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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Aug 29, 2015 21:38:28 GMT -5
He also wasn't fond of Christopher Daniels, labelled him boring. Now he's one of the most entertaining guys around. Yep ... Russo knows his stuff. He also said Samoa Joe was hard to work with as well. It's worth noting that Samoa Joe said he couldn't remember ever having a problem with Vince. "You want me to break the silence on that? I don't like getting in verbal spats with people who I don't think are worth my time or my effort and a dude in particular is Vince Russo. This cat, I don't have a problem with Vince Russo. When he left I just told him, it is what it is. He always had 22 million reasons for making the decisions that he made. But when Hogan and Bischoff came in they said, 'Oh we have this great idea. We are going to do this thing and take you off of TV and re-brand you. Do all this other stuff. We do this kidnapping thing and you come back as a psychopath.' I was cool with it. I sat at home for 3 months on a b---hing ass vacation. I had one of the best vacations in the history of vacations. Paid vacation. Getting ready so I call them back week after week, 'What do you guys need me to do'. They would say 'We are still coming up with something'. Vince Russo with his infinite ridiculousness just said, we are short on babyfaces. So I get a call saying, 'Joe we need to bring you back to TV.' So I asked him, how is it that you are going to bring me back. He said, I don't know how just yet but we need to bring you in. So the dude couldn't write his way out of a kidnapping. The only reason why I bring this up is because he has the audacity to blame all of his silliness on other people. And by the way wrestlers, pro wrestlers all over the world and people in the business, stop whoring yourself out to shoot interviews. This man couldn't write his way out of a kidnapping. That's how much respect he had for the product, how much respect he had for the fans and that is indicative of his style of what he did. He was the head writer at the time and this is the way he felt that was admissible. Now I know this little b---h is going to go back on a shoot and talk all of this s--t." www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2014/0114/569224/samoa-joe-talks-about-his-tna-future/#3GBHDLs3MRRYReEg.99I don't think Joe likes him.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 29, 2015 21:45:21 GMT -5
Whatever Russo says, the opposite is usually true.
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Post by Hobby Drifter on Aug 29, 2015 21:46:59 GMT -5
To be fair, everyone is hard to work with if you absolutely suck at your job.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Aug 29, 2015 22:05:25 GMT -5
If you meet one difficult jerk during the day, you've met a jerk. If you keep meeting jerks all day, then you're the jerk.
I'm pretty sure that is applicable to Vince Russo.
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Post by Saul Goodman on Aug 29, 2015 22:17:00 GMT -5
Who knows? Maybe Christian came there with a big ego, before Angle came he was their biggest star. Maybe Christian acted like a male pirma donna.
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Post by Emmet Russell on Aug 29, 2015 22:22:15 GMT -5
I just remembered the deal TNA made with WWE where they got Christian in a deal where WWE got to put Flair in the HOF again.
Christian looked like he'd rather be tied to Vince McMahons bear skin rug nude and oiled up than in the TNA ring again. Guy gave new meaning to "I don't give a f***."
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Aug 29, 2015 22:31:07 GMT -5
Who knows? Maybe Christian came there with a big ego, before Angle came he was their biggest star. Maybe Christian acted like a male pirma donna. This argument might hold more water if somebody, anybody in TNA at that time had ever come out to have similar complaints about Christian (like they have for Booker T). But nobody has. Based on all the evidence we have, I think it's much more plausible that Russo is talking out of his ass then that Christian is some kind of closet egomaniac that only Russo ever saw.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Aug 29, 2015 22:47:38 GMT -5
Vince Russo is a dumb out of touch racist. Dumb... yes. Out of touch... clearly. Racist... sure. ... ... ... Wait... Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, despite these things Russo is clearly not a Communist.
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Post by Stu on Aug 29, 2015 22:55:46 GMT -5
Probably because TNA doesn't allow Malaysian slaves.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Aug 29, 2015 23:00:01 GMT -5
Hang on let me get my Vince Russo translator out... ok...
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Aug 30, 2015 2:40:57 GMT -5
Probably because TNA doesn't allow Malaysian slaves. "Swerve Bro, in TNA they were Indonesian!"
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Post by Professor Chaos on Aug 30, 2015 2:48:12 GMT -5
Christian going there was the only reason I started watching it in the first place. Once I add a show to the DVR I feel compelled to watch it till the end.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2015 2:59:18 GMT -5
Probably because TNA doesn't allow Malaysian slaves. Unless they work in production.
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Aug 30, 2015 3:45:06 GMT -5
Vince Russo is a dumb out of touch racist. Dumb... yes. Out of touch... clearly. Racist... sure. ... ... ... Wait... Where was I going with this? Oh yeah, despite these things Russo is clearly not a Communist. Something tells me he may not be a member of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance either.
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Aug 30, 2015 4:50:04 GMT -5
This is the only thing I found about Christian being difficult to work with. www.pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/WWE_News_3/article_30874.shtmlI can't copy and paste it, but basically it says that according to Jerry Lynn, who was an agent at the time, said that Christian hated the backstage politics in TNA, and that it didn't take long for Christian to dislike TNA. Yeah I'm taking Christian's side in this argument, if you're a name in the wrestling business, you're not gonna apreciate someone pitching you bullshit. It reminds me when Punk used to shred scripts right in the faces of the writers.
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Post by Kayfabe FAN don't want none on Aug 30, 2015 6:03:08 GMT -5
Vince Russo is a dumb out of touch racist. I'm a racist, bro? Why? Because i don't book those damn japanese luchadores?!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2015 6:08:39 GMT -5
This is the only thing I found about Christian being difficult to work with. www.pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/WWE_News_3/article_30874.shtmlI can't copy and paste it, but basically it says that according to Jerry Lynn, who was an agent at the time, said that Christian hated the backstage politics in TNA, and that it didn't take long for Christian to dislike TNA. Yeah I'm taking Christian's side in this argument, if you're a name in the wrestling business, you're not gonna apreciate someone pitching you bullshit. It reminds me when Punk used to shred scripts right in the faces of the writers. That's just weird. Christian had probably his best run ever in TNA imo...just odd he hated it so much.
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Post by lowlystockboy on Aug 30, 2015 7:20:47 GMT -5
Not even a Christian fan and I know Russo was the more difficult one to work with. I couldn't get along with Russo simply interacting with him on Twitter, I can only imagine what Christian had to go through.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Aug 30, 2015 12:37:29 GMT -5
I think Christian didn't like the coin they used when they decided if how many ref bumps where in his matches. I think it's a case where Christian had a great TNA run despite TNA.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Aug 30, 2015 12:45:06 GMT -5
Christian going there was the only reason I started watching it in the first place. Once I add a show to the DVR I feel compelled to watch it till the end. Well won't be long now.
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