Reading log week 3

Again we return to the random diaries of Vince Russo and his exploits in WCW and beyond. When we last left this book, I believe Vince was just beginning his tenure with WCW and was not flattering them with his writing style. As we move on now, we find that his meetings do not go as he wants.

Only 3 months after his hiring at WCW, Vince is told that he is being suspended and obviously, he's very disappointed with the suspension. He leaves us in chapter 14 with more thoughts about how God needs to be in control of our lives more and does not pick his book back up for another 21 months.

These 21 months were spent soul searching and looking for his place in the world. I don't really think this stuff would appeal to wrestling fans but you never know. He does talk about how he ran a promotion called Ring of Glory, which was centered around finding wrestlers in the Christian faith and running shows with religion in the forefront. He talks about how it only ran two shows because of it was impossible to find churches where he could do the shows. I wonder why that was such an issue for a guy that was in charge of the WWE crative process when Sable went topless during a show with only a painted on handprint covering up her vital areas? I know there are alot of religous people involved in pro wrestling but what kind of conflicts are you going to get when everyone in the company is religious and everyone in the audience knows they are? Just a thought....

Anyway, Vince begins chapter 17 of the book on a basic tirade getting back to what the book is really about, how WCW killed him. He goes through his rant and talks about how Time/Warner and everyone else associated with TNT looked down on WCW. He also goes through his relationship with Eric Bischoff and how they were supposed to try and work together in 2000. He goes into great detail about their previous meetings in 1996 or 1997 and how neither of them trusted the other person. How they are totally different people who enjoyed working with different levels of talent. According to Vince, he was a "blue-collar guy" who enjoyed working with all the talent while Eric just liked dealing with the main eventers and such. Now, I'll never know how much of that is true. I'm just doing a review on this book for now.

Now in concluding the chapter I'm going to talk about here, Vince brings up the storyline they came up with together and how Vince was supposed to make his on-screen debut in WCW as an ally of the younger talent in the company called the "New Blood" while they were being held down by the older talent on the roster, named the "Millionaire's Club".