10 Times Wrestlers Called Out Their Own BS

8. Vince Russo

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This took some doing, Jesus Christ.

Vince Russo doesn't just not own up to his multifarious, company-killing bullsh*t: he cites himself, not the actual stars, with the success of WWE's Attitude Era. He brought the ratings, bro which, incidentally, is an anagram of "boring star", which quite efficiently summarises how f*cked Russo was with Jeff Jarrett, and not Steve Austin, driving his disastrous WCW stint.

While you wouldn't expect Russo to call out his own bullsh*t - he thought so much of it that he was still swerve-turning, all the way up to 2015, by mapping a Wyatt Family explodes angle when he tried a new fantasy booking grift - he actually admits that the Kennel From Hell match sucked.

He defended Beaver Cleavage. "I wasn't given the freedom to see it through," he said on an old Truth With Consequences podcast.

Beaver Cleavage wasn't going to WrestleMania. He was principally interested in motting his mother out. This was never going to work because it was as bad an idea as making babyface Al Snow slowly climb two cages between which a pack of dogs sh*t themselves.

Least he owned up to that one.

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