10 Dark Secrets Wrestlers Accidentally Revealed
6. Vince Russo Lets Slip That He Secretly Helped TNA
This was the most poetic ending imaginable to the career of Vince Russo.
He was a man known for his love of the swerve turn. His device reached total parody at the helm of WCW, by which point he had made an ironic disaster of the word "unpredictable". Wrestlers swerve-turned every week. Fans expected them to swerve. The turns generated minimal reactions. The trope was so frequent - incessant - that fans struggled to recall whether or not the babyfaces had already turned heel.
He did much the same thing in TNA, in addition of course to devising several, nonsensical gimmick matches, and was reviled by the audience. He was the impediment to the promotion's success. He was gangrene.
He was, by 2014, the hardcore pornography of pro wrestling bookers, in that TNA used his services but didn't want anybody to know about it. He revealed his consultant role, someone hired to assist with commentary, in an email to Mike Tenay.
Swerve!
He actually sent it by accident to Mike Johnson of PWInsider, which seems as though he had contacts in the dirt sheets he seems to hate so much!