10 Wrestling Career Turning Points That Took Place ON AIR
6. Vince Russo
Vince Russo knows how to get Vince Russo over, but it was a 1997 edition of Monday Night Raw a full three years before he became a television regular on the other side that his life changed forever.
Hidden within a 1999 edition of Raw Magazine (conveniently before physical and mental exhaustion, ego and a mammoth pay-rise lured him to WCW where he'd make and break the name he'd built within months) Russo published an article tale of a Vince McMahon infuriated with the state of the show two years earlier.
The piece talked about the former Chairman's rage over an abysmal edition of the show that was partially broadcast from South Africa. Infamously, McMahon threw a copy of the magazine down in front of his top table associates and asked why Monday's sh*t show couldn't compete with the quality of the publication.
As Editor-In-Chief, Russo's written creativity got him rocket-strapped in the company, foreshadowing his ascent within an Attitude Era that changed the industry forever.