10 Things That Would Have Happened If Vince Russo Booked Every WWE Era
7. There Would Have Been An Odder Choice Of WWE Champion Than Jinder Mahal
Vince Russo loved him some Jeff Jarrett - more on that imminently - but he also had grand plans to crown Tank Abbott as WCW World Heavyweight Champion.
Tank Abbott was a bad, bad man. He was jailed for six months for half-killing the son of a police detective before gaining MMA notoriety by beating John Matua and mocking the convulsive fit he suffered after the match. This all came after Abbott had competed in and rarely lost some 200 street fights.
He was also a bad, bad wrestler. Abbott was terrible, not that he had an opportunity to show his mettle before he was stigmatised as a failed experiment. Russo's suggestion of making him WCW World Heavyweight Champion - months after his professional debut - was received with such suspicion from an incredulous office that he was fired. Russo was the dictionary definition of a lunatic, in that he often repeated the same bizarre mistakes twice.
"Ladies and gentlemen, here is your winner...and new WWE Champion...Sylvester Terkay!"
Abbott was also not in prototypical shape. He looked more like Kevin Owens than the Ultimate Warrior - the same Kevin Owens Russo mocks on Twitter for being overweight, purely to keep himself relevant.
It's almost - almost - as if he is a complete moron and hypocrite who changes narratives like regular people change their takeaway orders.