Timeline WWE #22 | Vince Russo | 1998

[@sizethirteennikes]

“Can I be honest with you” “and I’m gonna be completely honest” “I’m telling you the gods honest truth” 😂😂😂😂

[@elquednau]

Val Venus is a despensary delivery guy here in AZ now.

[@BiscoWho]

Terry Funk came up with the name Chainsaw Charlie, not Vince McMahon. It was the nickname that Terry and his childhood friends came up with for their local barber, who would always dig the clippers into their heads and hurt them when they were kids. Let this be a prime example of Russo bold-faced lying for you. Store it in your memory forever. This guy lies about SOMETHING in like 95% of the things he says, and he is an extreme narcissist as well.

[@ninowaves4061]

It didn’t get approved for Russo to use unless Vince McMahon ok’d it so yes the name came from Vince. RIP terry funk

[@wardengentles53]

​@@ninowaves4061I think you're getting into semantics now, aren't you?

[@OneUltimateWarrior]

FACT CHECK: He ripped off Leatherface from his time in Japan.

[@dantegood2195]

Sometimes people misremember small details like that….bro

[@nichhodge8503]

2:21:10 as someone who has a serious opioid addiction and have for 12yrs now, to answer Sean’s question about approaching Hawk over the substance abuse angle it depends on 2 things 1: the person you’re dealing with and most importantly 2: where they are in their addiction! If they know they got a problem and are on the road to recovery it will probably bother them but if they’re lost in their addiction they most likely won’t care

[@AlexMoreno-b9j]

Welcome to "I'll Never Forget" with guest Vince Russo

[@xGodofAcidx]

"Vince had egg on his face, he was not going to replace Vince Russo, that was NOT going to happen" I needed that laugh.

[@ChewyChicken589]

@@xGodofAcidx they've never been able to replace Russo

[@dustin6528]

Majority of people miss the Attitude era so hard to disagree

[@essj3334]

Nothing but respect for Russo. You can't discredit his participation during the Attitude era.

[@camschuster5947]

I’m not defending this man at all…but he gets so much hate that is underserved. We were all there and enjoyed the era, he was a huge part of it. Can’t take that way…

[@JonathanHassingerChannel]

👆🏻One of the best comment section comments.

[@dombazbondaz1629]

Bro

[@Nostalgia9478]

Im not a fan of Russo and his booking style, but I think WWE goes out of business if they dont give make him a writer in 1997.. Attitude saved WWF imho

[@NLaBar]

“Literally, bro” 🙄

[@MABMGuitar]

Is it just me or is Russo much more coherent here than usual?

[@harpdrago7422]

Charming too

[@firstroundboxing7649]

He's the man

[@FrostTdot]

i was wondering the same. Not one "bro"

[@JDjade1]

53:00 The magic man was Richie Posner, not Richie Curtis.

[@justinmarston4106]

Richie Posner designed WWF's titles?

[@undertakerfanz628]

Vince RussBro

[@DannyGautama]

lol.

[@nichhodge8503]

1:41:21 I bet Russo bought every Playboy that Sable appeared in (2 or 3 times she did it, one was with Torrie Wilson) and would pleasure himself to it when his wife was out

[@ReinEngel]

I want a WCW Timeline for the second half of 1999 and first quarter of 2000.

[@smithmeister]

I. LOVE. His. Sta-ca-tto. Way of speaking! Bro!

[@neilsun2521]

The best era in WWF. Thanks Vince! (Especially considering all the star power which the company had lost during 1997, Russo did a fantastic job building up the new characters.)

[@Therealgeoffchilds]

Bret was the early stage of attitude era with the anti usa angle. My opinion

[@DannyGautama]

I agree. Bret started this.👍🏽

[@nichhodge8503]

15:27 can anyone hear the beeping of a truck reversing? I thought it was outside my house so I paused the video it stopped and I played the video and the beeping starts again

[@firewatch814]

I heard it😅

[@danielsims916]

Taker didn’t watch the Match with Russo , taker and Bruce Pritchard both said that taker watched the match Alone In Vince McMahon office

[@ZenOfMKVLI]

I'll Neva Forget = This is a Lie

[@asicsjohnson]

Oh, balderdash! Sir, I'll have you know Vince Russo created mankind, in his image, using only half a rib as the proverbial clay. Doubt him again, I'm calling the GAHT-damned PO-lice.

[@BrandNew777]

For real bro

[@Stowerslemalu]

According to???

[@georgelea4297]

Should've had a bro counter on screen 😂

[@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150]

I'm not advocating drug use, but when I see a video with 3 hours worth of Vince Russo talking, I need some "party favors" for the sake of maximum enjoyment.

[@greyjedi6430]

Yo bro

[@craigugulini3409]

Pretty crazy at 2:90 Russo says vince loves pooping and farting jokes and he literally gets off on it….

[@brianmcdonald7017]

That's good shit pal

[@BrandNew777]

​@@brianmcdonald7017vince, that you?

[@firstroundboxing7649]

Amazing content, amazing writer. Attitude era was great

[@Capta1nAsh]

what's funny is watching this after the 1997 timelines and hearing the contradictions. Sean, Jim said he had the 1998 book, would it be so bad to have 2 different 1998 WWF timelines? If anything different perspectives on a timeline would be great. That's what I liked about the 1997 Mash up with Jim/Nash/Sabu

[@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150]

Sable was completely synonymous with overrated. She was pretty with attractive features, but it wasn't take your breath away level. Brock would hospitalize me for saying that (don't misunderstand me, I would be a sentient heavy bad, I wouldn't fought back, but it'd be an exercise of futility).

[@MN_-]

russo rules

[@JWS1985]

From my understanding it was Terry Funk who came up with the Chainsaw Charlie character...

[@spaceage4151]

I'm about to embark on this 3 hour cruise bro.

[@Maxx_d13]

I deal with liars and annoying people daily.. why would I listen to this

[@GaunterODimm2]

Bro bro bro bro. Bro bro. Bro. Bro bro bro. Bro. Bro. Bro. Bro. Bro.

[@brianmcdonald7017]

Bro?

[@edwardnygma2300]

Bro

[@DannyGautama]

Wait. You forgot to say…Bro.

[@alneri8327]

the one dislike is from Jim Cornette

[@ggaa111100]

You're incorrect.

[@adamwebb1987]

loads of people dislike russo tho

[@synthsolutionmusic]

From someone that remembers topic number 1, Russo is wrong. Fans wanted wrestling. Not his Jerry Springer Bullshit

[@SuperMarry23]

No it is from me

[@kevinlee9929]

​@@synthsolutionmusicThen explain why that writing you claim fans didn't want help save the WWF from going out of business.....

[@firstroundboxing7649]

Not apologising for choppy choppy peee pee is why I love him, HILARIOUS

[@lukemoloney1113]

He was at WCW then hombre

[@firstroundboxing7649]

@@lukemoloney1113 No he wasn't. It happened in 1998 and he literally talks about it on this video. Are you slow, hombre?

[@handsolo1209]

@@lukemoloney1113 The video is LITERALLY WWF 1998. He went to WCW in the late 1999, hombre.

[@IAMNOGOOD80]

By the way all you people in the comment section if you watch WWE today you're watching Vince Russo's creation of wrestling what he thinks he should be it's literally the same thing so you're supporting him while talking s*** about him because WWE today is just as bad as you say he is

[@nichhodge8503]

25:05 actually I’ve hear Robert Fuller (Robert Parker) and Tom Prichard both say they wanted Robert Fuller to be part of the WWE office but Robert Fuller turned it down and that’s why he didn’t stay

[@jackpotdave]

A lot of people accuse Russo of lying, but, all of his stories never change. He never flip flops on what he says are facts. That's interesting to me. It either means he's telling or the truth, or he's very very good at bullshit.

[@danielsims916]

He did lie about the Montreal screw job, he lied about taker Watching with him on a monitor, when both taker and Bruce both said that taker watched the match alone in Vince McMahon office

[@Born2Punch]

@@danielsims916 I'd trust Russo over Bruce.

[@danielsims916]

@@Born2Punch you can’t take anyone word especially in the wrestling world and Bruce is definitely a kiss ass but both Bruce and taker said that taker was by himself watching the match in McMahon office . So that means Russo was lying about watching it with taker at the gorilla position

[@Born2Punch]

@@danielsims916 Taker strikes me as a bit of a liar too though. Everyone thinks hes 100% honest.

[@danielsims916]

@@Born2Punch and Russo isn’t a liar? Again no one is 100% honest but why would taker lie about watching the match by himself in McMahon office ? Russo thinks that he came up the Montreal screw Job , if anything cornette and Triple H have more believable stories about that than Russo does. And Russo is the only one who wants credit for that, no one else does because it’s a lose/lose situation . Why would anyone take credit for the biggest blunder in wrestling history?

[@Josh-t4l4w]

I absolutely positively LOVE these videos.....but damn i dont think i can do this one lmao!! Thnx but no thnx on vinny russo 👎 but love you kayfabe commentaries!!! ✌️

[@Ironbear86]

Imagine if, wcw and wwf had worked together. Not the crappy invasion we got when they bought the company.

[@dudeiousmaximus650]

Thanks for the upload Sitting next to taker at the monitor during Montreal hmmm is this true? On a Bruce Pritchard pod cast taker was looking for Bruce ?

[@ronnieh9822]

Vince russo is a wrestling god 🎉genius, brilliant and this was a pleasure

[@JobberJerry]

Someone's gotta know if Jim has tore this apart in 1 single video or is it scattered in various ones

[@sirjeeemus8537]

Bart Simpson. And he was dead serious at first. Bart Simpson.

[@deweycuffley4554]

Did he call Bart Gunn Bart Simpson lol

[@jimhardy665]

This is what they play to prisoners in Gitmo, ain't it? Has anyone taken the time to count the Bros in this one?

[@FromPillartoPost]

He's probably right about Corny not knowing who Mays is lol

[@seanmcclure]

August lol

[@KCVault]

lol

[@jonbourgoin182]

Time sure does fly doesn't it

[@BIGM-gg9ln]

Bro. Just hearing Vince talk is just painful. Bro,

[@ZenOfMKVLI]

I cannot listen to this BRO machine , thanks anyway Sean.

[@undertakerfanz628]

Bro You took the time to comment and I'm sure you took the time to watch the video Bro🙄

[@RexMundi_UTC]

Needs to be a bro edit deleting all the bros. Bro.

[@seanbonella]

​@@undertakerfanz628corny has his faults but bro is a 🤡

[@undertakerfanz628]

@@seanbonella speaking of corny that's exactly what you are

[@gw593]

That’s because you can’t think for yourself lol

[@jamesgentry13]

Cornette is worse remember that

[@nicholasvertucci2054]

Vince tells Sean he hates black people towards the end of the interview but he made himself WCW champion.

[@thelawaroundhere3603]

God damn you, Sean.

[@ChewyChicken589]

Russo is the GOAT

[@TrueJaguarPaw]

I love this interview. Straight forward. Thanks bro

[@josephjames2011]

but when really was this? wwe says the earliest is 2002.........

[@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150]

15 minutes in, and Russo is putting himself over and I think at any minute he's gonna say "I walked on water, bro." By no means am I one of Russo's detractors. Numbers don't lie, and it's not debatable that he was the head writer during the time of the WWF's resurrection. HOWEVER... When he was left to his own devices in future companies, his goose quit laying the golden eggs. The fact that he's never owned up to his cornucopia of bad booking makes it harder to take him seriously. He made Mike Awesome "That 70s Guy". Mike FUCKING Awesome. A major program with him vs Kanyon on a main event/world champion level feud would've not only drawing eyes to WCW, it would've given the post-nWo some truly cool highlights for WCW's history. It's a shame it didn't happen.

[@handsolo1209]

Yes, Mike Awesome, the dictionary definition of a generic CAW. The guy was the shits. Lex Luger sized man with Malenko levels of charisma. He was literally a worse version of Chuck Palumbo.

[@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150]

@@handsolo1209 You're entitled to your opinion.

[@handsolo1209]

@@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150 Yes, and I am quite clearly correct. The guy was a nobody when he got to the big leagues. At least Palumbo had the balls to run with the Billy & Chuck gimmick.

[@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150]

@@handsolo1209 You got it, champ. 👍

[@markcrockwell-vc7gu]

Vince doesn’t need to know how to write a show he’s the owner the promoter, that’s why he had bookers/writers but he can tell a good idea from a bad one.

[@ChewyChicken589]

If he was the great filter, the filter has been broken since like 2007

[@markcrockwell-vc7gu]

@@ChewyChicken589 he lost touch definitely

[@kerpal321]

vince russo turned mike awesome into that 70s guys, i just cant get over it

[@handsolo1209]

Mike Awesome turned WCW in to an indie with his charisma vacuum uselessness. I just can't get over it.

[@kerpal321]

​@@handsolo1209 nah it was vince russo again who turned wcw into an indie with his viagra on a pole matches or having mentally handicapped and physically disabled midgets like beetlejuice wrestle jeff jarret, forcing mike awesome to drive the partridge family bus was just one of many endless bad ideas that put the final nail in the coffin for wcw and pretty much wrestling as we knew it

[@kerpal321]

@@handsolo1209 nah it was vince russo again who turned wcw into an indie with his viagara on a pole matches or having mentlly handicapped and physically disabled migets like beetlejuice wrestle jeff jarret, forcing mike awesome to drive the partridge family bus was just one of many endless bad ideas that put the final nail in the coffin for wcw and pretty much wrestling as we knew it

[@handsolo1209]

@@kerpal321 Mike Awesome was crap. Better giving him a gimmick that didn't work than nothing at all. Maybe the worst big man I have ever seen.

[@kerpal321]

@@handsolo1209 doesnt matter how good or bad mike was, my comment has nothing to do with him or his ability, it has to do with russo being such a weak minded simpleton that all of his ideas for wcw nitro came from shows he saw on tv while flipping through the channels on basic cable

[@LaughingFeenix]

I like that you got Russo on, so people can see and hear his side of things. But I gotta agree with Cornette; Russo doesn't write for wrestling, he writes for schtick and sap comedy and sadly, the wrestlers were the brunt of the joke.

[@ChewyChicken589]

Russo is right though, you have to make it about the story now because everybody knows the fights are fake.

[@LaughingFeenix]

@@ChewyChicken589 I agree, it does have to be about the story. But if you have a writer that doesn't know anything about the business; what's written can tank someone's career. Mark Henry was lucky to have weathered that storm with Mae Young and that hand.... that was just the shits.

[@ChewyChicken589]

@@LaughingFeenix that happened after Russo left the WWF. You haters can't even get your facts right

[@LaughingFeenix]

@@ChewyChicken589 I wasn't hating on anyone. A bad writer can ruin a person's career. Just facts.

[@ChewyChicken589]

@@LaughingFeenix you blamed Russo for the hand thing when it happened after he left

[@markcrockwell-vc7gu]

Here to count the lies

[@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150]

Russo: Shawn was under the influence of a lot of things. Cornette: And they said he was "self-medicating" for his bad back. HE'D BEEN MEDICATING THAT BACK FOR 3 YESRS BEFORE HE GOT IT?

[@seanbonella]

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@Agka07_036]

Whose ever idea it was to keep doing the date pop-ups during interviews really misses the mark those pop-ups make these unwatchable. Anyone watching these is most likely already a big fan and doesn't need to be given that little bit of useless info every 5 minutes I'm 12 mins in and I already am annoyed,I just cant stand those already..... Way to squander an interview and it's not just this but the booker videos also are a dumb idea they just jumble everything up and half way through the booking they just get so out of hand uve already lost ppl by then. Sean Oliver is a terrible idea guy, he's an okay host but his ideas for the interviews are WoW so bad like he doesn't hit on even 1 gimmick during these interview like what's in the bag another dumb one idk what else but most of his interviews have been trash cause of the gimmicks he adds to them or makes apart of the interview. Just have the interviewees tell their stories with u listening and waiting to insert urself during parts where u can expound on something they say or if they skip over something go back and ask them straight up, have some questions ready to go and sprinkle them in the interviews periodically with the story. Not this all over the place mumbo jumbo stuff u have going on like these dumb pop-ups, dumb gimmicks an some dumb activities that no one cares about lol none of that is needed bro do better peace

[@ninowaves4061]

Russo the only one who tells the truth in wrestling.

[@MrBoDiggety]

Commence the Corny jokes!

[@steventhurlow-r3y]

Russo saying he was a liason between Shawn and vice. As they were not talking. Absolutely bull shit. A manager of a multimillion dollar company dose not have a go between

[@kevinlee9929]

McMahon has had go betweens a number of times for a number of different wrestlers.

[@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150]

It's enjoyable listening to people tell stories about Vince when he still had his finger on the pulse and cared about making a quality product from top to bottom. Man, have things gone south...

[@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150]

Russo is good at working people for one reason: It's hard to tell where the truth ends, and the bullshit begins.

[@timmyturner5951]

His stories are pretty consistent unlike bischoff

[@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150]

"It's time to go with the hot new toy." Tony Khan took this principle and RAN with it (with considerably smaller success).

[@MrZiggens3]

Russo’s explanation of Terry Funk becoming “Chainsaw Charlie” is completely false

[@nichhodge8503]

When Americans complain about gas prices I say that we pay the same for a litre in England not a gallon (4.5l). But America has the most oil my dad worked for a Saudi oil company and he told me how he done so many deals in the 80’s selling Saudi oil to America (their biggest customers) and a few times he had to fly to Texas to do deals or go oversee the oil transfers with 6-10 supertankers parked up in the Gulf Of Mexico where they pumped the oil into America’s reserves. So anyone in the south in the 80’s who lost their job because the oil business collapsed in America that’s because people like my dad sold them Saudi oil cheaper than they could pump it out of the ground, sorry but that money put my brother and I through private school allowed me to go to Cambridge University and have a very comfortable life, though I wouldn’t see my dad for 4 months at a time he was home a month then back to work

[@ChewyChicken589]

That's actually because of what is known as the petrodollar. America actually made a deal with OPEC that they wouldn't drill their own oil and they would buy oil from Saudi arabia. In exchange, OPEC agreed to only take dollars for oil which solidified the dollar as the world's Reserve currency. That deal has recently been broken which means that Trump will have America start producing more oil when he gets back into office

[@Robokingmen]

It's so easy to hate him lmao

[@ec3076]

That was fun. Thanks for the upload.