10 Crippling Times Wrestlers Worked Themselves Into A Shoot

4. Vince Russo

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Vince Russo is a professional wrestler. He won the WCW World Title, which is more than Steve Austin ever did.

Now, ‘Worked Into A Shoot’ is the title of Vince Russo’s autobiography. Swerve!: the title of Vince Russo’s autobiography is ‘Forgiven: One Man’s Journey from Self-Glorification to Sanctification’. Swerve!: it’s not so much an autobiography as it is an incoherent mess of delusions. Imagine a 2000 Nitro script found God, and you are close to how nonsensical and earnest and unaccountable it is.

At Bash Of The Beach 2000, Vince Russo, very, very p*ssed at Hulk Hogan’s refusal to do a job for Jeff Jarrett, buried him without Hogan’s prior approval. He’d had enough of Hogan’s self-serving creative control flex, and let him know about it in the parameters of the storyline. This wasn’t a storyline; Russo unleashed a venomous tirade that didn’t work for the Hulkster, brother!

Jesus Christ: did anything?

Russo, who totally lost the plot on the night—if he even knew what a plot was to begin with, the hack—called Hogan a “big bald son of a b*tch,” a “godd*mn politician,” and a “piece of sh*t”.

Russo worked himself into a shoot and a lawsuit, hilariously. He won after the court voluntarily laid down for him, presumably sick to the back teeth of these paranoid f*cking lunatics.

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