Vince Russo's 10 Insider Stories From Running WWF Magazine

7. The Birth Of Vic Venom

During my early years at the WWF, let€™s just say that the product . . . wasn€™t all that good. As a matter of fact . . . it was bad. As Vince Russo, there was very little I could say about that in the magazine if I didn€™t want to lose my job. However€”being me---if I wasn€™t honest with my readers in some fashion---I just wasn€™t going to be able to continue any way. So the solution--create a character---a fictional writer for the magazine---that could spew venom in the way of everything that was wrong with the product. If by chance Vince McMahon would ever question these honest views, then I would simply state the fact that the writer didn€™t exist---and it was all a work. Thus the birth of the great Vic Venom, who just by the way made his return after a 20 years absence to pyroandballyhoo.com