This theory is extremely meta: that either Vince Russo, the nWo, or both, were in fact double agents sent by Vince McMahon to destroy WCW from the inside. The thinking goes that Hogan, Hall and Nash, with their exorbitant guaranteed contracts and creative control clauses, would tear apart WCWs locker room morale and bleed the company dry. Russo would pitch himself to WCW as the architect of the Attitude Era and then write deliberately terrible television to drive away advertisers and further cripple the company. After all, Russo had been McMahons trusted head writer, and when McMahon later brought the nWo to WWE, hed say he was injecting his company with a lethal dose of poison, suggesting that perhaps hed done so before. Its a good story, but it doesnt quite add up. First, Vince McMahon was in dire financial straits in the mid-1990s, and its unlikely that he could afford to pay his own roster as well as a small army of infiltrators. Also, if Russo were a truly great writer -- and a McMahon loyalist -- why has he spent the entirety of his post-WCW life bouncing between TNA and unemployment? No, more likely the damage these men did was due to WCWs own desperate desire to destroy Vince McMahons empire at any cost, including, it seems, the destruction of their own.
