Official "Dark Side Of The Ring" Discussion Thread
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The Rainmaker
Mr. Money in the Bank
Another classic. Even if we know most of these things, the presentation of it is great.
HallTales
"I never talked Shawn about this". Fukk outta here. They were like a group of teenage girls, they talked about everything.
Cornette and Russo revealing themselves as "the architect" for the screwjob. Who can you believe? The guy who knows wrestling history by heart, or the moron who treated the business like garbage?
HallTales
"I never talked Shawn about this". Fukk outta here. They were like a group of teenage girls, they talked about everything.Cornette and Russo revealing themselves as "the architect" for the screwjob. Who can you believe? The guy who knows wrestling history by heart, or the moron who treated the business like garbage?
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Flex Luger
Job Is Finished
So does anybody actually think it all was a "work" like Hall does 
Toe Jay Simpson
Searchin’
Russo has me rolling though when he said Cornette thought that anyone who debuted in a box was automatically over
Flex Luger
Job Is Finished
Cartier Murphy
Apathy’s a Tragedy & Boredom is a Crime
I’ve seen enough shoots involving all of these parties to have heard them repeat the same stories almost verbatim here. Good episode for fukkery, but less engaging than the Brody episode
The Rainmaker
Mr. Money in the Bank
I had heard Cornette saying he run away after the screwjob took place in some shoots, but did he say somewhere he was responsible for the idea?
Cartier Murphy
Apathy’s a Tragedy & Boredom is a Crime
I wanna say he suggested the idea to Vince off handedly in a Youshoot, I’ll have to look it up later to double check
more or less, he said it in this episode. Since Bret kept turning down every single pitch to drop the title, Cornette said just double cross him then [went on to tell a story about another double cross that also happened in Montreal]
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Why did the episode completely ignore that Bret's contract expired weeks after Montreal and he could have dropped it even at the In Your House PPV?
I dont know, theres so many docs, shoots and podcasts on it with more info, this one just kinda ended up being a stupid Russo vs Cornette thing in the whole second half.
The Bruiser one is the only in depth one, the others were fine but stuff we knew.
The Gino Hernadez one should be good
I dont know, theres so many docs, shoots and podcasts on it with more info, this one just kinda ended up being a stupid Russo vs Cornette thing in the whole second half.
The Bruiser one is the only in depth one, the others were fine but stuff we knew.
The Gino Hernadez one should be good
The Girl From Innsmouth
All Star
It was in one of his timeline shoot interviews. He's never elaborated how in detail he laid out a potential screwjob, but he has said that he brought it up in Creative meetings before and Vince shot it down before it could get off the ground and Russo had to be hand held through the concept.
I believe him, TBQH.
The Girl From Innsmouth
All Star
Cornette talked about it in today's Jim Cornette Experience podcast. He said that Vince didn't trust Eric Bischoff to not announce the new contract deal on Monday Nitro. This was back during the time when Nitro was live to air while Raw was taped. He said it would be terrible for one company to announce that they had signed the competition's world champion. Emasculation, I believe, is the word he used.
TUA TAGOVAILOA
Superstar
Yea Corny talks about Russo being bug eyed and bewildered when he first brought up the idea of double crossing Bret
Russo is a compulsive liar
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