Taka was straight up fun to watch. He always got a pop outta me. Same with Funaki. Wrestling is meant to be fun and I've always felt that successful wrestlers made you care.

@bradcsuka5054

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed!

Seems like Jr liked Russos booking more than I thought he would.

@goldenserenity2385

2 жыл бұрын

If you look at the guys that respect Russo and have given him his props publicly; HBK, Nash, Flair, Austin, The Rock, Jericho, Mick Foley, even Russo’s own brand is filled with people like Stevie Ray, Stevie Richards, Dr Tom Prichard, Dutch Mantell, Kevin Sullivan, Shane Douglas, EC3, he is liked, but seems to be hated particularly by those whose jobs he risked from his success and loathed more because of the fact he has no interest working with WWE and can bury them publicly

@TheREALOC1972

Жыл бұрын

At first Russo's booking was great but it got old really fast. I mean while in WCW the gimmick matches got bad and stale, like half the dam show was "Fill in the blank" on a pole match, they literally even did a a "pole on a pole" match. Sure, as JR points out he booked some matches that were great matches but the gimmicks of the match sucked, noone wants to see Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan in a "dildo on a pole" match..... the matches were great booking the stupid gimmicks that the match were was stupid and that's what ultimately killed WCW. I mean it's a good thing Russo wasn't booking in WWF during the Eddie versus Rey over Dom fued because sure as shit Russo would book a "Dom on a pole" match where Dom is duct taped to a pole...... great matches as far as booking goes that gimmicks and bullshit intertwined in the matches sucks.

You want every match to have stakes...Me looking at the screen: Mmmm...steaks.

@L1KECLOCKWORK

4 жыл бұрын

Glad I wasn’t the only one 😂

@SAMagic

3 жыл бұрын

What if the steaks are too high?🤔

@rebeccaagholor9622

3 жыл бұрын

Umm...burgers!

@x2bannedyoutubeaccount408

3 жыл бұрын

@eric Dubwaaa I promote the eating of tasty beef

@jongon0848

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao all I'm thinking is "I take mine medium rare!"

I remember fans had signs that said Kiss My Ass lol 90s were crazy as hell

My understanding of Russo’s booking is he can and has had good ideas it’s just he needs someone to say no and also others to work them out. That’s why he wasn’t too bad in the WWF but when he jumped to WCW where he was the head with almost no one to say no, he went insane

@IsGallefreyTaken

2 жыл бұрын

Remember his booking of TNA? It wasn’t that he went insane he was a shit booker and showed what he was really like without others finding the needle in the haystack for him.

@goldenserenity2385

2 жыл бұрын

He ran a video store, is a big movie and TV fan, so is probably the best they’d have in providing these little nuances on weekly TV and how to string them all together, at least for the casual viewer. I think if he had Cornette to iron out his ideas so they fitted with the tradition, they could create another 1997 year of TV

@rexventura4603

2 жыл бұрын

@Sum body the story presented isn’t invalidated. Just because he was still head in WWF, McMahon still had final say, along with other people like Cornette, Patterson, and Ross still being there. So I’m not presenting anything false

@rexventura4603

2 жыл бұрын

@Sum body What was the lie? Cornette and a couple others were still there up to December of 1997, so that accounts for any ideas before that. And second any ideas Russo came up with independently afterward we’re still heavily ironed out by McMahon, at a minimum. Remember even if Russo is head, he still needs approval from McMahon, who would also edit the ideas and change up until the shot it. Russo isn’t a genius, at best he got lucky and ripped off Bischoff, who himself was ripping off Paul Heyman, who had his ideas heavily edited to work. At worst he was a compulsive idiot when it came to booking, see WCW and TNA.

@dustnbones0013

Жыл бұрын

This is such a stupid take that fans harp on without knowing any of the actual facts, no one could book wcw properly, try telling guys with guaranteed contracts and creative control what to do, I guarantee you wouldn't get very far, also the whole vince was a "filter" for russo is a crock of shit, the past 2 decades of wwe prove that vince's "filter" shows his creativity is on par with someone with taco bell diarrhea,

I remember 1997; I was only 12 years old but I remember it! And some of those stipulations were pretty cool!! This era was cool (for me)

@Mrderful

4 жыл бұрын

Same here. I was 11 and was diggin this more than wcw storylines at the time.

@quintonlovett

4 жыл бұрын

Mr.1derful 305 bro it’s funny you say that.. I felt like I was the last of a dying breed.. my friends were all turning to wcw fans and calling the wwf boring!! Man we used to always debate lol

@aaronbenfield2287

4 жыл бұрын

"Viagra on a pole match" i know it was WCW. Think he ran out of ideas.

@Tujefa1981

4 жыл бұрын

I was 16 and they were stupid that's the difference between a 12 year old and a 16 year old. This is why WCW was winning! The NWO was gang warfare way more cutting edge!

@johnhurley8453

3 жыл бұрын

Attitude era was hands down the best. I was 9 at this time & damn, it was magical.

My uncle took me to this event for my birthday. I brought my plastic intercontinental belt. It was so great!

@stevetrump8823

3 жыл бұрын

Lol fake news.i was there with my uncle and I didnt see you there.

You can say a lot of things about Russo as a person, and as a booker, but he really cared about what he did. He tried to get every single guy on the roster over. I cannot name one booker that devoted as much time to the lower card guys as Russo did. I have been watching wrestling for over 30 years, and have followed about 20 different promotions closely over the years, and no one used the entire roster the way that Russo did. Russo needed a filter, but he was very good at creating stars, and maximizing the returns on each guy and playing to their strengths rather than their weaknesses.

@GuyBurny

3 жыл бұрын

It was also because of him that Attitude era happened.

@TheNextStep851

3 жыл бұрын

I'll never understand why people say Russo needed McMahon as a filter. McMahon needed Russo as a filter and the product for the last 20 years proves that. Hell, go back to 1993-1995 to see how badly McMahon needed a filter. He thought that crap was good lol. People constantly say McMahon is out of touch and needs to let someone else take charge, so why is it in the sole case of Vince Russo he's suddenly this filter that prevented a ton of so-called bad ideas? It's just a way to discredit Russo's contributions and creativity.

@kelman727

3 жыл бұрын

Which is what any worthwhile booker does.

@kelman727

3 жыл бұрын

iRealBurny The fuck it was.

@kelman727

3 жыл бұрын

TheNextStep851 Because Russo tanked every promotion he worked with solo.

Russo was the biggest Joke in the history of wrestling

this makes me hungry

@nickwilczynski3488

3 жыл бұрын

That burger bro.. Half the reason I watch these

@babarazamsucks

3 жыл бұрын

Me too. Now I only want to listen to his podcast because of this.

I hope J.R. is ok wit the coughing

now i gotta go find the wrestle vessel picture with sunny

Conrad trying to bash Russo's 1997 booking and JR just shoots him down. I think in hindsight a lot of these guys see how much better Russo's booking was compared to the current neckbeard booking going on in WWE and AEW.

@Panwere36

3 жыл бұрын

Russo wasn't the only one booking, so it wasn't all him. The illusion (/delusion??) that he was the driving force behind the Attitude Era is beyond myth. Between 90-98% of the story lines were rehashed from the bigger territories before Vince McMahon killed most of them. I can tell you where at least 20-25 of the top 30 story lines really came from.. and they were not from either Vince's brain.

@johnnyblack3676

3 жыл бұрын

lol you and the 37 idiots who thumbs this up...wow

@johnnyblack3676

3 жыл бұрын

and btw, jim is talking about the match themselves, not the fn stipulations that were dumb as hell.

@GuyBurny

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnnyblack3676 alright cornette fuckboy

@jamesmichaels4979

3 жыл бұрын

@@Panwere36 Russo wrote the television show. Everybody involved said he wrote the show. Was was paid over $million to a write the show. Others coloured in the details, but Russo wrote the show. It if it was theatre, russo would be called "the script writer".

As a Canadian I loved that angle it was one of the only time wwf beat the nwa in storyline

On the "Kayfabe Commentaries Timeline: 1997 WWE" Edition, Cornette revealed having all Hart Foundation matches at the Summerslam with stipulations was his pitch. He got the idea from the Memphis Wrestling Promotion run by Jerry Jarrett!

At the end of the day, no matter what you think Of Vince, WWE was at its peak when Russo was writing. It's never been bigger or more relevant. You just can't take that away from him. They've done nothing but erode viewership since 99. And decades later people still yearn for The Attitude Era. So.....

@rickybobbyroode9814

4 жыл бұрын

The attitude era was overrated. The only thing that was good was Austin and The Rock and it’s been downhill since those two left.

@jarmaincharleston7405

4 жыл бұрын

@@rickybobbyroode9814 alot of wwe success was because wcw was so horrible so it makes wwe looks so great

@1krani

4 жыл бұрын

@@jarmaincharleston7405 If that was all it was, if WWE sucked back then and just looked better by comparison (in 1997, the peak of the nWo?), people would've simply stopped watching. Look at the viewership numbers for WWE, AEW, Impact, NJPW, and ROH: combined, they don't come CLOSE to doing Raw or Nitro's numbers in 1997.

@nonautomaton6230

3 жыл бұрын

Russo was responsible for so much horrible content, people quickly forget to the degree that the "attitude era" was a crapshoot of throwing so much nonsense at the wall and hoping some stuck. The 5% of quality was memorable, and that's what people recall - the other 95% was nigh-on unwatchable at times.

@1krani

3 жыл бұрын

@@nonautomaton6230 What you describe is WWE right now. Again, if it was unwatchable, people wouldn't have watched it. But they did, which meant it was doing something right.

Is the Jericho cruise he mentioned the same one where he got knocked out? Tell us about that.

Funny to me how when its something someone doesn't like..its all Russo. If its something good marks are quick to say McMahon filtered it. Get outta here. Either McMahon filtered the ideas or he didn't.

@neilsun2521

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. And if McMahon was such a good filter, then what's happened to his filtering ability these last 20 years?!

@Matt-cr4vv

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds kinda like Russo in reverse. He claims McMahon was never a filter in WWF, and desires credit. But whenever asked about WCW and TNA he always passes the buck. The guy deserves more credit than he has gotten probably but he's shown himself to want it both ways too often.

@iTubeYourDadsMinge

2 жыл бұрын

Ok, so literally every idea that Vince Russo ever came up with was filtered, or literally every idea wasn’t? There was no room for discussion either way, right, and everything was an absolute? -Nah mate, you get outta here. You obviously have absolutely no idea about how decisions are made in a business.

@SaveCrystalGaming

2 жыл бұрын

@@iTubeYourDadsMinge and I'm to believe you do?

@ToxicAvengerCleanYourMind

Жыл бұрын

@@neilsun2521 the last 20 years?... You do realize WWE has never made more money then in the last 20 years, right? Yeah... So what was your point again?

"Jerry Jarrett said. Reading a TV format from Vince Russo. Is like reading a TV format from a guy on L S D" - Jim Cornette

@TheNextStep851

3 жыл бұрын

Shame Cornette couldn't write a TV show that drew viewers, and he did such a bad job when he was in charge that Russo was brought in to replace him lol.

@jjalkman1999

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheNextStep851 Russo gave us Austin, Rock, and DX. Cornette gave us Camp Cornette and The New Rockers.

@TheNextStep851

3 жыл бұрын

@@jjalkman1999 Exactly lol. The Goon, TL Hopper, Salvatore Sincere and the New Blackjacks. Riveting stuff!

@therapper000

3 жыл бұрын

Haha cornette can say whatever he wants the truth is cornette got kicked off of the creative team and russo stayed on becuz his writing style helped draw more eyeballs to the show and was more up to date on what society wanted to see at time

@jadoc3767

3 жыл бұрын

@@jjalkman1999 He gave DX but not The Rock nor Austin.

that usa /canada was a hot angle, l had the bad luck of having raw tix for biloxi the wk after austins neck was broke

To whoever decided to put a steak on the screen on repeat: Damn you and the horse you rode in on. No fair 😭

Russo wanted to bring in OJ Simpson for Wrestlemania 13 😂

@topdawg2916

2 жыл бұрын

That would of drew mad ratings this proves people like you don't get what a mainstream audience wants

@goldenserenity2385

2 жыл бұрын

@@topdawg2916 No, I think Russo is best suited to draw a mainstream audience, as he actually has had exposure to a wide variety of TV than others secluded in the wrestling business (self admitted viewer of Lost, Dexter, Teen Mom, Breaking Bad, etc) I don’t think the OJ Simpsons thing is a bad idea, just an hilarious thought of how far he was thinking to get eye balls on the screen

@topdawg2916

2 жыл бұрын

@@goldenserenity2385 it would of got good numbers its oj simpson of the 90s especially coming off the trial

Friendly rivalry between America and diet America 😂😂 they both just want to be each other.

I'm not a veteran watcher, but what it seems like to me is that Russo was an ideas guy, and the fact that he didn't have an internal filter meant that *all* of his pitches would make it to the outside, to be scrutinized externally. So in the Federation, that meant there was no shortage of potential premises that the creative team, with McMahon himself as the final say, could put together. So WWF had this brilliantly diverse stream of storylines, conquered the airwaves - so the WCW top brass believe that Russia straight up shat gold bricks and hired him. They didn't know that without proper oversight, all they'd get was heaps of dung with gold nuggets scattered somewhere inside.

How how how are we still talking about this? What could possibly be left to say?

@aim6613

4 жыл бұрын

It's Conrad's obsession with Russo

@ATCRyderX

4 жыл бұрын

/Enter James E. Cornette *what the fuck did you just say?*

ngl the editing on these videos feels like being hit by a truck Enjoying the parts outside the ending though

I don’t care what anyone says Vince Russo’s writing is what got me into wrestling in 1998 with WrestleMania XIV. In my memories forever.

People who say the attitude era sucked were either too young to have seen it as it happened or were young when the golden era was going and lost interest as wrestling went more towards real life story lines and wasnt all centered around good old fashioned rasslin.

Russo thinks outside the box which is not normal in the business im with Team russo

@tempestfennac9687

3 жыл бұрын

But everyone knows that people are instantly over if they come out of a box. :P

@BannedSports

2 ай бұрын

​@@tempestfennac9687 That was Cornettes idea. Not Vince Russos

@tempestfennac9687

2 ай бұрын

@@BannedSports I know. I just said that due to it being relevant to the other comment.

I’m rewatching 1998-2000 and In 1999 the amount of gimmick Matches and the matches that would end in no contest and DQ’s was a Joke. They would have a match and than it would end in a big brawl that was pointless

Anyone else hungry?

Good times. Back before Russo ruined WCW by trying to recycle the Attitude Era, WWF NEEDED to put on a good show because they had major competition on Monday and Thursdays. Good times

@1krani

4 жыл бұрын

WCW ruined WCW. Bischoff's money-bleeding contracts he gave out ensured that they couldn't book their top talent without approval from both guys. Russo boosted ratings while he had sole creative authority, but WCW couldn't stick to a plan or even a head writer for more than a few months. Kind of like... EXACTLY how WWE is right now.

@jjalkman1999

4 жыл бұрын

@@1krani This. Russo had sole creative control for 3 months. Ratings went up a bit and they were finally building fresh talent. They like to blame him for the first 4 months of 2000 when he wasn't even there.

@robertsergott2635

3 жыл бұрын

Prior to Russo, you had Hogan, Savage, Flair and Sting trading the title back and forth. It was getting real stale. Nash was about the only interesting champ. DDP also was champ but had been feuding with the other guys for so many years it wasnt fresh. Russo had Bret get the belt, created a nice feud with Goldberg who had vanished out of title picture previously, elevated Sid and made Benoit a main eventer. On the second Russo run he did the same with Booker, Steiner, and Jarret. This was way more interesting than watching Hogan fight Flair for the 60th time or Savage.

@robk5488

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair WCW had more of a "attitude" vibe in the early 90s. Wwf attitude era didn't start till like 97

@onemanarmy2electricboogalo687

2 жыл бұрын

Wcw was doomed to begin with it

russo struck gold with the attitude era and wanting more grit and "attitude" but that's all he really had, he couldn't last in the business cause he couldn't book or write very well after his 2nd year in... also another hard truth is Jim Cornette is just as bad as russo, Cornette lives in the 70's and 80's and can't think past those days, he's not a great booker or writer either, Corny was a great manager and a die hard fan of old school wrestling

@xKillZone99

2 жыл бұрын

@Sum body not necessarily true

Vince russo is bashing triple h booking on konnan podcast

conrads new scheme is fill up a podcast full of interviews & offer the ad free version

Russo only started writing without Jim Cornette in December 1997. So the ideas for the stipulations could have either been Cornette, McMahon or Russo in August 1997. I have not seen for sure who exactly took ownership of those ideas

@greatomeister675

4 жыл бұрын

Anything to discredit Russo

@jaredaviet8297

4 жыл бұрын

@@greatomeister675 I hope you are not talking to me - you bag full of hot air. Get your facts straight. He himself has stated that those were not his ideas on his podcast which I have listened to. You are a neanderthal.

@jaredaviet8297

4 жыл бұрын

@@greatomeister675 so it is my fault that cornette got booted out of the writing team in December of 1997 - four months after this. Only then did Russo and McMahon write the shows. So you can kiss his ass for a ton of ideas after that but not for the summerslam 97 build up with the stipulations. farking hell

@TheKestevon

3 жыл бұрын

Russo has more creativity in his ass hair than Cornette's whole body

1997!🔥🔥🔥

I recently watched it... And Neidhart never shaved the beard... I know it's stupid to notice but just sayin LMFAO

I'll be the guy to say... Russo made the attitude era, the greatest era we've ever seen or ever will, it was completely and utterly entertaining, it never took itself too seriously and that's why its went down hill now, they're trying too hard and it's not entertaining in the slightest, kayfabe died and so did characters to a large extent, lack of characters just isn't entertaining

there is a reason why wwe was so watchable during the 90s and why vince mcmahon made russo the head writer.

If people rewatch 1999, It is so pointless majority of it because of Russo, 90% ended in no contest and DQ’s and the matches would end with no finish and they’d play the wrestlers music but no one actually won.

Ole Dick Togo sponsored by blue chew😂😂 love JR

Rumor has it Russo is helping tony khan book AEW today

@pinroshan020

2 жыл бұрын

You have source to support that statement or to make me believe thats true?

@Brianraymond581

2 жыл бұрын

@@pinroshan020 well it was a joke… but it certainly looks like Russo is helping tony khan. Tony khans booking has been nothing short of a disaster

Dick2blu “sponsored by blue chew” 💀👀😂

The issue with those country vs country rivalries/storylines is that the wwe for the MOST PART portrays the USA as the babyface and the opposing country as heels/lesser than. I do understand that the company is American based but when you have storylines like this one you have to take into consideration not offending fans of other countries. (who also make you money). I certainly don't want to turn on the television and witness my country always be portrayed as the heel nation. This is the toxicity that was being sold to appease the American audience and its not necessary. Americans tend to digest this kind of content literally.

Russo was a K-mart clown who kept running blue light specials

@crazyfitpt532

4 жыл бұрын

Bob Cook shut your bitch hole russo fanboy..

@Foxo-Matti12

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah? Thank him for the Attitude era jackass.

@mdhotstuff

4 жыл бұрын

@@Foxo-Matti12 With Vince's watchful eyes, he did well... never reached those heights again.. and no I was not a big fan of the attitude era....

@TheNextStep851

3 жыл бұрын

@@mdhotstuff He oversaw TNA's highest ever viewership and had no "watchful eyes of Vince McMahon" there. You people seriously need to go and look up some facts because those of you who come out with the tired old "Urhhhh he killed TNA and DUBYA SEE DUBYA MAH RASSLIN'!" are completely clueless. Vince McMahon needed Russo as his filter because he's so out of touch with modern society. People who have worked with him say he's never even gone to the cinema to see a movie. Russo's job was to draw as many viewers to the TV product as he possibly could, and he did that in 2 out of the 3 companies he worked for. What do those 2 companies have in common? They gave him the time to do so. Look at any TV show that has been a ratings hit - they all took years to reach their height. How long did WCW give him in sole charge? 3 months.

We all know what were are looking for here and we are looking for Dick To-go en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Togo

Vince Russo didn't book this. This was GOOD BOOKING.

@pinroshan020

2 жыл бұрын

Vince Russo sucks.

Vince Russo contributed to some cool angles in Pro Wrestling was he the best no. But neither was Eric Bischoff

🤣

well the problem is with doing that ,u are making wrestling look silly.

These were Cornette stipulations - he says so on the 1997 WWF timeline. Do some fucking research that isn't reading back issues of WON ffs.

"Not based in communism" lmao

Vince Russo is a creative genius

@Deadpool_64

4 жыл бұрын

Found Vinny Ru's alt account bro.

@playboy_x

4 жыл бұрын

Deadpool he’s great at creative, not booking however.

@kelman727

3 жыл бұрын

...at shovelling shit after several days’ patient tuition.

@WingsofHistory

3 жыл бұрын

Playboy X that’s why you need both Russo and Cornette, comedy aside both are brilliant and both actually posses a working brain to plan logical stories out, look at this shit they try to pass of as “wrestling” now bro, it’s a joke.

@pooldead7712

3 жыл бұрын

Surprised he didn’t get anything for the attitude era as in awards or something all he has gotten wrestling wise is the worst gimmick in 1999, worst on interviews 2000 and worst non wrestling personality 2000 from the wrestling observer newsletter

Communism? Huh?

@TheTenCentStory

3 жыл бұрын

You must be young. In the 80s and 90s everything was Communist Russia vs America

Russo has shown over the years since leaving wwf his booking skills are garbage.

@TheNextStep851

3 жыл бұрын

@ It's not simply a difference of opinion though. People try to state it as fact that he destroyed companies, when he was the one who oversaw their highest ever viewership (TNA). WCW was improving under his watch, ratings-wise.

Communism is based JR

Jim Ross is a pos for what he said about Mabel.

Short version: it sucked.

@uriel4274

3 жыл бұрын

What sucked?

If Russo was so great why did wcw die after he took over,the problem today is that A everyone is the same and B they don't friggin WREASTLE it's wreastling not gymnastics

@1krani

4 жыл бұрын

Do your homework. Even if WCW hadn't been bleeding money, which it had been doing both before and after Russo was in charge due to all those guaranteed contracts, the AOL-Time Warner merger ensured that their TV shows were going to be cancelled anyway. The new bosses simply did not want to be in pro wrestling. Russo took over TNA around 2003. How was TNA doing around 2008 to 2010, still very much under Russo's booking style?

@raypelino7713

4 жыл бұрын

He still didn't make it better

@raypelino7713

4 жыл бұрын

Also remember they had the number one wreastling show on Saturday night and abandoned that to go against WWE and got rid of everyone that knew anything about wreastling also it's a fact that upper management fixed the books so it appeared that wreastling was losing so much money .2 people stopped watching because they didn't know how to write a wreastling show and Russo killed TNA

@1krani

4 жыл бұрын

@@raypelino7713 Saturday Night was taken off the air in 2000, well into WCW's misfortune and slump and NOT during Russo's era but the Russo-Bischoff collaboration, the same one that gave us Bash at the Beach 2000 a month prior. Competition to go against WWF began in Bischoff's era in 1995, back when Russo was still merely a writer for WWF. Finally, Russo left TNA in 2010. TNA was still hot in 2012. Russo had been working with TNA since 2003, so if he "killed" it, not only did he suck at killing it, he spent 7 years killing it backwards into prominence. Wtf are you talking about, you poorly-researched bubblehead?

@raypelino7713

4 жыл бұрын

World Championship Wreastling was the name of their Saturday night show on TBS they were the NWA ,

One of the worst booking ideas in wrestling history. It was used 3 times and destroyed careers everytime it was done. Also you knew who was going to lose from the start everytime and it's always 1 sided.