I went back and watched every RAW from 98 a little while back, and it was TREMENDOUS. The pacing of the show, the little cliff hangers before each commercial break, fleshed out characters that remained true to themselves. Explanations, mysteries, comedy, the promos, everything was a million times better back then. I can't even watch RAW today. I can't even enjoy a Summerslam. Only thing enteraining is Wrestlemania, and that's due to past legends returning. Russo deserves better.

@litodat233

2 жыл бұрын

Lmaoooooooooo boy if u think that was All Russo doing your delusional as he is

@joedavidson6556

2 жыл бұрын

There’s not many people there today making any good decisions. It’s amazing that it’s still on the air, it’s a horrifying show.

Ed Ferrara, uncredited and unmentioned in WWE history.

to think this was 6 years ago, man time goes by

I think the internet shattered the mystery of wrestling... for me it was magical watching wwf in 1994-2001 because I couldn't go on the internet and ask for this answer or that plus... and that might sound a bit silly, but back then the visual quality of the screen on the tv (at least on my old tv back then) was bad so all i saw was a huge crowd of fans around the ring, not in detail but enough to know it was a huge crowd , and it was often dark and mysterious, lots of signs, no smartphones... and all that made it so magical for me... having to wait 1 week for a certain time so that i won't miss the next show. it will never be the same again.

@EL_Chapo187

5 ай бұрын

Facts

Some of you may not like Russo but the numbers don't lie. Attitude era highest ratings ever. Go to the WWE network and look at the shows from 97 on and i can almost guarantee that you will forget about Zane, Owens, the boss, and huggers. I say almost because a lot of you are marks and can't miss your sing along session when Nakamura comes out. Sheesh even the music was better back then.

@Djpdogg

7 жыл бұрын

J Crash the build started in 97

@rondamon4422

7 жыл бұрын

J Crash But it skyrocketed

@49WWFcobianfan

7 жыл бұрын

Djpdogg imagine if russo ran wcw he would've put WWF out of business

@wrighj

5 жыл бұрын

@J Crash you're an idiot

@Britton_Thompson

5 жыл бұрын

Vince Russo had nothing to do with that. Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Degeneration X, Mick Foley, Sable, Chyna, and Vince McMahon deserve the recognition for that era's success

Russo and Ferrara would give any of those current writers a run for their money

@gypzeerecords

5 жыл бұрын

You mean they’d chase them for it??

@litodat233

2 жыл бұрын

No they wouldn’t why didn’t they in wcw or tna ? They had chances since then and absolutely sucked balls

These two are the reason we like wrestling.....Respect to Ed And Russo

@litodat233

2 жыл бұрын

No their not

@drakejohnson9567

Жыл бұрын

@@litodat233 well they are the reason for A LOT of ppl, bc the last time WWE was relevant was when they were writing so…

I LOVE the way everyone that has been around Vince manages to do a spot on impression 😂😂😂😂

@jameshornby8433

3 жыл бұрын

Bro

great interview guys, ty for the awesome era you helped building.

Im currently binge watching the attitude era. Raw, Smakdown and PPV. You guys were geniuses. Great TV!!!!

@Djpdogg

7 жыл бұрын

NWO..... What else????

@carnagegalassi4798

7 жыл бұрын

4 horsemen promos ,wolfpac Sting vs Giant at great American bash. Goldberg loses to Nash!. The wCw PPV's were way better then WWF. Look up Road Wild . Look up all the matches Disco inferno had! Look up Eric Wrights awesome dancing moves that him and Inferno would do as a Tag team! .It was epic!.

@carnagegalassi4798

7 жыл бұрын

+Djpdogg Also LuLz fuck Russo .WTF was up with the shitty entrance stage in 2000 they kept using over and over even on PPV it was the same titantron. Atleast with Eric Bischoff you had better entrance stages that matched the PPV. Like Bash of the Beach under Eric Bischoff control was actually at beach as the entrance stage! under Russo everything became that stupid square titantron.

@TheWazperviz

7 жыл бұрын

Djpdogg Raw was great around that time

@Djpdogg

7 жыл бұрын

I was always a loyal WWF/WWE guy. NWO was interesting but not as good as WWE to me.

Ed is the loudest drinker I've ever heard. SSLUUUUUUURP!

Wow. Great shit guys, do more topics like this if possible..

Love the interview vince

What are the beats playing in the beginning ?

Interesting to listen to Ed in 2019. Lots of great points. Everything you both predicted happened.

If I had ted turner money I would start a company and hire both of you guys for head of creative and let you guys go all out. Fuck the bischoffs, cornettes, and heymans.

MARKS FEAR RUSSO!!!

this was a great episode!

I agree with what Ed Ferrara said about why he and Russo do not get any credit! You can fine it in the book DK published with the WWE about the attitude era, where Russo is at the chapter of the unsung heroes, but also a few pages later is being discredited by Bill Goldberg.

@eranben-shlomo9856

6 жыл бұрын

Have you read it?

@savagecatgt

Жыл бұрын

By Jon Robinson?

Great podcast

Another good show

I don't think even Linda Mcmahon knows Vince.

@rondamon4422

7 жыл бұрын

83aber1 Russo used to go to Mcmahons house all the time when writing shows

@michaelrubin4832

6 жыл бұрын

RonDamon 44 McMahon is a f****** a****** he pretends to like people but he uses them that's the facts

Ed funny at the end saying can u telll them I’m terrible they suck they didn’t wanna bring him home bullshit lmaooooo

I swear you mention baseball in every podcast u do lol

I love the Paul McCartney cutout in the background:

@bubepube7792

4 ай бұрын

It’s a clone

At one time the three of you working together created an era still talked about today. Why can it not be done again?

@Michael_Chandler_Keaton

7 жыл бұрын

Cause, PG. Publicly traded company. Linda's political career.

@TheWazperviz

7 жыл бұрын

Chandler Keaton Things can change. PG is not best for WWE. Vince Russo could help

@Djpdogg

7 жыл бұрын

the product is crap right now. Im only interested in it a little because a friend of mine is on the roster. No name drop lets just say he is phenomenal. lol

@ihavetubes

7 жыл бұрын

Back in the 90s, no one has seen anything like what was on wrestling. But now the wwe is in direct competition with video games and tv shows like game of thrones. I say even if they were not pg that would not change a thing. Would you rather play a video game or watch boring wrestling with bad story lines? or even yet would you Rather watch breaking bad? the wwe can do nothing to get are attention anymore they pretty much have ran out of gas in ideas.

@jakkederror2491

7 жыл бұрын

cos he is a 1 trick pony

Ed just said "blank as a fart" and I had literal Lol moment

We know a lot more about Vince now than we probably ever needed to know.

Vince McMahon is inwardly ashamed of being a Pro Wrestling promoter. The attitude is an attempt to distance himself as a producer from the product he provides.

@darthbigred22

2 жыл бұрын

I never thought about that but it is weird how he hates the South so much and almost all of his biggest stars and hotbeds of fans are from there.

about Vince doing his sh1t at 70, there's ego, power, the fear that someone could do better, or fail and destroy his business but just like Arsene Wenger its hard to leave your baby when its your whole life. Walking away is getting closer to death, its dying when you retire. Vince keeps on working out, he wants to live forever. He's a god. If he leaves he fears to be forgotten like an old real tv star, left alone, useless.

@darthbigred22

2 жыл бұрын

To be honest I think the old bastard keeps the show tame because he fears for his soul. He got rich off getting a lot of people to work themselves to death and he was one of the few shows that drug entertainment into the gutter. I liked it don't get me wrong but he was also marketing to kids. Or it's all just to keep advertisers happy

@jamst123

Жыл бұрын

He's a narcissistic, sexual predator who would rather sell his company than give it to his own flesh and blood. When old age takes him the world won't have lost much.

How right Russo & Ferrara were and are. Now the Network has flopped, what’s left now for WWE? I wonder if they’ll completely sell out to NBC?

Vince is all about Vince

"Why am i giving time to this thing I'm not even enjoying" - I had the exact same moment of clarity, but mine was in 2005. For about 2years I'd been putting Raw on out of habit and turning it off or flicking after 40minutes. Then I just stopped and never went back and from a I hear, its been s**t ever since and not been missed even slightly.

Does Ed work in NXT??

Russbro, Ed is morphing in to Kevin Sullivan.

Is Ed really working at NXT?

Why was bio-Paul's head in your drawer back then Vince!? By the way you should get Ed back on more often. This was a good interview/chat.

Vince Russo, are you a MSU fan?

Am I the only one who doesn't believe Ed's last story.....like at all?

@gypzeerecords

5 жыл бұрын

You believe any of it???

*VINCE MCMAHON IS NOT JUST A TERRIBLE PERSON, HE I A TERRIBLE EXCUSE OF A HUMAN BEING.*

I thought it was brother love It's not it's just ed Ferrara

Ed Ferrara still works for WWE??

@frankc7358

7 жыл бұрын

Nope.

Listen to Elvis, Vince. While I love the Beatles, myself.

Thank you for the videos and interviews. Have to ask- "If " Mr Russo and ferrera are such GREAT writers... then why have Mr Russo and ferrera created something special in wrestling since 1999?Wrestling has been dead for 20 years!Thank you

@MarveltheCross316

7 жыл бұрын

It's simple. The wrestling business wears you down. Would you like to be separated from your family most of the year and focus on wrestling all the time? Russo and Ferrara were burnt out and tired of the wrestling politics.

@rondamon4422

7 жыл бұрын

peckerdecker If mcmahon was the filter, why have the ratings gone down since they left. They increased Wcw ratings and had 2 million people watching tna

@peckerdecker

7 жыл бұрын

thanks for the replt. mr russo and ferrera were busy during 1997- 1999. that was 18 years ago. so working a hectic schedule for a mere 3 years burns out a person for 18 plus years? hilarious!

@MarveltheCross316

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah it does because Russo and Ferrara fell out of love for wrestling. It got in the way of what really matters, spending time with your family. Russo missed his son's first home run because of wrestling. Vince McMahon only cares about his business and not about the concerns of his employees.

@MrDust1981

5 жыл бұрын

@LTopomcFly exactly, these people who opine that "if russo was worth the hype, he'd re-create that boom without mcmahon" don't understand it takes resources to experience a run of success in wrestling, turner spent hundreds of millions to get wcw to compete in the 90s, yet people expect russo to draw 8 million viewers to a run-down welfare promotion like tna, that's why we laugh at russo-haters

55:30 Shane McMahon

Bro!

Russo wrote the best TV EVER

I'm sorry if I was WWF and Vince McMahon I'd probably try to punish you guys too for going to the enemy and trying to put me out of business not to mention how Ed tried to humiliate Jim Ross on WCW tv

@darthbigred22

2 жыл бұрын

Doubt it VKM fired JR for a lot less so I doubt VKM cares that much for JR.

@nellsun2521

Жыл бұрын

@@darthbigred22 JR got fired?!

That slurping and sniffing is killing me...

Stop waving your hands so much, jesus

I do not like watching pro wrestling no more because it's dead and the attitude era is gone. I don't like the pg era because that is for kids. I am not a fan of it.

Dudes really think they are wrestlings saviors boy please y’all was not the only writers head writers yes made all the good ideas and angles NO

6 years too late bro

This is a Dammm good Video !!!

@Super122291

5 жыл бұрын

Tyler Brunet give it a like Tyler

BRO !

PUBES are 🧢

Bro, bro, bro!

So not having a great life is quitting WWF and then making fun of a man that suffered Bell Palsy

T like these same 2 dudes were the head writers at wcw and we saw that shit show lol so miss me with all this Bs lol because if u guys had so many good ideas why didn’t it translate over to wcw or tna ? exactly

Why would Vince McMahon still be working at 70? Did these guys ever consider that maybe he just loves what he does and to him it doesn't feel like work. These guys sound like 2 bitter broads talking about an ex they both dated who moved onto a younger chick, got married and lived happily ever after.

@jaclynnteeter3067

4 жыл бұрын

Blueblur 22 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 yes!!

@darthbigred22

2 жыл бұрын

Anyone working that long is insane. You have kids, you have grandkids, normal people retire. Plus if your passion is killing your own product other than cooking up scams he's done a fantastic job of that already

@jamst123

Жыл бұрын

Vinny mac is nothing but a narcissistic sexual predator. End of.

If Russo & Ferrara were so damn great and geniuses. Why is WCW dead TNA dead. Wrestling is dead thanks to Russo and Ferrara

@Thomas4good

6 жыл бұрын

WCW was dying before Russo was in. Bischoff was getting burnt out and came up with the same crap with the NWO. When Russo did came in, he tried to save it, but management, standard and practices, and some wrestlers refuse to budge. Plus Time Warner CEO pulled the plug. TNA went dead when the moment Hulk Hogan came in, when Russo raising the ratings slowly.

@biggjune2914

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Ascencio wrestling is dead period. The is nothing worth watching

@Thomas4good

6 жыл бұрын

That is debatable at best if wrestling is dead. People are still trying to figure out how it died and when it did.

@biggjune2914

6 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Ascencio ECW ruined wrestling (even though I enjoyed it) and Vince killed it when he bought WCW

@Saxmann97

5 жыл бұрын

Look how long it's been you're posting this 6 months ago these guys have been out of the business for 10 years wake up

Vince M. doesn't like you bc you are not a man and you told him over the phone.. He is a man's man and you are not!! Drive up to his office or house and shake his hand don't call him and tell him over the phone clown boy

He says bro to much I can’t stand this Fkr

These guys swear they wrote the best tv ever lmao and literally have sucked since did nothing in wcw did nothing in tna just made it worst Lmaoooooooo

These guys were a cancer to the wrestling industry!

The attitude era was popular DESPITE Vince Russo, not BECAUSE of him.

@alexalexalex797

4 ай бұрын

Dude he was the head writer. Like him or not, his job was literally WRITING THE SHOW. Did he do it all alone? No. Was he a MAJOR part? Yes