Russo asks Gilbertti why WWE paired Rousey up with Stephanie McMahon for her first match if there were concerns about her ability to work. Gilbertti doesn’t know what WWE’s thinking or what their logic is. If he was booking Rousey, he would have booked her completely different than how WWE has booked her thus far.
The only really likeable person in that match is Kurt Angle, so Gilbertti thinks Rousey has to break Stephanie’s arm and Stephanie needs to sell that more than she’s ever sold anything in her life. If they do anything other than that, this whole thing will be a waste in his opinion.
Lane points out that since WWE changed the name of the Fabulous Moolah Battle Royal several of Moolah’s former colleagues have come to her support, claiming that she never pimped out women or anything of that nature. Gilbertti points out that professional wrestling culture was very different 40-50 years ago. Russo agrees, adding that Moolah started her wrestling career in 1949, and you can’t take stuff from 70 years ago and try to analyze it in 2018.
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 next week for another recap!
