Why JBL Thinks Ex-WWE Writer Vince Russo Is An Abysmal Failure
WWE Hall of Famer JBL has not held back on his thoughts about ex-WWE and WCW writer Vince Russo, someone he thinks is incapable of telling the truth.
One of the most infamous ideas in WWE history played out in 1998 when several stars of the company faced off with each other in real fights in the Brawl For All. Former WWE writer Vince Russo has claimed the event was created as a joke at JBL’s expense as the star then known best as Bradshaw loved to talk about how he could beat up everyone else.
But JBL thinks this assertion is not quite right, to say the least.
Speaking on Something To Wrestle, JBL gave his side of the story and did not hold back with his thoughts on Vince Russo. And while JBL admitted he liked to talk smack, with a room full of legitimate tough guys, he didn’t really think he could take everyone on:
That’s 100% bullsh*t. He said that for years. Nobody at that time thought that was true. Talk to Bruce, talk to Bob Holly, talk to Butterbean. No one at that time thought that was true. We had two UFC champions in our dressing room. If I’m saying I can whoop the whole world, I don’t doubt I said it. We said all kinds of crazy stuff back then. We loved to talk smack.
We loved to talk sh*t in the dressing room. Shamrock was sitting right there. There’s no way I’m meaning something like that. You got Undertaker, you got Godfather, you got the Harris boys, you got Blackman, you got Bob Holly. We didn’t know Bart could knock out the entire world. We knew Bart was a tough guy, so none of that as far as being real, no. Good Lord, no.
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JBL continued with his rant on Russo, claiming that everything Russo was ever involved in has gone bankrupt or gone under:
I think what happened is that Russo left and went to WCW. After he left WWE, WWE went through the roof, WCW went bankrupt, and he spent the next 25 years of his life in, there’s nothing else you could say, but abysmal failure. Nothing he’s touched is still around.
Everything he’s touched has gone either bankrupt or gone under. He’s not welcome back at any place he has been. My thought is that he came up with this idea of the Brawl for All like he came up with Viagra on a pole match, Judy Bagwell on a pole match, and Dave Arquette to be champion. He came up with some of the worst ideas in the history of wrestling. He’s done it consistently.
Eventually he just said, ‘Oh, I’m gonna blame it all on Bradshaw. Oh, I did that just to get Bradshaw’, so that’s what I think. Nobody at the time thought that was the case, and I don’t think anybody now really thinks that’s the case. Russo, he makes Bobby Jaggers look truthful. The guy can’t tell the truth. That to me is 100% preposterous.
JBL is not alone in his assessment of the controversial writer with Eric Bischoff claiming his wife would make Vince Russo cry. Former WWE Intercontinental Champion Lance Storm has gone on record that Russo is a “complete moron.”