Lane mentions that Booker T made some recent comments about the NWO. Booker T recalled a match he had with Kevin Nash in Canada, where fans still remembered and loved Nash as Diesel. They cheered Nash and booed Booker T that night. It was in that moment that Booker T realized that NWO didn’t want any heat, they just wanted adulation from fans.
Gilbertti says that might be true because it was at a time when it became cool to cheer the bad guys. However, you also can’t argue with the merchandise that the NWO were selling at that time. Russo says he doesn’t think those guys wanted the fans’ adulation, they simply wanted to be perceived as cool. He points out that Nash was all about the money, not fans’ adulation.
Lane mentions that Vampiro spoke out recently, mentioning that when he arrived in WCW in 1998 he went up to Sting and Lex Luger in the locker room to shake hands and they turned their backs to him. Gilbertti informs that Luger was always working his gimmick backstage, and he’d often rib guys in character by acting obnoxiously or ignoring them. Russo doesn’t think Sting would ever do something like that.
Next, Lane mentions that David Arquette did an interview recently where he mentioned that he’s going to have to do something to earn fans’ respect after years of them criticizing his WCW Title run back in the day. He then went on to talk about Billy Corgan and the NWA, perhaps teasing that he might be doing some work for that company at some point. Russo can definitely see Corgan thinking along those lines.
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!
