mcstoklasa
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Post by mcstoklasa on Jun 11, 2023 18:20:26 GMT -5
Watching clips of WCW and TNA and whenever Vince Russo shows up onscreen it just feels like he has no business being there. Just interminable, terrible TV. 1998 heel on-screen authority figure prime Vinnie Mac he ain't.
Was he ever any good on that side of the camera?
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Jun 11, 2023 18:24:38 GMT -5
NO
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Jun 11, 2023 18:38:20 GMT -5
There were bits in his Asylum-era TNA days were he was almost inoffensive as an on-screen character, but I can't say I ever switched on the old Wednesday PPVs thinking "I can't wait to see what Vince Russo has to say this week."
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Post by Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. on Jun 11, 2023 19:01:07 GMT -5
well bro, the thing is bro, everyone expected him to eventually do something good onscreen bro, and in the ultimate swerve he didnt bro. no one saw it coming bro.
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chazraps
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Post by chazraps on Jun 11, 2023 19:25:22 GMT -5
No. Next question.
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XIII
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Post by XIII on Jun 11, 2023 19:25:43 GMT -5
I think that one of the few times that he was tolerable was when he was the nameless and faceless Powers That Be in WCW. Don’t get me wrong it was ASS but that’s how garbage this guy is.
Short of that the Masked Booker was funny for all of the wrong reasons. OH SHIT ITS VINCE RUSSO! Jeff Jarrett looks confused.
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tirtefaa
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Post by tirtefaa on Jun 11, 2023 19:36:45 GMT -5
Russo could have worked if he was more or less hosting one of those recap shows where the host makes some predictions, and occasionally has a guest on. Think of a Sean Mooney or a Gene Okerlund. Russo may have actually genuinely been entertaining here...in theory.
But by no means should been a character on the main show.
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Post by stephen90 on Jun 11, 2023 20:28:54 GMT -5
His character came off as a poor man's Mr.McMahon.
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Gunhaver
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Post by Gunhaver on Jun 11, 2023 21:19:57 GMT -5
He could have been a dinky manager, that might have been fun.
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Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 11, 2023 21:30:52 GMT -5
He was basically mediocre at it on his best nights, but given Vince and Eric Bischoff were far better at it, that also didn't help matters.
I think the only time his presence onscreen didn't feel irritating and unnecessary was a random joke on TNA where Mick Foley tucked him into a child's bed, I guess the implication being Russo lived with him. Just a sight gag, but a genuinely kind of funny one, so, I'll give him that?
In general, there's been worse, like he's still better at it than Dixie was, or Linda McMahon, or probably Mike Adamle, but that's not a high bar. Even Stephanie at her shakiest tends to be significantly better at this than he is.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2023 21:40:25 GMT -5
Him becoming an on-screen character was the thing that made me finally give up on WCW, so it’s a no from me.
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jun 11, 2023 22:01:28 GMT -5
Absolutely f***ing not.
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Post by wrestlingrecap on Jun 14, 2023 19:18:36 GMT -5
If he had inserted a wrestler into the role he put himself into, he would have made a star. I don't find him to be a character to turn the channel on, but booking him in the role made little sense, considering he wasn't an in-ring wrestler.
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DragonMasterP
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Post by DragonMasterP on Jun 14, 2023 19:50:37 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure Vince Russo was never a good anything.
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Post by Starshine on Jun 14, 2023 19:57:15 GMT -5
That'd be a no.
Mainly because all his screen time would also involve his worst and most self indulgent creative aspects.
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Renslayer
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Post by Renslayer on Jun 14, 2023 19:59:01 GMT -5
Hell nah!
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Post by katieklaus on Jun 14, 2023 21:23:47 GMT -5
I enjoyed him in TNA.
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Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Jun 15, 2023 5:56:50 GMT -5
Seriously, bro?
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Ben Wyatt
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jun 15, 2023 6:36:26 GMT -5
Absolutely not in any way, shape or form
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Post by DoubleDare on Jun 15, 2023 11:19:24 GMT -5
Those few times he appeared as Vic Venom on like Livewire.
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