So I got to bare witness to Vince Russo’s bold new vision for WCW… and it struck me as oddly familiar.
For those who don’t know, Vince Russo was the former head writer of WWF television. He also wrote some stuff in the WWF Magazines and his articles had the odd habit of GOING BONKO WONKO WITH THE CAPS whenever he FELT LIKE IT!
COME on, BRO!
Anyway, news broke that Vince Russo left WWF and decided to make the jump to WCW. When I first heard this, I already had an idea on what to expect, which was basically to turn WCW into a pale imitation of the WWF Attitude. Now let’s be fair. If you’re going to rip off Attitude, who better than the man who helped to create Attitude?
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a stalwart WWF fan and could care less about Wheel Chair Wrestling with its old guys as main event guys. That has been the big divide between the two companies. WWF had guys like Austin, Rock, HHH, and others banging out hot main events while WCW continues to shove old man Hogan and pals into the World title picture whether we’d want it or not. So a guy like Russo going into WCW, promising to focus on the younger stock is something I was looking forward to. Finally, less old guys and more focus on younger guys… finally, someone like Benoit will get a chance to shine.
Both Russo and the other guy started earlier this month. I sampled one of their shows and a lot of it is stuff that I’ve seen before when it was WWF, but with less known stars and… honestly, I think this shit is even worse than before.
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