Soon after this meeting he spoke to Stephanie McMahon, who talked down to him as if he was a child. He knew this new tenure with WWE was never going to work when he found out that Vince hired him without Stephanie knowing. He flew back home that day knowing it wasn’t going to work and McMahon soon called him, confirming that notion. He and McMahon proceeded to get into a small dispute, and the last thing he said to McMahon 16 years ago was, “Vince, where’s your bravado?”
Russo says that WWE and McMahon is lacking someone like him today; someone who’d knock on McMahon’s office and tell him straight up that the show absolutely sucks. He points out that the show was suffering in 2002, but it was still a much better show then than it is nowadays.
He goes on to say that not all is lost for WWE. Rocky 4 and Rocky 5 were terrible movies, but Sylvester Stallone came back years later with Rocky Balboa, which was a fantastic movie. Russo wonders when McMahon and WWE will come back.
That sums up today’s episode of Vince Russo’s The Brand. You can listen to the show yourself anytime here, and I’ll catch ya tomorrow for another recap!
