Vince Russo is a proper veteran in the world of professional wrestling as he has worked as a writer in various professional wrestling companies such as WCW, TNA Impact Wrestling and of course, WWE. WWE recently fired a slew of WWE Superstars recently including Braun Strowman, Aleister Black and others.
Vince Russo recently spoke on Writing with Russo, where he shared his thoughts on WWE’s latest releases.
My initial reaction was, I’ve been suspecting for a long time now that the WWE is really streamlining its company to make that bottom line… look, I’ve been suspecting this for a very long time. There are so many pieces bro. When you look at the deals they already have in place with NBC Universal. Bro, the only thing they don’t have is SmackDown. Bro, now I know, listen. I contacted… you know, me, BinHamin, and Stevie. We contacted FOX before the show started on SmackDown and we offered our services as consultants. Because we tried to explain to them, you need to know somebody that understands wrestling. So if you don’t get the rating, you think you’re gonna get… rather than have them BS you, you will have guys that will tell you “this is what the problem is.”
And they told us Chris, at that point they were expecting a 3.5, Chris, they’re getting half of that. To me, expecting a 3.5 and doing half of that, to me it seems more than likely, I don’t see them renewing this deal. Bro, that’s the last piece NBC Universal needs. They get that last piece, everything is now under their umbrella. What’s left bro, finalizing the deal, transferring the billion dollars, and we’re done. I’ve been suspecting this, if you follow Nick Khan and the deals he’s been making and then he’s on the Board of Directors, and if you’re seeing all the cuts in the office, I really think bro they’re trying to make that bottom line number as attractive… bro, come on Chris, we do this show every week. They don’t care about the show, they’re almost down to a million in the third hour.
You also have to ask the obvious question. You’re down to a 1.1 something in the third hour, but wait a minute, everyone’s being released but creative? I would see Vince McMahon holding somebody by the trousers, swinging them, and throwing them out the window with ratings like this. So there are really a lot of things where it’s a much bigger picture than Braun Strowman being released from WWE to me.”
