1. Letting Vince Russo Write Your Television Time And Time Again
I'm not writing this entry to say I hate Vince Russo or that I don't think he has any talent. He was the head writer for the most successful period in WWF history and he deserves credit for being there when every star on RAW had a story and was over with the fanbase. In 1999, when Russo went to WCW, it was an absolute disaster. He booked a parody character of Jim Ross that made fun of JR's Bells Palsy, he presented Viagra on a Pole, he made himself and David Arquette the World Champion, he turned Goldberg heel... the list goes on and on. By the time Vince Russo left WCW in 2000, whether it was his fault or not, the experiment of bringing him in had been a failure and the company was in way, way worse shape. Especially creatively. TNA hired Vince Russo when the company started in 2002. He came up with a faction called S.E.X (Sports Entertainment Xtreme) and, even though he left a few years later, he came back in 2006 and wrote for the company for six more years. I don't know what every one of his ideas were, so I don't want to judge him too harshly, but if you look at it from a business perspective, Vince Russo's creative contributed to WCW losing $65 million and TNA still thought it was a good idea to hire him to be their head writer. Numerous TNA stars have spoken on the record that Russo had some good ideas but a lot of bad ones, too. TNA should have learned from WCW's mistake and brought in a fresh creative mind that could've produced something different, and maybe then they would've been more successful. But, as the famous quote says "Those who fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it".
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