Vince Russo: 2000 WCW Timeline

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The Push Man said:
Still on his 'it's fake, it doesn't matter' shyt, it's no wonder he's such a terrible writer with that mindset. It's fiction, it matters in the context of the fictional wrestling universe. If Adrian steps in the ring at the end of Rocky, knocks Apollo Creed the fukk out and gets crowned world champion, people would have shyt all over it and there's no fukking way it would have won those Oscars. This guy still can't grasp that being fake doesn't mean you can throw any old shyt out there and expect people to swallow it. Also quite amusing to hear him say the average wrestling fan tuned in for 'entertaining' characters like Oklahoma. Where the fukk were those fans at the end? Oh yeah, driven away by his 'entertainment'. What a fukking mug.
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Wow that is truly the root of everything wrong with Russo. I never saw it summed up better.
 
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In 2000, while Kevin Eck was the editor for WCW Magazine, he recalled head creative team writer Vince Russo pitching to bring O.J. Simpson in to help the company's dwindling television audience.

According to Eck, Russo wanted to pay Simpson millions of dollars to take a lie detector test on a WCW pay-per-view event. The idea was based on Simpson saying he would take a polygraph test on pay-per-view for $3 million, which would go toward a reward to catch the "real" killer. Simpson later said he would keep the money for himself.

Despite Russo's strong pitch, the higher ups at WCW didn't go for it and it never happened
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bear27 said:
Russo did
He wanted a match at Mania 12(I think) with oj and goldmans dad and goldmans dad have a gun or some shyt.
Prichard i think talked about it

Just awful.
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Yeah he did just couldn't remember the details lol.
 
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hayesc0 said:
Yeah he did just couldn't remember the details lol.
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Bruce Prichard revealed on his "Something to Wrestle with Bruce Prichard" podcast that a match between Simpson and Roddy Piper was planned for WrestleMania XII in 1996 in Anaheim, California, less than six months after the verdict of his double murder trial.

The match didn't happen, with Piper going on to face Goldust at WrestleMania in a Hollywood Backlot Brawl (video included in the player above). The bout included a white Ford Bronco, similar to the one Simpson used to run from police in his infamous 1994 car chase.

Prichard claimed Piper was on board for the match and Simpson's reps were looking for anything that would be pay him. The match was nixed due to negative backlash.

"The backlash was deafening," Prichard said. "The people were like, 'If you do this, you'll never have another sponsor.' … So we punted."

Prichard revealed they wanted Piper to take out Simpson in the middle of the ring, with the thinking being the backlash would be less if O.J. got his comeuppance live on pay-per-view.

"We thought the end game of O.J. getting the s— kicked out of him would satisfy some people," Prichard said. "As those words come out of my mouth, you realize how ridiculous this is today. But you always have to try something on even if it sounds rridiculous
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