Russo groans at the thought of Titus O’Neil’s fake fall on RAW this week, after legitimately falling during his entrance at the Greatest Royal Rumble. He thought there were plenty of more creative options for O’Neil coming out of that slip up, but this was not good.
Russo mentions that initial reports suggested that WWE wanted to use Rousey to work with Stephanie McMahon, in order to simulate the McMahon/Austin angle from the attitude era. He still thinks they’re going to bring that storyline back, but he doesn’t understand why they’d start it, go away from it, and then bring it back later. He points out that they probably did this because they don’t know what else to do.
Russo was blown away by the Seth Rollins promo on RAW. He calls Rollins a “total freaking mark” and he has no idea when the marks made it into the ring. He notes that there has to be some separation between the performers and the fans, and adds that we’d never see Roddy Piper act like that during a promo.
