Blacha informs that he met Vince Russo around this time, and he drew the attention of a lot of tenured writers and performers when he was seen walking into McMahon’s office backstage at events, because nobody gets to do that.
He hung around for a few shows and then out of the blue one day Vince Russo left for WCW. This led to him becoming a full-time writer for WWE. A period of time went by and he still hadn’t been paid so he approached Shane McMahon. Shane told him to write a number on a piece of paper which he did. They looked at the number and said, “no problem” and he immediately regretted that he didn’t write a higher number on the paper.
Blacha informs that it was really hard for wrestlers to bridge the gap into mainstream pop-culture back then. Several people warned him that he might ruin his career by writing for WWE, including his agent, but he was determined to do it and he did so for a year. He soon realized that if you’re working for WWE the business becomes your sole priority and there’s no life outside of it, so he left. Still, he has no regrets about his time there.
