Vito brings up the heat between Hulk Hogan and Russo in WCW. Vito recalls the night that Russo became fed up with Hogan’s demands for creative control, and booked Jeff Jarrett to lie down in the middle of the ring so that Hogan could easily pin him and win the Title, which was what Hogan demanded.
Vito was friends with both men at the time, and when Hogan came back through the curtain he asked him if he was okay. Hogan was visibly shaken up, and said that he was simply going to go back to his hotel room. When Russo came back through the curtain Vito asked him, “What have you done?” and Russo simply said he’d had enough of the unrealistic creative demands of Hogan and the other old guard of wrestlers at WCW.
Russo feels that if Eric Bischoff wasn’t connected to Hogan’s hip, he and Hogan would have had a completely different relationship. Bischoff always stirred up controversy between Russo and Hogan, and when Russo spent time alone with Hogan they were able to get along just fine. Even to this day, he has no issue with Hogan and he’s very thankful for Hogan’s contributions to his career and to the business in general.
Vito next speaks about the heat between Edge & Matt Hardy in the mid-2000s. Lita was dating Matt Hardy at the time, but Edge worked his way into that equation and they began having an affair. It appeared at the time that everyone knew about this affair except for Hardy, which made the locker room area an uncomfortable place for a lot of guys. Eventually Hardy found out, and in the midst of storyline angle between both men there was a shoot fight where legitimate punches were thrown.
