10 Wild Wrestling Plans That Were JUST NOW Discovered

2. A Shelved Magazine Cover

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As you might have surmised, Jim Cornette is the only person connected with wrestling who has recently taken to slaughtering Vince Russo's atrocious creative ideas.

Swerve!

Former WWF photographer Tom Buchanan has also exposed an absolutely foul, alleged idea of Russo's which, if true, is rather a lot worse than some mindless bullsh*t involving badges and torches and the like.

In 1998, the idea of establishing Raw as the edgy magazine and WWF as the family-friendly mainstay was firmly in place. It was easy to discern the difference between the two; WWF would have Steve Austin on the cover with copy along the lines of "The Rattlesnake spews venom!", whereas Raw would have a suggestive picture of Sable, the word "BITCH", and about a four hundred f*cking exclamation marks.

Not quite satisfied, Russo had an idea for a cover "celebrating" independence day in July '98 by having D-Generation X framed as posing nude with only the American flag covering their modesty, only, to insinuate that Chyna had an erect penis, a piece of wood was to poke out from behind. This never materialised, thankfully, but never forget how Chyna was perceived internally.

What a disgrace of an organisation.

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