Was Russo's Return Confirmed?

[chazraps]

The past few weeks, I've seen the idea of Russo back writing TNA now to be fairly common around these parts. Has this been confirmed anywhere, or am I taking a long-running joke too seriously?

I also haven't watched tonight's episode of TNA impact, so if he showed up on screen, forgive me.

[________ has left the building]

People keep saying Russo isn't back but in TNA but the current booking screams otherwise. You cannot tell me the best ideas that Matt Conway, Dave Lagana, Big John Gurbick, and whomever got the book this week are angles and matches from the Book of Russo. The rise of pole matches, sudden character alignments, and meaningless gimmick matches is not a coincidence. PWInsider(whom get their TNA news directly from sources there coughJeremyBorashcough) said he has consulting job with TNA. His "consulting" role is much bigger than most want to admit.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Apr 11, 2014 8:48:31 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

People keep saying Russo isn't back but in TNA but the current booking screams otherwise. You cannot tell me the best ideas that Matt Conway, Dave Lagana, Big John Gurbick, and whomever got the book this week are angles and matches from the Book of Russo. The rise of pole matches, sudden character alignments, and meaningless gimmick matches is not a coincidence. PWInsider(whom get their TNA news directly from sources there coughJeremyBorashcough) said he has consulting job with TNA. His "consulting" role is much bigger than most want to admit.

I can actually buy into Borash being the one behind the last few months. He worked quite a bit with Russo in the dying days of WCW.

[andrew8798]

Is he, or isn't he? That has been the question for a while now with Vince Russo and the TNA creative process. Is he still with the company? Here is the scoop.

Currently, the creative team is headed by John Gaburick. His three team members are David Lagana, Matt Conway and Christy Hemme (to work with the Knockouts). The process is that Gaburick sets the direction and comes up with ideas, with the help of the team. They then put it to paper and write the script.

So is Vince Russo involved? Yes, he is. He is still on the TNA payroll as a consultant and he does offer ideas and do critiques of the televised product. So when you see a segment and say, "That screams Russo", it very well may. Or, it may not. But much like everything in creative goes through Vince McMahon in WWE, that is the same for Gaburick in TNA.

So if you see a Russo idea on Impact, it's one that Gaburick received from Russo and decided to incorporate. But it could also be a Gaburick idea.

-PWInsider

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

No, no, no, no, no. Russo needs a filter for his ideas, he shouldn't be assisting someone with ideas that doesn't have a filter.

[________ has left the building]

Cue the Fire Gaburick chants.

[Ken: The Hero of WWE]

Hasn't been officially confirmed but I'm pretty sure the great Eric Young & Abyss angles have 'confirmed' Russo's return.

[Juice]

It very well may or may not lol...speculation "news" are self parodies anymore.

[andrew8798]

As reported yesterday, Vince Russo is still working for TNA as a consultant. He is not the only big name still under contract. Eric Bischoff is still under a TNA deal and also doing storyline consulting. From what I have been told, there are less than three months left on both men's contracts with TNA.

If you watched Impact last night you saw that the company is moving ahead by trying to do all that they can to leave TNA Champion Eric Young's goofy character from the past, in the past. They company hopes to turn around the perception that people remember from when Young was a comedy character and hope that they can repackage him as a credible champion on the eyes of the fans.

According to a few sources, part of the reason that they put the belt on Young is to get some cross-promotion with his Animal Planet show, Off The Hook: Extreme Catches, which has its season three debut on Sunday June 16. The company wants to spend the next two months getting Young over as champion to coincide with the return of his Animal Planet show.

-PWInsider

[Professor Chaos]

I figured EY would drop it back to Magnus at Sacrifice. That doesn't sound like the case unfortunately.

[lildude8218]

Matt Conway is just Rob Conway in a fake moustache....FACT

[MrBRulzOK]

Perhaps the real John Gaburick was kidnapped shortly after joining TNA only to be replaced by a robotic double controlled remotely by Russo himself?

[FinalGwen]

Apr 19, 2014 0:54:41 GMT -5 MrBRulzOK said:

Perhaps the real John Gaburick was kidnapped shortly after joining TNA only to be replaced by a robotic double controlled remotely by Russo himself?

Not swervy enough. While Russo was behind the kidnapping, the robot has actually been under the control of Dixie, and she cackles that her ideas are just so bad that Russo never noticed they weren't his. Or so it would seem, until Russo reveals that he'd kidnapped the robot double and stuck it on a hiding place on top of a pole, and the real Gaburick has been booking the whole time, but he's just as bad as the pair of them.

[________ has left the building]

Apr 18, 2014 23:41:18 GMT -5 andrew8798 said:

As reported yesterday, Vince Russo is still working for TNA as a consultant. He is not the only big name still under contract. Eric Bischoff is still under a TNA deal and also doing storyline consulting. From what I have been told, there are less than three months left on both men's contracts with TNA.

If you watched Impact last night you saw that the company is moving ahead by trying to do all that they can to leave TNA Champion Eric Young's goofy character from the past, in the past. They company hopes to turn around the perception that people remember from when Young was a comedy character and hope that they can repackage him as a credible champion on the eyes of the fans.

According to a few sources, part of the reason that they put the belt on Young is to get some cross-promotion with his Animal Planet show, Off The Hook: Extreme Catches, which has its season three debut on Sunday June 16. The company wants to spend the next two months getting Young over as champion to coincide with the return of his Animal Planet show.

-PWInsider

Eric Bischoff still being on payroll explains why Garett hasn't gotten fired yet. TNA got a long way to go make EY a credible champion. Hard to undo years of goofiness and jobbing. And he won for show synergy? I get that EY's show has higher ratings than Impact but he still acts like a goof on his show.

[TK The Friendly Robot]

Russo and Bischoff have never really seen eye to eye as far as direction goes and not to mention the fact they're feeding these ideas to a guy who has only ever know WWE and only knows how to present these ideas in a WWE style makes for a VERY bad combination and of course an explanation as to why TNA has been the way it has been lately.

Big John is still the end point here though and everything we see on TV is his call, I think we need to back away from pointing fingers of blame at the consultants here because the man in charge is at the end of the day, the man in charge. 2012 was praised as one of the best years in TNA creatively and that was on Conway and Russo. If anything I say bring Russo and Bischoff back full time at the head of the creative charge, put Conway and Hemme under them and don't give them any power over any talent relations. At least they'll be able to present their vision, their way.

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Apr 19, 2014 1:13:00 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

Apr 19, 2014 0:54:41 GMT -5 MrBRulzOK said:

Perhaps the real John Gaburick was kidnapped shortly after joining TNA only to be replaced by a robotic double controlled remotely by Russo himself?

Not swervy enough. While Russo was behind the kidnapping, the robot has actually been under the control of Dixie, and she cackles that her ideas are just so bad that Russo never noticed they weren't his. Or so it would seem, until Russo reveals that he'd kidnapped the robot double and stuck it on a hiding place on top of a pole, and the real Gaburick has been booking the whole time, but he's just as bad as the pair of them.

Or that internal affairs was setting them all up. Who knows?