That Time Vince Russo’s Ideas Were TOO GOOD For WWE

The guy defined by the swerve and the lie reckons he was raised to always tell the truth. Now, of course Russo isn’t going to use the truth in his capacity as a writer of predetermined professional wrestling—but here are just two examples of verifiable lies spewed from a mouth he simply cannot keep track of.

Vince Russo outed himself as a secret TNA consultant in 2014 by cc’ing Mike Johnson of PWInsider into an email instead of TNA employee Mike Tenay. Johnson broke the story, which Russo initially denied. “WOW—just amazing to see that anybody will print anything as TRUTH without checking into it. Nice to see the SWERVE still works!!!” he tweeted. Russo was lying. He admitted as much when Johnson threatened to publish the aforementioned email—i.e., proof.

That point, about Russo being unable to keep track of his own bullsh*t? The following quote, from a Kayfabe Commentaries shoot recorded in 2015, encapsulates it neatly. He contradicts both the lead-in quote and, in fact, the same sentence.

“I’m gonna be honest with you here. This I can probably say, without a shadow of a doubt (!), this will be my last wrestling interview. Every time I do a wrestling interview, my own kids get on me because they know I’m not telling the truth.”

Narrator: this wasn’t Vince Russo’s last wrestling interview.

But Bruce Prichard is also a prize bullsh*tter. You have to admire the sheer gall of the man—“You weren’t there!” he repeatedly tells Dave Meltzer, while also believing second-hand information disseminated to him by the same exact source in Heyman. That information was thus:

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