Fire Russo!

[humorousled]

This isn't the standard "complaining about Russo" thread that we see quite often. I have been thinking about this and I remember last April when the fans chanted Fire Russo in very loud terms and TNA did respond a bit by having a better PPV in May. I had an idea yesterday and I want to run it by all TNA fans. Instead of just complaining and spinning our wheels I have an idea about something that we can do to voice our opinions against Russo.

My idea is for we fans at live shows, in the Impact Zone or elsewhere, whenever we see something that is truly stupid or garbage, we fans should instead of cheering or booing (since we generally don't want to go against the talent in the ring) we should chant Fire Russo as loud as we can to show our displeasure for the product and Russo's stupid angles (shark boy, potty humor, or too much Angle, etc.) and still show our love for TNA. Some fans can even bring signs and wear t-shirts that say Fire Russo. I don't know if Dixie Carter or Jarrett will pay attention to this, but, if there are enough fans who chant this mantra and enough signs and shirts are seen at shows, this may at least force the upper managment of TNA to push Russo to change his stripes or even lead to Russo to being pushed out.

Normally, we may think of grass roots campaigns occuring in politics and TV programming, but this never happens in wrestling and so this may be a way that we fans can show our support for TNA while showing our disaproval for what Russo does and his bad comedy bits. This may sound extreme or even a little bit crazy, but, I am tired of watching Impact and loving the in-ring work but hating the bad comedy bits and stupid booking and not having any other alternative but to complain about Russo.

[Rube]

As someone who really enjoys the TNA product, I give your plan a good old fashioned raspberry.

[littlenaitch]

I don't think TNA would do anything to remove Russo from the booking team as ratings are in the 1's and they have a steady fanbase.

[ICBM]

The sharkboy deal was truley lame. a gooker nominee for next year to be sure. Oh yeah fire russo!!

[Michael Coello]

You know, moments like these, I image Russo sitting around backstage, eating a sandwich and drinking some diet soda, and wondering what he does to piss people off.

[willywonka666]

So can someone clear up something about Russo for me? He got out of wrestling and found religion, but since he came back has he gone back to the kinda stuff he walked away from? I don't watch TNA so I was just wondering

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That might work, but Dixie is firmly behind Russo so you'd have to go through Dixie to get to Russo and Dixie's parents own Panda Energy. .. ..so I dunno.

I'm not a Russo fan, but maybe the chants should be something like, "Hey Vince Russo, even though you have an established record in the professional wrestling business, we, as TNA fans feel that your writing needs to be revamped. Should you decide to tone down many of your storylines and focus more on interesting characters and solid inring work - rather than dramatic story lines and gimmick oriented programming, we feel that TNA would recieve a higher viewership and higher PPV buys - thereby increasing your paycheck. Its really a win-win-win situation." [clap clap clap-clap-clap]

[Celgress]

Russo and Jeff are very good fans, thus I doubt your idea will work. That is a large part of the reason why Russo wasn't let go when the chants you mentioned dominated the Impact Zone. Good try though.

[Chainsaw]

I actually would laugh hard if someone started a Fire Russo chant at a WWE show...especially if it's utterly random and nothing stupid is happening.

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chainsawiscaw said:

I actually would laugh hard if someone started a Fire Russo chant at a WWE show...especially if it's utterly random and nothing stupid is happening.[/quote]

So they would never be able to do it then?

hehe....burn! ;D

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I like how people think Russo is the cause of all of TNA's booking problems, despite the fact that he doesn't even do that much booking.

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personman01 said:

That might work, but Dixie is firmly behind Russo so you'd have to go through Dixie to get to Russo and Dixie's parents own Panda Energy. .. ..so I dunno.

I'm not a Russo fan, but maybe the chants should be something like, "Hey Vince Russo, even though you have an established record in the professional wrestling business, we, as TNA fans feel that your writing needs to be revamped. Should you decide to tone down many of your storylines and focus more on interesting characters and solid inring work - rather than dramatic story lines and gimmick oriented programming, we feel that TNA would recieve a higher viewership and higher PPV buys - thereby increasing your paycheck. Its really a win-win-win situation." [clap clap clap-clap-clap]

I know I'd chant along. ;D

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am90 said:

I like how people think Russo is the cause of all of TNA's booking problems, despite the fact that he doesn't even do that much booking.

The stuff that he has done has been some of the lamest in TNA, though (Abyss/Sting for example).
He hit a gold nugget with Angle's recent character, but then crammed it down people's throats too much.

[hutter]

Bad idea. All that will do is encourage the honchos to put Russo back in front of the camera.

[HMARK Center]

We really don't know what Russo handles, though. It's rarely come out exactly who books what.

For example, we all thought the Sting/Abyss storyline was Russo's...and then they said it was Mantell's.

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Let's say for sake of argument that Russo writes everything and is 100% responsible for all the storylines.

Well, last week Impact had it's highest rating in history.

So if anything, Russo should get a 1000% raise and 10 year guaranteed contract.

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hutter said:

Bad idea. All that will do is encourage the honchos to put Russo back in front of the camera.

Dutchy, my Boy Blunder... To the Russo Pope-Mobile!

[Cry Me a Wiggle]

I love how Vince Russo has evolved into the ultimate bogeyman for Internet wrestling fans.

Seriously, I think people don't even rationally look at his strengths anymore. They just naturally assume anything he touches is shit and shut their minds off to it. Kind of like how music critics blamed McCartney for the Beatles break-up and just reamed his solo albums for a solid twenty years before retroactively deciding they were pretty good.

So in this analogy, WCW = Beatles, TNA = Wings, and, uh, Ringo Star = Disco Inferno.

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thebigwiggle said:

I love how Vince Russo has evolved into the ultimate bogeyman for Internet wrestling fans.

Seriously, I think people don't even rationally look at his strengths anymore. They just naturally assume anything he touches is crap and shut their minds off to it. Kind of like how music critics blamed McCartney for the Beatles break-up and just reamed his solo albums for a solid twenty years before retroactively deciding they were pretty good.

So in this analogy, WCW = Beatles, TNA = Wings, and, uh, Ringo Star = Disco Inferno.

"Bleeding Frog Song! What the hell was that all about?!"

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willywonka666 said:

So can someone clear up something about Russo for me? He got out of wrestling and found religion, but since he came back has he gone back to the kinda stuff he walked away from? I don't watch TNA so I was just wondering

Does "what he walked away from" refer to the shock storylines and humor he did in WWF and WCW? The show is very much booked with the same ideas and emphasis driving it that he did back in the day, things like a strong emphasis on characters, relationships, so forth, rather than a traditional wrestling product, so in a sense it's like what he used to do. But there hasn't been a whole lot of sex, foul language or toilet humor, so I think the answer to your question would be "no, with a but".