Dave Meltzer answered a fan’s question this past week about WWE’s NWA angle in 1998. Russo says that Meltzer’s explanation was completely wrong, and this angle was actually done to prove to Jim Cornette that the old NWA style of professional wrestling would never work in 1998. Just as Russo expected, the NWA style of wrestling failed miserably and Russo proved his point to Cornette.
Russo discusses Elias’ booking on RAW over the last few weeks. He mentions that after Elias had a terrific match against Roman Reigns on RAW two weeks ago but since then he’s been beaten to a pulp by Braun Strowman and then left off the show entirely this past week. This is a prime example of why WWE can’t build new stars in Russo’s opinion.
Russo says he can’t believe that people are still paying to see RAW or Smackdown live. He says that WWE would have to pay him to go to a show at this point, and he’d contemplate leaving his house and driving to the arena for $500 minimum.
