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People tend to confuse an on screen talent for creative ability, or base their creative on their character.
I’ll give you 3 examples:
Paul Heyman; Great mic skills, great manager, great commentator, great character, overall great mic skills.
Horrible, and I mean absolutely horrible writing/creative skills as documented with:
- horrible b level ECW stories with a product that was out of touch with society by the late 90s(he was doing Morton Downey Jr 80’s stuff in the late 90’s when Late 90’s was Springer & TRL) that drove it out of business.
-changing direction to a more pure in ring product during the late 90’s/early 2000’s boom period in 2002 despite demand for that style still being strong well past 2002 and therefore losing an entire point in ratings for Smackdown in 2002, while writing horrible unrealistic and downright boring(Brock/Angle) or cheesy(Dawn Marie/Al Wilson) storylines.
-Horrible WWE run from 2019-2020 as head writer of Raw
His genius on screen talent and ability to product Already Written/Conceived scripts is then made into the myth of somehow being a creative writer, he’s never written anything that drew and isn’t a genius when it comes to writing. This is the guy who made a predictable about WCW Nitro prior to its debut that was so out of touch and so wrong it’s not even funny.
Jim Cornette: Great talker, but again wrote stuff that didn’t drew and drove Smokey Mountain wrestling out of business.
He was writing stuff so out of touch and out of whack and the WWF didn’t really didn’t become a top to bottom great company until he was taken off the writing team in 1998.
His character and high energy rants causes this revision that he has any sort of skills in writing, he never has.
Lastly:
Vince Russo:
Vince Russo could do commentary, he could talk, was the most hated heel in WCW for a while, but unlike the other two, he could actually write and that was his best talent.
But because his heel character attacked the smart fan, they fell for the heel work and he gained heel heat from them, where they revised history of him being a horrible writer despite being the most successful writer in professional wrestling history along with Chris Kreski, Tommy Blancha and Ed Ferrara.
Prior to his on screen character people loved his WWF and WCW work from his first run, where the Radicalz left WCW in protest when Kevin Sullivan nonsensically replaced him because Bill Busch was an accountant running a wrestling company.
In reality he was the best writer in the history of the business and wrote a product for the WWF so successful that the writers that succeeded him, Chris Kreski and Tommy Blancha were able to take Russo’s same exact formula(5-8 min matches max never go into commercial , segments, wrestler arrives, skit etc every commercial break has cliffhanger and every end of show has cliffhanger, realism focus on story, no focus on in ring) and take Russo’s character & storyline universe and expand on it, creating new characters such as Kurt Angle that were inspired by the Russo storyline universe and interacted with Russo characters
He raised the ratings in each company he’s ever worked at, WWF, WCW, TNA, while giving WWF and TNA their peak ratings.
Also unlike Heyman and Cornette, Russo didn’t kiss McMahon’s ass but fought tooth and nail for his idea and told Vince McMahon his ideas were horrible.
Heyman along with Triple H, Stephanie, Michael Hayes, Etc knew that if they hired Russo in mid 2002 he would be taken off the creative team because Russo would turn the ship around like he did in late 1998/early 1999, thus played politicks and pretended his pitch was horrible when it actually made them look really nervous after he pitched it.
I’ll give you 3 examples:
Paul Heyman; Great mic skills, great manager, great commentator, great character, overall great mic skills.
Horrible, and I mean absolutely horrible writing/creative skills as documented with:
- horrible b level ECW stories with a product that was out of touch with society by the late 90s(he was doing Morton Downey Jr 80’s stuff in the late 90’s when Late 90’s was Springer & TRL) that drove it out of business.
-changing direction to a more pure in ring product during the late 90’s/early 2000’s boom period in 2002 despite demand for that style still being strong well past 2002 and therefore losing an entire point in ratings for Smackdown in 2002, while writing horrible unrealistic and downright boring(Brock/Angle) or cheesy(Dawn Marie/Al Wilson) storylines.
-Horrible WWE run from 2019-2020 as head writer of Raw
His genius on screen talent and ability to product Already Written/Conceived scripts is then made into the myth of somehow being a creative writer, he’s never written anything that drew and isn’t a genius when it comes to writing. This is the guy who made a predictable about WCW Nitro prior to its debut that was so out of touch and so wrong it’s not even funny.
Jim Cornette: Great talker, but again wrote stuff that didn’t drew and drove Smokey Mountain wrestling out of business.
He was writing stuff so out of touch and out of whack and the WWF didn’t really didn’t become a top to bottom great company until he was taken off the writing team in 1998.
His character and high energy rants causes this revision that he has any sort of skills in writing, he never has.
Lastly:
Vince Russo:
Vince Russo could do commentary, he could talk, was the most hated heel in WCW for a while, but unlike the other two, he could actually write and that was his best talent.
But because his heel character attacked the smart fan, they fell for the heel work and he gained heel heat from them, where they revised history of him being a horrible writer despite being the most successful writer in professional wrestling history along with Chris Kreski, Tommy Blancha and Ed Ferrara.
Prior to his on screen character people loved his WWF and WCW work from his first run, where the Radicalz left WCW in protest when Kevin Sullivan nonsensically replaced him because Bill Busch was an accountant running a wrestling company.
In reality he was the best writer in the history of the business and wrote a product for the WWF so successful that the writers that succeeded him, Chris Kreski and Tommy Blancha were able to take Russo’s same exact formula(5-8 min matches max never go into commercial , segments, wrestler arrives, skit etc every commercial break has cliffhanger and every end of show has cliffhanger, realism focus on story, no focus on in ring) and take Russo’s character & storyline universe and expand on it, creating new characters such as Kurt Angle that were inspired by the Russo storyline universe and interacted with Russo characters
He raised the ratings in each company he’s ever worked at, WWF, WCW, TNA, while giving WWF and TNA their peak ratings.
Also unlike Heyman and Cornette, Russo didn’t kiss McMahon’s ass but fought tooth and nail for his idea and told Vince McMahon his ideas were horrible.
Heyman along with Triple H, Stephanie, Michael Hayes, Etc knew that if they hired Russo in mid 2002 he would be taken off the creative team because Russo would turn the ship around like he did in late 1998/early 1999, thus played politicks and pretended his pitch was horrible when it actually made them look really nervous after he pitched it.
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