somehow ended up with a job at WWF Magazine. (He says he reached out cold to Linda McMahon). After a few years,
frustrated over how out of date the magazine could get, he asked to sit in on creative meetings, so as to have more lead time. The request was
granted, and he began the next, Godforsaken phase of his career, during which he would eventually write some of the most terrible pro-wrestling shows
of all time.
This is when he became the Vince Russo we all know and love. But that�s a whole other story.
I guess it's not surprising to find out that Russo had some kind of radio show. If anyone got offended by what the likes of Howard Stern was up
to in the early 1990's New York City radio scene at least Russo was also there in the sewer of talk radio to make Stern look respectable in
comparison.
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
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