10 Things That Would Have Happened If Vince Russo Booked Every WWE Era
3. The Divas Would Still Be Divas
Vince Russo once booked Debra to win the WWF Women's Title because he suddenly decided that she had nicer, fresher t*ts than Sable, whose own rack he'd already seen and was tired of.
When he wasn't booking women as sex objects, he also constantly depicted them as manipulative shrews, who would feign miscarriages just to serve their own succubus ends. Terri Runnels begged Russo not to go through with that infamous angle. She had a daughter at school, not that it wasn't tacky and potentially distressing to audiences in and of itself. Russo even defended the Bra and Panties matches he routinely booked in the Attitude Era last year, as if there isn't a demographic of 50% WWE has only begun to appeal to. Not that he'd have any idea about that; he claimed on Twitter last year that women only watch wrestling to ogle at men's bodies. For someone who definitely isn't a left-heehhnded hittah, Russo sure talks about pecs a lot.
It's probably safe to deduce that Russo wouldn't have seen the value in the Women's Revolution of 2015. You don't need to have much in the way of problem-solving skills to guess that. He outright stated in April of this year that the vast majority of the women in WWE are "amateurs". As opposed to Nicole Bass?
Even if Russo was talked into treating women more progressively, at the behest of Stephanie McMahon - which would take some doing, given that he claimed on his podcast last year that women weren't created to be leaders - he'd probably have booked Izzy to swerve turn on Bayley at the end of NXT TakeOver: Respect.