Russo speaks about the infamous WCW Bash at the Beach event, when he cut a scathing promo on Hulk Hogan. His version of this story has varied from the versions of Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan over the years, and he tries to set the record straight here again. He informs that Hogan knew that he was going to cut a promo on him after Hogan pinned Jeff Jarrett, but Hogan had no idea about the content of that promo.
Russo says that neither Bischoff or Hogan knew the verbiage that he was going to use in that promo because he didn’t even know what he was going to say before he went out there. Before the segment he told Hogan, “I’m gonna cut a scathing promo on you” and that was it. Russo says that he never wrote down his own promos, he’d always cut his promos on the fly.
Lane plays a clip of Wade Keller from this past week, who basically says that WWE shouldn’t be too focused on attracting new viewers because they’re not devoted fans anyways. He points out that some fans tuned in for RAW25 but then immediately left the product again. Russo says that those people tuned out again because the product sucks. He thinks it’s ridiculous to say that any business shouldn’t try to attract new viewers.
