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Post by Rumble McSkirmish on Jul 28, 2022 7:55:54 GMT -5
Shit, was RTC Stevie not in the Russo era? It's been a while, I was thinking that was when Russo was still there. If not then I retract Stevie. Yeah, RTC was in 2000, I believe, Russo having left in 1999. It was kind of funny in that yeah, WWE was taking a shot at the PTC, Parents Television Council, which indeed sucked, but WWE did also use it to dial back some of their stuff, so... I guess PTC got a partial victory on that front. Yeah if memory serves me correct the PTC's tactics were successful in scaring off some of WWF/E's sponsors, I remember Mick Foley in his second book recounting how they had to reshoot a backstage segment as there was a Pepsi machine visible in the background and at the time PepsiCo pulled their sponsorship from the shows. So they did have to dial it back somewhat to keep the advertisers happy at least.
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Woo
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Post by Woo on Jul 28, 2022 14:13:32 GMT -5
I think Russo is underrated and feel he gets blamed for a lot of stuff in the Attitude era that was probably McMahon's doing as evidenced by crap like Mae Young's hand child, lunchtime suicide, PMS and HLA which all happened after Russo. The whole "McMahon filtered out the bad Russo ideas" doesn't really ring true when the bad ideas got way more tasteless after he left.
As is often discussed he also have stuff for the midcard to do and usually booked them well.
I'm also a big fan of his mid-to-late 2009 TNA run which was fantastic once Cornette left until Hogan ruined everything.
That said like seemingly every other wrestler and booker involved in wrestling in the Attitude era (sans Mick Foley and a few others) his personal views are abhorrent.(Okay I'm using hyperbole in describing everybody that way but between him, McMahon, Taker, Kane heck even Jericho it seems like everyone in wrestling back then is a huge dick.)
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