10 Things We Learned From Shawn Michaels On Vince Russo's Podcast

8. Russo's First WWF Magazine Story Was On Shawn Michaels

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Vince Russo got his start with the World Wrestling Federation as a freelance writer working for the official WWF magazine. Russo would go on to edit the magazine, using the excellently 90s name of Vic Venom, and this would eventually see him promoted to the WWF creative team.

Russo remarks at the start of the first episode that his first story written for the magazine as a freelancer was on none other than Shawn Michaels himself. 

At this point the magazine was pretty much fictional, with none of the superstars interview and the words put into their mouths by the creative types behind the press.

Russo changed this, and his first interview assignment was with HBK. For two individuals who would go on to have a great influence on modern professional wrestling, it's difficult to try and think back to a time when one was a struggling writer and the other treading water in the midcard. 

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