The Infamous Vince Russo shoot promo on Hulk Hogan - Bash at the Beach 2000

The Infamous Vince Russo shoot promo on Hulk Hogan - Bash at the Beach 2000
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[@criticalbill2090]

Hogan: “That’s not gonna work for me, brother” Russo: “You’re not gonna work for me, bro!”

[@antology7]

Perfect

[@James-if3kc]

Brilliant!

[@James-if3kc]

Punk: "I'm the voice of the voiceless." Khan: "Now you're the voice of the jobless."

[@criticalbill2090]

@@James-if3kc Love it! Tony Khan should had gone full Vince Russo on Punk. What a wasted opportunity

[@James-if3kc]

I totally agree. This would have been the time. Punk threatened Tony and made him fear for his life. Tony had every right in the world to go off on him.@@criticalbill2090

[@jbdub08]

This was a more groundbreaking shoot than it gets credit for. Hogan had played a bad guy for years, but we all knew it was just a character. This shoot was the first time it dawned on me that Hogan might actually be an asshole in real life. Up until this, no one else would have dared to blow his cover and call him out like that.

[@sonicthekid249]

Hogan is definitely a prick. I saw him @ Newark airport with jimmy hart. He was walking in my direction and vise versa. I looked at him like I know who you are and was about to speak . He pulled his phone out and put his head down . I’ll never forget it . That was like 2006. I was hot … little did I know he was a racist

[@samlibutti]

Yeah, people don’t talk enough about how this is really the first time anyone talked openly about Hogan like this. Now it’s normal to hear people make fun of Hogan’s “that doesn’t work for me brother” style, but at this time it was not at all something you heard about.

[@jbdub08]

@ntxrated I've never heard that story! Not surprising in the least.

[@crylittlesister6377]

I would hardly call it groundbreaking. Worked shoot promos happened all the time under Russos leadership.

[@tobznoobs]

the work shoot that actually turned into a shoot coz hogan thought that it was too real and hurt his ego. well the truth always hurts.

[@SameDifferences]

not one 'Bro' uttered by Russo...it had to be killing him.

[@Lj-md9ng]

Lol… I was literally listening for the “bro”..😂😂

[@jammiebooker6489]

Haha....that's because he spoke from the heart (bro)

[@mynameisearl7537]

He forces the bros

[@NewNormalWorldOrder]

Wres-a-ling

[@tobiasfarragut292]

That’s how you knew…..”He was serious”…😅

[@mantistoboggan2599]

The one time I agree with Vince Russo because it was ultimately about putting over Booker T and making him the WCW champ. Hogan couldn’t stand not being in the spotlight.

[@festo512]

Booker t isn't a main event draw. Look at the numbers after booker won.

[@mantistoboggan2599]

@@festo512 yeah and putting Jeff jerret over hogan then having booker T going over jerret was meant to make him a main event draw. That was the point. Ofcourse the numbers after booker T won the title were low because it was directly after hogan fucked it up with his own ego thus why Russo made jarret lay down for him. If they had gone with the original plan of putting jerret over hogan clean, then booker t over jerret it would’ve been drastically different.

[@mantistoboggan2599]

@@festo512 go watch the newest dark side of the ring episode about bash at the beach 2000. It was not booker Ts fault he wasn’t initially a draw because he was set up for failure after this incident.

[@festo512]

@@mantistoboggan2599 The fans didn't care about booker t. Or else the numbers would have went up

[@festo512]

@@mantistoboggan2599 I watched it you dont know what your talking about. If the rock had went over to wcw at this time do you think the numbers would go up?

[@robertwhite3457]

You can say a lot about Vince Russo but in my opinion this is one of his finest moments! It was about time someone put Hogan in his place and expose him to the rest of the world.

[@jammiebooker6489]

Yeah, he's letting about 30 years of built up aggression fly in a 5 minute period 😂

[@anthonyjohnson6199]

It was a work dude. Russi wouldn't hold Hogan jock.

[@RKO1988]

Russo was right about Hogan, super racist, won't do jobs (see Randy Orton, Shawn Michaels).

[@KingDerek58]

He's disrespecting the entire business by doing this

[@DougieYT]

@@KingDerek58By telling the truth about a conniving individual??

[@charlesmarcus7864]

23 years laters and this promo is still an all-time great/ memorable.

[@SirManfly]

Greatest shoot of all time!!

[@sctmcg]

@@SimplyChaotic98sure mate, sure.

[@AJnzxv1]

One of the most embarrassing promos of all time. Came out on a wrestling TV show and basically said 'this is all bullshit guys, its all fake'. Imagine Robert De Niro doing that in the middle of Goodfellas; "It's just a movie guys"

[@DiversityJackson]

​@@AJnzxv1Everyone already knew it is scripted. The appeal of the late 90s 2000s boom was the "straight shooter" aspect of the industry. Hell hogan did the same thing by dropping the red & yellow for the n.w.o. He basically said "I'm not a good guy, I'm a piece of shit and I'm about to show the world" ya'll just for anything to blame russo because it is "cool"

[@AJnzxv1]

@@DiversityJackson Everyone knows a movie is fake, it’s called acting. I can’t put into words how stupid this promo is.

[@FlyByNick]

Not a Russo fan but he said what everyone else wanted to say that night.

[@flipflop4396]

Hogan was never to blame to start off, he used his options that were allowed to him in contract. Blame the organisation, including Vince. Vice was part of this for years, and got along with it. So when the ship started sinking he tried to jump out and put blame on some other guy...If Vince and WCW did their jobs WCW wouldnt be in that situatuon in first place.

[@ProGriefer5522]

@@flipflop4396I’ll agree that WCW began to be mismanaged way before this began, but Hogan contributed to being a huge thorn in WCW’s side too. The “creative control” was something Hogan implemented & abused on numerous occasions from not putting over specific talent to changing match storylines. He made sure that clause was implemented in his WCW contract to have full control of what his character would & wouldn’t do, all ran by his ego. Since the dying days of WCW has always been described as a “wild west” environment with no one in real control of the shows, he would abuse his power more often & easier than before. He was a major POS.

[@flipflop4396]

@@ProGriefer5522 All Hogan did was used his rights. "Creative control" was something that WCW managment agreed on when they were signing contract with Hogan. So honestly i dont blame him, he just used what he was allowed to do. What problems "Creative Control" could potentially cause, thats something managment should have thought about before they agreed. Also WCW was like a real life Royal Rumble. You had bunch of factions, wrestlers were out of any kind of control, many loose cannons, steroid abuse, drugsy alchohol,bad writing on top of that...again i dont blame Hogan for 1 second, dude just used what he was previously allowed to do.

[@ProGriefer5522]

⁠@@flipflop4396Sure WCW messed up big time by not thinking of the repercussions down the line by giving Hogan basically full control of his gimmick & story, but Hogan wasn’t necessarily a team player either in terms of using his freedoms to put over other rising talent & changing match finishes to only benefit himself. Hogans an opportunist & im sure saw a chance to head towards WWE’s competitor at the time knowing they’d take him in a heart beat including any deal he requested of them. I don’t dislike him for seizing a moment, i dislike him for being selfish even when having all the power & sway he had backstage. You dont remember the similar incident that happened years later at SummerSlam 2005? Hogan didn’t wanna put Shawn over last minute. Cant deny he isn’t a good person for others or the business.

[@flipflop4396]

@@ProGriefer5522 if he was a teamplayer he wouldnt be a star he was, wrestling is all about politics and being selfish out of ring. Especially during 80s and 90s, i mean Hogan was a star for 20 years prior joining WCW, i doubt he would change his way of working after all those years and i also doubt he would have joined WCW if he didnt get huge salary and bunch of promises by WCW managment. Heck WCW signing Hogan in 90s was huge thing...Hogan was always a star, he just kept living the life he used to live in WWF...Hogan was in spotlight for too many years. Bret Hart for example always talks how Hogan didnt want to drop belt for him, yet Nash and Undertaker said Bret did pretty much same thing when he was a champ. 99% of those wrestlers that talk bad about Hogan would pretty much do same as he did if they had position and influence he had during 90s.

[@pulkitsharma6648]

I have all the hate towards Vince for destroying WCW but this was NEEDED. Hogan was one of the most toxic person to work with. Killed off many great careers.

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

In the end, The empire of WCW was built and destroyed by the Power of Hulkamania. When it was finally time to pivot away from Terry, he had a creative and financial stranglehold on the company.

[@pulkitsharma6648]

Exactly. Hogan left WWF/E on such a bad note as well. He did made WCW bigger than WWF for a while but he never wanted to pave way for anyone else. Bret Hart said that he made the biggest mistake by joining WCW as it was Hogan show only. @@GalacticWrestlingFederation

[@ohwell94]

Killed off and kept down

[@demonofelru3214]

@@GalacticWrestlingFederation While true there were also other factors in WCW's downfall. Kevin Sullivan being a big one, and of course AOL Time Warner.

[@FAITHandLOGIC]

​@GalacticWrestlingFederation Hulkamania failed in WCW. It was the NWO that brought it yo prominence. They had to kill Hulkamanian for it to work.

[@DougieYT]

You can say what you want about Russo, but he was right about Hogan here, the dude’s ego was one of the biggest issues with WCW going into its final days. Time Warner was just icing on the cake. At least with Russo, he wanted to push the younger guys who had potential.

[@XtremeEffect]

Without Russo, Booker T would've never got his big break and he was feuding with The Rock a year later

[@hitek9too255]

The only good thing Russo ever done in WCW.

[@retronerds6884]

​​@@hitek9too255 Scott Steiner being champion the booker t vs Scott Steiner fued was great

[@Gabe_Lopez]

Russo wanted to push a lot of the younger talent in WCW, not just Booker T. He gets a lot of hate, but that can be appreciated, especially cause Hogan was always trying to keep them down

[@kdizzle901]

The one good thing Russo did

[@shavoris29able]

And don't forget about the lawsuit against WCW on being racist on non-white wrestlers.

[@gsv213able]

Cant believe hogan tried to sue over this. He was butt hurt over being called bald..

[@dannybursace9151]

He’s not bald dude!!! He shaves the top!! Lol 😆

[@NefastusJones]

Um...it's called a Skullett?

[@mpomp6378]

Bruh this might be one of the best promos ever...

[@tobiasfarragut292]

From some goofy mark that shouldn’t have been allowed behind the curtain…yes it was a riveting moment and I still enjoy it not as much as when I thought it was “A shoot” @ 18

[@AnimeAlex1.0]

As much as i dislike Vince Russo, i agree with him here about Hulk Hogan.

[@jrdffe9331]

Am sure hogan does too , he won millions from the network after that

[@mrjameshendry]

​​@@jrdffe9331For breach of contract not Russo's promo

[@johnnersinger9771]

​@@jrdffe9331but not from Russo

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

Hogan is an absolute piece of shit. I'm saying that as someone who ADORED him as a kid. But the more time that passes, the more stories are told by more wrestlers about what a lying, manipulative, greedy, spotlight-hogging egocentric schemer he is. Most of us didn't know it at the time but Russo was telling us who Hogan really was in this promo.

[@ojlott-w4n]

I did too

[@zippymufo9765]

As much as I hate Russo, this was a epic shoot

[@Btester2]

Let's face it this was the nail in the coffin for WCW.

[@bearswin4]

One of the many for sure.

[@emededambriz6217]

A few reasons why WCW went out of business was hiring Vince Russo, trusting Bischoff, giving creative control to Hogan over his character, Bischoff firing Steve Austin, and not using Bret Hart to his full potential when he was hot from the Montreal Screw Job

[@shooter7734]

So anyways .....Time Warner and Jamie Kellner killed WCW dead despite WCW low ratings being the highest ratings Turner networks had They had no interest in what they felt was low brow wrasslin All that other shit you mentioned was incidental

[@furnitureconsortium]

I would venture some of those things were contributing factors......although to be honest, Hogan would not have come over had he not had that (creative control) in his contract. He would have simply went back to WWE if he wanted to come back to wrestling. Trusting Bischoff did pay off when the nWo hit huge and they were winning the war for a while there. Would that have happened under anybody else running the show? who knows? The Steve Austin thing was hindsight......hindsight is always 20/20.....I can tell you as a fan from back when Austin was in WCW......nobody in either company ever saw Steve Austin as anything more than a mid-card champion.....good enough to hold an IC title or a US title....but not the World Title......so going off of 1993 context.....Bischoff made the move that he felt was right. Were it not for the creation of the Stone Cold character, would Austin have gotten over to that level doing something else character-wise? again, who knows? maybe.....maybe not. The major blow to WCW wasn't really anything that Bischoff or Russo did (although they certainly didn't help either those last couple of years).....the major blow was the Turner merger with AOL-Time Warner. That granted the new executives from AOL all the power to make the decisions that they wanted to make. Ted Turner didn't have the stroke anymore to protect WCW. Ted's love of wrestling goes back decades to his original Atlanta channel (WTCG-17) that he owned in the early 1970's. Atlanta Wrestling and later, Georgia Championship Wrestling and Jim Crockett Promotions were the backbone of that channel and made the highest ratings and sold a ton of advertisements. As most everyone knows, WTCG-17 would later become WTBS-17 and WTBS - The Superstation which beamed nationwide on Cable TV. I lay all of this out to showcase that to Ted, WCW could lose money all day long and he wouldn't bat an eye as the conglomerate made up the shortfall in other divisions within the umbrella. As long as Ted was In charge, there would always be a WCW. After the merger was finalized in 1999-2000, Ted Turner was no longer in charge. The new execs didn't want wrestling on their channels which is why they cancelled it right before the sale. Had they not cancelled it, the selling price would have been much higher. I'll say this about Vince Russo......I think his storylines and the way he lays them out are ridiculous and it's a travesty to the wrestling business......but in the same breath, I CAN give him props because he found storylines for practically EVERYBODY on WCW's roster.....that went against traditional booking as the meaningful storylines only really happened for mid-card talent and up before this.

[@PoorMansInvesting]

WCW was a train wreck before Bischoff. Ted Turner literally lost money for years.

[@duckmercy11]

@@furnitureconsortium Great comment.

[@FoolisH409]

Well tbh they did try an give Bret Hart a run, I’m sure it was in the cards until Goldberg dumb ass ended his career lol

[@cggg5089]

Notwithstanding the horrible angle and the fallout, this actually was a really great promo.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

That's because it was the rare promo that was 100 percent real.

[@kiezersosay49]

Na. he worked himself into a shoot... Brother.

[@danielstack4158]

It's electric! I'm no big fan of the dude either.

[@joshuasteward6097]

​@@MiketheratguyMultimedia It's such pandering though. And the laying down made JJ look weak. Not to mention, once you strip Hogan, there has to be a better story than Russo picks these 2 guys. He is there for the little guy but screws the whole locker room.

[@hitek9too255]

What angle? This was 100% real.

[@CobainevermindMK]

2:39 Vince displaying good reflexes there batting down that trash that was thrown at him mid-shoot

[@thefungoden3978]

Here's an idea. If you don't want a guy to exercise his creative control card don't give him one in the first place. It's like the baseball team who gives a guy a no trade clause then gets pissed when he won't accept a trade. Russo should be pissed at whoever gave Hogan the contract. For him to get pissed at Hogan is ridiculous.

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

Unfortunately, WCW was such a garbage brand with a horrible reputation, bischoff probably felt the need to give Hogan the world just to get him to join. Originally Hulk was supposed to be booked as a special attraction as per his ridiculous appearance fee clause. Once the Monday night wars took off the need for Hogan to be the focal point became even more apparent. It was a runaway train that they never had a contingency plan for

[@decepticonxhunter4850]

WCW needed Hogan a lot more than he needed them at the time. Because of his star power, Hogan had the leverage to dictate the terms as to what WCW had to give him if they wanted him to trust them with his career.

[@joaodcvieira]

Eric Bischoff the one who gave Hulk Hogan creative freedom. And if you watch some documentaries about the subject, you'll understand Vince Russo was really mad at Bischoff too. But of course Hogan was to blame. I mean a 50 year old at that time should know that his time had come as he should give his space to young up and comers talents like Booker T.

[@MrMojoman1976]

It's been acknowledged by pretty much everyone involved that this was a work. What made it go awry was Russo's scathing promo and Hogan's ego.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

More or less. Jarrett losing was basically agreed upon only when Hogan (unsurprisingly) insisted that he get to go over, so this awkward worked-shoot was arranged as a sort of compromise between the two parties. Russo wanted things to go one way, Hogan and Bischoff wanted things to go another way, and eventually Hogan (again, unsurprisingly) is the one who gets his way. So Russo comes out, tells the audience what happened, makes it clear what he thinks of the whole debacle, and faces a nice hefty fine because Hogan now has a new way to make a few more bucks off of him.

[@MrMojoman1976]

@@MiketheratguyMultimedia there was a recent interview Russo did with Bubba the Love Sponge where they spoke extensively about why this happened. Russo said that both he and Hogan approved of the shoot , but Hogan didn’t know the actual content. Furthermore, Russo was informed after the promo that WCW no longer had the money to pay Hogan for further appearances. Russo meant to call Hogan the Monday after the PPV , but was instructed to to by Brad Siegel. When Hogan didn’t hear anything, he figured he had been double crossed and took legal action . Of course between Russo , Hogan, Bischoff , and Bubba I would wager about 10% of what they say combined is probably the truth .

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

@@MrMojoman1976 Lol yep, sounds like a fair bet. I do know that Hogan only got upset when he heard the content of Russo's promo but I didn't know that there was also contention over an unplaced phone call. Hogan was probably waiting to be told exactly how and when he'd be handed the belt back and figured that he'd sue out of petty revenge when he didn't get what he wanted.

[@MarvinT0606]

​@MiketheratguyMultimedia he wasn't just upset, he sued Russo for defamation because of this very promo. Hogan lost the case because Russo wasn't dumb enough to use Hogan's real name in that rant and the judge simply acknowledged it as a work.

[@benrichardson8099]

This is the final stake in the heart of WCW...

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

💯

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

@Bold_One 💯 💯

[@peterfernandez9670]

No, Vince McMahon buying WCW

[@peterfernandez9670]

Also, the AOL/Time Warner merger

[@DougieYT]

@@peterfernandez9670No, Time Warner and Backstage Politics is what killed WCW, Vince just saw something that was convenient for his legacy and his company and took advantage of it.

[@JamesMatarazzo6924]

Love him or hate him Russo is an OG pipebomber

[@guesswho4327]

One of the rare times that I've applaud Russo. Don't like the guy but he pour his heart during these last few moments of WCW.

[@pepethejobber2287]

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day

[@strobo3737]

Goddayum I'm keeping this one

[@medivh1272]

@@strobo3737you live under a rock bro? This is a very common saying lmao.

[@strobo3737]

@@medivh1272 Not in spanish at least

[@TrovaPR1]

The man who got sued for speaking the truth...

[@josecarlosramolete6109]

Yet Hogan lost the lawsuit, TWICE

[@MrAitraining]

I saw this live and I loved the WCW Dysfunction days. At least they could swerve and surprise me. WWF rarely got me.

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

Looking back, it's soo bad it's good

[@homelessjesse9453]

@@GalacticWrestlingFederation It really is! It's becoming cliched at this point, but we didn't know how good we had it back then.

[@vincesmith2499]

​@@homelessjesse9453Oh, bull. Nothing today is as bad as 2000 WCW, except maybe AEW.

[@homelessjesse9453]

@@vincesmith2499 At least WCW circa 2000 had a sense of humor about it. WWE hasn't been funny since the Attitude Era ended.

[@MiketheratguyMultimedia]

Say what you want about Vince Russo - I'm certainly no big fan of his - but he was telling the truth here. I have to respect a man who says "enough is enough", stands up, and publicly calls someone on all of their bullshit.

[@festo512]

If russo is so upset of guys not getting their shot and being held down then why did he put the belt on himself?

[@insideline2162]

Yeah but you don't break kayfabe in the middle of a ppv. You just can't do that.

[@decepticonxhunter4850]

Russo was an absolute hypocrite in this promo though. He talked so much about how much the talent in the back should be given more opportunities to be in the spotlight, but he made himself the star of the show.

[@ajaxxx5552]

He did get a huge pop sounds like. Especially when he said Booker T.

[@me_12-vw1vi]

3:40

[@atworkstation]

I’ll have to watch the Dark Side Of The Ring episode of this again.

[@joaodcvieira]

I respect Vince Russo so much because of this. He was the first one to uncover the shitty person Hulk Hogan was.

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

That doesn't work for me, Brother 👨🏼

[@demuswheeler3797]

😂😂

[@Ultriac301]

The promo that LITERALLY drove Hulk Hogan out of WCW!😳

[@ninjawarriorthesavage412]

Look at the Hulk Hogan horrible dark past history of wrestling career on the list: 1) ego’s and selfish. 2) steroid abuser. 3) he’s a liar and racist. 4) using a backstage politics by holding a younger wrestler talented back. 5) he got banned from AEW wrestling company by Tony Khan. 6) destroying WCW and TNA wrestling company. 7) he’s never about the wrestling business, it’s all about him.

[@dt2745]

You are watching the end of WCW right here in this clip

[@illtakeyobitch]

Na the end was what hukster did numerous times and dats screw deserving talent over

[@aksghazi868]

"But he doesn't screw anyone back there and that's Jeff Jarrett." That aged horribly the moment he created TNA.

[@josecarlosramolete6109]

Wrong. It was Jeff Jarrett who made TNA. Accusing Russo again, that won't help.

[@aksghazi868]

I very blatantly WAS refering to Jarrett. What made you assumed otherwise?

[@josecarlosramolete6109]

@@aksghazi868 you were referring to Russo

[@aksghazi868]

Pffft, interpret my words whichever way you want. I know what I said and that's all that matters.

[@Fever_Ghoul]

There’s absolutely no way anyone with 2 brain cells could interpret that as referring to Russo. The quote was referring to Jeff and how he didn’t screw anyone. Saying it aged horribly could only be referring to the subject of the quote, which again, is Jeff. His comment would make zero sense if it was referring to Russo. This is basic English and context that everyone learns in school at a young age. You should have paid more attention in class, my guy.

[@speedygonzales378]

Hogan is not bald ,he just has one hell of a centre parting.

[@yettiluch1]

This was beautiful. Unfortunately, a few years too late.

[@60BloodyChamp60]

Yep. And the only thing missing was 1 thing from a few years earlier. I wish he would have added that Hogan was doing to Jeff Jarret, and ultimately WCW, what he did to Sting and WCW at Starrcade 97 which was what started WCW’s downward spiral.

[@PoorMansInvesting]

I thought Russo never did anything noteworthy other than ushering in the attitude era but even went overboard with that. This was epic!

[@d8l835]

Lol he didnt usher in the attitude era

[@PoorMansInvesting]

@@d8l835 he was hired as a writer for the show from the magazine. With Vince wanting his view of things. Corney blames him for it. YOU ARE WRONG!

[@d8l835]

@@PoorMansInvesting if you think this clown is the sole reason for the attitude era you are nuts pal. I didnt say he wasnt hired as a writer ffs i simply said he didnt usher in the attitude era. Is he responsible for stone cold? Dx? The rock? Gimme a fukn break fool

[@vincesmith2499]

​@@PoorMansInvestingAre you Vince Russo? LOL.

[@PoorMansInvesting]

@@vincesmith2499 You should reread the original comment

[@JoeChillton]

Hogan is such a cancer, but Russo is completely right here, blind squirrel finds a nut. Booker being THE GUY is the best move they could have done.

[@festo512]

If booker is the guy then why didn't the ratings go up?

[@JoeChillton]

Because......brainiac, WCW was on it's last limb and i dunno if you know this but WWE was firing on all cylinders in 2000. DUH.@@festo512

[@Splattermelt]

And then Russo would continue to play hot potato with the championship belt week after week. Russo was never right. He didn't have anything for Hogan after Kidman beat him not long before this, then shoved Kidman to the side soon after that. I don't blame Hogan for being mad.

[@JoeChillton]

then you're a fool@@Splattermelt

[@Y0utubeIsFuckingHomo]

​@festo512 Because Booker T is black, everyone knows pro wrestling is not the most favorable community to black people. Rock is the only guy in history to he that over and he isn't even black, he's mixed race.

[@awee5816]

Most Iconic 🏆 Moment in WCW History 📕📖

[@iTubeYourDadsMinge]

If you read the history books only and didn’t watch anything at the time, then sure. If you watched it week by week at the time, this was an absolute abortion and far from iconic.

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

"Iconic" like the JFK assassination 🤣

[@quizman5]

Hey, Russo was a man of his word, Hogan was never seen in WCW again

[@chrispswann6825]

The thing that confused me when Russo came in to WCW Jeff Jarrett got pushed to the moon. Jarrett was a good worker, but most fans saw him as a mid-carder. Good enough to hold the IC or US title, but nothing more. Suddenly Russo gets hired and Jeff Jarrett gets pushed as WCW's biggest star. I didn't buy it.

[@PoorMansInvesting]

They were pretty good friends at the time. Probably a good idea for Russo to try and get backing from the Jarrett family

[@yourdagan]

Vince Russo said in a live show following the documentary that he didn't pick Jeff Jarrett because of their friendship but because he knew Jeff would be reliable, including playing ball when needed and never getting injured and thus messing up whole angles due to absence.

[@Phiil1]

I always heard about this but I never got to actually see it. This is fantastic, lol. I thought Russo ruined the company, at least that was what I always heard but this was fantastic. Wow.

[@TheIcePirate]

Vince spitting truth

[@MichaelSpikes-pv6kl]

Best promo ever in WCW this was a great WCW classic

[@jasonavery]

When you pull the curtain back, and expose the behind the scenes drama going on to a PPV crowd who paid tickets or 50 bucks on TV, you’ve lost.

[@DGS2605]

For all the grief this guy gets (and deserves), people gotta understand how frustrating dealing with Hulk Hogan must've been. Sure, Vince Russo was part of the death of WCW but the inmates were running the asylum before he got there.

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

Agree. Bischoff was too busy trying to be one of the boys and the magic ended. He could never be a boss to main eventer$.

[@JoshOtten-k8q]

I like the part where he says "bro"....the only thing vince Russo did that was good was Booker T ..the most deserving man on that roster

[@JoshOtten-k8q]

@@jone8626 I know what I seen...an yes the booker t was the only good thing he done in wcw

[@KoolKeithProductions]

@2:10 THIS is how Tony Khan should have come out in Chicago after firing Punk 😂 "YOU WILL NEVER SEE THAT P.O.S. AGAIN! THAT 'REAL WORLD' CHAMPIONSHIP UR HOLDING IS NOW REFERRED TO AS THE 'CM PUNK MEMORIAL BELT', CUZ FROM HERE ON IN, THAT BELT DONT MEAN SH*T!" 😂😂😂

[@borbafatt]

And much like WCW, AEW has been a train wreck ever since so he probably shouldn’t have gotten rid of CM punk.

[@KoolKeithProductions]

@@borbafatt Collision has definitely taken a hit without him, but I wasnt that big of an AEW fan to begin with, so it really didn't matter to me

[@borbafatt]

@@KoolKeithProductions I started watching AEW when it first came out, hoping that it would finally be able to make wrestling tolerable again and it has become a complete shit show. Punk was the only thing that redeemed it and they got rid of the golden goose so now it’s probably on borrowed time.

[@KoolKeithProductions]

@@borbafatt the thing about AEW is that Tony Khan has a lot of money to burn, so even if ppl stop showing up and stop watching the product, he can still afford to keep it going, so it has time to improve and grow. Again, I'm not a huge fan, but l like guys like MJF and The Acclaimed

[@borbafatt]

@@KoolKeithProductions I love MJF and the acclaimed, but they’re getting buried by terrible booking. And while khan does have all the money in the world, what he doesn’t have is the power to make people televise his program. Television stations are not going to care that he’s a billionaire if he’s only bringing in between 200,000 and 700,000 views on their channels.

[@KaijuLover85]

greatest promo/shoot ever i remember watching unit promo and it was great! glad he called hogan out

[@PhilMante]

I love how Paul Heyman predicted in 1995 how WCW would fail against WWF and he was highly accurate, he figured the business would fail because of Hulk Hogan's ego. His only error was he figured it would retreat back to a local cable station and the wrestlers would make 75$ a night.

[@hitek9too255]

The same guy who failed to pay his wrestlers whose checks bounce and protect his wrestlers. Yea the great Paul Heyman.

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

@hitek9too255 the guy who had Tommy dreamer so brainwashed and disillusioned that he contemplated committing a muRR durr / sew a cyde at WM17

[@Gshadow007]

And now history repeats itself.....

[@epcotman32]

This was the final nail in WCW's coffin.

[@hitek9too255]

David Arquette winning the title was.

[@peterfernandez9670]

​@@hitek9too255So did Vince Russo

[@kdizzle901]

He spoke so much truth

[@LRM5195]

It’s crazy to me that the plan was for Hogan to make a surprise return at Halloween Havoc to fight the heel champion. And with creative control, who tf do you think was gonna win? Hogan only agreed to lose the belt if it was going to be put back on him in the long run. Say what you want about Russo but Jarrett, Booker, and Steiner all deserved it was more than fn Hogan in 2000-01. This is the best thing Russo ever did imo

[@KelseyDonaldson399]

He actually said the S word

[@James-if3kc]

This is gonna be AEW's future.

[@delux8042]

"Facts"

[@delux8042]

I don't care how much money so called businessmen invest in a wrestling company. WWE IS GOING NOWHERE!!!

[@delux8042]

Vince mcmahon bought out his competition...WCW, ECW, TNA. AEW is next

[@James-if3kc]

@@delux8042 He didn't buy out TNA. They still exist as Impact Wrestling, lol.

[@selectman6352]

I had good hopes for AEW ngl. But now they've started letting the oldies in, I can see a WCW/TNA fate. Forget it.

[@Stoneman180190]

Giving Hulk Hogan a contract where he gets to do whatever he wants was one of many reasons the company went under. He has an incredibly narcissistic personality.

[@jimpikoulis6726]

God damn politician Hulk Hogan 😅😅😅😅

[@neonmancer9945]

Tony Khan 2.0 (Its more of a Russo 2.0 situation in Aew right now. Who is here after the all the nonsense that Tony khan brought today. History do repeat itself)

[@Gunther819]

History repeats itself

[@comixproviderftw_02]

Time is a flat circle

[@hanitrader123]

u don't have any idea how big WCW was in comparison to aew , tony khan is a genius businessman, he is just spending affordable money on unwanted washed up wwe wrestlers just like tna has been doing for past 20 years yet the growth of aew is phenomenon, WCW took away wwe prime wrestlers ie brett hart,hulk hogan,kevin nash etc imagine aew getting randi orton,roman reigns etc .

[@hanitrader123]

and yeah WCW were at one point beating wwe in tv ratings for about 2 years I guess until the whole attitude era took over from 1997,aew never beat wwe even when wwe was shit , reason being wwe lost no major wrestlers to aew apart from daniel Bryan who was basically part timer when he left wwe ,young bucks cody kenny if u ask me I didn't knew who they were up until aew was formed hell even when I heard about cody I thought of him as that stardust guy 😂😂,aew ain't going to overtake wwe but even tna couldn't yet it is still going on so I don't see the reason why aew can't go on

[@charlie-j4o7u]

Tony Khan in 2025:

[@user-ssrl08p77]

“People as me..Vince do you have any advice about getting into the wrestling business? The best advice I can give them…don’t.” - Vince Russo

[@jaywilliams1942]

People keep forgetting that Russo was hired by WCW to save it. His time there was a failure, no doubt, but he can’t be solely blamed for ruining the company. I would put more of the blame on Eric Bischoff for giving out those huge contracts to lazy wrestlers.

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

In the end, everyone was in on the Con that was working for Turner.

[@Alber204]

I can imagine Russo being the kind of guy to agitate people to dump the taxed tea on Boston harbour.

[@JermaineDubose-yi3ub]

He didn’t kiss Hogan’s ass love it!!!!

[@scottaznavourian3720]

How to kill.a company in 5 minutes or less

[@Oscirus]

most expensive promo in history

[@pepsibottleq]

Top tier promo

[@ryanrantovich8308]

In what mentally challenged universe does Jeff Jarrett ever beat hulk hogan.

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

Memphis

[@vinylhorror]

“Can’t get a Got Dam break because of the Hulk Hogans” 👏 👏 👏 What a Line

[@peterfernandez9670]

The final Bash at the Beach

[@matsong5134]

This is the reason why the old school guys hate Vince Russo. He just exposed everything. I

[@ericathewwfwcwdivastraight8906]

I remember this incident all too well Vince Russo and the stupidity cause the Demise of WCW

[@tronsnow4763]

The irony of a pro wrestling booker wearing Barry Bonds’ jersey…

[@mattmarshall569]

This promo reminds me of Edge's promo in AEW a week and a half ago.

[@jeidizzle7966]

We gotta remember that this was a work until Russo cut this promo. Hogan took it personally. WCW died.

[@alanlogan6663]

It was too late, though. WCW was finished and Hogan headlined a couple more Wrestmanias in WWE as his last push before he go too old, so nothing really changed. Hogan's still a legend to most.

[@jarellejackson]

I have so much respect for Vince Russo in this promo. Everything he said about Hogan is true. Now I'm really start to believe that Hogan & Bischoff killed WCW bc they have so much power of creative. Finally, put Booker T over that night to win the World Heavyweight title was bittersweet.

[@naveenkumar-lc9fs]

After AEW footage 😂

[@babacaca1812]

i always hated hulk hogan, triple h and vince mcman , they are the cancer of wrestling.

[@yashshukla1336]

Maybe he wasnt that bad at all

[@RedfishCarolina]

Alright folks here's the deal. I'm not A Hogan fan boy. But there's nothing believable about Jeff Jarrett beating Hogan. Jarrett may have been a great guy, I don't know, but beating Hogan clean just is bad business. Booker T was an animal. Built, athletic, talented. So I'll agree with Russo on that. But not Jarrett.

[@SezarLopez]

I saw this when it happened on ppv and the moment he said you will never see that piece of shit again I was happy and he kept his word for once

[@nick56677]

Never liked Russo, but its awesome to see someone stick it to the Hulkster, BROTHER! Hogan has to be the champ BROTHER! He needs to drop the leg on the entire roster BROTHER! Hogan will take u to court over a wrestling angle......BROTHER!

[@Atem_S.]

The biggest pipe bomb in WCW history!!!

[@KelseyDonaldson-cs4ue]

Man Russo was on point with everything he was saying specially 0:34 he's describing Hogan I couldn't count how many times he said the S word

[@tristanirby6272]

Russo was the only one who blamed Hogan for the fall of WCW cause Hulk had creative control lol😂😂😂

[@shoebert31]

those 2 deserve each other...brother

[@bratedShow]

Wow this is the first time since it happened that I see the full promo.

[@TheRuns2]

I'm not a Russo guy, and it didn't make sense that he was a heel cutting this promo, but I don’t believe the infamy of what he did that night was deserved. Regardless of shoot or work, there's no way in hell Hogan would have been ok with what Russo did. Of course Hogan liked the money he got from the settlement, but I digress. And Russo was right about Booker deserving this.

[@mjisthegoat88]

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

[@I_still_use_winamp]

Who’s here cause of “who killed WCW”

[@crawford371]

Vince Russo was right about hogan

[@THEYANKEES12356]

Promo was 🔥

[@KelseyDonaldson399]

0:35 give Russo credit for this

[@PrincessZelda_is_My_Side_Chick]

I like watching @2:38 when Russo is explaining about Hulks belt being worthless, he stutters because at that time he was swatting away a paper ball someone threw at him wirh damn good precision.

[@Lakers0olll]

“Jeff Jarrett doesn’t screw anyone back there” lol ask Kurt angle ex wife how well that aged.

[@brettbousman5070]

Russo was full of crap but he was so right about Hogan who didn't know how bad he was passed his prime

[@RogerLockridge]

Play it at .75 speed and it's almost normal.

[@user-ps3wk5nc7r]

WHEN EVEN HBK HAD PROBLEMS WITH HOGAN S HANDLING OF HIMSELF THIS MUSNT COME TO A SUPRISE TO YOU

[@ApexPredator083]

Lol I love how he defended Jeff but there was a reason why Vince McMahon fired Jeff after he acquired wcw.

[@GalacticWrestlingFederation]

Only way these segments can stay up in full.