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Post by sungod2020 on Oct 31, 2021 13:29:27 GMT -5
How do you think his booking would go?
While many credit him with the Crash TV style of the Attitude Era that helped make the WWF see popularity not since the days of Hulkamania and Rock n' Wrestling, it was only one part of the equation.
He began as head writer in late 1996, but the company didn't start to boom until right after Wrestlemania XIV(when Raw's ratings went up and started beating Nitro). He held that position until he quit the company in early October 1999, meaning he's only been part of the Attitude Era for the first year and a half(the other half ending at Wrestlemania X-7).
While it's popularly said he had a filter to make his outlandish storylines less crappy, the filtering was more lax in 1999 with crap such as Sexual Chocolate, Harry Beaver Cleveage, Terri Runnels fake miscarriage, as well as the 1999 Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania XV, and a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting at the moment.
Lets say the New York native made it to 2000 and didn't go to WCW(where his crap was at it's very worse), how would he handle such events as Kurt Angle's rise to the top, debut of Tazz and The Radicalz, and the "Who Ran Over Austin" storyline(which was crappy in it's own right).
Thoughts?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2021 15:45:29 GMT -5
2000 likely wouldn't be my favorite year ever for WWF/E like it is now.
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Post by tafkaga on Oct 31, 2021 18:02:09 GMT -5
Tazz's debut would have been masturbating in a trashcan. There's no way he would have just thrown out all those great ideas he used in WCW.
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Post by bob on Oct 31, 2021 18:10:09 GMT -5
he would've made whoever ran down Stone Cold make more sense then Rikishi
the McMahon family probably wouldn't have been all over the product
WCW still dies
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Post by koreycaskets on Oct 31, 2021 19:51:06 GMT -5
It would have been complete utter chaos and I would have loved it.
I'm one of those weirdos who enjoyed the WCW Russo era.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Oct 31, 2021 19:54:50 GMT -5
Test wins the title at Wrestlemania 2000 against Triple H?
I mean really, that's where the whole storyline should've went. Russo and Ferrera I believe were fans.
Test loses Stephanie at the wedding. Loses at Armaggedon. Wins the Royal Rumble.
Triple H vs. Test at Wrestlemania 2000 for the WWF title.
Test wins.
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Post by hassanchop on Oct 31, 2021 19:57:05 GMT -5
D'Lo Brown gets a push
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Post by Andee9001 on Oct 31, 2021 19:58:08 GMT -5
D Lo Brown gets a sustained push and is revealed as the guy who ran over Stone Cold elevating him to main event status.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Oct 31, 2021 20:11:30 GMT -5
He would have been either quietly removed from the head writer position and then released or loudly & publicly fired. Vince and Bruce & Pat helped bail out Russo's horrible ideas but they could only do so much.
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Post by hassanchop on Oct 31, 2021 20:15:47 GMT -5
He also brings the bWo over and they introduce their newest members: Benoit, Guerrero, Malenko and Saturn. They all take jabs at WCW and declare they’re with the bWo 4-life!
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Oct 31, 2021 20:34:20 GMT -5
Test wins the title at Wrestlemania 2000 against Triple H? I mean really, that's where the whole storyline should've went. Russo and Ferrera I believe were fans. Test loses Stephanie at the wedding. Loses at Armaggedon. Wins the Royal Rumble. Triple H vs. Test at Wrestlemania 2000 for the WWF title. Test wins. Russo has said that his plan was for Test to turn heel on Stephanie and ally with Triple H, which sounds even worse than what we got but may have had interesting butterfly effects for the real life relationship between Triple H and the McMahons. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Nov 1, 2021 9:02:02 GMT -5
Ooooooooh, did someone say "If Vince Russo...."?
RUSSOFIXION POST!!!!
Terri swerving the Hardyz after winning her T.I.T. would happen. Only leading her to form PMS 2000 with Trish Stratus and I dunno, Tori? Who, after turning heel on Kane, turns from heel to, um, heel when X-Pac can't get it up in bed lately.
The Radicalz have to do a SHOOT promo about the big bad company down south.
Chyna would turn a couple more times. Maybe somewhere in there, do a shoot promo about Hunter and Stephanie. But SWERVE BRO, it turns out that Steph was cheating on Triple H anyway. With who....why, CHYNA of course!
TLC match ends when Jeff Hardy and D-Von Dudley each grab a belt. Now they must be WACKY TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS WHO CAN'T STAND ONE ANOTHER!
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Post by James Fabiano on Nov 1, 2021 9:03:13 GMT -5
Was Russo still around when the (presumably) post-Droz-depush started? |
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Post by wildojinx on Nov 1, 2021 9:45:53 GMT -5
In this scenario, does he last into the Invasion/Ruthless Agression era?
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Nov 1, 2021 15:13:06 GMT -5
They don’t go under because their star power is too big, but if Rus got his WCW level of control then I highly doubt 2000 is remembered as the golden era it was.
Half of it would be so bad it’s funny, the other half would be a bigger cringe factory than his TNA lows.
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Post by Cyno on Nov 1, 2021 15:33:53 GMT -5
WWF 2000 probably isn't nearly as great as it was if Russo's still there.
WCW 2000 still sucks because the suck started well before Russo got there. But it'd just be bad instead of the glorious trainwreck it ended up being.
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Post by dpg on Nov 1, 2021 16:10:21 GMT -5
He was burnt out, and his style was worn out. WWF adapted with a new head writer, the last one they've had who was any good.
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Post by sungod2020 on Nov 1, 2021 20:43:47 GMT -5
WWF 2000 probably isn't nearly as great as it was if Russo's still there. WCW 2000 still sucks because the suck started well before Russo got there. But it'd just be bad instead of the glorious trainwreck it ended up being. TBF WCW in 1999 was already at trainwreck levels of bad pre-Russo. It started with the "Fingerpoke of Doom" and then became progressingly worse as time went on. Remember that one Nitro where the first hour had no matches? Raven being revealed as a spoiled brat? Ric Flair in the mental institution? The Kiss Demon? If anything, Russo's booking made it a different kind of trainwreck, but I can't say for sure if there booking would get any better if he didn't sign with them. |
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Post by fg on Nov 1, 2021 21:07:33 GMT -5
He was burnt out, and his style was worn out. WWF adapted with a new head writer, the last one they've had who was any good. And one of the reasons (if not only) reason why he was let go was because people hated that he used storyboards that helped with continuity (aka made the show good). Since in their minds, that wasn’t normal, they decided to mess with success and have Steph inadvertently help run the company into the ground. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2021 14:25:28 GMT -5
They don’t go under because their star power is too big, but if Rus got his WCW level of control then I highly doubt 2000 is remembered as the golden era it was. Half of it would be so bad it’s funny, the other half would be a bigger cringe factory than his TNA lows. We would've gotten more crap like Mae Young giving birth to a hand and the Gerald Briscoe vs. Pat Patterson evening gown match. |
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