10 Most Alarming Ways WWE Rewrites History
9. Important Contributors Are Ignored Or Mocked
The WWF was terrible in the mid-90s. It was a boring, flat, cartoonish product that looked and felt ancient. While the company was wading into more mature territory, it was a young magazine writer named Vince Russo who told the owner of the company that his product was nothing but a giant pile of s**t.
If nothing else, that took a hell of a lot of intestinal fortitude, but even more incredible was the fact that McMahon listened.
Beyond that, it was Russo who told The Rock to talk in the third person, he came up with Austin’s beer truck attack and along with his writing partner Ed Ferrera, they were a driving force in developing some great material and giving attention to the mid-card.
These days, though, whenever the man's name is brought up in WWE lore, he's only mocked. But this is mainly due to what he did after he left the company. Did he produce a lot of garbage in WCW and TNA? Absolutely. But his WWF material as a whole was pretty damn impressive. And even if one hated some of his worst ideas...well, they still had to pass through Vince McMahon to make it to air. So shouldn't he be the one earning the scorn of the fans?
After Russo and Ferrara left, a writer named Chris Kreski gained influence in the company and was responsible for some great television like the Triple H/Stephanie/Kurt Angle love triangle. He had a big hand in perhaps the company's most entertaining year ever in 2000...and he was replaced by Stephanie McMahon as head writer. His name has never been spoken on WWE TV.
And then there's Jim Ross. Not only quite possibly the greatest wrestling announcer of all-time, but a man who helped assemble the Attitude Era's amazing roster. Now just think of how many times he was mocked on-air for the severe crime of loving wrestling too much.
McMahon just chooses who can be hailed with praise like a Pat Patterson, as well as deciding to greatly diminish the contributions of others who he fell out of favor with. It's not right, but nobody can really stop him from pushing his unfair preferences.